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Cracker: Fa la la la laaa, la la la la., in reply to ,
Mele kalikimaka, everyone.
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Ian Dalziel
A very fine choice for our next Govenor-General, I'd have thought.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I'm amazed she was considered trustworthy to be honest.
No indication that she was entrusted with any information, is there? Seems likely to have been a one-way street. Besides, if you're looking for someone to spill the beans to a foreign power, " un trustworthy" is pretty much a prerequisite, no?
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Hard News: My Year in Culture, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
the Don is gone…
so long Don van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart
died December 17 – thanks for all the great music!Yep.
now maybe he’ll get some acknowledgement for his contributions to modern music…
Hmm... That may take another 50 years.
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May I just take a moment to bitch about the absolutely mental traffic management in central AK last night?
Three on-ramps in a row were closed (NW-->N, Wellington st., and Fanshawe st.) leaving a backlog of traffic from Curran st. (the only active northern on-ramp), back to Victoria Park.
Now, what sluts me off is that each closure had merely generic "Road Closed" signage, and detour indication which sent everyone in a bottleneck towards the aforementioned College Hill route. (Ironically, my initial inclination would have been to avoid Curran since that's the on-ramp that's been closed a lot recently).
A simple sign that the motorway was closed from Fanshawe to the bridge, and I wouldn't have even gotten on at St. Lukes - rather, I'd have simply gone through Grey Lynn, saving 40 minutes.
One could also ask, if you're going to orchestrate such an inconvenience, why do it on the last Thursday night before Christmas?
In short, the whole experience felt like there was almost zero consideration for optimising traffic flow and avoiding confusing drivers.
Or maybe it really was well thought out, and I missed it.
Slightly off topic, I guess, but driving around Auckland recently has made me feel that we're far from even making the best of what we have, congestion-wise.
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Hard News: The next creative industry?, in reply to FletcherB,
A 2009 report found potential for the local industry to grow from the present 300-odd employees to 2829
What an oddly precise prediction.
The apparent odd precision simply comes from having the imperial approximation of 4000 converted to a metric measurement.
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Nil ambipudenda carborundum ?
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Burn!
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Ok, now I get it.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to giovanni tiso,
The casual use of the name Martin Bishop was pretty clever I thought.