Posts by BenWilson
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Jos,
It's been quite interesting to see the number of insects filling that spot I always remember honey bees taking in the past. I don't think I'd ever seen a hoverfly before this year. Aggressive little buggers towards other flying insects, that's for sure. Still haven't managed a good shot of one. They move in a really eccentric way.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Niki Bezzant,
Interesting, Niki. I think you're right that more detail on the nutritional side would be good. But it's always going to be hard to get the quantity right for an average adult, since the range of size is so great, as is the amount of exercise they do, and some people also are just less concerned about their weight and would be turned off by what they felt were stingy portions.
The classic bag probably suffers from even more variance. It's pitched at a family with "school age children", but there's a big difference in appetite between a 5 year old and a 17 year old. Also, children are notoriously picky. I'd probably have been able to get about a teaspoon of each meal last week into my youngest boy, whereas the eldest would probably eat a near-adult portion some nights.
That said, I think they would both like the preparation side of it, so that in itself would be a welcome thing. Good chance for the eldest to practice his reading, and the youngest his spoken language.
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Legal Beagle: A little known story of…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Thanks! I've been a little worried that this might be a little nerdy, even for Public Address :-)
Nah, this is some good research, sir, very interesting, most informative. Going to have to cogitate on this for a bit, but my initial feeling about these questions:
It also raises important questions. Was the decision proper (in a legal sense)? And perhaps most importantly, is it right?
is "IANAL" and "Yes". It seems like some basic data error fixing that is the realm of statisticians. But I'm not firm either, because you say:
And most importantly, it is a choice that those who don’t know whether they have Māori ancestry, or who won’t clearly answer the question, will never get to make. People who cannot or will not give a clear “yes” to the question ‘are you of Māori descent?’ cannot enrol on the Māori roll.
Can you clarify this point? Are you saying that the way they answered the census will affect their ability to enrol on the Maori Roll? Or are you saying that being unable to answer is what excludes them, something you are then carrying forward when it comes time to decide which roll to be on? I ask because maybe they might answer the question differently when choosing to enrol. Choosing to exercise democratic rights might cause people to buy in much more than the more vague and (to a lot of people) somewhat sinister aspect of the census "collecting data on us".
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Agree with all of this comment. The product is a straightforward idea with some kind of market, and it got people to review it on a freebie. That's marketing 101. Can't decide if I'd be in this market. At face value, I'd say I'd trial it for a week, just to see if it's fun. Probably on the "for two adults" option. The value isn't terrible, and it might break me away from my same-old recipes.
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Best cross-fertilize this immediately
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Belated, but this taken from the grassy knoll, lantern festival.
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Wow, that's insidious. I just went to the fridge looking for donuts, and found myself with bacon in hand, searching for the frying pan.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to George Darroch,
It's actually quite nutritious, you know. Mash it, boil it, roast it, put it in a stew, put it in a sandwich, serve it on toast.
I bought a can to celebrate the first piece of software going live. That shit was narrsty.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Lilith __,
We all hate spam, ESPECIALLY if we're not expecting it.
Some of us used to make a living out of it. If it wasn't for spam, my children would have starved.
ETA: I was blocking spam, for the record. But if there was nothing to block ...
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Josie McNaught,
"Time poor" - what on earth is that?
People who don't have enough time to cook. "Time Starving" are people who don't even have enough time to eat. "Can't eat, tweeting", is "Time anorexic"
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