Posts by Ross Mason
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Yeah it's our turn. But given the lack of posters here it probably means it's "only Wellington". :-)
It was a good shake. Was in Silverstream's "new" New World and the shelves lost a few items onto the floor.
But not much more....for the moment...
Edit.....5 minutes laterJust watching a news bulletin on TV3. Seems a few buildings likely to be looked at a bit closer. One hotel (Mercure) is being evacuated. Some apartments are being checked as well. Water main has been broke. Part of the container port has sunk ad took a container into the sea. Picture of a library somewhere with books all over the floor.
TV1 bulletin says Seddon has a house that is damaged.
Our "damage" was a toy motorcycle falling off the shelf......catastrophic.....
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I sympathise with Anthony and his film cracking and ripping. I worked, walked and swam in Lake Vanda, the Labyrinth and the rest of the Wright Valley over a two week period and carefully wound my 36 frames on my 35mm Pentax and when the counter got to 37 it dawned on me that I had been winding thin air for the whole time. Gah.
I spent hours in the depths of darkness lying on my back in the snow watching the green curtains spearing down from the heavens. Skiing behind Huskies, sledging behind 15 of them across McMurdo Sound, sitting in amongst the Adelies, the view from near the top of Erebus and crawling our way into the ice caves to look at the extraordinary ice crystals.
A once in a lifetime experience. This will certainly bring back the Beauty of the South.
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And I’ve never liked the idea of flying Cathay Pacific because I don’t like their logo, which is a stylized image of a burning plane.
On my flight to Hong Kong from Auckland on Cathay Pacific, there would have been no image of a real burning plane on the internet. The "toiletry sourced fluid" on the floor was acting as a very good fire retardant. (Boeing 747 BTW)
It is with profound relief that we never took kids on long haul flights. I would concur that humour must be present in spades if Travel Troubles and Tribulations are to be survived. Most certainly, David, it then requires a perverse humorist to write of it. Heh!
One must thank those designers of these flying tubes for enabling one to get to Norway in 54 hours!!!! But with Fox TV stations broadcasting "facts" it makes you wonder how on earth the yanks sold any to Asian countries....
....I wonder what parents did on sailing ships for 3 to 4 months?????....Jeez. The emergency hatch would exit onto the seven seas! Health and safety....what?
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Does anyone know if Pacific Fibre found that certain "security issues" may have been a factor in their pulling out?
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Dilbert Cartoon Jan 8, 2005.
Dilbert.com is great these days. You can search for words in the cartoon!!! Saves months of work!!
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Sigh......
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And did anyone choke on their breakfast listening to the story of Mr Fixit talking on his appointment to the CCC as the Consents Fixit Guru??
"He will improve morale and increase productivity" I think the line was on RNZ this morning.
Reminded me of the old rowing team PP slideshow.
http://www.slideshare.net/apanitsch/the-management-rowing-race
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Shit almighty. Listening and watching this skit should hit some EQC nerves.
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Southerly: Now I Am Permitted, in reply to David Haywood,
That’s my final word on this subject; I’m moving on, remember?!
No David. Please join in and get the jargon right. You are moving FORWARD.
See your quote Sir:
I shall, in the words of that nice Mr Key, be moving forward.
And to Steve Barnes:
However, using a laser level over 10mtrs would show this but laser levels were not generally common, even 20 years ago.
No they weren’t. But laser levels do not a surveyor make. Good old telescope type Dumpy Levels “in the hands of a qualified and trained person” are just as good as a laser in the “hands of a qualified and trained person”. Such a person, I am certain, would be able to do this with a hose, some clear tubing, two identical rulers and water and measure floor levels well within 5mm over the length of the hose.
Any level measurements from the hands of Joe Blow who does not understand the principles is suspect.
From the blogger’s comments there appear to be numerable Joe Blows out there.
That is sad. The point of making any measurement is to enable someone to make a decision. If the number obtained from the measurement is suspect and does not easily fit the criteria of being “fit for purpose”, a proper, rational and unambiguous decision cannot be made.
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"An 'ouse? an 'ouse? We didn't have an 'ouse. We lived in Doonsandel. With a toilet that weren't 'nected to the dreyin. But we were looky."
