I am glad I live in NZ and not Australia.

Yesterday I went to work as usual.

About halfway through the day I felt something move in my shoe.

I assumed a rock had probably got inside it.

I took my shoe off to shake the “rock” out.

Out pops an Avondale Spider. Nice and black and about and inch and a half in size.

Fun! I’m glad there were no girls around.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avondale_spider

Sample photo after jump.

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What is wrong with the above image and caption?

Full story here:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10509620

I would like to know how the person writing the story managed to make a caption for petrol at $1.93/litre when the pump is reading $2.019.

More craziness from the states:

The seven prophetic years in the Biblical Tribulation have a total of 2520 days (7 x 360). The Antichrist will rule during this period and the number of his name is 666. The following combinations of Hillary Clinton’s names yield both of these values:

The sum of the 28 ASCII codes for: ‘HILLARY CLINTON’ (uppercase) + ‘Hillary Clinton’ (title case) is 2520.

The sum of the lowercase ASCII codes for all four of her names: ‘hillary diane rodham clinton’ equals 2664 which equals: 4 x 666.

Now ASCII codes (created c1900s) prove that Hillary is the anti-christ? I think I need a good does of Green Day’s American Idiot song right about now.

Note: I am a Barack Obama supporter and believe that he represents a new era in America and awakening and a liberalising of the States.

Since it was mentioned to me a few weeks ago after church I have been following the net hysteria which is the Obama Anti-Christ Roadshow.

If you do a search for Obama Antichrist you will get hundreds of pages of conspiracy about Barack Obama being the Anti-Christ. In my opinion it is all a lot of nonsense from people out their trying to disrupt democracy instead of encouraging it. You should be campaigning for a candidate and for or against and issue NOT directly against a person.

If you have not already seen some of the pages a good place to start would be here: http://www.barackobamaantichrist.blogspot.com/

This morning I came across a video on YouTube about Obama being the Anti-Christ. Watch it below. My comments on the video are below as well.

Mabus? I’m sure if I put other words together I will randomly create other words as well. For instance I can prove that Grandma is the Anti-Christ and that she is using her cookie business to promote global domination. e.g. Grandma Business = grandMABUSiness see the MABUS by running the two words together? Do you think I am nuts and silly? Well running Obama and Bush together is nuts as well. Two other points that I note about this is that if Obama is going to succeed Bush then shouldn’t the words be run together the other way around so it becomes bushobama. Wow I can see HOB in there I guess that means 5 possible things a) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings b) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous c) A hard steel edge tool used to cut gears d) A shelf beside an open fire where something can be kept warm e) [Brit] The top of a cooker with hotplates or burners. I love the last one. Yes Obama and Bush together are a hotplate! My second point is this. The Anti-Christ is a christian notion from the Bible. Nostradamus was never a christian so how come we are using non-christian “prophecies” to try and relate them to christian ones?

2012. The world is going to end in 2012 because a calendar ends in 2012? That is the same logic of the Y2K bug. Because we invented this measure of time somehow the world has to obey it. Well the world didn’t end because of the Y2K issue. And it will not end because some Calendar ends.

Pro-abortion. The anti-christ would be Pro-abortion. Do we know this of is the maker of this video assuming? Give me facts, give me truths not assumptions or opinions.

World leader? If Obama does not become the next President someone else will. They will be a world leader. What makes Obama so special from the rest. Nothing!

Peace? I sure hope whoever the next President of the US is wants peace. If not we are all doomed anyway.

Most powerful man on earth? Again regardless of who is elected they will be the most powerful. So how is Obama any different from the rest?

Satan, and Violence? Again opinion, crazy opinion. Where is the evidence? Where are the facts? Where is the true? Whatever happened to innocence until proven guilty? But why do we even need to go that far there is not even a shread of possible factual evidence to even bring these scare mongering claims. I guess some people still use the logic of the Salem Witch Trials. Have we gone nowhere in the last 300+ years?

Not putting your hand on your heart? Gosh if that makes you the anti-christ then you better burn me at the stake now.

The ending. I find the ending of this video the funnest thing of all. I am sure that my bible says that you should bless your enemy and pray for them NOT against them.

I am a firm believer in freedom of speech but hate speech, and untruefull speech is extremely bad because it spreads mistruths and does not allow people to make an informed and honest decision.

A Dargaville man has been charged with driving a ride-on lawnmower while drunk.The 52-year-old was seen by police driving through the Northland town at 9.30pm yesterday.He was stopped and asked to get the mower off the road. The police officer then discovered the man was a disqualified driver who had been drinking.

Northland police communications officer Sarah Kennett said the man recorded a breath test of more than twice the legal limit.

The lawnmower was impounded for 28 days and the man is to appear in Dargaville District Court this week facing charges of careless driving, driving while disqualified and driving with excess breath alcohol.

You have to love our police force. Impounding a lawn mower. In no way to I condone Drink Driving but charging someone for driving a lawn mower is pretty funny. Who is he going to mow down? The grass?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10486979

You are an Attentive Leader.

You are a Leader

Your solid grounding in the practicalities of life, along with your self-assuredness and your willingness to appreciate new things make you a LEADER.
You’re in touch with what is going on around you and adept at remaining down-to-earth and logical.
Although you’re detail-oriented, this doesn’t mean that you lose the big picture.
You tend to find beauty in form and efficiency, as opposed to finding it in broad-based, abstract concepts.
Never one to pass on an adventure, you’re consistently seeking and finding new things, even in your immediate surroundings.
Because of this eagerness to pursue new experiences, you’ve learned a lot; your attention to detail means that you gain a great deal from your adventures.
The intellectual curiosity that drives you leads you to seek out causes of and reasons behind things.
Your confidence gives you the potential to take your general awareness and channel it into leadership.
You’re not set on one way of doing things, and you often have the skills and persistence to find innovative ways of facing challenges.
You are well-attuned to your talents, and can deal with most problems that you face.
You are balanced in your approach to problem-solving, not letting your emotions hold you up.
You prefer to have time to plan for things, feeling better with a schedule than with keeping plans up in the air until the last minute.

If you want to be different:
There’s more to life than the practical - take some time to daydream and explore the aesthetic sides of things.
how you relate to others
You are Attentive

Because you like spending time with others, understand their feelings, and often know what is best for them, you are ATTENTIVE.
Some people are merely concerned about others, but you take action, helping people when you have the opportunity.
Although you care about others, you are hesitant to trust them to act in the best way on their own.
You don’t let your concerns with people go unnoticed: if someone has hurt your feelings, that person will hear about it.
People energize and excite you—you are able to have fun and be yourself when you’re around others.
You also learn a lot about yourself by talking things out with people, even if you don’t always share things that are important to you.
You have a strong sense of right and wrong, and you’re not hesitant to express yourself.
Understanding the dynamics of a situation is an important skill that you have, and you often intervene to clarify things for others.

If you want to be different:
You care about people, but finding the ones you can truly trust will allow you to get closer to them.

While you have strong opinions about what is right and wrong in the world, you risk coming across as judgmental—be sure to consider different perspectives when voicing your opinion.

The first photo is from my kitchen window while I was cooking dinner, it is a reflection of my other window which looks out directly at uni (as seem in picture two).

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=124266829

What can I say?

Whilst this computer may look like a terrible genetic engineering accident, it is actually a fully working linux machine which has never let me down.

Processor: A legendary Pentium II MMX @ 300MHz
Memory: A whopping 160mb
Hard Disk: 5,202,548,000 bytes of storage [5.2 gig]
Operating System: Linux slackware, 2.4.20 Kernel

The machine has everything [52x cdrom, hard disk, motherboard, psu] all encased in a highly technically architectured Selleys No More Gaps case. Somewhat shoddily too I might add, the architect severely lacked an eye for detail, oh well shit happens.

A Fantastic machine for coding [was used for C++, Java, Ruby, Perl], web serving [has an ancient version of apache installed] or just for putting on your mantle piece and impressing visitors who can’t work out what the f__k it is, or why you would ever want it.

PICK UP ONLY.