Excellent Echo

Simple things for simple people. This building has to be made like this on purpose.

A reasonable stab at travel blogging

Syracuse is a town which appears to be cut very definitely into two halves. On one side, which I presume is downtown; the city has been left to fend for itself since it was first created as an industrial area even though the businesses who own the factories have long since left. The buildings that remain would be an estate agent’s wet dream in London as they all are great representations of studio style but here in Syracuse there’s no desire to invest. The surprise stark contrast was when we approached the university campus which seems to me to be the vast majority and focus of the entire city. Here, millions of dollars has, and still is being pumped into a thriving university community.

Dead nice, but a bit showy. I was especially interested to see that they’d adopted a slanty style to their architecture which I feel has been captured perfectly in this photograph.

If I remember correctly, this building was used in Back to the Future, Back to the Future II AND Back to the Future III. But I’ve been wrong before.

Syracuse and the Cellular Car

Dating an American girl, there’s never a day that passes without me learning something about her culture and variation on the English language. More often than not I’ll slip a phrase into conversation that seems completely run of the mill and I’m instantly stopped with the question, ‘Run of the what?’ Today one word that the English rarely use came up and it was only while I was sitting in one that I realized exactly the true meaning of the word.

Here is Kate’s AutoMobile [phone]. I’m making the assumption that she would refer to it as an AutoCell but I feared to ask, and involve her in another conversation while driving at 45mph on a back street covered in snow. When the call ended and another one appeared to begin I put my foot down (left hand drive, me in the front… forget it) and suggested she continued her conversation about a broken wing mirror at home. See picture below, I’m assured it was from falling ice and not a phone related prang.

To be fair, her driving excels way beyond that of an English road user but I guess when you know there’s a good possibility of that 2.5 ton SUV being piloted by a man trying to text message his wife, you’d all drive with a certain due care and attention.