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Dodgy Insider

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:08:30 +1200

An interesting aside is that, as I understand it, the technical development on Quakestudies was done by Learning Media for the UoC consortium.

"chris"

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:49:42 +1200

Couldn’t we find something more useful to do than jonesing on a tragedy half a world away? Well, yes. But we don’t need sport, porn or pop music either, and they’re still all quite popular.

In our household the 15th of April was a toss-up between the Boston bombings (3…

linger

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:24:12 +1200

[…] refer to Key’s style of policy and political management as ‘sanguine’ often enough, with ostensible meaning of something like (unthinkingly foolhardily) optimistic, whether it would be heard with sanguinary connotations
Using potentially confusable words might not be the best strategy. Probably would be more effective if people were to…

Ross Mason

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:29:47 +1200

Can we keep it for ‘exsanguinated’ – the sensation of feeling less optimistic because you’re covered in your own blood?

Bloody Hell?

ChrisW

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:59:03 +1200

Come quickly, girls! The paramecia are conjugating!
Lovely story!
It would have been very educational for me as a 4th former more advanced in my Latin scholarship than biology – that sense of 'conjugating' would have been unknown to me and I would have thought: But surely paramecia is a…

ChrisW

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:51:07 +1200

I confess I still use 'sanguine' in lieu of 'comfortable' and 'relaxed' – John Key stole those from me!
Mmm, I wonder if someone influential were to refer to Key's style of policy and political management as 'sanguine' often enough, with ostensible meaning of something like (unthinkingly foolhardily) optimistic, whether…

Paul Millar

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:29:07 +1200

Sorry, bad link
https://quakestudies.canterbury.ac.nz/store/collection/228

Paul Millar

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:09:06 +1200

Thanks Russell. I recall Media 7's presence at the UC CEISMIC launch well, and I greatly appreciate your ongoing support. Andrew Holden and Fairfax Media more than delivered. The archive will soon contain print quality pdfs of every page of every edition of The Press since 4 September 2010 along…

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 06 May 2013 14:42:31 +1200

Deadword...
...very good evidence for ‘sanguine’ being pretty well obsolete...
Now if we can just stop Key and Shearer using 'fulsome' all the time – clarity of meaning and communication will take a tiny step closer together...
I suspect it's because Key can't let the words 'honest', 'sincere' or 'genuine'…

Russell Brown

Mon, 06 May 2013 14:32:05 +1200

I experienced the shallow-breathing you mention when I looked at the latest archive we’ve just finished prepared to go into the CEISMIC earthquake archive. It is every edition of The Press between 4 Sept 2010 and 22 Feb 2012 and some of it is very poignant. The 11/12 sept ‘Tribute…

Russell Brown

Mon, 06 May 2013 14:28:55 +1200

Could you then be ensanguinated if you were more optimistic because you were covered in someone else’s blood?

"Hey — at least this isn't my blood I'm covered in!"

wendyf

Mon, 06 May 2013 14:18:50 +1200

Thanks Paul – that's a massive site and I'll settle down with a cup of something and read.

Carol – "Let conjugation thrive!"

Carol Stewart

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:53:26 +1200

The only person I know who regularly uses 'sanguine' in conversation is my mother. Her Ilford County School for Girls education seems to have served her very well for vocabulary. On one occasion, she was summoned by excited cries from the biology mistress: __Come quickly, girls! The paramecia are conjugating!…

Paul Millar

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:52:31 +1200

wendyf, I know just how you feel. Parts of the Sept quake are still vivid--I can recall the freight train roaring through the house, and then shivering under the stars, barefoot on the frosty lawn waiting for the first shocks to stop. What is harder to recall (sadly) is the…

wendyf

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:16:17 +1200

That was an interesting experience, reading your account of the Sept. quake. Interesting because I hadn't read it before – power was off and I was at my daughter's. And interesting because reading about it now, I still get the shallow-breathing thing, but not so much.

But the stars that…

Jeremy Andrew

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:29:37 +1200

Could you then be ensanguinated if you were more optimistic because you were covered in someone else's blood? Positively Tarantinoesque.

ChrisW

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:56:17 +1200

Indeed, a good match for the sanguinary general.

Emma Hart

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:40:39 +1200

I'd say that's very good evidence for 'sanguine' being pretty well obsolete ...

Can we keep it for 'exsanguinated' – the sensation of feeling less optimistic because you're covered in your own blood?

ChrisW

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:37:45 +1200

I'd say that's very good evidence for 'sanguine' being pretty well obsolete ...

Russell Brown

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:20:55 +1200

“Sanguine”? Did you mean less sanguine rather than more, in the sense of sanguine as optimistic?

I meant "guarded". In fact, I might just change it to "guarded", so at least I know what I mean.

ChrisW

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:12:49 +1200

RB –
We're more sanguine about the idea of "citizen journalism" now, but, equally, citizen reporters are a valuable part of the plan in every newsroom.

“Sanguine”? Did you mean less sanguine rather than more, in the sense of sanguine as optimistic?
But I’d say it’s pretty well obsolete now…

Evan Yates

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:37:44 +1200

And just what exactly is a "less-lethal shotgun?" Something that fires bean-bags?

Probably.
They're afraid of being sued if their weapon-of-disablement actually does kill you. Like the disclaimer "Processed on equipment that also handles eggs, nuts and dairy", so if someone has an allergic reaction the processor can say "Well,…

johnno

Sun, 05 May 2013 22:34:46 +1200

LOVED listening to the police scanners. Pretty raw, but full of genuine emotion. Occasionally exciting, often boring, but a lot more immediate, and better informed than the steady parade of CNN frontpeople. And jut what exactly is a "less-lethal shotgun?" Something that fires bean-bags?

It's a bit of a sidebar,…

Hilary Stace

Sun, 05 May 2013 21:14:48 +1200

I'm a fan of Seth Mnookin and I have followed him on twitter for a while. Apart from his amazing name he is great science writer, most memorably for me for his Panic Virus. It is likely to become more common as social media links grow, that people you follow…

Rich of Observationz

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:30:53 +1200

the contextless, uncorrected noise of the police radio scanner being streamed to the internet

So even one of America's tech capitals can't afford a working secure emergency services radio network? Must have spent the dollars on donuts.

Sacha

Sun, 05 May 2013 17:28:22 +1200

net better-informed by simply knowing nothing

It's bliss, I tells you.

Public Address

Sun, 05 May 2013 17:28:22 +1200

Discussion from blog post.