Random thoughts and observations
I took this picture with my mobile phone today while walking past the West Beach Primary School.
I’m neither a botanist nor an ornithologist, but the birds are some type of parrot and I guess the bush is a bottlebrush.
I’ll mention too the weather has been remarkably cool for Adelaide in February over the past week.
Gizmodo republished a photo from Reddit of a note that was left with a stack of unclaimed Yellow Pages.
The note reads, in part: “Dear Yellow Pages, see this big stack of unclaimed telephone books? NOBODY WANTS THEM. Please stop killing trees and GET A NEW BUSINESS MODEL.”
I entirely agree with the sentiment.
I have four offices in Adelaide from which I work at various times. That requires me to carry four different electronic security passes for entry, which is rather annoying, but less annoying than forgetting to take one.
One of my offices looks over Victoria Square toward Gulf St Vincent. In fact, the sea is visible on most days, 10km away.
Today I discovered the outstanding Picture Australia website.
According to the About page: Picture Australia is an internet-based service that allows you to search many significant online pictorial collections at the same time.
When you do a search on Picture Australia, thumbnail images are retrieved from participating institutions on the fly and inserted into the search results.
Barber shop visits are normally tame affairs, but today involved a rather heavy conversation with my hair cutter of choice in Mile End.
The 67-year-old Greek Cypriot, who is normally very quiet, today opened a conversation by asking if I had seen the news last week that France had condemned Turkey’s genocide against the Greeks. I hadn’t, although a web search reveals the French Senate voted to criminalise denying the mass killing of Armenians early last century was genocide.
