Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Doing Science in Court,
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if yer not rapt, bail... a band on the run!
I've baled and gone to another ISP ...
...ya wanna stay away from that evil bundling!!
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Speaker: John Roughan is Scared,
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Polar Fleecing...
The Street shoulda kept Lefty. The knda guy you wanna know about, if you know what I mean...
That Lefty is yer classic Made-Man ...
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Bad Joyce, Good Joyce, No choice...
Sacha linked to this piece of Joycean decree in the Ideology for Evidence thread, dismissing an AA initiative for training young drivers:But Transport Minister Steven Joyce balked at the cost and called the proposal "simplistic". He said he agreed young people needed improved skills but "if we had $8 million to spare, we would spend it in different ways".
and then we have Bob Parker (former TV presenter and hopefully one term mayor of Chch) in today's Press proposing an initiative for training young drivers :
The programme would not cost Christchurch ratepayers as it would be funded by sponsorship, grants and a fee for participants.
...Joyce "personally commended" Parker for addressing the issue.Shame Joyce won't address it himself and is only interested if someone else pays...
...doesn't he realise some of these untrained drivers could crash into his precious trucks!! -
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nay-bore hoods and alpha-betting shops...
...what is this, Sesame Street?
oh well, there's always some muppet trying to promote inner city communities...
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I swear to tell the truth...
Words come out funny when the
truth needs twisting.Bugger! so that's why Garrett didn't get
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Boo boo boyos - on yer bikes...
These days I find Rodney Hide and Steve Crow
interchangeable as unpleasant media fodder...
sullen, sweaty, self-absorbed shysters......and as one letter writer to The Press said this morning referring to Hide...
"...He has a nice way with his opposition, having dropped another woman on her head."I see Boscawen's Wikipedia page has been quickly updated to show his elevation to Deputy Dawg to Hide's Boss Hogg!
Not sure if I'm convinced a Business Roundtable associate member is the best person to be Minister of Consumer Affairs, but how hard can it be for an ACT member to rise from objectionable to objective......now excuse me while I finish needle threading this even toed ungulate dromedary...!
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keep on trucking...
Hasn't been too bad a week down here. A truck and trailer flipping over at 5am in the morning yesterday and blocking - completely - (well done that lad!)
didn't seem a great mix carrying mail and highly flammable substances in the same load....
Architecture porn...
welcome to Christchurch's proposed new Transport Interchange (they finally got rid of that pesky "sex" in the old Bus Exchange name)if that You Tube link isn't working go to the Press article which has the Rabbit Warren and M(ah)oney clip embedded
Note the This is Not My Life/ Busexchange stark and clean look...
Note how the sun moves across the sky and casts pretty shadows...
Note the less than 10 people in the sterile downstairs area...
Note the lack of buses, or any indication of how the catching of a bus may actually be done...
Note the vast empty and seatless spaces surrounding the surface level...
Note parking for possibly 30 bikes nearby...
Note what seems to be the tunnels up from underneath surfacing in Lichfield street approx 50 yards from colombo street intersection...
Note that City CEO Tony Marryatt says:
Marryatt said one of the most compelling arguments for a new exchange was safety. "Currently, during peak hour, one bus crosses the footpath, in and out of the exchange, every nine seconds. By 2041, this will increase to one bus every five seconds."
what is gonna happen at rush hour when that light goes red with one bus leaving the tunnel mouth every 9 seconds or even every 18 seconds as there may be an underground exit on Tuam street as well...
methinks there will be quite a backup/gridlock effect...Note how the article doesn't mention whether this transport interchange will cater for the intercity buses which now congest entirely inappropriate areas of Worcester street, on either side of the square, and must totally tarnish every bus-visitor's first or last impression of chch...
give me a break, and let's not even get started on the cost....
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Hard News: Changes and appointments,
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As much as I treasure TVNZ 6 & 7, I am continuously disappointed by the large number of folk who don't watch them/can't receive them/don't know about them.
Getting TVNZ7 has been great (though I wish the paper ran listings for it) - I am enjoying The Wonders of the Solar System on Tuesday nights - it should be available to a wider audience, especially kids...
[warning: contains the eff word n stuff]no but seriously here's the real trailer:
edit: hope you can see this, it isn't showing up on this old beast
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The Queen of Green...
...embarking on a Hibernian Rhapsody.
<sob>My work/email iMac G5 just died...
I think I'll be entering Hibernation!
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'The Politics of Comedy'
well it is good to get away from
The Comedy of Politics...