I was moved to hear of Father Bob's passing. I've never met or talked to a crankier, lovelier, old bloke who was thoroughly and passionately focused on loving and caring for humans without personal gain or agenda.

When I think about being Christ-like, I think of Bob.

Many publicly-known priests and ministers are loved by church leadership whilst being in the news for scandal and crime, while Bob was hated by church leadership whilst in the news for loving the outcasts of society.

I'd rather die a man lambasted by church leaders and known as a friend to outcasts, the downtrodden, the forgotten, the least of our society. That's who Bob was.

Shared my nerd bio in my NerdyBio interview

Everything that was old and awesome becomes new and terrible, whist still whipping the llama's ass.

Goldie, who just turned two, just buckled up her own airplane seat and is patiently awaiting takeoff whilst playing peek-a-boo with three different strangers and babbling to her neighbour.

So yeah, I think she’s doing ok developmentally.

Nashville, Tennessee ✈️ Phoenix, Arizona ✈️ Kona, Big Island of Hawaiʻi

Will, a mate of mine has written and released a guide on working in film and television production, something he's an expert in.

I thought readers of my blog might appreciate the book if they or people they knew aspired to work in film production (it's a great and personal read, even for me, an old man without film and TV aspirations), but also, they'd enjoy this excerpt about what technology you should own and be proficient in before you start as a production assistant.

“Seriously, people will look at you like you have three heads as you drag that eighty-pound hunk of plastic with the extended numerical keyboard from your bag and plop it on the desk.”

If you, or someone you know, wants a start in the film and TV production industry Will's the book is a must-purchase and must-read - and it's now on Kindle.

Because I’m a man-child I wanted to share my two of my favourite photos from photographing the horse sanctuary in Baja

I’m pretty sure I know enough old nerds who would enjoy this purely for the nostalgia.

Reckon we could get the ChatGPT guys to spend an an afternoon working on spam filtering?

Once all the adults admit that they don’t know what a conservatory is we’ll finally get world peace

Bad news for plastic kitchen good lovers, Tupperware is about to go broke. Turns out they were about seven decades too early on the influencer marketing trend.

Our last Baja sunset for a while

Our last day in Baja

Last day of school for the girls in Baja

Never forget the French dancing plague of the summer of 1518.

Charlie Munger on how the world actually works:

Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.

I've thought about these three points pretty much every hour of every day since I first read it three days ago in James Clear's 3-2-1 email

The future of content: video of someone watching a video of someone who wrote a song about their low self esteem sponsored by a real estate agent I’d not do business with if only because I’m not going to click an ad to take me away from watching this train wreck of a video.

Location, location, location #playacerritos

You've got to get up early to catch the Mexican Coke dealers

Todos Santos, BCS, on Good Friday

Still the best food and beverage proposition in Baja

Martha!

I’m doing a redesign of a website whilst also moving them from Squarespace to Shopify and I’m pretty sure the cheeky copy sprinkled across the new homepage won’t make it past the first review, but I’m quite proud of it, so I had to share it somewhere.

Good Friday for Luna

I’m going to miss living in the desert when we leave next week. So many cactus started flowering this week and they’re beautiful.

Apple’s gotta be the company to come in and either buy or partner with StabilityAI right?

“Please lower your standards”

Baja sunset

Millennial quiz: What have you got if you've got Sick Puppies next to Puddles of Mud with Twenty One Pilots?

How do you do fellow kids?

The moon over Baja tonight was so beautiful. Here it is captured by three lenses. Ones an iPhone 14 Pro’s 24mm lens, another is a Canon RF 35mm, and another is a Canon RF 70-200mm cropped.

Researching places to stay and this is the third sentence in the second paragraph in Wikipedia:

In 1968, five Swiss artillery shells accidentally hit it, damaging a few chairs that were sitting outdoors.

I’ve never flown Delta Air Lines, but Britt did last week, and a friend here in Baja is a frequent flyer with the airline, both, unprompted, cited the seat-back entertainment as one of the reasons they would fly them again.

Customer satisfaction win for Delta.

📷 Practice (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @hollie)

Ronald Sharp via James Clear’s excellent email, on how friendship transforms us (or any great relationship, really):

It’s not about what someone can do for you, it's who and what the two of you become in each other's presence.

“Now this being so, how much happier and better would the world not be if only it could be purged of women?”

From a March 28, 1912, letter to the editor of The Times, signed by C.S.C., one of the doomed. Who turned out to be Clementine Churchill. via Letters of Note

📷 Mirror (@Rori)

Now you’re just a music playback medium that I used to know.

(Found in an op-shop in 2017)

I'm feeling bullish on the new group-messaging app and platform, Wavelength, After reading John Gruber's review, then using it and joining a group, I think it could replace group chats in other places, but also serve as a platform for new conversations.

If you're interested, I've started a few group chats:

• The Frequent Travellers Society, because I like to talk about travel.
• The Celebrant Institute, you wouldn't believe it but it's for celebrants.
• The Apple Nation because I follow Apple like a sport, it's my favourite hobby.

Jump onboard if you're interested!

Eleven years ago I asked Britt to marry me, and honestly, it would still be my best idea yet.

I’ve written the story into my Rebels Guide draft chapter on proposals and how I think you should approach asking someone to marry you, now on the blog.

Over a decade ago Vinod Khosla wrote a series of blog posts about artificial intelligence, the forecasts hold up today, and the headline basically tells the whole story: 'Do we need doctors?' and 'Do we need teachers?'

📷 Slice (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @meandering)

Last week Goldie grabbed a big knife off the kitchen bench when I wasn’t looking.

Number of times a well-regulated militia has been required in the USA this year: zero.

Number of times a school student has been wanted to not be shot at this year: way too many.

Dropped a new draft chapter of the Rebels Guide to Getting Married today: choosing a person to marry.

Thinking about the Coolangatta boardriders today

Ted Gioia on becoming a Substack shareholder and why the rest of the business isn't run like this. Why don't the creators own the platforms?

“I’d love to live in a world in which the major record labels were owned by musicians. Or the Hollywood film studios by cast and crew. Or those five huge publishing businesses were controlled by writers.”