Public Address | Cafe | Random Play: Make It Easy On Yourself https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address tussock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=76090#post76090 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=76090#post76090 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:30:29 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75604#post75604 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75604#post75604

so if I should ever be a little errr confused when I get into their cars late at night, I know they know where I live!

Regularity has its uses. I had one spendidly gregarious workmate who took to wearing her corporate name badge out on the town. At the…

]]> Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:45:27 +1300 Tim McKenzie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75562#post75562 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75562#post75562

that meant you could divide a pound by 1,2,3,4, 6, 10, 12

I'm too young to have experienced pounds in New Zealand, but didn't the old system in the mother country have a special name for exactly an eighth of a pound---a half crown? A fifth of a pound was…

]]> Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:27:47 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75259#post75259 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75259#post75259

You really just need a compass and your eyes.

I can't believe I left my boy scout kit at home last time I visited.

]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:10:37 +1300 Evan Yates https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75243#post75243 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75243#post75243 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:10:49 +1300 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75241#post75241 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75241#post75241

Hello, Christchurch? Which is what you get when you build a city on a flat swamp.

Pff, it's a big square, it's perfectly easy. Or at least it would be if someone hadn't decided that it was good urban planning to make the central road grid look like a Union…

]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:58:33 +1300 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75238#post75238 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75238#post75238 I get lost in the eastern suburbs of Auckland. Miles and miles of identical boring suburbia.

And I used to get mixed up in the arrangements of bridges and tunnels around the back of Kelburn, for the opposite reason.

]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:51:08 +1300 Julian Melville https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75223#post75223 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75223#post75223 My strategy for getting around Auckland before I lived here was "keep on driving and you'll get to Newmarket and you'll know what to do from there". It worked amazingly well, many times over.

Now that I live here I still do that, but I really feel like I should…

]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:40:42 +1300 B Jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75176#post75176 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75176#post75176 I'm reminded by the story a few years back about some Aussie tourists (I think) who used their in-car nav system to go from Nelson to Chch – it chose the most direct route – some time later on a one lane dirt farm road tacked to the side of… ]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:17:41 +1300 Rob Hosking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75172#post75172 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75172#post75172 Make it easy on yourself?

Nah.

Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore. But there's No Regrets...

]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:08:10 +1300 Joanna https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75170#post75170 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75170#post75170

Maybe he suspected I didn't know how to get home?

One of the things I love about Green Cabs in Wellington is that I know almost all the drivers now, so if I should ever be a little errr confused when I get into their cars late at night, I…

]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:55:17 +1300 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75168#post75168 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75168#post75168

There are two places in New Zealand that I always seem to get lost in – the North Shore (thank god for the Sky Tower to guide me out of there) and Brooklyn in Wellington (and also Brooklyn in New York, but that's another story).

That one-way system in Hastings...…

]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:35:13 +1300 JackElder https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75165#post75165 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75165#post75165

Is there another language in the universe with so few moods and tenses, and so modular?

Mandarin Chinese. The pronunciation takes a little getting used to, but the writing isn't as bad as you'd think (you can get around knowing only about 2,000 characters), and the grammar is very simple…

]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:31:59 +1300 Louise https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75161#post75161 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75161#post75161 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:19:55 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75160#post75160 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75160#post75160

There are two places in New Zealand that I always seem to get lost in

Hello, Christchurch? Which is what you get when you build a city on a flat swamp.

]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:19:24 +1300 Joanna https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75157#post75157 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75157#post75157 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:13:08 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75155#post75155 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75155#post75155

Perhaps it is time for a 'Slow Life" movement.

That's the hours between waking up and having lunch isn't it? Other people only get a moment?

]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:08:22 +1300 Crunchy Weta https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75148#post75148 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75148#post75148 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:54:50 +1300 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75139#post75139 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75139#post75139

We would have had trouble coming up with ways to use them anyway.

Well, if I had known it was going to be an issue I'm sure I could have thought of some use for it...

]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:36:20 +1300 Ian MacKay https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75134#post75134 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75134#post75134 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:15:57 +1300 Stephen Judd https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75130#post75130 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75130#post75130 "not a subjunctive pluterperfect in sight"

We would have had trouble coming up with ways to use them anyway.

]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:55:24 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75128#post75128 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75128#post75128 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:50:28 +1300 Evan Yates https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75127#post75127 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75127#post75127

This is just a theory, you understand, but you have reminded me that it is nice to to do a little thinking now and then, and share your work with others so they can improve it.

Or if you can't improve on it, at least admire its elegance and give…

]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:44:43 +1300 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75126#post75126 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75126#post75126 My grandmother's patch is small but devilishly difficult to navigate; we had… ]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:43:08 +1300 David Slack https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75124#post75124 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75124#post75124

(don't get me started on guineas!)

Oh, but I will, for I love the guinea. I grew up in a world of stock auctions, where things sold by the guinea, that is to say, 21 shillings. Which makes a pound plus a shilling. The shilling went to the auctioneer and…

]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:32:40 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75123#post75123 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-make-it-easy-on-yourself/?p=75123#post75123 Discussion from blog post.

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