← 2021 July 2021

  • Everybody, through this lockdown, please think of the birds

  • The lockdowns will continue until morale improves

  • You used to call me on my landline, late night when you neeeed my love

  • She’s my daughter

  • Hey Siri, are there less people believin’ these days because there are less midnight trains goin’ anywhere?

  • Tugun

  • It's been made aware to me that some of my social media broadcasts over the last year might paint me as some sort of person, politically etc.

    Please do not look to me for epidemiological advice or policy. I am a hurting man who has lost much and continues to lose more.

    I'm not the one to look for on whether borders should open or close, or if you should alter your DNA to survive a pandemic.

    However, if you'd like specific advice on how to not look like you're crying in public please DM me. It's basically about pretending you were laughing instead.

  • Hey, do you remember that time our Australian state and federal governments drove us all so far apart to the point of madness and hatred of those we love and even strangers we’ve never met?

  • Pro-vax, anti-vax, pro-lockdown, anti-lockdown, everyone's trying to join a team, but so few people are understanding the hurt that others are feeling. Whilst you might be annoyed by wearing a masking, or other people not-wearing a mask, all whilst your income, stability, and quality of life hasn't changed in the last year, many have lost more than they'd care to mention, or even have the words to describe.

    We don't need to be right. No-one cares if you're right.

    We need to care, we need empathy, we need consideration and understanding.

    Because in 300 years when we're all dust, no-one's going to be telling stories about how right you were. But they'll speak about our legacy of empathy and care.

  • JQ133 to Auckland this morning. I think the sun was rising as well. @jetstarairways

  • The @iocmedia: The winner is Brisbane!

    Brisbane: Sheppard, put us down for one opening ceremony.

    #Brisbane2032

  • The Olympics are coming home!

  • MSM

  • The Australian states in 2020/2021.

  • “Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you”

  • Are you average?

  • A year on year decrease in traffic might lead one to say that the media is incentivised to encourage Trump-like politics.

  • Yes

  • Forgive me for thinking that the Victorian government doesn’t know what is going on.

    I just transited through Melbourne Airport from Tugun (Gold Coast) to Hobart.

    Applying for a transit permit: fine. Getting the travel permit: you’ve been in an orange or red zone (no I haven’t) Arriving in Victoria: “let me check with my supervisor, I think we need to escort you” An hour after arriving in Hobart: You need to quarantine.

    Get it together guys.

  • One of my favourite views is from a few thousand feet above earth at sunset

  • “By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?”

    I hope people will recognise us by our children. That knowledge of their kindness, joy, and peace would go before them.

  • Transiting through Melbourne Airport this afternoon

  • Widgets on iPadOS 15 are glorious. A year late, but glorious.

  • Apple Photos thinks Britt and I had couple photos taken in Tenerife to commemorate a day Australia celebrates killing horses because we gamble on them. Algorithms are fun.

  • Off to court today for the third couple who had booked us for an international ceremony wedding but would now prefer a refund over a reschedule.

    This pandemic is a daily nightmare for us, but hey, we’re all this together, we can do it Queensland, so things will be ok eventually.

    The fun thing is trying to convince future couples that our expenses have gone up so our prices have gone up.

    Fuck covid.

  • "For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe."

    – Physician, Dr. Larry Eisenberg

  • Curtis Falls

  • I’m going to start trying to make wedding photos professionally

  • I just want you all to know that I did intermittent fasting four days this week and I'm still not skinny, so it clearly doesn't work.

    thank u, next.

  • Sunrise at The Spit #goldcoast #sunrise

  • Walk like a Goldcoastian

  • Lockdown Effectiveness: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
  • There's a conspiracy theory for everyone, and hence very few people are immune

  • The six causes of burnout are:

    • Lack of control.
    • Lack of reward.
    • Absence of fairness.
    • Lack of community.
    • Conflict in values.
    • Work overload.

    I’m burned out reading that list of things that feel like I’m reading my gravestone.

  • FaceTime - 6.0/iOS15/Monterey - links to join a chat are easy and beautiful, and much more elegant than a Zoom link if it's just a simple chat. I can see them taking the place of many a meeting.

  • Screenshot from iPadOS 15 Photos.

    Somehow Photos has figured out from location and date metadata these photos are from a ticketed event, a Foo Fighters concert. But the hero image is of Weezer opening the show, and if you tap through to the slideshow the music is Fleetwood Mac.

  • ”The core idea behind the Metaverse proposition is to create an immersive digital place that duplicates reality without physical constraints.”

    Micaela Mantegna on the metaverse.

  • Steve Jobs in Japan

  • After the pandemic I’d like to start a comedy band called Pearlmite where we sing Australian parodies of Pearl Jam songs.

    Our first song: Elderly Man Behind The Wheel Of A Landcruiser In The Right Hand Lane.

  • Billy Joel on his farewell tour

    “I’ll have created a bond between me and the audience where I know they will never pay another nickel to see me again.”

    – Vulture

  • Vale Alan James Snow
  • Apple Weather in iOS 15 is still wrong in Australia

  • Take me to Iceland ... or if you can't, let's just look at Andre's photos

  • “Coping by conspiracy”