Poles
Some random poles in the sand just north of Hillarys Marina.
Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 | Photos | 2 Comments
Archived: July 2005
So Wrong
I had a lunch meeting today which ended up with some pop psychology, with the table collectively trying to deduce personalities based on what each person ordered to drink with lunch.
Camomile Tea with Honey? Clearly feeling sick.
A light beer? Pretending it's the weekend, but remembering there's another meeting after this one.
Long Macchiato? Falling asleep.
Orange juice? Healthy and sporty.
I ordered the orange juice. Pop psychology proved wrong again.
Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2005 | Life , Photos | 2 Comments
Whew
It's been a long couple of weeks at work, I've barely had time to duck out and take some photos.
Here's another from one of the cold mornings the other week.
Posted on Friday, July 22, 2005 | Photos , Work | No Comments Yet
Early Winter Morning
I know it's technically the middle of winter in Perth, but I'm not sure what we've done to warrant day after day with the minimum around 0.3°C... I'm getting tired of de-icing my car windows at 6.30am. Sure it was fun once, but after a week it's getting old quickly.
Also cold. It's getting that even quicker.
I've had to start wearing a scarf to work so that I'm close to warm when I get into the arctic office first thing in the morning. The scarf also has the unintentional side-effect of making me look like a pretentious designer.
So I guess the cold mornings aren't altogether bad then, are they?
Posted on Tuesday, July 12, 2005 | Life , Photos | No Comments Yet
Music to wake up to
A couple of months back I worked out how to set the timers on my stereo so that it's acting as an alarm clock. Turns out it's easy to set up so that the alarm kicks in at the same time for Monday-Thursday and later on Fridays, since I get to sleep in then.
Long story short, I now get woken up each weekday by the first track of whatever CD I've got in there. This morning it was Thievery Corporation's The Cosmic Game (the first track is 'Chasing the Hate Machines') and The Hampden's Even World ('The Hype') is becoming something of a regular Friday thing. Lately I've also been partial to the Garden State soundtrack (Coldplay's 'Don't Panic'), The Kings of Convenience's Riot On An Empty Street ('Homesick') and of course Morcheeba's Big Calm (The Sea).
After a couple of months I think I've worked my way through most of the first tracks that are nice and mellow enough to wake up to. There's a heap of CDs with good tracks later on but that start out a bit too rowdy for 6am...
Got any suggestions of good first tracks? Leave a comment and let me know!
Posted on Monday, July 11, 2005 | Music | 16 Comments
Float
A drink fountain just outside the Central Park office tower, Perth.
Speaking of which, I can trace the beginnings of what I'm sure is technically an addiction of mine back to drink fountains. Kinda.
About three or four years ago the guys at work bought me a t-shirt for my birthday off the web (on a tip-off from K, who saw a link to the shirt on my site). That t-shirt was When Drink Fountains Go Bad, and it was the start of my Threadless t collection.
A collection which, I'm both ashamed and proud to say, now numbers some 24 t-shirts.
Last week I realised I could wear a different t-shirt to work every day for over a month without repeating (for reference, I'm currently wearing Odd But Cute).
Posted on Wednesday, July 6, 2005 | Photos | 1 Comments
Over-engineered
That's the impressively over-engineered pedestrian overpass to get on to the Narrows bridge from South Perth.
It's a little wordy for a license plate, but I think there's a certain charm to "Perth: it may be a little dull, but things sure are over-engineered!"
Though come to think of it, we've never really topped the truly inspired license plate slogan "Western Australia: State of Excitement," have we?
Posted on Tuesday, July 5, 2005 | Photos | No Comments Yet
Freeway Invader
I see this space invader every morning on the drive to work -- he's on the pedestrian bridge over the freeway just next to the city.
In other news, I may have accidentally ended up in a variety of camera stores last weekend and accidentally dropped my credit card on the counter and bought a Nikon D70.
These things happen.
Posted on Monday, July 4, 2005 | Photos | 6 Comments