Posts by Peter Darlington
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Russell Brown,
Question: how many of you here are Usenet veterans, and is that where you learned your culture of internet argument?
Me. I don't know about argument but it's certainly where I learnt my culture of conversation. Surprisingly the main Usenet group for UK football was a home for surreal geniuses whereas the main rugby group turned into a completely dull cesspit. I just don't engage with idiots, not even for fun.
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Radiation: Signing off, moving on, in reply to Russell Brown,
Oops. I think I broke The Listener.
Are they running it on an old Pentium 3 out the back of Joanne Black's place?
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Radiation: Signing off, moving on, in reply to Russell Brown,
I maintain that .net is more cool
Agreed. .Net has always been about networks and communities. .Com suggests taking money off people.
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It’s been about nine years since Russ and I sat in our old kitchen trying to think of names for a website that could house a new version of Hard News.
Imagine how cool a name you'd have come up with if you'd been sat in that sparkly new kitchen!
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People on my Twitter feed may remember a series of posts about 6 months ago after some friends of our's son committed suicide while on remand in Christchurch prison. What it highlighted was the truly frightening system that young people (before being convicted of any crime) are placed into while they wait for many months for trial. We could scarcely believe it when the truth started coming out.
Thanks to some of the TV3 contacts on Twitter John Campbell briefly took an interest but by the time the family were in a state to talk about it JC was too busy on other things. I'm not going to go into detail about it here but if this young man is in Christchurch Prison on remand then his family should be very afraid for his situation, getting their counsel on the case and making very very sure he's kept away from the senior population and left alone until his case is heard.
Happy to talk one to one about it Russ if you plan on following up anything further about the Arie case.
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(And I don't even really like Radiohead.)
I prefer the solo Thom Yorke stuff with the ambient 'Hyperdubby' thing going on. Very nice and perfect accompaniment for a fairly impressive white boy falsetto. He did a nice mix show with Gilles Peterson last year. Opened my eyes to his much wider than anticipated influences.
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Nelson music fans were a bit worried about DJ Rob Macdonald (father of Jeremy Glenn of The Upbeats), mainly because his day job is sitting up high in a rickety box in Lyttleton operating a port crane.
Happily, Rob was ok through the quake but his house was badly damaged. He and partner Zoe have headed back up here to sit things out.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Danielle,
My feminism actually *is* waffly crap. What's more, I buy girly shit all the time and I can't even drive a forklift. I have no idea why Sally thinks I'm more 'worthy' than you or Emma, Megan.
Probably because you love Notorious BIG as well as Missy Elliot. Basically, you're a righteous Mofo and everyone's gotta love that, even Sally, right?
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Well, Katey Sagal is hitting 57 and pulls off a wonderful vaguely wrinkly cleavage in Sons of Anarchy so, all power to you whatever the decision.
Shorts are the big problem for us old men. We look ridiculous in them. Short ones (blurgh) and longer boardie or cargo styles, all bad. But in a Nelson summer, going the full trouser route 100% of the time is just not an option.
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"...whacking off into a plastic cup" - It sounds so great but yeh, it really isn't.
Good post Paul, was interesting for the little differences as well as a few similarities. Australia were playing the All Blacks at Westpac Stadium the day after mine so my surgeon happily did it while I waffled on about Christian Cullen taking the Wallabies apart.