Invention: Car Trains – Retrofit Your Car To Become Car Train Capable

October 18, 2010

When you are out driving between cities do you see lots of other people going in the same direction? Of course you do! What a waste of fuel. And because of the following distance we must maintain for safety reasons, think of all that momentum being wasted with fighting air resistance. I don’t want to [...]

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When Celebrating A Lucrative Investment I Accidentally Spent Double The Profit

September 1, 2010

This one time my best mate Scott Newton and I spotted a fantastic Term Deposit rate at the bank. Interest rate: 6% Minimum investment: $600 Term: 6 months = Profit: $36! We could not resist! We were poor high school students at the time but we scrounged the cash together and we each made our [...]

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I Raided Rubbish Bins For Aluminium Cans Because The Comalco Cash-for-Cans Was So Lucrative

August 1, 2010

This one time my best mate Scott Newton and I raided all the rubbish bins within a 4 block radius of a “Camalco Cash-For-Cans” machine. The year was 1988 and this “Camalco Cash-For-Cans” vending machine stood outside the BP station at 1275 Amohau Street, Rotorua (the BP station is no longer there). The principle was [...]

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I Had A Plan To Make Loads Of Cash By Recycling Car Batteries

July 1, 2010

This one time I left my car door open overnight and the battery went flat. When the AA came and started it for me in the morning he told me my battery was old and needed replacing that day. The previous year I had taken an old car battery to the metal recylers I knew [...]

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I Drove Over The Top Of My Uncles Orange Tree

June 1, 2010

This one time when I was 13 years old, my uncle let me drive his 1984 Isuzu 4 ton truck in his citrus orchard. That was a mistake on his part. I misjudged my approach on a corner and completely flattened one of his orange trees. Oops. He had a good laugh though.

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I Locked My Self In A Locker. It Was Unpleasant.

May 1, 2010

This one time I thought it would be fun if I climbed inside a locker at The Geyserland Hotel in Rotorua. There was barely enough room for me. I basically had to contort to fit in there. The locking mechanism was completely exposed, I was confident there would be no problem opening it once I [...]

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I Helped Light A Friends Fart And Burnt His Nut Sack

April 1, 2010

This one time at school camp in a hut on Mount Tongariro, 2 mates and I thought it would be good fun to light our farts. One mate announced he was ready and got into position with just his undies on. My job was to hold the lighter in position, but I got too close [...]

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How Long Will It Take For Gmail To Reach 10GB Of Storage?

March 30, 2010

Did you notice that last year the rate of increase on the Gmail homepage slowed considerably? In fact, the current rate increases storage by just 4 bytes per second which is only 345.6 Kb per day. Equivalent to one unoptimised photo from your digital camera. So how long will it take for online storage to [...]

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We Have AA Batteries, C Batteries, D Batteries, But Where Are The B Batteries?

March 27, 2010

I thought the answer would be interesting. But it isn’t. It’s boring. Read it for yourself on Wikipedia if you don’t believe me.

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4 Reasons Why The Internet Hasn’t Made TV Redundant Yet (And Never Will)

March 20, 2010

What will happen The internet will take an ever increasing share of advertising expenditure The quality of TV programming may reduce because of less advertising dollars sponsoring development The audience will continue to fragment between an ever increasing number of channels But TV won’t become redundant. Why? 4 Reasons Why The Internet Hasn’t Made TV [...]

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