Comments on: Tall Jetsons towers http://eyeofthefish.org/tall-jetsons-towers/ A wide-angle view of architecture, urban design and life in Wellington Tue, 22 May 2012 00:15:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Maximus http://eyeofthefish.org/tall-jetsons-towers/#comment-17603 Maximus Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:52:13 +0000 http://eyeofthefish.org/?p=1892#comment-17603 and another off topic number, but very relevant to this blog: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10656990 "Cod you believe it? Fish are big talkers" "Beneath New Zealand waters a secret language is being spoken, of which humans know little. Fish have been found to grunt, growl and "pop" at each other, according to University of Auckland marine scientist Shahriman Ghazali. He is making underwater recordings at Leigh Marine Reserve to work out which fish talk and why. "All fish can hear, but not all can make sound - pops and other sounds made by vibrating their swim bladder, a muscle they can contract." Fish are believed to speak to each other for a number of reasons, including to attract mates, scare predators, or orientate themselves. and another off topic number, but very relevant to this blog:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10656990

“Cod you believe it? Fish are big talkers”
“Beneath New Zealand waters a secret language is being spoken, of which humans know little. Fish have been found to grunt, growl and “pop” at each other, according to University of Auckland marine scientist Shahriman Ghazali. He is making underwater recordings at Leigh Marine Reserve to work out which fish talk and why.
“All fish can hear, but not all can make sound – pops and other sounds made by vibrating their swim bladder, a muscle they can contract.”
Fish are believed to speak to each other for a number of reasons, including to attract mates, scare predators, or orientate themselves.

]]> By: 60 MPa http://eyeofthefish.org/tall-jetsons-towers/#comment-17601 60 MPa Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:12:47 +0000 http://eyeofthefish.org/?p=1892#comment-17601 Completely off-topic I see more towers - hopefully not leaky ones like poor Kerry's ? http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/local/3890906/Oriental-Bay-cafe-to-make-way-for-apartment-block Completely off-topic I see more towers – hopefully not leaky ones like poor Kerry’s ?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/local/3890906/Oriental-Bay-cafe-to-make-way-for-apartment-block

]]> By: Whack! http://eyeofthefish.org/tall-jetsons-towers/#comment-17583 Whack! Mon, 05 Jul 2010 07:01:15 +0000 http://eyeofthefish.org/?p=1892#comment-17583 If you're going after anyone with a fish, grab a really smelly one and give the WCC CEO a slap to wake him up. If you’re going after anyone with a fish, grab a really smelly one and give the WCC CEO a slap to wake him up.

]]> By: Maximus http://eyeofthefish.org/tall-jetsons-towers/#comment-17571 Maximus Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:58:01 +0000 http://eyeofthefish.org/?p=1892#comment-17571 Captain Haddock to the rescue ! Billions of blue blistering barnacles, sounds like what they need is a slap round the gills with a fishy fin flap. Captain Haddock to the rescue ! Billions of blue blistering barnacles, sounds like what they need is a slap round the gills with a fishy fin flap.

]]> By: John http://eyeofthefish.org/tall-jetsons-towers/#comment-17566 John Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:47:06 +0000 http://eyeofthefish.org/?p=1892#comment-17566 Or perhaps the environment at the Mayor's workplace has become so depressing and disorganised he's gone off and found himself another job. Like at WCC - hot on the heels of the UD team carnage, cast your fishy eye over the City Planning team, who are the latest victims of reorganisation and are resigning at the rate of about one a month... So as well as no-one having much idea about what's gone before them in urban design, a whole pile of knowledge and expertise in the areas of strategic city planning/centres planning/district plan has just walked out the door. Is that the end of it? I think we all know it's not... Time for a management restructure at WCC, in my opinion! Or perhaps the environment at the Mayor’s workplace has become so depressing and disorganised he’s gone off and found himself another job. Like at WCC – hot on the heels of the UD team carnage, cast your fishy eye over the City Planning team, who are the latest victims of reorganisation and are resigning at the rate of about one a month…

So as well as no-one having much idea about what’s gone before them in urban design, a whole pile of knowledge and expertise in the areas of strategic city planning/centres planning/district plan has just walked out the door. Is that the end of it? I think we all know it’s not…

Time for a management restructure at WCC, in my opinion!

]]> By: Maximus http://eyeofthefish.org/tall-jetsons-towers/#comment-17562 Maximus Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:23:06 +0000 http://eyeofthefish.org/?p=1892#comment-17562 there are a few films that have come out that may give you some clue how this is achieved. From memory the film Metropolis had flying cars (or was that just cars, and flying planes?). But Minority Report is a good look if you like Tom Cruise (I, like many, do not, so can't remember the details of that film much), and of course there is the 5th Element - which has a wonderful episode in it with Bruce Willis driving his flying taxicab vertically down through several layers of cars that were driving horizontally...... The answer of course is that the cars are intelligent to sort it out themselves. I just realised - you never see the Mayor in visions of the Future. Presumably his job has been dis-established... there are a few films that have come out that may give you some clue how this is achieved. From memory the film Metropolis had flying cars (or was that just cars, and flying planes?). But Minority Report is a good look if you like Tom Cruise (I, like many, do not, so can’t remember the details of that film much), and of course there is the 5th Element – which has a wonderful episode in it with Bruce Willis driving his flying taxicab vertically down through several layers of cars that were driving horizontally……

The answer of course is that the cars are intelligent to sort it out themselves. I just realised – you never see the Mayor in visions of the Future. Presumably his job has been dis-established…

]]> By: Hannah http://eyeofthefish.org/tall-jetsons-towers/#comment-17560 Hannah Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:56:53 +0000 http://eyeofthefish.org/?p=1892#comment-17560 Even as a child I wondered how all those flying cars never crashed. Can you imagine the Auckland Super City Council or [insert name of any traffic bureaucracy here] trying to come up with those kind of road rules? Even as a child I wondered how all those flying cars never crashed. Can you imagine the Auckland Super City Council or [insert name of any traffic bureaucracy here] trying to come up with those kind of road rules?

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