Posts by Russell Brown
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Feed: A scientist researches restaurants, in reply to Soon Lee,
There’s nothing more disappointing than to go to an expensive joint & have an underwhelming experience.
It definitely does happen. A crap service experience at Clooney, dull food at White and a terrible (and really expensive) Wagyu steak at Euro.
I mentioned the Clooney experience at a social media conference and got a snotty response from the owner, and should have sent back the steak at Euro, but I'd just won a NetGuide award and couldn't be arsed.
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Feed: A scientist researches restaurants, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
From a mate, I just got the top 20 ‘loved’ restaurants and cafes in Auckland, on Localist:
Carl's Jnr GI! Prego would be the one, though. Cool and consistent since forever.
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Interestingly, I noticed that Samuel Flynn Scott was critical of the Cuisine Good Food Guide list for Wellington on Twitter a few days ago: only one non-European restaurant (“expensive and terrible”) on a “snobby” list that ignored some very good cheaper places such as Nam and Little Penang, he reckoned.
Those Phoenix Foundation boys know their food, so perhaps he has a point.
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I've been fairly skint this year, so I've relied on other people to take me to very good restaurants -- Masu in the week after it won the Metro prize was a glorious bit of timing -- but I do tend to remember reviews (again, usually from Metro).
I kept meaning to go to iVillage after reading Simon Wilson's review not long after it opened and eventually did on my birthday. I even remembered to order the goat curry, which was as good as the review promised: dark, thick, hot and savoury in an almost winey way. Could barely move afterwards.
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Access: Disability abuse: it’s not OK, in reply to Sacha,
One of the early lessons in setting up the It’s Not OK campaign was that we can focus on better behaviours rather than waiting for attitudes to catch up.
The big win with It's Not OK was the joined-up campaign. When the TV campaign launched there was supporting information, numbers to call, etc, all in place. That's a good model: don't just raise awareness but give people information and something to do with that awareness.
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Hard News: Practically jokers, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
What also irritated me was that people were ‘tweeting’ ‘good job’, ‘nice work’, etc back to him (Kim.com), as if he’d done it,
I didn’t see any replies disabusing them.I did: linked to Joe's page and pointed out that the sig had somehow gone missing. No response as yet.
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Hard News: Practically jokers, in reply to Ken Sparks,
Ouch! He’ll be dragging you through the court if you keep this up…
It's my honest opinion of him.
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Hard News: Practically jokers, in reply to Kumara Republic,
If anything, CCCP has more in common with Bob Day, or the more illiberal side of Cardinal George Pell. Abbott doesn’t seem to bother with facades these days.
I don't think that's it either. He's not really a proper religious conservative -- he doesn't actually go to church. He's more just a narrow-minded fool.
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Hard News: Practically jokers, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I also note that Kim Dotcom is using Joe Wylie’s Porcupine Farm images without crediting them or linking back (as far as I can make out).
Can someone who ‘does’ twitter take him to task please…
He must understand about Copyright and Terms and Conditions by now…Can you or Joe email me with the background?
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Hard News: Practically jokers, in reply to Richard Aston,
Asphalt causes global warming! Well a little bit .
Isn't that amazing?