Such a Century Gothic welcome

Is flying with your pillow a thing? Half the passengers disembarking and about the same boarding my flight have pillows. It’s an 11am 90 minute flight!

How is Jetstar the only Australian airline fully utilising the Apple Wallet API with flight and gate updates and heaps of info inside the ticket info page?

Nine years ago I had an internet-enabled egg tray. I feel like technology has not really advanced past this milestone.

It's absolutely glorious reading the reactions to the introduction of the push button.

"The fact that so often in modern America one may press a button and be served, seems to relieve one of any necessity for responsibility about what goes on behind the button?"

Oxford University was over 300 years old when the Aztec Empire was founded - more unlikely simultaneous events over at Kottke.

The invention of jaywalking by Clive Thompson.

Me doing my job on Bruny Island on Thursday from two different points of view

Patrick McKenzie’s travel recommendations post for Japan is really good:

“You should have most of your meals at places which you don’t know the name of and which, ideally, see relatively few foreign guests. Almost every train station in Japanese cities has an almost arbitrary depth of restaurants around it. The ones closest to the station are not your best options, but go out any station gate and walk 2–3 blocks (a few hundred meters) and then just walk in anywhere.”

I read posts like this and wish I was a better/wish I was a graphic designer. I jsut don’t hold the skill.

I like the premise of this app, I’m always keen to have breakfast with someone new and interesting.

Cam Winstanley on Read Only Memory writes about the making of what I still consider the ultimate real time strategy game, Dune II;

“Dune II did a great job of hitting the hot sand running, not only creating a genre but also working as a piece of stand-alone entertainment”

"You have to think anyway, so why not think big?"

back in my safe place: “going somewhere”

Hey, you guys wanna play old people's Seven Minutes in Heaven?

Novelist Jeanette Winterson on the value of darkness:

"I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing — their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.

To sit alone without any electric light is curiously creative. I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights — then I start thinking about projects, deadlines, demands, and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to done, not a background to thought.”

AI loves a good beach deer: "brown deer on white sand beach during daytime photo"

Imma start sending this to everyone I ever meet so they know how to rate me when the social credit system from Black Mirror finally comes into play.

Brian Eno:

“One of the reasons I have to take distinct breaks when I work is to allow the momentum of a particular direction to run down, so that another one can establish itself.”

Ted Gioia:

"Mr. Zuckerberg’s ideal Metaverse is just a panopticon—those infamous prisons where every inmate can be scrutinized simultaneously."

Chris Dixon:

“What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in 10 years.”

Well, that will be the last time I ever take hot or not advice from Balenciaga.

The couple I married today at Freycinet’s Honeymoon Bay married in secret (after booking me four years and a pandemic ago) so I tried my hand at double-exposures and blurry photos.

Annie-B Parson:

“Social media forms are performative solo forms with an odd conflation of friendship and marketing; the body is alone in a room performing the self, with an undercurrent of desire for applause. Without a town square to gather in and hash out the day with neighbors, social media communications have a shading of loneliness underneath.”

Today milestones:

11yrs ago Rhi and Jarryd became official. 10yrs ago Rhi found me on Instagram. 9 yrs ago I quit 4BC, went full time as a celebrant, and got on Nine’s Today Show as the “celebrant that only does cool weddings” 🤮 Today I married Jarryd & Rhi at sunrise in the Byron Bay rainstorm before flying to Hobart.

Today is day 10 away from my family. I embarked on this trip to Australia thinking I’d get lots of sleep and rest from being a dad. Instead of barely slept and miss them like crazy. Please don’t tell them, they already hold too much power over me.

Travel hack for New Zealand is to fly out of Queenstown Airport because they have a special check in counter for frequent flyers.

If you're thinkin' of being my burger it don't matter if you're black or white

Glacier to Ground pop-up waterfall

The Mātukituki River valley

ZQN bound

How am I supposed to drive five hours on an Ice Break

I’m sitting in row three - the last row - of business class on this flight from Canberra to Brisbane after being upgraded overnight and the Queensland Premier just walked past me to economy.

How did the Qantas algorithm put me ahead of Palaszczuk?!

Couple I'm marrying tomorrow: We'd like to have an entertaining and funny wedding ceremony. Me: Oooh, I'm going to have to Google how to do that. Them: Awkward silence.

🎶 It must be hard for musicians and songwriters to try and produce better songs than the best song ever produced, Frenzal Rhomb's Mr. Charisma.

The internet is more fun when you upload as much as you download. When you stop, comment, post, share instead of doom scroll. People create and also consume, not just consume consume consumer consume.

Re: Bird app

Cute. On the news that the leap second is being removed, Rev. Pavel Gabor, an astrophysicist and the vice director of the Vatican Observatory Research Group in Tucson, Arizona said that,

"atomic timekeeping was just one example of how the world was becoming incomprehensible to the average person, and that scientists had a responsibility to help people feel in control of their lives."

And he went on to say,

“I think sensitivity to this mistrust of elites, mistrust of experts, mistrust of science and institutions, that’s something that’s a very real problem in today’s world,” he said. “And let’s not contribute to it.”

I'm so looking forward to the world returning to normalcy and peace in 2035 when the leap second is removed.

Breaking: news.

You take a six week break in Mexico and your phone gets real judgemental

Philip Glass:

”I don’t know what I’m doing. And if you don’t know what to do, there’s actually a chance of doing something new. As long as you know what you’re doing, nothing much of interest is going to happen.”

It’s not often you get Coolangatta and Surfers Paradise in the same photo. But that’s what happens when I’m back in Australia :)

Current status: Getting wasted on old fashioneds in the Los Angeles Qantas First Class Lounge.

I don't think Trump will even make it to the Republican Nomination for President, let alone the actual Presidency. The Trump voter hates losers more than lefties and abortions.

I've been talking about switching social networks for a decade now ...

Having my first experience of Live Activities on the latest iOS software. The app that is “live” is Flighty, and I really like this. The only negative is that 4G/3G/wifi is terrible here.

To chool for school

Experiencing the weirdest vibe right now. I’m packing to leave home for a month, and the place I’m travelling to is Australia. I never thought Australia would be somewhere I travel to, only from.