Posts by Rob Stowell
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Indeed.
It's interesting that, in theistic America, apparently only 7% of the members of the National Academy of Science believe in a God.
HORansome: we all have some irrational beliefs. It's not the black spot, even for great professional philosophers :) -
I first discovered NZ Lit (Jane Mander, Bill Pearson, Maurice Shadbolt) through a Univ of Canterbury English course, and I am mightily grateful for it.
Patrick Evans at his best was a bloody good night out too- and a rollicking funny lecturer. I loved that course!
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Along with a couple of book-related posts...
Yay!
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There are thermal springs near Tai Tapu & Governers Bay. I don't buy the extinct line.
I've heard of these, but never found 'em. Any clues!? A thermal spring would be a grand way to spend a winter's evening.
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Knew it couldn't be good, from what Emma had been posting. But what a horrible night. And so much to deal with afterwards. Avonside is Quake Central.
It's very odd to walk through unaffected places- and stumble into a disaster zone. Walking down-town today, I suddenly felt weepy: felt a great surge of love for this battered town, and loss for some of the buildings. Watched a family retrieve what they could from their wrecked shop, stowing it in a u-haul trailer and driving off.
It feels like folks are all wound up like clockwork, running on lack of sleep and adrenalin.
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Sad news, Joe. Best wishes.
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Sorry if someone has posted this days ago: there's a facebook site for University of Canterbury info, questions, comments on the quake and recovery. Slower than twitter. Lots of activity.
Campus is still closed down- 5pm today there should be a decision whether we'll be open next week. -
FWIW- University of Canterbury closed til the 13th.
All the best to Chch and surrounds. Wish the little tremors would just stop! -
They should change the party name to The Association of the Weird and Inappropriate.
Yeah, the Association of Cunning Tax-evaders is a little too up-front :)
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We spent some time in Ouagadougou in Feb-March 1988, soon after Thomas Sankara was assassinated.
Great city, unhappy time.
There were trestles of t-shirts on the dusty main street, close to the big police station- t-shirts of Sankara's successor, one-time-friend and then betrayer, President Compaore.
Not long before we left, I asked one of the men if he had some old stock- of Sankara. With a little smile, he picked up a box of shirts, we went round the corner, and from under the Campaore, he pulled out a thin cotton t-shirt, a picture of Sankara surrounded by the words "Thomas Sankara Comrade Presidente."
I wore it as a sort of talisman for years, often underneath other shirts for job interviews or travel or really big parties. Recently it caught the eye of a daughter, so it's still around, ripped a bit, worn but still worn.