they walk among us

Spotted these two pieces of graffiti this week. I wonder if Erich von Däniken has been in town?

Astronaut II was spotted as I jogged back across the top of Circulal Quay at lunch on Wednesday. I ran over the face as I had done in the past, but this time it was after taking, on Tuesday, Astronaut I pic. So today, after work I took a detour and rather than head straight for the bus I headed back to take the picture. I should do stuff like that more often. Sal is in Melbourne for work and I was in no hurry to get home. But in my laziness I would typically not bother to wander all that way out of my way just to take a picture. But I did. And I feel a lot better for it. Maybe I have, as they say, turned the corner. Unlike the England football team. Who are still shit.

On the subject of shit things, picture quality of links to my flickr'd shots seems far shitter than quality of uploaded shots.

El Nino and computer model doom

Watching a thing about El Nino on ABC. Finished with the line "we've thrown the dice and now we have to see what happens." All rather depressing. Maybe. In El Nino years the Amazon gets less rain. Global warming may make el nino permanent. And that could kill the Amazon. The same Amazon that processes 20% of our CO2 per annum. It dies and it releases that CO2. So global warming gets way worse and we trigger a mega El Nino. Which would be a real fucker for the planet. Civilisations crashing and all that. Interesting stuff. Included a theory that the French Revolution was in part due to a severe El Nino. Europe becomes super-cold, crops fail, masses in poverty and hunger and conditions for a revolution arise. Interesting.