Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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4:00 AM and the train out of Sydney
I had to get up at 4:00 AM to catch my train this morning… I’ve never been a fan of early mornings, but for some reason 4:00 AM was pretty easy to do. Although I’m not very happy with the train trip this time, at least I don’t have to try and sleep on the…
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Burning ears
JB and I were talking the night before he left for Seattle about our school days and the people we knew. The really crazy thing is I had said I would like to apologize to someone for some very stupid school crap that I did back in the day. It was a real shame that…
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The theatre I would work in.
Right, I pretty much gave up on working in the theatre in December of 1999, so the inital draw of the Opera House wasn’t what I would normally feel had I still been working in the business. We decided today to head to Circular Quay in Sydney for the Harbor Bridge Celebration, it’s 75 years…
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A tower and a little Chinese.
After walking through Chinatown, which luckily is right near the hotel and getting a little breakfast at a Chinese version of a greasy spoon, we wandered through a dark and stinky version of the Queen Victoria Market. I can’t believe how many versions of the same junk souvenirs as every other place on the street…
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Going home soon…
I’m getting geared up to head home soon, I’ve almost come to the end of my time traveling before I get on a plane for the long flight home. Don’t get me wrong, I miss my Seattle friends and family, but I don’t know if I’m ready to go home yet, or at least stay…
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How to get excited when you’re not.
I like technology, I really do. After all it’s a laptop that I’m typing this post on right now, I have two digital cameras and I have multiple domain names. I’ve been a systems administrator for a company, I’ve even worked as a web developer for a short while. But as of the last year…
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Uluru / Ayres Rock
Ayres Rock (Uluru) is absolutely stunning, as well as the Olga’s, which are a lesser known formation about 20k from Ayres Rock. The colors are of nothing I’ve seen before, it really is as red as the photos I’ve seen before coming here, and the detail in the rock is more impressive then the photos…
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Where I’ve been.
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Uluru…
After spending just a few minutes in the presence of Uluru your first thought is “why the hell didn’t I buy the fly net for my head?” I’ve never met a fly as tenacious as the bush fly in Australia, the damn thing will crawl up you nose if you let it, and even if…
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WiFi
It’s everywhere. I’m here in the middle of nowhere, otherwise known as Uluru, Australia, which is really the middle of nowhere and here I am typing away on my blog.
Got any book recommendations?