Race to the Top

Race to the Top April 2004 | Filed under Photos, Travel | Comments (1)

It's my feeling that views like these from the top of Mt Stirling in the beautiful (but drought-stricken) High Country should only be enjoyed by those prepared to make the hour-and-a-bit hike themselves, on foot. Unfortunately, a convoy of about twenty 4WDs beat us to it... but I was able to crop them out of the pictures.

My lungs are all the stronger for the effort.

Mt Stirling

Views from the Floor

Tim Stitz says:

too true virg. 4wd on mt stirling can all get stuffed. stronger lungs much more beneficial. wholesome pictures.

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This sentence is not modelled on a luxury yacht

11 January 2008
Filed under Language, Text, The Media

People paid up to $US100,000 ($A115,000) for the inaugural Singapore Airlines A380 flight last year, in which first class suites with real beds were modelled on luxury yachts, after wiring glitches caused the plane’s delivery to be delayed by two years, causing EADS billions of dollars in losses.

This sentence was already too long when they decided to add the bit about the beds. Why on earth is it relevant, when reporting on an airport mishap, to note that the beds on the plane involved were modelled on luxury yachts?*

It’s a really common construction in stories coming straight off the wires and into the paper: you have the story, which is usually two or three short paragraphs, followed by a gargantuan sentence into which somebody has packed the entire history of the subject, with no regard to whether the clauses in the sentence relate to each other or to the story at large.

* Update: I can’t read.

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