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Well this wasn’t in the brochure. Coldest winter here in Sydney for 60 years apparently. I’m certainly regretting leaving that fleece jacket at home. Brrr!

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Well we found a cinema that was showing Toy Story 3 in good old fashioned 2D today. Having just one functional eye, this 3D phase that movie studios are going through results in giving me a headache, and a blurry crappy movie experience. Rant rant mumble.

Toy Story 3 is a wonderful movie, and if you haven’t already seen it, shame on you: go now. NOW! I’m a Pixar buff, but honestly, it’s beautifully made. As with all things from the Californian studio, every single word uttered, emotion conveyed, and frame shown has been meticulously thought about and refined to perfection.

I was fighting back the tears at the end: a very fitting close to the Toy Story series. Hay Un Amigo En Mi!

Now this is interesting: www.goget.com.au

It doesn’t make sense in somewhere like, oh I dunno, Inverness. But it makes perfect sense in Sydney: pay a wee subscription every month, then when you need a car you book online, use a card (which is delivered when you sign up) to unlock and start the car, drive around, then return the car to where you found it. There are loads of GoGet cars parked around Sydney: I walk past a couple just on my way to work.

I’m thinking about trips to Ikea, or maybe a day to Palm Beach… Tempting.

PS this so wasn’t meant to sound like an advert for GoGet :-/

Vivid Sydney takes place about this time every year, and is billed as a festival of light, music, and ideas. I can’t speak for the music and ideas, but the light looks pretty good.

From a report titled “CBD brawl victim fights for life” in today’s Sydney Morning Herald:

Police now believe a blunt instrument, possibly a chair, was used to hit the victim.