Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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I'm surprised at how normal everything looks in the photos (well, apart from the 'no guns' sign). I guess everyone's just getting on with their everyday lives amid all the crap.
That was a very interesting read. Keep safe, dude.
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The Auckland City Library has lot of old photographs and maps of the city, and presents them at a scale where you can actually look at them. It's quite fun.
Hell yeah! I spent hours one night trawling for old photos of Mt Eden, looking for one with my flat in it. Eventually I found one taken from the side of the volcano, showing an empty section at some time in the early 20th century. Brilliant!
And then I explored downtown Auckland, seeing the empty section where the Civic Theatre was eventually built, and the bustling suburb of Newton before the motorway ripped its heart out.
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Copyright is a curious thing. I have over 1500 photos on Flickr, and I recently changed the copyright to a Creative Commons licence.
I'm a bit of an advocate for Creative Commons, but when it actually came to adopting it myself, it felt a bit strange, like I was losing something.
But yet nothing bad has happened. No one's stolen my photos and made millions from them. People who do use my photos tell me they're doing it, credit me and have courtesy link back. It actually now feels really liberating.
I can absolutely see why people instinctively want to cling to strict copyright control, but if you lock something away (like Hamish Keith's example of Maori art being stifled by museum's red tape), then no one gets to experience it, and that is the real loss.
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*blah blah blah* hey I'm no Smithies alright, it is just a bloody good listen!
'Tis! The Skeptics still sound like they're from the future.
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Chapter XXVI of "Frank Melton's Luck, or, Off To New Zealand" has a very promising title: "The doctor gives advice - Fanny nurses me - I try to make love."
But upon reading it, I realised that it was the pre-20th century use of "make love", meaning to pay amorous attention.
Frank's having romantic woes with Fanny (his cousin?!). He bitches to his uncle:
I cannot remain longer in the house to be constantly seeing her as miserable as that cursed wretch is making her by his infernal shillyshallying behaviour.
So Uncle offers him a hunting trip, "You can take Tim and one or two Maoris if you want 'em. What d'you say?"
Frank says yes, but will the hunting take his mind of his dear Fanny?
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Wikipedia has the lyrics. Let's gather round the campfire and have a singalong!
(Actually, I just checked, and all I have down in my heart is an old tyre swing, a broken microwave and a dried up marker pen.)
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Oh dear. I sleep with a married man every night.
As long as it's just the one, I think my "gran" would "approve".
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Does anyone know the rule for using one quote mark - ' - or two - " - ?
As with much of English, the rules are there are no rules.
Neither style – single or double – is an absolute rule, though double quotation marks are preferred in the United States, and both single and double quotation marks are used in the United Kingdom.
You should be able to tell from context if you're directly quoting someone or using quotes to lift a word or phrase. eg:
My gran said, "Don't sleep with married men."
My gran said not to "sleep" with married men. -
The very ones. Except your probably beared something like "Gurus, Feb 28, 8pm" and not "featuring Grant McDougall". ;)
The uni rec centre gym, actually! It was a great show. My friend Renee and I left halfway during the 3D's support gig because she had spotted Evan Dando having a smoke outside, so we went up to him, and I was all, "I like your version of 'Frank Mills'!!!!" and he was all, "Thanks." (Shut up. I was 18.)
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The Lemonheads: my flatmates and I scored the job of writing the gig date /time in all the Orientation posters, then pasting them up around the varsity.
Oh, were those the green and purple posters with the band members' faces in circles? Cos I had one of those (with the Waikato Uni gig information) up on my bedroom wall for years.