Posts by Jacqui Dunn
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Southerly: A Tsunami False Alarm at 2.00…, in reply to Glenn Pearce,
I think it's probably the man who's the jinx, as he had a previous disaster that didn't include his missus.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
They are over your shoulder, bashing away at keys and talking techno-talk, whilst you are sitting there, still wondering how to turn the bloody thing on!
You have much in common with my teacher sister, who had to buy her own computer so she could do on-line stuff for school but was somehow not taught how to use it, and has been raging or in tears ever since. Somebody "helped" recently by switching on her laptop, tapping a few keys and saying "Looks OK to me. What's the problem?" Her problem is that she can't explain things in terms that computer-savvy people might, and gets flustered.
Always someone who follows rules and does her best, her upset a couple of nights ago was because she couldn't remember her password. "But you're not allowed to write them down!" she wailed. (Possibly she's been watching a few too many spook movies where hackers find passwords, but really, the idea of someone hacking into a schoolteacher's computer is very funny.) But the reality is: when you don't know, you just don't know, and you need someone patient and communicative to guide you through. A teacher, really.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Megan Wegan,
And for the record, you haven’t convinced me my education was a waste of my life and money. Rather the opposite, actually.
I suspect it's not your life and money Danyl is lamenting the wasting of, but of the taxpayer's. But totally agree on the Harry Potter comment, and going by the wit and energy of the whole thread, can't see anyone's education being a waste of anything.
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So that's where you are, David! I'm glad you're all safe and OK, even if rattled.
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Emma Hart,
And next year, when Chch can function as a first-world city again, and host a Great Blend, come down. Meet us, talk to us, drink with us. Stay in our hotels, eat in our eateries, drink in our drinkeries, shop in our shopperies. And possibly more important than all of that, give us something to look forward to.
What a lovely idea! Thank you.
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Hard News: Time to get a grip, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Companies exist to make money for their shareholders.
One would hope that some of those shareholders might have morals though.
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Hard News: Time to get a grip, in reply to Ken Sparks,
However he does seem to have a few fans so maybe they just want to cater to them.
One of the most depressing sentences I've read today.
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Yup that pretty sums up home for me at the moment :)
When my cat (she lived to 20+) had five kittens, I spent several weeks, head down, bum up, watching them. Lost a whole summer that way, but the thought of it still makes me smile. I envy you, I think.
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I wonder if anyone else feels as helpless and useless in the face of all the hardship Christchurch people are going through as I do? What a bloody mess. Bad enough looking at it, but trying to live in it? Ghastly. And scary.
Is there anything we can do to help?
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana