Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I'm sure that if I'd been watching the game on TV, those modern sages, the commentators, would have been all over it.
This game was on Prime and they made a reasonable attempt from the (add break) bits I saw to explain a couple of things. I don't think they knew a few things themselves to be honest. Needed Grant Fox or something.
Not sure if the Sky commentary crew is the same or if Prime put their people over the top of the footage. Haven't paid for sky since ESPN lost the NHL.
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Oh well, that just proves it then. The poor child was quite happy until kidnapped by the government and brainwashed into making bogus claims about her Christian mother. Because we all know the Lesbian Witches currently running this country hate Jesus. I'd suggest we all gather at midday on Friday for a mass prayer and a rousing rendition of "God Defend New Zealand".
Your sarcasm feels like "Blackadder Goes Forth" - oftentimes, too disturbingly accurate to be funny.
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I just wasted alot of time downloading childrens party songs via Limewire, only to find you can't import the mp3 files to iTunes.
What version of itunes are you on? I downloaded some live Moxy Fruvous to 7.6 on my mac on Friday and they imported fine - file > import from itunes.
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Wellington had an ice skating rink for years - roughly about where the library is now in Kilbirnie. I've skated there myself. It wasn't a financial goer then, so it folded, and I doubt one would be now either, though I'm always willing to be proved wrong.
Assuming they get support from the city council, a rink up there would rake it in. There's a lot of inline hockey players in Wellington, so there's an instant hockey club. Christchurch is a city of similar population, and their rink is busy until midnight some nights. Even if it was a private business they should be able to get a good return on their investment.
Tekapo opened a beautiful ice rink last year. If a population of a thousand or so can make an ice rink viable...
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When we docked in Rome (as per the itinerary) I was surprised to learn that we were actually docking in Civitavecchia*, which means a 90 minute coach ride to Rome (which is actually on a river, not the coast - damn those tiny maps in the brochures!).
I think expecting to sea dock at a city that isn't on the coast, might be expecting a bit much, even of Rome. I've heard it's got some other things going for it though.
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So aside from wind and an excess of espresso snobbery Wellington is perfect. We have three bowling alleys after all.
No ice rink though. They've tried to get one up and running, but its struck resource consent problems I understand. Can't call yourself a real city without 60 x 30 m of frozen water.
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From the NY Times:
With every delegate precious, Mrs. Clinton’s advisers also made it clear that they were prepared to take a number of potentially incendiary steps to build up Mrs. Clinton’s count. Top among these, her aides said, is pressing for Democrats to seat the disputed delegations from Florida and Michigan, who held their primaries in January in defiance of Democratic Party rules.
Mrs. Clinton won more votes than Mr. Obama in both states, though both candidates technically abided by pledges not to campaign actively there.
Mr. Obama’s aides reiterated their opposition to allowing Mrs. Clinton to claim a proportional share of the delegates from the voting in those states. The prospect of a fight over seating the Florida and Michigan delegations has already exposed deep divisions within the party.
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Mrs. Clinton’s advisers acknowledged that it would be difficult for her to catch up in the race for pledged delegates even if she succeeded in winning Ohio and Texas in three weeks and Pennsylvania in April. They said the Democratic Party’s rules, which award delegates relatively evenly among the candidates based on the proportion of the vote they receive, would require her to win by huge margins in those states to match Mr. Obama in delegates won through voting.
Interesting times.
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she simply informed their teachers at the start of each year (in elementary school) that "my child won't be doing homework.... Any ideas on whether this would fly in NZ?
I haven't gone that far, but I have previously told a teacher that he will do 15 minutes maximum of homework, and if it takes more than that then it'll be going back to school with a note saying that too much homework was given. The teacher agreed that was fair, and my son never missed out on lunch time or any other activities as a result.
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Or is it just pop up as part of your tax filing, except you have to throw in a couple of birth certificates? (honest question, I wouldn't have a clue)
It's largely the latter in my experience. Fill in a form, send in a birth certificate - voila. Though the processing time is very long - I missed out on about a month of money because... I dunno. It only starts when it starts, not when you give them the form, which seems silly to me.
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I had to wonder what pathetic salary he was on that he couldn't manage it. Oh yes, and the other issue was that he'd done the right thing by paying off his $30k student loan. Silly boy, he should have let it run, since it's interest free. Then he might have double the deposit.
If he was overseas then he still gets charged interest, so it might have made sense at the time, though perhaps he wasn't thinking far enough ahead to when he came back to NZ.