Communication is not a luxury, it's a necessity and like it or not, Bill, this is how we do it now. It's sort of like a telephone, right, but I can talk to a whole bunch of people at once.

It seems worth noting that pretty much all the stuff?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCgVReb585M

Remember: God really wants you to build a bunker.

And here I was foolishly thinking BillR had come over all social media-ist what with his Twitter account and all... haven't heard from him for a while, not since he became a PR man.

and the least said about that the better.

The thing I noticed on my very brief jaunt to Christchurch on the weekend, is how tired people are.

It's amazing how far and hard you can go on pure nervous energy (or not entirely safe levels of adrenaline and other chemical lovelies, if you want to be unromantic about?

Problem is that when you hit the floor — and hard — it's seldom pretty.

Yeah, that was kind of what worried me. There's some people down there who are going to need some very long holidays.

I hate to imagine the mental state?

Now, not only does he get to stay mayor of Christchurch...

...not so fast there, please!
let's at least wait till the voting finishes...

having your tonsorials out...

...but it seems to me that hairdressers have been hit disproportionately hard.

that'll keep the barberians beyond the pale...

I hate to imagine the mental state I'd be in if my home had been damaged and if I was still having to use a Portaloo, like the good folk of Brooklands are.

Oh, Lilith, my cousin's pretty much destroyed house is in Brooklands, and we we went out there?

Oh, Lilith, my cousin's pretty much destroyed house is in Brooklands, and we we went out there on Saturday morning.

Wow, that is awful, Megan. I hope they have heaps of support.

Far out, it is bad! Bring back the sympathy and attention! We need it after all!"

I can't speak for anyone else, but you have my sympathy. I cried driving along Victoria Street. And Papanui Road.

I hope they have heaps of support.

Truckloads. Mostly in the form of mocking?

But then by the middle of that first week (and after that big aftershock on the Wednesday morning) even the calmest of us was getting rattled and upset and cranky.

I think, too, for the first week or so the earthquakes were all-consuming. Every other problem in your life went?

I cried driving along Victoria Street. And Papanui Road.

Me too, though it was more sort of "what kind of a universe sends this level of damage but leaves Camelot Court completely untouched?"

There were no reports of injury or damage, but people reported that the earthquake "shook awful hard," said Cindi Preller, a geologist with the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center...?

Anyone know when we can expect Fire and Water to show up?

I can't speak for anyone else, but you have my sympathy.

Aw, thanks. :-)

And how come we didn't see you at the pub on Saturday?

I'm a Pub Vampire: I have to be invited, before I can cross the threshold.

"what kind of a universe sends this level of damage but leaves Camelot Court completely untouched?"

It'll be more dramatic when the trebuchet hits.

Anyone know when we can expect Fire and Water to show up?

Some of Southland?

So we've had two of the Four Elements of the Apocalypse come through in the last two weeks (Earth and Air).

Anyone know when we can expect Fire and Water to show up?

I think Fire and Water have been busy in Australia?

It'll be more dramatic when the trebuchet hits.

I'm guessing you mean the siege machine
and not the Microsoftİ font...
...though Bill Gates is a bit of a tosser
;- )

Anyone know when we can expect Fire and Water to show up?

Workers cut through a water main in Manners Mall!

Pics of the massive spurting urban geyser.

I'm guessing you mean the siege machine
and not the Microsoftİ font...

Hells, that link was supposed to go here!

Me too, though it was more sort of "what kind of a universe sends this level of damage but leaves Camelot Court completely untouched?"

I visited Brian and Penny (who own and run Camelot Court and are lovely) a week or so after the quake and Penny showed me a?

In the first few days I was so busy telling my out-of-town friends that it wasn't so bad; now I want to say, "Far out, it is bad! Bring back the sympathy and attention! We need it after all!"

I'm hearing ya Lilith...

the hardest times to deal with were?

Anyone know when we can expect Fire and Water to show up?

I'm reading this from Guatemala City where we are studying the impacts of the Volcan Pacaya eruption in late May, followed by a tropical storm two days later. So they had red hot ballistic blocks followed by rainstorms.?

I find it very charming that on consecutive days Jim Anderton is endorsing Woods, and recommending wood.

shouldn't all these wood references be on the
My First Job thread?

yrs
Mr De-al

that time when you were a teenager having it off in the back of a ute and it went over a cattle stop.

...is now permanently stored in the same part of my brain that chortles when I see a road sign reading SPEED HUMP.

When Bill Ralston opined in the last Listener that the earthquake was a sterling lesson in just what a luxury technology is, I knew he hadn't been here.

Or, indeed, anywhere. Here's the actual quote (full article still behind the Listener's stale-wall):

A British survey recently named the top 100?

...is now permanently stored in the same part of my brain that chortles when I see a road sign reading SPEED HUMP.

Oh, wait til you come back down here, Jolisa, and get to pass signs that say "No Cruising Zone begins".

And... yeah. I saw a tweet a couple?

Oh, wait til you come back down here, Jolisa, and get to pass signs that say "No Cruising Zone begins".

What does that even mean — I mean, if it doesn't mean what I think it means? No kids on chopper bikes?

(Anyone else have automatic soundtracks attached to everyday objects, or should I give Oliver Sacks a call?)

Now that picture is filed away with the song by the young Jon Bridges about being a lonely musician on the road, which began "[strum] The road can be your lover...[strum]... but it will?

(Anyone else have automatic soundtracks attached to everyday objects, or should I give Oliver Sacks a call?)

Not music, but dialogue. And once my brain has decided we're doing it, there's nothing I can do but wait, and look like an idiot, until it's finished. It's not so bad when?

(And for the record, I also rate hot water slightly ahead of hair straighteners but some way behind the internet. At least in summer. So WHAT?!)

I think I'd agree with you only in proportion to how cold the cold water was, or more importantly, how cold the air is.?

Bit like living with a going-on-9-year-old boy in your head, then?

Not a bad description of Aspergers (not that I'm being diagnostic or scientific or any such thing, alright).

when it's two and half pages

Fortunately some 9 year olds are less talkative than that

The Demolition Companies had to be removed from cordoned areas and lets not forget – assult with a digger.

Last time I heard of that was in the sand pit at kindy.

And on a brighter note, the school where I'm on the BOT (Rangiora, relatively unscathed by the quake) is having a mufti day / canned food collection today for the good folk of Kaiapoi (rather more badly hit by said quake).

This takes bat-shit crazy to a new level.

Well, there is a lot of dislodged masonry around...

(I'm even having to recycle puns down here)
;-)

Or if you really feel you have to stay, you could just give other mayors tips on how to spend an entire week with your sleeves rolled up without ever once picking up a shovel.

Emma, but big Bob Parker did pick up a shovel.