I’ve made a very interesting discovery over the last few years, since I started to revive an ancient interest in astronomy: it’s possible to predict Wellington’s weather by astronomical events. Lunar eclipse: cloudy. Closest approach of an interesting celestial body: rainy. Comets: cloud and wind. Transits: wind. Other phenomena: mist and or fog. And on […]
I don’t care much for txt-speak and try to avoid it, but it’s probably here to stay. And if it doesn’t persist, then some other forms will take its place.
Last weekend, while visiting Nelson, we went for a 45 minute walk in the Brook Waimarama Sanctuary. The Sanctuary will extend over c. 715 hectares of a former Water Reserve owned by Nelson City Council. Most of the site is mature beech forest with occasional huge podocarps but the southern part is diverse broadleaved forest […]
Today I used the toilets provided by the Thorndon supermarket. When I went to wave my hands around beneath the hot-air dryer I was confronted with a very mysterious sign, as shown here: We Keep These Toilets Clean For YOUR Use Please RESPECT our hygiene policies This sign is full of mystery and intrigue … […]
Last night I saw the movie Slumdog Millionaire, and enjoyed it tremendously, in spite of the hard parts. The movie opens with scenes of torture. I thought it was going to be a dark and unpleasant story — especially since the preceding trailers had been for some awful, stalker-type movie whose name I didn’t want […]
