Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Speaker: Why Auckland, and New Zealand,…, in reply to peterpeasant,
sining the Magma Crater...
Just hope those Auckland volcanoes do not respond to seismic activity as people cross the harbour, over or below the surface.
...or from the drilling of all those tunnels through the dormant (extinct?) cone field of greater Auckland.
:- )What the frack...
Interesting to note that Oklahoma is experiencing an increase in increasingly larger earthquakes in light of this article...and this piece in the Huffington Post:
Arkansas also has seen a big increase in earthquake activity, which residents have blamed on injection wells. Natural gas companies engaged in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, use fluid to break apart shale and rock to release natural gas. Injection wells then dispose of the fluid by injecting it back into the ground.
There are 181 injection wells in the Oklahoma county where most of the weekend earthquakes happened, said Matt Skinner, spokesman for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, which oversees oil and gas production in the state and intrastate transportation pipelines.
But natural gas companies claim there is no proof of a connection between injection wells and earthquakes, and a study released earlier this year by an Oklahoma Geological Survey seismologist seems to back that up. It found most of the state's seismic activity didn't appear to be tied to the wells, although more investigation was needed.Interested folk in North Canterbury can catch GASLAND
- a US based Fracking documentary by Josh Fox
on the following days this month:
14/11/2011, 7.30pm, Oxford Oxford Club 160 High Street.
17/11/2011, 7.30pm, Rangiora John Knox Centre, Stewart Rm,
Cnr High & King Sts.
22/11/2011, 7.30pm, Kaiapoi Kaiapoi Club 113 Raven Quay
- Old restaurant
gold coin/koha entry
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to Just thinking,
iSee, iSore, iRemember...
I’ve been looking at Google Maps Street View with misty eyes of recent.
Good to know it hasn't been updated yet, I was hoping that the old view would be retained for future generations, and I heard somewhere that there is an app that allows people with smart phones to see what stood on any particular site - similar to the astronomy app on an iPad (or the virtual tourism/art idea in Gibson's Spook Country , without the cumbersome headgear or goggles )
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Speaker: Why Auckland, and New Zealand,…, in reply to Sacha,
the Central Station in Courtenay Place
is that why that street is so wide?I think Courtenay Place used to be Tram and Trolley Bus terminus / transfer area, but judging by this live streaming cam they have got rid of the bus stops in the middle of the road that used to be there when I worked in Blair Street in the '80s and when visiting earlier...
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Speaker: Why Auckland, and New Zealand,…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Dwarf Star?
The presence of Joyce in government twists every issue he touches out of shape.
The black hole at the heart of the National Galaxy...
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
What happened to La Boheme, the little restaurant down Bedford Row?
Well prior to the Earthquake the upstairs front and downstairs was The Greens office, and then they moved to Durham street and then there was a funky co-operative boutique downstairs with an artspace & design company upstairs, The restaurant space out the back was Sammy's Jazz Review - but I suspect it may all have been pulled down - this map (from June) shows buildings around it slated for demolition and I know buildings behind it in Lichfield street have gone...
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Puzzled Dragon...
ahh! Tantrix, that reminds me of the old Chinese Tangram - hours of fun and pattern recognition...
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and little lambs eat ivy towers…
I suspect something horrible and unspeakable happened to ACT members at university, and they’ve been trying to make it an unpleasant experience for all others whenever possible – adding interest to socially-beneficial loans, abolishing student unions, or at least making them voluntary (though they’ll still want their ACT club to be hosted I’m sure) – maybe they were bullied by some brash dons? or rogered drugless? or had prebbles thrown at them so they had to hide in the toilets….
whatever they are bitter pillocks to swallow. -
Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Hebe,
Shoes this high…
Made another foot in mouth have I?
only 18 months?Not at all, I was only with them for approximately ten or so, of those months and in a support position, it isn’t that common knowledge, but some here would know that, as we traversed and crossed similar paths, ie I worked with Russell at Rip It Up, I met Joe through Toy Love and the joy of comics, others through the early days of helping out with Flying Nun (while at NBR in Wgton) and later doing the door at the Windsor and so on, NZ is very small at times…
I'm glad you had the chance to enjoy them...
Here’s a wee idea of what those early days were like:
of course Toy Love only had 3 crew (and helpful partners, friends and Record co people like Terry Hogan) and there were none of those moustaches or perms…
I also posted this video in a comment to The Press today to correct another glaring error in the On The Beat column (I’ll try not to get hoist by my own petard again this time like I did with that Herald jibe) where in a piece on Lisa Crawley they say :Who should ironically be doing the sound when she kicks off her release tour in Auckland on November 17 but none other than former The Dudes guitarist Ricky Morris.
I mean that’s a hat trick of mistakes right there!
1: It’s Th’ Dudes
2: It’s Rikki Morris
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3: He was Th’ Dudes soundman
his brother, Ian (RIP), was the guitarist
- along with some geezer named Dave Dobbyn :- )
sheesh some respect is called for in the journal of record
and checking ain’t that hard…they haven’t run the comment, or corrected the story, I notice
or am I just getting old and curmudgeonly?
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OnPoint: Fiscal Responsibility is the…, in reply to BenWilson,
Subcity…*
I’m not a fan of exemptions generally, if the goal is improving health. In Australia, the idea was to not cause a rise in the cost of food…
…and I wonder if No GST or any Exemption or Refund system would be seen as some kind of subsidy on the farming sector that our soon-to-be-bed-buddies in the TPPA would object to. But, wait, we won’t know what occurred, as all details of any bargaining for the agreement signed will be embargoed for 4 years …
More interesting stuff TPPA here … I’m sure National will sign whatever is put in front of them...
What is Labour and the Greens current stance on the TPPA?*I’m guessing the green contents of a Subway© sub will end up
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Hebe,
The persistence of memory...
And the Gladstone of course; did you ever see
Toy Love there? And Tony Peake’s rowdy lot?Oh yeah, before I joined them as a roadie, Toy Love would stay with us when playing Chchch, I remember one Gladstone gig where we helped decorate the stage with dummies and old advertising paraphernalia that my flat mate Lindsay and I, had rescued from Watties where we worked - fun times.
I also recall a memorable Toy Love gig in the Town Hall, I was working at a toilet paper firm that also made streamers and I got a whole lot that Chris and co threw into the audience - within minutes the place looked like an Ocean Liner leaving port...
I was away from Chchch for the reign of The Newtones, - I mostly recall the wonderful Tony Peake with The Vandals in the Mollet Street days and at my usual haunt The Gresham, where later I used to do the door or lights for The Basket Cases/Detroit Hemorrhoids... which led on, circuitously to, well, life to date really...