Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Domes Day...
Looks like it was a good turn out in Blenheim
for the annual Waihopai Spy Base Protest.
At least the Marlborough Express covered it in some detail, video and everything... -
another successful solar orbit...
I've never understood why Auckland and Australia make such a big fuss about my birthday? -
Hard News: We can make things better here, in reply to Chris Waugh,
all a-flutter...
I feel… unusual.
welcome to the
looking glass world
Chris,
Alice,
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Carma?
Crash holds up Car Show traffic
Eventually even the thickest driver will realise that they are part of the problem...
Roads Scholars?
Down here our traffic engineers are a tad more holistic and nihilistic about congestion...it was not a case of "just solving the red [heavily congested points]".
"If we solved Brougham St, for example, we could be pushing it onto another area. We have to look at the network as a whole," he said.
"We need to find out what variability in journey time is OK."
Harland said a network without congestion could not be designed.it's the physics of the affair, ya understand...
...and now for something a little less pedestrian...
filmed not in Calvary but in the portals of imagination o'erlooking the much mired municipality of Chchch.
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Capture: From the Road, in reply to Hilary Stace,
chairs and whips?
I’m just having fun imagining what an 'Eel Tamer’ might look like
and what they would have to do…
and then how they’d approach the rare eel shark:- )
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Southerly: This Week in Parliament (in…, in reply to David Haywood,
Shucks, David, that’s a nice thing to say about my shameless act of shoehorning in kiwi product placements…
…and I agree these people from the past are still providing problems in the now.
Why only this week Bill Birch (now Sir William Francis Birch) tried to burn down our house!
Yes!
From deep in 1984 the then Minister of Energy the Rt Hon Bill Birch has reached out with his peculiar Think Big hoodoo and seeing the upcoming parliamentary loss looming he placed a curse upon our house – by fuelling column centimetres in The Press, which then ended up (for whatever reason) in the wall lining of our upstairs bedroom – then a mere 30 years later whilst I was angle grinding a headless nail a spark or hot metal ignited cobwebs which caught on this paper and quickly transported the seat of the fire to places unseen (and for some time undetected) – I thought we had the fire out, job done.
But a bit later (just before I was due to go out) I noticed a tiny tendril of smoke curl up from behind the freshly replaced and painted weatherboards – a sudden frenzy of jemmying and cutting of boards refused to reveal the seat of the fire – and taking the boards off seemed to be giving it more oxygen, smoke increasing steadily – at which point the fire brigade was called, and arrived faster than I could’ve hoped for – they quickly headed upstairs with their nifty heat camera and found the source in a wall at right angles to where I had been looking – doh!
…and with a coupla quick thrusts of a wicked looking implement the recently plastered and painted (EQC repaired) bedroom wall was no more and the fire revealed and quenched – we were saved by a double dwang that slowed the fire’s efforts to reach the roof cavity …
so snakes and ladders aside – we were bloody lucky, really!The moral of the story: if you at home are thinking of grinding off any metal objects in closed areas I suggest hanging wet sacks or towels around the job – a lesson hard learnt.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Auckland…, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
buy George!
Is the owner, Ian Henderson, related to George Henderson of the Puddle?
Megan Whelan's link above reveals all!
and seeing the presenter Anthonie Tonnon - reminds me that Jody Lloyd is in Chchch currently and has a new record coming out and a coupla gigs lined up:
Sunday, February 8
3:00pm - Christchurch - Summer Times Botanic GardensSaturday, February 14
11:55am - Lyttelton - Global Ah - World Sound Healing Day -
New riders of the purple sagacity...
I do hope Look Blue Go Purple are getting at least some acknowledgement (if not cash) for the stage named after their big hit!lets hope the PA stays flown and not blown...
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other bonzer kiwi animated clips:
The Bats
by Christian CarruthersThe Tall Dwarfs
by Chris KnoxToy Love
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Southerly: This Week in Parliament (in…, in reply to Evan Yates,
viva the difference engine… *
Totalizer or Totalisator?
in Australasia it’s Totalisator as in TAB
The NZ Racing Board has a proud legacy, stretching back to 1951 when the Totalisator Agency Board (TAB) was established as the sole betting operator in New Zealand.
I can see why Bridges and Guy would want to be on hand to rake off the vig for Don Key!
* this is interesting for computing buffs
