Buffalo Tom : Summer. youtu.be/iBxJEE4u4_s?...

watching "Blackkklansman", and its so funny. The performances of John David Washington and Adam Driver are just superb. And, Topher Grace as David Duke is just *chef's kiss*. But, Washington. He brings a stillness to a film that could either be comedy or drama. He brings every moment to this film

Huh. It's actually beginning to feel like summer. Which is nice. If a bit late.

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

Well, here we are, again. And the Orange Idiot feels abused because he doesn't get a Nobel Peace Prize.

John Kearns just casually mentioning he was a guide at the Houses of Parliament, and that Paul McCartney wandered in at about 10 o'clock at night. #WILTY

It's actually worked... really well. I've become addicted, again, to Fallout: New Vegas. I think after this will have to be delving back into Niko and Liberty City with GTA IV. Ive missed these "old school" games that never got ported to next generation platforms (And, no, I don't game on PC.(

I decided to put on Rhian Sheehan's "Standing In Silence" on. Thinking, I haven't played it in a while. Barely a few tracks in came the visceral memory, of why I haven't played it for a while. Mum and I, when she was at her least mobile, would pull up at the kapiti seashore as the sun went down.

A random thought that just occurred to me, but, isn't "Karachi" a very beautiful word? Very euphonius. Lovely name for a city.

I made an "authentic" chicken tikka masala the other night (as authentic as Scotland demands!), but the only ghee in the fridge at the supermarket was a huge 750g tub. So, what do I cook to get rid of the other 745g in this tub before it expires within the next year?

It was just a Little dip in the water, honest.

It's the 27th of February - which should be the height of summer here in Wellington - and I'm thinking I may have to turn the heating on.

FFS. Sitting at a bar, having a late lunch = early beer, and a couple decided to argue with the bartender about the paywave surcharge. "The government banned this! I heard it on the news!" Bartender was surprisingly patient with them.

I'm of an age where "I didn't have my reading glasses on me" has become a viable excuse for certain supermarket decisions. Not necessarily an accurate excuse just... viable.

once your email storage is full you should be allowed to graduate from it. no more emails for you. you’ve seen enough emails. you’re free now

I just don't understand it. In most of the world a senile old man who rambles on for hours about the "state of the world" would just be wheeled into a quiet room with a tv and a cuppa. But the US gives it days of wall-to-wall media coverage.

I really need to emphasise that Mister Wilfred is actually doing really well! He's skinnier than is ideal, but he's eating huge amounts of food, drinking lots of water, and being very alive, very much the hunter-kitty boss of the neighbourhood.

I really am going to miss Mister Wilfred when he goes. He's been the neatest of cats. An absolute charming character. Even with collar.

I'm getting a strong feeling that the United States of America should not only ask each incoming President to swear by the Constitution, but also to swear they have read it. Maybe a twenty-question multiple choice test to see if they've understood it. Even an 80% pass would be better than... this.

It still amuses me how, in the Star Trek future, the South Island of New Zealand is a Federation penal colony, yet also Wellington hosts the most renowned arts and literature academy in the Alpha Quadrant.

Having watched the most recent episode of WILTY, I can only say: "Michelle Wolf on Taskmaster, please."

for clarity on the deep cut - Coughlan was not referring to journos, he was reacting to being caught out in a PR campaign that the TPU jumped at too early and he was referring to a Nicky Hagar book that didn't even exist because he, we must assume, was worried he'd show up in it

I just re-watched the BFQ of TV 2026. Genuinely a laugh-a-minute panel for that show. (30 grand, baby!) Yet, I'm still gobsmacked how none of them knew the answer to Buffy question. Maybe I've just watched too much Buffy the Vampire Slayer? No, it is the kids who are wrong. (Insert meme here.)

For years, Sarah and I thought Mister Wilfred might be a Heathcliff. After all, he is a foundling. Lately, we've realised he is a Cathy.

"Let me be clear - I'm wealthy, I'm sorted." Our Prime Minister. Lovely fella.

I feel we need to develop a generic response to, well, every search engine and government website. Something along the lines of "Your AI is shit, and the shitty results it gives me are very much shit, and not even close to the actual shit I was looking for."

I'm listening to a lot less Music101 since Charlotte, um, departed. I guess I'm just too old?

The Orange Idiot still hasn't worked out it's America who pays his tarrifs, eh.

Paul Hardcastle disappointingly at Thir-Thir-Thir-Thir-Thirteen, Thirteen. #TOTP

An alternative, Wills and Kate could have more (non-AI) kids! That'll show the artist formerly known as Prince!

Dear manufacturers of cheap electronic goods: you don't actually need to put a bright red or blue LED into everything.

"Small retail is doing it hard," yet, the local dairy owner has a new Jaguar. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. Just more a comment on how "doing it hard" differs.

So, I've now accumulated all the various cables and connectors to connect my old PS3 to my new "smart" tv. Trying to decide if I want to jiggle inevitable cable-snake to get it working. But. I really want to play Fallout New Vegas again.

So, it might be easier to let the nonce "commit suicide" in prison? Utterly no precedent for that, not at all.

okay very quick primer for everyone who isn’t a medieval historian: because of History, removing someone from the formal line of succession can’t be done by the monarch; it requires an act of parliament and must be approved by every country that the monarchy is head of- currently 14 plus UK

“why do you lock replies” people don’t realize that the kind of entitlement they have towards interacting with a stranger is a new phenomenon and the internet incentivizes a certain level of anti social behavior one should have the agency to spare oneself from

Have you or your whānau & friends recently moved? Please update your details. Encourage your people to check their voter registration. This year we need the missing million voters to show up & turf this CoC Govt out. ✅✅

"Due to President Trump calling them names and mocking them in public, I'm asking members of the Supreme Court to start wearing masks, pepper-spraying litigants, carrying fake badges, and swapping out their license plates with decoy plates."

On these recent few quiet, still, peaceful mornings it's become apparent the storm didn't kill the rooster downhill. Damnit.

This is what the Prince Andrew chat has been missing: a Norfolk-specific conspiracy theory

If you're an English teacher and you make your students diagram a single sentence from the president's formal remarks, you will be charged with felony assault and sent to prison for the rest of your natural life.

I just awoke from a dream where I was being chased through Douaumont Ossuary by a horde of tall, cackling, skeletal figures.

I also really want to order some spam. But vikings don't deliver to this neighbourhood.

Did you know that 9-out-of-10 shark attacks take place in water?

But, you know, what is good for Peter Jackson is good for Wellington. I guess.

I'm making a "pork chop and cherry pepper" dish for dinner tonight. Or, maybe, a "pork chop and vinegar pepper" recipe. Anyway, the "true crime" documentary that had a guy saying "I just popped out for the ingredients, I'm just the cook!" It takes hours to cook. So, "just popped out." Hmm.

In reality Huntley and Palmer fell out and refused to speak to each other. The badinage you saw at biscuit nights (Big Biscuit; The Biscuit Kings; Feel the Biscuit, Feel the Burn; A Question of Biscology; Welcome to the Biscotheque; Down With The Biscuit Kids; Call Me Biscuit;

In my removed opinion, the conversation in the US (and, yes, other nations) should be about actual legislative control - broken away from each individual police department and their unions - of the police. Oh, and consider a bit of centralisation. Micro-forces with license to kill make no sense.

When the spare is no longer an heir then trouble appears. I'm pretty sure that's always been a rule for hereditary rulership. (And, constitutional monarchies.)

So, obviously, the solution is to simply not do anything. These people. I swear.