Posts by ChrisW
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Hard News: Friday Music: Bright pastel…, in reply to Hebe,
Drums roll, for this is a significant-to-a-few moment:
PACIFIC SKILLSI'm doubly impressed. Your post at 2.31pm, cf. Geonet tells us:
Public Id: 2013p613797
NZST: Friday, August 16 2013 at 2:31:05 pm
Intensity: severe
Depth: 8 km
Magnitude: 6.2
Location: 10 km south-east of Seddonand the drum roll of the Pacific Plate is still resonating.
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Looks like an old IBM punch card...
It does indeed, but it seems I can no longer read the code.
Perhaps something like +FU2, +FU2 ... ? -
Some late sun warms the colours a little, but the delicate little tree just emphasises the monolith.
A dog-shaped robot? Loyal to which master?
[Having a little first-hand experience, I inferred the architecture under the cosmetic changes to be a work of late 1970s brutalism from the Ministry of Works and Development for the Post Office. Subsequently gratified to see on PNCC site that it was opened in May 1980 as the Post Office telephone exchange.]
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Back lurking in the spying lane, perhaps it is agreed that Main St façade looks a little sinister? I noted the symmetry of spiky bits tucked under the wings – ti kouka/cabbage tree on the right, but what’s that on the left?
Ah, NZ Police comms, all is clear. The curvaceous flag in the wind and the logo’s fern leaves somehow stand out?
If you’ve nothing to hide, you’ve nothing to fear
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My attention attracted in the first instance by this distant view of maximally contrasting towers over the roof-tops. (The other striking and strikingly anaemic one proving to be the spire of St Patrick’s RC Cathedral of the Holy Spirit.)
Prominent on entering the town via the Napier Road = Main St,
it is well located.
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
The NSA does. In Utah.
Telecom does. In Christchurch and 19 other sites around NZ.
Telecom's information technology subsidiary Gen-i has today unveiled its new $10.5 million Christchurch data centre.
The new data centre would add to a combined network of 14 other Gen-i data centres and five Revera Homeland data centres across New Zealand.I’d take it this, the Telecom Tower/Gen-i building in Palmerston Nth, would be a strong candidate for one of those other data centres. I also think it a strong candidate for the ugliest building in NZ, giving it a photogenicity that piqued my interest, hence accumulation of something like a photo-essay.
Standing in the middle of a narrow lane, I took many attempts with hand-held camera to get this one just so, meanwhile blocking an unheard car behind me from exiting. But the driver and passenger were tolerant – “Good to see someone spying on them .”
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100% pure New Zealand?
I'm about 50/50 on that question.
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Nora Leggs,
plum-fungus? Or fungus-floss?
Either way, I reckon it'll never sell.
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Meanwhile back in the PNth Square, I sight this ontopical optical opportunity to test my eyesight - it doth protest too much, methinks?
The oddly segmented reflective surfaces are ontop of a stony-faced block adjacent the war memorial - ponded residue of the last shower, polished stone, and less polished stone.
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Southerly: My Life As a Palm Tree, in reply to Hebe,
Sceptic tank? that's good.
Essential for scientists - but one has to be careful in presentation of the overflow.
