“A new study by sociologists at the University of Maryland concludes that unhappy people watch more TV, while people who describe themselves as ‘very happy’ spend more time reading and socializing. ‘TV doesn’t really seem to satisfy people over the long haul the way that social involvement or reading a newspaper does,’ says researcher John [...]
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Good for Nothing, Peanut-Stealing Cat
See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today’s Big Thing.
Good for Nothing, Peanut-Stealing Cat is Today’s BIG Thing - OCT 27, 2008.
New Star Trek Movie Photos
Doesn’t Zachary Quinto make the perfect next-gen Spock? Mind you, if I didn’t know, I might think that this picture was of Sylar in Heroes…
More Star Trek Images: Enterprise Crew + Nero [UPDATED] | TrekMovie.com
Lego: The Anatomy of a Lego Minifig Is as Fascinating as It Is Spooky
Anatomy of a Lego Man
Lego: The Anatomy of a Lego Minifig Is as Fascinating as It Is Spooky
Our life in Napier
A few weeks ago, we received an invitation from the Mayor of Napier to come along to a top-secret meeting, along with a lot of other non-native Kiwis… this video was the result:
My Productivity Fetish
I’m guilty of the typical geeky “productivity fetish” - it’s an engineer’s natural instinct to try to optimize, streamline, and “debug” their lives. I stumbled across a great article which puts this productivity obsession in perspective. Here’s my favourite quote:
“Shouldn’t we be striving for productivity in an attempt to have more time for ourselves, to [...]
My awesome wife baked me an iPhone cake!
My amazing wife, knowing my obsession with geeky gadgets, made me this iPhone cake for my birthday.
She printed out a bunch of promotional images of the iPhone, from various angles, then painstakingly painted each button with colored chocolate (yes, you can eat the Mail icon)
Here are all the photos
