← 2024 July 2024

  • Well, this definitely whips the llama’s ass

  • Guy next to me on my flight is pricing up bacon and how much it costs him to produce and I’ve never wanted more to strike up a flight-friend-for life.

  • Ever since Bo Burnham’s Inside I’ve felt like it’s not worth creating anymore. Content peaked in 2020 with Inside. Now we live in the post-Inside era.

  • “Do you want to be really good at a thing? I've got bad news for you. You're going to have to be significantly worse at a lot of other things in your life.” – @cgpgrey, Cortex episode 157

  • Lady at this cafe in the Huon Valley is working on an 11” MacBook Air running one of big cat OS X operating system releases.

    It would have to be more than a decade old at this point wouldn’t it? It’s still such a beautiful machine. Honestly, I think it would be my favourite computer I’ve owned.

  • I'm researching for project in Tasmania and I think, to the best of my research and knowledge so far, this is the oldest and first photograph of Tasmania. The photo is of the south-eastern-most tip of Tasmania, Cape Pillar by James Backhouse Walker onboard the Beagle with Charles Darwin, enroute to Hobart on February 5, 1836.

  • My greatest fear in life is that Jaycar could go broke and shutdown

  • If you talk to anyone in the destination wedding industry they have their bucket list of places they want to work. Mine is remarkably weirder than most.

    I've been lucky enough to create marriage ceremonies all around the world in places like Iceland and Italy, New York and New Zealand, Croatia to Canberra, Fiji to Vancouver.

    But my favourite places to travel are the weird places, more likely to be featured on Atlas Obscurer than Lonely Planet.

    My destination wedding and elopement bucket list:

    1. North Korea because I want to fly Air Koryo and live to tell the story.
    2. Saudia Arabia and Qatar because a Middle East desert elopement would be wild! Plus I'd love to be the guy that delivers personalised and fun wedding ceremonies in the Middle East.
    3. Tuvalu, Bora Bora, Tonga, Samoa, and The Cook Islands because I've got big Pacific Island energy.
    4. Bhutan where Gross National Happiness is a real thing they measure.
    5. Kazakhstan because of Borat.

    I think it would also be cool to do a wedding in Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch in Wales because writing that name on a marriage certificate would be fun.

  • Tuscany versus Amalfi

  • When I first started as a wedding celebrant in 2009 you’d write some blog posts, build some SEO, and maybe attend a wedding expo to promote yourself as a celebrant and earn a living.

    Now, however … things have changed.

    Lord knows if it’s for the better? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  • I visited The Vatican
  • Is the @abcnews_au Instagram account off-ABC-charter

  • Turns out hope might be good for the soul.

    Emily Brown in Relevant Magazine:

    Gen Z has been fairly vocal about their struggles with mental health, but according to the American Bible Society’s recent report, “The State of the Bible 2024,” young adults who read their Bible regularly report being much happier than their peers.

  • A transport nerd's Italian journies
  • The criminalisation of journalism
  • That face when you're “worried” about Spotify and podcasting

  • Why are the Vatican guards dressed like clowns?

    Orrrr why are clowns dressed like Vatican guards?

  • iPhone hack: when your iPhone 14 overheats in Rome, get a drink from McDonalds and melt the ice on the phone until it cools down.

  • L'angolo tra Via dei Gracchi e Via Fabio Massimo

  • Professor Giuseppe's Grand Hotel Tritone and its 1000-odd steps to the beach.

  • Some frames I have a captured on the Amalfi coast this week

  • When you're hot-headed and your Ray-Bans stage an intervention

  • Why did they call it the Amalfi Coast when they could of called it the Stairs Coast and it would’ve been far more accurate

  • My favourite thing to do whilst in Italy is to pretend to not be in Australian then surprise traveling Aussies with a big “G’Day, mate!”

  • Apple Health: You’ve been on tour through Asia and Europe for four weeks.

    Flighty: Your journey home begins in nine days.

    Me: This is going to ruin the tour.

  • Isle of Procida