The Last Person To Post Here Wins - 23

Well while waiting for the dreaded endodontist appointment yesterday I took a walk around my old university, across the road. It was Open Week and a lovely day too ( Spring is coming ). I was transported back some 39 years* to 1977 when I first visited ( I was in late high school ) and also in Open Week. Spooky. All those young people. I thought : what if I could be young again ? { In middle age you think that stuff }. But no, because that means I would be stupid again too.

Seriously what would I say to myself if I had five minutes with me ( via time machine etc ) in 1977 ? Buy Intel, Apple and Microsoft but not Hewlett Packard or IBM ? You see, I wouldn't listen would I ? Wow, I'd say ! Was that old guy creepy or what? He's me coming back to tell me that crap ? Surely they've worked out the secret of the universe by 2016 and so he tells me to buy shares in ( at least two ) non-existent companies. Well he did suddenly disappear in a puff of smoke, I'll give him that ....

So young but not young & stupid. Speaking of which the eternal but re-branded idiots ( label = 'progressive' now ) were doing their usual thing : sitting around yelling at other young people to yell at someone else to fix the world, the full Homer Simpson banner chasing gag. Expressing their right to express, but disappointed that no one is clapping them. Except each other. Poop. Effective ..... moi ? ( time to get out of one's own head ? ) So no generational change there**. Two girls chatting : "you know, I really like him, but ... well .... you know"***. It looks like the academic bookshop got shot to death by online stores. Sad Panda. But there is the 'co-op' bookstore where you can get anything from a small handbook titled "Gender Etiquette on Trams"**** to Shaun of The Dead dolls and other fascinating rubber items. Great intellectual focus there. There was a display stand and spruikers for the Starve Yourself To Death Paleo***** Diet Club.

Now for the architecture. They have been busy. Lots of snazzy, flowing and elegant shapes. None of this monolithic, could-have-been-built-by-Stalin stuff. Though the Chemistry Department looks like it was built in 1944 ..... yep, because it was. Between it and the Engineering Faculty there is the .... yep, Chemical Engineering School. They still have all the old flame/blast damage markings too, and some newer ones. Quaint.

Cheers, Mike.

* So some kids born on that day in 1977 have grown up and had kids, and some of those may have also grown up & had a kid yesterday. Hmmmm. Anyway I calculated some 5000+ medical graduates have been emitted from Melbourne University since I did. Yep, older people think this sort of crap ....

** Once upon a time : there was this famous rock star, call him John, who stayed in bed for several weeks with his lover, call her Yoko, to protest against hunger in the world. He still got pizzas delivered though. And presumably enjoyed the company when the cameras weren't there. For a really rich guy you have to ask : could he have actually done any less ??? But to his credit, he was the very first Occupy My Bedroom protester. Today we have untold millions of them, now known under the more up-to-date banner of the 101st Chairborne Brigade.

*** Plus ca ..... ...... ...... so there's at least one guy who will be getting some bad news this weekend. Who can say ? :-))

**** Yes, the girl should get the seat, but not so as to make it look like she is getting preference as that would be prejudicial. What a relief that I can still do now what I did then ....... what a curious ragged circle that boat has sailed around ! :-)

***** The clue is in the name. You see, Paleo Gal and Paleo Guy were just a marginal species until they got off their Hunter Gatherer backsides to become better fed via local environmental modification ( cropping & animal domestication ). Which is why we are a plague upon the planet now ....