Yesterday a colleague sent me an invitation to a team lunch in James Squire Brewhouse. I opened a Google Maps link provided in the email and the first thing I saw was user reviews. It was good fun to read them aloud: But it was not all doom and gloom. There was one glowing recommendation …
Author Archives: Vladimir Antropov
Power Plant at Darling Harbour
Recently we visited Power Plant at Darling Harbour, an exhibition presented by Sydney Festival and Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority in Chinese Garden of Friendship. I didn’t have any expectations – it was my wife’s idea and I simply tagged along. What I found there was one of the most dazzling experiences in my life. Below …
A Text Generation’s Dictionary
Image via Wikipedia If in a fiction book I saw words “be4” and “there4” I would have thought that the book was a recent creation and an author was quoting an SMS message. Imagine my surprise when I found those words in Artemus Ward‘s Interview with President Lincoln written in XIX century. Ward was using …
The Harbour City
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday I talked to my colleague about Brisbane flood alert: He: Oh my God, in Brisbane they have a river flowing through the city. I: Yes, just like in Sydney. He: We don’t have a river in Sydney. I: We do – it’s Parramatta River. Puzzled look, then: Oh, right! This just …