Tag: election

aleatoric — Wellington word of the week

Don’t say that we at Welling­ton­ista Tow­ers don’t know nuffink.

Aleatoric

Aleato­ry means “per­tain­ing to luck”, and derives from the Latin word alea, the rolling of dice. Aleatoric, inde­ter­mi­nate, or chance art is that which exploits the prin­ci­ple of ran­dom­ness.

Source: Wikipedia, of course

How this relates to Welling­ton — I think it was fair­ly aleatoric that there was no-one worth a Welling­ton Windy Day stand­ing against Ker­ry Pren­der­gast oth­er­wise she’d be his­to­ry*

* the views expressed in this post­ing are the authors own and don’t reflect on oth­er posters

Have You Voted?

If your votes aren’t in the mail today you’re prob­a­bly going to have to deliv­er them per­son­al­ly to ensure you get your ticks in before noon on Sat­ur­day.

The Welling­ton­ista (a col­lec­tive enti­ty that has assim­i­lat­ed all indi­vid­u­al­i­ty) ago­nised might­i­ly whether it would instruct you in how to vote & who for, but in the end we plumped for free­dom of choice for all.

So please exer­cise it.

Issues we are pas­sion­ate about though, and there­fore worth perus­ing can­di­date puff pieces for any men­tion there­of, are trans­port, includ­ing road­ing pro­pos­als & light rail, ram­pant & unchecked prop­er­ty devel­op­ments & devel­op­ers, and most impor­tant­ly, the com­plete absence of tiki bars in the city.

We did con­sid­er review­ing every may­oral can­di­date’s web­site & report­ing back the num­ber of typos & errors, but we gave up after Jo found 54 on one page of John McGrath’s site. The job is too big for us.