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Are the World Youth Drones gone yet? Please? Er. I thought they were going to be gone today, but I saw a few stragglers in the various train stations I was in today.

When Л and I went to the Sydney Aquarium, we kept hearing some of the younger visitors chant “Dory!” while others were calling out “Nemo!” in honour of the Pixar film Finding Nemo. One particularly cleaver youngster declared “It's a Nemo” when he found a solitary clownfish in a tank. All pretty harmless fun; I enjoyed Nemo because, among other reasons, it was partly set in my favourite harbour city. Today I was skimming the Internets and ran into this article

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4220496.ece

which says that clownfish populations are shrinking thanks to their demand as pets due to the popularity of the film. Who knows if it is true or not, but after seeing all that, shall we say, enthusiasm at the Aquarium, it certainly seems plausible. Apparently they are difficult to breed in captivity.

Watched Oyster Farmer (imdb). I love this style of Australian filmmaking (Hollywood seems so tired to me sometimes). Had a similar feel in some respects to Lantana and Jindabyne. Oyster Farmer was set on the Hawskebury River, and featured local background colour including bell birds and trains of the Newcastle line which takes me up to Gosford.

On the commentary tracks of The Chaser, they are always talking about how people in Melbourne love it when they go to film there because they get to see places around where they live on TV. I think they must be right, because one of the things I like about the group is that they are almost always pulling stunts around Sydney in places that I recognize. At least part of the appeal to Australian films, for me, is seeing home through another person’s lens.

Next up was the bedroom. I have a two bedroom flat, but I use the larger of the two as my computer room/office. Basically my computers need more room than I do.

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Sydney

Someone asked why Таня pronounced something in a certain way today and she said “I don’t pronounce it that way; it just sounds like I do.” (Russians often spell things one way, but then pronounce them another, to the bemusement of Australians who pronounce them the way they are spelled regardless of what language they came from: witness news anchors saying “junta”).
The young bloke in the front row with a Guns and Roses T-Shirt didn’t know who Юрий Гагарин was.
I was watching the Colbert Report today and I got the munchies for Doritos. I know I am a couple of weeks late.
There was an article in the Sydney mX today about Stephen Colbert’s (Стефан Колбер) run for the White House. mX is brought to you by the same corporate overlords that bring you Faux News. It did mention it was a joke, but it didn’t mention that he was only running in South Carolina.
I wonder if Sydneysiders even know where South Carolina is. Then again, I know Americans have no idea where New South Wales is.
My Internet is for shit tonight speed wise :(