Posts by Russell Brown
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One thing that came up talking to our crew beforehand was that two of them knew people who'd been basically kicked out of the Destiny flock for failing to keep up their payments. That's a bit troubling.
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Hard News: Media Take: The Easter Show, in reply to philipmatthews,
It’s a bewildering area to write about if, like most reporters (I guess), you are generally secular or actively atheist and you’re either trying to prop up a routine, seasonal “Christianity is in decline” story or you’re writing about the Tamakis or Catholic child abuse.
Or you’ve got Family First clamouring with a quote, whether they understand the story or not, and purporting to represent a Christian perspective.
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Interesting news overnight: HBO Now is now available on Apple devices, effectively presenting as a $US14.99/month on-demand “channel”, no cable account required.
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Hard News: Media Take: The Easter Show, in reply to Steve Curtis,
Well, you can always watch the show. It screened last night. This is just what I thought about it. I don't see how it's a "beat up".
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Nice. Francis has already written to expand on his thoughts in the discussion about Maori spirituality.
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We trended! We beat Paul Henry! From last night and this morning respectively.
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This is brilliant: a non-verbal 12 year-old autistic kid speaks (types) for himself.
Turns out he found ABA really boring.
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Hard News: The greening of the Red Zone, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Strangely broken link that gives me a URL saying:
Ha. Clipboard contents were not as expected. Also, why didn’t I just paste in the damn link and let it auto-embed?
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Access: Here's to them, in reply to BenWilson,
Marcus’ disabilities are not exactly the same, but the fact of expecting for him to be totally reliant upon us far longer than other children usually are was an excellent heads-up for our own emotional preparation.
This is actually the key thing for me. You don't know when it's done or even what being done will actually look like.
It can be hard watching friends' kids start and finish university, or head off overseas or whatever, but that's how it is. You always feel like you could or should have done better. It's inevitable.
It was pretty cool on Saturday night when I didn't want to go to a party/gig near K Road, in part because it would be full of people 25 or 30 years younger than me. But I'd mentioned it to Jim and he did still want to go. So I texted someone I knew who was one of the organisers and asked her to keep an eye out for him on arrival. She did, introduced him to some other people, everyone was really friendly and he had a great time. Much as I enjoy his company on the town, it was nice to know he was out with his peers.
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Jimmy Ryan's amazing before and after drone video of Dallington.
Quietly glad to see a video where the music isn't Coldplay.
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