Posts by Paul Campbell
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Hard News: There in half the time:…, in reply to Nick Russell,
Heh. Wonder how it would cope with a Wellington hill..
A friend here in Dunedin did his own conversion 3 or so years back, he travels to work at Port from Kaikorai Valley over the old Northern Road (because the main Port road is too bloo0dy dangerous for cyclists). Another friend drags off cars going up Stuart St during rush hour ….
In other words like electric cars they have close to infinite torque at low revs, they do great on the hills
People from Dunedin who are interested in electric bikes should visit the Valley Community Workspace – we have a couple of people there selling electric bikes, and others doing their own conversions (both of bikes and of cars).
I visit Shenzhen a lot these days, there the city has banned 2-stroke scooters, unlike other Asian cities rush hour is not a choking mess, electric bikes and scooters are ubiquitous, petrol taxis cost a 3 yuan tax over electric ones …. I have seen the future …. it involves kids sneaking up on you from behind on the footpath at night with their lights off to save their batteries
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As someone who has implemented a USB dongle with "a piece of PCB", and abandoned it, I have to say it's a horrible solution (you have to be able to get an exact thickness and be able to get your PCB just so), sure it works 95% of the time, but the other 5% it falls out ... the cheap connector is < 5 cents from China.
Roll on the USB-C that doesn't care which way around you plug it in
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Maybe this will do instead:
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I started reading with Talking Heads bouncing along in my head ..... and crashed .... that was not the read I expected ...
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that's what happened when they fired all the English grads - the readers and copy holders - back in the early 80s
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I guess I'm uncomfortable with portraying the old Post Office radio inspectors as bumbling incompetents ... I knew some of them from back then and IMHO they were anything but
More likely their bosses had Muldoon breathing down their necks and they were under extreme pressure. I think that more likely they wanted to make sure the equipment wasn't interfering with anyone else and otherwise look the other way.
One of the local guys (a vague in-law) here used to be able to keep up two conversations at once, one in morse ... he also told of searching the Taieri Plains for an interfering radio source, finding it coming from a power country line he tracked it down to one pole, looking closely he found someone was nicking power, the wires went down the back of the pole, and were dug into the paddock, he pulled them up until he got to a barn where he found a still, he helped the cocky fix the noisy thermostat, but didn't report him, claiming the laws about radio confidentiality didn't allow him to.
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This morning's Tremain
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I was listening to a discussion on RNZ the other day essentially saying that the nats are out of ideas and that Key's been pushing his ministers to come up with new ones .... apparently good ideas are so thin on the ground that this one bubbled to the top.
and "sCOOLs", who thought of that one? JK must have figured it would make them seem all modern and down with it, the whole thing sounds like a Simsons plot, you can just imagine Principal Skinner announcing "we're going to call the sCOOLs" ....
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For those who haven’t seen it this week’s John Oliver is particularly appropriate – skip forward to 15:20 ….
“that’s just crazy, you’re basically giving kids a box containing video games, pornography and long division and claiming 100% of them chose the right one”
“One major study found that ‘Students in online schools lost an average of about 72 days of learning in reading …. lost 180m days of learning in math during the course of a 180-day school year’ …. and 180 minus 180, as those kids might put it, is ….. 3”
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Not exactly, I was in there yesterday, all gone ... Now there are some restful fountains and a stream of mice ...
