Posts by Brent Jackson
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Here's where I've been.
I am not sure that a day in Hong Kong should entitle me to get all of China coloured in, but hey ...
Very disappointed that Antartica wasn't there, that would've given a huge red swathe across the bottom of my map ...
Cheers,
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Did the Herald kindly inform the Zoo that Burton was working there or was the Zoo already going to terminate his employment and they were just reporting on it? It makes a difference in terms of judging the article.
If you cannot tell by reading the article, then it is either very poor reporting, or it is the former.
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I thought that citizens could use "Oi!" to get the government's attention ... oh well ...
The main concern I have with online participation is that, as with most online forums, the people who seem to have the most time to push their ideas, tend to be rabid extremists.
Any self-selecting part of a group is highly unlikely to a reasonable representation of the group as a whole.
It was remarkable how straight they were with us, basically saying:
"Don't mess with us on this. We're busy people. If you want us to participate, make it interesting, educational and fun. If we contribute, make sure our efforts don't disappear off into a black hole. Figure out ways to let us know where we stand relative to what other people think, and relative to the final decision. Most of all, ask us meaningful questions, so that we're set up to be successful contributors and you can actually use what we give you."This is a great starting point.
I have been submitting to the NZ Bioethics Council and have found the input process to relatively painless, and the feedback to be surprisingly good.
I think there should still be the facility to submit ideas, without subjecting them to the scrutiny of other submitters. Some people are not very confident of their ideas (or themselves) and could avoid participating at all, especially if their first attempt is shot down in flames.
Cheers,
Brent. -
Call it Online Input or “Oi!” for short.
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"The country's best newspaper ..."
Is this a strange new definition of the word "best" of which I was hitherto unaware ? Or are you seriously trying to tell me that every other paper in the country is WORSE than the Herald ?!?
Scary.
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Now that's a good idea. Get DD to run against McCully in East Coast Bays - he'd be a shoo-in ...
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How does such drivel ever get published ?!?
Surely the editor is as much to blame as the biased, shoddy, pretending-to-be-a journalist.
Cheers,
Brent. -
Yeah, we tried the Muppets on our two, and they were not overly impressed. After their enjoyment of the new Doctor Who, we've started watching Blake's 7 with them (on DVD) and, after a slow start, and it being a little bit scary, they seem to be warming to it.
Sapphire and Steel was definitely one of my favourites - I'm not sure why it played it kidult time slots - it's scary, complicated, and fascinating, and challenging to try to work out what's going on, and what's going to happen next (and of course Joanna Lumley ...).
And the Tomorrow People was great as well.
I don't think you can count UFO as a kid's program - we used to stay up late to watch it (8:30 time slot I think ?).
Cushla wrote :
A second was a rather creepy series about a young girl who got sucked into some alternate reality via a picture of "The Scream" on her bedroom wall.
I wonder if this is the really scary one I remember of a girl who was hospitalised, and drew pictures of things. She got drawn into the pictures (when she slept ?) and ended up being trapped in a lighthouse with a crippled boy, surrounded by boulders, which gradually crept towards the lighthouse whenever the light wasn't on them. (Scared the willy's out of me ...). Can't remember what it was called, but the last episode that I saw she drew a bicycle in her picture and then used it to try and carry the boy to safety by cycling past the boulders, but she ended up crashing. Didn't see the show again, and never found out what happened. Anyone know what it was called ?
(Must also second the mention of Survivors - a fantastic programme ...).
Cheers,
Brent.