Hard News: The First Draft
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Just had a short sharp shake in Wellington.
While playing Warcraft, no less. The latest expansion couldn't be more thematic.
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Lucy Stewart, in reply to
I believe that's the amount of the cheese that makes up the moon that is influencing the earth's crust.
More prosaically, some people (including scientists) like to talk about earthquakes in terms of explosive power, so I suspect "kilotons" is meant as in "nuclear bomb yield".
Why they feel the need to relate earthquakes to nukes, I have no idea. Similar things happen with asteroids. It all seems a bit pointless to me, but I guess "ten million trillion calories" (or whatever number you'd need to encompass the vast amounts of energy involved) doesn't have quite the same impact and would mostly make people think of fast food. Or perhaps cheesecake.
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andin, in reply to
Cheap sensationalist tv which is what he does.
Geez then why did Brian Edwards get that expensive white charger, that overblown concern troll outfit aaand get the missus all togged up as well?
If it was just a cheap John do?
Arguments about the tone of i/v's, the tenor of one's voice in discussions????
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giovanni tiso, in reply to
Kiwiblog is no longer the NZ blog of note. Steven Gray has now far more daily visitors.
This is pages ago, but I meant to thank you for the link - it's good to have a NZ blogosphere ranking system that is not based on flat out weird formulas, a-la Tumeke. However, it's still a very rough calculation and likely to be misleading in some cases. For instance I really don't think you want to give Steven Gray's supposed mega-readership too much credit. Most of those visitors would be people who Google celebrities, not actual returning readers. How do I know? He has 3 google reader subscribers. Kiwiblog has 1,291. I'm going to go with "Kiwiblog has more readers". And nobody actually reads Steven Gray.
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David Hood, in reply to
Why they feel the need to relate earthquakes to nukes, I have no idea.
Perhaps they could provide the figure in Libraries of Congress
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No, it is Nukes to TNT. Here is a link that gives the equivalent tonnage of TNT V Richter Scale. Christchurch 2011 6.3 = 42.4 kiloton
The Oaklahoma Bombing was the equivalent of 2,200 kg of TNT (2.2 kiloton about a 5.5 earthquake). Pretty brutal bomb but a piddler to the Ruskie's Tsar H Bomb of 57 MILLION tons of TNT.
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recordari, in reply to
And nobody actually reads Steven Gray.
Steven who?
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giovanni tiso, in reply to
That was a bit harsh of me. I mean it looks like he may have very few regular readers at this stage. All power to him.
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Carol Stewart, in reply to
Seismologist Mark Quigley isn't too concerned about handling Mr Ring with kid gloves either:
“No one has predicted the recent earthquakes in Canterbury. Vague quotes about dates of ‘increased’ activity plus or minus several days, without magnitudes, locations, and exact times do not constitute prediction. … [This] is opportunistic and meaningless self promotion during a time of national crisis.
Quite.
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recordari, in reply to
That was a bit harsh of me. I mean it looks like he may have very few regular readers at this stage. All power to him.
Umm, yeah, maybe I need to get out more in the blogosphere, but until you re-mentioned it, had never heard of him or his blog.
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I note that there's a physicist in Italy who studies radon outgassing as a precursor of earthquakes and had predicted the L'Aquila earthquake albeit a few days too early. He was indicted for 'causing alarm', which is actually a crime in Italy. Not sure what happened to that in the end.
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
which is actually a crime in Italy
Bit like shouting "fire" in a movie theatre. Unfortunately any such charge against Ring would simply make lawyers rich.
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Homegrown Chch Demo of Liquifaction.
Nice simple experiment. Always the best!!!
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I do seem to remember Mikey Havoc gave Ken Ring a bit of air time back in the day (during his first stint on Drive, I think?)
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Cheers, Ross, that's really brilliant.
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This has already been posted (and Juha linked to it on Twitter) but I'm still a little amazed at Ring's writing on "Pawmistry":
Dismayed by the glaring lack of literature on the psychological complexities of [cats]… Ring… began experimenting with age-old tools of divination to open a window into a cat's inner self.
Ken Ring first discovered palmistry for cats at a psychic party two years ago. He has since devoted much time to conducting research in this revolutionary new field.
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Megan Wegan, in reply to
That is amazing, thanks.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I do seem to remember Mikey Havoc gave Ken Ring a bit of air time back in the day (during his first stint on Drive, I think?)
On Breakfast, for several years, iirc. Drove me nuts. But even then, Ring was a very slick entertainer.
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(Just to tie this up with the Almighty Johnsons.)
Screw both tectonics and the moon as reasons for earthquakes. We all know that they are caused by the chained Loke writhing in pain as Sigyn empties the bowl of venom held over his face to protect him, thus causing a few drops to land on him.
Take that, Mr Ring.
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Ring also put in an entertaining but controversial appearance at last year's TEDx Auckland event. Probably footage somewhere to match this graphic sketch.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
(Just to tie this up with the Almighty Johnsons.)
I so want to have your rationally impossible babies right now.
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Andre Alessi, in reply to
Take that, Mr Ring.
Loke/Loge also makes an appearance in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, commonly referred to as “The Ring Cycle”, which tells a story of tragedy and loss that leads to the destruction of Valhalla, and ultimately a bittersweet freedom for those left behind.
We have now come full circle.
EDIT: Which reminds me, there are always the words of the "Schopenhauer ending", which as far as I know isn't commonly used in modern productions, but still:
Were I no more to fare to Valhalla's fortress, do you know whither I fare? I depart from the home of desire, I flee forever the home of delusion; the open gates of eternal becoming I close behind me now: To the holiest chosen land, free from desire and delusion, the goal of the world's migration, redeemed from incarnation, the enlightened woman now goes. The blessed end of all things eternal, do you know how I attained it? Grieving love's profoundest suffering opened my eyes for me: I saw the world end.
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James Butler, in reply to
I do seem to remember Mikey Havoc gave Ken Ring a bit of air time back in the day (during his first stint on Drive, I think?)
He also had a lot of time for a guy espousing the Doctrine of Signatures, amongst other nut-jobs.
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linger, in reply to
The really ironic thing is that back in the day, Brian himself was regularly accused of being a “rude” interviewer of foreign celebrities such as Dr Christian Barnard (as described in Edwards’ autobiography The Public Eye, in which he goes to great lengths to point out the necessity of a probing interview style).
Perhaps JC’s Ring interview wasn’t probing enough.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
The really ironic thing is that back in the day, Brian himself was accused of being a “rude” interviewer of foreign celebrities such as Dr Christian Barnard (as described in Edwards’ autobiography The Public Eye).
You want an irony overdose, here's Brian Edwards’ rather less enraged and more usefully nuanced take on Simon Walker’s infamously tetchy 1975 interview with Muldoon.
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