tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030909348766966592009-10-09T04:47:14.861-07:00...a rubbish tip of semi-scientific garbage and other pointless mental meanderings from a rambling INTJ....Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12017359633597565622morganmaclaren@woosh.co.nzBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803090934876696659.post-89862395371087555822009-05-24T09:02:00.000-07:002009-05-24T10:06:14.305-07:00

I came across a great article by Michael Shermer earlier today.“Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the World”. “Souls, spirits, ghosts, gods, demons, angels, aliens, intelligent designers, government conspirators, and all manner of invisible agents with power and intention are believed to haunt our world and control our lives. Why?” This is a subject that I am fascinated by and I am

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Robyn and I were having a laugh earlier about what kind of silly businesses we could create for fun and one idea that came up was a business that creates excuses for people to be absent from jobs they really, really, really hate. My favourite idea that came up was “The Alien Abduction Company”. Fed up with your tortuously mundane and dull job? Call “The Alien Abduction Company” and they'll send

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The thing you never mention at a funeral. "Priest. Er, yes, well she wasn't a Christian....."A place or state of being of pain and suffering, sometimes also called Earth.A computer equipped with Windows 95 and missing the Ctrl+Alt+Delete keys."A yellow bus carries me there every morning Monday through Friday. "The place where all the lawyers and country music stars go.Knowing you're going to get

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I was having a giggle earlier because my friend Robyn blogged about her bad habits and she loves me to comment so I thought it would be fun to reply by posting my bad habits. Her post is funny. You can read it here:She's got one particular habit that cracks me up totally and that is that she has 55 lipsticks! I thought she was joking but the last time I went to her house she showed them to me -

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Anyone who knows me knows I have strange tastes in pets, animals and insects. As far as insects go my favourites have always been preying mantises and wetas. Wetas I like so long as I don't have to touch them (because they are violent, grumpy little buggers and will take you on even if you are a million times bigger and holding an axe.) But when I was a kid I had a pet mantis for about a month

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I am writing this in response to The Ambling Rambler's blog today Are Customer Service People Dense? (well worth the read) since I had a similarly stupid experience today with my mobile phone service provider. I don't want to post their actual name here so for this blog let's just call them “V-Mobile”.I've been a V-Mobile customer for years. I really like them. They give fantastic service and

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Last year Robyn made a rather good list of her blonde moments for the year. Since then I have thought I must make a list of my own. So here are my blonde moments so far for 2008.Duh #1I'm a diary freak. I can't remember anything unless I have written it in my to do list. So my diary is full of great lists of inane things to remind myself to do. Last week my car needed a new front engine mount and

Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12017359633597565622morganmaclaren@woosh.co.nz1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803090934876696659.post-70786916867047122542008-03-24T04:02:00.001-07:002009-01-10T01:33:43.337-08:00

Something for anyone else other than me who likes solving puzzles.... My best time is 5 minutes. See if you can beat me!

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Recently my friend Robyn, a super talented A Grade photographer, treated us to another one of her photographic masterpieces... Birds in Flight As Robyn points out in her blog, capturing birds in flight is a really tricky thing to do photographically so when she invited me to help her out with another one of her bird shoots last weekend I knew it would be a fun challenge. The plan: go down to

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I've got to ask myself "What the hell is wrong with me?!". I was feeling a bit restless earlier so I decided to prise myself off my beloved computer and go for a walk. Just a short one because I was expecting a client to call. No big deal. I normally go for a wander around the block most days and return safely about 15 minutes later. But for some reason today I decided to be adventurous and add

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Today while I was chatting to my friend Lia on msn she challenged me to spontaneously invent a poem right there and then. I think I've remarked to her before that I can pretty much pull verse out of thin air. I think this skill dates back to my childhood when I used to lie awake all night inventing poems in my head because, well,... sleeping is so boring! Later it came in handy when I was an 11

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I'm a bit of a Harry Potter fan so for the past few weeks I have been glued to the tele every Tuesday night since TVNZ have kindly been broadcasting them all again (apologies to anyone trying to get hold of me on a Tuesday night) ..... only it seems that they missed out broadcasting the most important movie....Boom! Boom!

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I've been learning German for three years now and every year around this time we invariably end up talking about the tradition of St Nikolaus, supposedly the Bishop of Myra (circa 300 and something) who used to give to the poor and needy every 6th December. The son of rich parents, he had pockets sewn into his clothes so that he could fill them with mandarins from the garden and take them to give

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Some kind person called me a nerd this week. Charming! It's someone who shall remain nameless but whose name can be constructed with the letters o r y n b... According to this person a 'nerd' is a computer geek who wears glasses, stares at a screen all day, drinks copious amounts of coffee and probably talks a lot of nonsensical garbage. OK, well I do fit that description.Anyway this did get me

Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12017359633597565622morganmaclaren@woosh.co.nz3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803090934876696659.post-75571336680432851392007-11-05T06:31:00.000-08:002009-02-09T04:35:15.816-08:00

Over the past few days I've been listening to this brilliant album from a guy who I'm tempted to describe as a much younger Neil Finn but with a really incredible beard! He's got the same trademark Finn family songwriter qualities too, brilliant lyrics, beautifully crafted songs, interesting chords, fantastic melodies, unusual instrumentation and most essential ingredient - intelligence. And

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Bronspeak used to be a shy and retiring cryptographic cipher text encryption thingummy that lived a very private life somewhere on the north island of NZ safe in the knowledge that all it's darkest secrets were secure from prying eyes and that it could keep any information it wanted completely to itself without ever being found out...which was a good thing because it was an INTJ cryptographic

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