Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Paths and ways, in reply to Zach Bagnall,
My local – looking NW toward Boulder, CO on the 18 mile US36 Bikeway
Utilitarian bike freeway!
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Hard News: Paths and ways, in reply to Moz,
Jealous!
I might have to do some of the other sort of cycle touring – visit places to ride their bike paths :)
This kind of didn't occur to me until I took a couple of friends who'd freshly moved to Auckland from Wellington out along the northwestern cycleway and they were marvelling about it.
I thought: hang on, this is getting good. And the credit for that goes to the people who've got themselves elected to council and local boards (mostly on the City Vision ticket) and worked for it, and to Bike Auckland, whose ability to work with the system has been really important.
And credit also to NZTA: they didn't want to build the whole Waterview path (arguing that they had no obligation to build cycleways along underground parts of the route), but since the board of inquiry kicked up them up the bum and told them they were going to, they've been great. Yes, a walk-cycle bridge over the motorway to Point Chev would have been sweet, but one doesn't aways get a pony for Christmas.
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Hard News: 2016: The arc of a year, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
One finding which might arise from such measurement is that the true level of drug use is higher than that estimated from surveys, and consequently the incidence of problematic use is lower than estimated.
New Zealand's high level of reported drug use may in fact be related to our greater trust in society – and therefore, willingness to honestly report.
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Hard News: Public Address founder…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
You said cockwomble <snort>
I totally did!
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Hard News: 2016: The arc of a year, in reply to ,
It’s called engaging in science, for pleasure. People who engage in science for pleasure are gifted with a trait that might save civilisation from collapse. Sifting through gray water and shit – searching for empirical facts isn’t crazy, it’s an enthusiasm.
I'm okay with it – in principle, it's public health data. Although they seem be doing it wrong by testing for a relatively limited number of chemicals.
And I gather a more consumer-oriented early-warning system missed out on funding, which is a bit of a shame.
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Thanks guys :-)
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Speaker: Fleeing Syria for the…, in reply to clintonlogan,
Without sounding like an apologist Apple’s track record is better in this respect than the majority of tech companies, but it could do more
It does get hard to point that out without seeming like an apologist, but it is true. It's not one company, it's the system.
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It’s 37 years now, and we’re still talking.
Ironically, I wrote this having only recently recovered the power of speech. The hideous throat infection doing the sounds left me literally speechless for most of last week. And I confess, the inability to converse may have led me to type more grumpily than usual on the internet.
I’d fortunately voiced the final episode of From Zero before the throat bug struck. But it did put paid to the plan to add in the Green Party’s late-breaking new drug policy. I had interviewed Julie Anne Genter, but there was no way of getting it into the episode without voicing some lines of script to set it in context – a thing I was completely unable to do.
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Hard News: Friday Music! Digging Doug, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
You do make me wish we had a "like" button, Ian.
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Dunedin's Hepatitis C Resource Centre, run by the feisty Allison Beck, is closing after a funding cut.
Dunedin does need that place – the more so because of the SDHB's attitude. Hard not to wonder if it's because they were too stroppy.
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