Merry Christmas

I’ll be back in a week.

Update: Well it worked so well last year that i’m recycling it. I’ll be off line for the next 12 days excpet for the ocasional check of the email so play nice.

Merry Christmas. If that offends you then its you’re problem not mine and chances are you’re lost.

Residents of Auckland, your attention please.

Have you seen these three women?

A lot of us would like to see them in jail for Christmas and for long time after. It’s they belong for kidnapping and robbing an 82 year old woman.

Detective Sergeant Graeme Timms said the 82-year-old victim from St Heliers had been shopping on West Tamaki Rd.

She was returning to her car when she was approached by the three women about 3.40pm on Friday.

She was forced into the back seat of her grey 1992 Toyota Corolla, where her attackers threatened her until she gave them the PIN numbers forher credit and bank cards.

For more than an hour the trio drove the victim around in her car, using her bank cards to withdraw more than $1000 from ATM machines in Glen Innes.

They also bought alcohol and other items from a liquor store and superette in Tripoli Rd, Panmure.

The three women later drove the victim into a carpark in Apirana Ave near the Glen Innes train station and abandoned the vehicle, leaving the victim inside in a distressed condition.

If you have any information please contact contact Mr Timms at the Glen Innes police station on (09) 524-1910 or (0274) 967-886. Or if you happen to be one of the three maggots who pulled this little festive season stunt just turn yourselves in right now and hope that the legal system gets to you before her family and the public at large do. This world owes you nothing. Other than a good tar and feathering that is.

You may now return to your Christmas shopping and other rampant consurmerism which will no doubt be their defense along with daddy was mean to me.

Project Agrippa Update:

Plans proceeding and engineering requirments designed. Current budget for project: $0.00 This is going to take some creative project management.

Mystery lights over Norway revealed.

It was a giant trebuchet.

Change of Project

Like our illustrious PM I’ve been invited to Denmark. Unlike him though there is a point to my going. To smash stuff!

I’ve been invited to participate in an experimental archaeology project evaluating the effect of Classical period large calibre ranged missile fire on defensive structures. Of to put it another way, someone is going to build walls and I’m going to break them. And my mother said I was on the wrong career path!

Consequently Big Tim is now on hold untill 2011 and Agrippa is on the drawing board.

Agrippa is a 4 mina ballista and as you can see is a little on the heafty side. This was the compromise between portability and hitting power. Thus making it big enough to be a pain in the ass to move and yet still too small to be a real threat to the average stone wall. Well there will be wooden palisades and mud brick as well so we’ll see what happens.

As you can imagine this is by no means a cheap under taking so if you want to contribute to my mid life deliquincey feel free. I’m also interested in hearing from anyone who is interested in sponsoring this machine. I can be fairly certain it will attract some attention. As always you can make a paypal donation and contact me using 22adartillery@gmail.com

The real climate hocky stick revealed.

Die you zombie bastard DIE!

This is a cut n paste from my email. Assume its block quoted

Watts Up With That? describes the controversy surrounding New Zealand’s official temperature readings after the Climate Science Coalition replotted the raw data and found the “rising temperatures” were really flat. The rises in temperatures reported by the official (NIWA) figures were the result of adjustments. However, the agency defended its adjustments.

NIWA’s David Wratt has told Investigate magazine this afternoon his organization denies faking temperature data and he claims NIWA has a good explanation for adjusting the temperature data upward. Wratt says NIWA is drafting a media response for release later this afternoon which will explain why they altered the raw data.

“Do you agree it might look bad in the wake of the CRU scandal?”

“No, no,” replied Wratt before hitting out at the Climate Science Coalition and accusing them of “misleading” people about the temperature adjustments.

 

The Climate Science Coalition performed a simple test. They downloaded the raw data and plotted it. To their astonishment, the numbers looked nothing like the official figures. The official graph apparently contained adjustments. Worst of all, it was the project of a scientist who had been at the CRU around which a data integrity scandal is now swirling.

To get the original New Zealand temperature readings, you register on NIWA’s web site, download what you want and make your own graph. We did that, but the result looked nothing like the official graph. …

Straight away you can see there’s no slope—either up or down. The temperatures are remarkably constant way back to the 1850s. Of course, the temperature still varies from year to year, but the trend stays level—statistically insignificant at 0.06°C per century since 1850. …

Dr Jim Salinger (who no longer works for NIWA) started this graph in the 1980s when he was at CRU (Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK)

The NZ Herald quoted part of Dr. Salinger’s emails which seemed directed toward quashing the efforts of global warming skeptics to advance alternative theories.

Climate scientist Jim Salinger is among the many who have had private emails and documents posted on a blogsite, after computer hackers apparently infiltrated a research centre at the University of East Anglia in Britain.

Dr Salinger’s emails, which date from the middle of this year, form part of an exchange between a number of climate experts on how to respond to a paper by Auckland University scientist Chris de Freitas and two others.

That paper – published in the Journal of Geophysical Research – claimed the el nino and la nina weather patterns were a dominant influence on climate change.

In one July email, Dr Salinger reacts to the de Freitas paper: “Is there an opportunity to write a letter to JGR pointing out the junk science in this?? … If it is not rebutted, then all sceptics will use this to justify their position.”

From one point of view these revelations come at a bad time for the CRU because they will keep the hacked documents purloined from their archives which show them in an unflattering light in the public view. But from another point of view they could be a godsend. All Dr Salinger has to do is show, with crushing scientific rigor, why the figures were adjusted. All Dr. Phil Jones has to do is demonstrate, with mathematical precision, why his carbon models can predict say, next year’s temperature. Because he could, if he had the science behind him. They could, if they had the data behind them.

That’s all there is to it.

People of Auckland your attention please.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Paulette Taki, who failed to appear in the Auckland District Court yesterday to be sentenced on charges of animal neglect – the fifth court appearance she has failed to turn up to.

Taki faces a maximum penalty of a $25,000 fine or six months in jail. Anyone with information on her whereabouts can call Auckland police on 09) 302 6400 or the Auckland SPCA on 09) 256 7300

This has been going on for two years now so lets get this wrapped up please. It’s called accountability and it how our country used to work. Some things piss me off more than others and this would be one of them:

Well thats worth knowing.

Of course it doesn’t work unless you actually open it.

Princess Leia pillow fight.

Because I’m a guy.