Posts by Paul Campbell
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Well of course in those days there were maybe 7-8 airlines flying from the US to NZ (AirNZ, Qantas, United, Continental, something French, AA I think, PanAm, ...) lots of options
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I think it's Raoul Island that's the one showing up
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Chris - that makes sense - I've been relying on google maps for my geography - and for some reason spaced the trench out as a rise
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The wave is coming almost perpendicular to most of the coasts (I don't understand the Auckland thing either) - it's sweeping down the country from the north to south rather than gather up as it hits the continental shelf and coming full in (the Coromandel and East Cape and north facing parts around there of course will catch it full on)
Luckily it's school hols - we have a history here in Dunedin of teachers taking their class down to the beach to watch the tsunami come in
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Yeah I miss the time when all the flights stopped somewhere in the Pacific on the way - used to be if you were going home to visit for the (Northern ) summer you could get the earliest flight to Honolulu, spend the day at the beach, then grab an onward flight to AKL at midnight
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Fletcher: you're right - and sending your newspapers to the tip rather than recycling them means more trees will be grown and more carbon pulled out of the atmosphere
We've been so used to recycle because we 'must save trees' but we're in a different world now - taking carbon out of the atmosphere and putting it back in the ground is just about the best thing we can do - so dumping the paper recycling in the tip (coal a million years from now) is the responsible thing to do
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No they wouldn't - paper is carbon neutral.
Actually it's better than carbon neutral - if it ends up in a landfill
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Well I had an interesting experience yesterday - arrived in Auckland a bit late from Hong Kong, the plane had left late and took a couple of attempts to touch down (wheee!)
Returning from Taiwan I was carrying a couple of commercially made gift boxes from my Taiwanese Client and the hotel I'd stayed in - I ticked the 'carrying food' box on the declaration and told the Ag&Fish guy I had "Packaged Cakes" - the guy with the xray machine got upset though and people took my passport and started running around and one guy started acting quite belligerent, especially when I quietly pointed out I was going to miss my connecting flight.
Luckily I'd happened to mentioned to the nice lady with the cute beagle that I had "Moon Cakes" (a traditional Chinese cake for this time of year - we used to buy them in SF when we lived there) - apparently the problem is that some are made with egg (what cakes are not made with egg?) otherwise I'd be looking at a hefty fine - once they tracked her down they took my cakes and let me go - apparently they have a hot button for moon cakes - even though I'd checked the 'food' box and said 'packaged cakes' that wasn't enough because I hadn't been specific enough with the screening guy I was liable (in my ignorance) ......
I made my connecting flight (what bastard put the domestic terminal so bloody far away - usually I enjoy the walk after a night on a plane, not this time) with minutes to spare and then sat there drenched in sweat next to some people who probably wished they'd gotten another seat.
My point anyway is that our people can be pretty bloody minded too if they want to be
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Dunedin has also had a National party list MP open up an office and do work in town, which gives an alternative to Labour who could put a monkey up and win both Dunedin seats.
I have to disagree - after all that's how Richard Walls got in .... the concrete block analogy is probably true though
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So how does one get the the censor to review a banned book, can one just print out a copy of the list, scrawl "Please review these" at the bottom and send it in?