Posts by Hadyn Green
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Vettori is a nerd.
You're just saying that because he wears glasses
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Although I'm not a fan of boxing, it's probably the sport that has inspired the best books, films and literature out of them all.
The anthology I'm reading has a whole section devoted to Ali. But I think in terms of just wonderful sports writing baseball has inspired some wonderful ones.
Also for those looking to pass the time, I just read this column by Jim Murray, If You're Expecting One Liners. Sorry that's it's not on one page.
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Maybe if we had more nerds in the team and fewer of those tattood chappies like McCullum?
ahem (from a tattooed chap)
Also from the first comment:
Bruce Sterling's actual description:
Web 2.0 guys: they've got their laptops with whimsical stickers, the tattoos, the startup T-shirts, the brainy-glasses -- you can tell them from the general population at a glance. They're a true creative subculture, not a counterculture exactly -- but in their number, their relationship to the population, quite like the Arts and Crafts people from a hundred years ago.
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Thanks to y'all for enjoying my post.
As someone who not only likes sport but loves the details of uniforms I get a lot of instant "boxing" just by wearing the name and number of my favourite players. I feel the young gentlemen who enjoy driving up and down mainstreet on a Friday have something to do with this.
If I am wearing clothing with a large number on the back and a vertically arched (though usually straight) NOB* this does not mean I like Jagermeister.
If I am sneering at the jersey you are wearing it's because your jersey is either a) a fake or b) a player who is useless imho.
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And because I should always do this, here's is Bruce Sterling's actual description:
Web 2.0 guys: they've got their laptops with whimsical stickers, the tattoos, the startup T-shirts, the brainy-glasses -- you can tell them from the general population at a glance. They're a true creative subculture, not a counterculture exactly -- but in their number, their relationship to the population, quite like the Arts and Crafts people from a hundred years ago.
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At the risk of being guilty of "banging on about it"
Band away. You hear that Sydney-based PASers? Get thee to the cricket ground!
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Survey finds 25pc of students sexually solicited online
Surely that's just 25pc gone mad! <b'doom tish>
Thank you! I'll be here all week, remember to tip your waitress.
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Perhaps everyone will be cycling between matches on the partially built cycleway
Or arriving by boat.
And sorry Julie and Hilary, I never think about the election. I find it helps.
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Can't we just agree that hitting *anyone* is wrong?
See the removal of Section 59 of the Crimes Act
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are there any crash-courses in stats I can take to avoid being this problem in the future? I don't want to be the journalist who makes a fuck-up like this. And my maths is terrible.
The easiest way to do this is to make sure you read the information carefully. You don't need to "know statistics" to report them correctly.
For example, the stats in question in Keith's post had the correct title and information but this was changed for the paper.
It doesn't matter that "1,658 Recorded Offences in Schools and Other Educational Institutions in the last financial year" doesn't sound as sexy as "40 police callouts to NZ schools each week" (or it's variants). One is correct and one is not.