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When does a bus stop stop being a bus stop? St Johns Park, New Town. December 2010. What's your favourite piece of technology, and how has it improved your life? Broad-scale public sanitation/plumbing. I am never one to over-estimate the importance of running water. It has improved my life in too many ways to count. When was the last time you used it, and what for? [At time of writing] I had a shower after Touch Football. Much needed, as we didn’t have any substitutes and I was on all game. What additional features would you add if you could? It seems pretty good as is. I’m a fan of water pressure, so we can always amp that up a bit! Do you think it will be obsolete in 10 years' time? Let’s just ensure that every bugger has an equal chance at having it before we render it obsolete first! What always frustrates you about technology in general? The rapidity with which we become dependent on it, and it ceases to be liberating and becomes a constraint. If you had one tip about gett...

Another day in Hobart, and more rain. I'm getting sick of this. Here is an interesting little add on down here in Salamanca. Sandstone and red brick, with a grey slab concrete fronting on the right of the photograph. I'm not sure what to make of it, but I am working on the assumption that it is an elaborate ruse of some kind. It must be a good one, because for the life of me, I can't figure it out!

Despite my change of heart , people appear to have given up on 10 Murray. Similarly, even though there has been some belated effort to save her , she's going to be blown up and knocked down . Thus, it is with a heavy heart that I concede that this week, Theme Thursday has hit the nail on the head. The consensus of the Tasmanian public is that the imposing princess of late-1960s functionalist architecture, 10 Murray Street, is well an truly OVER THE HILL . They're knocking her down. Judged as an ugly testament to a period people would like to forget, the elite have conspired to concoct a death warrant for this misunderstood beauty and replace her with [and I am not making this up] a giant television screen . No doubt this television screen will continually remind us that we've always been at war with Eastasia. Tasmanians are addicted to sandstone it seems. For Hobartions, the entire functionalist movement in architecture should be erased from history! The world over; work...