Nature is healing!

The Queensland border has been open to other people for 12 hours and our roads are filled with tourists who don’t know the roads again. It’ll be a good week for tow trucks.

Business idea: Home Alone 6: Too home, too alone.

Name the song with lyrics and without searching:

“You serve me up with cake and that’s your big mistake”

How you know email communities are a real threat: when Facebook enters the game.

James Clear:

“Someone else living a good life does not prevent you from living a good life. There are many ways to win and plenty of space.”

Mavic 3’s 1x versus 28x zoom.

Somewhere in my nerdiness - born in DOS, grew into Win 3.11-XP, morphed on over to macOS sometime in 2006 - I missed the workshop that explained how websites work in 2021.

It's like website admin has gotten harder since Frontpage and Dreamweaver, then Wordpress, not easier ….

I’m so keen I reckon I’ll double these numbers before 2022

After being grounded for over a year - since the great wave vs. drone fight of 2019 - some of my favourite people bought me a new bird to commemorate my 40th birthday.

I am beyond pumped to get back in the air making art!

Cherian George for Nieman Lab:

“China’s and Russia’s global influence operations won’t need to resort to fake news to exploit the genuine dysfunctions in the American system.”

Photoshoot with a spider

The most depressing take on the state of "the media" today is the one in Max Read's email that basically suggests that Buzzfeed's public listing failure will be its biggest success because it will prove that there's no market for more new media.

Happy Pretend to Be A Time Traveller Day!

(Yes, this is a real international day, Google it.)

I’m vibing this Dutch multigenerational living space

Ever seen a goanna scale a brick wall?

“So let's sink another drink, 'Cause it'll give me time to think, If I had the chance I'd ask the world to dance, And I'd be dancing with myself, oh-oh.”

With every drop of news about Omicron I feel sicker about our future. The pandemic is strangling the life out of a business we've spent 10 years building. Even just on Saturday with the closure of the Queensland and Tasmanian borders to Adelaide, that cost me $3130.

Why eleven babies have been born on (in?) Antarctica

“If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”

— William Morris

Spouses, as you cross the 75% completion mark of cleaning up after dinner, be like: “oh, honey, I’ll clean up, leave it to me”

Hello! I’m Josh Withers. You may remember me from such movies as Regional Breakfast Radio Guy, Weird International Wedding Celebrant, Super Zoom Photographer, and 2022’s Newest Real Estate Agent.

All the world’s a social feed, and all the men and women are merely variables in an algorithm.

I find it interesting that this important research of 60,000 Australians released as a YouTube video has only been watched 154 times. It’s fascinating data on Australian consumers trust, and also separately, distrust of Australian brands, companies, and industries.

Southern Gold Coasters wondering what’s happening at the old Pizza Hut beachside pavilion, it’s called Siblings, and I’ve been documenting the build.

“Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.”

– Buckminster Fuller

Thought I’d share something I’m proud of today: I’ve consolidated all of our family’s brands and business ventures under the one website/domain name: withers.co

We’re proud to announce that we’re expecting. Santa that is. We’re expecting Santa.

I also told Luna this week that Santa’s not alive any more, but people dress up like him … soooo I’m a great person.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but we don't use whisky stones, save your money

Epidemiologists: Omicron’s not a big deal guys. News media: NEW FLESH, LET’S GO BABY!

1859 or 2021?

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness…”

Finally, ScoMo will keep me safe from you all.

We’ll that’s the last time I try to rent a hit man through RentAHitman.com, the guy behind it just forwards all the enquiries to the police and they aren’t proper hitmen. shout out to all the hitladies that also feel excluded.

Business idea: drone birth photography.

Britt: You’re not going to be able to get the cactus inside once you’ve repotted it. Me: Trust me honey, I’ve got this. Narrator: And yet he did not have “this.”

Got fizzy photographs // documented the build of Hard Fizz’s first home here on the Gold Coast.

#toiletsofthegoldcoast #hardfizzhq

My secret superpower is telling people that the lyrics in the chorus of George Ezra's Budapest are “I'd leave it all”.

Welcome to the Withers Cinematic Universe.

What’s the @qldpolice definition of illegal littering?

Because every week a kid drives past my house and throws this rubbish on my driveway.

And is it the driver littering, their employer, or @woolworths, @TAFEQld, @bunnings, @JBHiFi and co?

I'm on a conference call right now with Dally Messenger and other leaders of the celebrant community with the Attorney-General’s office, and he's made a big claim: That people who aren't Australian First Nations, or Jewish or other religions, don't have a culture. Thoughts?

Ten years ago yesterday: "I believed that he was clearly implying that News Corp would run news stories or editorial content concerning any issue I wanted if I was to cross the floor and oppose the (Digital TV) legislation.”

A tale of two burghers

One of the best things about working in the wedding industry through Covid is that I've finally become the disappointment my step-mother said I was. #kickinggoals

I turn 40 in a few weeks. There was a time where I never believed I'd make it past 21 as I saw friends and people around me dropping like flies.

Between 21 and 39 I mostly felt immortal.

But for the past year all I have thought about is what will happen to my blog when I die.

There's a new Terminal command in macOS Monterey: networkquality.

It’s an internet speed test in the terminal.