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shaky night

Circular Quay at night.

A week ago I took a day off, and wondered around Sydney for the day. It was a nice break from not working all that hard at Company 2; it let me clear my head.

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(threesome)

Three unrelated photographs. Firstly, this is what King's Cross looks like when you are drunk (I imagine). Or if you don't have much light and no flash. Internet legend says that they have naked hippo racing here followed by performances by the Vienna Boys Choir^[1].

Secondly, there appears to be some disagreement as to whether or not railing is allowed. Here is a photograph without:

Thirdly, advertising is EVERYWHERE, but especially in big cities.

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Finally saw Water (have been talking about going to see it for months). It was awesome. The cinematography was fun and the music is brilliant (I'd like to get the soundtrack if I can find it). The story is powerful. I love there is a theater at Circular Quay I can go to for indy flicks. I haven't seen anything there that I didn't like on some level, but I think I enjoyed Water the most.

I was down at Circular Quay yesterday with Torbin and Judy (friends of my mother's) and I heard someone playing the Super Mario Bros. theme on a tuba. It reminded me of my friend Tyler who is a sound designer for EA. On our sojourn through the botanical gardens, we ran into a guy who works for Condi Rice, who was apparently down here at the time.



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.

I took a number of pictures of the opera house when I wasn't being rudely shooed away by foreign tourists with their own, apparently more important, cameras:

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