Posts by Che Tibby
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OI! YOU! JUHA! NOOOOO!!!
[in best harry enfield voice]
at least let us have our smugness for the remainder of today. after-all, jafa-baiting is a well-loved sport here in the provinces. at least we've given up sheep-racing and cousin-lovin'.
and when you say 'the turks and indonesians' do you mean, *all* of them? or just a few at a time?
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heh. an aucklander sent me an email yesterday arvo with "EARTHQUAKE CAUSES HAVOC IN AUCKLAND" in the subject line.
it was a photo of two deck chairs. one had fallen over.
got a good giggle round here.
not that i'm parochial or nuttin'
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does work. witness the catholic-proddy divide.
two generations ago my grandfather was ostracised for marrying a 'papist'.
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i've been following the development of these types of media out of personal interest, and also reading the stuff published by your collegues over at the Network of Public Sector Communicators blog.
i'm right on board with the idea of using particular public forums as a means to circulate and evolve ideas without the 'static', process-oriented means we currently use.
in fact! shortly before breaking for lunch and reading your post i was suggesting that my unit could use blogs as a way to circulate and get feedback on strategic and 'blue sky' ideas we're growing. when an idea starts to really coalesce you can bring it down from the site, and apply the more structured thinking/processes to it.
will be interesting to see if it is adopted by my department. i'll keep agitating.
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I'm sure most Wellington visitors would have been like "Pft! Woteva!"
pretty much.
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what-ay-what?!
where did my comment go? it went:
shhh.... i'm separating the wheat from the chaff
but is now gone!
and don't blame me, blimmin mr. austin started this. now there's a man who should try the freons at the aro st. bakery.
as for waffling, i think a bunch of writers would feel right at home :)
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Life, you see, is like a lawnmower. Just as you need an instruction manual to use a lawnmower properly, so do you with life. And that instruction manual is called the Bible
i think he meant, "we can't have you growing out of control, so we use a lawnmower to keep you pruned. that lawnmower is the bible"
in regard to teaching religion though, i have a suspicion that the filtering of a diversity statement would likely end up as a 'civics' class. but then that's probably what those producing the diversity statement would prefer. a class that teaches people how democracy lets everyone have and express their own opinions.
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hmmmm.... pancakes?
weren't you a waffle man?
[writes "Ben Austin" on 'the list']
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no worries man. i'm becoming increasingly convinced that the 'tendency' of wellington cafes to only offer pancakes at breakfast is in fact a vast conspiracy the likes of which requires exposition by the non-paranoid and most together of us of which i possibly could be the only one who's onto so far...
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sweet mother's kitchen on courtney does a perfectly passable waffle breakfast.
put down whatever you're doing, and RUN MAN, RUN!