Apollo-Soyuz docking display at the Smithsonian

I've been scanning old slides. The picture on the right was taken in the spring of 1987 and it's good to see that the display is still there 26 years later.

A false memory

I got back from shopping at the produce markets the other afternoon, looked inside my backpack and wondered: Where are the mandarin oranges I bought? Did they drop out of my backpack while walking, did they fall out into the car boot or what?

I remembered looking at the Murcott mandarins at the stall and thinking of getting some. I remembered picking out fruit into a plastic bag, paying for it, and putting the bag in my backpack.

When I examined my memory further, I realised there wasn't one of actually buying the mandarins. What I had bought was a bag of avocados. And I had thought while walking past the mandarins how the last batch I bought had too many seeds and I would think about it and come back later, which I didn't. The clincher was that the change I had in my pocket was more than I would have if I had bought mandarins. I didn't actually buy partly because I already had a bag of tasty seedless Afourer mandarins at home.

I imagine this is one way a false memory starts, from a confluence of different recollections which seem to add up to a false recollection.

Yarn bombing at Manly

While enjoying an afternoon off at Manly, I came across this yarn bombing exhibition outside the library. It seems to have been generated by this event.

Enjoy the colourful street art. More power to yarn bombers.

Husband day care centre

What a great idea.

Fu?

Strange sign, I thought, when I saw this in an underground car park. Was it trying to point me towards martial arts lessons or trying to insult me?

A little later, looking at another sign, I realised that it was stuck trying to scroll the word Full. Which this part of the car park wasn't, incidentally.

Great logic, guys

The British police have just released a computer aged image of what Madeleine McCann might look like today at 9 years and are asking Portuguese police to reopen the Madeleine McCann case. But then I read that a detective was quoted as saying:


"We are working on the basis of two possibilities here - one is that Madeleine is still alive; and the second that she is sadly dead," he said.


Huh, are there other possibilities, like she's a zombie?

Either I need a hearing aid or...

... Cityrail needs to improve their carriage PA systems. I was sure that today's announcement was: Ruck dog Rawson's Pom.


(Next stop: Milson's Point)