Posts by Chris Waugh
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Hard News: Kitchen Hacks, in reply to BenWilson,
For my next hack, a picture is worth a thousand words. I can’t believe I did it the hard way for so long.
That had never occurred to me. It looks like your method produces a much safer can edge, too.
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Shhhh…. nobody tell Winston Peters. This article says Christchurch Airport is going to have signage in Chinese, Korean and Japanese as well as English. This is to match changes in Christchurch’s and the South Island’s tourism environment. It also says that 81% of international visitors to the South Island enter NZ through Christchurch, that although numbers of South Korean and Japanese visitors are stable, last year there were 80,000 visits to Christchurch by Chinese tourists, a 20% increase on the year before, and that apart from the signage, the Airport is going to be encouraging its staff to learn foreign languages and that it can already provide services in 19 languages.
All I can say is, good on ya, Christchurch. 加油! (jiāyóu, lit. “add oil”, means go! kia kaha! similar expressions of support. Also means put petrol in your car).
Oh, before I forget… I assume there’s an English-language report about this around somewhere, presumably in the Press. The article attributes NZ Chinese-language media, but in my experience they often get their reports from the English-language media.
And another ETA: Hope you're all warm and safe down there.
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Just because others have mentioned hot coals, embers, and other fiery things... I have recently been involved in two barbeques in which the charcoal* proved rather stubborn. On the first occasion it took well over an hour to get the charcoal lit. On the second, my father in law said, "I've got some diesel over there". So he poured it on, but with a rather higher flashpoint than petrol and not even the fire starter thingies not hot enough, the diesel didn't burn. So I tipped some 56% v/v Hongxing Erguotou baijiu on and said, "light that", and he lit it, and after not too long, we could barbeque.
*why that's still legal in a city in which everybody I know says the air pollution is worse than they've ever seen it, and why I've never seen a gas bbq ever here, I don't know, but there you go....
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Capture: Ans Westra - Ngā Tau ki Muri…, in reply to Leigh Russell,
Who is the chubby fellow?
No idea. He's just standing there outside the PKU School of Government with no explanation.
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Jos,
Yearning for summer?
Nope.
But Yahoo! actually did something useful and gave me a link to this. His photos from the cockpit are incredible.
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The big fella is still there, looking much happier in the shade of a tree and non-corrosive air.
Looking slightly north of due East down Chengfu Lu towards the PKU East Gate, the Western Hills as visible as they're supposed to be every day (hint: They frequently aren't, even from that close. Certainly weren't visible back in January).
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Compare and contrast…
January 2013, looking south from a bridge just north of the Peking University East Gate. I think I posted this already, but…
Same view, 19 June 2013. Amazing what a bit of rain and a breeze will do.
#onemorereasontogetthefamilybacktoAotearoaas soonastheImmigratioServiceallows
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Angus Robertson,
I am not of the habit of paying attention to anything the crowd yells, ever. I know from experience that I cannot see what is happening more than one row in front of me. This could have happened within 3 m of me and I reckon I wouldn’t have had a clue.
Ummm... so you've never been a teacher or exam supervisor or cop on the beat or UN peacekeeper? Two of those jobs I do and two I never have done, but experience tells me it's amazing what you see and hear when your eyes and ears are open and you have the tiny amount of experience necessary to see the signs.
And what Jackie said.
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Hard News: Media3 will be away for a while, in reply to Kevin McCready,
2. Monopoly of Chinese language radio in Auckland by China Gov and our Gov expressly saying it doesn’t want to interfere (Lateline in Oz was considering a story about this in Oz and NZ – not sure if it made it to press)
Really? How so, and what's stopping an alternative?
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
why are there cameras in the classrooms? Are they monitoring the teacher or the pupils?
I honestly don't know, nobody's ever said. I assume both.
