Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Polity: Poll Soup, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Fairfax still trying to grow their own Steve Braunias.
'The Braunias that wouldn't die'?
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Polity: TPP, eh?, in reply to Rob Stowell,
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Oops. (Not announced yet)I can still see the 'point' (.) of it though.!
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OnPoint: Yeah nah, but what *do* we…, in reply to Alfie,
What goes around, comes around…
I’d just like to make a case for the prescience of Chris Knox –
my evidence the above two Max Media cartoons from 2005!(sorry about dodgy focus)
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Hard News: Friday Music: You are among friends, in reply to Russell Brown,
Straightjacket Fits
Dang, I'd have hoped a book on Flying Nun by Roger would have at least got Straitjacket Fits spelt correctly - I offered to proofread it - hopefully that's just the lazy publisher's PR rather than from the book...
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Hard News: Friday Music: You are among friends, in reply to Russell Brown,
Strictly off the record…
One would think not. Cassettes aren’t digital, for a start.
Damn straight, ‘recording’ a magnetic flux is merely the electric ‘field’ version of inducing the vibrations of a carefully gouged groove though a needle… IMHO.
A sounder reason is that the market in secondhand CDs is pants. They’re worth bugger-all these days.
it’s weird that format trumps content…
Now what about that other ‘icon of obsolescence’ – 8-track tapes (and Beta video – that was great for sound as well.)
Which reminds me of a horrific dumpster diving experience recently while in Blackheath in the Blue Mountains – full of boxes of Ampex, Agfa and other reel to reel tapes still in their sturdy boxes and cans of 16mm films – looked like someone was clearing out an estate, i grabbed some finished movies that a web search indicated might have been interesting early ‘70s Aussie ’art’ movies – and left them with the people we were staying with – no excess baggage allowance – hopefully they’ll find a good home for them – I have to reconcile myself to the fact that ya can’t save everything….
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Hard News: The Sharing Man, in reply to Jason Kemp,
Jetstar as Jestar
Spooky, I just thought the same thing today as I flew Jetstar for the first time, man that company is parsimonious with useful customer information, it's as if they want everyone to be anxious and fearful.
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slummertime blues...
I don't see the problem - there are plenty of volcanic cones in Auckland that could have perfectly good favelas created on their slopes...
We have a lot of corrugated iron roofing going to landfill here in Chchch we could send a coupla trainloads up to start things rolling...Having said that I am currently in Grey Lynn and looking at some pretty intensive housing on Richmond Road (where the Mattress Factory was last time I was here) it also seems to have an art installation by Christo attached to it - tres stylish!
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Hard News: So what now?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
S.N.A.F.U.
As crazy as disbanding an elected body that was protecting waterways from overuse and appointing a commission that to greenlight dairy expansion in one of the least suitable environments in NZ.
It can't happen here!
Still no firm indication when the National Water Barons will take their boot of Canterbury's neck -
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Hard News: So what now?, in reply to Simon Lyall,
Penelope Keith
You probably hit the right demographic here to get that reference - but are we talking The Good Life Penelope Keith or the To the Manor Born Penelope Keith?
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Lost in translation…
…and, apparently, run it through a translator and back. My tweet came out like this:
looks like some sort of anti-plagiarism / thesaurus substitute type programme, the other quotes had similar problems (why any news medium would think it acceptable to alter a “quote” is beyond comprehension – as was the translation) – so just to help things along the Chinese Whispers path I dropped their translation through a ’gangster’ translator:
Mark jennings, greatest n’ most influential information supervisor o’ his muthafuckin’ era, has left mediaworks. dat seems like greata than da top o’ an period.
No, don't thank me....
it was nothing.
