Posts by Che Tibby
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Hard News: Friday Music: Old, New, New, Old, in reply to Russell Brown,
hmmm... i need evidence, despite google telling me you're right :D
surely the longer CDs are the equivalent of double-vinyls?
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A clutch of five or six songs is a nice place between a taster and conventional album length (which, let's face it, is an artefact of the compact disc) and the price is usually appealing
especially when so many albums are padded with b-list songs.
<quiet voice> album length is an artifact of vinyl, CDs aren't much longer or shorter</quiet voice>
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Hard News: The People's Poet is dead!, in reply to Gabor Toth,
gary mccormack hosts a rock special on rick springfield... remember how bleak i said the 80s were?
some crimes should never be forgotten.
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your quote is very apt. being a teen in the 80s was just so goddamn bleak, what with the economy in the loo and the very real threat of nuclear annilation. discovering a series of lunatics on the TV was what helped keep us sane.
to this day i resent having to be the one who gets it together to put the lentils on to soak (thanks neil...), and occasionally tell myself poetry in the bathroom mirror.
and SKA ON TV. totes awes.
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the main food memory of my grandfather is standing in the kitchen of their place in the mount, and he's teaching me how to dip stale bread in egg-whipped-with-milk. drop into hot buttery pan and fry on both sides.
eat with liberal sprinkle of iodised salt and a dash of pepper from the small blue shakers.
i still eat it when i need a particular kind of comfort food.
Ma wai ra e taurima,Te marae i waho nei?
i miss you old boy.
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to bmk,
Only because if you look over the history of the planet it would have had temperature changes like that before.
agreed. the climate changes we're on the cusp of aren't abnormal for Earth. they're unprecedented for homosapiens.
the question isn't "will earth cope?"*, the question is, "will we?"
*although the most alarmist think that we might push it too far and fck the biosphere once and for all.
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if it's helpful, we've longed adopted the philosophy wabi-sabi for consideration of our Manor.
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to Bart Janssen,
without a change in attitudes toward the value of such products.
if the option is GM plants vs insane geoengineering schemes, i'm pretty sure which one we'll get.
highlander 2.
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to Richard Grevers,
i thought the problem wtih bioplastics was input materiel?
we can't grow enough plant matter to feed ourselves *and* the demand for bioplastics, biofuel, etc?
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to Bart Janssen,
The final problem is that it isn't quite carbon neutral. That's because the way we farm depends on fertiliser which requires energy input and that is usually fossil fuel energy.
if only we could transport all those exports on carbon-neutral trucks and sailing ships, amrite?