Posts by Ian Dalziel
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a good way to burn up the dosh...
Christchurch's KLF mystery has been solved.
I had wondered when I saw a sign on Linwood Ave... the only Steve Austin I know was the Six Million Dollar Man ... Chch needs a wrestling aficionado in office as much as it needs an Elvis impersonator - aka Aaron Clown, er Keown or any of its other mandated ex-media types like Sue Wells, Barry Corbett - or Bob Parker...
an aside - NZ's Next New Top (Role) Model ...I was intrigued to note (on telly at the weekend) that MP Anne Tolley has got a new look - she has gone for the Jo Nicholls-Parker "Perky" bob!
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The doors use the kinetic energy of their own motion to charge themselves up for the next time they have to open.
but... but... but ain't that like a perpetual motion energy-loss-less device?
Then it hit me that there's no books, no newspapers or magazines, no paper files in the Wellness Center or Alec's office. Nothing
No clutter, period.
Plus no internet apparently, no Google Earth to see beyond town or search engines... -
do you want chips with that?
As for the tracking chip in his brain, how long until our hero thinks of a tin foil hat?
I was nonplussed by the hero wondering how they could track him - when he was carrying that whizzy little phone around all the time!! <DOH!>
...and of course the whole thing may be virtual, which would be more in line with current futuristic/fantasy paradigms...
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re the 3Ds article on the Flying Nun site...
Information specialist, Bruce Russell and/or the content editors are gonna have to lift their game
a tad...
ya can't get away with a 3rd paragraph intro like...After initially forming as a trio (hence the name) they were joined in early 1989 by David Mitchell.
...without mentioning that the original 3 members were named David, Dominic and Denise - in fact only Denise is mentioned by name anywhere in the article. Plus no mention by name of the alluded to "earlier Bands" they came from - or are Flying Nun only preaching to the choir... a missed opportunity!
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Neil Gaiman's finance
aah the life of a kept man - is he not making
enough from his books, comics and films?
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out, out, out on the web...
another Facebook interface or loss of face?
the Hell Pizzas database hack was nothing...
apparently Details of 100 million Facebook users have been published online compromising people's ability to change their privacy settings... -
Incoming Radiation...
here's hoping the grid stands up today...
we have a Coronal Mass Ejection heading towards
us from a complex solar tsunami and eruption
- Aurora alert for southerners from Aug 3......weight and sea dept...
meanwhile in the Gulf of Mexico the
Loop Current has apparently stalled possibly
as a consequence of the BP oil volcano... -
by the bi... she lives with a Gaiman!
The album version has guest vocals by Amanda Palmer, whoever she is.
@ Jack the Elder: just in case that wasn't
an archly rhetorical question...
I'd assume this is the Amanda Palmer
in question, a former Dresden Doll... -
The Bus stops here...
well gee, the new increased fares just started in Chch - $3.20 (up from $2.80) and the crowded bus
I caught yesterday didn't even have working stop buzzers, very stressful for passengers having to yell out to the driver for every stop - what are we paying extra for I wonder? -
Although interesting to note they lost around a quarter of the audience in the second half...
that'd be the Twins doco on 3 maybe...