A lolcat? In my honour? Gosh, you shouldn’t have. /blushes
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Filthy foreigner Pt II: Another letter
Having received the fantastic news yesterday that New Zealand’s Immigration Department has kindly acceded to my wish to stay in this country, as a resident, I now present further funny reference letters from my mad friends. No, these weren’t the ones I actually sent to the ID. I’m not entirely sure they know what a […]
A return, of sorts
Right! I’m going to try to revive this here li’l blog. ‘Cause I keep meaning to, but then life gets busy. How, you say? Well, in recent weeks I have: a) spent three weeks in a 3rd world country with crap interwebs b) had my workload changed and increased c) been to a conference d) […]
The best recommendation letter ever
A gift, courtesy of Fake Science :)
Adrian Shaughnessy and the 15 Paradoxes of graphic design
Adrian Shaughnessy spoke last weekend at this year’s Semi-Permanent, and had some pretty brilliant, and practical, advice for graphic designers. Why are they called paradoxes? Well, because they address statements/beliefs which many in the field take to be true, but which, on closer inspection, turn out to be less true (not necessarily wrong, though). So […]
Filthy foreigner Pt I: Letter
There will be a few of these. Yes, I am teh filthy foreigner (S’African in New Zealand). A stranger in a slightly odd land (sometimes). Filled with sheep, and grass, and, um, cows. And the very occasional person. Oh yeah, and awesome geeks and food and wine and views etc. Anyhoo, I have been trying […]
Friedrich Nietzsche on Originality
What is originality? To see something that does not yet bear a name, that cannot yet be named, although it is before everybody’s eyes. As people are usually constituted, it is the name that first makes a thing generally visible to them. Original persons have also for the most part been the namers of things.
elsif
During an email conversation with friend, the following happened. Related as it ocurred. Friend shall be referred to as ‘x’ x: /winks aimee: depending on wink: /looks scared ; /yet more deadpan ; /eye twitches ; /runs screaming x: Sorry I will have to resort to coding, either that or I have to deal with with parallel universes.Which […]
Folding
Imagine I could take the world and, holding gently to its corners, fold it Into a rose, of infinite petals, and infinite complexity And give it to you
The hierarchy of digital distractions
Hahaha! True dat. * ahem *