Melbourne stuff
The Essential Services Commission draft decision on power prices wants price cuts to electricity. Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad idea? Provide more concessions to those on low incomes, sure, but across the board price cuts? How is that meant to encourage people to use less power? Remember, the bulk ... [More]
The new Siemens train rolls through the burbs, resplendent in the latest train company colours. A middle-aged man chats into his mobile phone about planning permission for a four story storey monolith in a residential area of one storey homes, with the voice of experience and reason, rather than that of the outraged NIMBY. He’s ... [More]
Flinders Street Station, lunchtime. (An angle that you don’t normally see in photos.)
Dropped the kids at their place of business, then got to the station, had a chat with the station host. The train was on time, not too crowded, and ran express where it was supposed to. An old uni buddy got on at Caulfield and we had a catch-up chat. He described an interesting theory ... [More]
If you didn’t see it on the news, here are some images from today’s funeral of a tram stop.
The Bureau of Meteorology installed a multi-gazillion dollar supercomputer a year or two back, with the aim of improving the accuracy of weather forecasts. How accurate are they? Well over about a week, I compared forecasts (including up to a week ahead of the day) against the actual weather reported the next day. I was ... [More]
(Farnsworth Avenue, Footscray, last Sunday morning)
I’m at home today, having a day off to get some errands done. Like picking up my new computer. And tidying the desk so it can be set up. Only 4 in the tipping over the weekend. Perhaps my problem is that my tipping method (with which I won one competition, and came equal first ... [More]
A bunch of Year 12 boys from my old school on the train yesterday morning, jabbering away loudly like teenage boys do. “Yeah I got all sorts of weird shit with the co-efficients. Did you put c squared over x?” Then more talk of mathematical terms I couldn’t fathom. Ah, not the usual talk of ... [More]
It may be costing $700 million, and it may be causing untold confusion and inconvenience while it’s being built, and the new name might be silly… but damn, that rolly roof is impressive. Click here to see it bigger (and unencumbered by the blog navigation) (Yeah, there’s a slight glitch in the picture where a ... [More]
Way up on high, the clock on the silo says… not a lot at the moment.
Seen adorning the front garden of a house in Droop Street, Footscray. Any ideas, anybody? (Thanks for use of the camera, Justine)