Posts by Ian Dalziel
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waiting to exhale...
Whitney Houston's death was sad, if not unpredictable or unexpected, but I fail to see how it justified the entire front page of The Press World Section and at least another page since...
It is as if the media having, undoubtedly, added to the pressures in her unravelling life have gone into overkill for their last feeding frenzy...
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take me to the waita...
Maori standards set to a ska rhythm. Waita and the music of Jamaica usually meet in a roots reggae style, but I now wonder if it was meant to be a jump-up ska beat all along.
I felt a real surge of happiness as I sat on the hill surrounded by people singing along to waita, gazing across the crowd and out to the Gulf in the setting sun.do you mean waiata?
or is it (they) a band?
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Southerly: Deconstruction and Construction, in reply to nzlemming,
Just desserts?
...to get Leyed
or unlaid - like a paver
hmmm
laid = eggs
paver lover?
meringue or merengue
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Southerly: Deconstruction and Construction, in reply to nzlemming,
The Long Man hill figure...
Saint Dalziel’s reality distortion field is still affecting the photograph in the post…
Trying to capture photons when aligned with the portal is problematic at best, but the image from the other side as observed and interpreted by the good folk of ancient Wilmington (in true Report on Probability A style) looks like this...
The trench becomes an invisible Ley Line... -
Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Penny dropping in low gravity...
Joy Division and New Order were around back then?
my point exactly...
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Dotting the tees and crossing the eyes...
I see the City CEO, Tony Marryatt, decided to take a half day off to play golf at some council sponsored event - shame he had to miss a public excluded meeting about "additional governance arrangements for earthquake recovery planning". Which is one I would have thought he should have been at...
But hey, I'm sure one of the other well remunerated senior managers will fill him in... -
Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Hebe,
Watch live demolition of the CrownePlaza
I do hope some of these demolitions have had fixed timelapse records that may surface someday as a video...
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What's wrong with this picture...
a random 'snapshot' mystery for an open thread...
I saw this story on The Herald's site this morning, and was mystified by the obvious disconnect of facts (or revelation of time travelling thieves!)...The Sun newspaper reported that the workers found a vault with hundreds of safety deposit boxes in the basement of the building in Manchester.
The boxes reportedly date back to 1935 when the site was used by the Midland Bank.
The Bank of England could not locate the owners and arranged for a drill to break open the boxes. Inside was jewellery, gold, a gun and master tapes by British bands Joy Division and New Order, all of which have been sent to the Treasury.!!!????
Well it was reported by The Sun... -
speaking of the cost of access...
Nice to see that Trevor Mallard has a profitable sideline in the ticket scalping business!
While I don't know if the Homegrown Festival has applied for "Major Event" status as defined under the 2007 Act (that Mallard helped push through - for the RWC), Mallard comes across as a profiteer when telling one TradeMe bidder, who offered $500 for the 4 $95 tickets, 'I will let the auction run. And I think your price is cheeky.'
I just hope he wasn't doing it from his work computer, during work hours... -
Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Russell Brown,
Pole position...
I’ve seen two hearing-able people use sign as fast private communication in a crowded room. It was kind of badass.
And so much easier than semaphore, hard to find flag-waving room in crowds, and I won't even start on the OSH implications...
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