Varitek
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i used to.
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low level owl time
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low level owl time
Get on the RIGHT computer then!
Also, Ian, I'm currently procrastinating by working on an LJ entry about New Zealand transportation. Though it may not be entirely to your liking as my proposal would decimate parts of the regional New Zealand flight network. Certainly not all of it, but for example I'd largely replace air travel between Auckland and the Bay Of Plenty with rail, simply because a proper rail upgrade European-style would be quicker than flying.
There really is no reason besides a lack of political will that you can't board a train at Britomart and be in the centre of Tauranga 1.5 hours later.
It sounds like a good idea to me. Auckland Airport isn't exactly congested, but eliminating small, regional flights in favour of rail is fine.
It ought to be done like in France, where Air France are part of a high speed rail system that runs from De Gaulle Airport (i believe) - so you go to the airport but catch a train from there instead of flying.
Maybe this will be some incentive to get some more of last year's holiday pics on PB...
Had a bomb scare at work today! At least it wasn't raining.
Maybe this will be some incentive to get some more of last year's holiday pics on PB...
Had a bomb scare at work today! At least it wasn't raining.
I saw somebody posted about that on the Melbourne LJ community! As soon as I saw the post, I thought "holy shit, that's where Ali works!" Saw somebody said you guys got to go home at about 2:30 though.
I was trudging through Health Department records then ...
Sounds thrilling...
Well, that's not entirely accurate... they evacuated us at 2.30, and an hour later they started telling people who normally would finish at 4pm or 4.30 to go home... but silly old me was going to work till 6.30 today, so I hung around, and they finally let whoever was left back in at 5pm. I'm sure no one would have blamed me if I had buggered off, but I would have had to make up the time I could have worked anyway, I guess.
That does look cool... I dunno if I'd be comfortable on a plane that seemed to be comparing itself to a paper plane though.
It would be fitting on Jetstar aircraft.
They're the same planes Air New Zealand, British Airways, Air France etc use
Oh, Ali, I visited Royal Park again yesterday. The rocks shown in the photos from last week were hard rather than crumbly - I remember you asked about that. Also, up the top, I noticed the soil was quite red. If I'd had better lighting, I would've taken a series of photos: "Where am I? Dubbo? Dirranbandi? Kalgoorlie? Nope. Look up; it's inner Melbourne."
Red soil tends to mean volcanic rocks under there somewhere... but not always. The red inland deserty red is from this patina that develops on all the sandstone, from oxidised traces of iron. And those pics you showed before didn't look obviously volcanic, although there is a lot of basalt in and under a lot of Victoria. All that bluestone in the buildings and curbs and pavements? Basalt.
Don't let the facts get in the way of my Jetstar bashing!