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Ari Sargent
Just like a chocolate milkshake only crunchy.
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Tweets
- Not sure that coffee at 4am is a brilliant idea, but... it's going to be a long day.
- Any poor bastard in Welly heading to kids sports today. Wrap up. It's bloody freezing.
- @freitasm what's your secret to lifting performance?
- "@Kiwiseabreeze: @farmgeek well it is now that I know about it... congrats!" Exactly! Congrats:)
- @youdodan long way to travel for a swim : P http://t.co/cvsFmVo2
- Too much excitement... series 3 moshlings are out :O
- Dear VTNZ, What. The. Fuck. Is this dreadful dreadful music? Seriously.
- @roddrury not surprising. Officials aren't known for seeing future potential/opportunity lost.
- @brenda09 depends on whether or not you use a whip ;)
- @nicegear burning your baking in a highly sophisticated and well controlled manner :)
- @oneforthedr nah, your photographer had me pose in all sorts of unnatural poses - he had a field day :)
- @oneforthedr not sure why I ever agreed to have a photo taken without my glasses on? Makes me look like a strip club owner :)
- @maximonos are you still camping? Mrs Me would have us outta there in 10 secs max :)
- Shake shake shake...
- At my third sports venue of the morning... and I only have 1 of our children #TaxiDriver
- @TeamSnapper any plans to extend Snapper Mobile beyond 2degrees in the future?
- @vavroom hahaha :)
- @marcuslush why did the [silly] chicken cross the road?
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Posts
- Which Superhero am I?
My results:
I am Green LanternI have strong will power and a good imagination.
Green Lantern
95% Supergirl
80% Wonder Woman
70% Superman
65% Spider-Man
65% Robin
65% Iron Man
60% Batman
45% The Flash
40% Hulk
35% Catwoman
35% Hot-headed.
- Hello World!
Sargent’s log stardate 1 January 2010.001: time to get my online presence sorted! This is not a New Year’s resolution, rather a good period of downtime to get a bit organised. I have recently realised that I exist in both the virtual and real worlds, but other than through closed communities (such as Facebook) there is very little connecting the two. Hence this blog, an open online space where I can share myself, my family, and occasionally (ie. when I get my shit together) my opinion/views on issues.
- About Ari
I am Ari Sargent, born 1968 in Christchurch, New Zealand. These days I am a proud Wellingtonian, living in Mt Victoria with my partner, Sascha Német and our three children – Saffron (10), Tallulah (6) and Tintin (3).
I have been a closet geek since I was about 10 (or perhaps earlier), and cut my teeth programming assembler for the 6502 processor on an Apple II computer, and then Z80 machine code on a ZX81 and a Sord computer.I have tinkered with web technologies as a hobby for a number of years – these days I have settled on cutting the odd bit of PHP code to create various utilities for my own use (such as a Wellington City Library website scraper to monitor all of the kids overdue library books and fines, or my Amazon EC2 hosted digital photo library and a bunch of other stuff – none of it pretty, but all functional to a greater or lesser extent). I would love to learn Ruby/Rails, but realistically with 3 kids I struggle to get in even a tiny bit of app development, let alone learning a new language/platform. I think I’ll just try and learn MVC using Cake PHP in the vain hope that someday I might get time to learn Ruby.
I trained as an electrical engineer, completing an honours degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering in 1989. Since then I have worked in the electricity industry in NZ.
By day I head up Powershop – a job I really cherish. It is a rare opportunity to combine my professional experience in the electricity industry with my personal passion for technology and inner geekiness.
So, it is now 2010 and I really need to get my online presence sorted. I can currently be found everywhere on the web, and nowhere in particular at the same time. Here is the plan to tidy this up:
Personal:- tumblr.deepthought.co.nz – random and sporadic outbursts.
- Facebook – where I will interact with my “real world” friends online.
- Twitter (@d33pthought) – where I will have conversations and a bit of fun with all and sundry – I will happily follow (and be followed by) people whom I have never met.
Professional:
- powershop.co.nz – where it all happens!
- Twitter (@powershop) – discussion with customers and friends of Powershop.
- Powershop Blog – discussion on Powershop and stuff related to the electricity industry.
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Status
- Homemade rocket piñata for Mr 5's Tintin party http://t.co/jcTQB9o4
- just for a laugh i took an online myers briggs test. the results describe me as INTP - an architect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTP - doesn't sound a bit like me ;)
- Superhero cake done (Mrs handiwork) let the party begin http://spo.gs/t3OQ
- My plans to work late tonight have been well and truly trumped by an outbreak of swine flu at home.
- Eureka! http://j.mp/d720GR has just unlocked the answer I needed to finish planning *my* yr 6 science project. making a seismograph :)
- now that's what I call lunch :)
- "Max" has had a hard day :) http://yfrog.com/j1jkuj
- bedtime!
- The big fat man came, gave pressies, drank the beer, ate the christmas mince pie and the reindeers devoured the carrot. Much to the delight of Saffron, Tallulah & Tintin - Santa did well! Merry Christmas Everyone!
- just put out the beer, christmas mince pie and carrot (for the reindeers) with Saffron, Tallulah & Tintin.
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Checkins
- Fish Fins170 Riddiford St, Newtown
- The WarehouseGeorge Bolt St
- Moore Wilson105 Tory St, Te Aro
- Freyberg Pool & Fitness Centre139 Oriental Parade
- The Oaks Satay Noodle House71-81 Cuba Street
- Driscoll Motors8 Walter street
- Wellington Airport (WLG) Domestic TerminalStewart Duff Dr.
- Auckland Airport (AKL) Domestic Terminal2 Andrew Mckee Ave
- Auckland Airport (AKL) International TerminalRay Emery Dr.
- Powershop Oz HQ9 Queen Street
- City Garden Hotel378 Little Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000
- HakoFlinders Lane
- IKEAVictoria Gardens Shopping Centre, 630 Victoria St
- Wellington Airport (WLG) International TerminalStewart Duff Dr.
- New World279 Wakefield Street
- Wellington Accident & Urgent Medical Centre17 Adelaide Rd, Mount Cook
