A glimpse at Ben’s future

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Yesterday we went to Myke’s – my boss – place for Christmas dinner, which was great. Also there were two of his friends, Mike & Wanda, shown below. Now, it’s not immediately evident by appearance, but Mike is actually Ben Murton from the Future, travelled back in time twenty years to live amongst us once… Read more

A juicy story

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Albert left us some “juice” when he left, although I suspect he has ulterior motives… you see, by day it masquerades as a simple fruit juice drink… …but by night it is pure vitamin A, C & E… …although closer inspection reveals, oddly enough, that aside from food colouring, the vitamin content comes in as… Read more

Hard work always leads somewhere

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A lovely little article here on procrastination. No, not how to avoid, or conversely some comic justification for it. Instead, it’s a thoughtful consideration of the types of procrastination, and then, what it really means to procrastinate. One thing which I really jive with is the talk about tackling big projects. It’s so hard for… Read more

Keep it Simple And Stupid

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Every time I publish some photos using iPhoto, I have to manually edit the resulting files, move stuff about, and rejig stuff to get things setup as I want them on my site. I can’t ever really change what I’ve published, without going through the whole process over again – and then some. Consequently, it… Read more

Riding on thin ice

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I was reminded twice today how tenuous my presence here is. On the ride back from work, the entire two blocks of it, I was nearly collected by two cars. The first was some yahoo racing to turn right. I didn’t have a green pedestrian crossing light, but I was going with the traffic. Luckily,… Read more

That scary sense of perpetuality

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The thought has really occurred to me today that I can see myself in this job for the foreseeable future. Of course, I can’t get too comfortable, since I’m only here for another two months, but it’s definitely something I’d be happy to keep doing. Of course, I’d have to live somewhere else, I think…… Read more