| Comedy at Rand's expense |
[31 Dec 2009|12:44pm] |
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
Attributed to John Rogers.
(If you're feeling the need to carefully type out a long screed lambasting me about now... Relax. It's funny. :) )
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| Goddamn |
[26 Dec 2009|05:48pm] |
Being a Charger fan has been painful for nearly 30 years. Which is why I'm a bit cautious at the moment. But damn. The Titans really *needed* today. The Chargers didn't. And they looked damn good anyway. That was one helluva win.
I really do think this is a team that could go all the way. In typical Charger fashion, I think the biggest adversary they face at this point is none other than the Chargers. Same as it ever was.
Still. Go bolts.
/me cringes in anticipation of the evils soon to come...
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| Epic win |
[23 Dec 2009|06:49pm] |
New World Metro. Getting some OJ, perusing the beers on the way out, and I find Monty Python's Holy Grail. That's a win all by itself (yeah, it's prolly crap beer, but I'm a python fan boy, so sue me). But it gets better.
They carded me. Me! Aging old metalhead, I'll be 40 in a month. NZ drinking age is 18 (though the policy admittedly is often carding anybody who looks less than 25). I don't think I've been carded for at least 5 years, maybe even a decade. Ok, yeah, the guy who did it must be on some serious crack to think I look 25, but still. Win! The old geezer has some juice in 'im yet! :)
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| Fri the 13th |
[15 Nov 2009|12:57pm] |
Quite an interesting one. Started at 0230 with a car fire; turns out it's the car that was used for the burglary attempt at Mana BP (where they curiously used a shotgun to blow out the store window and attempt to get access to the safe).
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3060782/Gun-toting-burglars-in-Porirua
Good callout; I gave the BA set to another FF, and while the BA crew were farting about getting the sets started up I ran out the delivery and did initial attack on the thing. After they took over I grabbed a few pics:
http://www.pvfb.org.nz/gallery/CarFire13Nov09
Back home at about 0500, and then another callout at 0730. Then off to work. Got home, knackered. Eating dinner, and we discover the Buzzcocks are playing Bodega in about 1 hr. The Buzzcocks being one of Sam's favs, we hastily found a sitter and headed for town, managing to weasel our way into the sold out show, and ending up right on the stage in front of Steve Diggle. Much pushing shoving and general sweatiness ensued, but Sam came away a very happy camper. Really small venue too, very much a club atmosphere. Cool. Grabbed a couple pics of that too, but it's on the iPhone so quality is crap. Helluva long day, but a nice Fri the 13th.
http://www.hintz.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1497
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| New toy |
[07 Oct 2009|01:25pm] |
I finally got myself a hog.
1983 Sporty XLX (ironhead/shovelhead, depending on your level of pickyness). Actually made a conscious decision to go with a old school engine, kinda feels like the real Harley experience (not that the Evo is a bad engine-in fact, for a ride hard and long bike that's what I'd choose, but this is gonna be a town cruiser for the most part).
Getting it shipped down from Whakatane, should be here early next week. Toy! :)
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| This WAS the last time... I DO know... |
[30 Sep 2009|05:29pm] |
Mad props to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) wickenden for posting yootoobs of the Dead doing Peggy-O. Besides being a stellar example of Jerry being Jerry, it has additional sentimental value here, as it was literally my last show before Jerry died(they played for about another year after that, but I moved to Texas in July of '94, and the closest the Dead came during that timeframe was Chicago, way too far for a guy on a student income to travel for shows).
Obviously a video feed is available somewhere, I'll have to hunt it down someday. I do miss my Jerry.
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| Snow Leopard |
[01 Sep 2009|05:18pm] |
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Initial impressions: definitely see a performance improvement. Also doesn't appear to have broken anything. Graphics seem a bit cleaner too. Even GNUCash from fink is still working. So far, win.
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| Ye olde small worlde |
[28 Aug 2009|12:26pm] |
'Twas before my time, but amongst the alumni of NZ Opera Chorus is Simon O'Neil. I'm not sure of the exact dates; his last chor show with us was Turandot, at a guess I'd say mid to late 90s. Prolly about the time I was singing with Austin Lyric actually. Anyway, he's working on a CD for EMI. And being a Kiwi and ex-NZO Chor, he wanted to use the NZSO and NZO Chor. So, tomorrow we're recording the death scene from Götterdämmerung. There's bugger all chor, just a couple of "WTF" sorta lines, so an easy gig. Should be interesting to observe the professional recording process. Dunno if we'll get individual credits or just NZO Chor on the cd, but either way it's cool. And our pay for it is Simon taking us all out for drinks (though we have been paid for the rehearsal time). Pretty mellow gig, and Simon seems a pretty cool bloke, so what the hell. Guess this technically makes me a recording artist now.
Downloading is stealing!!!
:P
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| Training boss |
[27 Aug 2009|05:01pm] |
Our primary brigade trainer has headed off for a 7 week jaunt around the world (Hong Kong, China, UK, US, Raratonga), so I just inherited 4 rookies with upcoming courses in 1-2 mos. It's kinda cool though, gives me a bit of a refresher on the core basic firefighter skills. Also a bit of a contrast for the rookies, as he's a real taskmaster, likes to run them hard, while I'm typically laid back. I'm more about conceptual understanding, how we do it is obviously important, but if you grok *why* we do it, I figure the how becomes easier to retain. And, really, it's more mental than physical anyway. When we go, we go hard, but it's for short bursts; we're sprinters, not marathon runners. Anyway, they're a good bunch of rookies, and it's a nice back-to-basics sorta scene for me.
Also, NZ Opera is working Eugene Onegin. At the first chorus entrance there's a couple of solo tenor 1 liners, they've tagged me as understudy for it. Prolly would have had the job under normal circumstances. The dude who's doing it is from the AKL chorus, and they normally maintain separate folks in each city. However, he has one key attribute that I lack; he's a Russian immigrant, so his command of the language is quite superior to mine(he is, in fact, coming down on several occasions to coach the rest of us on pronunciation). Though if he sick or whatever I'll get the main stage cameo, which would be fun.
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| Condom ads |
[25 Aug 2009|12:51pm] |
Bollywood meets dudes in condom costumes. For 7 mins. All kinds of awesome.
Taken from this page of ads, there's a few other funny ones in there, though nothing as awesome as the bollywood epic.
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