← 2024 August 2024
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If you actually get Oasis tickets today, start planning emotionally for the excruciating wait for them to play Wonderwall as they walk off stage for the 20th time as everyone starts chanting encore once again.
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Hey Siri, define my last four years and five months in a reply by Nilay Patel
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Am I an influencer now?
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Imagine the monotony of life if the sun slipped away without a whisper, and the skies farewelled the day with no fanfare, leaving the world untouched by the splendour of their daily performance.
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Seated behind me on this A321neo are a bunch of boys who refer to “normal planes” as ones that have a 3-3/4-3 configuration and they’re bemused that we’re flying such a small plane to Bali.
Normalise single-aisle aircraft.
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It’s a real creature comfort to be able to listen to my home state Cole’s Supermarket in-store music while in Brisbane
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Surfers Paradise street performer in four photos
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Remember that time the world united around a dude called Matt dancing in front of things around the world? Better times.
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They completed technology. No more technology is needed anymore. They’ve done it all now.
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Apparently people don't know that Flight Control has been reborn as Planes Control, so, ya know, it has been
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Imagine being so good at dancing that you got a doctorate in it and then were chosen to represent your country in it at the Olympics, only to realise you’re actually terrible at it thanks to some dude on the internet.
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A court case I lost a few years ago over a frustrated contract had the ruling go to a hypothetical “man on the 3pm omnibus to Clapham” which is a common law description of the “common person”.
Being on one as I write this I think the modern version is “person on the 6am Boeing 737 to Brisbane.”
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I couldn’t stomach any delays today, but I was kinda hoping we’d get the slightest delay so I could test the new machine learning features in Flighty 4
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Donut not have kids … they’re the best
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It honestly is impossible to get a doctors appointment in the Huon Valley, I called around a few weeks ago (from today’s newspaper)
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South Hobart tip shop find of the week: $15 for a 1971 Auto Tamron 80-250mm F/3.8 telephoto lens with a Minolta mount. Add on my MD-RF adaptor from Urth and I've finally got a telephoto for my Canon EOS R5 again.
Photo of Britt's Fuji camera is through the lens, I'm looking forward to playing with it in the daylight tomorrow.
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On dying, from @Geordie@aus.social who recently died:
It’s because we don’t die online properly.
We need a way to die online. If my time comes tomorrow, I want the offline funeral to serve as a way — as best as funerals can — of drawing a line under my life and letting the grieving process begin.
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Reading The Sizzle’s opening lines today by @decryption@aus.social really took me for a six. No day in this life is promised to us, but I’m glad to have spent today with each of you.
Here’s to you, Geordie Guy. May DNS pay for what it did to you.
(There needs to be a new word for people we follow and are followed by online, haven’t met in real life, but have admiration and respect for.)
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ABC Chairman on the web: a “pretty ancient concept now”
Josh Withers: “kill me now”
… however I do agree with his stance on lifestyle news receiving so much priority at the ABC.
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Honouring soldiers from all three of Australia’s major wars here at Samsonvale
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I've just been named the number one Asia-Pacific photographer who made zero dollars from their passion in the month of July but had a lot of fun doing it. I'd like to dedicate this award to my wife and children who roll their eyes every time dad gets the camera out.
