Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Russell Brown,
But it would also have been possible to construct an entirely different picture with quotes like that with which Chris Trotter concluded his farewell to Holmes last week
When it comes to a pissing-up-the-wall pomposity contest you can't beat Trotter's shallow & sonorous pseudo-biblical tosh.
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Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Scott Chris,
I doubt that she is aware of the wider context, or that people are making fun of her. Does her apparent obliviousness make it okay?
I don't know quite how suss the woman is, but there's certainly a big element of condescension, which sucks. Anyway you mentioned bullying, and I can't see that.
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Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I know a builder must remain sharp on the tools, truck drivers I know who get up at 1 am to drive up to 12 hours a day 7 days a week and must stay sharp and 48 weeks of the year. Surgeons, really need to stay sharp, perhaps not 48 weeks, lets say 40. Then nurses ,teachers, fishermen etc etc. So yeah, why on earth even a mention at Waitangi?
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Most cleaners work similar hours to radio hosts, with the added burdens of often despotic supervisors and surviving on a pittance. But then they don't have rampant narcissism as an occupational hazard. -
Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to Scott Chris,
That's how it comes across to me. Bullying.
Even if it's consensual, and the supposed victim is (mostly) aware of the wider context? Like Holmes's last weeks it all seemed a bit Jade Goody.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to BenWilson,
And I have GIMP installed. It seemed highly functional.
I have the Mac native GIMP, would use it more if I wasn't for my 20 year habituation to Photoshop. GIMP supports my trusty old Wacom, which I'd never be without. Image manipulation without pressure sensitivity is like painting with a brick.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to BenWilson,
What's the hive-mind's favourite freeware for Windows, for digital image manipulation?
I'm mostly Mac at the moment, so my experience is a bit out of date, but I've found Irfanview to be pretty useful freeware. With a bit of tweaking it can run most of the useful Photoshop plugins.
The most fully-featured freeware would have to be GIMP. It's completely free and very Photoshop-like, but I've had no experience of running it on Windows.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Lilith __,
Yeah, duckweed. Really choking the channel.
I believe that it's mostly elodea, an exotic that's been here for a long time. It seems to have become a problem soon after its introduction.
Nice bagpiper btw.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
capture of this lil' bird
Nice! Male chaffinch.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Islander,
It's hard to get numbers on Phillipino/a people but there are more than a few now involved in dairy farming-
Just heard that tonight's 4.6 shake spooked a dairy herd out Lincoln way into busting out clear through their paddock fence. Onya Bernie from the Philippines who missed out on his Saturday night R&R through having to round 'em up.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Rob Stowell,
the yikebike is kind've cool
Perhaps the one example I've witnessed in action was somehow defective, but it was an amazingly noisy little beast. Sounded like it had gearbox issues.