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Thu, Apr. 2nd, 2009, 04:39 pm Just another day at the office We've just moved offices and I have to say everything is not totally perfect. But it is pretty hard to complain when you view is like this: That is the Sun Princess pulling out of its berth- which is 200m over the water from where we sit. Current Mood: chipper Link  Leave a comment Wed, Jan. 28th, 2009, 05:10 pm Thunks For one reason and another I've started up another blog. I'm focusing it mostly on very dull geeky things and my latest post is no different- a proposition to build out privately owned, publically subsidized last mile fibre to the node as financial stimulus. Link  Leave a comment Wed, Jan. 21st, 2009, 10:47 pm Its a boy Kris is 17 weeks pregnant and we just found out it is a boy! Welcome to the family my son. Link  Leave a comment | 10 comments Tue, Nov. 11th, 2008, 06:38 pm University of Chicago: What were you thinking? It is with huge amusement that I listen to the end credits of the NPR: Planet Money podcasts when the credit comes through from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business: Asking the question: What were you thinking? (And as a bonus this comes at the end of podcasts about the financial crisis.) Link  Leave a comment Tue, Nov. 11th, 2008, 12:03 pm American Airlines: Not a good airline After arriving in good time for my 9:30am flight I have moved from irritated to frustrated to furious over American Airline's handling of delays. 12:05pm now. Be nice to board sometime. Sadly this isn't my only AA flight today. (My original arrival time in Atlanta of 16:40 is a distant and fond memory now.) Grrr. There are many things AA could have done to make this more bearable and they've done none of them. Particularly galling since I have a 'first class' seat. Apparently that doesn't mean anything. Link  Leave a comment Mon, Sep. 15th, 2008, 12:42 am Man was not meant to fly. I'm on my way home again after a month in New York. I'd already be home except for a missing manhole cover. On the way to JFK airport two expressways converge from about 10 lanes into 3 and pass under an overpass, under which a manhole went missing. The New York authorities leapt into action and parked a van and some witches hats around the hole. This meant of course that traffic flow was cut since there were fewer lanes but what really killed it was everyone SLOWING DOWN TO LOOK. ITS A MISSING MANHOLE COVER. THERE'S LITERALLY NOTHING TO SEE. So my 45 minute taxi ride took 2 hours and I missed the plane by 10 minutes (since it was running on time). Today, rather than be stung again I left ridiculously early, got there in plenty of time and the plane was running late. In fact, so late that my flight, due to arrive at 7:15am in Sydney will now arrive at 9:25am. So the whole flying thing has been a bit of a bust this time round. Luckily Google have iPass so at least I can vent on the Intrawub while waiting. Link  Leave a comment | 1 comment Tue, Sep. 2nd, 2008, 10:56 am Breakfast at Tiffany's I'm scheduling my last couple of weeks in New York for this trip and I was most amused that in Google calendar the example event text was exactly the thing I was scheduling: "Breakfast at Tiffany's". In homage to Audrey, no doubt like thousands of tourists every year, I thought I'd do a Coffee and Danish while window shopping at Tiffany's. Google knows all. Link  Leave a comment Tue, Sep. 2nd, 2008, 12:59 am Finding your way in a big city So here is a long, possibly boring, discussion about the New York roadmap. More than most of my blog posts, this was written for me, not you. But you are welcome to read it. I won't mind if you get bored and stop reading. New York is an easy city to find your way in- for a big chunk of Manhattan Island the Streets are numbered from 1st through to 242nd St and orthogonal to that the Avenues are numbered first through ninth. Fifth avenue is the 'middle' and if you are on a Street (as opposed to an Avenue) West of fifth you say something like "160 West 24th St", or if you are East you might say 65 East 113th St. I happen to be staying at 160 W 24th St which is on the corner of 7th Ave. Catching the subway "downtown" means going to streets with smaller numbers (say from 77th st to 23rd street) whereas going "uptown" means going to streets with bigger numbers (say from 13th St to 112th st). After two weeks here the St/Ave grid is second nature- I can confidently place things "over on 4th Ave between 13th and 14th" or "up on 42nd St on 7th Ave". ( Read more...Collapse ) I have been guided in my walks by my reliable, pockets sized and ultra-convenient New York 'popoutmap' which folds out something like this: The pocket sized map unfolds to a map of the subway system both sides of which then pop out (using a very nifty origami-like "flower unfurling" system) to a much larger and more detailed map of streets and tourist highlights. It is incredibly useful. Riley gave it to me for my birthday. Kris was looking for birthday presents looked at this map and showed Riley and then went to put it way because I would have access to Google maps and wouldn't need such a thing- but Riley insisted on having it because it was Just So Cool. And he was absolutely right. Link  Leave a comment | 3 comments Mon, Sep. 1st, 2008, 12:52 am I (heart) New York New York is a walking city and walking around New York everywhere you go you'll see street vendors selling 'I (heart) New York' caps, shirts, pyjamas and anything else a tourist could possibly want. As time goes by I'm increasingly inclined to agree with the motto. The nice thing about New York is not that it is a dynamic slick and polished metropolis but that it isn't. New York is a very human place full of very human people. Its well lived in, the streets are irregular and everywhere you go something is being knocked down, rebuilt or repaired. For every building that is a monument to clean lines and a modern aesthetic there are a dozen that a tired, boring, classic, hokey, decrepit, funky or simply monolithic. Actually I love the buildings of New York- so much so I've given them their own album in my Picasa gallery. Since some of you may not be in to building porn I'll just include a few thumbnails here: I also have a gallery that is less building oriented for those so inclined: There are stories in these pictures, but I probably won't tell them tonight. I will say, however, that Strand Books (18 Miles of New, Used, Rare and Out of Print Books) is a seriously great bookshop. Link  Leave a comment Sat, Aug. 23rd, 2008, 06:11 pm A Walk in a Big City On Wednesday night I left work turned right rather than my normal left and went for a walk. I walked to the shoreline closest to work, along the shore to Hudson park then inland for a while and back up Broadway to home. In all 4 hours of walking. It was a fascinating walk because of the name recognition factor- the Monopoly moments. (Named after the moments when you walk around London going 'Look Kings Cross!', 'Angel of Islington', 'Park Lane!'- funny how they named all those streets after places in Monopoly.) ( Read more...Collapse ) Last night I wandered down to Greenwich Village with one of the other new Googlers and we ate at a Mexican near where he lives. The food was just excellent but I was grossly overcharged for the drinks which took the shine off things- but only the next day when I went back and looked at the receipt. It was a great evening though- he's a nice bloke, just out of University and we've been having very enjoyable conversations. Tomorrow, more walking. Link  Leave a comment

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