Posts by Jason Dykes
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Too many memories to list. Remember the protest against student loans where Lockwood Smith jumped out a window to escape? The engineers taking over during St Patrick's Day and performing the (green) helicopter in the amphitheatre. Student politics during Rogernomics (where we played out the national issues in microcosm and had our very own US spy try to infiltrate). Reorientation. Seeing the Yellow Submarine in the Ngaio Marsh. Seeing Little Shop of Horrors in the Ngaio Marsh. Many live bands, some such as JPS playing to about 12 of us in the Upper Common Room at lunch time. Doing the news at RDU. Looking on the noticeboard for a flat and finding a nice condemned house to live in for $12.50 a week. Watching my bike being stolen from outside the building and being threatened with violence when I objected. Buying a new bike for $10 from the Police auction. Surviving on Boston buns from the cafe - enjoying the subsidies available from a building we students owned. Accessing the underground tunnels. Inviting politicians to come speak to us - backbencher, Rob Muldoon drawing the biggest crowd and being the only one to stay for a DB with us in the LCR. And yes, many long day time card games in the LCR.
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Hamish,
I'm quite relaxed about that
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Quite frankly
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tomorrow am taking the ubiquitous “socks over shoes” advice.
Could be time to invest in crampons.
That hailstorm last night was the worst I've ever seen in Wellington (there was a major one in Wellington '79). And that was after more snow and sleet. I was cycling home at the time. It reminded me of stone throwing wars at age eight, except I was getting hit by about 100 pebbles per second. The hail on the road was an inch thick. Then going past the Kilbirnie rec centre there was a burst of thunder and lightening directly overhead. Do MTB tyres insulate? My workmates in the other K suburbs have been going home early to be sure of making it (our narrow streets and steep driveways are not made for this). My sister is snowed in on the Akatarawa Road (two feet deep so far).
Maybe a heatwave this summer?
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Re the not getting paid on a snow day, yesterday I did wonder why these guys weren’t leaving a Willis St construction site after an hour of snow:
Snow at work -
Obama
Copenhagen
W-shaped recession
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I like the NZ approach - we're better than them.
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Well, we won't ever win the "bigger than" contest. We can be cooler tho.
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The best things in life are free. But report writers want money. That's what they want.
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then later, stuff like this (also drawing confidently on the club music and traditional forms of the largest Pacific city on the planet):
That's brilliant eh? Funny how bright our skies are for a place so dark.
Che Fu, Salmonella Dub and others released great albums after I left Auckland for overseas. Made me feel like I was missing out by not being home. I used to listen and imagine myself on a beach without industrial debris and pollution.