RobiNZ Personal Blog

@CARmagazine tweets

@CARmagazine New issue, fitting that Porsche GTS advert ‘wrap band’ was as arrogant as most Porsche. In the bin, now onto the great contents @CARmagazine new issue, shame no current Fiat (or even Fiat Group) hot hatches good enough to feature! 130TC missing though @CARmagazine new issue, Mini Cooper (mk1) might have been hot but no way a hot hatch, unless Brit build quality meant rear window fell open * * Thinks: If Mini counts as hot hatch why no Abarth 500, 595 etc? Read more →

New toy to ride the ‘worlds steepest downhill’

I hope trip leader Bas approves because it’s too late if he doesn’t and who knows where in the world (on his bike) he is! My weapon of choice for the worlds steepest downhill* and a few uphills on the way there. * Trip Notes days 19-21: From the summit of the Lalung La (5050 metres) to the Friendship bridge at 1500 metres involves a descent of 3500 metres - one of the steepest descents in the world. The 2015 Giant Men's Talon 27.5 1 Mountain Bike has a super-responsive ALUXX aluminium frame which features classic hardtail design updated with... Read more →

Life =IF

Life is just an endless nested =IF statement*. Guess who's been looking at @Microsoft Excel too long today. * INDEX & VLOOKUP wouldn't work Read more →

Pup-cake?

Took a friend, and Alfie, for a walk around Hobsonville Point recently. We stumbled upon the Farmers Market (now in the old flying boat hangers by the boat ramp) and k9-doggy-deli’s “Bone Appetite” stall. I must say I didn’t buy this. My American ‘cuz'sis’ treated Alfie to a puppy cup-cake: a Pup-cake. Maybe it was because I lugged her a bag of Butterfingers (not sold in NZ) all the way from the USA. How is that fair? Pup-cakes are, to quote the website, “especially suited to your dog, made of 100% fresh ingredients” and it was packed in a cute... Read more →