Posts by Thrash Cardiom
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Hard News: Done like a dinner, in reply to Sacha,
What's the projected impact on Dunedin?
Some structural damage but I was thinking more of the continuity of the power supply.
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Not to rain on anyone's parade but would anybody seriously consider placing a major data centre in the South Island with the Alpine fault ready to rumble at any time?
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I really enjoy these Friday columns. I love the new music I hear through them. Here's an NZ one I found through National Radio a month or so back - Sheep, Dog & Wolf - Ablutophobia
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It’s good to see more cycle lanes being put in and things made safer for road sharing like yellow lining more areas of road adjacent to cycle lanes but they can’t do it to every street in the country.
The local district council recently put cycle lanes on most streets in the main towns in this district. The amount of venom directed at both the Council and cyclists because of this is incredible.
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@ Yamis. Ok. Fair enough then.
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I'm not a cyclist and do drive. I am very aware of cyclists and do give them a wide space when passing, don't pass until its safe and so on. However, I think some cyclists could also be a bit more aware of traffic. On a number of occasions I have been happily tootling along on our local state highway doing the speed limit when I round a corner only to find a bunch of 6 or so cyclists riding 3 or 4 abreast and suddenly having to reduce speed very fast. The cyclists usually are all geared up and look like they are training - there are no signs warning of a cycle race, no chase cart etc. This is not safe behaviour on the cyclists part.
In the below Herald article is a photo show two cyclists riding two abreast against the flow of traffic with one clearly in the car lane. Is this safe behaviour let alone legal riding (and I am aware cyclists are allowed to ride two abreast).
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10688860
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Any possibility that the Auckland CC thing is an internal issue rather than external?
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Swine Flu....
Might have it. I'm at home at the moment with mild flu like symptoms and I had the flu shot back in May. My partner came back from Wgtn a couple of weeks and ended up in bed with it for a week. Her nephew from Wgtn, currently staying with us, is also ill.
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Christine Rankin as the head of the Families Commission? Given she is on her fourth marriage she must be perfect for the job having had so many families.
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Let's hear it for Asterisk. If it wasn't for Asterisk, I doubt whether my 17 year old stepson would be able to read. Dyslexic, possibly with Asperger's, hearing problems, speech impediments and a SPELD dropout, he found Asterisk at the age of about 10 or 11 and basically taught himself to read through them. The next thing he tackled was the first Harry Potter.
Strange boy. Right into technology, teaches himself all sorts of computer stuff including game programming (at a basic level), helps others at his school with their tech problems, has been known to find ways around 'difficulties' with the school computers, likes calculus, gets a blank look on his face when you try to get his attention from whatever he is doing (in fact, I suspect he isn't even really aware that someone is talking to him as that part of his brain hasn't had its switch flipped), has conversations aloud with the television and so on.
He's good though.