Last night, I finally got around to paying the Upper Riccarton War Memorial Park a visit. It's recently been opened on the site of the former War Memorial Library, utilising a few heritage items from the former library in its design.
What was most surreal though was standing there trying to photograph this "most Kiwi" of artworks (complete with a Buzzy Bee, Anzac Donkey, and Red Poppy), while smelling the fragrant dinner-rush exhaust from the nearby Chinese restaurants!
Sometimes you just cannot make these things up! Either that, or "The Algorithms" pervading our lives these days are getting much better at juxtapositioning contrasting but related things together. Anyway, I digress. Tonight's impromptu post is inspired by the following 2 snippets that popped up across my various feeds this evening:
1) Local newspaper had an article saying that a *third* building at my former High School had just been deemed "quake prone" - with all three buildings having been built either shortly before my time there, or during my time there, and all having been places I'd spent a bit of time in.
2) An old clip of Bill Gates giving a demo of Visual Basic back in 1991
It's funny how these things go sometimes, isn't it...
Christchurch Airport had a welcome visitor today: A 747-400 freighter from National Airlines! And not just any one of the fleet, but N936CA - a bird painted in a striking red + white "30th Anniversary" livery!
