Posts by Greg Dawson
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Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
After mucking around for ages searching for the hole, I realized all that was wrong with it was that she had not understood how to operate the hand pump...
That just sounds soo wrong...
Yes it does.
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Thank-you all for the kind reassurances regarding attire. I may just have to do what you suggest and pick up a casual bike, I miss ambling about (that and my recent move to a suburb that is not perched precariously just below the sky makes it more likely I'll use the thing).
Although, maybe I'll explore the electric assist bikes a bit. Gadgets are shiny, after all. -
As far as I can tell, the thread has touched on it but danced away in other (more intersting) directions... I really find it difficult to contemplate going back to the cycling I used to do while growing up because apparently now you can't really ride a bike without buying a superman outfit and being Serious about Cycling.
WTF? Can we have a thing where we just got to a place in a practical manner without turning it into some middle class proof of worth exercise?
It seems like we've developed some sort of hyper-competitive "people who cycle to work" culture which requires escalating fanciness of machine with increasingly competitive lycra to match. Terrifying, frankly. God, I'm too young to think about "those times we did a thing without it being a big deal".
That said, I read too much into everything.
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Sexposition indeed. Clearly HBO have set themselves a bar to clear in gratuitous scenes, and they're going to keep raising it.
"we need to explain bits of the book that might bore some of our new non-geeky audience"..."of course! we should just have a graphic sex act happen simultaneously for no explicable reason" -
OnPoint: Budget 2011: Now with 70% less wordiness!, in reply to James Butler,
We don’t even seem to learn that way.
Well exactly. We've done this before, but it seems to be mostly forgotten what happened. The intervening boom has removed all memory of a time when things were not-so-great.
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Interesting article in the guardian on the results of slashing public spending in a recession (recently, as opposed to the all the earlier evidence).
Currently I'm petrified of a repeat of the early 90s, but I can't see how we're going to dodge that bullet given the performance on both sides of the house.
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: Radioactive Space Donut, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
It’s when the arcane grandfathered app is SAP or something
ffffff Don't speak its name. I have some lovely analysis showing the increase in our debtor days as customers moved to using SAP.
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No sir, you have to have the money to pay your outsourced it department to package up the distributable and spend months ensuring it won't break any of your arcane grandfathered obscure apps used by two people.
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There's clearly an opportunity for Labour to bring back more memories of the mistakes of the 90's in this mornings announcement by Nick Smith regarding the future of ACC.
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Legal Beagle: Practical considerations, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I think it will become clear that while they’re claiming to be Mana from heaven, they’re really a party of muppets.