Hard News: Geekstravaganza
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Dale said:
Strange as it may seem to approval-seeking youth, Cool is something you’ll eventually abandon as pointless effort.
and Andrew replied:
Au contraire, it's something we eventually grow into and assume, like a mantle. Well, that's my experience anyway. And what I tell the inhouse teenager regularly.
And I respond:
Listen to that old geriatric geezerette Andrew - she's right! You may think you're a hip 30-something Grey Lynner (I'm projecting here, obviously) but trust me -- your inhouse teenager thinks you are a complete dinosaur and even more uncool because you think you're cool. And she says so on her other Bebo page, the one you don't know about.Which isn't to say that you aren't cool -- it's just your age that renders you, by definition, uncool. My 9 y.o. nephew mentioned Krumping at Xmas and to show I was down with the kids I said "so you're getting your Crunk on?" At which point my nephew rolled his eyes and said "it's Krumping!!". I decided not to school him on my coolness and get into a discussion about the music the kids are Krumping to. (FYI - I do know that "getting your Crunk on" is also slang for getting drunk, so no-one try schooling me on that point)
It's been my experience that any kid/teen who thinks I'm cool is a nerd, or socially maladjusted. (Which means they're truly cool, cos they understand that I'm cool). And I prove my coolness by no longer breakdancing at my age. Like Bush's War on Terror the kids in my extended family have no idea what lengths I go to to keep them safe (from REAL embarrassment).
(yeah, 'school' is my widget word of the day)
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The thing that makes PAS safe for ministers and spokespeople to visit -- no drunken nutters spoiling for a fight -- may actually be the same thing that keeps the drunken nutters away.
I take offence at that remark. Not all Drunkens are Nutters and not all Nutters are Drunken and when did Jo become Russell's Mum?
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Meanwhile, the NBR website was being revamped and would be developed into what Gibson described as a right-wing answer to the Public Address website which had assembled left-wing commentators under its banner.
That's actually good news. I'd personally enjoy a well-managed right-of-centre commentary site where the possibility of rational discussion isn't foreclosed by tedious and repetitive invective. Their moderation policy will be interesting to watch.
Quite flattering, too. Thanks Nevil!
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On the subject of being cool.
Going back a good few years i remember a time, when I worked on building sites. We had all sat down to smoko that's what we used to call morning tea back then when smoking was good for you. There was this kid, the son of a fellow chippie about nine years old if memory serves me well. He looked at me over a Ponsonby pie which in those days were made by hand by a guy called Toby and his sidekick Thadeus in the shop next door to The Open Late Cafe (Metro's Nightspot of the year 1995) anypoo. The young lad, can't remember his name offhand but in those days it would have been something sensible like Tarquin or something, he asked me "When did you start being Cool?" I didn't have to hesitate with my reply "About your age son" I could see the glee in his eyes imagining his impending coolness as I switched the radio from Hauraki to radio B, used to be on 91.8 in those days and the studio number was 307 3918 to go with the frequency which was the trend at the time,..............................Oh yes and I believe our Russ was on the wireless at the time. Ain't that cool? -
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I take offence at that remark.
Who'd have thought a rocky headland could lead to so much shallowness?
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Posted at 10:36AM on 14 Mar 08. Report. Permalink.
"it won't work on my mac" excuse anymore? bootcamp?
'wont work properly because it depends on Microsoft'
if i can get horrible philips drm mp3 player drivers to run on Virtual PC on a g4, any intel mac running windows natively should be able to talk to this machine.
ok, maybe it's not something your mum could do...
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Travelling through Pt Chev last weekend I saw the beginnings of the first Telecom Cabinet installations there, only slightly behind schedule. Roll on Grey Lynn I can't wait!
Now the question is will any other operators have access to those cabinets and the final loop? Perhaps the probable changes to environmental regulations will allow rows of cabinets resplendent in competitors livery.. or maybe not. Bitstream and perhaps access for private backhaul from the exchange nodes then i guess.Grey Lynn is served by the Ponsonby exchange, and in most parts the speed delivered by the new Orcon netowrk is pretty good as the exchange is on the Grey Lynn side of Ponsonby.
Re: competitors access to roadside cabinets - the industry is in the early stages of negotiating this access through working parties (this process is called sub-loop unbundlling - allowing us to install equipment in the roadside cabinets). This is the same process that we went through for LLU, hopefully with all parties now having some experience of playing nice together we can move this one through a little quicker.
Cheers,
Duncan Blair
Group Product Manager
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sorry, the noob doesn't know how the quote thing works.
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sorry, the noob doesn't know how the quote thing works.
You had it right, except for a stray space in the tag to close the quote. Fixed now.
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I was cutting the grass with my clippers,rocking to Abba with my mp3 player tucked inside my pocket.How cool is that?
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And then sometimes, of course, I drop that 'Your Mum' tune and Jo throws her drink over me and we have a bracing argument.
And then you both stop, mid sentence. Your eyes lock with an intensity that could melt ice. You both instinctively lean closer, your lips parting gently ...
Or maybe not:
And on the decks, pouring the drinks, propping up the bar and cutting some moves on the dancefloor.
Crikey, when do you allow yourself time to make out with those hot young 18 y.o.'s standing in front of the DJ booth all night making google eyes?__
</cue RB's millionth anecdote about his long suffering wife who whom he loves deeply>__
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Meanwhile, the NBR website was being revamped and would be developed into what Gibson described as a right-wing answer to the Public Address website which had assembled left-wing commentators under its banner.
Their lazy pigeon holing of the riches to be found on this site doesn't auger well for them.
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Their lazy pigeon holing of the riches to be found on this site doesn't auger well for them.
Yes, they should have drilled down a bit further.
*boom boom*
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ok, maybe it's not something your mum could do...
She can! I think the new question is: do's she need or want to?
Who'd have thought a rocky headland could lead to so much shallowness?
Its all the peaks and troughs ether side that can be harvested to fuel the generator. Off topic, sound affect from Simpsons... footsteps running away.
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(yeah, 'school' is my widget word of the day)
What a coincidence, one of my least cool moments in my life involved the word "widget".
The other involved updating a bunch of glamorous (it was the 80s) female money market dealers on the state of their money market compter system with the words:
"I'm sorry, I can't get it up."
But we won't go there.
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Exactly. How could they top that?
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Heh, nice Daleaway. I feel the encroachment of all you say lapping at my feet like a rising tide.
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Yes, they should have drilled down a bit further.
*boom boom*
Exactly. How could they top that?
And you have to be quick.
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And you have to be quick.
Ahh yes
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Oh, and can someone write me a script to replace all instances of "your mum" with "a mainstream consumer"?
What did you just call my dear mum? Step outside, now!
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Anybody else notice that fully 1/4 of the XKCD comic archive consists of "your mother" references somewhat more disturbing than the ones that have exercised discussion here?
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linger, that's OK though, because it's a cartoon strip. Every noticed that Homer Simpson is a complete bastard in pretty much every way? But he makes us laugh at him.
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merc,
2 words, Family Guy.
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noticed that Homer Simpson is a complete bastard in pretty much every way? But he makes us laugh at him.
And when he strangles Bart...
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