Posts by giovanni tiso
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Wow thank you Geoff.
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"The reason I set this story in Croatia, rather than in New Zealand, was because everybody would have tried to work out who the characters were, and I didn't want that."
He was determined to also win the prize for disingenous comment of the decade then? That seems greedy.
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I've always thought that the problem with religion (and especially Christianity) is that it's so very loud
I'm as godless as they come but I must say I do miss church bells.
Thus when the Mormons knock on my door while I'm watching Top Gear
Wow, they really are trying to save you! From a twat rather than Satan, admittedly, but that's some good saving.
EDIT: text of the Arabic Infancy Gospel here.
The scene is included in Dario Fo's show about the apocrypha. Brilliant stuff.
I am the godless atheist; all the rest profess some version of Christianity.
I recently discovered that in Saint Petersburg there used to be (maybe still is, I'm not sure) a Museum of the history of religion and atheism.
One thing that really struck me coming to New Zealand was religions advertising themselves. Catholicism has the saturation factor back home, so you don't get the billboard-style stuff you get here. I snapped this in New Plymouth last week, part of a large and growing collection.
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And set in the Waikato to boot.
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When it does, you have to say that the PS3, with its Blu-Ray player, PVR, ability to play .avi files and IP-based catch-up programming will look a lot more attractive than TiVo.
What doesn't? Nobody is buying those things even now.
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It would be so awesome to have that Harvey in charge of things. Or indeed that Banksy.
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Just lug everything over the hill to the Wairarapa.
No, I'm pretty sure the Wairarapa is just as unsafe as Wellington, if not more so. In fact I distinctly recall a DomPost article in which they suggested that a Wairarapa earthquake might destress the Wellington faultline and buy the capital more time. The author came perilously close to wishing death and destruction to our brethren over the Rimutakas in fact.
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What I said about Auckland volcanoes? Doesn't apply to fault lines. Sorry.
Heh. Fair enough. I take it you will join my campaign to move the capital to Palmerston North?
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in tins?
Naturally
There's something about literally living in the shadow of a volcano (even an extinct one) that seems...silly.
Oh yes. And I say that sitting directly above a major faultline.
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Given Te Papa's long opening hours, it's not unlikely that when the big time comes there'll be somebody in the earthquake simulator. No doubt they'll think oh baby, this thing ROCKS.