Posts by Ian Dalziel
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The opiate of the masses?
Russell will Media 3 be asking Sky why they are using junkie slang to promote a nostalgia channel?
Jones! derives from slang for Heroin, and for general unhealthy obsessions... - perhaps they are just being surprisingly truthful for once? -
Hard News: Friday Music: No longer…, in reply to Russell Brown,
on the road...
...some half-mad manager would have booked three or four of them as a roadshow and taken it to the nation
That would be some kind of Looney Tour, wouldn't it?
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Hard News: Spread the Noise, in reply to ChrisW,
Deadword...
...very good evidence for ‘sanguine’ being pretty well obsolete...
Now if we can just stop Key and Shearer using 'fulsome' all the time - clarity of meaning and communication will take a tiny step closer together...
I suspect it's because Key can't let the words 'honest', 'sincere' or 'genuine' pass his lips.... not sure of Shearer's excuse - a cheap Roget's Thesaurus?I confess I still use 'sanguine' in lieu of 'comfortable' and 'relaxed' - John Key stole those from me!
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to JacksonP,
Iron Man II. Shopped.
Brighton Blendfabulous stuff
- covers for speculative fiction
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Capture: Pinhole Workshop 2013 - Photo Post, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Orange card with multiple pin sticks...
science catches up with you...
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Ta for that, R of O
I'll look into it a tad more... -
OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
So somebody is clearly trying to spy on you!
Seriously?
Anything else I can do to check that, or better, stop it?
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Have they fixed the MSD systems yet?
While looking for some information on gov’t sites about bullying (to comment more constructively on Aaron Gilmore’s hazily recalled behaviour in Hanmer) I was directed to an MSD site but got this warning (see above)… ???<added> I see other gov't sites had problems yesterday too...
The Gilmore ‘event’ just keeps on giving, but I am appalled that The Press has pulled all comments from the updating story, with no explanation offered, when they constantly rail against lack of openess and transparency – double standards, much!
I shall be writing to Mr Key and Mr Gilmore to encourage them to ignore all calls for Mr Gilmore to resign, as we need politicians of their low calibre to ensure National is roundly and soundly defeated next election…
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Geoff - there was a small piece on a cinema at Waikari on The Press's site today, which may be of interest...
I see you have it on your site - but I'm guessing as it is not a standalone cinema but a repurposed war memorial hall it may fall outside your full requirements....
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Hard News: You can Roughan but you just…, in reply to BenWilson,
progress – regress…
Predicting anything related to technology 30 years into the future is optimistic.
…here’s the new high tech idea for Christchurch – the sensing city
and The Press article and editorial…
I can see what they are trying to do (though I can find no indication of what kind of sensors they are using – I’m suspecting wireless and possibly Rifid chip tech, though they may have to chip us to get the electromagnetic interrogative field going – hmmmm, more ingredients for the electromagnetic soup we live in.)and sentences like
Dennis said the next phase, expected to cost about $5m, would involve approaching multinational companies, such as Intel and Cisco and “asking them to come and play”.
make me think of Robert Anton Wilson’s idea of training flightless parrots to say “here pussy, pussy, pussy…” a fitting analogy
