The parents are living undocumented lives as illegal overstayers.
Their children never made that choice, it seems to me that we're creating a whole group of New Zealanders who aren't legally allowed to better themselves through proper study or work.
I think you are right, we educated them. As well as being fairer, it's in New Zealand's best interests to not create a caste system of people who were born into that life.
From house-sitting for higher beings, I have discovered that the bar is: when it's in the hot cupboard you can't tell if it's fitted or flat unless you start unfolding it.
In late breaking garden news: went out for the first time since my trip away last month and there's a small (1m) swan plant back beside the lemon tree that somehow has two chrysalises on it and two caterpillars since I last looked!!!
I'm over the moon, really thought we weren't getting anyone this year.
Rainy day and there's a dove huddled in the plum tree, just staring at the house. I love doves.
Happy Birthday! And congratulations to Dave! Lemmy.nz is one of my favourite things in the internet.
Video gave me a giggle. Missed the fitted sheet and was hoping it would include a video on how to actually do it. Get the feeling you might need a reach advantage.
If you like that style of humour it's very good! I think I must have rewatched the entire thing about 4 or 5 times.
It's a hard thing to find an image of but by gates I mean kind of like the ones in here only instead of sliding the sim in behind it you had to undo a little catch and swing it open first.
That sounds like a really interesting field. I just realised there are Silicon Valley scenes that are about this as well...
Do you know what they were trying to learn?
Not really but it took ages and paid better than most. We had to read a set of written instructions so I think they were testing those, because everyone got given the same model of phones and afterwards we had to talk about how we found the instructions and how easy was it. The phones had those annoying little metal gates in them that some candybars used to have. I remember being completely weirded out by it.
I think what happens is sometimes brick and mortar shops don't update their online pricing regularly. I have found a few good deals over the years that way on pet things and dentist things.
That's super interesting; I had never heard of personas in that context but it makes a lot of sense. How do you come up with/discover the personas?
doesn't like the new subscription model
This is probably a defining characteristic of half a generation!
This is a rambling tangent but one of my super weird memories from the late 90s was being asked to a market research focus group where all they did was give us cell phones and sim cards and video us trying to open the backs and insert the sims. It was new tech for most of us at the time and it's really funny to me now how challenging we found it.
I used to use that exact same circle method in photoshop back in the day, before I learned how to use shapes and paths! (All my photoshop skills are self taught over the years, but I've used it for a long time, like you have with GIMP).
The idea of "intuitive" in software interface kind of fascinates me. So much of it is cultural or built on the shoulders of years of habit, but it feels so real and objective even though it isn't. I wonder about what it does at the level of synapses etc. Like, do you and I have a tiny piece of differing physiology at this point because of GIMP vs Photoshop?
For workplaces that constantly deal with documents from other workplaces, even making your own one switch wouldn't work. Microsoft's evil strategy works - it really does have it sewn up unfortunately.
Wait what why does GIMP not have shapes!? Kudos to you for being able to find your way around its GUI. It hurts my brain.
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The parents are living undocumented lives as illegal overstayers.
Their children never made that choice, it seems to me that we're creating a whole group of New Zealanders who aren't legally allowed to better themselves through proper study or work.
I think you are right, we educated them. As well as being fairer, it's in New Zealand's best interests to not create a caste system of people who were born into that life.