Posts by Hebe
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Cracker: What Would Charlotte Do?, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Heh. Another good Catholic girl. I was to have gone to St Mary's high school, but threw such a 12 year old meltdown about being separated from my friends that the parents sighed and admitted they hadn't been looking forward to my daily commute and canned the plan. My father's family were inner-city Catholics and St Mary's was home base. My mother's were a mix of middle-class Catholic and high Anglican, with their Catholic base St Mary's and the Basilica.
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Cracker: What Would Charlotte Do?, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Obviously 2 years later there were more pressing issues at hand …..( note the hand knit compulsory for Chch)
Sofie, given the church -- where my parents were married -- you are of Christchurch Catholic wider family too? Great nostalgia pix.
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Cracker: What Would Charlotte Do?, in reply to Matthew Littlewood,
Although, to be fair, a lot of the best people to follow on Twitter are actual journalists
Agreed. Depends on what Twitter is being used for. For on the spot
observations it's amazing -- though unreliable. The news sites just aren't set up for immediate, right now blats like Twitter/ facebook/talkback. At best the process seems to take 15 minutes; sometimes that is too long. Twitter is good for links but not deep thoughts and conversations. -
Cracker: What Would Charlotte Do?, in reply to Russell Brown,
but it's hard not to sound like a dick saying "hey! remember me!?"
'Xactly. I signed up to facebook, within a week refound a long-lost friend on the other side of the world and started up an email resumption with her, made friends with my family and haven't really go around to it again. Facebook is just too... invasive; on everyone else too. I mean they don't need or want to know about minutiae in my daily life. I irregularly email those with whom I share friendships, interests and histories.
Twitter can be amazing: I started using that when my man was working in Haiti. I got to see an immediate picture of the chaos at the Port-au-Prince airport just before his flight left, so I knew he would miss connections all the way through and not get on the Christchurch flight 36 hours later. I could get aftershock -size reports and text them to him on the phone, and warnings certain places were no-go. He couldn't raise an internet connection most of that time so that info was not available to them other ways.
And the earthquakes in Christchurch: Twitter saved my sanity at times (once the telecoms were back up of course). A great community full of humour and strength developed as we batted back and forth shake reports; the aftershock poker games --guessing the size, epicentre site and depth; and shared intel on what the hell was actually happening in our city and suburbs. Simple things like where to get petrol -- which stations were dry, wrecked or reserved for emaergency services only.
The official online channels like Stuff couldn't touch Twitter - and probably Facebook if you were attuned to it already -- and talkback radio. Mike Yardley deserves sainthood for getting up on September 4 (the night after his birthday) and hurtling across town to the studio while we rocked in the dark and didn't know WTF had hit us.
This is not to go back into quake-quack; it's pointing out that online can be a real community, just as having a coffee is, in the right circumstances.
PA is my only web-chat-thingy, because I don't have the time or interest for more. I want a life outside the keyboard.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Oooh-ear. Great b/w there.
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OnPoint: Because Statistical Rigour, in reply to Lilith __,
In a week when the Ministry of Education can describe closing schools as “rejuvenation”, I no longer expect anything to make sense.
Y’know Lilith that they have to kill the hamlet to save it. That phrase has been in my mind all week. Maybe it’s because this government’s actions are so reminiscent of the worst of the Nixon/Reagan years.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
What fine chicks and pukeko. Do you know what the chicks are -- I have not seen anything like them before.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Joe Wylie,
I’m in love with it; now I must learn to live up to the camera's possibilities. A piece in thursday's Press declared several times that photography is "all about light".
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Bloody hell. I hope that is a positive for you! I happened to be passing through Latimer Square on a teenage taxi run and saw the shot so I stopped the car, took a fast few around there and went on my way.
I have resolved to carry the new camera everywhere to build snapping back into my daily life again, and to learn to use it, so I'm rapt to receive your praise.
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In the city; what remains of the Price Waterhouse building behind the early spring buds.
Who would have thought the tree would outlast that huge building? The way the trees have stayed while all the buildings around have crumbled fascinates me.
