Posts by Will de Cleene
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I've already gone on record with Panopticmonium.
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(The anxiety generated by welfare reforms cannot be overstated.)
One side effect of a recent WINZ inquisition; I wrote a long doggerel poem called Ode to a Small Lump of Pus I Found in my Armpit One Mid-Winter's Morning (which apologies to Grunthos the Flatulent and Douglas Adams).
All I can say is thank Dagg for the Medical Appeals Board.
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As a flatmate commented many years ago when I asked whether she intended to get married, "It would be rude to get married before my parents did."
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Hard News: A GCSB Roundup, in reply to Gareth Swain,
The excellent Thomas Beagle has posted his oral submission here.
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Iceberg Lettuce Hack. Not exactly seasonal, but it has impressed a few people.
An easy way to deconstruct an iceberg lettuce is to knock the base stem on a hard surface, then twist the stem out. You're left with nothing but lettuce leaves. -
Thank you, Emma, for bringing me to a new plateau of apoplectic rage. I've been continuing research on the history of Deaf education in NZ, and your epistle shows that, like the export sector, NZ's disability support is still living in the 1880's.
I had the displeasure of having a WINZ pet doctor inspect me in Auckland a few years ago to prove my incapacity (Dr Hoadley, I presume). I didn't have my audiogram on me. Thankfully, I wasn't presumed to be wearing fake hearing aids.
Just had a letter from WINZ requiring another doctor examination. This time, they thoughtfully included an email address for Deaf to use. I emailled them asking for the Pet Doctor WINZ to inspect me, and WINZ promptly lost the email. If I hadn't cynically walked into WINZ to double-check, I'd probably have lost my rent money.
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Stranger in a Strange Land is the only Heinlein left in my library. That said, I found Friday's sexual politics about as offensive as the weird fixation Stephen Donaldson has in the Gap Cycle, a series which a fem-mate raved about. Haven't touched the literary genre since.
Futurama has about the right level of kink for my sci-fi diet. More space sitcom, less space opera.
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Legal Beagle: On Burglary, or: Dropping…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Trespass to what? A field, or someone’s front lawn are unlikely to count as an enclosed yard.
But jumping over someone's fence to skinny-dip in their pool would count as an enclosed yard.
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Is trespass counted as burglary now? Going by the examples you've given, I presume going behind the school bike sheds at night to smoke a spliff is now burglary too.
Has the law just grown another ass?
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Hard News: The Wogistan form book, in reply to TracyMac,
Just a question on the US situation: are they still fingerprinting everyone (non-US passport holders) like criminals?
That's not all. If you're within 100 miles of the US border, non-Yanks can expect to have their electronic devices automatically seized.