urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilightThe Twilight ReportYour Home For Snappy Repartee應龍urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight:20060317.21522006-03-18T02:52:00SMB Tuba2006-03-18T02:52:002006-03-18T02:52:00I was down at <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_Quay">Circular Quay</A> yesterday with Torbin and Judy (friends of my mother's) and I heard someone playing the
<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.">Super Mario Bros.</A> theme on a <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tuba">tuba</A>. It reminded me of my friend Tyler who is a sound designer for <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Arts">EA</A>. On
our sojourn through the <A HREF="http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au">botanical gardens</A>, we ran into a guy who works for <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condi_Rice">Condi Rice</A>, who was apparently down
here at the time.
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There were helicopters buzzing about like mad all day. Torbin and Judy opined that they were there to offer protection to
the sec-state. After her time in Sydney, she went down to Melbourne to watch the commonwealth games. I watched a little
of the games on the TV. England and Scotland compete separately for these games, and Australia dominates the swimming
and the bicycling.
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I took a number of pictures of the <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House">opera house</A> when I wasn't being rudely shooed away by foreign tourists with their
own, apparently more important, cameras:
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<b>(</b><a href="http://www.wdlabs.com/twilight/entry/20060317.2152#cutid1">...many pictures behind this cut</a><b>)</b>