Posts by Ian Dalziel
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"cargo cult science"
is a pretty cute little phrase itself...
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papering over the quacks...?
seems it boils down to different strokes for different folks. And as we were never issued with owner's manuals for the electrobiochemical bacterial colonies we have oversight of, we make do with whatever work arounds are individually effective... who knows what other system hacks and backdoors are in there, and yet to be discovered - blinkering would seem counter-intuitive,
an open mind is a healthy mind!yrs light-heartedly
Commander Codeine
all matter is energy -
St Doug
Simon - I notice the Techtones Ripper stuff doesn't make it onto the Discogs list (any ideas why the artist for each recording isn't mentioned in the list, ya have to click thru from the title to find that out - seems pretty important info)
...and I'm pretty sure Doug was in the massed chorale of The Jessels legendary (read rare) Bobzilla/The worst Noel if not doing the recording as well - not to mention the odd backing vocal from the desk at Toy Love gigs... and... he turned the Windsor into the Mecca it was for local bands when he was booking it in the 80s (I hear it's open again as a gig - any reports?) ... and... helping bring virtually all living Velvet Underground members thru NZ at some point amongst many others... as well as helping many others into successful careers as mixers, sound techs and producers... a generous spirit...suitable fodder for canonisation indeed!
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People I see a need for a definitive Whiskypedia
to avoid the inevitable
usquebaugh humbug backlash...
a place that calls the shots...
a hall for the Knights of Malter...
combining the best of aqua vitae
and still life with a comprehensive
Frequently Casked Questions sectionwe are at a crucial tipple point in our evolution
charge your glasses -
Te Rugger - or not Te Rugger...?
Broadcast Rugby ceased being the inalienable property of the huddled masses when the Rugby©TM-powers-that-be adopted the corporate business model.Perhaps like other Operas there could be sur- or sub-titles to aid translation - then we'd learn a few words and know what was actually said in the haka, too... :- )
It does seem it has fallen to Maori TV to pick up the mantle of Quality Cultural Public Broadcaster, perhaps TV1 & TV2 are being groomed for sale...
(True TV6 & 7 have their highlights, but I don't see them - due to lack of devices and bandwidth...)
But taking the money for rugby from Maori development coffers does seem to send a wrong signalI am tending towards the Groucho Marx take on Television "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
and now, in the immortal words of Tom Waits,
I'm gonna make like a hockey player
and get the puck out of here...PS: out of interest was the "Scientology/Psychiatry Documentary in Maori?
and shouldn't someone tell John Travolta they're just cans he's holding... -
emanation...
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a day in the life...
re Joyce
(hallelujah!)
... we are transported ...
like his sur-namesake (James) he may just like to make everything an epic... like Ulyssses
could be worse though ...
had he been more like Stephen Dedalus
named after that Greek "cunning worker" and architect - Daedalus famous for his Cretan Labyrinths
and melting wax wings for Icarus
relax ... the future of Auckland (and NZ's) transport is in his handskeep on truckin'....
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Wellington's population has a higher density
if that's not a misspelling of destiny
are you saying they are denser/thicker in the Capital?Oh god. I don't want to start anything. It's just that I haven't organised anything yet.
no presha... happy to help out on the ground down here if ya need it :- )
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two Christchurch writers and no Chch launch?
- now I know we ain't a real city!
let alone a big one...
(could someone tell Bob Parker and Rod Carr!)nonetheless looking forward to their works and words
on wood pulp rather than screen and electrical interface
a small step towards immortality... -
blows against the empire...?
no Krakatau, no Islam
If the mountain will not come to Muhammad,
Muhammad will go to the mountain...?more adjusting to the inevitable...
Krakatau venting... - history repeating?re climate adjustment by Vulcan -
aren't Volcanoes great generators of CO2?
and smoke and uther particulate screening...
and the pacific has it's own superplume...
I wonder if it could even threaten Mururoa - ooops!
I also wonder if yellowstone is "doming" more at the moment as well...big cycles all big cycles
(and I ain't talking Penny Farthings here...)