Hard News: The Thread, It Is Open
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nzlemming, in reply to
I should add that my life’s confusion begins with:
Colleague: How Are you ?
I tend to look ominous and say "Trust me, you really don't want to know!"
Has the advantage of being both excruciatingly honest (though they are unlikely to admit that) and suitably dramatic, without going into medical detail ;-)
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I tend to look ominous and say "Trust me, you really don't want to know!"
When I show up in a doctor's office and they start with "how are you?", I usually have to suppress a strong urge to say really inappropriate things, like "Isn't that what you're here to tell me?". (Sometimes I don't suppress it.) Not to mention a number of less world-event-informed fellow students, who have also fallen afoul of that question in the last couple of weeks...
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3410,
Other: How are you doing?
Aspie: How am I doing what?
Other: Working hard or hardly working?
Aspie: Umm... somewhere in the middle.
Other: Have a nice day!
Aspie: Oh... Thanks; I will. -
Testing - is the internet inherently anti-democratic? A heresy in this forum? All markets trend to the wholesale - sector by sector - as ever increasing information/knowledge allows us all to move to the top of the supply chains - and so grow the new internet "monopolies". The supply chains are destroyed, as is the livelihood of those who maintain/work in them. Wealth and hence power is ever more concentrated in the hands of a few
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Anonymous Author, in reply to
According to http://iwl.me/ it could be David Foster Wallace; but in reality (whatever that is) it's from the unedited notes of the first draft of the manuscript of Anonymous Author's (who me?) yet to published autobiography: Book 1 – The Ghostwriter in the Machine.
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Thanks for a really interesting night, Russell and everyone else, it was great!
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Shouldn't take the time to enthuse about irony in Shakespeare at this point in the day, so here is a video of a tornado in a strawberry field.
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nzlemming, in reply to
Oddly beautiful. I hadn't realised that the ground covering was plastic - I thought it was snow - so when it sucked up the sheet, I was all WTF?? :-D
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linger, in reply to
In school, I was often asked, "How's it hanging?",
to which my default response was "Down, due to gravity".
It took me a very long time to realise why other kids found that reply hilarious. -
bmk,
"'What are the two biggest lies?'
'I'll pay you back and I won't come in your mouth.'"Less Than Zero(Bret Easton Ellis)
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Herald story on Whisky Galore
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Rich, I know the answer to that. She was having a dark night of the soul.
Nice! Thanks.
Just a short black before I'm put up against the wall, please.
Single or double shot? Ahaha.
I, too, am good for nothing in the morning before that caffiene fix, but afterwards? Why, I feel good enough to cope with anything!
the proletariat's guardians
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Sacha, in reply to
Single or double shot?
roflnui
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Anyone following This?
From The Independent UK.MPs were "warned off" pursuing the phone-hacking scandal in Parliament as part of a cover-up, a Labour frontbencher claimed last night during an incendiary speech in which he accused the country's biggest police force of misleading a Commons committee, and its biggest newspaper group of engaging in the "dark arts" of tapping, hacking and blagging.
Damning the behaviour of the Metropolitan Police and Rupert Murdoch's News International, Chris Bryant claimed his friends had been told by an ally of Mr Murdoch that their raising the issue "would not be forgotten". Suggesting there was a "full-blown, copper-bottomed scandal"Juicy scandal, yum.
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The PR coup.
Did Google leave mainland China? Yes, they moved their local base of operations to Hong Kong.
So how is it that Google HK still maintains mainland Chinese advertising and still seems very much to cater to the Chinese market?
They now outsource the work previously handled by the China base back to private Chinese IT companies and in this way currently have more Chinese working for them than they previously did when operations were based in China.
This info garnered from a number of Beijing IT professionals whose companies are contracted to do this work.
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Julian Melville, in reply to
Herald story on Whisky Galore
"New Zealand's only specialist whisky store"... top bit of researching, then.
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Sacha, in reply to
Written by a teetotaller or lifted from some out of date marketing bumph - either way, #fail
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Russell Brown, in reply to
"New Zealand's only specialist whisky store"... top bit of researching, then.
New Zealand's best, for sure. They have arrangements for bottlings no one else can get and a hugely loyal customer base.
But this little place in Elliot Stables isn't even that far from the newsroom.
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How was the selection at Foo this year?
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Images on CNN of quake in Japan are really stunning (and shocking).
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TVNZ7 and TV3 are streaming live coverage here.
Edit: and now TV1 also, and apparently at Civil Defence request. So we can see what we might be in for if something let go off out coast?
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Tsunami has just hit too it seems! Video link from BBC
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giovanni tiso, in reply to
Images on CNN of quake in Japan are really stunning (and shocking).
That wave of mud and houses and cars and debris is moving so far inland and so fast and so destructively it's just... unbelievable.
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Projections are first land-fall at East Cape at 0614, Auckland West Coast 0714.
Understatement of the year from the guy TV1 just spoke to from Australian tsunami centre: Don't go down to the beach to watch. That would be a very bad idea.
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That is very frightening footage. I am trying and failing to not think about all the people in the boats, cars and houses tumbling in that water.
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