Sean Colyer – PrometheusX

Sydney. The eternal rival of Melbourne. This led my visit last weekend to involve a number of comparisons as to which was actually better. At the end of the day, or weekend really, I prefer to live in Melbourne. I tried to take an unbiased opinion but it’s quite difficult and I’m sure compelling arguments [...]

I went camping recently in the Grampians National Park. The park is roughly a 3.5 hour drive from Melbourne and is located in a hilly part of Victoria. We got in pretty late on a Friday night. My tent mate and I decided that because the weather was so nice and we wanted the nice [...]

The Moomba Festival is a huge festival kind-of carnival in Melbourne every year. It’s dubbed a “Water Festival”, and surrounds the Yarra River which runs through the middle of the city. Melbourne has been in a drought for 12 years (though it’s rained the past few days…), and they take their water conservation quite seriously. [...]

One of my favorite places I’ve found in Melbourne is the Carlton Gardens. Luckily, they’re also very close to where I live. Within the gardens is the Melbourne Museum. The museum is something of a science museum, which aren’t my favorite, but it’s still informative and a good museum. I love the architecture of building, [...]

During the summer in Melbourne, every Wednesday there is the Queen Victoria Night Market. Located at the intersection of Elizabeth and Queen St on the edge of the CBD (downtown), the masses really show up for a good time. Food vendors representing a broad range of taste sell food, craft style merchants hawk all sorts [...]

So I’ve done a minimal amount of coding while I’m here. But I have posted updates to both the Facebook Imaging Spider and GAMVL

If you could have only one pot/pan for cooking, what would you choose? When I was at Big W in my first few days here, the answer for me became obvious. A Wok. I’ve been pretty satisfied, you can cook on the bottom like a frying pan or boil water, and it’s also large enough [...]