Island Life: Supertooth
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ok, and sidestepping the issue of misogyny on aussie tv...
as promised, harissa lamb for under $7.50 per head!
and it was extremely delicious.
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.At the time The Oaks opened, it was regarded as being an excellent piece of architectural design. Even David Kernohan liked it (Wellington's New Buildings, VUW Press, 1989). I recently uncovered a set of photographs I had taken of its interior for a first-year university assignment back in 1986. It did look very sophisticated with its clean white lines and masses of potted vines and ferns in the central atrium tumbling down from the upper level. Now the place is a falling-apart rusting hulk that looks like it could do with a bulldozer through it.
And it was a Warren-Mahoney design, too. Why do some 'first-rate architectural designs' age more gracefully than others? The MFC was designed by the same people, but it's aged quite well. Is the Oaks centre more than just a case of benign neglect?
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Is the Oaks centre more than just a case of benign neglect?
quite possibly. i wish they'd just get on with tearing the whole place down.
most of the ground-floor shops are sparkly, but the upstairs is increasingly run-down, and getting worse by the day.
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Went to C1 yesterday for coffee - fantastic.
Funky and comortable old movie seats at the table and great muffins.
They actually bet me to my seat with my coffee & heated muffin.
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Just want to set the record straight about "days of dwindling oil stocks" US $120 per barrell has made viable to mine several hard-to-extract forms of oil, like the Alaskan/Canadian oil sands and some other stuff in rock in Venezuela. As well as the more expensive to extract deep offshore stuff.
Venezuela's rock embedded oil is estimated to be as much volume as Saudi Arabia had to begin with. So oil is more expensive (and how!) but now more plentiful than ever.
It also makes other forms of energy for automotive propellants and home heating more desirable and more viable. If necessity is truly the mother of invention, we could be giving the fingers to OPEC ( but not to the oil companies, who have enough money to buy any new technology) within a decade. I look forward to it.
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Venezuela's rock embedded oil is estimated to be as much volume as Saudi Arabia had to begin with. So oil is more expensive (and how!) but now more plentiful than ever.
It's not more plentiful. It takes umpteen thousand years to make oil. Just that more of it is viable to extract financially.
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None of that oil is for 'us', it's all for America or China.
Where 'Free Markets' exist, China & America will use the tyrrany of the Totalitariam Market to take what is 'ours'.
For those who don't observe the the markets they will have their assests stripped from them like Iraq has.This all ignores climate change & as long as we're putting our heads in the sand. How about Southland Coal gets in a partnership with SASOL and we produce our own petrol from coal?
Hopefully the price of domestic coal will rise to the point that renewables like wind enegry become finacially viable.
A little dispair passed over me as I had a wee read of NZ Wind Energy Conf. 2007. It amented NIMBY, lack of incentives, and No real "doer" mentality ... producing reports and consultation.
The answer to NIMBY is consultation,and a 'doer' mentality is what? A bulldozer and a blank govt cheque.
grumble grumble.
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