Thoughts on a mechanistic universe
Their chilli in oil is brilliant but this product is awful. This one below is very average. And this one below also boring. Tastes like black bean and fish sauce. At least I learned about magnesium chloride. Oh how I long for my old favorite.
Reminder to self: when you read a Chinese translation check whether it might be problematic before you start. I ve blogged before about coming across appalling Chinese translations of books. It would be nice to now what percentage of translations are worth the bother. I ve just come across Anne Frank s diary translated by 李文雅 (Li Wenya) Read more Chinese translation Did Anne Frank s cat do…
This post is in EasyRead format. Please give me feedback if you want. I designed and built two evaporative septic trenches. One at Farrants Hill and one at Wamboin. Evaporative septic trenches are also called absorption trenches. This picture shows 5 new PCV pipes in a septic trench. Four of the pipes have screw caps. Read more New septic trench design
The image is the international flag of the Deaf community. The light blue shape in the flag are the thumb and fingers of a left hand held before your eyes. The hand represents sign language. The Human Rights Commission Board of Inquiry of the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador ruled on 1 March 2023 Read more Legal decision Deaf kids need sign language
Less than 100 years ago the street I live on in Auckland didn t exist. The land was used for farming. It used to be Maori land. Now the street has more than 100 houses and a couple of hundred people living on it. In another 100 years the population density is likely to be similar Read more Population growth elephant in the room
This post is about what I ve learned as a hearing person in Deaf culture in Aotearoa New Zealand. Lots of other people have different experiences and different points of view about sign names (or name signs as the Americans say). In Deaf culture you must wait for the community to give you a sign name. Read more Deaf culture sign names hearing person s experience
[This is basically what I wrote to Richard Hill. I haven t heard back.] Auckland Council is resisting the NZ Government plan to take more control over stormwater, sewerage and drinking water. I am inclined to support the Government but am happy to change my mind if better arguments are presented. I used to be part Read more 3 Waters and Auckland Council
[Image description: photo of Steven Donziger with some of his bookshelf behind him.] Donziger is a lawyer who helped win the Ecuadorian court case for $US9.5b against Chevron for pollution and health effects caused by oil drilling. To avoid paying, Chevron moved its assets out of the country. 2011 Chevron sues Donziger under RICO Read more Steven Donziger harassed by US Courts at behest of oil…
Ms Tory Whanau used to the the Parliamentary Chief of Staff for the NZ Green Party. In 2021 I tried to get the Greens to focus on the needs of PLD Deaf kids. I phoned them about the possibility of getting access to data about the extent of PLD in NZ. Neil Heslop the General Read more Waiting for a Tory Whanau apology
The FBI drug bust of June 2021 using the encrypted app Anon is ridiculous. The police framing of this story has been blindly accepted by the media and we are supposed to lap it up. The real story is that this is a huge waste of resources for very little return. It’s a story of Read more Blame the media for the drug epidemic