The view from my "office"

[amaroo]

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One of the art installations at Laneway Festival in Sydney on Saturday.

Been wondering what it's meant to say since then.

You can't flog a dead-horse ?

Flogging a dead horse (alternatively beating a dead horse, or beating a dead dog in some parts of the Anglophone world) is an idiom that means to continue a particular endeavour is a waste of time as the outcome is already decided.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary,[SUP][1][/SUP] the first recorded use of the expression in its modern sense was by the English politician and orator John Bright, referring to the Reform Act of 1867, which called for more democratic representation in Parliament.

Trying to rouse Parliament from its apathy on the issue, he said in a speech, would be like trying to flog a dead horse to make it pull a load. The Oxford English Dictionary cites The Globe, 1872, as the earliest verifiable use of flogging a dead horse, where someone is said to have "rehearsed that [. . .] lively operation known as flogging a dead horse".[SUP][2]
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However Jay Dillon[SUP][3][/SUP] has discovered an earlier instance attributed to the same John Bright thirteen years earlier: speaking in Commons 28 March 1859, Lord Elcho (Francis Charteris, 10th Earl of Wemyss) remarked that Bright had not been "satisfied with the results of his winter campaign" and that "a saying was attributed to him [Bright] that he [had] found he was 'flogging a dead horse.'"[SUP][4][/SUP]

 

[Daver6]

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Sitting the the Sydney office, not something you see everyday. The two QF big birds with a retro roo thrown in for good measure

 

[QF WP]

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One of the art installations at Laneway Festival in Sydney on Saturday.

Been wondering what it's meant to say since then.

Looks like a hairless horse (like one of the hairless cats)

That's just creepy

I agree - we're not used to seeing hairless horses lying down. Plus it's left legs look broken. Still, it's eliciting discussion -what art is all about, isn't it?

 

[kermatu]

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Departing CBR. Don't know why I haven't taken (better) photos before.

 

[samh004]

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My office for the afternoon.

 

[drron]

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Sam I've walked past that office a few times.if I was doing that today those seated folks would be in danger from my uncontrollable hook.

 

[docjames]

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Is the Festival sponsored by Heinz, perhaps?

You mean Tesco? :shock:

 

[love_the_life]

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You mean Tesco? :shock:

It is apparently a life size sculpture of a horse in the recovery position.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

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It is apparently a life size sculpture of a horse in the recovery position.

That makes sense. By the look of that scar right up it's guts, it must have been one heck of a caesarean!

 

[kermatu]

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Into Brisbane:

 

[VPS]

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staying inside my office today

 

[QF WP]

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Sounds like Adelaide is having some electricity grid problems with the hot weather and corresponding spike in electricity use - heard there were rolling brown outs yesterday afternoon. Not going to get any better until Sunday. Find a shady cool spot and lather on the sunscreen

Meanwhile, in my Brisbane mid northern suburb early this morning there was a strange and rare phenomenon - rain .

 

[QF WP]

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Not quite as rare as a dodo but this looks good (actually is the outdoor view from my office):

 

[kermatu]

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Plenty of rain at my Sunday arvo office this week:

 

[kermatu]

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But only glorious sunshine in Auckland the next couple of days (and one very big cruise ship):

 

[RooFlyer]

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Sounds like Adelaide is having some electricity grid problems with the hot weather and corresponding spike in electricity use - heard there were rolling brown outs yesterday afternoon. Not going to get any better until Sunday. Find a shady cool spot and lather on the sunscreen
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The grid was fine ... transported all the electrons that were pumped into it, just fine. The spike in use was OK too - easily model-able and predicted.

Problem was, of course those, wind generators that the state has bet on to be 'purer than pure' for renewable energy. Died in the cough, along with the wind.

I think the Premier better work out sooner rather than later, that South Australia can use fossil fuels and have an adequate and reliable electricity supply, or his wind farm Nirvana, but not both.

Relying on the inter-connectors just sponges on the other states who are sensible and maintain adequate generation capacity (Victoria is line ball in this regard, however).

 

[Pushka]

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The grid was fine ... transported all the electrons that were pumped into it, just fine. The spike in use was OK too - easily model-able and predicted.

Problem was, of course those, wind generators that the state has bet on to be 'purer than pure' for renewable energy. Died in the cough, along with the wind.

I think the Premier better work out sooner rather than later, that South Australia can use fossil fuels and have an adequate and reliable electricity supply, or his wind farm Nirvana, but not both.

Relying on the inter-connectors just sponges on the other states who are sensible and maintain adequate generation capacity (Victoria is line ball in this regard, however).

SA is the sponge state. A sad indictment. All our business is in Victoria. Yet today our premier is acting like it's the fault of the rest of Australia. Yet he has built the most expensive hospital in the world and third most expensive building.

 

[VPS]

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but he said and then she said and it wasn't my fault

SA heatwave: Blame game begins as state faces further power cuts - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

SA power outage: AEMO orders back-up station turned on amid Adelaide heatwave blackouts - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

There's some tweets in there from SA Power Network that AEMO told them to do some power shedding and then about 30 minutes later - oh we've been told to turn it back on again - I suspect some Minister's phone got a bit overheated in that debate

 

[Pushka]

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but he said and then she said and it wasn't my fault

SA heatwave: Blame game begins as state faces further power cuts - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

SA power outage: AEMO orders back-up station turned on amid Adelaide heatwave blackouts - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

There's some tweets in there from SA Power Network that AEMO told them to do some power shedding and then about 30 minutes later - oh we've been told to turn it back on again - I suspect some Minister's phone got a bit overheated in that debate

More like BHP that lost around $40million last blackout. Ok - we are all getting OT here.

 

[kermatu]

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So back on topic with some boring airport office pics -- dominating my life just at the moment. Still, NZ airports and SYD don't lack for nice views, even if I don't capture them that well.