Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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Yes they should.
Ooh, this will be fun ... no they shouldn't.
Change over "time" could just as easily be shown by the heights of a bars on a bar graph, lest we think that on the Wednesday of the week following some game Carter was still doing better than he was on the game on the following weekend...
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Those really shouldn't be line graphs :-)
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Do I really want to shell out another 80 dollars for, in effect, four more cuts of the movie I'm never going to watch more than once?
Well, if you have to shell out $100 for it, no.
But if it was an extra $20, and the whole thing was brand new at the CD & DVD store's latest sale, you might :-)
I think they've sold out though.
They've also sold out of West Wing boxed sets (every episode, plus two discs of special features we got screwed out of in New Zealand) for $125...
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Long was furious. I thought it came off okay.
Except for the fact that at the time, DPF had a much worse server (or software?), and kiwiblog pretended to time out whenever you posted a comment. Old hands knew this, and didn't make multiple posts, figuring theirs to turn up.
The Brash comment appeared at least four times, making whoever made it look like a computer-illiterate. It really only came off okay once DPF took special trouble to delete the reposts...
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Tell me why I should not download them.
Because the wait for the DVD usually isn't that long (assuming we get it). And if it's a documentary about history (Simon Schama, Niall Fergusson - heard good things but only read, not seen) you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry :-)
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Well that's crappy.
Don't get me started. It is by far the worst example of R4 being screwed over, but there are numerous others (thankfully, usuualy only over special features, not actual content!). It's very rare (and still a little disappointing for our R1 brethren) when we get the better deal over special features. Schama's A History of Britain is one rare example - the inaugural BBC television history lecture that R2/R4 got is really quite good.
But seriously ... please don't get me started.
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Mark - the region 4 dvd release of Jazz has one 90-minute episode and 11 60-minute episodes (747 minutes total). The Region 1 release has 12 90-minute episodes (1140 minutes total).
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Do you think it would have made any more sense cut in half?
It's not about sense. It's about finding two hours to watch the thing! They're lucky I did. I taped the first double (not double-length) episode of Lost, didn't find the time by the next week and never saw another episode. Now maybe I wouldn't have liked it, but TV2 meant I never gave it a chance.
And how... If Ken Burns has made a documentary that clocks in under three hours, I've never heard of it.
Unfortunately, it's sometimes forced on him. The region 4 dvd release of Jazz has thirty minutes cut from each of 11 of the 12 episodes.
But I might suggest his early work if you're looking for something short, much of it released as Ken Burns' America Collection. 58 minutes for one, I tell you...
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I'm just not sure that we need two Ministers to supervise the non-existent world cup bureaucracy, one surely is enough.
According to the press conference Key gave yesterday, it's one associate and one deputy minister. We were left in the dark as to whom the Minister for the RWC was...
:-)
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Oh, and when it comes to saying something nice while waiting for Fiona to start tele-blogging again...
Super-snaps to Prime, which on Thurday starts screening Ken Burns' The War in prime time...
Maybe you could just read The Listener. The War got Fiona's doco ups this week. Though I think there was a slight error. They're not double episodes, they're just two hours long each :-)
[Which is a nice change, I hate double episodes with a passion - damn you TV3 and your Heroes!]