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That match at Newlands

By 6000 | 6000 | May 15, 2010

It was the biggie. The North/South derby match. The one that everyone had been talking about even more since they realised that this season, it might actually make some meaningful difference to the final standings of the Super 14 table. We parked the kids with a handy Mother-in-Law, I dosed myself up with MedLemon and Corenza [...]

| 1 Comment Also tagged bulls, Cape Town, newlands, rugby, stormers, super 14 |Posted in sport, this is south africa

On fielding weakened teams

By 6000 | 6000 | May 11, 2010

The MASSIVE match this coming weekend is the MASSIVE clash between MASSIVE rivals, the Stormers of Cape Town and the Bulls of Pretoria in the Super 14 rugby tournament. And there’s a MASSIVE amount at stake, with the Stormers looking for a lucrative (and potentially winnable) home semi-final, which they will get if they win this game. [...]

14 Comments Also tagged bulls, rugby, stormers, super14 |Posted in annoying people, in the news, sport, this is south africa

Spandau Ballet tonight

By 6000 | 6000 | May 5, 2010

Off to watch these Golden Oldie legends of the 80′s this evening at Grand West this evening: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I’m pretty sure that they’ll do this song and their other really big hit True. Hopefully the somewhat upbeat tempo of the former won’t break the [...]

| 1 Comment Also tagged alphaville, Cape Town, spandau ballet |Posted in music, this is south africa

Pwned.

By 6000 | 6000 | April 26, 2010

As a biologist, I know that if you want to know what something does in a biological system, you remove it and see what happens. Usually, this results in a mouse dying. Seacom decided to see what happened to South Africa today when routine maintenance work on an internet cable ran over by… ooh… ages and then observed [...]

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Gym and Haircuts

By 6000 | 6000 | April 17, 2010

On my recent post about returning to gym after a prolonged (4 years) absence, I got a comment from Damien Tomaselli, a personal trainer, a part of which I have faithfully reproduced here: I’m a personal trainer. I like to know what peoples attitudes towards exercise/gym are. You mentioned you don’t like the people at [...]

14 Comments Also tagged gym, virgin active |Posted in annoying people, from your comments, sport, this is south africa

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That match at Newlands

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Spandau Ballet tonight

Pwned.

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