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  glenstorey 8:29 am on September 22, 2008 | 2 | # |
  Tags: art, obligation, websites

  I really have nothing great to blog about. Don’t read that the wrong way, life’s interesting – new and exciting things are happening – but because it’s so exciting I don’t really have the emotional energy to collate it into something meaningful or interesting. Lots of things I want to tell you about: short film I was lucky enough to be a part of, 21sts, my birthday, the warriors winning, Auckland, good friends.

  But.

  No.

  For today, I’ll just tell you about a rad website I found, that I have on my google homepage.

  It’s called artist a day – and it has a different artist, a day. It might be a blob, something surreal, impressionistic. Always pretty interesting.

  

  Anywho. Sorry I’m being a poor blogger. Might try and focus on quality not quantity (I’m not sure what this one is.)

  C O M M E N T O S A U R

   

• glenstorey 5:29 am on September 16, 2008 | 1 | # |
  

  I’m in a short film tonight. Plots Plot’s a secret, I don’t even know my character and I can’t tell you anything. Will keep you posted.

   

• glenstorey 11:04 pm on September 15, 2008 | 0 | # |
  Tags: ads, odd

  Nothing hugely exciting to post about – but thought I’d share this ad, because it’s kinda *delightfully* odd.

  WordPress is having a funny day, so just follow the link:

   

• glenstorey 11:50 pm on September 10, 2008 | 1 | # |
  

  It’s my birthday today. Wow. Had a great cake. Will talk more later.

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• glenstorey 7:49 am on September 9, 2008 | 0 | # |
  Tags: atoms, Big Bang, faith, God, lhc, physics, raps, space

  Last time I went to the mountain, I went with my friend Wade – who is an Astrophysics major, in his 5th year at the University of Irvine at California. Anywho. I have always been curious about atoms, and space and things like that, and Wade is a natural teacher – so the whole trip back from the snow (4 hours) was a question and answer session on Dark Matter, Neutron Stars, how the universe is really a doughnut, Bonus Dimensions, String Theory (apparently it’s all crap), Photons, the Big Bang and Gravity.

  Tangent: One really interesting point about the Big Bang that I learnt, was that orginally Physicists were afraid that Theists (people that believe in a God), especially Christians (like me) would use it to argue the existence of God (rather than what you traditionally hear – that the Big Bang is the antithesis of God). If there was a Big Bang – there needs to be a Big Banger. From what I understand (and I only get a wee tiny little bit), time and space and all that fit inside a bigger, master plan.

  Still with me? Right. Well. On the borders of France and Switzerland there is a big machine called the Large Hadron Collider, that they just finished, that makes really little bits of energy race really fast around these big tunnels to collide into each other. It’s the largest machine built, ever. They want to figure out if there’s such a thing as Dark Matter (which, apparently holds the whole universe together – but has the unfortunate side affect of annihilating it’s Light Matter equivalent) and other little particles that make up atoms. When the little bits of energy collide it’s supposed to be like the big bang – they’re not sure what will happen – things explode, some people think the planet will be destroyed (apparently this is one of Nostrodamus’ predictions – I guess, it should be his last prediction because if he’s right everything would blow up, or, blow in).

  EXCITE! The machine gets switched on Sept 10 french time (or maybe US time)…so…let’s wait and see. I hope not, because sept 10 in America is my birthday here in NZ. As usual, ever since 1982, September 11 has been a big day.

  MOST importantly, some scientists made a rap explaining it. You might want to sing along.

  If you’re interested, this one is kinda informative, but not funny:

  And here’s a conspiracy theory:

  Bam! and the dirt is gone. Leave a comment.

   

• glenstorey 8:19 am on September 8, 2008 | 3 | # |
  Tags: bloggin, cognitive dissonance, grammar, lemon drinks, passive agressive, propolis, spore, virus

  Today I realised how much of a pain I am when I constantly correct people’s grammar. I can be a *little* persnickety about it. Until I realised it’s not just me, there is a whole tribe of grammar nazi’s in this world. I think I’m a lieutenant. No more! Blogs are now free from my grammatical reign of terror. When I see an effect instead of an affect, I will just fix the error in my head. Possessive apostrophes will just magically appear in sentences where they would formerly, fear to tremble.

  And my grammar nazi brethren will see my slightly passive agressive post, have mercy on me, and stop correcting my mistakes. Phew.

  I came home from work today not feeling 100%. The Virus, which has been afflicting many of my friends and family for sometime now has finally hit.

  Here’s my plan of attack:

  • Hot lemon drinks (cheers Jono’s mum!)
  • Propolis: crazy stuff. Stick it in water and it goes mental. I’m not too sure what it does inside your body. Tastes gross, so it must be good for you (with that reasoning listening to Britney Spears should improve your hearing).
  • Sleep. Sometimes with the aid of herbal sleeping pills (man, I’m turning into a hippy). They actually seem to help. If it’s a placebo, that’s ok, it still seems to work. That’s the point.

  In other news, today I ordered Spore from the Apple Store (because I still like games, despite my 25 years, 51 weeks and 4 days). I’m not too sure where I’ll find time to play it: I’d rather hang out with Monique, flatmates and friends, and I should (despite not always wanting to) do work. Maybe it was a dumb idea. In any case, it’s now in Japan, flying from an Apple warehouse. They’re sneaky because they don’t tell you that it’s winging it’s way across international waters until after you pay. I’ll walk through my enjoyment, or cognitive dissonance in the coming posts.

  Don’t correct, comment!

   

• glenstorey 7:37 am on September 7, 2008 | 2 | # |
  Tags: cognitive dissonance, mosaic, road rage, ruapehu, snow, snowboarding, turoa

  Just got back from snowcamp. Went with the mosaic youth crew (a part of mosaic that works with highschool aged youth) down to Mount Ruapehu. To be honest, it was madness. Great times, but, very high energy – poor sleep. We had the most amazing day boarding on Saturday – ever, lots of snow, and Turoa’s six seater was magic. Magic.

  

  Doesn't look super snowy here I know- but this is from the very lower mountain (by the cafe). Above the clouds

  

  Snowbird Run I think.The fog was gone by the arvo.

  

  From the top of the six, I think

  

  PCP Crew Repz

  Anywho – had a great day’s riding. Camp was awesome. Most excellent.

  Could see Taranaki from up Ruapehu, and on the way home today could see both mount taranaki and mount ruapehu. Quite an achievement given that taranaki is on the other side of the island.

  

  

  Taranaki (sorry not great white balance on the camera)

  

  180 degrees around Ruapheu

  

  Ngauruhoe (mount doon - lotr) and Ruapehu. And a branch.

  Good times.

  Driving back from Ruapehu resulted in me finding all the slowest cars to follow. One was going 60k all the way from Paeangaroa to Te Puke. I wanted to throw a moose at him. Or a grenade. I actually flashed my lights and tooted (which, isn’t really like me – I’m not known for my fits of rage).

  On a lesser note, in the unplesant and often dreaded unpacking after camp stage, my laptop got a nasty dent. It works sweet as, but I like things to be shiney and new. It’s good to get over that by force (is this, perhaps, a bizzare twist of cognitive dissonance?). It’s my birthday on Thursday, maybe I’m finally starting to figure out that, in fact, stuff doesn’t matter. People do. But it is a lot easier to be better with stuff, and with work, then it is to be with people (easy is usually not the best option, it seems).

  So. Summary of the weekend. Big youth camp. Great snowboarding. Three Burger Fuel Meals (2 great, one not so good). Slight Road rage. Dent Laptop. Blog. Ready to sleep.

  Throw a moose. Or a comment.

   

• glenstorey 2:13 am on September 5, 2008 | 3 | # |
  Tags: kiva, microfinance, money

  I’m not sure if I’ve shared this yet, but one of the best websites ever has to be kiva.org. It’s built around the idea of microfinance – you loan money to an entrepreneur in a third world country, they start or build their business, and then they pay you back (over a year usually). When you get the money back you can take it back (and the way the kiwi dollar is going you might even get more!) or reloan it – which is more fun.

  It’s really well scaffolded – through smart microfinance organisations and they have a really, really, really low loan default rate.

  You only need to loan $25 ($36NZ) – and you can keep in touch with the person your loaning to and how their business is going.

  Here’s someone I loaned $25 to.

  

  Mrs. Phov Phoin, 26, is a mother of two children who are too young to attend school. She and her husband are rice and livestock farmers. Collectively they earn approximately eight dollars per day. The couple would like to use a loan to increase the number of chickens they raise and purchase a motor-bike for transportation.

  Cool aye? Beats a CD anyday.

  Help yourself. Leave a comment.

   

• glenstorey 9:11 am on September 4, 2008 | 3 | # |
  Tags: chrome, google, school, simpleviewer, snowboarding, websites

  Off to a youth snowcamp tmrw, headed up the mountain with 50 other people on Saturday – should be a treat if the weather holds out. TREAT!

  

  I just finished a website I’ve been working on for a while, for the school I work at. Pretty stoked – wasn’t super sure of the colours (they were selected by the client) but it’s turned out pretty good, I think. Simple CMS running the show, using this flash app called Simpleviewer that my friend Greg (a.k.a Geg) told me about. If you go to have a look, you get bonus points if you use Google Chrome.

  

  I have a week left of being 25. Crap. Some of my best ‘top of my head’ moments of life so far:

  • when I was 3, the day it rained on one side of the house but not the other
  • monique’s cupcakes
  • getting a job at my school
  • flying to l.a.
  • flying to new zealand
  • more to come…

  Feeling chatty? Leave a comment.
  

   

• glenstorey 10:10 am on September 3, 2008 | 3 | # |
  Tags: bloggin, dark matter, lightning, sleep, strengthfinder, talent

  I haven’t blogged in a while. I think I’ve been a little self concious about blogging, and a lot busy with stuff. Stuff, from hereon, refers to:

  1. Snowboarding (4.5m base Turoa side)…with my friend Wade, the Astrophysicist.
  2. Working. Two websites, neither of them online – so I can’t share them with you yet.
  3. Sleeping.
  4. Strengthfinder coaching.

  It’s been madness really.

  

  First things first, did anyone hear the lightning last week?

  Picture this: the sweet, velvety goodness of a mature state of unconciousness, about 1.40am in the morning – to be broken, nay, shattered by the resounding echo of lightning. Honestly, I woke up thinking the world had ended, white island had erupted, and I had about 3 minutes to live. What did I do? Regret a little, txt my dad (because he and I often talk in the midst of tsunami / volcano disasters – more on that later…maybe) and txt Jono, my flatmate (Did u jst hear tht!?). Txting in the midst of a Near Death experience… I’m not sure if I’m proud of that.

  Eventually I drifted back into an uneasy sleep, not sure if I had imagined the whole thing. I didn’t. It was real.

  A week or so ago I did Strengthfinder coaching as part of my job at mosaic, a church in the mount. Strengthfinder is a personality test (not a gimmick – I promise) that focuses on your talent (rather than traditional psychology that tends to be pathological, about your issues). You take the test, and it gives you your top five talents (of 34 possible) that describe your personality in terms of strength, rather than terms of issue. It’s nice starting from the place that you are a unique human being, who was created to make a unique and invaluable contribution to the world. No one was created like you, ever, and no one will be ever again – why try to be like everyone else? Your unique – develop the things that make you unique.

  Here’s my top five:

  1. Strategic (I see patterns and try to find the best way in confusion)
  2. Futuristic (I look back on the present and am constantly thinking about the future)
  3. Belief (I have a core set of beliefs that drive me)
  4. Activator (I need to start things, I can’t just talk about them)
  5. Learner (I love learning for learning’s sake)

  To be honest, when I heard about it  I was *quite* cynical, but it’s very well done – they’ve done 2million people, and is an incredible tool in unleashing unique human potential. In any case, I’m a coach now, which means I can help people develop their talent into strength.

  It’s been a big gap on the blog, so much has happenned. I’d love to fill you in on what I learnt about Dark Matter (good talks in the car on the way to the snow), homeopathic sleeping pills, the AB vs Samoa game, Mike Guggliamucci, snow camp, propilis and my brother and how he doesn’t keep in touch. But, I have 8 minutes of battery left. It can wait.

  2 Minutes. Leave a comment.

   

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