chasing the sun

Some photos first:

There are huge dunes at Ahipara, near the equator, where it's still warm. If you climb the dunes with your sled, you think, well behind them the bush starts. But you can leave your sled at the slope and walk, dune after dune, and after hours you turn back and you can't find the sled because you walked slightly to the left.
The saltwater wind makes sculptures out of the iron-containing sand.

I 'Squee!' when I was told this: The art deco capital of the world is in New Zealand! I will be there when they make their festival. Till then, look at this:

I also heared of the 'kiwi burn', NZ's equivalent to 'burning man'. They look for volunteers, I'll keep that on the screen.

I whould like to thank Jonas for reminding me of Stefan Molyneux, whose podcasts about all fields of philosophy from his point of view (rational and logic). He explains why the scientific method is preferable to other means of aquiring information/knowledge. He applies his findings to leprachauns, gods and governments. He never wants the listener to believe what he says, he merely uses logic steps for people to agree or disagree with. I agree with them (so far). He explained that being agnostic is basically being a coward that doesn't want to upset his parents/relatives too much.
I am an atheist. If something does not have matter or energy or interacts with matter or energy, it does not exist. This is why I always liked the natural sciences, because they answered questions based on observations, not based on 'it can't be observed, but it is like that'.
That is very basic, if you are interested, listen to the podcast.

Some more photos, the bizarrchitecture of the metro building in Auckland:

 

Khlav Kalash! (actually 'gamja' or 'ugly hotdog') German frankfurter covered in korean pancake dough covered with potato pieces that turn into french fries when the whole thing is deep fried for five minutes.

You figure it out.

Mobi