Posts by Tom Beard
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The obvious solution - a Ken Livingtone for Greater Auckland!
Though on that note: who's the local equivalent of Boris Johnson?
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Of course, the DPF fanclub would probably want to put Sir Allen Stanford in charge of Kiwibank. And elevate him to Baron, maybe.
Only because Ayn Rand is currently unavailable.
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I have to say that Kassabova is a national treasure, or at least should be. She's in London now, I think?
Edinburgh, AFAIK, though she was back in NZ briefly over summer.
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"Can we build things on time, to budget?"
Project West Wind is due to deliver first electricity this month
And many of the turbines can already be seen turning in the distance from Wellington hill suburbs. Even from a distance, they look a magnificent sight.
And wasn't Te Papa on time & budget?
As for shifting the BDO to Wellington: oh god no! Homegrown was bad enough in terms of underage munterage staggering the street like an RTD-fuelled zombie apocalypse.
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I heard some time after my own brief stint in the flat southern city that in Christchurch it's what school you went to, in Welli it's the suburb you live in and in Auckland it's your job. Or your car, or something like that.
One version I heard in the 90s: in Auckland it's what gym you go to, in Wellington it's how you have your coffee, in Christchurch it's which of the first four ships you hail from, and in Dunedin it's what band your flatmate played bass in.
As luck would have it, I'll be in Christchurch tomorrow, so I'll avoid any stripy shirts that might have crept into my wardrobe by mistake. Though I'm not sure that the floral World shirt I had planned to wear will be a good idea, especially as I'm planning to travel into the central city via bus late tomorrow night.
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Saturday is indeed PAS day.
Damn, I won't be in town until after 5.
I'm in the process of organising post-cricket drinks (most likely with Epic at the Malthouse). If you can make that it'd be good.
But that makes it all better!
Morris dancers way too light to do the damage I’ve got in mind.
Rodeo?
Gophers.
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I'm more than a little concerned that Matthew even knew of the page. Do you think we need to stage an intervention?
I'll be charitable and assume that Google was involved.
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It's been around since at least 1999
That link should carry a warning about not being safe for diabetics. A page of "inspirational" quotes from Mariah Carey, Nike slogans and Touched by an Angel : that's one hell of a gooey, sickly mess :-)
At least I now know who Elvis Stojko is.
whichever way you look at it "quantum faster" is still wrong.
Yup.
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Ah, I took too long to post and Lyndon beat me to it. The key phrase from that Wikipedia article (which I should have gone & checked) is:
The popular and scientific terms are similar in that both describe a change that happens all at once (revolutionary), rather than gradually over time (evolutionary)
OMFG, did I just defend John Key's English?