Issue 163

S P E C T R U M S P E C T R U M S P E C T R U M M I K E R U D D B I L L P U T T . C O MM M I K E R U D D B I L…

..computing. I realised as I poured over specification sheets, internet sites and price lists that I hadn’t bought a computer since 1989 when I commenced a Post Graduate course in Computing at the then Chisholm Institute which was soon subsumed into the cavernous qualification mill of Monash University. I remember more than twenty years ago…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. .. (I think it was on the ABC) about an apparently typical family in North Korea. (Let’s get over the ‘what is typical’ debate before we go any further). Of course, by Western standards they weren’t that well off in terms of consumer goods that may or may not qualify…

..and roost there? In the spirit of inquiry I paused under the first talking tree and looked up. Yes, there they all were. I couldn’t really tell what brand they were, and just as I was thinking that they started to get nervous and about half of them fluttered noisily from the canopy in some…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..winner taking home both tubes in triumph. There are endless examples of feeble synchronicity that we all experience daily – we just have to keep our senses alert to the possiblities. I’m not sure what it proves, but cumulatively it can have a pretty disconcerting effect, which might have something…

..found a story that I’d seen in on the NZ Prime News about a Kiwi musician, Don McGlashan, (whom I saw in the Comedy Festival a few years ago in The Front Lawn), who’d ridden his bicycle into an open car door, (somewhat ironically in Auckland’s Dominion Rd, which featured in a hit song he’d…