Well where to start? I shall forgo the somewhat traditional 'hello world'. Perhaps a more conservative 'hello small circle of friends who may on occasion read my blog' would suffice.
What will this blog offer? I believe that my social commentary skills will be found lacking when compared to the (sometimes) witty insights offered by one Velour Fog. I offer no 'big' or sophisticated words, or even my newly defined class of 'big-small' words. You know the ones - not many syllables but still sound smart (like PhD smart) - like 'turgid', 'inanity', 'den' etc. So I will attempt to stick to the facts.
First I will digress to this non facebook thing. I find it somewhat ironic, at least I think - I never quite seem to get irony right, that I have been peer pressured away from facebook as a medium of communication, given its rapid growth as a social networking site amongst the young adult. I suppose it must be a symptom of my friends encroaching old age. Most of you guys are turning 30 this year yeah? I'm still a youthful 28 going on 29. Guess that must be why I'm still hip to the young generation.
Facebook does have some advantages. Perhaps, for example, if the venerable Chips Funklord did indulge in the odd facebook related fun he would find said geeky girls that he has been waxing lyrical about, or perhaps a bit of the old cyber stalking may have enabled some more info on that hot optometrist.
I shall now end my digression. So tomorrow we head off. These last few days have been filled with mad rushing around, packing, last minute sending of items, filling out forms, and the odd round of Peking Duck. We are currently 6kgs over our checked baggage limit, so extra fees may apply at the airport tomorrow.
Christchurch is promising a maximum of 32 degrees tomorrow, and here I was thinking New Zealand would be cold. Hokitika's max temp for the next few days looks more in the ball park - a solid 19 with rain for the foreseeable future.
Car hunting will start in earnest tomorrow on arrival in Christchurch. Current shortlisted favourites are:
Mazda Demio (mazda 2)
Mazda Familia (mazda 323)
Toyota Vitz (toyota ech)
Julie wants to buy a Nissan Cube - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Cube
Although I moderately enjoyed the film of the same name (though was less enamoured with the sequel, hypercube) the car doesn't really do that much for me. At least the older generation (2000’s) - the newest one has some quirk. Now if they called it the Nissan Hypercube, then I would buy it.
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Nice title, Timmy. Hope you arrived safely.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure about this Nissan Cube thing - it's quite ugly. Although I agree that the third generation model has something to be said for it. It looks like it should transform into something, though. Get Michael Bay on the case. As for the poorly acted and painfully contrived film of the same name, well...
On the subject of Facebook holdouts, there was an interesting article in Slate today:
http://www.slate.com/id/2208678/
I haven't been a conscious holdout like Tobes, but I thought it made a good case for signing up. I might do it when I can be bothered.
Hey dude,
ReplyDeletenice blog - although perhaps you overstate my insight/eloquence.
Chips,
I skimmed that article, it didn't really convince me one way or another. I can see how it might be useful - I can also see how it could be a stark reminder that I have no friends.