Posts by Juha Saarinen
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Prickly heat! Try some antihistamine and there's that powder in the red tins that seems to work.
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You know, an edit button for those of us with screen dyslexia would be really useful...
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It was a fugging cool journey into the heartland of Rodney, as dreamt up by a Swiss Gnome and navigated by the naked and the blogged. Chased by mad loggers without a bee to their monikers, the rash gravel rumbled underneath the car, leaving behind a toxic dust plume that caused at least five choking lifestyle block holders to sell up and leave for town that day. Then we hit that vile den of iniquity, the true hell-hole of the South Pacific, Warkworth.
Yeah, OK, next time it's SH1 and I don't care what the traffic's like.
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Hmm, zooming along at 60-65kph on water? It's probably not totally practical... first, I doubt the craft would be able to hit such speeds in a canal: even with a hydrofoil, the swell generated would be huge, and the noise considerable too. Having commuted between Sweden and Denmark on hydrofoils and hovercraft, I have some knowledge of what I speak of here. They also suck when the sea gets rough :)
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Umm... look, we talked about this, and while it was entirely up to you to blog about it, I wouldn't have done it.
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That was a very good, illustrated entry. While I think Richard's ideas have to be tried and tested, the side of me fed up with the lack of public transport in Auckland and seeing one of the best settings in the world being spoilt by shoddy, third-class building says...
Let him at it.
Can it be any worse than it is now? I very much doubt so. Listening to Richard, there's a rich vein of practicality flowing through his argument. Listening to others, there's only fear of lower property values and general ignorance resounding.
There's no train or motorway to the airport in Auckland.
There's no footbridge across the harbour in Auckland.
There's no integrated public transport in Auckland.The only piece of architecture that is at all notable is the Sky Tower, a casino.
There's New Zealand's largest city for you in 2007.
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Lies! They held a gun to my head and there were hostages too!
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Dammit, outed as an agent for the British East India Company again. Bring back the Raj! Paint Google Maps pink!
In that the history becomes less visible in our every day lives, it is a loss of it. There's no denying that. That's why most people know so little about Maori history - it's not visible enough.
So, it's a question of letting things fade slowly as-is or speeding up the process really.
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Takes a while to get used to different people... when I started hitch-hiking around Europe, it felt odd to enter countries where people didn't look like you. I remember going on the Paris metro in the rush hour, looking over a sea of dark-haired heads thinking I'm really not in Scandyland any more.
Likewise, it was odd at first living in Singapore because people are rather Chinese, Malay and Indian looking there. It was fine after a while though, and you got used to being The Man from the Ethnic Minority. Then after a few years I went to Sydney and had the same experience in reverse so to speak. Couldn't get over how white people looked over there.
Guess it's a human nature kinda thing huh?