← 2022 February 2022
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Tugun got a bit wet today
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#floodlyf
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Why You’re Christian, by David Perell:
"If you believe in human rights but don’t believe in God, you need a logical explanation for why they’re self-evident."
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Todays a good day to announce that we’re extending the pool and colouring it the same colour as the lawn
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Quiz
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Friday 13 Mar 2020, and the ABC quotes an F1 fan in its report on the Melbourne F1 Grand Prix being cancelled:
"Are you going to close schools and supermarkets and everywhere else where people gather?"
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Just one moment
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Eric Karjaluoto on the fallacy of individual wins and benefiting from the one force that every great business success has leveraged: The Wave:
Henry Ford didn’t invent the automobile; he rode the assembly-line wave.
Mary Kay Ash didn’t invent cosmetics; she rode the direct-sales wave.
Andrew Carnegie didn’t invent steel; he rode the building wave.
Steve Jobs didn’t invent computers; he rode the digital wave.
Anita Roddick didn’t invent soap; she rode the ethical business wave.
Larry and Sergey didn’t invent search; they rode internet wave.
Chip Wilson didn’t invent stretchy-pants; he rode the yoga wave.
Jeff Bezos didn’t invent book sales; he rode the ecommerce wave.
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Day four no bathroom.
Old Spice has been drafted for service.
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Chuck Klosterman on the 90s:
"It feels as though the 1990s weren’t just the last decade of the 20th century but sort of the last decade, period — the last decade with a fully formed and recognizable culture of its own."
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David Ogilvy:
“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”
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“Wonderful things can happen when your brain is empty.”
– Maira Kalman
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The Russian Military website is down with HTTP error code 418, which means it is a teapot #nottheonion
"The HTTP 418 I'm a teapot client error response code indicates that the server refuses to brew coffee because it is, permanently, a teapot. A combined coffee/tea pot that is temporarily out of coffee should instead return 503. This error is a reference to Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol defined in April Fools' jokes in 1998 and 2014."
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I do appreciate how impossibly hard Kanye West has made to listen to Donda 2. It's like Schrödinger's album.
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What ever happened to the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention?
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Crime in Tugun: Cromulent. A new issue of The Tugun Pause is in inboxes.
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“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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Day three without a shower and bathroom and I’m considering starting using Lynx Africa.
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I impulse purchased a Stem Player a while back because I convinced myself I needed something this weird in my life. Now I’m probably one of like ten people in Australia who will be able to listen to Kanye West's new album. What a time to be alive.
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Most of you wouldn’t know about the disappointment I carry that my first personal computer was a 486SX and not a 386DX. All my friends had 386s and my dad rented a Packard Bell with a 486SX.
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Our bathroom, a photo series.
Sometime around the turn of the century (before we owned it) vs. 7am today vs. 11am today.
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It’S TWOSDAY! Tuesday 22/2/22.
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Guy in a Palm Beach cafe this morning:
“Anything north of Mermaid Beach is Logan, love”
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In my humble opinion, one of the most under-appreciated literary works of the past 25 years are Chuck Lore’s vanity cards
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One day boomers are going to learn about Option + Shift + Command V and then us Millennials are going to be really screwed.
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Dear Vanessa Carlton,
Despite your willingness to walk a thousand miles to see me, I regret to inform you that you cannot fall into the sky.
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“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome”
– Charlie Munger
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If NCIS: Sydney can get off the ground
Blue Heelers: New York. Surry Hills, 2010. ER: Covid Ward. Buffy the Prime Minister Slayer. Law & Order: W.A. Unit. JAG: Garden Island. Grey's Anatomy: Brisbane-Team. 3rd Rock From The Border. Everybody Loves Dan Andrews. The Ibrahim’s. It’s Always Sunny in Adelaide. Orange Is The New Black (a travel program about going to Orange, NSW).
And I just want to point out without bringing too much attention to myself, that Sweden, Poland, Israel, Germany, India, France, Chile, the Czech Republic, Canada, Finland, and the god damned United States of America have had their own versions of The Office.
The Office (Australian TV series).
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Successful Man 2022 BC: Killed animal for family to eat.
Successful Man 2022 AD: I’ve emptied three of my four email inboxes and there’s only seven emails left in that one so they can wait til tomorrow because it’s almost 11pm.
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Good and new music alert: Ben Abraham - If I Didn't Love You
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René Girard in Wanting:
“Humans don’t desire anything independently. Human desire is mimetic – we imitate what other people want. This affects the way we choose partners, friends, careers, clothes, and vacation destinations. Mimetic desire is responsible for the formation of our very identities. It explains the enduring relevancy of Shakespeare’s plays, why Peter Thiel decided to be the first investor in Facebook, and why our world is growing more divided as it becomes more connected.”
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A wild Filet-O-Fish spotted near Hinze Dam on the Gold Coast
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Hey, feel free to join me, imma storm Meta HQ.
I’m taking a convoy to Menlo Park to demand that the Business Suite app work better.
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If you didn’t watch the 2010 banger of a film, Valentine’s Day, tonight, you’re actually not in love. Trust me, I’m a celebrant, I’d know.
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SMH reports that we are on the way to the darkest timeline:
“Premier Dominic Perrottet said the information was uploaded in error and the bungle, which has alarmed privacy advocates and women’s safety advocates, shouldn’t have happened.”
Ya think, Dom?
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Business idea: a screening of the Super Bowl for people like me who like to stay culturally relevant but don’t care about the football - and also have jobs. Just a little catch-up video. Help a brother out?
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The sunset over Tugun tonight was all levels of madness.
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Every day I wonder why when I was a young boy my father never took me into the city to see a marching band. Just something else for me please thank romanticise over as I take these chemicals.
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It seems like the path to podcasting success isn’t to create good new content, but to have old good content
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Sliding into the weekend from Burleigh
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Some people donate to good causes, my personal contribution to world peace is wasting time for scam callers. Rosie here just spent 30 minutes trying to get me to install the Anydesk app so they could help me with my NBN.
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Isaac Asimov:
"It is important to remember that the viciousness and wrongs of life stick out very plainly but that even at the worst times there is a great deal of goodness, kindness, and day-to-day decency that goes unnoticed and makes no headlines."
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What ever you do, do not google goats eyes.
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“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
– Jean-Luc Godard
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Elle Hardy talking her new book and the global Pentecostal movement with James Hennessy in The Terminal
“Pentecostals are basically eating everyone's lunch”
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Alex Ross with Reasons to Abandon Spotify That Have Nothing to Do with Joe Rogan:
"I don’t know how to explain to them that it has never been ethical or sustainable to expect to have unfettered access to the entire history of recorded music for $10/month."
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The only thing more terrifying than a Black Hawk rocking up on you in the middle of a battle with a load of bad ass soldiers, would be a ghost Black Hawk, just looking at you, ready to charge.
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I'd bet $10 that the image was created on a Mac and saved without a .jpg extension. Can't wait for the link that proves this and the headline is about how a Mac broke a Mazda over the air.
Ars Technia: Radio station snafu in Seattle bricks some Mazda infotainment systems.
"The problem, according to Mazda, was that the radio station sent out image files in its HD radio stream that did not have extensions"
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If you say "website dot com" when it's a .com.au, you're a boomer.
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Why?!
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Kaitlyn Tiffany in The Atlantic, "When Multilevel Marketing Met Gen Z":
"She has more time and wealth than she knows what to do with—and so now she will pause to bathe an elephant. Wait a minute, you say to yourself. Could this be my life too?"
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When I moved to Tugun four years ago we paid half what is now marketed as "Tugun's most affordable home" ... what a time to be alive.
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Georgia O’Keeffe //
"I said to myself, 'I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me…shapes and ideas so near to me…so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.' I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught."
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Before he became CEO of the Trump campaign Steve Bannon made his living selling virtual gold on the Internet ... Bannon managed to convince Goldman Sachs to plow $60 million into imaginary goods in an imaginary world.
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I think about this a lot
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James Clear:
“When considering a new project or opportunity, one of the first questions to ask is, “How do I want to spend my days?”
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C. S. Lewis in a letter to a young fan:
Don’t use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was “terrible,” describe it so that we’ll be terrified. Don’t say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, “Please will you do my job for me.”
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How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook, Darren Loucaides:
"As I sat with him, I thought back to the conversation Zuckerberg and Durov allegedly had more than a decade ago. Both saw their nascent social networks as transcendent structures that would free communications from control by the state: governments and regulators reduced to the level of nuisances, rendered obsolete before the liberating force of a platform. Thinking this under a waning winter sun as my conversation with Telegram's VP concluded, I felt a chill."
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How much are they paying for this myGov thing again? I got the notification email overnight, I've been anxious about it all day, finally got the guts to log in and find out what was wrong, and I owe them $0. Can I sue the ATO & myGov for anxiety inducement?
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New data on how Americans drank themselves to death during the pandemic, by Christopher Ingraham
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The Final Comeback of Axl Rose, by John Jeremiah Sullivan in 2006, referenced in the Rubesletter by Matt Ruby, today:
Axl has said, "I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived." I agree. One of them is an unexpectedly competent baritone. The most important of the voices, though, is Devil Woman. Devil Woman comes from a deeper part of Axl than do any of the other voices. Often she will not enter until nearer the end of a song. In fact, the dramatic conflict between Devil Woman and her sweet, melodic yang—the Axl who sings such lines as Her hair reminds me of a warm, safe place and If you want to love me, then darling, don't refrain and Sometimes I get so tense—is precisely what resulted in Guns N' Roses' greatest songs…
And what does she say, this Devil Woman? What does she always say, for that matter? Have you ever thought about it? I hadn't. "Sweet Child," "Paradise City," "November Rain," "Patience," they all come down to codas—Axl was a poet of the dark, unresolved coda—and to what do these codas themselves come down? Everybody needs somebody. Don't you think that you need someone? I need you. Oh, I need you. Where do we go? Where do we go now? Where do we go? I wanna go. Oh, won't you please take me home?
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Sitting next to a couple on a first date (over lunch at a kebab shop) and the poor girl is really trying to make this work. After about 30 seconds of silence she asks “so do you read books?”
He’s hesitant with an answer.
This is gruelling!!
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Miles Davis:
"If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad."
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Sad to see that TED Talks are actually useless
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One day I'm going to open a restaurant called Alice's Restaurant so that the three other Arlo Guthrie fans have somewhere to come and take photos for Instagram.
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English writer and poet, D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930):
“The world fears a new experience more than anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences.”
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If there was a 24/7 streaming channel of just Rhys Darby talking about things in his funny manner, you could just pump that directly into my brain.
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Finally made it to Buzzfeed
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Every cricket season I think about the couple I met with who didn’t book me because I didn’t know who the groom was.
I asked what he “did”, he said “play cricket”, to which I replied, no I mean like a career or a job.
He replied “I play cricket.”
Still don’t know who he was.
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Also currently reading: On Reckoning by Amy Remeikis 📚
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Currently reading: Things Hidden by Richard Rohr 📚
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Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive:
The study provides “pretty convincing evidence that HEX can modulate aggression in humans in a sex-specific way,” says Dayu Lin
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Yossi Ghinsberg is speaking to my Harcourts team today, this early statement about him reading books during school classes ignoring the teacher captured me all afternoon:
“No matter what you do, make a story out of it”
Then this one on dreaming:
“Nothing exists if you don’t imagine it first”
