<Sigurd> a sprite is anything not static

<SRElysian> a sprite is a variable object
<SRElysian> be it 2d or 3d
<TorMuck> a sprite is a fucking soda
<TorMuck> you god damn geekass bastards

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Last week my Private Member’s Bill, which would reintroduce the capacity to establish differential minimum wages for those aged 16 and 17, was drawn from the ballot. This gives us an opportunity to review the evidence in a public forum on what impact the massive increase in the minimum wage for young people is having.

Now critics have claimed that because I drafted this Bill it must mean that I don’t care about young people. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Youth unemployment today stands at 26.5 percent. That concerns me a lot. The rate for Maori youth is 38.7 percent – almost two out of five young Maori are out of a job. This concerns me even more.

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Kia Ora,
I’d like to begin things this week by saying thanks all the people and clubs that turned up early last Tuesday morning for the TV Breakfast show. Tamati Coffey was an all around good Gary and showed off all the clubs that came along on the show, so thanks a lot to him as well. The Underwater Club was on first with a impressive display on how to dive in full dive gear in a starfish paddling pool at 7:00am in the morning, after them was the Campus Christian Movement, Handball Club and the Meat Club who said “the real mission of the Meat Club is to provide an inexhaustible supply of meat thus creating peace and prosperity throughout the land.” Definitely the quote of the day, and true to their word, they did provide everyone with free meat for the morning. Next up was the Debating Society and AUES (Auckland University Engineering Society). AUES were there from the beginning in good numbers and spirit, good stuff guys and girls and yes they were by far the rowdiest. Last was a clusterfuck with Alfred St National, PhotoSoc, Uni Q, Drinking Club and NTM (Nga Tauira Maori). Just before the shot Tamati and I joked that it looked like the current Government. Check out the clips online at TVNZ, or just visit http://bit.ly/9cJcYH. I would like to thank Brendon Mosley from the University for helping out as well.

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Bier Essentials – Beer 101

If this is your first year at uni you’ve likely come along with a whole heap of expectations about new things that you’ll learn and experience. However, it’s quite likely that any of those expectations involving alcohol basically consist of getting trashed on the cheapest drink possible and making inappropriate advances on people you barely know. I’m here to help you see that there are more ways to enjoy a drink, which in fact can be much more enjoyable than destroying a few brain cells on a Friday night.

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The Craccum Open

First Serve

Welcome to Craccum’s latest and greatest addition, where you can vicariously experience a year’s worth of wine through the taste buds and olfactory senses of your intrepid wine scribe Hugh the Wine Guy. What can you expect? This column aims to bring you pieces on wine, drinking and its associated culture (or the lack thereof) and the odd rant about odd wines/people/places. I will attempt to pitch a proportion of them at each of three categories – those who don’t drink wine, those who drink it but don’t think they know anything (you probably do, but just don’t realise – for example you know what you like and what you don’t) and those who like wine and enjoy expanding their horizons.

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Cooking With Craccum

With Sophia ‘Sure to Rise’ Blair

Setting Up a Basic Kitchen:

For the three years that I lived at home, I desperately wanted to move out and assumed that moving into a flat would be ridiculously easy. For the most part it was – the hard part however was the issue of food. I always had a basic knowledge of cooking and I can easily follow a recipe. I wasn’t prepared however to cook for myself every night and I certainty wasn’t aware of basic kitchen know-how. For instance, I had no idea how long you could keep some vegetables fresh for as they’d always just ‘appeared’ at home in the fridge vegetable drawer. It took me some time, some serious reading and talking to my mum, grandma and various aunties before I could run a cheap kitchen, but also to be able to make tasty meals that didn’t take much time to cook. Many of these tips and tricks come from the basics of household management – the idea of managing your house in an economical way so that nothing is wasted. These principles have been passed down from generations and are just as useful today as they were fifty years ago.

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