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11:45 am, April 4th, 2014 - 15 comments
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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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ocean is still warm
everyone should swim in it
Don’t worry, when global warming kicks in it will be even warmer
Sometimes I start reading another book and read a chapter or so before realising I have already read it. Apart from fading memory I reckon that when getting a mental image of characters and settings, the images so formed can be so different from previous readings. Hard to explain. Clever people would write down or remember title/author but I never do.
Do others have such a problem with re-reading?
Yes ianmac.
I take a book out of the library and settle down for a good bedtime read and start to wonder why the story line is so familiar. Yep. I’ve taken it out before and read it.
I have a fascination with 17th and 18th century Britain and Europe – particularly the monarchal dynasties of the period because they played such a profound role in shaping subsequent world shattering events – so I don’t mind reading them again. I always find something new that I missed the first time around.
Sola Rosa at the Titirangi Music Festival tonight.
The place is jumping already.
Sola Rosa raised the roof.
Wait: what’s the difference between Titirangi people and Grey Lynn People?
A: About half a mil in equity.
End of the beans, gonna pull out the vines. Been a fabulous year in Wellington for broads, french and runners. Weathers amazing at moment, bound to crap out soon so makin hay. Reading Fukuoka on permaculture, fantastic.
Totally, almost the Summer that wouldn’t quite get going this year, my garden is back to boxes of dirt being fed with compost i have made from everything green that gets cut into little pieces here along with that which is swept up,
After a bad start my crop came out as good as last years,(the savior being that magic liquid, water)…
On the other side of the planet I’ve been looking for plants for the balcony now that Spring has sprung (and a warm one it is too) – I can buy Broom(!) for around 30 Euro. Also forget-me-nots and oxalis are popular. Only a NZer would find this strange, I guess.
Weather, at home and abroad, blame it on the quadrillion sneezing kittens to your right and the booty shaking dancer……………………………..
………….I think this is the hottest April I can ever remember.
…all the usual suspects
Leicester back in the premiership with kiwi chris woods hopefully being kept on next season, we need our overseas players in top leagues if we are to get to a wc again.
It’s been a productive week for me. I cancelled my sky sports package and switched from Vodafone to an uncapped isp, abandoning a landline in the process. That has saved me $50 a month. I have now done the jiggery-pokery to set up netflix (between that and a proxy costs about $15 a month). It is glorious. I may cancel sky altogether eventually if I could figure out a legal way to get Game of Thrones.
Ripping Vinyl to flac…..
Back in the day as a teenager in the 80’s I collected vinyl and spent most of my meagre pay on vinyl. Crass Discharge Vice Squad Dead Kennedys The Exploited GBH plus alot of Joy Division to name a few …..
Then they got put away as I grew out of listening to them..
I have sold them to a collector for far more than what I orig paid for them which as are imports I paid a fair whack…. time for them to move on……
Still. Punk is yet to pass away.