I’ve finally finished uploading all my New Zealand photos. All 1,970 of them. I’m working on organising them into some sort of hierarchy or whatever, but they’re all ready for perusal right now. I was up until 2am last night working on the last few, the ones from the plane flight around Mount Cook. Eventually,… Read more
I’m soooo close to finishing my New Zealand photos. But I’ve become stuck on the photos from around the Southern Alps (Mount Cook et al.). I’m having a real hard time identifying the mountains and glaciers. There must be a bajillion other photos exactly like mine out there, but I just can’t seem to find… Read more
Well, I just got back from seeing Transformers… I think I want my two and half hours back. In a nutshell it wasn’t horrible, but it certainly wasn’t good. The special effects in the fight sequences and all that stuff were fine, albeit hard to follow, but that’s probably because we were right up the… Read more
So today Mike & I went to paintball out at Bear Creek. It was originally a self-organised intern event at Apple, but we realised that the original field we’d intended on going to – Santa Clara Fairgrounds – was hosting a paintball tournament this weekend. Mike talked to some people in the local paintball (sporting?)… Read more
On Saturday Mike & I went up to SF to make use of the voucher booklets he’d picked up while his parents were in town last week, and hadn’t finished. They gave you free public transport within the city and free entry to a lot of the museums and whatnot. Our original plan was to… Read more
Friday night just gone I went round to Francisco & Ross’ place for a little shindig they were having, as something of a celebration for the iPhone shipping, or something. I’m not sure what exactly. Also a house-warming, I think, for some of their uni friends that hadn’t yet seen their new place. Anyway, that… Read more
The conventional wisdom is that cars are way cheaper in the U.S. And that may be true – for U.S. cars, like Ford or whatnot. Mustangs are dirt cheap here (they’re also dirt quality, though). But European cars are very expensive. Maybe more-so than in Australia, even. And the car I’m currently eyeing, the hybrid… Read more