Posts by Amy Gale

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  • Hard News: The Big Stereo Bundle,

    I love love love that NZ lolcats use NZ lolspelling

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  • Busytown: A real page-turner,

    Ooo! Oooo! Moomintroll!

    (But not the book that's like a cross between a drug trip and a depressive episode. Just the ones about jungles growing inside and so forth.)

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  • Busytown: A real page-turner,

    Russell Hoban's The Mouse and his Child is good to read aloud.

    Still remember my mother encouraging me to read The Mouse and His Child before we went to the movie. Such a bad habit to get children into! Sets them up for a lifetime of disappointments... That said, the movie of TM&HC is quite good. Also had the vaguely unreal experience of surfing past Ithaca's public access cable channel one Christmas and seeing a woman sitting on a chair reading it aloud. For all I know that was their entire day's programming.

    Russell Hoban is excellent for children's books in general - great dialog, characters that feel real. I particularly like Dinner At Alberta's. It's out of print, I think, but there are definitely secondhand copies to be had. The Frances series is also a lot of fun.

    Amy "what I am / is full of jam" Gale

    (Disclaimer: I don't have children.)

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  • Busytown: Here comes the sun,

    > Amy, just spotted your post. You forgot
    > horse-horse-sheep-waterfall- GEYSER!!!

    Did not.

    YouTube

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  • Hard News: From Saigon,

    Marcus Neiman wrote:
    > very little of the windfalls of the slashing of labour and
    > environmental compliance costs seem to have been passed on to
    > consumers.

    > Icebreaker and Macpac clothing, Fisher and Paykel products (for
    > example) just don't seem that much cheaper in light of the reduction
    > in costs those firms would have experienced...

    The price of those things will only ever be what the market will bear, so it doesn't really surprise me that prices haven't gone done.

    What does surprise me is that the market continues to bear the price. F&P, sure, every yuppie in the US wants their dishdrawer right now. But Icebreaker? What are they selling, now?

    What I bought, as I was amassing my Icebreaker collection[*] was clothing that was cute, warm, and strongly tied to New Zealand. Every time I went home to NZ I would come back laden with Icebreaker gifts. How much have I bought for myself and others since they offshored? Zero. How much do I ever expect to buy again? Zero.

    It's not astonishingly difficult to make a cute merino sweater, a fact not lost on a lot of new labels. Or even on some of the old ones. In my suitcase this summer? (What room there was left after MadCat, Plush, and Fin).... Norsewear.

    Ok, fine, and Toffee Pops.


    [*] Not an obscenely large pile, but certainly more than I own of any other single brand.

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  • Hard News: From Saigon,

    > My last entry experience to the US was completely absurd (although
    > clearly not enough to tempt me into terrorism) and LAX sucks,
    > especially for transit passengers.


    I have three words for you: Air Tahiti Nui.

    PPT >> LAX

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  • Busytown: Here comes the sun,

    Bleak church on a cold tundra / Mountain-glacier-glacier-glacier-stream ?

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  • Island Life: LOLnats,

    the chick in the ya rly! pic sat next to me in 4th form! QMC reprazent!

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  • Hard News: New Dataz,

    LOLCODE looks cute, but I still think Lingua::Romana::Perligata is cuter.

    Hello World is:

    scribe egresso dictum sic Hello World cis.

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  • Radiation: On the PVR,

    Sadly, Drive has already been cancelled (don't you HATE HATE HATE the way NZ stations buy and screen shows they already know have been eliminated?). It had Melanie Lynskey in it, too.

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