things that rule

I just watched that. She kept it together till the end. WOW. Where on earth do you find this stuff?

Side projects while waiting for my deck to dry before staining it...

This mornings dawn parade at Pukeahu

Stuff said over the 20k expected. 

Seems like a good space. hope it gets used more now.

Spandau Ballet

Were you watching Prime Rocks by chance?

Guilty

This is my 10,000th post on here!

Chaaaahoooo

A commendable display of persistence in the face of mediocrity ?

Well done Coops, you're a legend.

48-0. TBE.

Yeah, pinched it....

Heard a commentator constantly say "the judges notice activity, not punches that actually land" I remember thinking that was bs at the time, and the result proves it was. 

It's more like the croud/audience only notice activity. 

Having said that, it is quite sad that the boxer who spent the entire fight avoiding the fight, ended up winning it. 

He's a great technical boxer and his career has been amazing - never hitting the canvas in 48 fights is incredible. His astuteness in business is also impressive.

All of that is overshadowed by one simple fact though - he's an insufferable prat.

8.75% Pay Rises!!!

what is a pay rise my boss does not seem to understand and i would like to be able to help him out.

Pretty funny.

About 6 months ago I approached my employer on this subject and got a pretty clear answer of "No" so I must say that I was a little taken back when I was called into the office yesterday and delivered the good news. I even bit my tongue when I was told as I was very close to replying to their offer with a sarcastic remark like "I cannot accept this pay rise as I don't feel I do enough to have earned your generousity"

Getting a tick from the specialist a year after big surgery.

Lionel Messi. What a footballer.

reading about Kirk Douglas's son Eric on Wiki. I hope this is true

Stand-up comedy
In the early 1990s, Douglas attempted a career as a stand-up comedian. He performed in New York City comedy clubs with much of his self-deprecating material coming from his status as the black sheep of the Douglas dynasty.
Douglas entered British comedy folklore when, during a stand-up performance at The Comedy Store, London, he became angry by the audience's reaction to his stand-up routine. This led to him shouting out, "You can't do this to me, I'm Kirk Douglas's son!" A member of the audience stood up and shouted "No, I'm Kirk Douglas' son," referring to the iconic "I'm Spartacus" scene of the 1960 film starring Kirk Douglas. This ended up with the majority of the audience standing up and repeating the line

UK sniffer dogs currently being trained to detect prostate ( and many other types of ) cancer from 10ml urine samples. Apparently have similar success rate as drug detection dogs, i.e near to 100%

Woof woof! Talk about mans best friend!

The staff at Hastings Hospital, Care Flight, Wellington Hospital Neonatal Unit and of course Ronald McDonald House.

Oh and you wonderful people of the Yellow Fever for all the aroha!

We love you Coops we do, We love you Coops we do. We love you Coops we do, ohhhh Coops we love you.

It actually sounds better than having a doctor stick his finger up your arse. Let's face it dogs are always sticking their faces into groins or humping your legs anyhow so not a big deal.

Do you have to pull your pants down though for the dog to sniff? If yes I think that would make a great Avatar

Reminds me of the line from the movie "Road Trip":

It's not cheating if you spread peanut butter on your balls and let your dog lick it of...Because it's your dog!

Um no. Samples in test tubes. Possibly in a "natural" environment.

NZ Music manager of the year Ashley Page represents top acts including Broods and Lorde producer Joel Little. His father, Larry Page, managed 1960's bands The Kinks and The Troggs

What was your childhood like?

We were working class but Mum was part of Bridge-playing high society. Dad travelled for work and would take me to Chelsea football games religiously. He wrote their anthem Blue is the Colour in 1972.

Your dad's relationship with The Kinks turned famously sour. Does he still talk to Ray Davies?

Dad gave The Kinks their name and shaped their look and sound. He gets on great with Dave Davies, but Ray and my dad have never seen eye to eye ..... I think it's petered away to dislike again.

Did you plan to follow your dad into the music business?

My parents marriage broke up when I was 7 and I blamed music management to a degree. Mum and I moved to Tavistock in Devon where she worked in a pub for years, Cher would call mum when she was in England and The Shadows guitarist Bruce Welch said mum was the one person who never forgot his birthday.

So how did you end up in the industry?

I was studying English lit when I got a holiday job at Castle Records as the office lackey. ... It was exciting. ...Then I got poached by Korda Marshall at Mushroom and got to promote some of my favourite bands like Ash and Garbage.

Why did you come to NZ?

I met my wife Tracy Donaldson at Mushroom. She was a Kiwi and wanted to come home. I ended up being label manager for Flying Nun, which I didn't appreciate the gravity at the time. ... But I'm very proud of signing the Mint Chicks and The Phoenix Foundation.

Why did you go out on your own?

Festival Mushroom went through a horrendous period where it was bought by Warner Music. Decisions were being made in Australia and NZ bands were at the bottom of their list.  ... I didn't want Goodnight Nurse to go the same way so I went home and said to Tracy I was going to set up my own management company. She's backed me every step of the way.

Goodnight Nurse frontman Joel Little came to you with Page 1 Management. How did he wind up with Lorde?

I'd enquired about managing Ella after hearing her in Devonport but she was already in discussions with Universal. I kept thinking how can we be involved? A year later I heard she was working with other writers . I got straight on the phone to suggest Joel. There was convincing to be done. I said to Joel, "this sounds funny but there's a 14 yr old I'd like you to work with," and he was like, "That's kind of weird, I don't know if I'd feel comfortable."  It took me about 3 months to persuade them to get together. But they just clicked. They wrote Royals in that first two-week writing session. .... Everything we're doing now is on a worldwide level.

Have you made your dad proud?

Yeah, I think so. My sister and I never had a hand-up from him. He was always very much, "that's my money, you do your own thing. I asked if I could use his Page1Records name and he refused so I formed Page 1 Management. He's mid 70's now, living in Australia. I bumped into Jimmy Page a few years ago and he asked me if dad was still alive, so for history reasons I wanted dad to do his own biography. It's actually been written by Joels's dad, Paul Little. It's an amazing book.

- todays' NZ Herald: 12questions@nzherald.co.nz

Friday night

Work be damned

That 70's show

Kitty: Where did you learn your parenting skills?

Red: Korea

"The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart

But not with Jon Stewart for much longer (he's leaving in August).

It's on at the crappy time of midnight in NZ on Comedy Central.

However you can watch all the latest episodes here for free on the Comedy Central USA website:

(as long as you have a VPN such as "Hola" installed on your computer or device and select "USA" as the region)

Episodes:

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/m4q7bs/ma...

Other programs like South Park can be viewed there for free as well:

http://www.cc.com/shows

Download "Hola" here for free (to get around the territorial restrictions):

http://hola.org/

Actually "Hola" pretty much rules too so you can access any foreign geographically-restricted website.

It enables you to watch shows on demand on BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, Channel 4 On Demand etc. from NZ:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/

http://www.channel4.com/

NB Channel 4 require you to register (the others don't) but you can do so from NZ and it's free (just use any random UK postcode - no address required). This is a UK postcode you can use: NW8 9AY (any will do)

Another thing that rules is all eight series of "Peep Show" comedy which are available here to view on Channel 4 after registering:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/peep-show/on-de...

Roly signing on for another 2 years.

Getting asked if I can go to Wellington for work on the 2nd of June for an all day meeting............hmmm, U20 World Cup double header is on that day. Hopefully meeting will be over by 4pm. Couldn't have worked out better. Will get rental car as well.

Be careful with those cock-tails

make sure you put an umbrella on them. 

careful with the beer too. And check your bags, hate to see you sstopped at the border with an unknown gift.

Beware the Changover...