Sightseeing in Canberra!

Got up around 8 or 9 on this here Super Bowl Sunday Monday, not caring a whit about the game. By 10, both Jillian and I were ready to go out, so she headed to Tilley's for coffee and I headed to Cycle City. I did this on my bike, which was basically ridable at the time--handlebars slightly off, wheels ever-so-slightly out of true, rear wheel in its highest gear. Got to the shop with no incident, explained myself--first time in for a tuneup, plus some repairs--and was told it'd be ready by afternoon. Nice!

Stopped by an AusPost/cleaners/phone-card-seller, picked up stamps for international postcards, bought a Yes Optus top-up card for my phone, and walked over to Tilley's--right up the street--to fetch Jillian. However, I then discovered that the Yes Optus voucher I'd purchased wouldn't work on my phone, despite it saying YES OPTUS before saying Virgin when it starts up. Fortunately, they credited me the $30 back, and we were off.

First we headed to Questacon, a spiffy science center. As many, it was largely targeted at kids, but had a lot of damn cool stuff. All kinds of fun learning exhibits and toys, a huge Tesla coil, a cheesy earthquaked house, a roller coaster simulator, a dizzying tube of mirrors encircling a walkway, a freefall slide, and a fabulous, huge gravity-driven mechanical billiard ball raceway--ramps, loops, switchbacks, weights, levers, spirals, etc, etc--you've seen 'em, it'll make more sense when I upload the photo later. :D

( Lunch in Civic, more Questacon, Telstra Tower, Botanical Gardens, bike repairs, Woolworth's )

Strange spam

Recently I've been getting strange spam, which seems to serve no purpose. The format for the subject will be "Re: [random letters] [random phrase]" with a body of random words. However, I've realized that the body is almost a Best of Word of the Day, so I thought I'd share two recent examples:


From: Chung <zxbkpfdhlgw@cnnic.net.cn>
To: [various Cornell addresses]
Subject: Re: CR, the strangely dressed

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From: Irving <ewgxkzqcm@canada.com>
To: [Cornell address]
Subject: Re: XDDWCZ, the procurators order
CC: [various Cornell addresses]

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