Posts by Ian Dalziel
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looking for the black cat...
... commentators and pundits ... on the telly...
is it just me, or has Tim Wilson (TV One News USA) been replaced, Max Headroom-style, by algorithm-driven sampled sound bites and facial gestures?
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World of Wharf Air...
That includes the trams, which are vintage jobbies, hired from Melbourne for the Rugby World Cup period
Why didn't they get Trams from Chch? - We've got several that won't be doing anything for quite some time! And others out at Ferrymead that woulda done the job, hell MOTAT probably has a couple that coulda be brought in - give the Money to Aussies why don't ya!
...apart from the apartment buildings themselves there seems to be zero evidence of people actually, y’know, living there.
These aren't the apartments that people aren't allowed to dry their washing outside are they?
I remember some flash new apartments going up somewhere that tenants weren't allowed to air their clean linen in - seemed a tad precious to me - when I lived in an old cottage backing onto the Council Apartments near Vincent Street I loved all the colour of the washing... -
Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to recordari,
“You are entering a site whose head doesn’t know what it’s arseholes are doing”
NSFTB
(Not Safe For Thinking Bipeds)or
Cave art emptier
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Creon Upton,
stand easy...
there’s a stool in the middle of the kitchen floor
Really?...an oft noted by-product
of people talking
"out of their arse"....
;- )but seriously, a stool is a fine example
spineless, armless and useless with only two legsThere are two settings for reality
balance and imbalancebalance can be achieved through harmony
stance and delicate counterweightingimbalance has a much wider catchment
and a spectrum from wrong footed
to cellular dissolution
it's a Big Country... -
Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
those Photons died for your sins...
Mayor Bob goes for the caring ’n sharing image.
Looks like Bob is trying for the Michael Lhaws'
Designer Stubble/Nascent Hipster Beard-look,
I guess Simpering Simpleton is close enough........aaah, the unpleasant descent to NightMayor!
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a fine case in point...
a Trade Me sale of a personalised plate "MAORI" has led to a rash of racist comments in the question/comments at Trade Me.
16,000 views and no bids, makes me think there a lot of people out there with a lot of time on their hands.
I agree with Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples who said... the comments represented one of the worst elements in society – that people felt they could publish their prejudice without regard of the hurt to others.
"This is the dark side of social networking, where people can hide on Trade Me and Facebook and be anonymous while making remarks hurtful to others."Interestingly almost a year ago a smaller furore surrounded the plate "ARYAN1" - the great cycles of life, eh?
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Hard News: The Orcon Great Blend 2011 in…, in reply to David Haywood,
The road to revisionism...
Okay, fair enough. Have deleted those comments and will continue as per your advice.
...once embarked upon, spoor and other traces will ultimately give the game away - you now need to delete your comment and Rich of O's oblique intercession, and edit Jen's to leave an unrippled pond
- oh, and you'll have to delete this one too...
a braggart's bog, neverending, huh... -
Meanwhile a mere 8 minutes* away...
A series of large Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun over the past 3 days or so may have electromagnetic effects here from today onwards
- check these projections*at the speed of light
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On my bedside table...
While we have a truly open, and random, thread - and not the usual slow motion descent into food, copyright, coffee, whisky and bikes - may I shout out a hearty personal endorsement for the writings of Michael Chabon - a tad behind the rest of the world I know... I first found The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a brilliant retelling of the early days of US Comic books and the Jewish diaspora, which gelled with what I have read of the period, then I tried his Chandleresque The Yiddish Policemen's Union - this is written in rich ropey language that you can pick up and pull apart to admire the strength and weave, holding together a well observed alternate future - the Bomb was dropped on Berlin, and the Jewish exodus ended up in Alaska - now read on...If you like words - you'll love this guy!
I am just about to embark on his Sir Arthur Conan Doyle homage The Final Solution - hope they didn't have too much trouble getting that title into bookshops...
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The Paula Bennett Child
Indoctrination Centre
A Division of Tolley Enterprises
I can't understand this Government,
on one hand they make concerned noises
about vulnerable children and how vital early childhood is in the developmental spectrum
and then cutting Playcentre funding...
Will they have National Standards for Kindergartens next, and perhaps a chimney cleaning school for toddlers, garment sewing hubs for primary schools - user pays and all that, sigh...Heuristic and discovery play is essential, and I'll just remind everyone in Chchch that Creative Junk still exists, and as always needs help, custom and goods - go check it out...