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ljpliceaseSaturday, I went to the Museum of Sydney (MOS) to see the Joseph Lycett exhibit which is on there right now. Lycett was an artist, forger, and convict in New South Wales, and his work is some of the most important visual record that exists of the time. What I found remarkable about Lycett's work is that the Europeans (individuals, towns and ships) look tiny in comparison to the environment that they find themselves in. One example struck me especially shows a tree by the shore four times the height of a three mast sailing ship (which is actually closer to the viewer). Even where there are not the immense incongruities, the Europeans look small vulnerable. The few pieces that I saw featuring aboriginals were scaled more realistically. Perhaps this is because Lycett knew his presumably European audience, and what they would be interested in seeing?
The museum was small, but enjoyable. The permanent collection includes a set of First Fleet scale models and descriptions. It's interesting the things that the Europeans did and did not bring with them. It reminded me of reading the Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes, and how poorly equipped the first European settlers were.
There was also a little shrine to the first nine governors of New South Wales. Essentially they were the first nine military dictators of New South Wales. I thought the descriptions of the men seemed a little too complimentary, and I caught myself not believing the descriptions of their achievements, assuming they would be evil Englishmen, until I remembered where that was coming from. My father is a bigoted toward the English, and I am afraid that I was tainted early on by his views. Even though I do not subscribe to his views of the world anymore, there are some ugly assumptions in my thinking which are hard to root out. I'm working on that.
Sunday, Theresa posted a link to her journal to 43 places. It's this place where you can post stories and pictures about places that you've been, or keep track of places that you'd like to go. I thought it was pretty neat. See if there are any places that you'd also like to go, and let me know: I personally added The other day I got into an argument with someone I don't even know in Theresa's journal, over whether or not Apple is overpriced. It was very embarrassing.
Today I went into an Apple store; I wanted to check out the monitors. I'm thinking about getting an Apple monitor for my Mac mini, although I am reluctant because although they look really nice, I can help but feeling they are almost certainly overpriced (you will see that this is a common theme in my thinking). Anyway, while I was in there I saw they had an iMac with Windows XP installed on it. I knew that it was possible, but it surprised me to see it in an Apple store.
So of course, the first thing which came to my mind (as a good computer dork) was: "trippleboot." OS X, Windows and Linux on the same computer may actually be viable in the near future. I realized long ago that all operating systems irritate me at least to some degree, but if I can switch between them when I get tired of any one of them I can reduce that irritation.
The museum was small, but enjoyable. The permanent collection includes a set of First Fleet scale models and descriptions. It's interesting the things that the Europeans did and did not bring with them. It reminded me of reading the Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes, and how poorly equipped the first European settlers were.
There was also a little shrine to the first nine governors of New South Wales. Essentially they were the first nine military dictators of New South Wales. I thought the descriptions of the men seemed a little too complimentary, and I caught myself not believing the descriptions of their achievements, assuming they would be evil Englishmen, until I remembered where that was coming from. My father is a bigoted toward the English, and I am afraid that I was tainted early on by his views. Even though I do not subscribe to his views of the world anymore, there are some ugly assumptions in my thinking which are hard to root out. I'm working on that.
Sunday, Theresa posted a link to her journal to 43 places. It's this place where you can post stories and pictures about places that you've been, or keep track of places that you'd like to go. I thought it was pretty neat. See if there are any places that you'd also like to go, and let me know: I personally added The other day I got into an argument with someone I don't even know in Theresa's journal, over whether or not Apple is overpriced. It was very embarrassing.
Today I went into an Apple store; I wanted to check out the monitors. I'm thinking about getting an Apple monitor for my Mac mini, although I am reluctant because although they look really nice, I can help but feeling they are almost certainly overpriced (you will see that this is a common theme in my thinking). Anyway, while I was in there I saw they had an iMac with Windows XP installed on it. I knew that it was possible, but it surprised me to see it in an Apple store.
So of course, the first thing which came to my mind (as a good computer dork) was: "trippleboot." OS X, Windows and Linux on the same computer may actually be viable in the near future. I realized long ago that all operating systems irritate me at least to some degree, but if I can switch between them when I get tired of any one of them I can reduce that irritation.
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Date: 2006-05-22 03:06 am (UTC)By the way, I was expecting pictures behind the cut to show what you were describing! :P
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Date: 2006-05-22 04:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-22 04:10 am (UTC)