Posts by Lucy Stewart
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Lucy - I have a difficulty about keeping a cat totally indoors = I mean,it's an animal;intrinsically it has to have a relationship with an environment =not just inside a house...
Fair enough; you'd need a pretty big house to make it work. Our Manx does spend about 95% of her time indoors and refuses to use anything except a litterbox, but she does like to sit on the front steps now and again. And chase other cats.
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I love cats - but I live in a bird area (yes, I've investigated Main Coons but it seems like even they are not wholly trustworthy around birds...)
You couldn't have an indoors cat? Litterboxes are a bit of a drag, but it's otherwise possible.
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The polar bears were escapees of Dharma experiments, I thought. Explained by the the big cages and fish biscuits on hydra island. One showed up fossilised in Tunisia to be found by Charlotte - this is the exit point for people who mess with the Orchid station and move the island - Locke and Ben both went there.
Yeah, I mean, I got as far as the cages - but that still doesn't explain WHY POLAR BEARS. Except insomuch as the writers thought "Polar bears! Polar bears would be cool!" and did not follow through beyond that, which...explains everything, really.
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I had heard that they'd had the finale firmly in mind when they wrote the initial episodes - my theory is that mid series they went on a few diversions.
That still doesn't explain the polar bear. (In fact - and I freely admit I gave up halfway through season three out of boredom - does *anything* explain the polar bear?)
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It is always worth blogging about cats.
(Ours regularly chases other neighbourhood cats off the property - when she's allowed out - but has yet to sustain any injuries, probably because she is big and they mostly seem to be small. And fast.)
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OMG, that wasn't a typo -- you really are paying $A160/night (which is what, $NZ180?) at a youth hostel, and describing it as "good value"!
I just searched the STA website for hostels in Boston and the cheapest they came up with was US$134 a night, suggesting the definition of "hostel" may be more flexible than one would imagine.
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Send some to Rodney Hide, will you
Barley, gutted chicken, hot coke, or unseasonal vegetables? (With or without GST?)
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Double-strength chicken soup all round, I say. Winter seems to have arrived, even though my capiscums are still thriving..
I have a secret ambition to pick tomatoes off the vine in June, and if a few of the green ones hold on for the next ten days, it looks set to be realised.
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That country for all its 'development' and moves away from being a bunch of marauding, murdering maniacs for centuries still has some major issues that it needs to properly acknowledge and properly deal with.
Let's acknowledge that there's a lot of places this description could apply to, hmmmm?
The Dom Post does have some standards, though - a week or so ago it refused to publish a screed from "Kiwis For Balanced Reporting On the Middle East" or some such group which was basically all the reasons Israel was awesome, starting with King David. (They had it published as an ad instead.) So I guess there's a line. Somewhere. If they dig hard enough.
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Taxpayers need to obtain good value from that investment, preferably in their lifetime. Funding scientists to keep them off the street to stop them being mugged by, or mugging, little old ladies, is no longer a national imperative, as NZ imports scientists on an "as required" basis.
You're going to get very little return on investment from all the scientists going through universities if they're then told that they can be "imported on an "as required" basis". Because they're all going to bugger off overseas to some sort of security of work.
Furthermore, when Bart talks about millions of dollars (or even $250,000), he's sure as hell not talking about salaries; he's talking about what it costs to *do the science*, including a reasonably modest salary for the scientist(s) involved. Science is not cheap. Good science is not cheap. Pretending we can do good science and come up with profitable business applications by investing a minimal amount and targeting it at almost-ready ideas rather than coming up with new ones, is going to leave us with poor science and a much poorer economy.