Hard News: Party on, dudes
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Sacha, in reply to
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but selecting them is part of the art, sir
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
And I've learnt so much from Emma! She has helped to open up and refine my views on a whole lot of things.
So much this with a side order of co-signature. I suspect my base code views on most things haven't changed a lot over the years, but they've become a lot more textured and nuanced. Which is not a bad thing.
Also a value-adder in life when people are willing to politely (more or less) but firmly (on a strictly amateur basis) spank your arse when you're foolish enough to show it in public.
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Happy Birthday Hard News and PAS! And a big thank you to you Russell!
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George Darroch, in reply to
there was a time when public address was my no.1 tether to a much-missed turangawaewae. that's something you don't forget.
Last year was the only one in the last 6 in which I spent more than 4 weeks in Aotearoa, and during those six years I've felt closer to home whenever I've been here. I feel slightly foreign sometimes, but this always makes sense.
It's also been a pleasure slowly meeting many of you. I had to wait until 2011 for many brief encounters, and there are others I'd love to meet properly for a first time. Every one of you has been good people. Thanks.
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Congratulations Russell, Public Address, and the community here.
I've been reading since the very beginning yet I rarely comment - the intelligence, wit and breadth of knowledge on display has often left me feeling any point I might add has been covered - and stated far better than I could. I'm an avid consumer though: as an ex-pat (even if only across the ditch) this has been an invaluable source of NZ insight and a kind of lifeline for me.
Here's to at least 10 more years.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
And I’ve learnt so much from Emma! She has helped to open up and refine my views on a whole lot of things.
So much this with a side order of co-signature. I
+1 very much
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mark taslov, in reply to
And I haven't been chucked for trolling!!!!!
Same, I'm dumbfounded. capital T for tolerance round these parts, and to echo Che and Paul: PAS=turangawaewae. You are a champion Russell, sincerely...and everyone else champions too; best supporting champions, associate champions, para-champions, but most of all, just damn fine people.
tas lov'
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+ to all
Congrats to you to Russell - compared to other blogs I love the way you are fully in your blog, boots and all, mixing and mashing it up, occasional biffing it out but above all engaged. +10 to you Russel -
Congrats PAS.
I started reading because my t’other suggested it when I was sick and yelling at the TV when Tama Iti and co were hurled into the limelight. T’other had been on it since the beginning and before.
I continued reading whilst recovering for a year on the couch.
I still try to catch up daily but no way can I keep the pace of you net speedsters.
I cant remember much ,kinda like Alzheimers I guess, but its always refreshing.
I really like the pretty pictures, just wish I could get to the talents of some up on the capture thread. So thanks guys, all you guys and dolls that I have met along the way. It’s a pretty cool bunch huh? :)
Great stuff RB,
yours
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Emma Hart, in reply to
+1 very much
Guys, seriously, I know nothing.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Guys, seriously, I know nothing.
That's what they all say.
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Guys, seriously, I know nothing.
Knowledge need not be known.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Congrats to you to Russell – compared to other blogs I love the way you are fully in your blog, boots and all, mixing and mashing it up, occasional biffing it out but above all engaged.
I honestly think that's the key to it. Actually being there in the discussions.
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Another lurker signing up just to say "Congratulations!"
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Danielle, in reply to
Knowledge need not be known.
It's knowledge, bro.
(I can't believe no one said that yet.)
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Jeremy Andrew, in reply to
I can't believe Knowledge Bro hasn't checked in yet!
Late to the party, as usual, but I really want to add my congratulations to Russell and all the rest of the immediate and extended crew.
I'm casting my mind back, trying to recall when I first read Hard News, it was probably on a newsgroup, and probably around '05 or '06, but the distant past is such a blur now...
I've spent more time on PAS in the past than I do now, as my work does tend to suffer if I let myself open it during work hours... but even when I don't have the time to keep up with the comment-streams I always keep an eye on the columns, and and a virtual ear out on Twitter.
The nicest thing about PA is you meet the nicest people here, and even though I haven't met many in person, due to not-quite pathological shyness, you're all sweeties, even (especially) the grumpy ones.Cheers! Any here's to many more...
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Count me among the expats for whom PAS fulfills a certain lifeline function. In my case it restores my faith in the good, creative, intelligent, inclusive NZ that doesn't often make it in the news.
Thanks, Russell and everybody.
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
but less than The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
How many words does 3 Kingdoms have? And translation or original? I've managed the first chapter in a student's edition of the original (nice little footnotes explaining odd or rare characters), but damn, that was hard work. Frustrating, cos I actually quite liked the story when I could get my mind around the old fashioned grammar.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
I got torn a new one by Emma, Danielle et al.
Me too, I'm almost a total arsehole now :-)
Nah, I love you all, really.
Thank you Ruusell for giving us less than productive opinionators the opportunity to spread our vile propaganda against those that feel more entitled than the rest and give us space to bleed occasionally. ;-)
Love your work.
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Knowledge Bro, in reply to
Believe Bro,
It has given me great pleasure, an I ain’t even lying, to have been such a great invention of the slice of life that is Public Address.
Having been conceived on the back seat of a bus may not be the most auspicious of beginnings but, as Abraham Lincoln may once have said “Hi Russell, your place or mine?, let’s celebrate” -
Felicidades Russell!!
Have to say, I wouldn’t exist without PAS and Capture!
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Sacha, in reply to
so true
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
Although if you add up all the comments for the three Hobbit posts, hobbits win
I suspect that, since the PAS version of Godwin's Law is "Any thread that achieves sufficient post volume eventually turns into a copyright debate", copyright still wins :P
But yes, I am proud of my particular bit of PAS immortality.
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Sacha, in reply to
you've helped us be too scared to talk about copyright again :)
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
But yes, I am proud of my particular bit of PAS immortality.
As someone who was right in the middle of that morass, (I think a hefty part of my count came from said-thread) I do like the way that the one person I was at loggerheads with therein (and who was excised from PAS and the end of the process) has become quite a good buddy.
We talk almost daily at times.
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