Rowan Crawford

YouTube video by Piano Guy Silicon Valley - Middle Out Scene S01E08

youtu.be/Ex1JuIN0eaA?... truly amazing scene of software people working the problem

Middle out compression jerking off four people at once scene

"Four. You can shred four $100 bills at once—"

I accept the basic premise that building a coalition requires bringing in people whose values don't align with mine, which means swallowing some dead rats; but still, would be a bit more convinced if the people making that argument were good at, ya know, winning.

One of my favourite things about NZ politics is there's only two possible categories for ideas:

It'll never work here

&

We can definitely make it work despite it failing elsewhere

#nzpol

You don't need the steam turbine because ethanol gas holds less heat than its liquid state, so cycling states deletes heat! Because physics is just a suggestion

me: ooo, opportunity to use the aquatuner in ethanol phase change trick??

A turreted corrugated armour nightmare box festooned with machine guns, precariously balanced upon the chassis of an unmodified 1940s farm bulldozer.

Bask in the unfeasible glory that is Aotearoa New Zealand's only locally designed and built Tank.

I guess I reflexively resist engaging with art when the creators call it "content" the same way I wouldn't order a dish that a restaurant lists only as "stuff."

David Simon: I have created the police rewards system from The Wire as a cautionary tale...

NZ politicians:

the bonjour polar bear about to jump out at some statistics

Here's some political wisdom for people in NZ.

Whether you announce a tiny capital gains tax with a ton of exemptions pinned to a minor healthcare upgrade. Or whether you announce a massive capital gains tax and promise free healthcare for all, you will get the exact same response from the right.

"Deputy Prime Minister and ACT leader David Seymour attempted to retread some Reagan lines, and we all know how history remembers him"

iirc the early begat-heavy chapters are rough going. I have to assume I had "devastate school antagonist with Tolkein burn" on my bingo card that year and did the prep work, because the pleasure of reading wasn't it

I knew I'd pay one day for only reading the Elvish phonebook once.

Your Halloween costume is "sexy" + the last thing you web searched

Sexy Spock Mononym

like taking notes on the things that wake you, a consistent // ALGORITHM'S HAUNTED or // light crimes against causality, investigate can dump these out of your working memory

Sorokin's The Blizzard, what a bonkers book.

the service's pro/con list with "implausible hallucinations" annotated with "PRO!!!"

Well I was wondering what the retribution for the cancel party the coalition did at the start of their term needed to be. Rug pulling Collins' arms deals & any gas exploration seems a good start.

Mystified how the energy market & how capacity isn't getting built in NZ stories don't all start with "generation in NZ is financially rewarded for closely matching supply & demand, so it not being built as demand goes up sure is a puzzler!"

Pug looking horrified that I suggested going onto grass

This photo only partially captures the contempt this pug has for the very idea of going onto the wet grass

Pug & spaniel playing Bitey Face

Pug & spaniel playing Bitey Face

Two dogs taking a short break from Bitey Face

BMO has gradually accepted that Bitey Face is still a good game

Me on my way to the rapture

Pug puppy snoozing

Cavalier snoozing

Busy afternoon, bracketed by other high energy go-getters

Poisoning on Parker Road is very much around the places the kids grew up

No NZ KPop Demon Hunters singalong sessions??

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel with a tiny muzzle & an existential crisis

AT is responsible for BMO looking like a serial killer thinking about his life choices.

The “I have a solution: wolves” bookmarklet _delivers_

robmanuelfuckyeah.substack.com/p/ive-got-a-...

(I edited the tag list in mine to only target h1-h6)

liz-lemon-no-thankyou-please.gif

artbyblastweave on tumblr: "Easily the most annoying kind of vampire in the world are the ones where you finally corner the fuckers and when you're going in with the stake they start spouting off sociology 101 bullshit to try and weasel out of it. "Oh, no ethical consumption under capitalism," "oh, the rich are the real vampires if you think about it-" yeah, yeah, you ate like fifty homeless people, asshole. Hold still" dialectrician: "Okay but if you aren't a vegetarian your case against vampires is actually pretty weak." artbyblastweave: "I SAID HOLD STILL"