I was also interested to note (while recharging those thought leadership batteries) the casual attire of some of the customers in the coffee shop. Some, such as cycle couriers, clearly should not have to wear suits (though perhaps they did in the 1920s). Other categories of customers in the shop should also be exempt suits - an indicative list might include landscape gardeners, astronauts, and vikings.
With another big issue of the day handled, time to return to work.....
It remains another fabulous day in Sydney - for testing wet weather clothing. Sadly it is looking like the set of Blade Runner out there in that it is constantly raining. I'm not sure if this means that eventually a patch of blue sky will open up for a dove to fly towards, though one can only hope. At the moment the dove would fly towards a greyer patch of grey and then smack into the side of a building travelling at high speed (estimated at 30 km/h, allowing for the additional weight of damp feathers).
Experts on the flight speed of doves have cornered me in the hallways of power and suggested that high speed for a dove would be more in the region of 70 km/h - not the 30 km/h I estimated. Naturally my hypothetical dove mentioned earlier was weighed down by damp feathers and would also have been engaged in a nearly vertical climb. I suspect the theoretical maximum speed for a dove would be reached in a shallow dive rather than level flight or a steep climb. Readers of the Richard Bach classic 'Jonathan Livingstone Seagull' will recall Jonathan's efforts to reach record speed for a Seagull (not sure how he measured this but I'm sure there was some explanation in the book) - and that maximum speed was approached in a dive. Supported by all this reasoning, 30 km/h seems a reasonable speed for a soaking wet dove engaged in a steep climb. I think everyone will agree that 30 km/h is quite fast enough to strike a solid object, especially when one is not expecting to do so.
With all that out of the way, it's disappointing to note that the weather has not improved at all. We can only hope that it will improve in time for a weekend of sailing, looking at art, walking dogs, dove speed measurement and all the other jolly things we do here in Sydney.
With all that out of the way, it's disappointing to note that the weather has not improved at all. We can only hope that it will improve in time for a weekend of sailing, looking at art, walking dogs, dove speed measurement and all the other jolly things we do here in Sydney.
* Not to be confused with Pink Floyd's 'Thought Control' - which we don't need any of, thank you
