Rubens Blog
Rubens Blog
Ruben Hillier
Hi I am Ruben Hillier. My handle, since back in the day, is tregeagle. My pronouns are he/him.
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Central-vs-South We just spent the evening trying to understand football. Here is a shot of H hanging out with one of the other team. ... Permalink
Awake at 4, rereading your post from when you lost phone contact; had to get an ID and Trump won the election. Goodness me. I should probably log in to the microblog and annoy people in other time zones. But like Lance I'm in a...
Snapped these two at the Crystal St junction Day off work today and I didn't stop for a moment, until now. Gym; ran over and back Round Hill; trip around town picking up supplies; made bread and soup for tonight; back to butchers to get...
I had another blood test for no particular reason. Four years ago I went to a GP about a sore ear. There were multiple follow-ups but at no point was my ear given any attention. Despite or because of this the ear recovered. As I was over...
To avoid the crowd I took this from the far end of the beach in Queenstown On the flight from Queenstown yesterday I found myself observing the passenger diagonally in the seat ahead of me . Specifically I had a perfect view of their...
We saw a lot of mushrooms My first visit across the Tasman to New Zealand and I have learned the South Island has a much better and more descriptive name, Te Wai Pounamu . Similar to my old home The Lizard named after the green dragony...
Here are a few of my snaps from our first two days in NZ. We are really loving it here. I would love to go hiking, the climate is perfect and the mountainous country beautiful. Not this trip though, this one's for the boys. H apparently...
In the early 90s I worked for a couple of years in a what used to be called a "bucket-shop". One of the owners, Jerry Bridge - chose the companies name... Bridge The World , a travel agency specialising in cheap deals to the antipodes. I...
This airport wildlife signifies a degraded future Airports long ago lost their shine for me. This time was another step in the same direction. The usual bureaucrats herding crowds while inflicting petty annoyances. This flight will be...
Wing shots are of course mandatory whenever I get the window seat This is a snap I just took. It does not really capture the burnt-umber-end-of-summer light we get out here. You get the idea though. We are off for a trip to rainy and...
Some days is like this I replaced the front door yesterday. Today, I took it off again to paint. The wind blew it over and it snapped in two. Unbelieveable. I made an ugly repair job and stuck it back in the frame anyway. I am feeling...
The ' broligarchs ' who own the social networks, have abused our trust and profited immensely from our shared data. The power they have gained from our friendships, loving family connections and community networks is astonishing. The...
Taking the combined annual revenues ($993 billion) and user counts (6 billion) of Amazon, Alphabet and Meta we find the average user is worth almost $170 USD annually. This number is an extremely rough confabulation, don't take it too...
Woody Guthrie playing his famous guitar with the sticker, This Machine Kills Fascists When we are young we can veer from conviction to doubt with every heartbeat. There is an invisible watershed we cross as we age. One day our...
Don Quixote wanted to revive the age of chivalry, defend the helpless, right wrongs, and fight for justice. When I talk to my Brothers, Sister, Mum or Dad - I do so using one of the broligarchs platforms. Living as I do on the other side...