Withers Without You

‪Guys, Big Exercise just wants us to keep on doing exercise so we live longer so we can do more exercise. This whole exercise thing is a corporate scam! #BigExercise‬

Finally, a hero has risen, to liberate nerds from the shackles of conventional manliness by making an offering of a ute, but for nerds.

All hail, Master Elon Musk, saviour of the nerds, the Steve Jobs of utes.

#tesla #cybertruck

“If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.” - American Novelist, E.W. Howe

The Mandalorian is like a soap opera for nerds. I have spoken.

I’d like to dedicate this award to the gent sat next to me on this flight, in the middle of three seats, who chose to sleep on the other guy’s shoulder.

Breaking news: Qantas flight attendants to start wearing body cameras.

A local truth teller has scribbled out the T off the Tweed Heads northbound exit sign off the Pacific Motorway.

A few years ago I had that blog and podcast called Unpopular, and what @cabel is talking about is what I was trying to explore.

For context, this tweet is about @1Password taking on $200M investment for growth.

I think about this “often unexplored middle ground” daily.

Here’s a #VeryGC story. In Apple Store, dodgy guy next to me was owed $150, so the debtor gives the guy (I reckon he’s a dealer) an Apple Watch & the alleged drug dealer is in the Apple Store looking for a valuation. He “doesn’t really do Apple stuff so I’ve got no idea”

Finally, a piece of mobile computing hardware that could drag me from the Apple ecosystem.

If only it didn’t run Android.

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Peeps interested in podcasting will really enjoy this state of the union chat between Jordan Michaelides and James Cridland on the Uncommon podcast - overcast.fm

The real life of social mediaing

On the road again // Iceland

Dynjandi, Westfjords, Iceland

Zain, Luke, me, slowly broiled

This hot pool is the only source of water for a local farm, so to get cold water they have to literally cool down the natural hot water!

As emo as they look, Icelandic horses are still pretty cool.

Did you know that Iceland has the most purebred horses on the planet? Google has better info on it than I do.

Loo with a view. Ísafjörður, Iceland.

Buoakirkja Black Church, Búðir, Iceland. Not the boudior church, rookies mistake.

Friday

Watch out fellow youths, I spotted a wild boomer this morning just walking around the shopping centre stealing our homes and futures.

Carry an avocado on you to smash in their face in case they approach you wanting to know what their Apple ID password is.

Tuesday

Wednesday

Friday

Vick’s black sand beach, which is next to the famous Black Sand Beach. Iceland is confusing.

Iceland‘ s Black Sand Beach

Police are now targeting people who taste too many ice-cream flavours before ordering at Baskin Robbins, like, they’re all ice-cream dude, there are literally no bad flavours, gosh.

According to the recipient of a domestic violence at the Coolangatta Court House just now, there is just too much paperwork around DV.

Have you considered not violently offending you partner, DV boy?

Jetlag is real. Welcome to my TED Talk.

Icelandic moss

Found some Icelandic volcanic activity on the drone

Bridge over icey waters

Selfie with Harley

Around þórufoss, Iceland

þórufoss, Iceland

Reykjavik, Iceland

PSA: the next two weeks of Josh-flavoured spam will be Icelandic, Finnish, and Japanese in flavour.

Luna’s first birthday party!

Insert an interesting comment here about how the most popular Christian worship album this weekend won’t be heard in churches because it has Kanye’s name on it.

Dads love bringing backpacks to weddings.

Would you rather fight a Hillsong sized Kanye or a Kanye sized Hillsong?

The first meeting of earth’s most disrespectful people wraps up today at Uluru.

Well-produced, true, meaningful, helpful, locally relevant, news and information publishing/distribution that isn’t rooted in fear or control, is under siege.

Four stories about the news are on my mind today.

The first is about Newsweek, once a stable of American news publishing. Today however, the publication is fighting, not for life, but for clicks, views, and dollars, all whilst whittling away what trust anyone had in its pages. The lede for the story tells it all: “No one working at Newsweek can tell me why it still exists.” Newsweek used to set the agenda, now it writes viral headlines that Google will throw searchers to.

The second is about a radio station where I worked for about two years, Brisbane’s news and talk radio station 4BC. The Courier Mail reports that the automation computer that identfies as a ‘radio station’ is moving to its new owner’s premises, Channel Nine’s Brisbane studios. When I was there the radio station was local from 5am to midnight, with every single hour on-air being dedicated to creating content that informed and helped the Brisbane community. Now it’s just a Sydney radio station that plays Brisbane ads in between. There was a team of producers scouring the region for great stories to tell, and a newsroom dedicated to describing the current state of Brisbane. The radio station once had a massive staff, and now 4BC is literally a computer with a soundcard.

The third is from Stratechery’s Ben Thompson in his article The Internet and the Third Estate: “The first three estates are commonly thought to be the three branches of government: the executive, legislative, and judicial. It is the press that holds all three accountable, and in Zuckerberg’s telling, the Fifth Estate that gives everyone else a voice.” Ben goes on in great detail about how the first, second, and third estates, across America and Europe have not only evolved over time, but been the cause for great changes in power. Mark Zuckerberg is really pushing for Facebook to lead the fifth estate revolution that can only end terribly, because social media doesn’t make you an asshole, you already were one and social media can shine a light on it.

The fourth story is simply how Australian newspapers this week redacted their front pages in protest to the limitations our federal government has been imposing on the press.

Many of us are indulging in retrospection as we mourn the news as we knew it, but the fourth estate, and the fifth, as we once knew it wasn’t the healthiest lion in the pride. 4BC was launched so that John Chandler, of Chandlers fame, could sell more radios. Many Australian newspapers find their roots in manipulative power and control, instead of the noble cause of telling the news as it is. Facebook started as Mark Zuckerberg’s answer to finding out whether girls really were hot, or not.

Meanwhile there is a community trying to wring something good out of the bloody cloth that we have known as the news. Organisations like The Guardian, New Matilda, and Crikey, are working on new and different business models for the news while Australia’s publicly provided media, the ABC and SBS, are being defunded quicker than our Prime Minister can ask ‘how good is the media?!’

In an industry plauged by so much corruption, failing business models, and excessive noise, the future of the news looks bleak and on fire.

But I wonder if what we need is for the entire house to burn down so we can actually rebuild on the remaining foundations?

Billy’s dealing with the real issues.

A home day (Tugun, Australia)

Australian newspapers today … #righttoknow

When I’m rich I’m going to email airplane manufacturers asking for quotes on new planes whilst letting them know I’m on a budget.

Friday night road trip

The hardest thing as an adult is to push a shopping trolley through the supermarket without lifting yourself up onto it after a good push screaming ‘weeeee!’

When Britt leaves Luna alone with me for a week…

Pixar is simulating real camera lenses and mimicking techniques like split focus diopters in its movies and it’s amazing. The real fake cameras of Toy Story 4

This is the garage where Apple Inc started. It felt surreal to stand here today, a place of so much myth. An origin story like many, that actually resulted in the world’s biggest company today.

My favourite part is how the iPhone wasn’t even a thought at this stage.

The first rule of wifi club is that you don’t upload or download on wifi club

I put effort into my AirBnb reviews

Bad news about Donald Trump, he’s high in calories

The best thing about sharing a Lyft ride is the look the riders give each other when they enter the car, all knowing that none of us are as cheap as all of us.

Le Labo

Broads

Echoing the thoughts of every other basic b* that has bought a Series 5 Apple Watch: always on is a game changer. Even after a few hours you appreciate the watch more. Also, because I bought it in the USA, I’ve got an ECG!

🦆 for dinner

Many have messaged us about travelling with a baby, so I thought I’d share a few thoughts about bringing Lu to New York.

So firstly, we’re not travelling with a baby, we’re travelling with Luna, she’s almost a fully formed influencer with diet shakes and essential oils ready to sell you. Seriously though, Luna’s just one of us, eating the food we eat, going to the places we go.

Secondly, prams in New York are a bit tough if you want to take the subway. We’re rocking a Babyzen YoYo which I recommend highly, but you’ve got to carry it up and down the stairs. The rare subway station has an elevator, but most don’t. Lord knows how people in wheelchairs get around.

Thirdly, the drug stores and supermarkets here have some pretty good baby food. At home we make her food, but out here she’ll eat off our plate but mainly she’ll demolish/suck the organic goodness out of the plastic sleeves Whole Foods sells.

Finally, I appreciate the slightly slower pace a baby brings. Too many people want to see New York in a day. It just doesn’t work like that, and having to stop for nappy changes, sidewalk bottles, or not leaving the Airbnb until after her first nap is a reminder to take it slow and to smell the roses (or the stench on the sidewalk).

Georgia & Tim + me marrying them + Luke Fletcher shooting them @ the Wythe Hotel, Williamsburg

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Not many stores in New York have a line simply to enter and peruse

The bus

Casa Magazines with my two

The proprietor of Fashionable Male

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Luna, in the hood

Me, at work, in the greatest city in the world

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🤮 Street Photography

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NYC streets

1WTC

Google Maps AR is super helpful in NYC

🥰 // Britt

🌙 Luna // In New York before her 1st birthday

Call mum

Content creation

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Slide to the left, slide to the ride

Subway: wedding transport

I miss Mr Robot

Please donate to this guy’s GoFundMe

“Hi, can I please speak to the It’Sugar CEO about correct grammar?”

Went to camera heaven & a Jewish guy sold me a lense

If you want a photo of the Brooklyn Bridge, ask Ash

NYC subway crew

“We have fallen into the culture of adjectives and adverbs, and we have forgotten the strength of nouns … beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake" — Pope Francis

Who ever thought we’d be quoting the Pope on adjectives. But here we are, and I like it.

Does anyone have a mum or a grandma (even in a nursing home) in Leura, Katoomba, or Wentworth Falls? I’ve got an extra (unused) an amazing bridal bouquet that needs a home tonight.

Please, please, please, subscribe to my Youtube channel so I can get past 100 subscribers and get a youtube URL. xoxo www.youtube.com/channel/U…

That face when you’re pooing on your father

Do it yurtself

I’m sick of being judged by dogs in cars for not driving with my head out the window and tongue out of my mouth.

Police are now targeting people who call the phone or computer wallpaper, a screensaver.

To celebrate our almost 200th member at the Celebrant Institute I’ve redesigned our home page … I highly recommend hiring a web designer …

We live a few hundred meters from Gold Coast Airport T1 & T2 so I’m a little worried about finding this spray painted on our kerb this morning.

“He had some rote knowledge of cockpit procedures as handed down from the big manufacturers, but he was weak in an essential quality known as airmanship.”

This piece in the NYT is not dissimilar in narrative to stories I’ve heard from two Qantas pilots.

This story 😟 One man’s 33-year fight for his daughter takes him to second royal commission

For Yoey, that move would be the start of a three-decade journey.

In May 2018 I theorised that Apple’s ultra personal computing platform would diverge into a Wrist-first CPU and an Apple Camera. As I read @gruber’s iCamera piece I wondered whether my theory might not be far off.

They said I could be anything

The makers of Mini Metro have made a new game for Apple Arcade called Mini Motorways. Shut up and take my money, Apple.

One day, when I grow up, I’m going to open a cafe where the tables do not wobble. I’ll call it ‘The Good Cafe’ because that’s obviously what it is.

A sunrise tour of Currumbin Beach’s Swell Sculpture Festival

Whatchathinkbout?

The latest in private cloud storage technology // Swell Sculpture Festival

The city that rocks together stays together 🤘🏻 #brisbane #theamityaffliction

The new ABC Head of Editorial is being shown around the ABC Gold Coast Studios.

What a time to be alive. You can watch a live stream of Ikea furniture making it’s way from Sweden to Australia. It takes two weeks, today is day two. Captivating.

www.youtube.com/watch

The number one thing I’m asked for help on is writing wedding vows, so here’s a rebel’s guide

Wednesday sunset at the Gold Coast fires

‪On August 10 someone in Brazil made a $1.62 AUD payment through my manual payment page on my website. It allows people to pay their invoices in ful or part by entering their details and how much they want to pay, and Stripe processes the payment.‬

‪It seemed weird at the time.‬

This week the assumed scammer has disputed the transaction.

At the time of the transaction I notified Stripe that I believed it was a scam of some sort, and now that they want to charge me a $25 dispute fee I’m reminding them of that conversation, but …

What do you think the scam is? I’m always fascinated by internet scams and how they actually make money. How is paying me $1.62 then disputing it actually making the scammer money?

Mount Warning // Monday afternoon // sunset// bushfires nearby

Monday morning on Australia’s Gold Coast as the bushfires continue to destroy our hinterland

Chasing

I guested on the Wedding Photo Hangover podcast with Steven & Dustin, I think you’ll like it: Adventurous Elopements and Drone Photos

My series three Apple Watch decided to become vulnerable and reveal itself to me today

Sunrise at the Glass House Mountains

Neighbourhood Watch, reporting for duty

Live from Mackay, it’s Thursday night!

Sunset from Lamberts Beach, Mackay, Queensland

Burleigh Heads

“Mature people choose joy, immature people chase joy” - Dan Gorry

So glad to be a dad on Father’s Day 😊

‪I think I’m now involved in a game of internet Chinese whispers? Pass it on?‬

Good morning, Gold Coast

Good Coast Show Day #goldcoast #goldcoastshow

I saw recently that Ricky Gervais recently let go of the band names he’d been holding on to and I felt inspired to do the same.

Here’s my wedding business names I’ve realised I’ll never start. Feel free to use them.

Isle Marry You – for celebrants who do weddings on islands.

Aeiou – a stock standard vow service.

I Donut – a rebrand for the celebrant trying work less so they can spend more time with their family and donuts.

I Due – a celebrant who specialises in weddings for pregnant women.

Something Burrowed – for the Cooper Pedy celebrant.

Canaloupe – a celebrant who can offer elopements and also likes fruit puns.

Meowied By Name – if you’re a cat lady and a celebrant.

Maui’d By Name - for celebrants on the island of Maui.

In Tents Ceremonies – a celebrant service that offers really intense ceremonies but is packaged with a tipi.

For Butter Or Worse – for a celebrant who is out of the ordindairy.

Pitcher Perfect Weddings – one if you’re a wedding photographer who also brews beer and serves it in your photo shoot.

The Rodecaster 2.0 upgrade is really good … I wish I had more time to use my unit, I’m just abrely at home at the moment.

Green mountain blue II 1978 - more details

Home time

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Today’s office

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Can you see your first phone in this collection at the Telstra Heritage Exhibition?

Can you see your first phone in this collection at the Telstra Heritage Exhibition?

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I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains
Of ragged mountain ranges
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror,
The wide brown land for me! — Dorothea Mackellar

Surprise, I’m an #avgeek

On Saturdays we airport (with @qantas because I’m not an animal)

12:46am
Brisbane Airport
Why am I awake?

❤️ Lake Tekapo

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Why is NZ architecture so much more delicious than Australia’s?

Tekapo

Blue

Sunset at Lake Tekapo

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The seagull wants a closer look at my drone, so I cropped in a closer look at him

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When I told her she was 10 months old today

Britt as we drive home from a date night out in Queenstown: when we get home can you remind me to Google if Cameron Díaz and Benni Madden are still together?

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‪Who amongst us hasn’t had a few Presidential tweets and gone on a late-night Greenland run?‬

DragonDictate has admitted it has listened to audio messages, claiming it was an effort to improve its voice recognition systems.

Arrowtown

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Dolphins seem to use Pufferfish to get high, via the Smithsonian

Last light in Arrowtown, New Zealand, tonight

Last light #arrowtown

Adobe really missed an opportunity here for there to be Lightroom Girls. via NBC

What if Area 51 was every Victoria’s Secret store? That’s some Men In Black level secret hiding going on there.

I started thinking about Britt and my wedding, seven years ago next month, and what we would have done differently. It’s something I’m asked by most couples.

Honestly I’m picking at straws to think of things I would change. We had a ball!

I often tell people that if I could go back I’d probably change our decision to have a bridal party. Ours was full of fine people, but it’s probably the only slack I’d cut off. We’d still get ready together with the same people, and I’d still get Scotty to pray for us and Ash to make a speech, but I just wouldn’t force them to stand up with us in matching clothes.

Oh, I would also get Michael Eotvos to come and play live music through the ceremony instead of getting our mate Andy to DJ the ceremony.

What would you change about your wedding?

Talking about retail figures, this guy’s a genius, and might just be the saving grace retail needs, not sympathetic news articles about it’s decline — Barnes and Noble’s New CEO Just Revealed a Brilliant Plan to Save the Company

Every day there’s news reports about retail figures being low. Is that how we measure our success as a society? By how much money is spent at David Jones and Myer?

You are what you measure.

I’d suggest we measure something other than sales at cash registers.

It’s like measuring the number of phone calls made to see how healthy we are as a society.

“Imagine this: A shooter has entered a public place, where you are walking with your family. You have but a minute to realize you can save your 2-month-old by using your own body to shield him from the bullets raining down around you. Mere days later, your baby, the youngest survivor of the El Paso massacre, will appear on television with the very man who inspired the terrorist who killed both you and your husband. A photograph is taken, for posterity.” // Trump’s Horrific Photo with El Paso Victim Paul Anchondo

If you ever lose some something and have to report it to Queensland Police, know that they have a category for everything.

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Paradise

Gloucester Island

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Seven’s Sunrise breakfast TV show is on in the hotel lobby so I’m watching it for the first time in years.

It’s essentially Kochie and friends giving rolling commentary of the daily social media feed.

It’s a live call of the internet.

Sand bunkers gone wild (abandoned golf course)

Sand

Ocean

Low tide

Airline Beach, according to autocorrect // this weekend’s office in the Whitsundays, Qld, Australia

Airline Beach, according to autocorrect

“Don’t worry Wilson, I’ll do all the paddling. You just hang on.” // Airlie Beach, Qld, Australia

The Gold Coast is a pretty special place to call home

“It’s pleasantly ironic that some of the internet’s oldest open protocols are shining through, with email newsletters and podcasting standing tall” Podcasting is media’s slow food movement

Love this timothychambers.net