Posts by James Green
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could have been given a flick on the ear as a warning
None of that woolly PC crap mate, a punch in the face, administered as part of good parental correction. That's what kids get for not behaving while cycling on the Mainland, mate.
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I would have been pretty pertubed if I'd been driving in lane 3, with nothing between me and the kids that attended. It is still an open motorway after all.
Umm, I live in Dunedin, and I know there's a painted and textured median between Lane 3 and those other lanes. They must be reasonably considerable, given that they're visible on googlemaps. Maybe I'm too law abiding, but on the couple of occasions I've driven across the harbour bridge, I've never considered them as areas through which I could change lanes. They also have electronic signs to slow the traffic, orange cones, trucks with big arrows, and could possibly even have parked up vehicles on the painted median to make it clear that it was no go.
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I thought the 'news as entertainment'/commercial angle was interesting; but it got me to whether they are losing some viewers this. I've certainly stopped watching the news, after it being a real staple. I remember when Hawkesby left, and Campbell stepped up. But these days if I watch anything it's TVNZ7 News. They have a slightly more mercenary approach to editing footage (live crosses are the first to go it seems), and the lack of flash is actually good. I hate it when Greg Boyed stands in there though. It brings too much of the 'glitter' from the standard broadcast somehow. I just want someone to read the news.
Maybe I'm in a minority here, and TVNZ7 is capturing it, but I can't help but wondering if they're slowing weaning people off.
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I would like to know more about the tanker carrying "urgently needed oxygen" to North Shore Hospital.
Just how small a buffer does the hospital have, that a fairly typical hold up on the motorway causes this sort of concern?
I'm aware that North Shore hospital is a bigger hospital than the one I worked in, but the oxygen that arrives by tanker was for the laundry and the medical grade oxygen came in bottles. As a measure of the vital importance of the supply of oxygen for bleaching laundry, checking to see whether we needed more was deligated to the high school kid who only worked a couple of afternoons a week...
(Obviously, I could be completely wrong here, but I'd assume that medical oxygen would need to be a in cleaner vessel, and having a tanker devoted to that, well there just doesn't seem the need?)
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Hi Andrew,
Hardly my battle to fight, but as an occasional visitor to the Shore (and also Lyttelton), I think there is something pretty fundamentally wrong with either having to pony up $15 (return) or have a car, to visit a different part of the city that is under 2km away. And the bridal path is a semi-reasonable alternative by comparison. -
Oooh. And in useless wikipedia base trivia, the ampersand & was originally a ligature for the word 'et', which is why you see '&c' for 'etc' in older writing. w00t.
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The lower case double f in ffunnell makes my heart sing.
But they don't have TeX to get lower case double ffs with ligature.
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It'd be way cooler if you could fasten your own bike into it and pedal across as per usual, though.
If you took a wind trainer and bodged it with an oversize shweeb pod, should be workable. Be a hell of a tourist attraction as well.
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Lest I forget cycling. Couldn't they just get some more of those concrete things made that they use for the centre median?