Posts by Tom Semmens
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I'll tell how affordable Houston's urban sprawl is: Around 3050 American soldiers and half a million Iraqi's and climbing.
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I think environment has got a lot to do with it to. Australia will kill you if it gets half a chance, its all poisonous this and salt croc that and boiling desert heat the other. Over there itas all about survivng a landscape that a harsh father with a propensity for corporal punsihment.
Kiwiland on the other hand can offer nothing more ferocious that an enraged weta amongst its native mini-fauna. And we have a gentle, breezy maritime climate climate with lots of rain for the vege garden.
We are all soft and cuddly and strategically benign, mummy's children all of us.
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Che: But the British have such a tedious love affair with the place! Every British person I've ever met in Aussie carries on like they've won the lottery just being allowed to live there. I suspect Kylie Minogue and the generational brain washing of "Neighbours" is to blame.
I don't "get" the whole flag thing, its just a piece of material. If your sense of belonging is so fragile that you need an inanimate object to prop it up then there is something very wrong indeed.
As a New Zealander, I think that since seminal moments of 1984 we have not just caught up with but actually passed the average Australian in being comfortable in our sense of place, politically and geographically.
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Oh well. I know a really top drawer Aussie who is moving to N.Z. because A) it rains here and B) She feels like cultural refugees from Texas on the Tasman. So John Howard's policies are not all that bad - we get to export our rednecks to Queensland and import their nice liberal women from Victoria.
ThoughI am still trying to work out if her desription of New Zealand as being" like Tasmanian only without the stigma" is an insult or not. -
All D’Souza proves is a religious nut is a religious nut, the flavour doesn't matter.
From Wishart to Bin Laden, they are all nasty pieces of work, angry and puzzled and afraid, its just a matter of how far they are willing to go to impose their craziness on the rest of us.No BDO for me, without a decnt boiler room a few hours of some half decent acts submerged in a sea of Emo's is more than flesh can bear.
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When people say Germans have no sense of humour, that this is all a big misunderstanding. Other European countries often do not realise that Germans know more jokes than they. In fact, the Germans have more humour than the rest of Europe put together!
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If T.V. is bilge, what are we dinosaurs to make of NatRad's abysmal (yet again) month of excruiatingly boring January dross?????
Forget about DRM. Leave the Browser Wars for three hour George Lucas inspired Star Wars like epic. After my 1940's Fleetwood warms up it is valves all I get from NatRad is the exquisitely boring summer report and an afternoon show were two middle aged men have more fun than their audience.
*rant over*
Reading all this stuff about DRM and the iPhone leaves me wondering two things: Whither Microsoft in all this? The Empire is being chipped away at every edge. And secondly, how come everyone is so sure Apple is going to storm the ramparts of mobile phone fashion as easily as they did in the PC/Digital player space? Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola and co. are not going to just roll over and play dead. Expect lots of FUD about the reliability (or otherwise) of Mr. Job's new phone - people expect a much higher standard of robustness and reliability from their telephone than they do from their music player.
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Christmas day was featured lunch on a big trestle under the rustling willow on the back lawn of the family home near Napier. Nothing much of note happened that day, nothing much happened the next either. Don't expect much to happen tomorrow.
Ohhh I know - I mowed the lawns at my parent's house today. Its a big lawn, over an acre, but I used the push mower cos it such a lovely day here in Hawke's Bay. Lawn mowing - truely is the petrol motor mower mine enemy most bedridden weekend days in Auckland suburbia - is really quite fun under a floppy hat and in the sun.
I believe that another week in the country and I'll be sitting in a lloyd loom and sipping G&T's if I'm not careful.
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I am retreating to the rural idyll of my East Coast homeland, where I shall wile away the long, hot days sitting on the porch in a rocking chair with a distended tummy and comtemplating yet another enormous Turkey and cranberry sammie. After all, it would be a pity to waste any of the leftovers.
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No one has yet mentioned "frack?" What are you lot, fracking toasters???