Entertaining Fortune Cookies

Front: “Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you “
Back: “Speak Chinese (Wo shi lushi) – I am a lawyer.”

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This isn’t from some flashy ad campaign. It’s just sitting there on Paraparaumu beach, ten minutes away from the petting zoo with an aggressive but friendly goat.

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Well Look What Just Appeared Out My Window

It’s not the best photo-stitching job, but it sure is pretty.

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Wellington Phoenix Fans Know How To Cheer

I’ve never in my life heard more wonderfully rowdy cheers than when I watched a Wellington Phoenix soccer game. You think hockey back home is under-appreciated? Wellington’s multipurpose stadium, affectionately called the Cake Tin, can hold about 40,000 people. 6,000 show up to soccer games. Most of the stadium is empty, whole sections are closed [...]

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My First Weekend Back At Consumerist

My salary is no longer tied to traffic but I’m still just a little proud that my first weekend back saw a haul of over a quarter-million pageviews. And that’s without putting a story on any of the major social news sites. My posting over here may slow for a bit as I focus more [...]

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Walking In New Zealand Is Unusually Difficult

I am a fast walker. I effortlessly plow through through New York City crowds and find it difficult to slow down to keep pace with everyone else. Here, I just figured it would be more of the same, but that was before I started walking into people. Turns out driving isn’t the only thing they [...]

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I Fixed An Erroneous Vitamin Water Ad

There’s an ad for Vitamin Water at the base of Taranaki Street declaring the beverage “the original from New York.” Vitamin Water is not from New York. I am. So as any good New Yorker would, I fixed the ad.

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I Really Missed Having Access To Consumerist’s Tipline

No, crazy tipster, I don’t want to post your Homeland Security files. Really!

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