Posts by ChrisW
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Thanks - enjoyed Te Rerenga Wairua, indeed the ending a highlight, second time round see the spirit brothers returning to molecules, atoms the building blocks to be recycled as - buses?! and ... all sorts of things, ultimately the stars of the future/past.
And the wairua/spirit merging with the water reflections around 6:50, a lovely image. Reminded me of this, captured from a few metres out my front door a week ago - the tui busy slurping flax nectar, oblivious to its orange forehead patch doing that birds and the bees stuff for the flax, while the spirits of tuis past pass by on the water-surface below it.
All your threads are Capture and belong to us.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Russell Brown,
Last time I was at Pt Chevalier Beach, the tide was out, the pohutukawa had finished flowering, the sky was boring - so I had to liven it up a bit.
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Muse: Merry Darth George Hathos Day!, in reply to Robert Harvey,
Is it me, or does the reader say in the second-to-last line, "That God was made in Palestine", and not "man"?
It's not you - but perhaps the reader said Maid in Palestine, a subtle piece of revisionism, pushing the Marist line :-)
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Craig - I understand you may have the hathos for Witi Ihimaera but why the gratuitous use of his name here?
It looks like your seared mind's eyeballs prevented you from reading Garth George's column in full. Attack his writing or his message by all means, but auto-plagiarism? Plagiarism?
Attribution you suggest is the key, yet he's explicit in stating the bulk of this column is repeated from a Herald editorial he wrote in 1992 - he's come out proudly as the writer of what was presumably an anonymous editorial.
Garth George as if an elderly once-author of pulp fiction sending Christmas presents to his grand-nephews and nieces from the boxes of remaindered books under his bed, with a card saying "Here's one I wrote when I was in my prime, an oldy but a goody. Enjoy!" - bathetic perhaps, but not auto-plagiarism. And if perchance you knew of an earlier source he plagiarised in 1992, then it was repeat plagiarism not auto-plagiarism, and I think you might have told us.
Bah humbug, I say.
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I've put images of the seismic drum rolls (off Geonet) on the City Scenes thread.
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And here's one I prepared earlier, starts with the quiet optimism of Friday morning at the top, nek minnit ...
And for many hours thereafter - the 6.38am Saturday alarm shake 5.1 magnitude is the one on the bottom line.
It truly looks horrible, about 7pm Friday it got to me here far away in my guts and tears, not knowing what was going on underneath and what was coming next for you good Christchurch people.
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Capture: City Scenes, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
<drum roll FX>
Is this the drum roll you had in mind, that you've swearing at?
The last 24 hours recorded by the digital paper roll on the digital drum of the McQueens Valley seismograph, 20 km south of Ch-Ch-Ch.
Guess this should have been on the #EQNZ thread - I'll put a note there.
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Hard News: Name That Food Blog, in reply to ChrisW,
Foreground detail in the above - what the boy racers were drinking in 2009? Frankly, it appears damnation and hellfire no problem, but steer clear of the alcohol?
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Hard News: Name That Food Blog, in reply to Joe Wylie,
There aren’t enough flame jobs in NZ art
No claim to art, but here's a flame job *and* lowered suspension. Thought of this as a possible response to your earlier reference on another thread to a flame job on your Model A Ford (my grandfather's car in its first go-round) but, well, not flash enough.
Your flamin' millipede and perfect mapou Myrsine australis the pièces de resistance.
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Legal Beagle: 14 Pages of Democracy, in reply to Christopher Nimmo,
[52] seems like a really strange decision to me. I could see his point if the pens were black/blue... but orange is just such a perfect colour for highlighting!
Good point - I think providing felt pens with rather transparent orange ink is taking their electoral branding to unnecessary lengths and with just that downside. OK, I understand the value of having a colour without any connotations of a political party, but ...
I found the pen disconcertingly light-coloured and hesitated to use it. Have used them many times before but perhaps when unpressured in a very quiet office for an advance vote there was time for this contemplation.
Perhaps not a strange decision then, but definitely questionable.
