A Kiwi, but not a flightless bird or brown fuzzy skin green centred fruit. Humanist, Skeptic, Cyclist, Car Enthusiast, Westie Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand | he/him
I posted this on my personal blog, but it has a lot of design and construction innovation. Simplicity Living is a non-profit retirement/investment fund that is building high quality affordable rental (they'll own and operate) and rent to own (they'll fund) housing. It'
It was great to visit the Simplicity Living Productivity Hub today and learn more about how they are building high quality affordable rental (they'll own), and rent to buy (they'll fund) housing that I own 0.0000[insert many more zeros]001% of via a portion
Last night I posted this comment (without the image) on a 'The Intercooler' article by Mel Nichols about the history of the iconic Car Magazine Good, Bad, Ugly (GBU) pages: My favourite* GBU line was the 1983 (still have the August issue) 'Sum up' for a
Watching another Karl's (Watson's recent trip
A brilliant video, a fine tribute to a remarkable life. Years, no decades!, ago I vaguely knew of Beatrice Tinsley's work, on the life of galaxies, but would not have been able to name her. Then The Warehouse, who I worked for, rented some factory space in Beatrice
I'd long thought about getting a robot vacuum cleaner to do 'between real clean tidying' but wasn't up to spending the sort of money the market leader's command. My 'real' home vacuum is a commercial backpack PacVac Superpro 700. It
The family name in Antarctica?
I saw a Facebook post on an Alan Parsons Project (APP) group wishing Andrew Powell Happy Birthday and remembered a lifetime of entertainment. As an industrial design student in 1983/84 I was fascinated by the brand-new CD technology being launched at the time. Went to look at the
Socially media influenced by Webworm's David Farrier!
March 31st means it is blog’iversary time. Twenty years since that first tentative post! I really appreciate the connections blogging, and more recently Mastodon, Substack, Discord, & Facebook, has enabled. While the other platforms have taken over much of the day-to-day activity, I still prefer having the
Adventure South, and guide Bas, were fundamental in getting me out there again
Cycling The Old Ghost Road, Upper Buller Gorge, with Adventure South