The Rationalist Manifesto

You whinged and whinged so we finally decided to put up some more photos of us, and less of the scenery. So here they are, in all their mobile g(l)ory.

- View from St Kilda’s Pier towards the city. Scenery! Nyah!

- Shelly looking for Penguins burroughs in the St Kilda’s windbreaker. She found two! One was a fledgling and one was a baby. She took a photo, but you can only see its ass.

- Shelly and I on the train, back from Shabbat dinner at George and Bella’s.

- Shelly on the tram

- Myself on the tram

- Shelly and Damien on the tram

- Damien on the tram (do you get the idea yet?)

- What is funny about this photo?

Enjoy!

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Melbourne is a beautiful city, well laid out and relaxed.

To me, Sydney was much like Los Angeles — seedy and unkempt, with some exceptions such as the Circular Quay, The Rocks area, Annandale, Sydney University and King St. in Newtown. One could enjoy touring the urban decay, but I would not like to live in it. Much in the same way as I can enjoy Bangkok as a tourist but would never consider living there.

Melbourne on the other hand reminds me of Chicago in its architecture but San Francisco’s downtown in its feeling. Even the less appealing suburbs such as North Fitzroy are nicer than your average suburb of Sydney. There’s room on the sidewalk to enjoy the city while walking, not just walk from origin to destination as in Sydney. People here are less about ‘getting there’ and more about enjoying the journey. There are trees everywhere and the air is clearer and less polluted. Less cars on the city roads and almost no busses as the trams serve the same function without the noxious exhaust.

My kind of city.

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I’m sick of having to deal with Internet Explorer 6.0’s CSS bullshit, so from now on, this blog might look weird to anyone who hasn’t upgraded to Firefox, Opera or IE7.

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Update:
I should have mentioned this originally, Mike of miketheman.net pointed me in the direction of the feedblitz integration. Thanks Mike!

This is useful to those who do not use a RSS aggregator or know what that is.

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We scored tickets to the 2nd NIN show in Melbourne at the Metro on the 14th of May, 2007. Yes, it is still a long way away!
Consider that the 1st show was sold out in the first five minutes of the sale…

We’ll see Arcturus before, on the 31s of March at The Espy. Never heard about them before Damien recommended them, we’ll have fun for sure though!

I love that Melbourne has so much music going on!

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We’ve been in Melbourne for three days now and managed to have both good times and bad in this short period of time. Overall the outlook is very positive and we’re finding that we like Melbourne a lot. George and Bella are very accomodating and we appreciate they hospitality very much.Assorted photo updates for you… The first two are especially for Aya:

- Omo Sensitive Laundry Detergent - for real…

- Coffico coffeeshop in Melbourne (alley near 440 Collins St)

- This is ‘Cyrus Fine Foods”, they are located in a prestigious Sydney city area. Their foods are so fine that they have this in their window display:
- Definitely what every fine chef needs in his pantry!

In other news:

- Tal and the belly in front of Sydney University (this is from our first week in Sydney)

- The view from Circular Quay station on my way to work in Sydney

- Me on the way to work

- Damien at Newtown train station

- Weird tree in Church St, Newtown

- Sauron’s helmet is located in a Sydney shop

- Avalon is the name of the Melbourne area airport we landed at.

- First photo in Melbourne

- The Jewish Section of Safeway in St Kilda, VIC

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We’ve arrived at Melbourne this afternoon and have been very warmly welcomed by George and Bella at their Brighton house.

We didn’t have much of a chance to see the city, except briefly on route, but it already looks much cleaner and relaxed than Sydney.

More to come tomorrow when we’ll go touring around!

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Interesting piece describing Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s life, from a slightly Jewish perspective. via Digg.

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An interesting article regarding a book that covers an alternative theory for global warming. I first heard about this theory by Henrik Svensmark in a lecture delivered last year by associated professor Nir J. Shaviv at the Hebrew University, you can read a very accessible article about it here.

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Due to my work we have to postpone our Melbourne move by a week. So we’re in Sydney for another week ;-o

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