Posts by Lilith __
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Hard News: Changing news, in reply to BenWilson,
While the language may excite the managers and marketing teams it causes severe forehead bruising for the scientists in those teams.
You’re giving me an idea for a smartphone app. It does management maths – looks like a calculator, but produces much more exciting results.
Sure to be a winner with "creative" accountants. :-)
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Hard News: Changing news, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Pretty certain our management think base 3 is on Mt Everest
They've never played baseball then ;-)
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to JacksonP,
It’s official!
Happy 1st of spring everyone.
That vase is surreal.
If you like it, put a bow on it
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Hard News: Friday Music: Dubious achievements, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
All the cyber bickering seems a terrible lot of fuss just to be able to say, "The Satellite Spies? Yeah, that's my band."
Perhaps this is the equivalent of The Dirty Frypan Argument between flatmates? ie. a great excuse for a row? It's not usually about the frypan. :-)
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Well that's OK then!
Gerry's vision gives pride of place to a children's playground. Not thriving retail, not innovative business, not performing arts, not energy efficiency, not beautiful architecture, not vibrant community. Not even pools, gyms, libraries, and walking tracks.
A fucking children's playground. Let's aim high.
"One important part of the frame, in the northeast, will be the new children's playground. We will build them a playground from where they can view the rebirth of their city through their childhood years.
''It will be the best playground in the world - not a fun park, but a playground".
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Hard News: A long way yet, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
it's a bust
a library bus
We get the library bus out here, and of course we’re glad of it. But I see the same titles on the shelves over and over. It’s no long-term solution. And certainly not for another couple of years! We need a pop-up library. Come on, CCC. Libraries are community hubs, and we really need them.
I went to Central Library Tuam, which is awesome! They’re having troubles with the new space-age self-issuing system (you stack your items on the issuing desk and it automagically knows what they are): the door alarm was going off constantly while I was there, which drove me nuts and meant I didn’t linger. But what a treasure trove of books! The NZ collection’s there too.
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Coastal Pathway good. We like this.
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But on the brighter side, the Council will have a decision on the fate of the Sumner library before June next year . Wow, Sumner feels pretty special now. And they say this is a priority ...go figure.
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Hard News: A long way yet, in reply to Hebe,
Brownlee is giving a ’state of the recovery” speech tomorrow first thing
Hmmm. I don't know who his talk is for. Chch ppl know the state of the recovery, and I would have thought businesspeople did too.
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Up Front: Choice, Bro, in reply to Hebe,
an MP talking on his cell to a Cabinet minister in the corner of our living room. He was cowering while the boys in their high chairs roared “Quiet” at him and pelted him with chop bones for interrupting the Wiggles DVD
If only the rest of life were like that. ;-)