Posts by Andre Alessi
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Hard News: Competing for Auckland, in reply to Sacha,
Milford is only a secondary centre. The proposed public transit plan connects those more than today’s does. Avondale does seem less politically problematic.
There are also a lot of people living on the Shore who want to keep living on the Shore, but also want to own property that isn't so far north as to have to swear allegiance to the Starks. Milford and Belmont (also up for intensification) are the next centres out of Takapuna to receive attention. The infrastructure may not be there yet, but the population will be.
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Mogwai's George Square Thatcher Death Party.(from 2011) has a title that sounds like word salad at first glance. Stonkin' song, though:
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I like trout; they're much more tasty than people.
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Maybe adulthood is in the same category as other "meaning of life" questions: you're an adult when you've decided for yourself what that means and how you want to answer it.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
But you don’t control it. If you’re not careful it can backfire. Pick the right product for the right people. Like Paul said it’s their attention and time you’re ‘paying’ for, not specifically the end result.
I have no skin in this game, but the one thing that I think makes this situation slightly different to the other analogies mentioned is that the value of the service is a large part of what most people would consider when deciding if it's worthwhile. By getting the service for free, you're not reacting to the service as it would be for someone who was paying for it, but the free stuff you got instead.
That makes for different reactions/reviews/whatever because very little emphasis will be put on whether My Food Bag is value for money (which is honestly what most potential customers will care about.) There has been some discussion about this aspect, but it's hardly been given the emphasis it would if everyone reviewing the service had paid for it.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Kate Hannah,
I think MyFoodBag is pitched a bit too specifically for us in my house. We're both really busy people on a limited budget (we're also saving for a trip to see my relatives in Italy at the end of the year) so even one wasted meal is a bit of a problem for us.
The solution has been making a lot of freezable stuff-mainly soup and pasta sauce. That won't keep most young professionals happy, but they breed 'em tough out Devonport way.
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That duck does look pretty spectacular.
On the issue of not being home enough to justify something like this: we've had a similar experience with Ooooby. They do cheapish fortnightly fruit and vege deliveries, which are great (and not bad at all for the price) but we find we need to plan our meals in advance to avoid losing half the delivery as it goes off. We've started to get the hang of that now, but it's taken a while. We do have fairly predictable routine, though; I'm not sure everybody has that luxury.
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The local Devonport rag, The Flagstaff, has a hilariously nose-out-of-joint article about Lorde, mentioning that while she was happy to grant them an interview in 2009 when she won the Belmont Intermediate School Talent Quest, she didn't respond to their more recent requests for comment.
If you don't mind, I'll be over here in the corner sobbing for my wasted youth.
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Hard News: The Wogistan form book, in reply to Joe Wylie,
aka NZ First’s intellectual wing
There's a bitter joke in there somewhere. And to think, at one point, NZF did have something like policy wonks in its ranks.
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Not news, but Wishart was foaming-at-the-mouth insane on the radio this morning. His argument was, "How can you object to the bigotry of this column when Investigate has published lots of other bigotry in the past that you all conveniently ignored!"
I'm sure he thought he sounded convincing.