15 Sep 2004
Apparently, one and the same. I just recieved an SMS message from Sam, who has apparently just had her handbag fall onto the floor of a train, into a puddle of someone elses vomit. Lovely.
On reflection, I realised I’ve never had an experience like this on Sydney’s public transport system. Admittedly, I probably don’t carry a
handbag enough, but that’s another story entirely. No, seriously. I don’t think I’ve ever been vomited on, or even near, on public transport. I’ve been on a bus where someone at the other end urinated in their seat, and on a few more where people have been so drunk that urinating becomes a highly probable event, but it’s never actually affected me, personally. Besides, I can count those incidents on my hands and feet. Yes, I have a normal number of fingers, and toes, just for the record. Well, most days.
So, any Sydney-dwellers, what’re your experiences with such things? Is our public transport system the grossest thing since… umm… something gross? Or isn’t it so bad, aside from a few incidents which could really happen anywhere? Tim Swavley seems to think that even a train that HAS been vomited on, but cleaned up, isn’t worth riding on, judging from his escapades of earlier this week, in which he managed a new record (was it seven trains?) for the highest number of individual trains inbound to the city. He hasn’t got a blog, so I can’t hyperlink you to the full story. Harrass him in person, though. ;-)
Of course, if you’re not from Sydney, what do you think of the public transport systems (if any) in your little corner of the earth? Are such things universally gross, or have we Sydney-siders done something to deserve this especially?
15 Sep 2004
After reading Dale’s post about gettin’ all nostalgic, with photos and that, I went rummaging around in my private stash of ye olde web material (hah, which, incidentally, it turns out has been accessible all this time if you can guess the directory structure properly!) for some photos which last saw the light of day in the first iteration of the StreetComputing website.
Reproduced here, for your enjoyment/amusment. If you’re using a modern web browser, hover your mouse pointer over the images for a brief description.
That’s my contribution to your nostalgia trip… enjoy.
15 Sep 2004
Hmm. I was marginally stumped, when it came time to define the term Bakufu in an exam today — too much time spent studying for maths, I suppose — and so I wrote this, instead:
It’s like a Haiku,
for the less poetically inclined.
Minus the hyperlink, because paper doesn’t lend itself too well to such things. At least some poor marker will have a laugh, amidst 60 papers of the same thing, or however many there are.
14 Sep 2004
In response to something written over at Dalegroup a few hours ago, a rant on multi-user blogging, and a proposition for consideration by many.
I agree with Dale, that this is a very interesting idea indeed. Most blogging tools support multiple users, although this is perhaps more for accountability in situations where these blogging tools are applied as a CMS-on-the-cheap than anything else…
There’d need to be some kind of theme, though. I think a SACS blog would be a great idea, just for kicks, if you guys weren’t all leaving in a weeks time. It’d be interesting to see multiple perspectives on the same events — Dracula-esque. Stoker always was into using every text-type imaginable, I’m sure he’d be keen on the blog idea, were it around at his time of writing. I suppose it’s just the evolution of a text form into a more public medium.
Here is a ridiculously stupid idea, which I’m hoping everyone will think is very cool, and act upon. Just for kicks. A HSC 2004 blog, in which anyone who is in Year 12, 2004, may become a member with posting capabilities, and publish their feelings, thoughts, and opinions not only on the exams themselves (although that is perhaps the object of most interest), but also in preparation and study during your Stuvac period, in the leadup to your exams.
I’d be interested in supporting this, if enough Year 12′s would be interested in participating. Let me know what you think…
14 Sep 2004
I was amused to note another passenger on an outbound bus this afternoon jotting notes onto a Post It pad. Why? Because this pad of Post It notes sat adjacent to their Palm V-series handheld, which they were apparently using for other purposes at this time.
Usability? Erm… of course!