Posts by giovanni tiso
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In what sense was it murdered, Giovanni? Just asking, I didn't hear the RNZ coverage.
Where to begin to compare them? It was just a better operation all round. More lively, more informative, better conducted. TVNZ's thing was like watching Italian and indeed possibly New Zealand television twenty years ago, production-wise, but was also far less informative, which is harder to comprehend or excuse.
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Yeah, funny how that works with rolling coverage. People wake up and turn on at different times. It pays to repeat stuff. Otherwise it's like tuning in halfway through one of those long RNZ interviews where after listening for 15minutes they don't bother saying who it was... :)
Kind of begs the question why the coverage by Radio NZ murdered the coverage on TV One, given that they were both rolling coverages, no?
(Also, the coverage on TV One kept repeating the wrong thing - that it was a 7.4 earthquake - hours after RNZ had corrected that piece of info.)
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If I read the Wellington earthquake maps correctly some years ago, Te Papa is built on the area at highest risk for liquefaction. (And tsunami. And shaking. But it's got super-shock-absorbers. So it will lie intact under the sand and the sea.)
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I hope that the fact that there are people owing their lives to red tape won't get lost in all this.
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Yes, last night's brought it all back. My wife, who is very staunch, says she's sick of it now. I stopped being staunch about 4.35am on Saturday.
That's about the time when I would expect to stop being staunch too. And 5.4 last night?! That's an earthquake in any language. There's not much to say except that we're thinking about you all and that we hope that it stops soon.
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Yeah, not cool. Not cool at all.
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(The first scene of the novel I'm writing takes place among the glass display cases of the Logie Collection in the 5th floor Classics department. I'm kind of weirded out about it.)
And such a beautiful collection it is.
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Also answers our questions earlier about the Logie collection, too :-(
On the plus side, it's actually bloody hard to break a book. Let's hope it looks worse than it is once all the shelves are back up.
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There were extensive, unreported instances of Anderton saying the other thing.
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Yeah, there's been a lot of this sort of thing on The Standard as well
I'd object about this stuff less if the jokes weren't so sad and unimaginative.