Category: satire

  • In which I apply for a job

    I haven’t done the fake job application shtick for a long while, but this was too good to pass up. Duncan Garner found this beauty and posted it on Twitter. Keen to work on a dairy farm? pic.twitter.com/wQNZa1YUjY — Duncan Garner (@DuncanGarnerNZ) June 11, 2017 It has to be a joke of some kind. “Reply with handwritten…

  • Book Review: Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley

    Book Review: Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley

    I got an e-book review copy of Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley, which is a great book by blogger Danyl McLauchlan, by asking the publishers for one on Twitter. I read it over the next week and then didn’t review it for a month, mainly because I am not very good at reviewing things. Part…

  • Horoscopes for 11 July 2016

    Aries You’re interested in everything today! Look around you. Isn’t life wonderful? Oh, look, The Void! Stare into it. Let us know if it stares back. Leo The moon is in your quadrant this month, and as we all know, this makes you fantastic at differential equations. If you’ve been looking at engineering as a…

  • Meth removal, but for ghosts

    The fledgling meth-testing industry is enjoying record patronage, with landlords and Housing New Zealand rushing to find out that pretty much every house in New Zealand is infested with meth. I read a stuff.co.nz article about one meth tester and realised it would be much better, and also about as accurate, if I replaced every incidence of the…