Posts by Russell Brown
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Still tying up loose ends, sometime PA sports-blogger Grant Robertson has his maiden speech up on YouTube:
It's a really nice speech with some dry humour and, at about the 12 min mark, a deeply welcome commitment to special education issues. I'm so glad to have someone like Grant in Parliament.
See also, Phil Twyford's maiden speech:
There is cause for optimism.
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Oh, and if you're after some radio, the always-interesting (and apparently ageless) Gordon Dryden is hosting five afternoon shows next week on Radio Live, from 2pm each day.
Gordon says the shows will embrace "hopefully a national debate on the future—with some more positive news than the Wall Street wankers."
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@Emma
I love System enormously, and I'm so pleased that it's surpassed my most optimistic predictions.
I was looking back at the launch day of System recently, and recalled your mild amazement that you'd actually registered a profile under your real name.
We outed you!
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The Word of the Year should be "Media7." Thanks for a great year of smart, funny, important stuff, in all your various media and from all your various people.
Actually Paul, I should have thought to thank you for being our number one audience member. We should just start cc-ing the call sheet to you.
Now, I was thinking of the perfect PA commission for you yesterday. I'd send you on an architectural and philosophical tour of the former Tourist Hotel Corporation hotels. You would meet interesting people, tell jokes and fit each stop on journey into a cultural and technical framework.
Unfortunately, there is no budget for such a project. Interest from sponsors is welcome.
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Grinch.
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Can you be smug and whinge at the same time? It sounds quite complicated.
It's called smingeing, and it's every bit as nasty as it sounds when you say it.
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From your link:
Kitteh sez STFU
Take the internet away from this person.
Wow.
I do sincerely think that everyone would benefit from a spell of customer-facing retail work.
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England has been ascrabble with humans for a very long time and the land shows it- yes, there are the surprising inhabited-for aeons-but still-themselves- places (the Yorkshire Moors for me)-but it is majorly
human-riddled, and waaay too crowded-I loved the Christmas I spent in Cornwall with Kiwi friends, in part because I was conscious of how long humans had been around there.
We went walking and wandered into a very old church built on a pre-existing religious site and, although I am not of the religious persuasion, it seemed a special place to be.
Mind you, the mushrooms might have had an influence there.
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Dammit, you're right.
It's ages since I had a long lunch, and longer since a festive season passed without one. Where is my Prego? I had a Prego last Christmas.I wonder if this year no one wants to appear extravagant. Still, there is time.
One of my favourite Pregos was with someone I worked for, just the two of us. We talked and talked and eventually got on to the days our respective fathers died.
"I don't think I've ever told anyone that before," he said at one point, looking surprised.
That's what long lunches are about.
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