• I got too hun­gov­er from the Occi­dent­al’s ter­rible host respons­ib­il­ity (hand­ing out free drink tick­ets for mugs and jugs that needed to be drunk that night) busy to post about this last week, but Team Quiz­ing­tonista won the Wel­ling­tonista Quiz League. Woo ha! Points must also go to Click­Suite for being the only oth­er team to show up every week. Although I sup­pose Jef­frey from Xero had oth­er things on his mind.

  • Mod­ern Love in the Left Bank is clos­ing down cos Helen’s mov­ing to Mel­bourne. Get your ass in there ASAP to get dis­counts of 50–70% off everything.

  • What two things can you find on pretty much every corner of Wel­ling­ton? Wish­bone out­lets and gov­ern­ment employ­ees get­ting their lunch there, of course. So why do must Wish­bone use a #5 plastic con­tain­er for most of their foods when govt3* recyc­ling sta­tions will only accept #1–3 plastic? Appar­ently you can take your empty #5s to Com­mon­sense Organ­ics and they’ll recycle them for you, but that seems like an awfully large com­mit­ment to make.

    • *govt3 is a scheme whereby gov­ern­ment employ­ees have their rub­bish bins taken away and replaced with a cube the size of a cof­fee mug, so they’re forced to sort their rub­bish into com­post, recyc­lables and land­fill waste. It’s a great idea but it’s very very annoy­ing how hard it seems to be for slightly older gen­er­a­tions to adapt to it. If it gets put in place in your work­place, stay out of the kit­chen for a couple of months or get earplugs because OH MY GOD how hard can it pos­sibly be and is it really worth the hours and hours of com­plain­ing and not under­stand­ing what to put where? No!