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Slightly Intrepid: October 2014
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Modestly adventurous, while also endeavouring to look both ways when crossing the road. The Dissection of Jeremy Bentham, or the Auto-Icon. On the unusual events that occurred immediately following the death of English philosopher Jeremy Bentham. 1748-1832), one of the key founders of utilitarian thought:. Before the dissection began, at London's Webb Street School of Anatomy. John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, The QI Book of the Dead. London, 2009, p390-1. Of 7 June 1832. Greatly cheered his last hours.
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Slightly Intrepid: December 2014
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Modestly adventurous, while also endeavouring to look both ways when crossing the road. Posted by Ethan Tucker. Links to this post. My top 10 films of 2014. So another year ebbs into the sunset, and it's been a bumper year for film-watching for me. Spurred on by the Film Society. And the movie-list site. 10 The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet. S earlier whimsical work ( Delicatessen, Amelie, Micmacs. David Fincher's Gone Girl. From the marvellous Almost Famous. Also, despite the hysteria when it was rel...
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Slightly Intrepid: Wellington 150: a capital anniversary
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Modestly adventurous, while also endeavouring to look both ways when crossing the road. Wellington 150: a capital anniversary. Wellington c.1865 (via National Library. In honour of the 150th anniversary today. Of the opening of the first Parliamentary session held in Wellington following the formal transfer of capital city status from Auckland to Wellington, here's the local newspaper's account of the opening of the general assembly back in 1865 during a traditional Wellington winter howler:. BBC Radio 4...
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Slightly Intrepid: April 2015
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Modestly adventurous, while also endeavouring to look both ways when crossing the road. Elite Dangerous: realising childhood sci-fi dreams. Hunting pirates in my Sidewinder in the Ho Hsi system. As I enter the mid-game of Elite Dangerous. With this and a bit of help from the Elite Rare Trader. Website I was able to do my first rare goods trading routes, reliving the brand awareness from the original game - a spot of Leestian Evil Juice. With your bar snacks, sir? Visiting Terra in my Cobra Mk.III. The gl...
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Slightly Intrepid: February 2015
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Modestly adventurous, while also endeavouring to look both ways when crossing the road. If you have a long cricketing memory, you will remember that time in 1946 when the mighty Australian cricket team, flushed with the joys of Allied victory in World War 2, deigned to play little New Zealand in a one-off test at the Basin Reserve. Now consider today's pivotal ODI at Eden Park. ODIs opponents, past 5 years. NZ v England, Wellington. Posted by Ethan Tucker. Links to this post. The 1951 waterfront lockout.
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Slightly Intrepid: September 2014
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Modestly adventurous, while also endeavouring to look both ways when crossing the road. Of the 36 ways of avoiding disaster, running away is the best'. I've recently been reading a compendium of obituaries from the Daily Telegraph with the punning title Thinker, Failure, Soldier, Jailer. The 3rd Lord Moynihan. The 3rd Lord Moynihan. Thinker, Failure, Soldier, Jailer,. Harry de Quetteville (ed.), London, 2012, p.522. Notorious drug smuggler Howard Marks. Posted by Ethan Tucker. Links to this post. While m...
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Slightly Intrepid: May 2015
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Modestly adventurous, while also endeavouring to look both ways when crossing the road. Press your space face close to mine, love! Neil Finn, the rest of Crowded House, Johnny Marr and Connan Mockasin perform David Bowie's Moonage Daydream, at a concert in 2010 celebrating Finn's birthday. Twin-axe solos! And rather fetching carpets too. Crowded House play Moonage Daydream with Johnny Marr and Connan Mockasin. Via Finn's Facebook page]. Wellington, 19 September 2014. Wellington, 3 December 2011. Lies wit...
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Slightly Intrepid: August 2015
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Modestly adventurous, while also endeavouring to look both ways when crossing the road. I cannot keep my tackle in, G-d d- n it! Describes a footrace held as part of a regatta on Lake Windermere in the north of England in August 1810, as quoted in Jane Austen's England. In the race an item of wardrobe proved rather troublesome for one competitor:. Nelly had no qualms in watching and gave an eyewitness description:. I cannot keep my tackle in, G-d d- n it! I cannot keep my tackle in. Posted by Ethan Tucker.
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Slightly Intrepid: Zinio
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Modestly adventurous, while also endeavouring to look both ways when crossing the road. Just in from seeing Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi's Festival documentary The 50 Year Argument. Detailing the history of the New York Review of Books. I was reminded that even at the far-flung orbits of colonial existence we New Zealanders can soak up the writing of intellectuals from the centre of global intellectual empires. Many people may not be aware of the Zinio. Offer 'over 500' titles, Wellington. Happy Mo...
