Posts by Paul Campbell
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Kyle - when I'm emperor 2nd up against the wall will be the NZ Kiwifruit Marketting Board - for stealing our national identity - when the renamed the "Chinese Gooseberry" and marketted the hell out of it we lost something - they did so well that "kiwi" has joined the english lexicon as a small brown furry fruit - rather than a flightless bird or a citizen of NZ - so well in fact that they had to dump the brand and use "zespri" instead - bozos!
(#1 will be the people in the US who design CD packaging)
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last time around I steadfastly resisted the urge write "scared of water" on every winston-on-the-beach-in-his-new-suit billboard I saw - mostly because once you realised that the billboard's whole point was that he just wasn't going to get his expensive shoes wet that was all you could think when you saw them
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And as if on cue the "Hollow Men" make another appearance - in a slightly different context (extra points for spotting the music)
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I've only ever lost one bag and I travel a lot - it was ANZ at Chch airport - at the time (because we were in the process of shifting countries and most of our stuff was in a large container - at that point the subject of litigation between 2 freight forwarding companies) it contained all my available clothes on the planet - like someone else mentioned it was xmas eve and by the time I realised I might not be seeing it again all the shops had closed .... needless to say one could't buy men's underwear in Wanaka on xmas day, or sadly boxing day.
I'd hand carried it to the domestic terminal and checked it myself - then it evaporated - I figure some light fingered someone lifted it off the conveyor
I wish I'd known about the $100 thing - ANZ did do well paying up in the end - the full $1000 - the thing was full of xmas pressies from the US, my laptop power adaptor, lots of books, CDs, ..., ... it helped that I was carrying GST receipts from customs for some of it and credit card receipts for a bunch else - and luckily my laptops (yes 2 that day) were in my backpack
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Speaking of the LHC - here is a technical site that is monitoring the powerup of the LHC and will indicate problems as they develop
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so what did you do with the other $100k?
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err not my day "enclave" not "conclave"
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yeah looking at the soy sauce in there - my thoughts too were "mmmm sashimi" - there go my hopes for running for higher office .....
Many many years ago I lived in a little hippy conclave north of Dunedin - one of our neighbours worked in the pathology dept of the med school and was wont to bring home things in jars to show off .... eventually he sold his house and a nice family of german draft-dodgers moved in .... with teutonic efficiency they started to clean the place up .... one weekend a rumour shot around the community .... "the police had been called, they were pulling the weeds out the back and found an arm" .... everyone thought back to those jars they'd heard about .... the truth spreads much more slowly than salacious gossip - what they'd actually found was a plastic skeleton of an arm covered with a perished surgical glove
needless to say it's probably not a good idea to get a reputation for having body parts in bottles ....
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(err that was in reference to "we might get a hypnotist ...")
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You might end up on the ACT list, or maybe United Future