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.”

In 2003 Pusha T wrote the McDonald's "I’m Lovin’ It" jingle, and because he wasn't properly compensated he's now worked on a collab with Arby's and it's amazing

Good, good, the metaverse has a volunteer police department full of randos planting weed on people and arresting people using annoying avatars.

I’ve always wanted to be able to watch planes land from my toilet. Now that our bathroom renovation is finished, I can!

Splash of crocodile hatchling

A few more hours of doing absolutely nothing for a week in Cairns until I go back to figuring out how to convince someone to sell their house with me, plus doing all the postponed weddings from Covid and the floods

Substack’s idealogy by Nathan Baschez in Every:

“The history of modern publishing (can be traced) back to the decision in 1833 of a guy named Benjamin Day to offer his newspaper, The New York Sun, for a sixth the price of his competition.

His strategy was to focus on sensational journalism to get broad reach, and make up for the losses in subscription revenue through advertising.

That model has dominated media to this day, except it’s now broken, because Facebook and Google and Craigslist took all the advertising revenue.

The answer is to build a new ecosystem where individual writers or small teams offer hyper-focused subscription products that add genuine value to readers' lives, rather than merely trying to trick them into clicking.”

What a novel idea. News media that adds value instead of tricking people.

“We believe that journalistic content has intrinsic value and that it doesn’t have to be given away for free. We believe that what you read matters. And we believe that there has never been a better time to bolster and protect those ideals. Now, more than ever, publishers of news and similar content can be profitable through direct payments from readers. In fact, we are so convinced by this notion that we have started a company to accelerate the advent of what we are convinced will be a new golden age for publishing. The company is called Substack.”

March 14, 2020: The Day the World Stopped Traveling.

Good news, the iOS Photos Look Up feature now works in Australia.

Bad news, it can’t see crocodiles.

At what point can I add photograoher for @DealStreetAsia on my LinkedIn?

For everyone that’s thought Apple iCloud email didn’t have server-side rules/forwarding, they apparently do now.

Great. Now I’m part of the “use a correct aircraft type” problem.

Qantas doesn’t fly Boeing 717s to New Zealand m8.

Haycock Island

Smile from a crocodile

Smile at a baby crocodile

A morning on the Daintree River with some baby, and not-so-baby crocodiles

Can confirm, the Canon EOS R5’s eye-autofocus for animals, does not work on baby crocodiles

That’s it, I’m done. I’m moving to Mars.

Apple event March 2023: We’ve put an M1 in the Polishing Cloth and it’s available for pre-order this Friday for $229.

From where you’d rather be, if where’d you rather be is a tropical paradise in the middle of a really rainy week

Home for the next few days // Clifton Beach, Qld

People who like to party on ice have moved to my neighbourhood

Hanging the boots up

Strip clubs and black holes, a review of a review of the life of Stephen Hawking.

Well there goes my plans on starting an airline based around coitus once we reach cruising altitude.

“The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.”

– Albert Camus

I uploaded 72GB of data for a project today and it only took a few hours.

I’m reflecting on that today as we berate the NBN, and government internet policy, the speed of computers, and how things are too slow, or too expensive.

The first MP3 I downloaded in 1997 went overnight.

My dad gifted my 1 year old a commemorative 50c coin for her birthday. I don’t know what this means. Is this a secret code, like when someone leaves a pineapple in your bedroom when you’re visiting?

Two years ago this week, we were all walking into the last normal week we’d see in a while. We were so innocent and unaware.

auDA is celebrating the 36th birthday of .au today, a few weeks away from the launch of .au direct.

One of my earliest memories of .au is how expensive Melbourne IT's prices were compared to .com so my employer at the time decided a .au.com domain name was the better bet.

So many of you have been asking how much money I make. I make a Medium income.