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A Trekkie, the end of the world and a big ship.

I had to put this picture somewhere. I even found a site where it could go...








My house mate is convinced that the end of the world is dangerously close. Comet Elenin is coming close to Earth (a mere 35 million miles) and there's quite a few strange "coincidences" happening at the moment. Maybe he's right. I took these pictures from the office window and few weeks ago. A nuclear explosion in the west of Sydney. Something is happening.






Rupert Murdoch's free evening rag (masquerading as a newspaper) in Sydney (called MX) carries this section called "Overheard", where people write in with things they have overheard. This column is usually quite funny. One evening last week, after leaving the gym I was walking down to the train platform and on the stairs walking towards me were a well-dressed couple looking slightly dishevelled. The girl was searching in her handbag for something and then looked up and proclaimed in a loud hiss to her boyfriend "I've got no special K left."




He slowed his pace, but didn't look back at her and exhaled in a long, knowing sigh "I know............you've probably done it all".
Maybe she meant the cereal.



The first time I have ever seen an oil tanker going under a bridge. Picture time! Before you ridicule, think about times that you have seen an oil tanker sailing under a bridge.

Bet it's not many is it.

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