Vic Books sale
On a stunning day like today, what could be a better way to use your lunch hour than taking the cable car up the hill to Victoria University and checking out the sale at Vic Books? With books starting at 50 cents, this is how I keep my bookshelves overloaded.
There’s only a week and a half more to go, but new stock is constantly added, there’s 25% off fiction not already reduced on 17th May; and 25% off non-fiction not already reduced on the 24th. The sale finishes Friday 25th May and the shop’s open daily from 8am-6pm. Oh, and due to a terrible mishap with suppliers, they have 100 copies of Ann Coulter’s Slander for 50 cents each, which is perfect if you’re in the mood for a good old-fashioned book burning to warm the autumn nights. Hurrah!
No advertising? No way.
Hadyn originally posted this over at The Dropkicks, but since we used Wellington as the example (and the map looks so nice), it seemed appropriate to cross post it over here…
The gist of the story is that the International Rugby Board, in a bid to halt ‘ambush marketing’ around the venues for the 2011 Rugby World Cup (being held in NZ, didn’t you know?), is requesting a 5km advertising ban around venues where games are being played. To quote Hadyn…
Now without any bias, that is downright in-frickin-sane!
…which is entirely right. Take a look at what a 5km non-advertising zone around the Stadium would actually catch…
…yep – pretty much the entire central city and inlying suburbs. Are all those dairies going to have to take down the hoardings of non-authorised soft-drink manufacturers? Will the buses have all their advertising removed for inner-city services? Oggi’s gonna take down all their billboards? Methinks: No. Way.
WBL: Results round three
Oooh! Things are really getting exciting now.
Former league champions Xero took on Clemenger last night and didn’t come out victorious.
Meanwhile the random point awarded for most gutter balls (chosen by Silverstripe as last week’s random point winners) allowed the Bowlingtonista to give up last place to ClickSuite – although if I could repeat my hilarious joke about there being no ‘I’ in ‘Wellngtonsta Bowlng League’, ClickSuite did once again have the highest scoring individual player. Ryan managed to beat Clemenger’s Dr. Broad for that title even though Dr Broad got four strikes in a row, and ClickSuite are no doubt weighed down by their ridiculous facial hair that they’re growing for Maystache.
And while Bowltron had promised to form into one mighty lion if their score went over 500, unfortunately that just didn’t come to pass. They still creamed us though, even despite our attempts at distraction with clever rhyming chants. League table and individual points after the jump.
Flight of the Conchords: Something for the Ladies
Thankfully the boys’ HBO show seems to be coming along nicely, so we should have a new source of clips anytime soon.
In the meantime, here’s one for the ladies…
A close shave
Anyone forget to shave this morning might be interested in heading down to Lambton Quay near the Old Bank Arcade, where a caravan set up like a barbershop is waiting for you. It appears to be a promotion for a particular kind of new men’s razor, but I’m sure they’d be happy to shave ladies too…
Graphingtonista
Occasionally, and only just occasionally my geek side shine though. This happens to be one of those days, so for your enlightenment and please I present The Wellingtonista in graph form.
In case all those colours confuse you this is what they mean…
- blue: for links
- red: for tables
- green: for the DIV tag
- violet: for images (the IMG tag)
- yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
- orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
- black: the HTML tag, the root node
- gray: all other tags
…and if you are still confused, don’t worry I am also, but don’t we look pretty 🙂
If you want to see our graph magically populate check out. After which you can try your own web site.
“Just like a Star Trek convention…
…except with better-looking chicks and binge drinking”.
Here’s a challenge for you. In an unidentified pub, somewhere in town tonight, the local heats for the New Zealand Rock Paper Scissors (RPS) championship will take place.
At stake is a trip to the national finals (at an unidentified location) in July. The winner of that will attend the world championships in Toronto at some unspecified time later in the year.
The highly (un)informative article (not) detailing all of this is here.
Rock, Paper, Scissors is an ancient game played across the globe from very early in humankind’s history. Yet, it seems to me that in some strange way, RPS is also a sport of the future, indeed, I would not be surprised to see Wii RPS on the market, paving the way for the game to be included in future olympics (we start lobbying next week, depending on how the Kiwi RPS competitors look).
I mean, I’m guessing that this is a beguiling spectator sport (if anyone can find them tonight feel free to confirm that). Particularly if there are going to be hot chicks & binge drinking. It’s darts for the modern age! (Although I’d need someone who knows to confirm whether darts attracts a superior breed of groupies.) But I bet the whole thing is more reminiscent of a darts match say, than a Star Trek convention.
Unless they’re dressing up as Klingons or something, in which case I’ll concede that point.
Zoo(m) time
(sorry, that title is naff)
In a nutshell, if you go to Newtown on the bus (Go Wellington or Stagecoach) between now and June 30th you pay half price for entrance to the Zoo on that day.
Remember to ask the driver for the Zoo voucher.
Usual Zoo admission charges are:
- children under 3 free,
- children 3-16 years $6
- and adults $15.
Buses to Newtown include #1 (Island Bay), #3 (Lyall Bay), #10 (Newtown), #11 (Seatoun) … spoilt for choice.
And then it’s a walk up from Newtown shops to the Zoo [map]
mwhahahahaha
The comedy Festival hits town on Sunday
Yes just as we get those first blasts of winter and that lack of sun depression hits, people visit town with one purpose and one purpose alone: to make you Laugh.
The mighty Paramount Theater kicks off the Wellington Comedy Festival on Tuesday 8 May with the opening night extravaganza – First Laughs
If you can’t make a decision on who to see my pick is Late Laughs at the San Francisco Bathhouse every Friday and Saturday night. Nothing beats a mix of comics cutting loose late at night, alcohol and their competitive instincts kick to make for for a rather excellent evening.
A sharp intake of breath
A new photography group, “gasp!”, has an exhibition entitled “a sharp intake of breath” at Finc Café from now until 10 June.
[Photo © Geraldine Downey, 2007]
The group (Geraldine Downey, Andrew Ecclestone, Stella Ramage, Paul Holley and Jordyn O’Keeffe) gave themselves the wide brief for the exhibition of creating images inspired by the word ‘enigma’. The brief exhibition catalogue explains that they were “Aiming to make space for a slower, deeper vision amongst the torrent of visual information that swamps us everyday. We wanted to produce images which asked more questions than they answered, to arouse a flicker of intrigue, a shiver of unease, or create a pause for thought.”