Posts by Robert Urquhart
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Emma Hart,
Tour de First Year is a KAOS award – part of the jokey End of Year Awards. I’ve no idea if it’s still given, but I do know its origin.
Nope, it's one of those occasional historical mentions now. The gender mix is rather more even as well. (And thanks for the tip on its ultimate origin [adds to collection of lore].)
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Had to turn off typekit in Chrome on XP, but it's bearable in Firefox.
One thing I have noticed looking at the list of my comments is that the the heading/time of what will now be the second-to-last I have made runs -through- the little infinity sign/permalink on it's way to the next line.
Good thing the site remembered logins across the rebuild, because it seems I'd forgotten my password (and the better apart of an hour has passed, the recovery email still hasn't arrived - though I do know better than to assume email is instant) :D
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Following on from Lucy's train of thought (and derailing slightly) one assumes that some of the bookstore and publisher shares also wind up in the coffers of Inland Revenue. They do quite well, don't they?
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Looking at the blurbs for the Christchurch mayoral candidates what leaps out at me is the way both Bob & Jim start the majority of their sentences with the word "I".
The way this contrasts with the styles of the other blurbs just adds to the similarity.
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Now things are going back to "normal", how would Chch PASsers feel about meeting up for quiet drinks in the (hopefully) sun, say this coming Saturday afternoon?
Drat, I'm in Dunedin this weekend. Still sounds like a good idea :)
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Well I've just been up on the roof and the chimney is a bit more serious than I thought - the neighbours have a good view and report it's been getting slowly worse with aftershocks. On the plus side, while there's a little tile damage it doesn't look like any of it will result in leaks. Will still organise a professional in to check everything out later in the week (anyone have a recommendation?)
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@Lucy To be fair, their Chch building is right in central city and may well have been evacuated or something. (About a block from the 1st smaller pic in the Stuff article). I've seen footage which was probably filmed immediately after.
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@Craig I've been very much thinking that.
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Well it wasn't my house (mind, I'm in Sockburn/Upper Riccarton, depending on whether you're NZPost or a real estate agent), just a bit of breakage in the kitchen.
Stuff Article with pics of central city
My father reckons that's the biggest he's felt since one I remember when I was just a nipper (so 20-odd years ago?) (that came from the alpine fault, from which we lived a short distance.)
Aftershocks continuing regularly, another one as I type this.
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Until I stumble on something else that docks & disappears at the edge of my screen (I have the player at the top where I can just see the position marker creeping along, playlist down the right) Winamp has me.
Helps that it's portable - any time I reinstall Windows I can just copy the folder back in and take moment to set up the file associations :)