Stop posting crazy lady

There's this guy. His name is Warwick Templeton. No joke. He looks like this:


Recently I saw a poster in downtown Wellington that sounded unusual. It advertised a Magimatics series of events. I like magic and math, and naturally I was a bit intrigued. So I hunted down its web page.

I can't believe this guy exists. Maybe someone invented him. I would go and check this out but each evening costs $50, and the website doesn't mention food included in that price anywhere. I can't bring myself to shell out $50 just because of how incredibly dorky and bizarre this dude sounds. Advertise food, or audience interaction. Make it sound like it's ANYTHING more than a dork with a power point presentation in a fancy room. Please. The only people you're going to attract are well-off older people who already appreciate math (and historical buildings). People like you, Warwick.

I make fun of him because he presents himself and his seminars in such a dorky way, but this sort of event really appeals to me. I'm tired of public events that are about boring art, politics, and civic pride, or the usual entertainment spectrum (food, movies, crap for sale, drinking, consume consume consume). This kind of thing could be so cool...if it weren't so lame. Oh well. When I have some free time I'll try and appreciate the beauty of math in my own cheapo way. With a book from the library, tea, and some chocolate-covered raisins ($5. Knowledge gained: Priceless).

Sometimes I think I'm way too jaded and cynical to live in a quaint place like New Zealand. They're like 10 years behind on everything. I like San Francisco because everyone is as artistically-aware hyper-critical media-savvy asshole-y alternative-freaky full-of-themselves as I. Damn I love that place. How did I ever become this monster!? Maybe it's time to suck it up and die from boredom in the romantic countryside, like I always pretend I want to do. I think with a couple years practice I could get the hang of it. Enough time and you can get used to almost anything.

Haha, I just took "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" out of the library almost entirely due to this line in the "Rules and Suggestions for Enjoyment of This Book" preface:
"4. Actually, many of you might want to skip much of the middle, namely pages 209-301, which concern the lives of people in their early twenties, and those lives are very difficult to make interesting, even when they seemed interesting to those living them at the time."

Alright, I also took it out because I've heard of it somewhere before. Can't remember where. It looks good though.