Posts by Bart Janssen
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We'd driven for about an hour before I worked out why I felt so horribly claustrophobic. Everywhere was green: there were too many hills and way too many sheep in those paddocks.
I have almost the exact opposite experience. When we moved to Texas it took me days to figure out why I felt so confused. My normally good sense of direction and place had abandoned me.
It was the complete lack of hills. I had never realised that I navigate my home city by seeing volcanoes out of the corners of my eyes. From the window of the three story building I worked in I could see the horizon in all directions (except for where the football stadium loomed). I much prefer the lumpy skyline that is my home now.
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... indigo mountains velvet with distance
Oh what a lovely line.
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So you're saying it's safe to ditch the "beta" from the masthead?
There's apparently a chinese saying that I'm fond to quoting, that I think translates to
"House finished, Man dies"
I love the saying because it's a great excuse to avoid finishing jobs around the house, but also because I think it captures the loss of purpose that accompanies the the idea that a home is finished.
I think it would be a pity to think that this place here would ever be finished. There would always be something that could be done to make the place more fun or just prettier.
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Has somebody been playing a bit much WoW?
Um but we have to play that much to complete all the achievements!
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Thank you Russell for keeping this going.
My biggest fear was Media7 would take you away from the direct insightful commentary that has been PA.
I love the new people you've brought into PAS. They are voices I would never have heard without PA, because I just don't move in those communities. They say things I wouldn't normally hear and that makes my life richer, so thank you Emma, Hadyn and Graeme and thank you to all those who write in the comments section.
I hope all the people who write and read here have an enjoyable holiday break.
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With the density of people comes a density of things to look at.
What I liked was, we could go from castle to steel works museum to cathedral to castle in minutes.
But it is all made a little less enjoyable by the need to shoulder twenty smoking Brits out of the way to see anything. Oh and finding coffee...
One advantage of that sky, is it's impossible to get sunburnt :).
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I'd find gonorrhoea marginally preferable to syphilis. But I'd avoid getting VD full stop, by preference.
Ranapian!
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I think Oliver Driver is very talented
That's what I'd heard but as I said, I really have not got the experience to know.
I enjoy him at times on Sunrise. I like his dog. And as I said it's a good light way to let the first coffee work it's morning magic.
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Craig
I never said I took Oliver seriously. He's a breakfast TV host FFS! Of course as an actor and director he's seems pretty talented, but what do I know.
What I did say is that he did a great job of interviewing a total loony.
I also opined that said loony probably ought to be out of a job as an editor. And I'm sure some would disagree.
Just to reiterate, breakfast TV provides pretty pictures and entertainment for me as I wait for the caffeine to take full effect. The hosts are not expected to display talent and in the main they live up to that expectation. I do not for a second pretend that Oliver Driver is the next Walter Cronkite. But I did enjoy his effort that day.
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Oliver Driver was brilliant interviewing the NBR twit.
Kept asking questions just seriously enough to keep the suit talking and digging an ever deeper hole. In one interview Driver has to have ended the guy's career since nobody could possibly take him seriously after that.