Tag Archives: Cape Town

A little respect

By 6000 | 6000 | July 22, 2011

We went quizzing last night at the Fireman’s Arms in town. It’s been a while since we were there and it’s become a slick operation in our absence: questions on flatscreens, entry fees added to your tab etc etc. Nice work QuizNiteCT. One thing that did irritate us though was the amount of blatant cheating going on. [...]

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Capetonian woman continually surprised by events

By 6000 | 6000 | June 30, 2011

News just in: Capetonian Margaret Wilson (61) of Diep River, has admitted to being “almost permanently bewildered” by what she describes as “a continuous stream of surprising events” which she claims are plaguing her life. Yesterday, my son-in-law asked if I had registered the card in my cellphone. I asked him why I needed to [...]

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A380 over Cape Town

By 6000 | 6000 | June 28, 2011

Remember this line: …that will be the day when an Airbus A380 flies over the middle of London, much too low, with one of its engines on fire. from this post? Well, what if that were almost to happen, but with Cape Town and no burning engine? Lufthansa brought their A380 from Frankfurt to Cape [...]

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N SKY C

By 6000 | 6000 | June 22, 2011

Via deleteyourself (see the blogroll): N SKY C Today is the summer solstice, which is a perfect day to announce my latest internet “art” project. I wrote a program that takes a picture outside of my office window every 5 minutes. It uploads the photo to a server and then analyzes the sky portion to [...]

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Heart v Head

By 6000 | 6000 | June 16, 2011

I desperately want(ed) to get down to the coast this weekend. The weather this week has been atrocious (once we’d got past Tuesday with its ridiculous midwinter 30 degreedness) and the wind has whipped up some epic swells around the South African coast. The weather service were warning of 7m off Agulhas. Yummy. I love [...]

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