Travelogue Melbourne - Flinders Lane and alleyways

[tikiwanderer]

I was heading into the CBD to meet Scott, to go together to a Science Week gig. The Big Science Gig, in fact. I was meeting him just after work. So I caught the train in

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[gutter_monkey]

"The Big Science Gig was good."

Apart from their blindfold game, of course, which invoked my nerd rage. Sorry for making you sit through my rantings. ;)

[tikiwanderer]

No, no, it was good. I had naively been thinking that they were using some sort of efficient coding system, because there were several that might work easily. Your explanation of what they were actually doing was quite interesting. And then had me disappointed because it really wasn't efficient at all...

[gutter_monkey]

It's like they went out of their way to mess up all the usual techniques to make them nearly impossible to use properly.

Nerd ... rage ... growing .. again ...

[juzbunny]

I love the DeGreaves St area. Its close to my heart in the way that Melbourne is full of a vibrant flow and hidden spaces. Gotta love those lanes, too. Me and D. want to do a paste-up there sometime.

I found it because of Honya, in one of the arcades near DeGreaves. Before you had manga in Borders there was really only Honya, a flat out Japanese Milkbar in Melbourne. Honya means 'bookseller'.

Transporter

[anonymous]

I'm back in DeGraves St. tonight for art class, and I know the "transporter"... but did not know it spoke to you!! I'll be stepping on in for a revelation....
The light effect reminds me more of the scene in the film Bladerunner where Roy is in the lift at Tyrell Corp, ascending to meet his maker.
Mark

[leahcim]

Hmm, I shall have to make a note of all this as it looks like we may be in Melbourne in January for my brother's wedding (coincidentally, his work involved the ACMI stuff at Federation Square). Hmm, I wonder if four and half months is actually going to be long enough to plan properly for this...

-MD (who had been meaning to reply to email, honest)

[tikiwanderer]

You can plan properly for it in as little as two days.
Step 1: work out how much time you have.
Step 2: realise how much there is that you'd want to see, spread densely and thickly over a very large area
Step 3: Figure you'll miss most of it.

Then everything you get to is a bonus. -smile-

I'm way behind on my email, so I don't know that I even knew I was waiting on an email from you - I thought you were waiting on one from me...

sounds interesting

[snowhorsexx]

cool :)