Posts by James Butler
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I'm not going to post a link, but the best song about technology ever is clearly every track on Computer World.
Also +1 Floriditas - nice crockery too.
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This reminds me that the Shakespeare Club at my high school, they were the smartest and (secretly) filthiest kids.
LOL I remember a friend of mine whose parents didn't usually let her go to parties - but Shakespeare Society parties were considered OK. I don't think they ever clicked.
Also, +1 for loving acting at school but being bad at it - although I did have a reasonable gift for remembering screeds of lines and regurgitating them slowly and clearly, which is often handy in Shakespeare.
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I was eight, I think, when I appeared on stage for the first time – a tiny cameo in The Visit. I don't remember much about the play, except an air of grim creepiness and a sound effect of a panther which I might be imagining.
Do you have an unexplained deep-seated aversion to yellow shoes by any chance?
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Foucault's Pendulum
Isn't that all plagiarised from The Da Vinci Code?
Yeah, and The Name of the Rose is a rip-off of the Brother Cadfael series.
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Is there such a thing as a Turing test for satire?
Wouldn't it be a Poe Test? I'm assuming the law holds for subjects other than fundamentalism.
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Trippy. Maybe I could set up a script to load random (and even contradictory) versions of the post every 10 minutes, so that depending on when they arrive, readers may be debating entirely different points.
Think of it as an interactive indictment of the ephemerality of topicality in digressionary digital discourse.
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You know how you have to be careful around open CMS windows and watch that you don't accidentally delete stuff when you're pasting in additional content?
You were saying?
I've been trying out the Panasonic BluRay recorder/DVR, which does have a viable YouTube application (in VieraCast) – but is let down somewhat by
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Aargh editing dilemma.... I could make this post look like I hadn't failed to read Giovanni's, which would make me look better to later readers, but would spoil the narrative... also I'd have to think of something intelligent to say instead...
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"Why the NZ Government needs to embrace Natural Healthcare into the Health System"
(disclaimer - Green Party member)
Oh god... what pains me most here is the hijacking of the word "Nature". If "Nature" is the system of intrinsic laws which governs the universe, then surely a dose of antibiotics when you have an infection, or a course of chemo when you have cancer, is by definition more "natural" than Reiki or Holistic Pulsing, because it is derived from the best of our imperfect understanding of said natural laws. What's intrinsically "natural" about imaginary made-up bullshit?
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Intellectual charity demands I believe they are evil instead.
Hanlon's Razor demands otherwise.
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In our house we can't use fluoro bulbs in the most-used light fittings, because they're recessed into the ceiling and the bulbs overheat and fail after about 2 months. And because we don't own the house, we have no control over the light fittings.
If there were some serious government carrot/stick, we might convince our landlord to replace the fittings similarly to how he has improved the insulation since that became subsidised.