Posts by giovanni tiso
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This could be fun. I shall put my hand up and admit to eating bourgeois polenta, in that I buy the pre-steamed flour instead of boiling it from scratch.
(I'm a big fan of Pollan and love to make as many things from scratch as I can, but really Brickley therein lies madness. I humbly suggest fighting the food battles that are worth fighting.)
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The iPhone issue is interesting - I know a couple of people writing iPhone apps in the US for pocket money and I'm looking at pushing out a couple of Android ones myself.
Even I might be able to design apps for the latest model.
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My next project is making yeast, but purely for the interest in how it works, I wouldn't dare being prescriptive about the lengths that people must go to in order to stay away from the processed stuff. That said, I don't buy too many ready made things (apart from biscuits, I guess). I'd rather cook something simple instead, or opt for takeaways and cut out the middle man. It could simply be an upbringing thing as my mother I don't think ever bought a single ready-made sauce or dish.
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The Ranfurly Shield came to Berhampore school last week and my son got to lift it and I don't think he's going to wash his hands again. Can't take him to the Cake Tin tonight but will go next week for sure.
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I'm awestruck. Oar-struck, even (it's the next step after gob-smacking).
If somebody poached Lyndon, Danyl, Robyn and Ian they could drive The Onion out of business inside of six months.
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God hates hommos
You're not telling me we got all this grief because of a misspelling, are you?
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It would be a dysfunctional marriage of mutual inconvenience for the ages.
On the plus side: the theme from The Odd Couple would have to be our campaign song and it's worth its weight in votes. Damn catchy.
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Duh. Well, the people were from Karamea, so I thought ...
This is the part where I confess that for quite some time I thought that Bluff oysters weren't real oysters.
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Would you like to become my Chief of Staff when I enter politics.
I thought you'd never ask.
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possibly inspired by the one that lived on an empty section on the way I walked to school that chased me all the way home one morning.
Are you sure that wasn't Goff?
In my capacity of Labour party drone I've spent some time this last couple of weeks depositing leaflets in people's mailboxes on which our dear leader claims to have a "fierce belief in New Zealand". Between that and Key's famous 'ambition' line I've had an epiphany for what my will be slogan when I eventually enter the political arena: "New Zealand: I'm blowing it right now." Couldn't possibly fail.