Hi Matt!

Until further notice kahlerisms/arkspage is renamed HI MATT.

Why I love the internet.

Because someone in another state let me know I left an appliance on.

http://twitter.com/elnewb/status/1047895194
Awesome.

The ‘Three Things’ meme.

Blatantly stolen from Elizabeth of scarletwords.com – check out her photography – I’m super jeleous.

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Christopher
2. Chris
3. Frog (Something my mother has always called me – no one knows its origins)

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. Eyes. Kinda steely bluey grey.
2. Hands. I quite like the shape and look of my hands and fingernails.
3. Feet. Everyone else thinks they’re ugly troll feet. I think that’s why I like them.

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. My hair, on a bad day
2. Fatness. I hate my man cans.
3. Thighs. They’ve always been (even pre-fatness) un-proportionately big.

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. Awstralyan
2. German
3. Jedi

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. Big fuck-off spiders, harmless or not.
2. being boring
3. leaving things too late

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. Smokes. Even though I’ve not smoked in 14 months it was still my first throught when I read this question.
2. iPhone. Interwebs everywhere
3. Meat. I need meat every day.

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. Black t-shirt
2. Khaki cargo pants
3. black hushpuppies shoes which aren’t as comfy as they aught to be.

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE MUSICAL ARTISTS:
1. Kiss
2. Norah (no really, I think she’s ace)
3. Iron Maiden

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE SONGS AT THE MOMENT:
1. Lovestain – Jose Gonzalez
2. Sex On Fire – Kings of Leon
3. Shout (Cover) – Disturbed

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
1. Laughter
2. Generosity
3. Spontaneity

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. A great smile
2. Hips
3. Teh boobies.

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE HOBBIES:
1. Photography
2. outdoor cooking
3. Gaming

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. Play Fable II
2. Play Fable II
3. Give Lenore her present as I can’t wait a whole nother month to give it to her

THREE CAREERS YOU’RE CONSIDERING/YOU’VE CONSIDERED:
1. Fed/Law enforcement
2. Chef
3. Fireman (All guys wanna be firemen)

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. Weimar (Germany)
2. Spain
3. Wellington

THREE KIDS’ NAMES YOU LIKE:
1. Mathew
2. Michael
3. Kate

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Travel
2. Procreate
3. Get better at photography

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY LIKE A GIRL:
1. Bit of a woos when it comes to spideys
2. Quite enjoy cooking
3. Tend to be somewhat irrational when cranky.

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY LIKE A BOY:
1. Beer is excellent.
2. Barbecuing is excellent.
3. Cars are awesome

Baino’s McDanger’s Meme.

Because Memes are what blogs are all about, and even though I wasn’t ‘tagged’, it’s about time i had some content.

Baino’s post is here

What are your nicknames?
Chrispy to my friends, Frog to my mum. GeekBoy to the girlfriend. Had some others over the years. ChristmasTree was one I remember fondly from around year 8.

What TV gameshow/reality show would you like to be on?
Hmm.
Reality show? New Zealand’s Police 10-7 solely so I could say
“ASSAULT ASSAULT! You touched me officer, sorry.” Hehe. Hope some readers will get the reference 🙂

What was the first movie you bought in VHS or DVD?
VHS I dunno. DVD was most likely the Matrix as it was that must-own DVD in the early days of DVD – it had it all, great audio, picture quality and a bucket load of special features.

What is your favourite scent?
Tough one. Burning gum leaves? Bacon cooking? A good whiskey?

If you had one million dollars to spend only on yourself, what would you spend it on?
Cars, cars and more cars.
And hopefully a big empty property not too far away I could whack a big shed on to store them all.

One place you’ve visited, can’t forget and want to go back to?
Ooh I know this one. Weimar. Feels like a Sunday arvo 24 hours a day. Never been to a place as relaxed and chilled out and friendly and awesome. Can’t wait to go back. Wellington would be a clear second.

Do you trust easily?
I guess so. I guess the first time I’m very trusting. Benefit of the doubt and all that. Probably a lot harder to ever get it back if you lose it though 🙂

Do you generally think before you act, or act before you think?
I think I’m a fairly measured person and I generally act without too much emotion.

Is there anything that has made you unhappy these days?
Ha! Lets see: My father’s dieing of cancer, the friend he made in the last two weeks died on Saturday night, finances are tight, work is flat out yet kind of stale, I’m putting on weight at an alarming rate, my new house smells kind of funny, I need money to fix my car (see previous comment about financial restrictions) and I’m generally not the calmest most relaxed guy on the planet at the moment.

Do you have a good body image?
No. Over the past five or six years I’ve balooned. I’ve put on about 30 kilos. I’m guesisng most of it is binge eating, absolutely no exercise regime and a shitload of beer. I’d like to get fitter and run and stuff (especially in summer when I’m sweating anyway I find exercise a lot easier) but I’m really shit at running. I don’t think I ever learnt how to breath properly so I’ve never in my life been able to run for very long. More recently I get nasty shin splints just running for a train and I’ve not got a pair of runners. A future post is going to be one of those 101 things in 1001 days things. Buying a pair of runners will be on that list.

What is your favorite fruit?
Changes every year. One of the summer stone fruits – Cherrys or apricots or peaches or nectarines or something like that. Each November or so I decide which will be my favorite for the year and kind of stick to it. If I had to decide today I reckon I’d go with white peaches 🙂

What websites do you visit daily?
I’m constantly plugged into an RSS reader so I don’t have to check many websites very often. MacTalk.com.au, twitter.com and reader.google.com. That’d be about it.

What have you been seriously addicted to lately?
Hmm. Procrastinating. That and alcohol I’d guess.

What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
Well I wasn’t tagged, but I think Helen’s a thoroughly decent, intelligent, creative woman. I think she’s fantastic and look forward to drinking a lot with her as soon as possible.

What’s the last song that got stuck in your head?
Cry Little Sister. (The Girlfriend’s watching The Lost Boys in the same room as me)

Favourite clothing
Black T-shirts, geek t-shirts and band t-shirts.

Do you think Rice Krispies are yummy?
I think they’re alright. They’re pretty boring though. A better question here would be Bacon or Cake, which I’ll add below.

Bacon or Cake?
Bacon. No hesitation.

What would you do if you saw $100 lying on the ground?
$100 cash? I’d take it. If it were a cheque or a wallet or something somehow traceable I’d try to track the owner down, but considering it’s virtually untracable cash and not of a huge dollar value, I’d pocket it.

Items you couldn’t go without during the day?
iPhone – Internet + iPod in my pocket. I need both 🙂

What should you be doing right now?
Aha! I was wondering how I’d answer this when I first copied these questions from Baino’s blog but while I was writing the answer the cash question I had a work phone call so now I have a slightly more interesting answer: I should be logging into work to check the SSH authentication isn’t somehow broken on one of our Solaris boxes.

Six people I want to fill this out
I doubt I have six readers with blogs. If you read this and you ahve a blog, do it and post in the comments so I can read it.

Awesome.

Matty!

Taken on Saturday.

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Jesus Titty-Fucking Christ, I want one.

There’s not much that appeals to me above all sense, reason, and expense, but this certainly does.

Check out this video.

http://gizmodo.com/386007/r2+d2-projector-in-action-video-verdict-a-must-have

Look what the Internet did.

This is either utterly inspiring and amazing, or just fucking scary.

Drunken geeks still making headlines.

A DRUNK man wearing a bin-liner and a cape attacked the founder of a Jedi church while shouting “Darth Vader”, a court has heard.

The court was told that Jedi church founder and Star Wars fan Barney Jones and his cousin Michael were filming themselves playing with light sabres in a backyard before Hughes jumped over a garden wall.

Hughes had consumed more than half of a 10 litre cask of wine before the attack, the court heard.

The court was told Hughes did not remember the attack until he read about it later in a newspaper, and where the crutch had come from was still a mystery to him.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23586943-13762,00.html

Fucking sensational.

Second worst drivers on the road!

Holden hoons out-ranked other drivers for their bad habits in a survey of more than 2500 drivers.Motorists were asked to admit to a range of misdemeanours, including talking on a mobile phone, drink-driving, speeding and text messaging.

Mercedes-Benz drivers were the second worst on the road overall, Volkswagen were third and BMW fourth. Ford drivers were fifth.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23567072-2,00.html