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Try to solve problems, but mostly solve puzzles. Alt text: Avatar - southern end of Kāpiti Island and adjacent islets, where the first of my forebears to arrive in AoNZ lived for about 15 years. Banner - self at the age of 2 or 3, Mōkau River mouth, 1967.

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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I had heard about 'Testify', but that's because it's a New Zealand show, and quite recent, so probably not that. A bit of a search turned up 'Greenleaf', which I'm not familiar with.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I won't quote from Shot By Both Sides, but yay!, more Magazine. 😀
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Raze the eyebrows?
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Adric was basically a highly-evolved melon spider, who had probably started devolving as soon as he stepped on the Tardis.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two tunes I remember were: The theme from the Muppet Show (during a procession). (Maybe at a prizegiving:) The Fool on the Hill. I think the music teacher had a sense of humour.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: The principal and staff would process in in academic garb, the staff would sit in rows behind the principal at the podium, up on stage. The school orchestra would play for the procession, and maybe at other times at something like a prizegiving.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The warning re changing horses is probably moot until you establish if you are able to get multiple horses into a midstream situation.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
And on one of the other lines into Wellington, there’s Simla Crescent (not in India).
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Bolton Abbey. Canary Wharf is not in the Canary Islands (though Canary Island would translate to Isle of Dogs). Locally (NZ), there's another Waterloo (also not in Belgium), one station further from Wellington than Woburn.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
2:30am - 5 hours in ED so far - still very busy, still waiting for chest xray and 2nd blood test before they can decide if I’m safe to go home again - might be going to a ward soon
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I think they’re saying no casual sex in movies, but causal sex is okay.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Appeasement?
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Na/GloPoWrimo 2026 – Day 31 Prompt: "stop it getting clogged up with random sites advertising windowcleaning in Canberra and other not-very-poetic things." Late Bird Prompt Cleaning windows in Canberra isUnpoetic? Well, sure not much Rhymes with Canberra, or window. But does the cleaners'…
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Na/GloPoWrimo 2026 – Day 31
Prompt: "stop it getting clogged up with random sites advertising windowcleaning in Canberra and other not-very-poetic things." Late Bird Prompt Cleaning windows in Canberra isUnpoetic? Well, sure not much Rhymes with Canberra, or window. But does the cleaners' demeanourShow they find cleaning demeaning? Can you do some poetic riffin'On Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin?
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
All peanut butter is equally inferior to all not-peanut-butter.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Na/GloPoWrimo 2026 – Day 5
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Na/GloPoWrimo 2026 – Day 5
Resource: a brief history of the poetry chapbook, with digitized examples.Prompt: "take a page from Catullus and Darwin, and write a poem in which you talk about disliking something – particularly something utterly innocuous, like clover. Be over the top! Be a bit silly and overdramatic." Don’t Like Dogs Okay, so I don’t like dogs But, tell you what, what…
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Are we still playing Musical Chairs?
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
#napowrimo Day 0: Learning the Trick hazhapard.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/n...
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Na/GloPoWrimo 2026 – Day 0
Resources: Katie Naughton’s poem, “Debt Ritual: Oysters.”, Allen Curnow’s poem, “The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch.”Prompt: “write your ow…
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I'm in.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Have submitted: hazhapard.wordpress.com to the participants' sites list at #napowrimo again, as the start of it for this year is now a week away - got enough out of my first participation last year to be very much looking forward to doing it again.
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Hazhapard's Na/GloPoWriMo
A poem a day for April
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
See also: the “Brigadoom” episode of Lexx.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Duolingo has many issues, but one of the minor pleasures is when the words left over (3 or 4 of them) after choosing the words for the correct translation into American 'English' make some kind of sense or nonsense. Today's example: handshake furiously the moon
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Being relaxed in the Mike Hosking studio is a red flag to start with.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Wordle 1,708 5/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 These days, I get more satisfaction from ending up with an interesting pattern in Wordle than the actual solving - must be the GitHub influence.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
That’ll explain the flies.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
What came to mind to me for this prompt was the feel of some parts of Red Shift, though the book overall doesn't fit the bill at all - haven't re-read any Alan Garner for a long time, and Elidor is the only one on my shelf I haven't read at all, so this is a good prompt to do so, thank you.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
How could I forget to put Harry Sullivan in here? -- Dr Liz Shaw -- Harry Sullivan -- Dr Grace Holloway
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
- Scully! ((alien) autopsies aplenty) - Dr Saunders in Dollhouse - and a special mention of all the 'real' Drs introduced in Dr Who to be confused with and/or compete with THE Doctor: -- Dr Liz Shaw -- Dr Grace Holloway -- Dr Constantine -- Dr Martha Jones -- Kahler-Jex -- Dr Chang!
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Pick up the nearest book. Open to page 42 and post your second sentence. Add #page42 and include this rule as a reply. Enough to whet the appetite, but pretty meagre fare.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
first treatment cycle 17 and 18 Nov, second treatment cycle 15 and 16 Dec, third treatment cycle coming up 12 and 13 Jan (finished by Easter if it goes the full 6 cycles after review). Thankful the current government are too incompetent to have completely wrecked our health system in last two years.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I had a GP appt. 18 Sep -> CT scan on 19 Sep -> referral to hospital 3 hours later for 29 Sep appt. -> CT/PET scan on 1 Oct -> 9 Oct CT-guided biopsies -> 16 Oct MUGA scan (radioactive component different from the PET scan one), which didn't end up being relevant -> another hospital appt. 3 Nov ->
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Also, there's several items published on Apple Books in support of Severance on Apple TV+, including a handbook for those newly hired as refiners.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
A particular favourite is Ursula K. Le Guin's short story: "The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics", particularly how it has inspired events to come up with further contributions to the 'Journal'.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Genesis 1-3 -> Paradise Lost -> His Dark Materials
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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.co.nz · 19/11/2025
Sophie Handford won 69.6% of the vote in her ward at the recent local government election. Excellent selection. #nzpol
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Dr. Horrible, with complementary ’hero’-as-villain, Captain Hammer.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Got a W in Wordle!
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Got the 5:36 from home this morning to get to Wgtn hospital for 7:30 admission
Fiery orange sunrise between grey clouds over Wellington Regional Stadium from the train this morning.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
cf the text adventure computer game version of Hitchhiker's.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
In His Dark Materials, the embodiment of a person's essence/id/soul as an external daemon gives a different embodiment of the whole person to what we're used to.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Thought the bold text on the eye-drops was in Cyrillic before I zoomed in.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The Weathermonger, by Peter Dickinson (though suggesting it under this topic is probably a spoiler…)
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I've only read two books by CJ Cherryh, and it was a while ago. In one of them, "Rimrunners", part of the protagonist's arc is helping to enable/allow the redemption arc of another main character. (In the other book, "The Paladin", it's more about helping with rehabilitation to enable retribution.)
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Idéfix -> Dogmatix is fantastic
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Best way to interpret it as is would probably be to say it’s asking you to put the 10 digits +/- 0 to +/- 9 into the 10 boxes…
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Looks like there’s an error in the illustration- there are 10 boxes shown to fill, but the suggested solutions use only 9 digits each (+/- 1 to +/- 9) - looks like they’ve put “0” in for you, but also provided a box to the right of “0” to put the zero in.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Ursula K. Le Guin's short story: "Vaster than Empires and More Slow" From Wikipedia: In her introduction to the story, Le Guin stated "We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forests, every night, alone."
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The new hairdressing ‘parlour’ between my place and the shops looks like they went to a secondhand mirror place for their fit-out, and came away with quite a haul of mirrors. #puns
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Got enough done in the first 4 days of: www.napowrimo.net that it felt worth getting it up for possible comment. Have spent the last 3 days resuscitating, repurposing, and copying stuff to: hazhapard.wordpress.com instead of getting any more done.
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Hazhapard's Na/GloPoWriMo
A poem a day for April 2025
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Appreciate all the love stories in Firefly: Kaylee/Simon, Inara/Mal, Wash/Zoe.
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Hazhapard @hazhapard.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Didn't work it out this way, but looks like, given the 16 different factors add up to 720, and the 9 of these to be used need to add up to 102, there's only two ways to choose 9 which add up to 102, and one of these won't work as 6 needs to be used for one of the two ways to add up to 10.
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