After the excitement of the last few days (watching Sky, eating barbequed food, attending non-birthday gathering, and playing Guitar Hero 2 (I SUCK) I thought it would be a lovely idea to go out and look at the International Space Station which was apparently visible from 11:20 to 11:23, crossing low in the southern sky. [...]

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Day 1: Christmas Eve Drove from Christchurch to Nelson, via Kaikoura. Completely uneventful apart from the dick that thinks that a slow vehicle lane means the following: if you are in the slow vehicle lane, you must speed up so that the car in the normal lane cannot safely pass you; if a truck has [...]

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As is customary in preparing for a trip to Nelson, I had a look around online for somewhere to stay the night in Christchurch. I’ve used lastminute.co.nz before, so I thought I’d try them again. They were offering $96 for a “Mystery” 4-star hotel, so I booked that one. Nice. Arrived at the Grand Chancellor [...]

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(of Terry’s Chocolate Orange) “Tap and Unwrap” does not mean “Pound like a caveman on the back of a chair until the segments separate from the mangled chocolate core”. Please improve the user interface of the Orange. Yours, Disappointed in Dunedin

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I would’ve thought a decent jolt like that would’ve been more sizable on the quake drums than this. Pathetic effort, tectonic plates. I love Geonet: # Reference Number: 2838013 # NZDT: Mon, Dec 17 2007 10:05 pm # Magnitude: 4.2 # Depth: 12 km # Details: 40 km south-east of Dunedin Being a nerd, I [...]

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