Hi! My name is Josh and this is my blog. I used to share on social media but decided that my fragility was too valuable to subject to algorithims and assholes.

  • Gary Voth's piece, The Forgotten Lens, reminds me why I love the 50mm so much. I only have a vintage Minolta f/2 manual focus lens at the moment but now I want the Canon RF 50mm f/1.2!

  • Is this mural on the toilet entry wall about menstruation?

  • Dave Winer with the best Twitter analogy:

    “Why would I leave Twitter? It's like living in NY and not taking the subway. Sure it's dirty and smells bad, but it's how you get places.”

  • The latest in dynamic bus signage technology

  • Reporting for The Verge, Justine Calma says that

    “Traffic jams are tied to lower birth weights.”

    It’s almost like us humans are making ourselves extinct eventually.

  • Someone just got a fire truck for their birthday or the truck celebrated its birthday. Either way, congrats!

  • Tequila shot $1USD

  • James Cameron, artist: outside and other and alone

  • Thursday's sunset

  • Netflix, One Tel, and me, a nostalgic love triangle

  • Good business sense tells me it's time to sell all my beef, children, petrol, and non-essential oils, and buy more computers. Thanks for the revealing graphs, Nick Evershed at The Guardian

  • The moonrise over the Pacific Ocean was pretty cool tonight

  • It's funny how the human brain likes little milestones and we call it "feeling real" ... like just now how I put the finishing touches on a Wedding Officiant in Mexico page on my website, and enabled the Squarespace translation webpage feature.

  • On ya bus

  • Bob Dylan:

    “Boy, I hurried… I hurried for a long time. I’m sorry I did. All the time you’re hurrying, you’re not really as aware as you should be. You’re trying to make things happen instead of just letting it happen. You follow me?”

  • Tuesday’s sunset from Todos Santos

  • Punta Gasparino, Baja California Sur

  • Finally, it happened

  • I'm a sucker for 360 spherical images, but the places you can view them not-flattened are few. Lightroom online is one, so here's the link for this one of El Pescadero at sunrise this morning: adobe.ly/3f55Fp3

  • El Pescadero, the little fishing village we’re calling home this month

  • Deporte bus

  • El Pescadero // home

  • Felt cute, might delete later

  • Hey, if you ever can’t get a hold of Jesus, lemme know, I’ll send you some Mexican Salvo, a sin remover.

  • Did Bono actually encourage Tim Cook on services and subscriptions when they worked out the deal to give away Songs of Innocence through iTunes?

    Tim Cook in 2014:

    “But we’re not a subscription organisation.”

    Tim Cook in 2022 (paraphrased):

    “Services, services, services, services, services, services, services, services, services, services, services, services, services.

  • Bono in The Guardian on the birth of U2, that iTunes album and Live Aid:

    “I don’t think I voted for the name U2, but I didn’t stop it. I definitely stopped the second suggestion – the Flying Tigers”

  • I’ve eaten sushi in Japan, Iceland, New York & Vancouver. Australians have made me sushi, Italians, Croatians & Kiwis.

    But I never thought the best sushi I’d ever eat was down a dirt road outside of a small village of 3,000 people called Pescadero.

    Noah’s was 🤌🏼

  • I’ve never heard of Haiku photography but I like it.

  • Breaking news: Luna rode a horsey and she is pretty flippin pumped about the whole idea.

  • The directions to the Los Sagrados horse rescue we visited today said to go through the Cardone Forest. I was curious what a forest in the desert looks like.

    Welcome to the Cardone Forest outside of Pescadero.

  • A helpful guide to our journey so far.

    We like Baja California Sur so much I’m worried we might not see the rest of the country.

  • Thursday in Todos Santos

  • A Mexican reformat

  • 2022, the year where Lettuce made the news twice.

  • My li’l mate, Luna, turns four today. She wants you all to know that she’s a big girl now.

  • Ted Gioia asks if smart people do books anymore?

    “Goodby logos, hello brand logos.”

  • Sammy J on ABC Melbourne:

    'Acts like a Bureau but always the BOM to me.'

  • I can't help but feel that Mark Zuckerberg is a bit off Apple at the moment.

    As someone who uses WhatsApp because he's forced to, not because he wants to, it's an ugly app and I only get more message spam from Telegram. Every day there's a new spam-women in my Whatsapp.

  • Travel money tips: Up Bank vs. Wise vs. Qantas Business Money (Airwallex)
  • Inherent problems in the internet of 2022
  • Dear Kanye, get a blog

  • Ted Gioia in the Honest Broker:

    "This is a signal that we have reached the endgame (of the internet) stage. And a new game is beginning with totally different recipes for success."

  • "This could be Heaven or this could be Hell"

  • One week in Mexico
  • Todos Santos

  • I love Morpho, my new favourite currency (and other numbers) conversion iOS app.

    Ahead of travelling to Mexico I wanted to find a new currency conversion app that did two-three things:

    1. Had a Lock Screen widget to help me make purchasing decisions quickly and easily considering I still don’t really know how much 1,250 pesos is in personal terms.
    2. If they couldn’t do Lock Screen then at least do a widget.
    3. Once I opened the app, it gave me a few nuanced currency conversions. I wanted to be able to quickly get my head around AUD, MXN and USD numbers quickly.

    Morpho delivered plus they brought in other conversions like weights and temperature.

    The widget is great - you can choose which conversion to show, as you can see in the screenshot I wanted to always have a sense of what things on menus were worth so I settled on “what’s 100 pesos worth in Aussie dollars?”

    You can then tap the widget to open the app and whatever number you enter at the top is converted below.

    Travelling internationally with an iPhone soon? You’ll like this. Even Britt appreciates it and I can never get her on to new apps.

  • Kurt Vonnegut:

    "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

  • It’s happened! We’ve had our first American tourist in Mexico think that Austria and Australia are the same place.

    The lovely person “spent some time in Germany one summer” and thought our accents sounded similar.

  • How can I nominate myself for the Father of the Year Awards? I just bought Luna a Paw Patrol car seat with and without beef.

  • Sam Kris: The internet is already over.

    “In the future—not the distant future, but ten years, five—people will remember the internet as a brief dumb enthusiasm, like phrenology or the dirigible. They might still use computer networks to send an email or manage their bank accounts, but those networks will not be where culture or politics happens. The idea of spending all day online will seem as ridiculous as sitting down in front of a nice fire to read the phone book.”