Posts by BenWilson
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I have a whole bunch of mint in my back garden if you're buying.
I've also got a lot of mint in my garden, it grows like a weed. If only weed grew like a mint.
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Surprisingly resistant to inflation! But I hear that it doesn't last long, freshly minted currency only seems to last about a month.
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What's the Waiheke take on spending NZD? I want to convert mine to Waiheke Green Dollars but don't know the rate.
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cyberspace also has this innate appeal to a particular kind of meat-space people, if you get my meaning.
Not really. You mean they are meats? Or that it's a meat market?
tinned monkey doesn't cut it in space with current tech
Indeed, since exploration is the main purpose of just about all our dealings with space, a small probe suffices. If all it needed to do after getting up to full speed was go into power saving mode with pretty much only the clock running, and maybe something listening for messages from home, it's hard to imagine a more efficient way to cross the void.
Unless we could ever get it together to go Orion. But even then, it would probably be better to us to just use it as a delivery vehicle for a whole bunch of probes. If it even seems worthwhile at all.
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WH, perhaps I'm misunderstanding the usage of reconditioning here but it's "re" because you are returning it to it's original condition(ing). It's one of those lovely words that could be good or bad depending on the original condition referred to. A reconditioned engine is usually better than a worn out one. But if I recondition my son's physical abilities, he'll be reduced to lying down, waving his arms and crying. Which sounds more like the usage Richard was hinting at.
My entry for most hated phrase is "World Class". As for capturing 2007? "Fizzer". It's a summary of the amazing strides from LLU, our shocking terrorist plot, our sporting performances, and our principled stand on harmless substances.
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I think 2nd Life's real appeal is in the SciFi-ness of it, not the actual practicality. Much like space travel, where we've all read about it for over a century, and have had the means for over 40 years, but the practicality of it means that pretty much everything we thought would be cool just isn't going to happen. It's an anachronistic view of the future, that we will want to voyage forth on to colonize the universe, much as humans have done on Earth. And I think it's an anachronistic view of virtual worlds that the best thing that could happen in them is for them to mirror real-life in an immersive way. There is, in fact, nothing profound or modern about losing yourself in a fantasy world, humans have been doing it since time began, using the simple tool of their imagination, which for some is incredibly immersive and realistic. I've never played any game that had the feeling of really being there half as much as the dreams that I have every night.
If 2nd Life really want people to do business there, they'll have to do a hell of a lot more than just provide a mirror of reality. We already have reality, and it's about as immersive as it gets. I really do feel like I'm in my office having a conference call with people all around the world, reporting tedious details of my work, half-listening to other's reports of their work, and giggling politely at the nerd-jokes that abound. I'm quite happy not to be in an actual conference, where sneaking off to get a coffee during the boring guy's part wouldn't be tolerated, and actually doing productive work would be totally impossible.
The last thing I'd want would be a WOW scenario where a bitter crowd of gamers take it out on you anytime you leave the computer. I have not played it myself for that reason, but I went to a friend's place and it was quite literally 20 mins before he could tear himself away from the game to join the company he had invited around for dinner. I'm quite happy with where the boundaries between fantasy and reality lie.
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After you've had too many sausages in your wallet it starts to get smelly, so reconditioning is a good idea. And rotating it really is the best way to get sausages in without damaging them.
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Danielle, buns are coming back! And shushing is just playing hard to get, so Next Gen & cool. U r stk wf it, soz.
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After a robust and random net migration of carbonista guybrarians Urewara Te Qaeda Terroristas rotated their reconditioned sausage wallets.
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Net-Migration is a nice double entendre. As in, when you migrate the net, the net result is migration.
We've been using "sausage-wallet" at lot over at the Wellingtonista.
If you've got it, why not use it?
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