Posts by Joe Wylie
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Access: Fighting seclusion with…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
( Sincerely hoping that linked works.)
Thank you Rosemary, your link gave me a Word file download which Windows 10 opened in Wordpad. If your preference is for PDF you can choose that here.
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Hard News: Loops and Diamonds, in reply to Bart Janssen,
As a side note we discovered that one consequence of having the extra 20 kgs of battery and motor on the e-bike is that the disk brakes wear a bit faster than you would normally expect - worth checking the brake pads earlier than you would normally.
20 kgs sounds awfully high just for the electricals. Even the heavier "Dutch-style" bikes are under 30 kgs total minus panniers, with sportier models at around 60% of that weight.
When I first went ebike shopping back in 2013 there was one importer offering an otherwise well-specced bike with only v-brakes. As reliable mechanical front disks are pretty cheap they seem to be a universal minimum now, though if you regularly haul groceries you certainly notice the pad wear.
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Today's David Rowe: Ditto Dotard.
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Hard News: The remarkable rise of…, in reply to Dennis Frank,
...maybe China threatening that strategy recently in behind the scenes diplomacy was what got the shift happening.
That would depend on what you believe is really happening. As a number of commentators have noted, North Korea will be well aware of the example of what happened to Gaddafi once he renounced his rogue state ambitions.
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Hard News: The remarkable rise of…, in reply to Dennis Frank,
...insofar as I don't recall any other nuclear state totally denuclearising...
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Hard News: The remarkable rise of…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Some may appreciate this comic by Eli Valley - 'Schlonged' a wishful piece about Donald Trump's short presidency...
Goodness me. This presidential "enormous Johnson" schtick has quite a history (Safe for Work).
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Hard News: We should stop being…, in reply to Soon Lee,
It's not just locals that get the grief. Remember the time Kevin Sorbo copped flak for daring to suggest that it can rain a lot in Auckland?
I suspect that kind of preciousness is simply human nature and won't vanish any time soon. In a panel discussion on ABC Radio Sydney a few years ago, where expatriates compared their experiences of Sydney life, an otherwise impeccably polite American dared to suggest the lack of central heating in apartment buildings as a minor negative. The resulting flood of outraged calls from the station's normally urban liberal audience demonstrated that dissing Sydney's sacred climate was up there with advocating pissing on Don Bradman's grave.
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Hard News: Friday Music: In troubled…, in reply to Grant McDougall,
...I far prefer some of the more challenging, adventurous bands around, than a bunch of dude-bros.
Dunedin has managed to spawn both varieties since forever. The dude-bro-ish Terls, who once appeared on the same Auckland bill as Toy Love, are barely remembered today.
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Speaker: The crisis is all around us,…, in reply to WH,
If this was 1968 or if we were Cool Britannia this whole episode would have been handled differently and no-one would have been made to resign.
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Hard News: The Unitec project: Something…, in reply to Neil,
what ever the faults of places like Carrington those were not the fault of patients...
I suppose being classified as a "patient" absolves one from most responsibilities, though it's small compensation for the loss of civil liberties. Back in the Oakley Hospital era there was a pair of long-term male inmates who'd managed to acquire staff uniform neckties. Visitors and patients who ventured into the more secluded parts of the grounds were at risk of petty harassment from these unconvincing pests, who took the opportunity to throw their weight around once they were away from official oversight.