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.
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#floodlyf
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Why You’re Christian, by David Perell:
"If you believe in human rights but don’t believe in God, you need a logical explanation for why they’re self-evident."
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Todays a good day to announce that we’re extending the pool and colouring it the same colour as the lawn
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Quiz
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Friday 13 Mar 2020, and the ABC quotes an F1 fan in its report on the Melbourne F1 Grand Prix being cancelled:
"Are you going to close schools and supermarkets and everywhere else where people gather?"
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Just one moment
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Eric Karjaluoto on the fallacy of individual wins and benefiting from the one force that every great business success has leveraged: The Wave:
Henry Ford didn’t invent the automobile; he rode the assembly-line wave.
Mary Kay Ash didn’t invent cosmetics; she rode the direct-sales wave.
Andrew Carnegie didn’t invent steel; he rode the building wave.
Steve Jobs didn’t invent computers; he rode the digital wave.
Anita Roddick didn’t invent soap; she rode the ethical business wave.
Larry and Sergey didn’t invent search; they rode internet wave.
Chip Wilson didn’t invent stretchy-pants; he rode the yoga wave.
Jeff Bezos didn’t invent book sales; he rode the ecommerce wave.
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Day four no bathroom.
Old Spice has been drafted for service.
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Chuck Klosterman on the 90s:
"It feels as though the 1990s weren’t just the last decade of the 20th century but sort of the last decade, period — the last decade with a fully formed and recognizable culture of its own."
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David Ogilvy:
“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”
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“Wonderful things can happen when your brain is empty.”
– Maira Kalman
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The Russian Military website is down with HTTP error code 418, which means it is a teapot #nottheonion
"The HTTP 418 I'm a teapot client error response code indicates that the server refuses to brew coffee because it is, permanently, a teapot. A combined coffee/tea pot that is temporarily out of coffee should instead return 503. This error is a reference to Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol defined in April Fools' jokes in 1998 and 2014."
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I do appreciate how impossibly hard Kanye West has made to listen to Donda 2. It's like Schrödinger's album.
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What ever happened to the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention?
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Crime in Tugun: Cromulent. A new issue of The Tugun Pause is in inboxes.
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“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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Day three without a shower and bathroom and I’m considering starting using Lynx Africa.
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I impulse purchased a Stem Player a while back because I convinced myself I needed something this weird in my life. Now I’m probably one of like ten people in Australia who will be able to listen to Kanye West's new album. What a time to be alive.
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Most of you wouldn’t know about the disappointment I carry that my first personal computer was a 486SX and not a 386DX. All my friends had 386s and my dad rented a Packard Bell with a 486SX.
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Our bathroom, a photo series.
Sometime around the turn of the century (before we owned it) vs. 7am today vs. 11am today.
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It’S TWOSDAY! Tuesday 22/2/22.
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Guy in a Palm Beach cafe this morning:
“Anything north of Mermaid Beach is Logan, love”
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In my humble opinion, one of the most under-appreciated literary works of the past 25 years are Chuck Lore’s vanity cards
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One day boomers are going to learn about Option + Shift + Command V and then us Millennials are going to be really screwed.
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Dear Vanessa Carlton,
Despite your willingness to walk a thousand miles to see me, I regret to inform you that you cannot fall into the sky.
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“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome”
– Charlie Munger
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If NCIS: Sydney can get off the ground
Blue Heelers: New York. Surry Hills, 2010. ER: Covid Ward. Buffy the Prime Minister Slayer. Law & Order: W.A. Unit. JAG: Garden Island. Grey's Anatomy: Brisbane-Team. 3rd Rock From The Border. Everybody Loves Dan Andrews. The Ibrahim’s. It’s Always Sunny in Adelaide. Orange Is The New Black (a travel program about going to Orange, NSW).
And I just want to point out without bringing too much attention to myself, that Sweden, Poland, Israel, Germany, India, France, Chile, the Czech Republic, Canada, Finland, and the god damned United States of America have had their own versions of The Office.
The Office (Australian TV series).
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Successful Man 2022 BC: Killed animal for family to eat.
Successful Man 2022 AD: I’ve emptied three of my four email inboxes and there’s only seven emails left in that one so they can wait til tomorrow because it’s almost 11pm.
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Good and new music alert: Ben Abraham - If I Didn't Love You
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René Girard in Wanting:
“Humans don’t desire anything independently. Human desire is mimetic – we imitate what other people want. This affects the way we choose partners, friends, careers, clothes, and vacation destinations. Mimetic desire is responsible for the formation of our very identities. It explains the enduring relevancy of Shakespeare’s plays, why Peter Thiel decided to be the first investor in Facebook, and why our world is growing more divided as it becomes more connected.”
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A wild Filet-O-Fish spotted near Hinze Dam on the Gold Coast
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Hey, feel free to join me, imma storm Meta HQ.
I’m taking a convoy to Menlo Park to demand that the Business Suite app work better.
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If you didn’t watch the 2010 banger of a film, Valentine’s Day, tonight, you’re actually not in love. Trust me, I’m a celebrant, I’d know.
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SMH reports that we are on the way to the darkest timeline:
“Premier Dominic Perrottet said the information was uploaded in error and the bungle, which has alarmed privacy advocates and women’s safety advocates, shouldn’t have happened.”
Ya think, Dom?
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Business idea: a screening of the Super Bowl for people like me who like to stay culturally relevant but don’t care about the football - and also have jobs. Just a little catch-up video. Help a brother out?
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The sunset over Tugun tonight was all levels of madness.
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Every day I wonder why when I was a young boy my father never took me into the city to see a marching band. Just something else for me please thank romanticise over as I take these chemicals.
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It seems like the path to podcasting success isn’t to create good new content, but to have old good content
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Sliding into the weekend from Burleigh
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Some people donate to good causes, my personal contribution to world peace is wasting time for scam callers. Rosie here just spent 30 minutes trying to get me to install the Anydesk app so they could help me with my NBN.
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Isaac Asimov:
"It is important to remember that the viciousness and wrongs of life stick out very plainly but that even at the worst times there is a great deal of goodness, kindness, and day-to-day decency that goes unnoticed and makes no headlines."
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What ever you do, do not google goats eyes.
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“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
– Jean-Luc Godard
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Elle Hardy talking her new book and the global Pentecostal movement with James Hennessy in The Terminal
“Pentecostals are basically eating everyone's lunch”
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Alex Ross with Reasons to Abandon Spotify That Have Nothing to Do with Joe Rogan:
"I don’t know how to explain to them that it has never been ethical or sustainable to expect to have unfettered access to the entire history of recorded music for $10/month."
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The only thing more terrifying than a Black Hawk rocking up on you in the middle of a battle with a load of bad ass soldiers, would be a ghost Black Hawk, just looking at you, ready to charge.
