Posts by Rich Lock
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When my sister and her family arrived at the airport from Australia recently, they decided to ignore my detailed directions to Pt Chev and follow their in-car GPS instead. It took them via Manukau City, SH1 and the Auckland CBD. They professed to enjoy the ride.
I remember when it was possible to travel and get around without smartphones or gps.
When I went back to the UK last year, I borrowed a UK GPS to help us get around. It was novel and fun for about 20 minutes until it kept shouting 'lookout! Speed camera!' every 5 minutes when we were on the motorway (it kept picking up the ones on the side roads), and telling us to turn off the motorway as it might be the fastest way there, but it wasn't the shortest, and little miss GPS knew best.
The owner was quite lucky to get it back in one piece. We ended up relying on the old-school A-Z and AA road atlas far more.
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Oh, Russell. No bstreet love for Beastwars?
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I remember spending many hours happily playing Manic Miner , a rudimentary platform-and-ladders game, to the accompaniment of a tinny version of Hall of the Mountain King , played from a minute speaker hidden inside the keyboard.
Manic miner was the first thing I thought of when I heard the first minute or so of this track . Trent Reznor must be a fan...
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My high school had BBC Micro's in the computer lab until 1990.
By far and away the best game of that generation was this.
Chucky can shove his egg where the sun don't shine... :)
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Pretty much what Sacha said.
I read a lot of papers and blogs, generally. I'm about four billion times better informed and engaged than 99% of the voting population, yet I wouldn't have known that Labour, or individual members thereof, had a positon on Gerry's antics, if Sophie hadn't pointed it out.
I thought the point being rammed down out throats here was that Labour were doing nothing and were useless in opposition.
Well, they might as well be doing nothing if nobody hears about it. This is politics and they need to acquire votes.
Whichever it is I am becoming more and more disappointed with the continual bagging of Labour here.
Well, think of it a tough love, constructive criticism, or whatever. They need to get their act together, rather than farting about on racing bikes, and losing their shit because some people are thinking of voting green.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Also Rich, you can google eh? Think its the first thing if you google Labour Party :)
I've vaguely heard of it, yes. But unlike the majority of the population, I don't tend to leap out of bed in the morning and make 'labourpartyNZ' my first search string of the day. :)
I actually think some of the more stunty things we've seen lately are experiments at how to get some news traction when traditional methods aren't working.
Which is not a bad thing. But until they can work out how to get far more traction on these kind of issues, they're going to be wandering in the opposition wilderness.
Without wanting to come across as a cold-hearted dick, and bearing in mind this is real people's lives, not political point-scoring, this is a simple, emotive issue that can be relatively easily explained and sound-bit. It should be getting far more exposure than it is.
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Off at a tangent: since we're not feeling the iTunes love, which legal download sites are worth the effort?
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Sure helps if you remember what monochrome command line interfaces were like; must mystify the young just like the wifi demo in Russell's story.
Ah, the halcyon days where 20 GOTO 10 was the height of sophisticated wit in the school computer lab.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Sofie - thanks for that.
It's great an' all. But the fact you're publicising this and having to point it out to me, rather than me getting it direct from the horses mouth....kinda proves the point.
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Hard News: 2011: The Year Of What?, in reply to Rob Stowell,
There was also the Star Trek PADD.
#geekknowledgeshame