Posts by Ben Gracewood
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Video from Tutukaka. Posted on twitter about 1:55pm
Personally I'd be running, not videoing.
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you know I think the data on the tsunami warning map is running an hour or so later than real time ....
I was thinking that too, but now it looks like Civil Defence and NZ Herald completely screwed the pooch. I hope no one gets injured.
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OK, I'm utterly confused. The Harold is reporting a 90cm wave hit East Cape sometime this morning, but those Geonet graphs show it hitting Raoul Island 5 minutes ago (so 30-60mins from NZ)
At least one is wrong. Which is it?
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Ooosh those geonet gauges are going wild now. Raoul Island showing half a tide worth of wave. That would be more than enough for a nasty surprise if you're at the beach.
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The wave seems to be just showing on the Geonet gauges.
Given that, does that mean the arrvial times are out by an hour?
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If the waves come from the north, why do the arrival times in Auckland come after those in Wellington?
Check out the animation of the Indian Ocean tsunami: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake#Tsunami_characteristics
See how it bends and lenses around land masses? Hence the different arrival times.
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and the genetics stuff in this thread has now encouraged my usual 'OMG I'm 34' worrying streak to broaden its scope to 'OMG my husband is 38'. So... thanks, everyone? Because I wasn't panicking enough already, or anything. Heh.
It's cool, I don't yet know 400 people that have had babies at the same age as our failed attempt, so you can fit into our 399 if you want?
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Apropos the prams: doncha hate it when they get flat tyres! dragging it downto the garage to pump it up etc.
Ahem.. .the Babyjogger City Mini, again, laughs at your flat tyres. They're not hard plastic, they are some lovely closed-cell foam thing. Just as smooth and quiet as pneumatic tyres, but without the risk of letting the pneums out.
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I woke up after ruminating on this thread for a long time last night, and the more I think about it, the more it bothers me.
Yes the initial "40 yo first time parent" comment was a troll, but it sparked what I see as an interesting topic: fertility issues in older parents. I just re-read Morgan's initial post, which appears to be making that point "let's talk about an actual issue". And he gets flamed into oblivion by people accusing him of telling them what to do with their bodies, which he explicitly did not.
Like I said earlier, we had to deal with this issue first-hand (trisomy 21, plus multiple deformities, to be exact), and it frankly fucks me right off that I'm unable to have a grown-up conversation about it around certain groups of people without pussy-footing around the whole career/carer debate. That's a secondary point in my mind. We have babies when we want to, and we ALL have to deal with the consequences of having them later in life. The odds look fine until you're on the left hand side of the ratio.
If someone told me at 23 what we would have to deal with by having babies after 28, I would have forgone the career, travel, and 5-star dining to have babies earlier.
But then again, I'm a male. What would I know about reproduction?
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Me neither, but I thought (whoever it was's) line about parents showing off their flash prams was pretty on the money.
Bro, don't get me started about the one-handed folding action on our Babyjogger City Mini. It's a work of art!