Sometimes you astound yourself with your philosophical revelations, sometimes you slice through sociological phenomena with cutting satire.

Sometimes you are just plain shallow....

On the weekend, I saw a couple lunching out with matching white pants and tops. All white, but clearly not sportswear to do with lawn bowls or tennis. Matching is the sort of thing we might do by accident and get mildly embarrassed about. Very coordinated weekend leisure wear. Very sickening.

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By the way, here is a cool link if you are at all concerned about the Sydney rainfall situation. These data are taken from electronic rain gauges, so not as accurate as human-checked, but still gives you an idea of what is falling where. Note that Camden in the south-west (close to the waragamba dam area) always gets less rain than nearer to the coast. Sad, sad days for Sydney Basin's amenity horticulture, fruit and veg producers. However, you will be pleased to hear that recycled water is getting trialled by my campus, and is used to water the public grounds in the new cul-de-sac-ridden housing estates out this way.

I think this year's Australian Idle (sic) finalists should do a remake of Toto's 80's hit single: "Bless the rain down in Africa", with an Australian twist to the lyrics of course.