Seems incredible to think of, but the Eye of the Fish has reached it’s eighteenth birthday! Apparently this blog was started in 2008 and it is still going, long after people stopped reading blogs for general amusement, and long before Twitter got taken over by fascist dickheads. Welcome back to all our faithful readers, and just as big a welcome to any new ones, or people who may have landed here by accident! Whoops! Steady on there Vicar! We’re just still here, writing occasionally about things Urban, things Wellingtonian, things that are building, and other things in between.
But right now it is still the holidays as far as I am concerned (for another few days at least!!) and so in case you are sitting bored somewhere with only horrible world news feeds, I’m going to show you some pictures. Maybe one a day. You have to guess where i am, or was. So… Where in the world is this happy little chappy? And who is he?
Post script
Instantly spotted by Venetia K, so there is almost no point uploading the next picture, but I will, because I like it also. This one is surely not a bunyip, but almost certainly is from the same genre / tail / book ?
That’s a bunyip, so I’m guessing… Melbourne?
(Hello, I followed a link from @wellynews@mastodon.wellington.gen.nz to see this post, have been vaguely aware of this blog for a long time but really ought to read it more regularly.)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bunyip_State_Library_of_Victoria_2021.jpg
Good local wine but apparently it’s as hot as Hades there atm
FWIW it hit 30 in the Wairarapa today
If you get bored and want to ponder what the kids are up to these days – this is an early example of something I’ve been expecting – people starting to blend themselves in to their digital twins
All very San Fran and I only understand bits of it but you can see where she is going and how beneficial it could be but my first thought was “gurl, you’re shelling out $2k a month in subs and you didn’t even notice!?!”
https://x.com/mollycantillon/status/2008918474006122936
Happy 18th, you’re old enough to drink now
60 – amazing tale ! Who is this woman? I’ve never heard of her before, but – wow! – she really knows her stuff. Quite like me – I also work this way:
“Each operates in isolation, spawns short-lived subagents, and exchanges context through explicit handoffs. They read and write the filesystem. When an API is absent, they operate the desktop directly, injecting mouse and keystroke events to traverse apps and browsers. – keeps the system awake on runs, in airports, while I sleep. On completion, it texts me; I reply to the checkpoint and continue. All thought traces logged and artifacted for recursive self-improvement.”
Huh !! Literally, in my dreams….
Venetia K – spot on !! I’m only vaguely aware of the bunyips – memory from my increasingly receding childhood recalls a book called Bunyip Bluegum ? But I have no recollection of them looking like this. So…. do bunyips only live / grow / have adventures near Melbourne?
Anyway – lovely for you to have found us and for you to comment !! Thank you – that made my day.
Some links that may help;
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-bunyip-of-berkeleys-creek-melbourne-australia (on the sculpture & its link to the book)
https://thechildrensbookshop.co.nz/p/nostalgic-picture-books-the-bunyip-of-berkeley-s-creek-pb (shows the book cover)
https://wereaditlikethis.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-bunyip-of-berkeleys-creek-what-am-i.html (more in-depth coverage of the book)
My dad was from Victoria, hence assuming Melbourne – this was one of my favourite picture books from my (Auckland) childhood,so I recognised its face instantly!