Posts by George Darroch
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For that reason I went over and thanked Shayne Carter afterwards. The room was a little large and chair cluttered for dancing...
I don’t think anyone in Shrewsbury was familiar with our work. There were four of us on stage, and four people in the audience, including the promoter, who was crying
Jimmy Cliff describes a similar experience, except that his band decided to have fun.
I once went to a Mint Chicks gig in Napier. Excluding bar staff, there were 5 people in the audience. Kody Nielsen was still, literally, hanging from the rafters and exploding with energy.
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I thought we were going to have to turn the hoses on the last hundred stragglers, so deeply were they dug in.
Pretty good, for a weeknight.
It was a pleasure to talk to real people; Scott, James, Rich, Simon and Jackie particularly. Craig delightfully told me "I thought you'd be taller! You sound taller online." I'd felt disconnected from New Zealand overseas; I'm now falling back into Aucklandness and New Zealandness, and though the discomfort hasn't disappated entirely, there's enough to ground me. So, thanks PA people, and Russel - so nice to actually meet you after using your site for five years! And of course, the sound installation was incredibly moving. I still struggle to understand what happened, but I think last night took me a little closer. I know that it took a number of people who experienced it back to the event, it was that powerful.
Other notes: the beer was excellent. Shout-out to the brewery whose name I forget, and thanks again to Orcon whose staff are lovely. Sorry Edge staff, but until all the lights are on and the sound is off, you wouldn't be rid of me.
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So, Google has a new image search tool. As is usually the case with image search, the results are unreliable, and frequently hilarious.
The gold standard for me will be when image search can tell a Boeing 737-900 from a 777-200. For the moment I'd simply settle for being able to tell an aeroplane from a bus or car.
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b) for big-breasted women (me - or smallbreasted women) it is a painful and intrusive procedure, and
c)it returns a high rate of false positives, and - worse- false negatives.I know the Mangere Health Centre has just bought a new machine that deals with large breasts in a much better fashion - for just this reason. As you might imagine, few in the population fit the norm other machines were designed for. And yes, for a procedure with little demonstrated benefit, that's a lot of harm.
I can't claim any expertise in these matters, but I do think it's interesting how there is often a lag of decade(s) between emergent research and changed practice at a clinical or policy level - medicine is both a centre of innovation and a stubborn laggard.
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What I struggle to get past is the great and apparently sincere speech that BIll English gave at the launch of David Cohen’s book about his autistic son, back when English was in Opposition. In government: not so much.
Did he realise that these services cost money? Real money? Or was he sufficiently disconnected from the first principles he runs the country on (a small state, with limited capacity for intervention in anything)? I ask these as real questions.
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For a while now, I've felt that TourismNZ really isn't making enough of the reputation of Kiwi women...
I'm not sure that would go so well with the 100% Pure brand we're spinning overseas.
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I must question the 1stworldproblems tag. One of the cradles of NZ coffee culture, if you care to explore the lineage, is the city of Naples, who has enjoyed centuries of dire poverty, but for whose populace the “tazzulella ’e cafè”, the morning cup of good coffee, is a basic human right.
Yes, you're right. Too flippant by half. Mmmmm, kopi Jawa...
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Some of the suburbs you go into and it's like a great big vacuum cleaners comes and sucks out your soul.
If you're creating negative atmospheres, you're doing it wrong.
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Unconvinced that you need a Ferrari machine to make coffee. Hot water, a drinking implement, and something to strain with. I'm considering experimenting with fine muslin cloth, just for kicks.
I ran out of coffee this morning. A $4 Pams dark blend from Pak N Save that is reasonably acceptable, all considered (all meaning price, and little else). Except my cravings meant I paid $4.50 at the Glen Innes Nosh this morning. I plan to stock up on bad coffee and never run out again.
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Depending on how many places with nice views, or things to do, or car-parks, and places for feeding/watering, etc. are on the route… You could make a decent half day or more of it? Which doesn’t seem quite so bad.
If the tram went the other way, out to Mission Bay, I'd think that was a reasonable explanation. Perhaps I need to go down and consider it in person.
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Actually, LA and Anchorage are right under the great circle for Bejing-Santiago (which is probably also the real-world cheapest route). For Bejing-Rio, you’d be looking at Rome, maybe.
Ah, yes. Unsurprisingly, an increasing number of Brazilian routes to Asia are going through Qatar and Dubai. And agreed on the economics.
Has anyone seen (or ridden) the new (old) trams in Auckland yet? Unless you've got kids, who ride for free with an adult, the $10 fare seems particularly steep.