Posts by Heather Gaye
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Craig "Highlander" Ranapia - There can be only one.
God made Craig and broke the mould... & fired the mould-maker..
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AWESOME blend. I was so inspired by everything Dubber said in particular - although he started off talking about music (something close to my heart anyway) his point was relevant pretty much across the board - the way our technology reshapes the way we do things, and how valuable it is to thereby reshape how we do things to capitalise on the technology. I found it incredibly liberating couching the internet in terms that didn't force me into getting out my crystal ball to predict & adopt the Next Big Thing, but to get creative & experiment with exactly what it is that I can, and want to, get out of it.
Most significantly, it was cool to get away from the copyright conflict in favour of someone saying "sure, but check out this over here!". Also, FREE WIFI! Why aren't we marching already???
and if Tze Ming was there, and she's reading this, I'd also appreciate her point of view, too.
I was sitting right behind Keith & Tze Ming & they were whispering & cackling like schoolkids (in a cool way).
I LOVED Bruce Sterling's wholly perplexed, matter-of-fact response, & was just about to lean over to my SO & whisper "I, for one.." when Russell beat me to it. To be blunt, I'm astounded that someone at a Great Blend would voice the kind of brainfart I'd expect in the Herald's Your Views column.Also confirmed Craig really is the guy I remember from school. :) Good to (re-)meet you!
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QuantumOfSolace
What a load of tripe! I can't believe this bollix gets published, let alone funded!!! Einstein's a hippocrite, he has one law for individual particles and a whole different law for everyone else!!
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...obvs that post about technical writing was very IT-centric, such is my experience. Apologies to all technical writers that aren't working in IT.
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Wagging (BOP, '80s) never occurred to me, liked the PATs a LOT, & now earn a salary in an IT job that I get to treat as if I were self-employed.
I was one of those kids that somehow ended up being a year ahead of the kids with whom I'd started school, and I performed perfectly well academically (excluding PE, and social studies which I found boring). However, I was a late bloomer physically & socially (even for my age), and in high school I had a lot of trouble fitting in. By 6th form most of my friends were from a class or two behind me.
So, do you have be techno-geeky for this... [or] think like a novice is what i mean?
Just as you've concluded, both. Uber-geeks often make pretty crap technical writers or help-desk staff because they tend to take a lot - particularly nomenclature - for granted. At the same time, it's a bit frustrating to have help files that mirror what you've already worked out yourself (my pet peeve is looking up the function of an obscure setting in the help files only to read "tick this box to enable <obscure setting>, duh"), so the better you understand a product, the more helpful the help will be.
I'm not a tech writer, but after a few years in development roles that involve having to explain my work to clients either in meetings or documents, I've gotten the handle on my fair share of blank looks.
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We're stil talking about fake dog testicles, right...?
shambollock?
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Americans that have expressed this view seem to infuse it with racist overtones.
Wit, racist overtones is wrong... just that their stances seem to be nothing to do with defending the rights of mixed-race people.
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I personally find it rather "belittling" to see the kind of denial in play when people of mixed-race are shoved back in the closet
I understand, and I totally agree. I've no doubt that mixed-race individuals have likely had an even worse deal throughout America's history and deserve the same recognition & reparation that descendents of slaves are still fighting for. But I don't think that's a battle for which Obama necessarily has to be the standard-bearer. Also, it's mainly the "not-black" epithet that bugs me. The Americans that have expressed this view seem to infuse it with racist overtones.
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And what I find weird is being told after all these years that I don't "look Maori" or "look gay" or whatever.
Craig: If it's any consolation, I always assumed you were Maori, but I was quite surprised when you came out as a National supporter.
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Do they? I have formed a strong impression of the opposite.
I don't really mean that in a dictatorial fashion - just in my experience, there are kiwis that are overtly maori (either by looks, accent, or social interactions), those that claim to be maori but don't "seem" it, those that have maori blood but don't really consider themselves maori, and those that look like they might have maori blood but don't. The DNA inspection comment was referencing the discussions of those within middle two categories, who talk in fractions a lot. I'm 1/8th.
Mainly: race in NZ is a much more fluid thing than it is in other countries, and that heavily affects how we frame the debate.