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A job well done
Ky, Occi, and I are in Melbourne for the weekend. We’re having a wonderful time, but only thanks to a lot of people doing their jobs well. Ky, as always, is doing an incredible job planning and executing the next few days. It’s incredible how well she pulls things together, and I’m constantly amazed at…
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What are the odds?
We all have places where we know we’re almost certainly going to bump into someone we know. For some readers, it’s the MCC, or Collin’s Street, or Central Park. For Ky, and to a lesser me, Auckland Airport is a happy hunting ground. While we had no luck this time, by God’s good graces we…
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Video Editing
Perhaps you’ve made a video before, perhaps you haven’t. Either way, I can guarantee you that it takes longer than you imagine. Perhaps that is true for all creative endeavors. As I reflect on it, I think there might be something to that. Videos, like paintings or gardens, are never really “finished”. There is always…
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Helpful ears
We all have friends that we can lean on when we need advice, but we often don’t reach out as much as we should. You’d be surprised by their advice and insights, and how much people really are willing to help.
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Broken Hill, Broken Clock
I found out yesterday a strange geographic fact. Working and traveling abroad requires me to be up to date with time zones; which always gets me to thinking about the curious case of South Australia, which has a 30 minute difference to the Eastern Seaboard. I don’t know anywhere else in the world that has…
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Same time, but different
After a wonderful three weeks up in Northland, we are back in Auckland for the week. Ultimately, we decided to fly. It’s a short one, only 40 minutes, and amazingly, required no ID check or security. Clearly the number of radicalised terrorists in the semi-tropical regions of the South Pacific are either low in number…
