Who are you even going to choose? Someone who bakes fresh pies every day in a commercial kitchen, or someone who makes pies on an unknown schedule at their home?!

Goonoo Goonoo on a Thursday morning

The one with a Britt in front is our Airbnb … the other is just how damn cute Tamworth homes are

Shooting the sunset over Tamworth with Luna

Took the girls to the office today. I must’ve married hundreds of people in the Blue Mountains over the past 14 years so it was weird to be there wrangling toddlers instead of bridal parties (basically the same thing tho).

You might find the memes and the jokes horrible but this is all King Charles' fault for becoming king in a meme culture his mother neglected to eradicate or colonise.

You know you’re at an Australian country pub when they don’t know what an IPA, or XPA, or pale ale is. I asked for a beer from a brand that’s less than a decade old so she gave me a local apple cider …

Glenbrook

Has anyone tried letting their toddler just leave and run into the wild? Maybe us parents are the only things holding them back from glory? Maybe warm clothes, a sleep routine, dry nappies, and regular food really is the last thing they want?

When you’re trying to escape the backpackers

Everyone goes shopping and posts a selfie of the new clothes they bought while I’m over here like, I got some more camera things

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Otto English in Politico:

“The world’s papers will be full of obituaries of the queen today. This is the life of Elizabeth Windsor.”

What scientists have learnt from COVID lockdowns.

Restrictions on social contact stemmed disease spread, but weighing up the ultimate costs and benefits of lockdown measures is a challenge.

Richard Branson:

"All businesses are an idea or service that make somebody else's life better. If you make other people's life better, you'll capture that value in return."

I truly struggle to understand why we - as a global community - are so weird about immigration. That because of the genetic lottery you were born in a certain fenced area so you mainly just stay there for most of your life.

And we all fight to maintain that level of normalcy.

I don't want normal, I want magic.

Becoming a crypto bro just got easier

Sunday morning at Bondi

A delightful Batman story

It’s amazing to me that the least valued, least used, and most uncool social network in the world is constantly the most important.

Louis L'Amour​:

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”

Proud to announce that I’ve been appointed as a noted person to dispose of any currencies with former heads of state on them. Please mail all currencies to my PO Box and I will dispose of the currency ethically and properly.

I miss old-school Steve Jobs era Apple product launches. Steve would say that they designed some cool tech, we’d all agree and cheer. Tim Cook’s Apple pads it out with marketing BS “products that are essential to our daily lives and that work seamlessly together”.

What’s the most you’ve paid for an Old Fashioned?

Finally the Pringles people have removed the unnecessary lids. If once you pop you can’t stop, why have plastic lids?

An opera I’d go to

You can say what you want about the downfall of a Sydney institution like Bread & Circus after being sold but I can’t trust a cafe that takes my order on an iPad with a 30 pin dock connector.

The Withers’ in Wonderland (at The Grounds of Alexandria)

Experiencing Sydney through the eyes and words of a three year old is marvellous. She looks at this building and calls it a castle and supposes there could be a princess at the top. I said there’s more than likely a few princesses inside.

Luna upon seeing Circular Quay and the Sydney ferries for the first time: they’re like pirates!

Ten years of you trying to convince me to go halfsies with meals. Ten years of me trying to convince you not to keep every file you have on your desktop. Ten years of loving you. Ten years of being loved by you. Ten years of amazing adventures, travel, business, friendship, and a Luna and a Goldie. Ten of the best. Happy tenth wedding anniversary, baby xx

How boring and sad for AFL, to keep up the boring old broadcast model for another 7 years.

I’ve met the end of Chinese food game boss

#notallstains

No, just a little lower. There it is.

Well, this W really gets a round

September in Australia, by @newyorkcartoons and @scottdools

Why international standard paper size ISO 216, the standard you might know as A1/A2/A3/A4/A5/A6 is one of the greatest innovations of the 18th century, and the simple maths behind it.

Germany just finished a three-month trial of selling €9 monthly 'all you can eat' public transport tickets and not only did more than half the country take up the offer, they saw significant reductions in pollution. Now there are protests against ending the trial!

Epictetus:

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

Sydney this afternoon

The real conspiracy I’d like Qanon to tell me about is why Australians are denied eggnog. How does Big Nog continue to ruin the lives of everyday Australians?

Darryl Campbell in The Verge:

"There’s no evidence two decades of pat-downs and shoe removal have made travellers any safer — so why does the theatre of airport security persist?"

Luna presents me with a self-portrait for Father’s Day. I say “noo-noo”.

Luna: discovers herself

Teaching Goldie how to identify a sucker

This Ars Technica article - Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot - - reminds me of how I got shareware games before the internet. The local Video Ezy had a for-money shareware kiosk you could bring floppy disks to and get fresh ‘warez.