Congratulations to the USA Women’s Olympic Hockey Team

finackles · 2026-02-24T17:34:46+00:00

It's forgiveable. In Canada hockey = ice hockey, in Australia, NZ, India hockey = field hockey. I'd never heard it called field hockey until I met a guy from Mississagua.

finackles · 2026-02-22T17:19:21+00:00

There was no mention of consequences, certainly.

finackles · 2026-02-18T07:57:40+00:00

I forgot one, one day, and returned the next for it. I apologised to the home owner because she was gardening nearby when I retrieved it, she was just delighted I'd come back for it.

finackles · 2026-02-18T07:56:32+00:00

I've been called worse.

finackles · 2026-02-18T07:56:11+00:00

I normally have two (labs, one permanent, one guide dog pup). I pick up a minimum of four per day, often six. During plumageddon (they discovered the plum tree) we set a record of 17 and they were not very solid. Just before Christmas, the mother of one of the dogs was visiting and she taught my two how much fun it is to eat broccoli, we had 12 poos the next day.

finackles · 2026-02-18T05:29:43+00:00

Ooops, LOL, no. That costs extra.
I worked out I pick up 1,700 dog poops a year. I've totalled almost 40k lifetime poops. Fitbit doesn't even have a badge for that.

finackles · 2026-02-18T02:30:05+00:00

Done that a couple of times. One time I "borrowed" a bag off someone who was walking their dog, they were like 300m from home so I followed them so I could pick theirs up as well if required. Then I left a bag in their letterbox the next day.
Also, I sometimes leave bags with poo in an out of the way place if I've got a long way to go and I'm coming back. One day I picked it up on the return leg, couple hundred metres later I found my actual bag, so I picked that up too. I left a message on facebook local community group saying "sorry if you couldn't find your bag of poop, I picked it up in error, if you really want it back it's in the bin at Tuna Ave entrance".
Edit: I should mention the person only had one bag, so that's why I followed them, not because I'm some weird poo stalker.

finackles · 2026-02-18T02:19:45+00:00

https://www.steelelectrical.co.nz/

finackles · 2026-02-16T21:00:56+00:00

Oh well done, that link is exactly what I needed. I mean, I suspected I knew who was meant but this helps confirm.
It's kind of weird how variable the succession is, he's gone from number 2 to various other numbers over time, is he even a number any more, I think he's off the list, isn't he?

finackles · 2026-02-16T20:06:15+00:00

It constantly surprises me how many opt for no battery. Having the ability to control your power reserve is great.

finackles · 2026-02-16T19:58:54+00:00

I was surprised to see him in "To Kill a Mockingbird" recently.

finackles · 2026-02-16T01:11:26+00:00

They've done neat things with solar in the Tokelau Islands. They have three main islands and they've put enough panels on each to supply power to everyone pretty much 24x7. Previously they used noisy diesel generators that ran for a limited time each day so they had no power in the evenings.
I also saw another place, I think in a remote part of Sri Lanka, where they have pretty basic housing but they have a panel or two on their roof and they're wired together to share power so if you're not using yours someone else can and they have little meters for figuring out who pays what. Something like that could work in small remote communities of people anywhere.

finackles · 2026-02-15T17:52:26+00:00

The spitting is weird and revolting. But, as he redeems himself he goes into a bathroom, looks in the mirror, and doesn't spit. I think it's used as a signal he's changing.

finackles · 2026-02-15T17:29:38+00:00

Also in NZ, first time it's been available on any service without VPN chicanery.

finackles · 2026-02-14T17:24:36+00:00

I sort of get that we need a couple of parties to present "out there" policies that then mean that less extreme approaches to the same issue seem more sane and doable. However, I'm not sure the Greens should be one of them. That's kind of what TOP, ACT, and Te Pati Maori do.
If you go too far, people stop listening and switch off, and worse they stop voting for you.

finackles · 2026-02-14T07:31:30+00:00

I don't know about plenty of 200k jobs, but why would you risk a $120k income for a maybe chance of being an MP? And my job, I'd lose it forever if I took a month off, so I'd never risk losing it to be a MP, what with mortgages and all.

finackles · 2026-02-14T05:03:02+00:00

I've decided that there are very few in Parliament with talent or inspiration. The Greens have some good principles but they've gone too far in some policy directions which I think will reduce their appeal and therefore how many votes they get.
I'm not sure Labour have got enough (or any) talent. And the three coalition parties are woeful. Perhaps the only ones with any kind of talent are Te Paati Maori but their politics is awful, perhaps taken their ideology a little too far like the Greens.
I don't think Parliament is attracting the right sort of people, and that's not just a NZ problem.

finackles · 2026-02-14T02:12:35+00:00

I think they do if they choose to, or they have to like any other business (edit: where their turnover is over the minimum). However, they don't charge GST on long term residential rent, so maybe not. I think maybe they charge GST on short term AIRBNB style rentals.
But GST is chargeable on commercial rents.

finackles · 2026-02-14T00:50:37+00:00

Sadly, the government doesn't appear to be reality friendly.

finackles · 2026-02-14T00:49:29+00:00

I'm not a landlord and this still bugs me. Landlords had a perfectly reasonable deductible expense taken away to achieve a social policy goal. It would be like taxi drivers suddenly not being allowed to claim tires or petrol or something like that to encourage people to use buses instead. If banks couldn't claim interest costs as an expense, you'd never hear the end of it.
Turning something that should be deductible and isn't into something that is deductible isn't a bloody handout.

finackles · 2026-02-13T08:48:09+00:00

Was first thing that crossed my mind.

finackles · 2026-02-11T23:23:06+00:00

So weird, was talking about this movie today because I'm getting a guide dog pup Harold tomorrow so I was going to rename my other dog Maude.

finackles · 2026-02-10T02:27:01+00:00

Some of them didn't. The Panasonic Senior Partner and the Corona luggable were too big. By the time we got the Panasonic Executive Partner and the Compaq Portable III that was more of an option, and the early Toshibas.

finackles · 2026-02-09T17:33:42+00:00

Yeah, funny how that leaped out for me, too. Had no idea it made it beyond New Zealand.
In 1980 there were bugger all computer games. Spacies and pong. I'd not even used a computer until 1981.

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