One of my favourite aspects of the world wide web and the internet, is the process upon which we find people who think the same as we do. People whose minds vibrate on a similar frequency to ours.

So I present to you: Jameson Orvis's 'the essence of place'

"The more I think about this label placement the more it pisses me off. Perhaps I could forgive the label for being so far from the geographic center of Brooklyn if the intersection of Brooklyn Ave and Atlantic Ave were at all remarkable. But no it’s just a random intersection along the A/C line with a 7/11 that the Google Maps label for Brooklyn just so happens to be positioned directly on top of. Why not just put it in the actual center of the borough? What purpose does this serve? Who or what algorithm is responsible? I descended a rabbit hole."

Police in San Francisco pull over a driverless car

Seems to have worked out ok for them tho

Kim Beazely - former Deputy PM of Australia, Ambassador to the USA, and current Governor of WA - on the general operational capacity of the United States of America:

“I think it’s brilliant the US actually works.”

Fun podcast listen at Hemispheric Views.

One of those weeks where I was on FaceTime a lot

You guys need anything while I’m here?

The difference 80km and a Ukrainian/Russian border makes in what you see on TikTok.

Ned Kelly’s legacy in tatters.

I booked a two night stay at this motel hoping for stay based on Ned Kelly’s principles of stealing livestock, denouncing the British Empire, and shooting Victorian police.

Not comfortability and cleanliness.

1 star.

Just in: the new rankings for reading a book:

1. Acquire the book and read it with your eyes.
2. Acquire the book and intend to read it.
3. Listen to a podcast with the author about the book.
4. Acquire the book without intent to read.
5. Listen to the audiobook.

we're all looking for someting, not knowing exactly what it is. then one day you’re driving toward the sunset with your window down, and wind running through your hair, as you think, “this is it, this is everything." and all you had to do, is open the window and let it in.

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I've got a hunch that this week will be the last one where Australia has a bloke named Scott Morrison as its Prime Minister. That election looms and the coalition wants someone else at the top.

And that makes the team at 6 News' interview with ScoMo even more important. Consider it an exit interview.

The view from Kirribilli last night

This week is one of those weeks where I’m reminded that I’m actually quite good at being a wedding celebrant and I really enjoy it despite a pandemic tearing out my soul. Just completed wedding 3 of 5 for the week and it’s only Wednesday.

It wet.

Pilot just explained that he and the other pilot were flying up from Melbourne for this flight and baggage loading staff were low at Melbourne because people in baggage were off work with Covid so the delays just multiplied from there.

2.5hrs late so far.

Layers

Now that vaccinated segregation is coming to an end in Queensland why should we give up on classism now?

I propose we start separating people based on race.

Like, I don’t want to eat at the same cafe as a really fast runner, or F1 driver.

Bedtime views

Feels good to be back in Sydney/the Blue Mountains today. Feels like I’m back in the office like the good ol’ days.

Life with a three year old and a one year old feels like a blur

FINANCIAL LOSSES CAUSED BY DIVORCE

Souht of 'Talle sunday afternoons

Australia

Why the original iMac had a handle

Arrived home from work late tonight to a vomiting toddler. She managed to soil two compete bed settings, a bunch of Britt and my clothes, two pyjamas, and some fluffy animals.

In other news, laundromats have really upped their price.

Eight hospitality trends/opportunities that could emerge from Covid:

• Towns for remote workers
• Home swapping
• City getaways and glamping
• Coliving in lifestyle locations
• Staycations
• Neighbourhood coworkings
• Campervans
• Hosting company offsites

… Peter Fabor

2022: Mac Studio 2023: iPad Studio 2024: AirPods Sussudio 2025: iPhone Studio

Cows with a beef

Turns out I’m very much not ready to see photos of my kids growing up. Luna’s 3.5 and I’ve got happy tears looking at photos of her from 2 years ago.

Charlie Munger:

“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome.”

Steve Albini to Kurt, Dave and Chris, aka Nirvana:

"I like to leave room for accidents or chaos. Making a seamless record, where every note and syllable is in place and every bass drum is identical, is no trick. Any idiot with the patience and the budget to allow such foolishness can do it."

VA531 SYD-OOL @virginaustralia Boeing 737 landing at @gcairport this afternoon.

Virgin aircraft offers me just the tip in my bathroom

One month ago, on the 28th of February we enjoyed 268mm of rain and our pool and lawn met for the first time.

Today’s brought 168mm so far, enough to bring the lawn and pool back together again.

That’s after I released about 4000L onto the lawn earlier today.

It wet.

Free business idea: software that monitors your email and to-do list and tells a stranger to call you when you get through all your emails and tasks - like, just doing your job - to let you know they're proud of you.

Hearing about Chris Rock and his mate today reminded me to watch Bel Air, the modern remake of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. It pushes The Batman way down the list in the gritty remake championships.

There was a really well known wedding photographer who was talking to Britt about shooting for The Elopement Collective, and on the phone to her (my wife) he told her that he hopes she fails in business along with some other rude things.

Not long after that phone call there was a dress up wedding industry Halloween party that I knew he would be going to, so I attended in the hopes of confronting him at the event, possibly even punching him.

The good news for all is that not only do I not really punch people, but on arrival to the event I realised how stupid it would be to publicly assault someone to defend my wife's honour.

He is still a douche - always will be - and my wife is always worth protecting, defending, fighting for. But assaulting him isn't the answer.

Instead we send him glitter in the mail every now and then. Plus when people want to hire him I tell them how mean and horrible he is and he doesn’t get the booking.

What Chris Rock said was horrible. What Will Smith did was worse.

The most unforgiving part of password parenting is needing to take your passwords to the gym so the other passwords don’t bully it for being weak.

That, plus the brutal murder you have to commit when someone else sees your offspring and you must change it.

Pop quiz: name a song about New York in the year 1776

Against Right Liberalism, Adrian Vermeule:

"The old right liberalism finds itself short on fresh ideas but very long on donors, dollars, second-tier publications, and institutional control."

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Every 'c' in Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently

The shopping centre across the road was on fire, so our real estate office is now a temp daycare centre for the 70 kids from Busy Bees. Because I'm a father of two I know how to be responsible around children so I'm sneaking packet sugars to the children.

Goldie and the light leak at Tallebudgera

A tourist is driving on the wrong side of the road on the Gold Coast Highway. It’s so beautiful now that the international borders are open again, nature is healing.

A real estate colleague asked me yesterday how I marketed myself in weddings. I said, I just did really good work and then people enquired. Like this couple.

Breaks my heart to say no to international work at the moment, but it's not sustainable whilst there are still border variables.

Marriage celebrants get all the cool stories.

100% Bruce Wayne was influenced by "Son, when you grow up, would you be, the saviour of the broken, the beaten and the damned?" in 2006 when My Chemical Romance dropped the The Black Parade and he was about 14 and decided to become the Batman we're seeing in cinemas today.

In light of the Hillsong news getting around, I've been reading Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World by Elle Hardy on Pentecostal faith:

"A powerful and globally connected religious movement, its resurgence in the twenty-first century also represents a crisis of spirituality in today’s world—one founded on consumption and individualism that replicates the social and political chaos of our time."

Steve de Shazer:

“Problem talk creates problems. Solution talk creates solutions.”