Well that appears to be working – and we’re posting some fantastic growth figures (albeit off of a base that wasn’t ‘woohoo’ material to start with.  Hell next week alone we’ve got 400 people booked in across the 7 days to come and play paintball with us at TAG.

And that’s good numbers on a New Zealand standard.

So we’ve decided to mix it up a little, and next year we will be exibiting at the Armageddon Expo in Wellington.  It should be a bit of a laugh – we’re looking forward to it a lot – and the ideas of what we can do with our stand are flowing thick and fast.

I’ll try and post up a couple of times about what we’re doing in that space – but we’ve only got around 4 months to get it finalised.  The show is April 2/4 2010 – so book sometime out and see what’s happening.

But I noticed something now as an adult that I never noticed as a kid.  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a spy flick – and more importantly it’s a James Bond spy flick.  Here is the proof:

• Written by Ian Fleming
• Produced by Albert Brocoli
• Has an evil German badguy – Baron Bomburst
• Has Desmond Llewelyn in the movie – the original ‘Q’ from the 007 flicks for those who don’t recognise the name.
• Typical ‘Bond Girl’ named heroine – Truly Scrumptious
• Gadgets galore – hell the car flies, floats and does all sorts of things in between.

Now maybe I’m just a bit behind the times – but noticing all those things made me laugh.  It was, however, a bit hard to explain why I was laughing at the credits to the kids.

Twitter is Evil

There are a few webcomics that I read regularly.  Least I Could Do is one of them – it’s irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny that pokes fun at it’s self and the world around it with great regularity.

And with the public focus on social networks such as twitter at the moment this one – in my opinion – hits the nail on the head.  And you know what’s funny?  Both the writer (@sohmer) and the artist (@lartist) are on twitter themselves

Here’s another one I liked:

ARMED with explosives, two men are heading to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert to find the fabled acid-spitting and lightning-throwing Mongolian death worm.

The worm has never been documented but some Mongolians are convinced it exists. They call it Allghoi Khorkhoi, or “intestine worm” because it resembles a cow’s intestine and is about 1.5m long.

The worm apparently jumps out of the sand and kills people by spitting concentrated acid or shooting lightning from its rectum over long distances, NZPA reports.

I would have kept laughing as well – except I then read it was a New Zealand journo heading over there to do it.

New Zealand journalist David Farrier, who is organising the expedition, and cameraman Christie Douglas, leave this week to spend two weeks in the Gobi, trying to verify the worm’s existence and making a documentary about it.

For the love of god man – have you no national pride?

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