Posts by Joe Wylie
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Mornington, Dunedin: Giant backyard, giant foot, stroppy alpaca.
Pic by Sascha Wierda. -
Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Islander,
There's a poor knights lily in that waterfall shot with TWO flowers!
Wonderful pics Sofie. -
Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Poor Knight's Island Lily (Xeronema callistemon) in flower. Always loved the name of this local.
Wow, is that from your garden? Whatever, a great shot of a phenomenal flower. Despite my best efforts, such as dousing it with an occasional bucket of seawater, mine thrived but never flowered.
BTW the callistemon part of its name is 'borrowed' from the Australian bottlebrushes, presumably because of its superficial resemblance. In size and form it's more of a hearthbrush.
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Capture: Labour Weekend: Town or Country?, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
That second spider looks like an NZ tunnel web. Closely related to the Oz funnel web, but fortunately harmless to humans. They're supposed to prey on garden snails, emerging from their lair to grab them by the slimy foot.
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Capture: Labour Weekend: Town or Country?, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Sea squirts!? Who names these things?
The big Australian squirt common around Sydney is known as cunjevoi, a word supposedly of 'indigenous origin'. Talk of using 'scungy boys' for bait piqued my curiosity, so I had to ask.
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Capture: BOTY Potty., in reply to David Hood,
I suspect there was a thumb print on the slide
Nice pic of a lovely little fella. BTW those 'thumbprint' lines look too clean and parallel. A kind of moire pattern created by aviary mesh perhaps?
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Capture: Labour Weekend: Town or Country?, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Well, yesterday was special for many many reasons, but one of the highlights was having this young man snuggled up to me for at least 3 hours.
That's about 25 rat hours.
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I'm sorry to have offended anyone, I'm sure that the journos of Greytown do a conscientious job.
In fact, I think that pretty much everyone in NZ comes to work and feels that they are doing a decent and useful job. That includes my own field of IT.
So what would be the IT equivalent of confusing Greymouth with Greytown?
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Capture: Labour Weekend: Town or Country?, in reply to Russell Brown,
Always a sucker for a great poodle shot.
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to Russell Brown,
I think it's a glib and poorly-founded generalisation, but you're entitled to it.
While you can never be proved wrong when applying Sturgeon's law, it does have the effect of letting the air out of everyone's tyres, including your own.
