Swimming only exists as a form of exercise because of after-sauna.

Being born with a silver spork in your mouth, you’d be unstoppable.

RNZ call it a “beleaguered agency”. Is that because of actual delivery problems, or because a couple of politicians want to pull it back into the fold?

It’s Michelin Star worthy on its own of course, but can also level-up avocado on toast or a cheese toastie.

Just witnessed an impeccable use of “he’s just having a moment” dealing with a middle aged man tantrum in the wild.

Empathetic and deescalatory, but with a perfect salting of judgey.

Didn’t it all just blow around, or was I doing it wrong??

Best guess: all those regions and islands in the same font as the countries are just so the map can include Taiwan. But still a super weird choice.

That’s a nice indent you’ve got there, be a shame if someone tried to format paint. Oh you tried? Yeah, turns out I can’t format paint that particular indent. No reason.

We ran the gauntlet today - our local Warehouse had brought all the uniforms out to the centre of the store, well organised, big changing rooms. So it can be done!

I miss warning the kids not to fill up on bread.

Ironically fentanyl is the key ingredient for both.

There’s something bleak about YouTube bbq tutorials by “Dad something play on words” which inevitably finish with them eating alone.

I just jeopardised a 20yr friendship by assuming they, a Royal Oak resident, lived in the zone.

Food on a public bbq looking out over bay of islands

Summering

For the win. Even with just soy sauce it makes an amazing soup.

Damn, I guessed democracy but of course that’s national level. Duh.

This is top tier analysis, keep it coming please.

I’m so confident 1kg Edam is on here, not even going to check.

The EV market will be basically just deciding how good a battery you want and paying accordingly. Expensive cars might actually be better quality, rather than just the current vanity value.

Added bonus of the folks in +5 keeping their own secret time zone as the last possible form of resistance.

Not wrong. We just fired up season two on a rainy Christmas Eve here.

The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.

This personal tragedy of a group immersed in existential debates about tech really reminded me of friends who fell apart getting really into world-building type metaphysics or ethics. Some kind of psychic tension between ideals and reality?

www.wired.com/story/deliri...

Onya Auckland - pretty packed at Pak n Save today but everyone being super chill and friendly even as it took twice as long as normal.

Thanks, had been struggling to think of how to do our spuds a bit fancy on Christmas Day. Solved.

Excellent. May your name similarly live on while your rivals’ fade to history.

The delicious pork guy?

Was about to say the same thing for our libraries here in Auckland - they must have realised paying fines reduces the powerful motivation of guilt.

And big social effects - eg stories of people not taking better jobs if they don’t have family they can stay with nearby.

Our egg and coffee choices this week coincidentally both seem to have been on discount b/c of minor quality issues.

Odd the brands didn’t just point this out (eg a lighthearted extra sticker). We’d have probably still bought, and be left with a good impression of their usual quality.

The new Knives Out was excellent, but full of actors who look like other actors.

For about the first half thought I was watching Merryl Streep, Jeff Bridges, and that Ozark/Arrested Development guy. Pretty sure I got Denzel Washington right though.

#SecretSantaAoNZ

Duh, shouldn’t have trusted myself to remember the hashtag without checking