Hard News: Postcard from Christchurch
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I have to offer this wonder, originally from Boing Boing
My sort of people! -
Sesame Street parodies Mad Men:
Via TV Tattle. Thanks to Fiona for getting me on to that site!
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two Christchurch writers and no Chch launch?
- now I know we ain't a real city!
let alone a big one...
(could someone tell Bob Parker and Rod Carr!)nonetheless looking forward to their works and words
on wood pulp rather than screen and electrical interface
a small step towards immortality... -
Ch-Ch might not be a big city. But its bigger than Wellington and they're getting a launch...
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two Christchurch writers and no Chch launch?
Hard to argue with that really, especially when Welli has only half as many people.
Snap.
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Wellington City Council has 179,000 people but Greater Wellington (including Hutt Valley & Porirua etc) has 460,000 versus Christchurch's 369,000.
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Oh god. I don't want to start anything. It's just that I haven't organised anything yet.
Also, now that I'm back, I've added a link in the original post to last night's Media7, and another to a seriously awesome Beatle rarity.
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If only Christchurch had an ista to make things happen. But look at how suckily that's turned out for Auckland...
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Wellington City Council has 179,000 people but Greater Wellington (including Hutt Valley & Porirua etc) has 460,000 versus Christchurch's 369,000.
In addition, Wellington's population has a higher density.
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Wellington's population has a higher density.
Particularly in the Beehive and its precincts, right? Ho ho ho.
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If only Christchurch had an ista to make things happen. But look at how suckily that's turned out for Auckland
We have an "ista"? I know we have an Anti-Public Transport-ista who goes by the name of Stephen Joyce - Minister of Auckland Roads and Other Centres' Transport is his official job title, I believe.
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Heh. Nice, simple concept for a parody of the infamous Windows 7 launch party video:
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Windows 7 launch party video
Charlie Brooker on same.
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Apples with apples: 2006 census says 449,000 for Welli region and 522,000 for Canterbury.
I suspect the choice in this case may have more to do with where book industry people are based..
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higher density
Take it we're leaving Lincoln out this time then.
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Charlie Brooker on same.
Chortle. Absolute genius. "I don't care if every Mac product comes equipped a magic button on the side that causes it to piddle gold coins and resurrect the dead and make holographic unicorns dance inside your head."
That pretty much sums up my thoughts on the subject, too. -
Minister of Auckland Roads and Other Centres' Transport
lol!
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Mike, it'd be funny if it wasn't becoming so blatantly obvious that it's deadly accurate.
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I don't care if every Mac product...
Having recently got broadband and finally updated the software on my eMac: did Apple never actually do a daylight savings update for 10.3.9?
I know someone else already wrote one, but that is rather a steel-brush to the white plastic of my affection for the brand.
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did Apple never actually do a daylight savings update for 10.3.9?
Lyndon, quite possibly not. It took them long enough to produce an official update for 10.4 - to the point that everybody here had passed around and installed at least one of the various third-party fixes before Apple even acknowledged that the rules for NZDT/NZST had changed.
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I felt compelled to comment on Joshua's excellent transport blog after reading the latest mindfart from the Transport Minister.
A lengthy Herald piece last weekend describes the situation. Rudman follows up today:
“Mr Joyce now seems to be deliberately taunting Aucklanders, promising all will be well, while slowly and publicly plucking the wheels off the trains, one by one.
He seemed to be deliberately mischievous last weekend when, while enthusing about roads, he told the Weekend Herald that “rail projects are [important] as well, but with the urban ones we need to know the impact on land-use planning in Auckland.”
He complained “there’s no business case or plans which says, ‘here’s where we’re going to put the two million people we’re told are going to live in Auckland in 22 years’.”
Whatever else Auckland local government can be criticised for, a failure to prepare reports is not one of them.
Mr Joyce is one of the National Government’s smarter minds and a quick learner, so it’s hard to believe he was ignorant of the shelves of reports prepared over the years which could be wheeled out to contradict this claim.”
I concluded that Joyce must be only listening to advice from his trucking and construction buddies, and viewing Auckland as a place that people and freight drive through on their way to the surrounding regions.
I note again for the record that I am not speaking on behalf of any of the local bodies with which I am associated.
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Wellington's population has a higher density
if that's not a misspelling of destiny
are you saying they are denser/thicker in the Capital?Oh god. I don't want to start anything. It's just that I haven't organised anything yet.
no presha... happy to help out on the ground down here if ya need it :- )
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Plug:
Next week == NZ Improvisation Festival in Wellington (sloganed 'Stumbling Towards Awesome', hence Lyndon's current gravatar).
Showcasing improv for round the country & melbourne @ bats, late night jams @ fringe bar; plus there are also workshops (including for beginners)
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a day in the life...
re Joyce
(hallelujah!)
... we are transported ...
like his sur-namesake (James) he may just like to make everything an epic... like Ulyssses
could be worse though ...
had he been more like Stephen Dedalus
named after that Greek "cunning worker" and architect - Daedalus famous for his Cretan Labyrinths
and melting wax wings for Icarus
relax ... the future of Auckland (and NZ's) transport is in his handskeep on truckin'....
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Thanks for the kind words, Russell! You were an excellent guest -- bringing, as you did, most of a whiskey distillery with you.
And Cantabrians can relax: Emma and I are arranging a book-launch for Christchurch (in fact, Mr Dalziel's name has been mentioned). Of course, I just have the small matter of finishing my book first (a dozen illustrations to go)...
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