← 2021 September 2021
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My bet for today is that after yesterday being teased for not locking Southeast Queensland down because of the NRL Grand Final, Mumma Palaszczuk grounds us for a week with no TV privileges or something plus we have to mow the Outback.
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The year is 2061 and your local “Golden Oldies" radio station is playing Limp Bizkit and honestly, I am here for it.
But for 2021, Wall Of Sound + Browny report on the latest Bizkit.
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Wedding planning red flag: when the wedding venue/vendor refers to clients as "brides" instead of couples. Run for the hills.
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Hey, just some personal news: if the rest of you could completely align with my values and not say anything asynchronous to them, that would make my existence so much easier. Please delete all internets that aren’t totally aligned with my biases.
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[Happy 10th birthday @patrickc + Stripe](https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1443289393695911938?s=21), about six and a half years ago we took the bold step to take credit card payments through our website, bold because almost no-one was doing it in the wedding industry. It worked out well.
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Aside from making the world’s best weddings, I’m also the 3rd best photographer in my home, so I’ve decided to make the not-so-radical call & launch a print store.
Do me a solid & buy a print so that I can convince Britt that buying a DJI Mavic Pro 3 is worth it.
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I’m becoming increasingly good at avoiding death by truck
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Not so gold, Coast
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My social media notifications are busy because I dare wade into anti-antivaxx conversations with “let's not be dicks to anitvaxxers" types of statements, and honestly, I'm probably ok with dying on this hill. Burn me at the stake for employing empathy please.
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Law & Order Season 21, episode 1, opening scene: A restaurant in Chinatown and a CGI Detective Lennie Briscoe is checking vaccine passports on people's phones. This continues for the entire episode.
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I'm just saying, if Sharon the team psychologist, and Coach Ted Lasso don't end up together romantically, I'm burning my AFC Richmond jersey in a symbolic disappointment ceremony that will be live-streamed on Bantr.
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Some personal news, I’ve been photographing and filming construction projects for Zero 9 Construction and I’m getting addicted.
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“The page loads, and a little video ad box rises from the bottom left of the screen and begins buffering. Then a big box pops up over the small one with an offer to subscribe to the paper at a special promotional rate. As you contemplate it, the video begins to play in a muted spasm. This throws a scrim of gray over the rest of the page, making it impossible to read.
Before you can deal with any of this, you’ll need to close this subscription box. You can achieve this by clicking either a tiny “x” or a passive-aggressive statement like “No, I don’t want great articles.” But while you’ve been triaging a second small video player has floated up into the middle left of the screen. A sedan silently snakes along a road hewn into a mountain and forces itself into your consciousness. It switches to a video of the Mets’ new manager, which you do not really want. Also, you now have to close a new rectangular ad at the bottom of the screen, advertising the same subscription offer as the first pop-up box.”
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"Life should be a marvel, not a habit."
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Damn, I’ve only got Diners Card.
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The memo between advertising agency DDB and Avis Rent A Car that took Avis from a $3.2 million loss to a $1.2 million profit within the year.
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Splash
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The best watch face in WatchOS 8 is the Portraits face because it looks really cool with this photo of Goldie. The worst watch face in WatchOS 8 is the Portraits face because it doesn’t actually tell the time, which is its only job really.
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Doing my part for the Gold Coast rumour mill today by creating and sharing this
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Have you noticed a rise in Facebook posts asking questions?
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Luna // under the bed // showing off her “baby belly”
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If you're interested in taking better photos, this is a great starting piece to read and be inspired by.
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Author Anne Lamott on imperfection:
"Almost everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, scared, and yet designed for joy. Even (or especially) people who seem to have it more or less together are more like the rest of us than you would believe. I try not to compare my insides to their outsides, because this makes me much worse than I already am, and if I get to know them, they turn out to have plenty of irritability and shadow of their own. Besides, those few people who aren’t a mess are probably good for about twenty minutes of dinner conversation.
This is good news, that almost everyone is petty, narcissistic, secretly insecure, and in it for themselves, because a few of the funny ones may actually long to be friends with you and me. They can be real with us, the greatest relief. As we develop love, appreciation, and forgiveness for others over time, we may accidentally develop those things toward ourselves, too."
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Not-so-main distribution frame
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Burleigh Heads: a bin chicken story
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Aviation nerd win: I heard a plane landing over my house, thought, it’s stop big to be a B737 or A320 as would be normal into OOL, too loud to be a B787, is it an A330. Yes it is.
Welcome to my Ted Talk.
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I hope all the computerised facial recognition systems around the world are freaking out over face masks. I wonder if the facial recognition companies are the ones pushing anti-mask propaganda?
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Bridal table > guest tables > the kids table > the wedding vendor’s table
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Me: time to edit this video Siri: this could go one of two ways
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Why haven’t there been more waxed/vaxxed puns? Are all of you in Big Pun’s pockets? Are you just anti-waxxers?
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Negative 5G
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Mt Coonowrin + Mt Beerwah, from Mt Ngungun
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Mt Ngungun at sunset yesterday for an elopement
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Hut rules
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Otto von Bismarck said “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best” ... I wonder if the Victorian government is willing and able to find the possible, the attainable, in the middle of the whole situation in Melbourne?
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“We’ll never go to war”
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When one of the Ted Lasso writers is a comedian and a parent
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Social media: mentally toxic. Social proximity: physically toxic. Being alone: emotionally toxic. Mainstream media: intellectually toxic.
We’re all going to need a bit of a detox after this. Whatever this is and however or whenever it ends.
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Found my six month old sucking on my thong (flip flop). My father of the year trophy is now in question.
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If there’s a real silver lining to Covid, it’s the resurgence of roadmaps. Apps like @googlemaps and satellite navigation were putting the final nails in roadmap’s coffin, but thanks to the pandemic, they’re back! #longlivetheroadmap
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Global platitude supplies are reaching an all time low. At this rate we’ll be completely out of platitudes by Christmas 2021.
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My favourite people are the people who look at protestors and see hurting people.
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Instagram 2011: Let’s make that shitty iPhone photo look acceptable.
Instagram 2021: Girls dancing whilst hard truths appear on screen in captions that aren’t related to the song or the dance.
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Why do people watch other YouTube videos when this superb specimen exists? The Australian Army’s Marching Band covering Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name Of, whilst the Bathurst Police dance along at the 2015 Bathurst 1000 V8 Supercars.
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Hey, I was wondering if any tech bloggers were up to the task of telling me which iPhone I should buy, or not buy, or whatever, today?
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So disappointing, we were only three submarines away from unlocking our own Statue of Liberty achievement for Rundle Mall.
Malls Balls 4eva.
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Shit. I just ate my toddler's entire supply of sultanas. I'm going to need a new passport with a new identity. Can any of you take me in?
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Go be amazing
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There’s something about bolting 35 year old lens onto a brand new image sensor that feels cool
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I think the wedding industry is changing. My first 2023 wedding booking is for a lunchtime wedding on a Monday in May.
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The mighty bin chicken
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I ❤️ Russel #swell2021
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The tech press’ obsession with Ming-chi Kuo and Mark Gurman took a hit today as Apple leant into the idea of annual incremental upgrades while Kuo and Gurman have been talking a big game. We love a good rumour though.
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Merry king of the bush is he
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The Gothamist: Why We United After 9/11—But Less So For COVID?
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Do you ever wonder whether we miss the old school prejudices so much that we're actually kinda excited about vaccinism because it's like a cool and popular prejudice that won't get us cancelled?
I don't wonder that of course.
Please don't cancel me.
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"If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive."
– Dorothee Sölle
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“With its stock characters, punch-lines, reversals and running gags, ancient humour worked in much the same way as its modern counterpart.”
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Are conspiracy theories/anti-vaxxers, a personal problem or a social problem? The Boston Review suggests they are a social problem.
“Debunking is a distraction. Instead, we should address the dearth of political vision on which conspiracism feeds.”
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ok wow… unfollowing now. was a big fan of their music but i was not aware they were using it because their happiness was slowly creeping back now you're at home.
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Well, the more you know #foofighters
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I'm proud to announce that our lawns are mowed, gardens are tidy, and we've cleaned our house, so we're now accepting visitors until our toddler comes home from kindy.
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When we asked an algorithm to decide humour we should’ve known that income inequality was going to be deemed hilarious soon
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Are you that rich that you’re not immediately aware of your net worth? There’s an app for that.
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RU Even Aware Of What OK Looks Like Anymore?
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I think aliens visited Burleigh Beach today and left a message. Can anyone help decipher this?
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– Australian duck
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Heads up, tomorrow is RUOK Day, so make sure you are prepared to pretend to have your shit together for a day.
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Swell is back, 1.8km from the border
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Have you ever considered that we’re all just flying around the universe on a big rock making shit up and taking made-up currencies off each other for the pleasure of making shit up for each other?
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If you’ve ever read my shit and thought “it’s a crime that I’m getting this for free” then here’s a chance to pay for it.
Tomorrow, any of you who subscribe to @decryption’s $5 a month Sizzle email will receive the crumbs off my table.
A+ nerdy, techie, crumbs, xoxo.
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For nine years I’ve been lucky enough to call you my wife, Britt.
In my vows I said “we’ll write a beautiful story together” and boy is that true.
Happy anniversary, Snow x
And thanks Molk for ignoring any of that unplugged ceremony nonsense and filming our first kiss.
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Sunrise from Tallebudgera Creek this morning
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Instead of labelling antivaxxers or vaccine-hesitant people as stupid etc, could we consider how we as a society have contributed to the rapid distrust of elected officials and pharmaceutical companies?
I'm married to a vaccine hesitant person and she's not stupid. But she finds valid and real reason to distrust the choir of voices singing the "just get vaccinated, ya know" song.
Honestly, she brings more reading material, albeit embroiled in conjecture, than the "hey idiots, blindly believe the govt and just get vaxxed" crowd.
I'm tired.
Welcome to my TED Talk.
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I've finally come to the realisation that the wedding industry can't provide for my family for the near future, so I'm taking on small business clients to tell their story. Recorded and produced my first piece of content this morning!
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Something no-one really tells you about adulthood is that it’s mostly just waiting.
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Going, going, goonnneeee
