(Part I) 28/5/2011: Pictures tweaked.
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Melbourne stuff
They’ve almost finished revamping the streetscape along Centre Road. As a resident and ratepayer, I have only one question about the lighting outside the post office: Why? I could perhaps understand it if it was a popular spot at night. But it’s not. I suppose it looks kinda cool, kinda groovy, the green light emanating ... [More]
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IGA
Shopping at an IGA Supermarket near me is a bit like stepping back in time. The cash registers don’t have the full colour screens like in Coles and Safeway. But the shelves do have those electronic price tags that were all the rage in the early-noughties at places like K-Mart, before they realised that they ... [More]
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Friday fotos
Another top class bit of parking. Okay, so it doesn’t appear to actually say “No parking”, but it’s not hard to imagine what the intent was. I haven’t seen the Get Smart movie yet, but I’m quite amused by these telephone box adverts for it. In Rippon Street, they’re apparently very proud of that beautification ... [More]
On Monday I took an early lunch and met my mum and Peter and the kids for a jaunt up onto the Eureka Skydeck. My mum had won tickets for four, but didn’t want to go up herself. The lift had buttons for 1, 2, 86, 87 and 88. Hmm. The automated voice reckoned we ... [More]
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Automatic, but not fast
I do wish the owners of automatic doors would think more of us fast-walkers. Obviously if doors are next to a lot of passing traffic, the sensors can’t look too far for moving people, but if they’re in a corridor, it shouldn’t be too hard to detect oncoming speedsters. As it is, at places like ... [More]
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The machines will win
PS. See also: The machines will win II 28/5/2011: Pictures tweaked.
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Amusing sight
Amusing sight the other morning: a group of tourists lining up along a tram stop platform in Flinders Street to take photos of a passing fire engine, zooming by with lights and sirens blaring. Sorry, I didn’t get a pic of them. I admit, I’ve done similar in foreign cities. It’s what’s different about every ... [More]
On the grade 5 class contact list, there are 19 kids. Of those 3 (including mine) have two home phone numbers.
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Restaurants around town
Apparently the Footscray McDonalds was in a state of MacMourning: Meanwhile, check this restaurant in North Richmond. I’ll have to try eating there the next time I want some Aussie-Indian-Chinese. It’s trendy, yet traditional.
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Olympic Boulevard
When did they rename Swan Street (west of Punt Road) as Olympic Boulevard? I must have missed that memo. Is it just to remind any visiting Sydneysiders that we had an Olympics before them? For something that happened over fifty years ago, it seems a bit odd to keep actively renaming things to commemorate it. ... [More]
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Random thoughts
It was only at the third petrol station yesterday that I found a pump [air] that was working. Found three ATMs in close proximity all out of order at lunchtime. Was anybody else listening to the ABC 774 (3LO) news this morning at 7:45am when somebody pressed the wrong button and The Twilight Zone music ... [More]
Oh dear. That’s not meant to happen. But look on the bright side… there were no ambulances on the scene! (Collins St near Russell St, approx 1:55pm today. There are points there; it looks like the two halves of the tram decided to go different ways.)
Given how their parliament occasionally carries-on, I wonder if the Taiwanese politicians campaigned on how good they are at hand-to-hand combat? That level crossing smash near Geelong is tragic, and the government should do more on improving crossing conditions. But one radio jock was almost making excuses for the car driver, not just missing the ... [More]
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Not quite 7-11
When they first arrived in Australia, my mum used to call 7-11 “4-7-11”, because the TV jingle went “Thank heaven… for Seven Eleven!” In Swanston Street, just a few doors down from the 7-11 on the corner of Flinders Lane, is a fake 7-11: the 24-7 Cafe, with a colour scheme that is similar, but ... [More]
Things to love about going to the pool Perfect cool-down on a hot day The kids have fun splashing around Inexpensive and close to home Secure belongings in a locker; don’t have to hide keys in shoes The cool wave pool… just like the beach, only cleaner (no jellyfish, for a start) Things to hate ... [More]