Posts by Jackie Clark
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You'd have thought Laws' own recent family troubles - and the accompanying public sympathy, including mine - might have tempered his reflexive tendency to put rhetoric before ethics like a bad high school debater. But no.
That's the first thing I thought when I read Russell's post, Jolisa. I felt terribly sorry for Laws when the news about his daughter came out. I've had a husband with leukemia, so I know the treatment is rough, and I would imagine it's all very hard on one so small. I too would have thought that his empathy levels would have risen somewhat. It speaks volumes, however, about him as a person that all this could happen to him, and he's still a showoff prick.
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Congrats, PA people. Thanks for providing a site that provokes thoughtful discussion. Even if I don't understand everything that's been said about techo things or have any interest in most of the political stuff, there's still enough content for me to be happy.
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Ah, titles. How attached we are to them. At work, and in public kindergartens as a rule, the kids all call their teachers by first name. I would feel a little strange if they called me Mrs Goodison, not to mention that most of them have english as a second language, and would find that to be a bit of a mouthful. I have a friend who insists that her children call her close friends by Aunty/Uncle______ and all other friends get the Mrs/Mr moniker. I've always found that strange. I'm not sure about the respect thing in regards to kids not calling adults by their first name. The kids of the friend I mentioned are all pretty sneery, snotty young people. The respect thing is token only, to them.
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Oh god, I so agree about the prices these middle of the road places charge. Bloody ludicrous that you go a good cafe for lunch and have great food, and you wouldn't pay much less at Valentines, and you'd pay the same or more at Lone Star or any other of those dreadful bloody places.
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When I was about 20, my father took me on a trip to England with him. It was, apart from going to Aussie when I was 16, my first real trip overseas, and I was beside myself with excitement - especially since we were to be travelling first class, not unusual for my father on his multitude of business trips over a period of many decades. So we get on the plane, and turn left. Fabulous. Sit down etc etc - and then a few hours along, a mate of dad comes up and so I get relegated to economy for the rest of that leg of the trip. How rude! And then to top it off, on the way back to NZ a month later, another bloody mate of dad's needed to talk turkey with him - and yes, I was relegated to a lesser place.........
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That's horrendous, Seamus, and it must have been very scary.
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Stephen, there you are. Did your mum get that book I left in her mailbox? Email me on goodeye at xtra dot co dot nz if you like.
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You ... got rid of it? Aren't there starving mediaphiles in Mt Eden who'd just love some HD?
Well, no, I happened to mention the saga to the nice young man at Telecom who was helping me with something else, and he offered to buy it off me. Which he duly did.
But I'm surprised that you don't seem to be able to use your VCR with it. Did your nerdy friend try connecting it to the Freeview box via either the RF (ie: aerial) cable or a standard composite video lead?
hmmm, I have to say, I don't know........
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Yes, but I bet you don't call things that are secondhand vintage, just because you think it sounds more upmarket, Danielle. No yuppie wanker you, I would warrant.
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I've said so many nice things about Freeview lately that it seems only fair to point out one area where Freeview will struggle against Sky -- the PVR end of the market. We still haven't really got comfortable with the Topfield satellite Freeview PVR we're using -- or, rather, not using all that often because the MySky a much better consumer device. I can see why Freeview doesn't want to put these on the market until it has done some work on usability.
Meanwhile, we still use the Freeview HD terrestrial box for actually watching broadcast TV, because the sound and picture it provides is so superior.I bought a lovely new flat screen modern telly for my bedroom the other day, and as an add-on (with the telly we had purchased the previous day for the lounge - again, a flat screen modern wonder) recieved a "free" freeview HD box. Let's try again, I thought. Nice nerdy friend comes round and duly attaches it to TV in bedroom. Beautiful quality, excellent sound............but you see, I still use a video recorder - so oldfashioned I know. And hence, because the whole point of putting the box on the telly anyway was so I could have lovely quality reception on TV1 and TV2, (and so I could tape them, in all that lovely quality, unlike now, when the reception's a bit dodgy)when it was fully explained to me that really, I had to video like I used to.........once again, I got rid of the Freeview box. I think I'll wait till they do what you said, Russell. In the meantime, I'll have to watch Media7 online.