Posts by Steve Barnes
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
You might like this one.
Reminds me of a Push Push song.
But this from ProbablyBest reminds me of Russell somehow... -
The third and the final image in the main post. You can almost see where Helen Clark found her image.
I remember such things from back in Britain, British Rail posters were in a similar vein.
It is a crying shame the way successive Governments have destroyed the institute of rail, it was always so much more than a mode of transport. Studios, workshops, cafés, heck, even a form of Social Welfare. Such a loss. -
I had a look at that Christchurch City Libraries site and I must say I was more than a little gobsmacked at their pricing…
Pricing
Electronic delivery of image $20.40 per image
Image delivered on CD $30.70 per imageDoes that include GST?
Even if it does, assuming a file size of around 4MB per image so 175 images per 700 MB disk you are talking about $5372.50 for a CD of pictures that you can still only use for personal study. Seems a bit steep to me but I suppose, when you have a City to rebuild, every little bit of dosh helps, eh?. -
Spring.
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I can't bear the "morning crew" garbage
Me neither, I despise the constant reference to the mental health of the participants. Yes, I know you must be mental to get up that early and play the same three records over and over_ but you don't have to keep on about it.
And what did I hear today? Mikey Havoc is going to Radio Hauraki. The world is ending I tell you. -
Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Why he still holds the position he does when failing so badly is beyond explanation i swear.
It's called the Peter Principal
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to JacksonP,
But was it angel parking in a parallel universe?
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Now that was too bad ;-)
Must be time to go to the pub.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
In the streets around my neighborhood of St Albans there is a huge increase of houses for sale. Seems as soon as a house is repaired it goes up for sale and the people take off like scared birds.
Now that is another worry. Once the market reaches a certain point, property prices are likely plummet and once people realise what is happening they are stuck with a house worth nothing on the market. I doubt there is anything in the Government's "plan" to ameliorate that scenereo.
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Hard News: Future shock for the media, in reply to Sacha,
You’re missing most industries since the 19th century that may produce value in services and non-physical creativity, not stuff you can pick up and fondle.
Oh, you mean like laundrys. Yeah, they kind of work as long as you have a class of people that can afford to use them, the privileged moneyed class, the ticket clippers, the privatised tax collectors.
Of course I am not being literal, there are some service providers that do provide a worthwhile service. I am not sure whether that includes fondling. -
An anecdotal friend of a friend of my neighbours cousin once sent 999 (for that were the maximum that you could) black pages from a computer to a company that owed him money, for work done. The fax machine malfunctioned and set fire to the building.
Not that anyone in Christchurch would notice such a thing, happens every day... apparently.
