Posts by Chris Waugh
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Capture: Coast to Coast, in reply to Leigh Russell,
the conversation in Chinese was of the video posted in the Smithsonian article
And over lunch I've been poking around Youku looking for an equivalent video to the one in the Smithsonian article, but I just can't find anything. Their were plenty of videos about the Wenchuan quake and its aftermath and anniversaries and what have you, but the only earthquake lights videos I saw were two from Sendai, Japan. Ku6 turned up nothing, neither does Sina Video. It's annoying, because now I've gone and made myself all curious about it.
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Capture: Coast to Coast, in reply to Leigh Russell,
what the conversation in Chinese was of the video posted in the Smithsonian article – Chris Waugh to the rescue?
I can't see the video, sorry. I'm just getting a 404 where the video should be.
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Capture: Two Tone, in reply to David Hood,
First Church, Dunedin.
That is an amazing church. The very first time I saw it I wanted to lie flat on my back on the opposite side of Moray Place and point the camera I didn't have (poor scarfie, you see) up at it. Great photo, very well captured.
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Hard News: Media data, in reply to linger,
So do they split their Chinese-language programming roughly equally between Cantonese and Mandarin (because 'Other Chinese' is about as meaningful as 'Other Germanic', but Mandarin is at least the national language of both the PRC and RoC and, I believe, taught in Singaporean schools), or do they take the common approach of subtitling everything? Or both? And if they're subtitling, Simplified or Traditional?
Interesting to see that Cantonese, Mandarin and 'Other Chinese' come out so nearly equal, and yet the South Asian languages are so heavily skewed towards Hindi. Still, I bet there's a huge amount of overlap in the Chinese languages, especially Mandarin and 'Other'.
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Capture: Coast to Coast, in reply to Hebe,
I’d like to believe Dunedin has hot summer days but I have never seen them.
Dunedin summer is a much underrated beast. Loooooong nights, temperatures much warmer than anybody who hasn't lived there will tell you, and with most of the scarfies out of town, nice and quiet. Alright, so my Dunedin years were my scarfie years, but I remember one summer when I put shoes on only twice - once to fly back to Wellington for Christmas, and once to fly back to Dunedin just after New Year.
I suppose I shouldn't really reveal the secret, but my four and a half years in Dunedin left me with the impression that the locals talked the climate colder than it actually is precisely to keep the population to a comfortable level. And an awful lot of out-of-town scarfies see the sense in this strategy.
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Capture: Coast to Coast, in reply to Lilith __,
Car before the horses!? Odd.
Yeah, I'm still trying to figure that one out, too. Is it some kind of training exercise? Seems a bit mean, but there must be some logic to it.
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Capture: Coast to Coast, in reply to Russell Brown,
Different days at the Chev …
#s 2 and 3 are brilliant!
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Congratulations Chris W! Those were indeed some awesome photos.
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Capture: Travels Without a Map, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Nice light there
We've been having great early morning light the last few weeks - a combination of low (by Beijing standards) smog and the sun rising late in the southeast. Frigid, but great light. Early bird! Huh! Combination of the need to get my wee one to kindy on time and having no classes scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Nobody in this house could be accused of being a morning person. Now, I learned from the old guy watching over that temple that it's open from 8am to 10:30am from the 1 to 15 of each month on the lunar calendar (although today is the 17, so I think he might want to check his calendar...), and I've found online that they've had temple fairs there at "小年"/"xiǎonián" (23 or 24 of the 12th month, roughly one week before CNY), so I'm definitely going to have to get back out there and learn some more about it. This morning at the temple I read a semi-explanation of why it's Guanwang Miao (关王庙) and not the more common Guandi Miao (关帝庙), but I need to find more...
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Hard News: We need to talk about Len, in reply to Bart Janssen,
“reputation that we have worked so hard to build”.
Actually, Auckland's reputation has been boosted in my mind - boosted, I should make clear, by all you intelligent, reasonable, engaged people who live there. It's that petty excuse for a City Council you lot have to suffer under I've lost respect for. I mean, they can't even do corruption or abuse of political process properly.