Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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When I was at high school, I was invited to two (2) parties.
I wanted to be out there, fucking shit up, but it was hard when I was stuck on a farm just outside of Hammo.
No crossbows, though.
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Well, there's nothing preventing Clark and her husband dissolving their marriage and entering into a civil union.
They wouldn't even need to dissolve their marriage to change from a marriage to a civil union.
A married couple who wish to continue in a relationship with each other may change the form of that relationship to a civil union without being required to formally dissolve their marriage. For them, the process begins with a Notice of Intended Civil Union, change of relationship from marriage form.
Some friends of mine did this because (from memory) they felt it better represented their relationship than a marriage did.
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Does London have a logo?
If London has a logo, it's the Underground logo.
Does any city of any note anywhere in the world have a logo you can remember?
I'm not buying the idea that if another city doesn't have something that Auckland has, this means that Auckland is the one doing it wrong, not the other way around.
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Were these inspired by those tubes from the tv series 'under the mountain'? Perhaps you could approach the Wilberforces' to be the primary contractor?
"City cyclists say they're fed up by the thick layer of slime coating the newly opening cycling extension on the Auckland Harbour Bridge. "It got into my gears," said cyclist Darren Watson of Takapuna. "I couldn't even clean all of it out. I'm going to have to replace the chain. Not happy!" When asked for a comment, a spokesperson for the extension's contractor, Wilberforce Tubes Ltd, said, "Twins!" before he started to drip with sweat and scurried off into the bushes surrounding Lake Pupuke."
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Don't tell anyone, but I actually really like that new logo. I like that it's that's colourful, sturdy A (a letter shape that looks engineered) yet it's all frayed and falling apart.
Cos my big impression of Auckland is that as much as there are really glorious, beautiful parts of it, there are also shitty, broken down bits.
I walked to work along Hobson Street for four years - there is the ever increasing canyon of mundane apartments that refuse to acknowledge the street, but then there's the Spiky Red Thing at one end and the beautiful harbour at the other.
I don't know if this is what the designers were thinking of when they made the deconstructed A, but it seems to me to be a really honest reflection of what contemporary Auckland is. It's not trying to be "world class" (whatever that means); it's ok with being a bit of a breakdown town.
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Since moving from the drama-filled Epsom electorate to Wellington Central, I hadn't really been paying much attention to who my local MP was or who the candidates were at this election.
But last Wednesday, at the Wellington Twitter meetup (heaps of fun!) I met Grant Robertson who'd been casually invited along. He recognised my name and we worked out it was from here, but I was also impressed that he knew of the Wellingtonista blog. He seems to be engaged with and understands the Wellington things that I like, which, really, is what I want in an electorate politician.
I haven't heard anything from Mr Franks.
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DeepRed: Really interesting article! What were once nice suburbs are now turning into slums.
And it's not just the subprime crisis that's doing this. Simultaneously there's a transition where people are chosing to move from the suburbs into the inner city.
Interesting times!
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There's an hour-long special on NPR's All Thing's Considered radio show which explains the subprime crisis in simply, entertainingly yet thoroughly.
This American Life producer Alex Blumberg teams up with NPR's Adam Davidson for the entire hour to tell the story—the surprisingly entertaining story—of how the U.S. got itself into a housing crisis. They talk to people who were actually working in the housing, banking, finance and mortgage industries, about what they thought during the boom times, and why the bust happened. And they explain that a lot of it has to do with the giant global pool of money.
There's a transcript too if you want to read it.
Before I heard this, I had a vague idea of what had gone on. But now not only do I understand what happened, I also feel outraged (outraged!) but it all.
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I'm rather excited about the TVNZ 7 Internet Debate - and I'm going to be in the audience!
I'm really pleased that internet issues are being seriously debated. It's a nice change from times when politicians considered the internet a pool of nutters and/or paedophiles.
Others have raised this topics, but I'd also like to see what parties opinions are on the Australian internet filtering situation. It seems like a bit of a FAIL to me, but I'd hate for someone to consider that as something that NZ needs to aspire to.
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When I'm watching sport on TV*, I like to snack on a plate of freshly cut veggies, including celery, capsicum and carrots sticks, along with some freshly made hummus dips**!
* This is not something I have actually done.
** Ditto.