Posts by Emma Hart
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Say you write a sports blog, and every now and then someone complains that you talk about a popular sport too much.
Ummmm...?
Go on Hadyn, say it...
Another example would be having an explicitly environmentalist blog and someone complaining about you banging on about global warming all the time. The 'why are you talking about this/why aren't you talking about this' complaint boggles me particularly because surely the answer is 'because it's my fracking blog and I can talk about what I want'.
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Also, I miss the "kill" function of rn & xnews (show me no more from a given person).
I am intrigued by this idea, though I don't think I want to sign up to its newsletter. What worries me, I guess, is the possibility of getting so many people with different commenters 'killed' that everyone is in essence having a different conversation from everyone else.
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Yeah, xkcd has a certain 4chan-ness about it. I guess that makes the bot not quite as innovative as I was making it out to be, but I really like that post, the way he lays out the problem, the various solutions and their flaws. The solution was chosen with their specific community in mind, and I think for them it does its job. It's probably not a solution with broad applications, though I am intrigued by the effects of making people think about a new way to say something old, even if it is just 'debian blows goats' or whatever.
And isn't it nice that PA has managed so well to avoid the obvious pit falls........obvious when codified of course
I might have said this before, but every time I find myself talking about this to a NZ audience, I end up saying 'okay, you know Public Address?'. Saves a lot of time.
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I am prostrated before your ability to codify.
Dude, pics or it didn't happen.
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I think Akl could do with a little homespun Wellington Wisdom.
I'd make that your campaign slogan, Don.
(That was sarcasm. I'm trialling tagging all my sarcasm as sarcasm to see if it really would be simpler to do it the other way around.)
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I found using a plane to spot energy wasters kinda silly.
All kinds of irony, especially seeing as the council has just restricted elligibility to insulation subsidies. Though most of those 'wasting' households will be rental properties anyway.
The thing that got me was Tracey Island.
Ours is still in the pile of masses of half-munted toys we keep for other people's kids. Which is a fairly transparent excuse for not being able to bear to part with them.
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It was almost as though India suddenly decided that, no, they didn't want to win this game after all. Why they might want to do something like that I wouldn't like to speculate.
Crossed my mind that I didn't want to speculate about it either. It was bizarre, though.
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Maybe I'm oblivious but in my 17 or so years living in Christchurch I can count on my fingers the number of times I've felt threatened or unnerved.
Yeah, me too. It's certainly lower than the number of times I've said 'well, I live here, and that really isn't my experience'.
Now, I grew up in Timaru, so maybe my 'feeling threatened while out walking alone at 2am' threshhold is unusually high, but Is is from Nelson. So there.
I wonder if the 'perceived threat' is a side-effect of Christchurch being so centralised, in that all the muntery is pretty much concentrated in one, highly visible place. A lot of it is just 'don't go in the park at night' scare-mongering, though.
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And then someone comes along and ruins a perfectly good story with pesky facts:
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Just one question: did that black and white kitty ever lose the back paw fights?
Jeeves has a small scar on his little white nose, which he gave himself. When he gets on a losing streak he has to flee his back paws.