Posts by andrew llewellyn
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I'm pretty sure McCain would cause the biggest sir even if he did a Jim Morrison
I'd have liked to see some rope tricks & fancy shootin' from the Governor though. That would have been cool.
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My god. Simon, are you telling me that he *did* start the fire?
Nice! Very nice.
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<smirk> well you have to don't you. </smirk>
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And the bizarre things a quick confirming google can turn up...
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is Aaron Bhatnager any relation to Roger Bhatnager
Is that Sir Roger? If so, it'll be his father (I only recall that his father is titled).
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Wellington has more cycle usage than Auckland. Hills are one factor, but only one.
Ooh - is there any sense in the strategy document? I know the Bot gardens are a law unto themselves, so chances are their bike-unfriendly attitude is not shared by the rest of the council (one of the tracks they've enforced the rule on is used by traffic & they don't seem to mind that).
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showing people how to cycle or walk across town without being run over.
Or running over pedestrians. The Bot Gardens in Wellington have recently started enforcing (or at least reinforcing) their no biking through the gardens rule. They've always notionally been banned, but all cyclists ignored the bike buster signs painted on the ground (one even stopped on top of one sign to moan about me & my dog (who was on a lead)).
To be fair, most were very careful about pedestrians, but I've seen at least one idiot scatter a group of old age pensioners (and my dog) as he came around a bend at high speed.
I do have some sympathy for the responsible bike riders, there is no cycle access now into the city from the Karori direction that doesn't involve taking your life in your hands among the suburban SUVs & buses through the very narrow hill streets.
We ought to be encouraging them to either share paths responsibly with pedestrians, or finding them some dedicated cycle router in & out of the CBD.
Mind you, cycling around wellington is not for the faint of heart in more ways than one.
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God this is frustrating. No matter who I vote for in the council, we still keep getting the same old short sighted stupid shit decisions.
There used to be a nice piece of graffiti (Aro Street, if memory serves) which said:
"Don't vote, governments always win."
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Very august occasion though, for a calendrical pedant
If you haven't already, you'll love The Calender: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year by David Ewing Duncan
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Like bristols and hands and Andrew's birthday party.
Oo er... that sounds like the sort of party that gives an old man a dirty reputation.
"Bristols" always reminds me of the glaswegian biology teacher at school in Wales (in my 12th year on the planet) , we had to dissect earthworms & she prattled on about the multiple pairs of bristles sported by your typical worm. Young Geraint Lewis was having seizures trying to keep the laughing in.