Zounds. It's Friday. Just one word. Echelon.
Update 8:00pm: To the anonymous jerk posting foul comments, grow up and leave. Commenting is now open only to registered users (Google or OpenID). --Zen
Update 8:00pm: To the anonymous jerk posting foul comments, grow up and leave. Commenting is now open only to registered users (Google or OpenID). --Zen
What the? All comments being blocked...security system impenetrable...need to find access key...
ReplyDeleteIt's colder outside than Helen Clark's heart. Do have a good evening all.
ReplyDeleteHi all! I haven't left yet. Just doing a quick round before I'm away from the internet for a couple of days.
ReplyDeleteDJ4, it is cold. Not that the kids feel it. They keep taking their sweatshirts off. Probably because I've turned the fire on.
Evening Zen ... school holidays just about over so it'll take an extra 15 mins to work on Monday & extra vigilance.
ReplyDeleteLonger weekends would be good!
'Turned the fire on,' Lucyna??
ReplyDeleteEvening all. Don't disagree with longer weekends. Although, I suppose I'd also take a shorter work week.
ReplyDeleteHi Mojo,
ReplyDeleteYes, I have a button that I press down and the gas ignites and the fire is on. It's really good. It's on low right now, but I can crank it up two settings if it gets colder.
Lucyna I am cranking the log burner up with dry blue gum logs as it snows outside. I suppose my tomato plants are history .
ReplyDeleteI can't disagree with the sentiment.
ReplyDeleteLucyna, I had always envisaged you outside chopping the kindling with the 'empty hand technique.' This is just soo disappointing.
ReplyDeleteD4J, do you know a Kristy Bentley?
ReplyDeleteLOL!
ReplyDeleteIf I was out chopping kindling, and doing similar stuff, I'd have absolutely no time to write posts. As it is, I'm a bit hard up for time most of the time.
If it helps, my Dad had a scar from when he was chopping wood with an axe as a seven year old.
DJ4, I abandoned my tomato plants to the bugs a month or so back. I'm thinking a glass house might not be too back of an idea. Pity we dismantled ours.
I had a glass house once. But then I thought, nah, I really want to throw stones.
ReplyDelete& 'Krusty Bentley,' we're on to volkswagens now?
ReplyDeleteLucyna, at the very least I expected calluses.
Mojo,
ReplyDeleteI do garden. It's been really wet this week so I haven't been out there, but earlier in the week the ingrained dirt was still there on some of my fingers. That's about as far as it goes.
I gave up the physical punishment years ago when I stopped doing martial arts and weight training.
Now I just like pressing buttons. The more the better.
Five duplicate inappropriate comments in a row. OCD or nervous excitement?
ReplyDeleteOr ironic humour.
ReplyDeleteFive duplicate inappropriate comments in a row.
ReplyDeleteAbout time you slapped d4j, every other blog has. :-)
Good evening everybody, it is indeed very chilly tonight. have lit a fire for the first time up here in kerikeri for the year.
ReplyDeleteFugley, don't try and imply something other than what has happened (I've permanently deleted 5 duplicate anon comments).
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ReplyDeleteI spent most of this week in Sydney. Staying in the hotel reminded me that I hate these new plastic cards they use as room keys.
ReplyDeleteJust about every visit, I have a card failure which requires a trek back to the desk to get it re-zapped or replaced.
One place I stayed at was a resort with the apartment about a 10 minute walk from the reception.
At midnight, I walked from the Reception area to my apartment and found the key wouldn't work.
I walked back.
The receptionist assured me the new key would work.
I walked back to the apartment.
It didn't work.
I walked back to reception.
I got a new key. But this time, I got them to drive me back and wait to check it worked. It did. Nearly an hour had gone by. It didn't seem like plastic cards were "the way to go".
Cards were probably sold as a great benefit to the hotel, as replacing locks for missing keys would be expensive, but replacing a plastic card is cheap.
However, not a good enhancement for the actual customer if the key failure rate is excessive.
Bring back customer focused service.
Rant over.
This is awful intrusive wilful nonsense.
ReplyDelete& yep Zen ... once went to a conference where the lifts were card operated albeit only sometimes ... resulted in some rather long walks & somehow there was a definite bia in favour of 'up.'
ReplyDeleteHi BB. Yes, I've had to switch on comments from accounts only. Not very nice of anon to spam us with 30 or so inappropriate comments.
ReplyDeleteit must be quiet over at the standard...
ReplyDeleteI had the same problem with those unspeakable cards!
ReplyDeleteTe real kicker is I always tick the "email notification" wherever I post.
ReplyDeleteSo I got a billion emails from him as well.
I am reassured you see the merit of carrying spare parts Oswald ... but your 'prophet of doom' does look so like Barnsley.
ReplyDeleteEvening all!
ReplyDeleteWho made it out to the WMD day? I caught up with Murray on the Saturday and really enjoyed the archery. I'm going to get my own set and set up some targets in the back yard.
ReplyDeleteThe punching power of the arrows from a 30lb recurve bow was excellent. I'll start from there (or maybe just go traditional long bow) and progress to a compound once I'm consistent.
The whole family enjoyed the day out there. Seeing the legendary ballista and trebuchet in action was excellent.
Yep, 30mm grouping at 100 meters ... I can't do much better with the 22 ... mind you the hands do shake a little.
ReplyDeleteI went out on the Sunday to put on a bit of a display with the Walker Colt & a few pyros.
ReplyDeleteI assume anything is up for discussion so I was just wondering, are you guys seriously endorsing the book the Pink Swastika?
ReplyDelete"...but your 'prophet of doom' does look so like Barnsley..."
ReplyDeleteHe is the same!
(I just got the movie)
The dancing on three is really really good ... a better watch than the rugger.
ReplyDeleteI've got one eye on the rugby and one on the laptop! It looks flippin' cold in Christchurch!
ReplyDeleteAha ... you're right. As a young fella I can recall playing in sleet down there ... caused pain in the fingers & they largely stopped working
ReplyDeleteSo much for global flippin' warming!
ReplyDeleteHi Ted. Perhaps you missed the opening few comments? It would indicate that not everything is up for discussion.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read more than the first chapter of the Pink Swastika. So, no opinion from me on that one.
Guns sound more interesting at the moment :-)
That's akin to popping his balloon with a sickle, Zen. Not saying you're wrong to do so tho.'
ReplyDeleteI wonder what his defence will be? Sickle Cell Amnesia?
ReplyDeletesickleothymic personality disorder I would think ... more complete absolution.
ReplyDeleteI must say I'm impressed tho' that the balloon poppers feel that availing themselves of institutional tucker is just one step too far ... sort of like a conscience kicking in.
I was going to post about this whole thing. Still might. It occurred to me if they don't eat for several days, that will save the state quite a bit of money. It should be deducted off the 1 million dollar damages bill.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, I'm suspicious of the 1 million dollar price tag on a large ground sheet or sail cloth. With our FTA with China, we could probably upgrade to a synthetic silk number, perhaps with a batik design, for around $7,000.
ReplyDeleteYou are indeed a very fair person Zen ... & you are right about the china FTA, it would make it much cheaper, but then there's the pecuniary damages, the pain & suffering/ loss of pride for those charged with protecting such works of art, and exemplary damages ... so much pleasure can be eked from punishment especially from a crime that is really sort of 'Oh so late sixties' in nature ...this makes the importance of a deterrent very salient.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure deterrence will be uppermost in the government's mind (such as it has). No doubt the punishment meted out will be far more severe than some-one who robs people and beats them senseless.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, I'm not sure deterrence is needed in this case, such are the secular society's perceptions around inspirational qualities of anything even slightly associated with religion.
What might be more interesting is if the media decide to make an example of the security arrangements. Or apparent lack of them. Although, in defence of American interests, NZ still is probably the safest location for the base.
I'm willing to start up a donation for a monitored security system. You can get them for about $300 installation and $43 per month. I've got one through ADT. They can manage a 20 minute response, sometimes quicker.
Hm, looks like I missed all the fun.
ReplyDeleteAre we doing puns tonight?
Give enough rope, some-one could hang themselves, so I'm a frayed knot.
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