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I'd advise anyone seeking a nice set of copper-bottom pans to cosy up to someone who's getting an induction cooker. I got some lovely pans from a kind friend in this way. Can't let them go to waste!
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Emma Hart,
Boiling drinking water, right? So you boil it then leave it to cool in the pot, then decant into bottles?
Yes. Drinking water. Tooth-brushing water. All water you’ll use in food preparation that won’t otherwise be boiled. It’s more than you’d think.
Want to wash the veges and fruit? Want to wash the dishes? Want your pets to drink? Gotta boil all that water too. As Emma says, it’s actually a lot.
As well as a stock pot, it’s good to have at least one jug that can go in the fridge to make the water more palatable. -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
The one that has recently been in the news is a slidey-past one, or so I read.
Emma pointed me to this helpful comparison of the peak ground acceleration in the recent Cook Strait quake versus the February quake in Chch. You can see that the amount of ground shaking felt in Wellington was much less . It's not that buildings in Wellington are stronger.
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And one more, facing east instead of west.
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Dramatic light in Chch this evening. Our amazing walnut tree.
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Notes & Queries: The Rejected Selfie, in reply to David Herkt,
Lacan’s essay “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience”. I don’t know of a decent study of mirrors and human being, though I’d like to find one. I do think they are, as Lacan’s title suggests, “formative”.
It’s possible that Lacan over-emphasises the importance of the Mirror Phase, but self-recognition in a mirror is a well-documented milestone in child development.
Fascinating post, David.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Kumara Republic,
NZ seems to have made “build cheaply first & fix costly later” on something of an art form.
The cardboard tubes are non-structural. And a design issue, not a cost issue, in this case. Avant-garde design pushes boundaries, and sometimes they push back.
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Hard News: Who else forgot to get married?, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
On the Spanish – unless things have changed recently, or unless the Spanish do something different from the Latin Americans
Yes, Spanish-speaking Latin America does things differently . And yes, I know the Spanish don't literally hyphenate, but they do the equivalent.
Wikipedia also tells me that Arab women keep their birth-names regardless of martial status. Interesting.
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Hard News: Who else forgot to get married?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
genetic evidence shows they did interbreed
Randy buggers! Not like us. :-)
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Hard News: Who else forgot to get married?, in reply to Sacha,
the word ‘wedlock’ on the telly news seemed archaic
Sounds like a chastity belt, or some such.
