📷 Sleeping giant
It’s been 183 days since the first postponement email. The longest 183 days of my life. 154 displaced weddings and elopements. Some couples are onto their third, fourth, and fifth wedding or elopement date or location. 46 cancelled flights to 15 different countries. $67,200 in cancelled invoices for future elopements or weddings. Thousands more lost to non-refundable accomodation, ferries, etc and about $20,000 tied up in travel vouchers. If anyone wants to fly Brussels Airlines before December 31 I’ve got some vouchers. Who knows the actual real cost to our business (me + The Elopement Collective). 3 court appearances coming up because we couldn’t refund and the couple didn’t want to reschedule.
1 virus.
I’m ready for all of this to be over now. How has Covid-19 affected you?
Five Darwin observations:
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Where the goal for people in many cultures is to become a doctor or a lawyer, in Darwin it’s to become an air-conditioning salesperson or refrigeration mechanic.
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The true status symbol of greatness in Darwin is to drive a dust-stained Toyota 4WD. Everyone else is a lesser than.
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There are an inordinate number of retired airstrips in the region, which would be really helpful if you had lots of planes you needed to land at once.
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The flies here are much more motivated than the common fly in the rest of Australia. The territory flies have a deep-rooted belief that your skin is merely masking the best thing a fly could ever want, like searching for the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, flies are intent for getting literally under your skin.
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There is a coffee conspiracy in Darwin. My current understanding is that a mean person banned good coffee beans from ever coming to Darwin and if you are visiting there is a thriving black market for smuggled quality coffee beans. This is a guaranteed method of instant wealth.
📷 Burd
Everyone talks about a Darwin sunset. Charlestown delivered.
📷 I appreciate clear and concise signage as much as the next guy, but …
I just read the line in a headline “Oprah’s favourite life coach” and all I want to know is how to remove the taste of vomit from your mouth if you’re not carrying mints.
📷 Florence Falls, NT
Hey can someone just quickly explain literally everything to me. I think I missed something.
”The (US) debt isn’t going to be repaid; it’s going to be refunded.” - Warren Buffett
📷 In the Northern Territory of Australia termites have been exiled from the urban areas and forced to make their own homes in the bush.
Abandoned by humans and the government the termite people gather dust from their surrounds and build cathedrals, sacred mounds that these vermin call home.
I thought I’d take the time to tell you an old story from the first time I ever thought about a wedding, it was actually 25 years ago this month.
So on this one faithful August night in 1995, I was about to propose to my girlfriend when my roommate Joseph barged onto the verandah out of nowhere, tripped and fell over, breaking a glass outdoor table with his face.
Totally ruined the mood.
Now, I didn’t know Joseph that well, I can’t even remember where he was from, but I’m sure you could imagine I put my plans on hold to help get him to the hospital.
Joseph had gotten big glass shard in his eye leaving him completely blind in that eye. He was walking around with one of those cotton pads on his eye for a couple of months. Then suddenly, he disappeared, along with my girlfriend!
Apparently they’d bonded during the time after his injuries, and they eloped together, leaving me behind without as much as a note. I tried to track them down, but never could.
As happy as I am today, if it hadn’t been for cotton eye Joe, I’d have been married a long time ago.
Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, cotton eye Joe?
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 31 📷 Love
Humble brag photo post about travelling somewhere
So I hire a car from Avis for the night because that’s the easiest and most simple way to get to Brisbane Airport early tomorrow morning, and only $10 more than an Uber and the Airtrain.
Now someone’s crashed into the hired car.
My life is so exciting.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 30 📷 Discovery
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 29 📷 Flake
“People pay money to see others believe in themselves” — Kim Gordon, Sonic Youth
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 28 📷 Emotion(s)
“Out there things can happen And frequently do To people as brainy And footsy as you.”
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 27 📷 Overcome - as the Australian burnt bush fights its way back to green after a bushfire
Hey guys I would like to invite you all to join my multi level marketing scheme for beer. If you can convince 10 of your friends to drink beer, and they can convince their 10 of friends to drink beer, then I think we’ll be rich.
If Google was really committed to not being evil, they would remove pre-roll ads on Rick Rolls
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 25 📷 Relentless
Fill ‘er up, mate
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 25 📷 Hope
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 24 📷 Frosty
This is so awkward, I misunderstood. I’ve been preying for you, not praying for you. I don’t know what I’m going to do with these dead animals.
Never forget the day ScoMo became PM
Anyone else find themselves trying to lead a really exiting life so when the COVID contact tracers release the list of places you’ve been, everyone would think you’re cool?
Just me?
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 23 📷 Graceful
The year is 2020.
Some have died from a pandemic, millions others are economically and mentally affected.
Meanwhile young and attractive humans are dancing for free to pop hit songs in 15 second segments on an advertising and government propaganda network.
Helping my friend Tatiana Neumuller with a new website tonight :)
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 22 📷 Home
The best part about Luna learning the word ‘no’ is that when she says ‘no’ loudly to my face in no way does that trigger any deep-rooted rejection trauma and I’m totally ok with it. Parenting is so easy.
A lady has just taken a photo of me and obviously thought I couldn’t hear her speaking. She thought it was beautiful and sad that I was the only person on the whole beach, sitting by myself, reading.
In case you see me go viral, I want to state that I’m quite happy.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 21 📷 Crunch 🦈
One of the best things about colonialism and white people is that sometimes you can just have sharks swim next to you at breakfast without any fear of harm.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 20 📷 Change (of scenery for a day)
Are islands called islands because they “is land”?
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 19 📷 Ribbon (of islands I just flew over)
Thinking about rejigging all my marketing to just pictures of me shirtless, grinning, holding up fish. It seems to work for guys on Tinder.
This wasn’t a collaboration with Bechtel with a contract and payment; it was Apple doing a favour under the table for the Department of Energy. But access for that favour went only so far.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 18 📷 Grid
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 17 📷 Cuddly
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 16 📷 Stationary
Nick Cave on Cancel Culture, and mercy.
”Mercy is a value that should be at the heart of any functioning and tolerant society. Mercy ultimately acknowledges that we are all imperfect and in doing so allows us the oxygen to breathe — to feel protected within a society, through our mutual fallibility. Without mercy a society loses its soul, and devours itself."
“Cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort” – Clive ‘Papa Roach’ Palmer, looking at Palmer Coolum Resort.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 15 📷 Silhouette, from the last time we were in Bali, for our babymoon with Luna
What’s the etiquette around putting handcuffs on toddlers?
Asking for a friend.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 14 📷 Among
Microsoft Flight Simultor is a 11 months younger than I am as a human, so this montage is a crazy and fantastic display of how computing power has changed in my lifetime.
Did you know that if you bury a flatearther when they die, they actually pop out the other side of the disc because the earth actually rejects them, like when you get a little splinter in your finger, your body pushes it out.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 14 📷 Among
You wouldn’t know this about me, because I don’t like to boast, but I once stopped eating a tin of Pringles.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 13 📷 Filter
In 2011 Redfoo proclaimed “now stop … hatin' is bad” in the middle of LMFAO’s breathrough banger, Party Rock Anthem, and I can’t help but wonder why people still hatin’.
“Very little art arose out of the Spanish flu” a guest on a podcast recently commented.
Have we seen any great art come out of COVID-19? Has a great podcast, movie, TV show, photo, painting, song, sprung out of the depths of 2020’s pestilence?
Can we talk about indoctrination?
What’s everyone’s thoughts on indoctrinating your toddler with The Muppets?
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 12 📷 Sound // photo from me operating sound for a jam sesh
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 12 📷 Sound (love this sound)
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 11 📷 Transport, take two. I just flw past this on my drone.
📷 The song of the marmoset
The Peggy character in Hamilton is such a Peggy, saying responsible things like “Daddy said to be home by sundown,” reminding the sisters to not go downtown, and just popping in to remind everyone are exists “and Peggy!”
I think Luna needs a Peggy as a sibling.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 11 📷 Transport
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
- Helen Keller
How much of our understanding of reality is shaped by algorithmically-curated, ad-funded digital for-profit products?
I thought Scooter was an antisemitic band. They’re not.
In 1998 the German electro pop band, Scooter, released an absolute banger of an anthem called “How Much Is The Fish?”
I enjoyed this track immensely serving its place as the post-alt-rock 1990’s soother my library was in need of.
Somewhere around 2003 I realised I wasn’t ok with a (misheard) lyric “transforming the Jews” and i filed Scooter away as nazis.
Today Supertramp’s Logical Song was referenced in a podcast, so I turned to my music library to relive the 70s melody. From there I remembered that Scooter released a remix/cover of that song which I revisited, and then pivoted to that scar of a song, How Much Is The Fish?
Turns out Scooter aren’t nazis. They’re transforming the “tunes” and they’re ok with Jews.
I still don’t know how much the fish is.
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 10 📷 Windows
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 9 📷 Black and white
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 8 📷 View
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 7 📷 Daytripping
🚲 Cherub takes up cycling 📷
August photo micro-blogging challenge day 6 📷 Bisect (maybe? probably not?)
Someone’s thoughts on collective responsibilities
Freedoms and liberties versus trust, society, and community.
“Before we get too hung up on blaming the state govt, or the federal govt, or China for our covid situation let’s review some facts:
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We had to bring in mandatory quarantining in hotels, because we couldn’t trust people to stay home after returning from overseas.
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We then had to bring in security, because we couldn’t trust people to stay in those hotels.
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We then had to bring in ADF, because we couldn’t trust the security guards not to have sex with those in quarantine in the hotels.
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We had to get police to door knock and check up on people, because we couldnt trust those who were meant to be self-isolating to actually stay at home.
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We also have to have police and ADF reinforce the metropolitan melb zone and state borders, because we can’t trust people to follow the restrictions.
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We are now being asked to use masks, because we cannot trust people to social distance when they are in public.
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Through it all, our supermarkets have had to introduce shopping restrictions because we couldn’t trust people to not to take more than what they needed.”
Just got out of the car and for the first time in over a decade I thought about having cigarette.
This is the level of stress I’m living at through all this, that my brain thought a cigarette might help.
August photo blogging challenge day 4 📷 Peace (at Coolangatta Beach)
August photo blogging challenge day 3 📷 Bug, but probably not the bug they’re expecting
Saint Valentine of Rome was martyred on February 14 in AD 269 after he continued marrying people when marriage was banned.
Weddings are banned in Melbourne from Thursday.
Will there be a Saint of Batmania?
“But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying. The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
— This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
Nostalgia wins. Install Mac OS 8 on your current computer
Everyone’s having the great mask debate and I’m over here just dancing by myself.
Feeling horny but might delete later idk tho
Look, if you’re wondering when to get married, Tuesday the 22nd of February, 2022 is pretty cool, because we’ll call it a Twos Day Wedding.
My local UberEats selection becomes super boring/corporate after 9pm.
In case any of you guys wanted to join the illuminati, I’ve got an in
The one thing I know for sure
The one thing I know for sure is also the one thing I am sure I am wrong about. It’s that I am the most important person in the world. That my experiences, thoughts, possessions, and relationships are the most important of them in existence. I have a lifetime of evidence proving it true, but I also know with great certainty that I am not the most important person on the planet, nor does the universe orbit around me.
If I am so sure that the one thing I know for certain, is incorrect, how can I ever be sure of anything ever again.
I feel like a new man after leaving the house to be creative today.
Remember the good ok’ days when we’d leave the house all to make things like photos?
Do people not offended by #cooncheese even buy anything other than supermarket-brand cheese?
Asking for a friend.
Get back to me when your daughter has a PLU on your local cafe’s point of sale system.
Whenever someone talks about closing the boarder I’m always impressed that so many people are renting out spare bedrooms to people who don’t mind being opened and closed.
Check out our Europe 2020 travel photos!
Syncing to the cloud
Watching Luna chase a reluctant mum + 2 kids around the public playground hoping that they could all play together is bringing me much joy.
The mum left the house today certain that the only person her kids would be playing with today would be her.
It took ten minutes but Luna won. She’s now leading the other kids around by hand.
Germs, Withers DNA, dirt and all.
Nice flex, Qantas
Britt and I argue over getting news and information from Instagram or memes, and this is my argument, as written by Terence.
”The whole investigation took me 5 minutes. A Web search, a few clicks, and some ctrl+f‘ing. These are basic skills, and you should use those skills before you share something which sounds too good to be true. Treat any claim without a URl as suspicious.”
Luna upon seeing a polar bear IRL. I think it might’ve been a nicer experience if the polar bear was in the wild and we were running for our lives, but here we are folks.
I was tracking flights for January for a wedding I have/had booked in Orlando. I think it just got a little more expensive/impossible.
Luna us leaving home and moving to Sea World
To save you the awkward work of calling your dentist asking if you can pay with exposure, let Ryan Jon do it
Now taking applications for people wanting to join my Mindful Clown Posse. We meet on Tuesdays at 6am for chai tea.
Breaking: Yacht club memberships are rising suddenly in Victoria as the premier rules masts to be compulsory for all Victorians
That feeling when you’ve done all of Brighton.
What’s everyone’s thoughts on forewords and introductions in books? If they were supposed to be part of the book they’d be chapter one, right? Am I a bad person for skipping them? Am I missing out?
The lockdowns will continue until morale improves
The new FlyerKeeper initiative is a winner, thanks ScoMo ✈️
150 people at a wedding in NSW, but, everyone seated, no mingling, no singing, no dancing. Make sure you invite Kevin Bacon to your wedding.
I’m no psychologist but I’m willing to bet that the elderly man driving his 1970s Mercedes Benz with the windows down through the streets of Palm Beach loudly blaring Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls is having a bad day.
“In Iceland, we are lucky enough to have vast open spaces and beautiful nature that is the perfect place to let out frustrations, we feel this is just what the world needs.” says Sigríður Dögg Guðmundsdóttir, of Visit Iceland. You can send in your scream to be released into the Icelandic wilderness. I highly recommend. lookslikeyouneediceland.com/
Them’s fightin words
She learned how to toilet from me, by sitting there reading for half an hour.
“New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual (if he wants it, and almost everybody wants or needs it) against all enormous and violent and wonderful events that are taking place every minute.” — E.B. White in Here Is New York
Anyone else in the “out before midnight closing the three rings club?”
The biggest giveaway that my only military service was a school term of Army Cadets is when I need to use phonetic letters on a phone call.
J, for Jackson 5. O, for Oh my god! S, for Sara Bareilles. H, for hold on. U, like you but just the letter. A, for all the letters.
Qantas’s last 747 on it’s Farewell flight past Surfers Paradise this morning.
The @Qantas #747 is a plane that has taken Britt and I so many places around the world, but greater than that, its legacy means that this boy can create marriage ceremonies around the world.
Get the down-low on The Virtual Wedding Fair this weekend by listening to my podcast, The Rebels’ Guide To Getting Married
I’m always asked if I can tell whether a couple will ‘make it.’
I can’t, but the closest I’ve come is right now and the lady in front of me is married to a guy who just texted her ordering a margarita pizza for dinner.
I don’t think margarita pizza guy is also a marriage guy.
Most Australian’s don’t even know that Nelly and Kelly Rowlands' 2002 hit ‘Dilemma’ is about how Kelly was with 2020 but all she could think about was 2019.
Those small business vibes are real. Every day I fantasise about working for some big corporation who doesn’t know who I am but at least I wouldn’t get anxiety opening my email.
One of the hardest things about living in Queensland is that through the depths of winter you often walk outside in shirt, shorts, and thongs, and you’ll think to yourself “it’s a bit cold, I should of worn a thicker shirt”
My inbox is a wonderland, by Josh Mayer.
Hey, just a question from the audience.
How are scammers still in business? How do they afford the phone calls, caller ID spoofers, computers?
How are they still profiting? Doesn’t everyone know that if your phone rings it’s at least a 50% chance of it being a scammer?
Please come to my comedy show
Based on the laughs I’m getting from our toddler as she watches my rehearsals I’m betting that my move into stand up comedy is going to be a raging success, so I’m proud to announce my first touring comedy show.
Come and watch a 38 year old man put a dummy in his mouth, even though he isn’t a baby; watch as this father pretends to take your food if you won’t eat it; be amazed as a Gold Coast marriage celebrant dances with you in front of a mirror.
Tickets are $30.
Luna is upset that I cut an apple up, and she’s now trying to mend the apple by holding it all together, while calling for her mumma.
A metaphor for 2020.
I’ve been trialling the news iOS 14 Back Tap feature and every single activation has been accidental, and any intentional activations fail. So I’m turning it off.
I know I’ve been a whinge guy about COVID lockdowns, and that’s because financially and in our business we’ve had a rough time with it. But reading this …
My iPhone buzzes me, alerting me of some photos it’s curated into a cool album named “Celebrate Good Times”, so I excitedly tap the notification excitedly and it shows me a blank photo album.
Sick 2020 burn, Apple.
For those of us worried our phones are listening, the next version of iOS due out in a few months let’s you know in Control Centre exactly which apps are listening, or have been.
Boat people found
I’m very good friends with 25 letters of the alphabet, I don’t know y.
I’ve been making websites on php based content management systems for over 20 years, mostly Wordpress for the last 17, so I’m struggling to understand JAMstack.
On the chance that you’ve made the move recently, how can I understand it better?
Hey, has anyone made a ‘Victoria - Garden State’ into ‘Victoria - Basket State’ joke yet?
Is this the future of the media? Hot topic opinion pieces by people who don’t exist.
Anyone else in beta club?
It feels really nice and normal to hear flights back into Gold Cost Airport this afternoon.
There’s a new episode of my podcast out, and honestly, I’m pretty bloody proud of it.
Just search for ‘Rebels Guide’ in your podcast app and you should find something around the lines of ‘The Rebels Guide To Getting Married’.
What is a Virtual Wedding Fair? Here’s a snippet of the most recent Rebels Guide To Getting Married talking about it.
Good news everybody, the people in charge of time have decided to not make 2020 one second longer than it has to be. That’s the kind of leadership 2020 needs.
I think it’s time someone called 7-Eleven on their shit. They are open way outside those hours.
The real cost of the travel restrictions is in my sunglasses acquisition and ownership strategy,
Every Bali trip I buy a collection of knock-off Ray Bans and then slowly lose them or break them inbetween trips.
I’m now down to my last pair.
If I’ve got to wear a mask, I might as well look good
Be warned that despite the name, the Disney+ production ‘Hamilton’ has absolutely nothing to do with the Whitsundays island, and instead seems to be about a man who literally published a book about his own sex scandal.
Is this an Alan Jones advertisement or a reportage of a sad story about Alan Jones?
Asking for a friend.
Channel 7 announces it’s glad that Pauline Hanson will be more available for Sunrise now that the Today Show has finally let go of her.
The border township of Albury–Wodonga is set to become the duelling towns of Albury versus Wodonga as the border closes tomorrow!
I’ve got $10 on a Wodonga win, because they have zombies.
I've been pwned, and my password used to be becool88
This screenshot contains two passwords I used to use, maybe 10 years ago. The username and passwords were released in a data dump, and because I am registered with haveibeenpwned.com they let me know today.
I haven’t used those passwords for ages, because I now use a password manager - 1Password - which generates unique passwords for each website I use.
I’m a smart guy, and I know if I’m being scammed or phished, but sometime in the past decade or so I was had - and that that username and password is now available to the general public.
Two things I’d love for you to take away from this:
- This is why it’s important to have unique passwords for every service, because if one service is breached, then the potential fallout for you personally is limited to that one company. If you use the same username and password for everything, then if one company is breached, hackers now have access to all of your websites and logons.
- Have a look through the publicly available list of usernames and passwords just to get a feel of how unique your password for all of your life is.
America, just think of Kanye West as your rebound president. You don’t need to love your next president, you just need to spend some time with someone else for a while so you can learn to love yourself.
I, for one, welcome our new Yeezy overlords.
How do you break it to your mother-in-law that you eloped in secret?
I’ve got some ideas and they’re in this week’s Rebels’ Guide To Getting Married podcast. Search for ‘rebels guide’ in your podcast app, or find the links at therebels.guide.
If any out of state friends need to get into Queensland to watch an AFL match, or to witness affordable house prices, my cartel is taking expressions of interest in a tunnel.
Apply within.
The year is 2020 and Victorians being smuggled into Queensland is a concern
A change of format to The Rebels Guide To Getting Married
Throughout this COVID time of life I didn’t know where to go with my podcast, The Rebels' Guide To Getting Married.
Then I was listening to my friend’s podcast, Trevor Long’s EFTM podcast, and he’d started taking calls helping people with tech support and tech buying decisions, and I realised that I used to do that for a living - take phone calls on the radio. So I’ve taken The Rebels' Guide to a talk radio kind of format. Think of it like talkback radio for weddings!
I’m a bit rusty on my radio skills, it’s only been a decade, but here’s my first episode back, I hope you love it :)
Search for ‘The Rebels Guide To Getting Married’ on your favourite podcast app, including Spotify, to listen on your phone.
“‘Right,’ she nods—because there really isn’t a great way to try to respond to an older, popular male talk show host telling you that all men have sexual thoughts about underage girls.” - Elle Magazine on Megan Fox
Because Victoria can’t control it’s Rona, Queensland, hilariously, is now the ‘Home of the AFL’. As a proud Queenslander, let me join the statewide chorus of Go Lions!
Weren’t the eighties a different time. Could you imagine The J. Biebers Band releasing a song today about how Justin’s found his high school crush on the front page of Pornhub.
Having never attended an orgy, and not being educated on orgy culture, is The Beatles’ Come Together an anthem for orgies or is it too obvious an inclusion so dumped from the orgy playlist?
Nothing grounds you more than an email from a potential client apologising for a delay to an email because “this week is a chemo week”
Made the news today
Apple’s Beats 1 radio station launched five years ago today
Five years ago today Apple launched a radio station, Beats 1.
If you were to ever listen, you’d find that it’s a really good international radio station.
It’s just hidden in the back of the Apple Music app, instead of just being present when you turn on your car.
Position is an underrated element of product.
In case anyone asks, I’m listing all of you as deductions on my tax return this year.
It said I can claim any tools I need in my life to do my job.
Name a better Wiggles song than The Wonder Of Wiggle Town.
I’ll wait.
I feel like I’m going through a break-up with the best-laid plans of mice and men.
Hello? Is that the police? I’d like to report a group of people youthing outside my home. It’s past my bedtime and they’re just out there being youth.
If it’s good enough for the finance bros, it’s good enough for me, I’m starting a new year on July 1.
Maybe that will help my mental health?
Just remember guys, we’re all in this together, except Victoria.
Not many people know this about me, but I’m not an astronaut.
An email from @Walgreens and @Channel9 about an @abcnews report on @BillGates and @richardbranson investing in #Bitcoin was plausible until I realised the ABC can’t afford this kind of investigative journalism anymore #RefundTheABC
I hope there’s someone still employed in media to do one of those cool end of year wrap up videos to enjoy as we all drink ourselves into oblivion on the evening of December 31st, 2020.
I don’t talk about this much, but I used to be married to the idea of sleeping past 7am. Now that I’m a dad, and because Britt wanted us to be exclusive, we had to divorce, but I really do miss sleeping around 8am.
I think the girl walking ahead of me is in real trouble. It smells like she’s drowning. Drowning in perfume. She may be on the way to buy more perfume.
Nestle, why not just rename Chicos to ‘Small Dark Skinned Children Lollie That Has A Racist Undertone’.
Luna’s all about new apple products this week
Things you never think you’ll say to your child: “Do you want to wear a hat while you do a poo?”
I feel like a lot of the opinion on lockdowns is coming from people who’s businesses and incomes haven’t actually really been affected.
When COVID-19 took the stage, the Australian government/s simply wanted to flatten the curve, so we shutdown society and put people out of work. Today the curve has flattened, they’re talking about waiting for a vaccine. Is anyone steering the ship? Where’s the leadership?
Some people think the Hackintosh is dead after today’s Apple announcement about moving to Apple Silicon.
I think Hackintosh will just move to, are you sitting down? Apple Pi.
Try the veal.
#applepi #hackintosh #applesilicon
Luna & I are walking through a local shopping centre when she points at a girl & loudly proclaims “Mumma!”
I look at the teenager & sincerely say “you are the chosen one!”
This is the most fun you can have with a toddler and a terrified girl before the police get involved.
Has anyone considered how the Flight Centre captain is doing through all this?
Melbourne during COVID-19 or the Melbourne Zombie Shuffle?
Only Apple would, and could, run an advertisement encouraging me to watch a keynote presentation at 3am.
Remember that time that K-Pop Twitter and Alt TikTok worked together to make the President of the USA look like a fool?
If Donald Trump is campaining to make America great again, is that hinting that he didn’t succeed the first time round?
“From schools to workplaces, we are told that ordinary negative emotions and experiences—fear of failure, or sadness over a breakup, maybe—should be treated or eliminated. Feeling bad is bad.”
You won’t see this covered by the mainstream media
“Viewers are seduced by the promise of access to hidden knowledge, which will ensure that they alone know what’s really going on.”
Day one running Windows 10 on a 16
My mother-in-law asked for my help seting up a new laptop, a Dell XPS 13 2-in-1, and for the first time in a long time I was sat with a Windows laptop in front of me.
My intial impressions using her machine was that it wasn’t all bad.
And having used a new 16" MacBook Pro for the past few weeks, and finding more and more that MacOS wasn’t the JesusOS I thought it was, I wanted to give Windows 10 a go.
So Boot Camp was run, Windows 10 was installed, and I’m a few hours into the experiment.
A few thoughts: Microsoft Edge is a silent achiever; Windows is a mostly ok operating system these days; mouse/trackpad in Windows still sucks; the 16" Macbook Pro trackpad is very large and Windows doesn’t have palm-rejection so I hate it and want to throw the laptop away everytime my right hand’s palm graces the bottom right of the trackpad; there’s many cross-platform apps available, but apparently I love a lot of Mac-only apps (like Drafts, Tot, Spark); Touch ID on MacOS is a missed feature; Preview.app is a silent achiever on MacOS and is dearly missed; Apple’s Windows software is pretty good on first look; remapping some keys on the keyboard will make life easier; 1Password on Windows is actually a better experience than on Mac … how did Windows get a better 1Password than Mac?; I need to remap the Apple Command key to the Windows CTRL key immediatly after publishing this post (use Sharp Keys for this one); who knew that Windows had a built-in clipboard manager?!
One takeaway anyone should have reading this is that Microsoft Edge is actually a really good web browser, a non-Google but Chromium-based web browser, and it’s worth you trying.
The biggest thing I’m missing today … iMessage. That little “social network” is a powerful ecosystem lock-in.
Turns out I’m a rockstar. I just started riffing on a song about puppies today, the lyrics simply being the word “puppies” repeated over and over and Luna danced along. Please contact Britt for any gig opportunities or interviews.
Audio tweets you say. It’s almost like this isn’t the first time that Twitter has had that Odeo’ea.
I don't want to be 'that COVID-19 guy', but ...
So look, I don’t want to be ‘that guy’, but two of the higher profile cases of COVID-19 test in Australia - the bloke in Blackwater, and the Black Lives Matter protestor - are people who’s initial tests were positive, then secondary tests came back negative. Is there at all the slightest chance that this whole COVID thing needs a bit of critical analysis done on it? Slightest possibility that we, as a people, could apply critical thinking and maybe pull back on the fear and the craziness? Reckon we could open some borders, and get some businesses back to work? I’ll be over here in the ranty corner, have a great day.
This is amazing, someone has recreated online one of my favourite things to do, drive through cities listening to the local radio
People: Mainstream media
I’m pretty chuffed today. My first commissioned photo was accepted and invoiced today. You’ll see it in the Reece Bathroom Life Showroom in St Leonard’s in Sydney real soon!
