It’s lonesome away, while your writing and all
By the screen glow at night, where the cursor does call
But there’s nothing so lonesome so morbid or drear
As a blog with no posts for a whole friggin year
Now the public is anxious for the quote to come
Something witty and warm that won’t make them run
The data’s gone all cranky and the engine’s acting queer
Oh what a terrible blog with not a thing for a year
How does your suburb deal with monotony of every day utility objects and make them more interesting?
Walking around Bondi Junction I found some nice beautification, including art on traffic light controller. These are all titled “days one” by Stephen Evens.
I’m sure are more than these 3 I found around the streets. 
A striking image I caught at sunset in Chinatown, Sydney. The man looks over his shoulder, just as the UFO descends to snatch him.
Cadbury Dairy Milk 200g blocks, marked as 220g block on the sale tag
It was great to find 220g blocks of Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate on special at Woolworths yesterday. Down 20% to only $350, or $1.59 per 100g.
Which looks like a good deal, until you realise they are all 200g blocks. So really $1.75 per 100g.
So who’s job is it to make sure that shelf labelling is correct? Is this a misleading advertising issue? A unit pricing issue? Or something else?
There were at least 12 mislabeled sale tags for chocolate on the shelves. And the incorrect tags have been up since 22 April. (dates are at the botton of the tags)
Of cource, the sale is probably to distract from Cadbury shrinking 220g chocolate blocks.
io9 put together a list of The 14 Dumbest Schemes That Cobra Ever Came Up With On G.I. Joe. Some really wacky ideas, what do you expect from a kids cartoon? But not all of them are totally insane. Some have merit, just bad implementation.
Take for instance plan 5:
5) Destroying All Currency, “Money to Burn”
Cobra creates a device that destroys all the world’s currency. This completely absurd, impossible device is somehow not the stupidest part of the plan; the stupidest part is that Cobra Commander thinks that people will trade their non-cash valuables, likely jewelry, to him for a new currency which is basically a new gold coin with his face on it. Ignoring the fact that even if people did somehow agree Cobra Bucks would be the new world currency, the loss of all that cash would completely destroy the economy and probably civilization, and Cobra would basically rule the world of Mad Max.
This plot is not that insane. And many banks would like to do it.
Most of the world’s currency exists in electronic form. With only part of it being physical banknotes and coins. All the long term deposits in banks are just stored in computers.
As I see it, destroying all the (physical) money would have 2 advantages:
So, Cobra wasn’t too insane. They just need to work on scheme implementation.
Having just watched the first episode of The 100, I felt the need to write about one flaw of the episode. Why are they spacing people they don’t like? It’s a waste of resources.
The 100 – how big is your airlock?
I can see the rational for removing people. They have a small society, limited space to contain it and feel the need to have a drastic deterrent for crime.
But it is just the wrong way to do things, and here is my reasoning:
It is nice to see more Sci-Fi on TV. I just wish they thought a bit more about the science.
Inner city Sydney seem to be full of construction sites building apartment blocks, or converting old buildings into them. Here is a shot of one construction site squeezed between buildings in Chippendale, with cranes overhead.
Walking round the back lanes of Surry Hills at lunch time, looking at the lines of light and shadow falling across them.
Around Sydney there are more signs to remind pedestrians about cyclists. Amongst there I found a few telling pedestrians to be aware of Extra-Terrestrials over head.
I mean, what else would a bicycle displayed above the people mean?
(If this means nothing to you, you need to go watch more 80’s SciFi movies.)
