Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- Up at 4.45am - heard the very crack of dawn.
It seems in Australia they have manic bird song at strange
times - apparently they are on heat or something.
- Off to the airport to pick up Julia's division's
director - Jenny, just in from England. Took her to her hotel
and then wandered off through 'Hyde Park' - a relatively good
imitation of the original in taste terms.
- Wandered up through the parks, to the harbour, and
then to the bottom of Sydney bridge - famous for its big-ness.
Sadly we needed to be on the roadway a hundred feet above to
get into the museum we discovered. Trecked back through 'The
Rocks' via. a very fine sandwich shop ( for breakfast ), and
walked round to the real shebang.
- Lots of amazing facts, statistics and images of
the bridge being built - a double cantilevered structure whilst
being built - and upon joining both sides an arch. An amazing
feat of engineering really.
- Back through town via. many bookshops. Tried to buy
a book on massage without it being riddled with 'Shatisu',
'Reflexology' and other trendy 'new age' nonsense. Eventualy
located one - horay.
- Then to the AMP tower, rocketed up it in a nice
elevator and had an 'eat as much as you can' dinner which was
very nice. The seating area revolved at about ~ 1cm / sec
relative velocity ( at external diameter ) leaving the central
serving area and extremity windows static. Slow enough that
your seat was mostly where you left it in relation to the bar
when you got back.
- On the way down discovered that the shell
of the structure was mutliply perforated, and that if you looked
down the lift shaft, you could see a very long way verticaly
down - fun; the girl was scared, and needed hugging - mental
note - must go up more tall buildings.
- Wandered round some girl clothing shops looking
for a particular dress; still trying to calm my nervousness
at being seen in lingerie stores. Not convinced that decent
men get dragged in that sort of place;
- One gets assaulted by the sheer volume of
different types colours, and styles of the things - the
amazing extent of human vanity. Tried to work out whether it
was women's vanity ( all his Y's are plain white ), or
whether's it's man's folly reflected in women trying to
attract them with pretty colours. Came to a compromise 50-50
stupidy allocation.
- Train back home, dog tired. Snoozed all afternoon,
on examination my foam mattress has contracted a chronic case
of mildew from lying on the floor, sigh, and I thought the bad
smell was me.
- Watched an interesting documentary about the
evolution of feet etc. slightly marred by somewhat polemical
atheism - and not letting the creationists answer their
accusers, and having no evolutionist christians to provide
a balanced view of the faith they were so happy to pan.
- Dinner, bed - a long and fun day.
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Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
