I have one of these sings. I refuse to even tell people the name of the song in case they play it as a joke In my case it was performed live in store by a band

I've been looking at these Book Nooks online for a while. Thinking about buying one. Then I was walking through the Mall and Whitcoulls Bookshop had a whole display. Price was about the same as online ($65) so I bought one Will probably also have to spend a couple of dollars on batteries and glue

Got my tax assesment and it shows $0 owed. I think I'll actually get back a few thousand dollars because I've overpaid provisional tax (I made less last year than year before) but that doesn't get finalised for a few weeks

I've been looking at these Book Nooks online for a while. Thinking about buying one. Then I was walking through the Mall and Whitcoulls Bookshop had a whole display. Price was about the same as online ($65) so I bought one Will probably also have to spend a couple of dollars on batteries and glue

Well obviously a project in the middle of New Zealand's largest city that will carry millions of people per year will be more popular that a rural highway that costs billions and carries just a few cars Hence why NZ Government has to make the hard choice and build the highway every time /s

Interesting seeing the contrast between how creative workers and tech workers talk about AI Tech is practical: - AI can never do my job - AI will change my job - AI is going to replace me Creative is existential: - AI is evil - AI steals content - AI must be banned

Went to the Auckland Costco last night with a friend. He was in a hurry to pick up a couple of things so I didn't get a good look around Only when I looked at my photo later I realised they had the MacBook Neo at a good price $1060 it appears

Well obviously a project in the middle of New Zealand's largest city that will carry millions of people per year will be more popular that a rural highway that costs billions and carries just a few cars Hence why NZ Government has to make the hard choice and build the highway every time /s

Weird when I see these. Somebody has replied to me but I can't see it for some reason Used to be I could switch to an alt but BlueSky makes that harder to casually do

Went to Mezze Bar in Auckland CBD for coffee. Vibe was nice as usual but their cake sizes seem to have shrunk $9 for what felt like a 30% less cake than previous visits

Saved $0.25 just now by using cuntdown.co.nz to generate a membership barcode I get the discount and the real card owner gets some points

Sam Stubbs is a good example of how expertise in one area doesn't translate into others. He's got expertise in Investing and Building. But he regularly comes out with takes on New Zealand transport projects and policy. Where his understanding drops to the level of the average boomer on Facebook

The reddit AI summary of a user doesn't mince words..

Laughed at this image for 10 entire minutes

The reddit AI summary of a user doesn't mince words..

For the Love of Trains: Celebrating 200 Years of British Railways by Paul Routledge Review: A mix of rail history and stories of the author's life and journeys. An okay light read but either topic is better served elsewhere 3/5 www.lovereading.co.uk/book/9781917...

We’ve known this was coming. By 1 May 2028 the NZ copyright term will be extended from 50 to 70 years after death, benefiting a few publishers and ensuring nothing will enter the public domain for 20 years. Worst case, it will be retrospective, clawing back things currently freely shareable.

Using AI to help me create ansible configuration It turns out it's suggestion of this for a nologin shell user: become_user: "{{ app_user }}" become_flags: '-s /bin/bash' is wrong The become_flags are not needed and will cause an error forum.ansible.com/t/running-co...

QUAKE: Mag 4.6, Sat, May 30 2026, 10:56:30 AM, 30 km south-east of Seddon. Depth: 14 km #eqnz https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2026p402583#eqnz

Never seen this mashup before, but it is insanely good Matilda v Rob Zombie www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQP8...

Updating docs for internal work tool by getting cursor to look at the source code and the confluence doc and suggest updates to confluence. I ended up doing it manually but it did offer to edit confluence directly

Using AI to help me create ansible configuration It turns out it's suggestion of this for a nologin shell user: become_user: "{{ app_user }}" become_flags: '-s /bin/bash' is wrong The become_flags are not needed and will cause an error forum.ansible.com/t/running-co...

Today's r/newzealand WTF:

Spending my day off in the Auckland Domain. Got some food at the cafe and went to the Wintergarden

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Today's r/newzealand WTF:

The trouble with doing discussion on Linkedin is a person's free speech is proportional to their job security. So "Bob" who owns his own company is free to post whatever he likes while "Jane" who works for large company must be very careful

Kia ora @thepress.co.nz The linked article is using an image credited to me but that has a non-commercial, share-alike license which means it can't be used by you unless you get my permission. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

Just messaged someone and asked him to stop his "friend" from "drunk editing your wikipedia page" The guy is a multi-millionare and he can't even be bothered to employee a decent reputation management company

Daft Punk's Electroma was released 20 years ago this week Here is the iconic final shot from the movie: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DxB...

This is my goto diet meal. Around 250g of boiled potato boiled and side of thick chili sauce (or kimchi) I make them in batches of 4 and then re-heat in the microwave. Replaces a meal and only about 250 calories

This weekend I'm remotely attending the Westmoot Tolkien conference. Hosted in Minneapolis so timezone is awkward. Being the US the Welcome just mentioned what to do in the case of a Tornado or an Active Shooter www.tolkiensociety.org/events/westm...

My old phone. The battery started swelling a month ago and took me 3 weeks to get a replacement Just go another thing off it which is hopefully one of the last items

I'm working on a redo of my VPS server setup. Trying to do it right by putting the whole thing in Ansible First time I've done any ansible for three years. Finding using copilot in vscode and google searching works great. Used it to gemini to review my design and now writing task by task

Attempting to doom-scroll in the X app and every minute or so it refreshes and pops me back to the top Obviously it always happens just as I see an interesting post coming up at the bottom of the screen Assume it elps some engagement metrics but pretty frustrating for a user

I'm using vscode and copilot (free plan) at home for simple programming stuff Was using that at work but they seem to be standardizing on cursor and claude Guess I'll have to play with them tomorrow. Cursor is the more direct replacement but claude might be more useful for me

The Firefox Gemini integration seems to be very useful for summarising discord forums. I join, find I'm a few hundred messages behind and I can just select the text and it'll popup. Especially useful with Discord since it hijack copy/paste which makes it hard to grab multiple messages

Watched about half so far. The sort of thing he is outlining is similar to what companies like I've worked for have (although not as complicated at the smaller companies). Fairly standard tools and way it works. You'll see similar at conferences but this is a bit more detailed than most

So many normies on social media raging against data centers. I wonder where they think the computers that run facebook and bluesky are located

Audiobooks – January, February 2026 The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon by Todd Zwillich 3/5 Who Owns This Sentence: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs 3/5 The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush 4/5 blog.darkmere.gen.nz/2026/05/audi...

The KLF: Chaos, Magic, and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs 4/5 Review: Not a convention band biography but more an explanation on their influences and thinking. Fascinating, funny and a fun read www.cyclicdefrost.com/2013/12/the-...

So far this month I've got a new phone, new glasses and new wallet Which I guess means I'm actually getting the odd thing done The glasses seem to work, stars now look sharp and I can read without taking them off. Still getting hang of them though since my first time with transition lenses

So if you are interested in a topic you can follow half a dozen blogs or podcasts about that topic. They each produce one item a week so easy to watch/read one per day But then they each create a discord and no way in hell am I going to join all of them. I'm on 7 already and only keep up with 2

Came across a person selling wooden boats from his front garage. Interesting bit was that most of the boat body is made from cardboard box material Price not too bad. They're opposite St Lukes Mall in Auckland

Found out that a neighbor (when I was growing up in Mosgiel, New Zealand) died a few months ago. Didn't know Jane McCabe as an adult but looks like she did some interesting research www.mccabehistory.com

Your honor, The People accept this juror.

New phone arrived. Pixel 10a My old phone battery started swelling three weeks ago, ordered a new one straight away but took a while to arrive Cost is $1000 which compares to $800 I paid 3 years ago for the Pixel 7a (which only lasted 3 years, known battery problem)

The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush 4/5 Review: A fairly balanced biography of the 6 astronauts. Covering before and during the Astronaut careers and to an extent afterwards. Worth a read for space fans. www.theguardian.com/books/2023/s...

Why is Futurewise always talking about stacked flats? A 🧵 (1/5)