What a dramatic moment: Just dropped in to get a haircut from my favourite barber before I fly back to North America on Tuesday and he’s quitting his job as I walk in! Awkwardly shakes my hand then gets his stuff and leaves!
Really proud of how The Sizzle has grown. You deserve all the success, Anthony/@decryption.
“If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), ‘Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?’ chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.”
I’m selling a 245L Hisense freezer if anyone is interested, like this totally genuine buyer.
24 hours in the town I grew up in: Mackay
24 hours in the town I grew up in.
My first ISP: still going My first job at the cinema: cinema closed down Fav restaurant: still going First nightclub: closed down Eimeo Pub: still going Sun shining on: Mackay Sun not shining on: Sarina Bridge I sat in traffic on whilst there was a bikie gang shootout: still going. School wear I became reel smart: still going. RIP: Mackay’s only space station
Growing up in Central Queensland meant your coastline was always filled with ships taking coal and sugar to the world.
I really weirdly always feel alone when I look at a coastline and see no ships.
So it’s been nice to be back in Mackay for a few hours.
Before we get too excited about fusion energy, space travel and flying cars, it’s important to remember that this is how Australia Post wants me to find a lost package, with details from a Windows 2000 screenshot and calling a national hotline.
My favourite thing about flying out of regional locations in Australia is that you can be having coffee with a mate just before the flight, watch the flight coming to land which, means you should probably get up and drive to the airport so you can walk on just-in-time.
iOS 16.2 means we can listen to music without the lyrics for focused work
Chatted to a flight attendant today who is proudly quitting and taking a job with Virgin after Christmas because of all the “negativity at Jetstar” which is hard to believe because Jetstar seems like it would be the loveliest place to work if you hate existing.
Such a Century Gothic welcome
Is flying with your pillow a thing? Half the passengers disembarking and about the same boarding my flight have pillows. It’s an 11am 90 minute flight!
How is Jetstar the only Australian airline fully utilising the Apple Wallet API with flight and gate updates and heaps of info inside the ticket info page?
Nine years ago I had an internet-enabled egg tray. I feel like technology has not really advanced past this milestone.
It’s absolutely glorious reading the reactions to the introduction of the push button.
“The fact that so often in modern America one may press a button and be served, seems to relieve one of any necessity for responsibility about what goes on behind the button?”
Oxford University was over 300 years old when the Aztec Empire was founded - more unlikely simultaneous events over at Kottke.
The invention of jaywalking by Clive Thompson.
Me doing my job on Bruny Island on Thursday from two different points of view
Patrick McKenzie’s travel recommendations post for Japan is really good:
“You should have most of your meals at places which you don’t know the name of and which, ideally, see relatively few foreign guests. Almost every train station in Japanese cities has an almost arbitrary depth of restaurants around it. The ones closest to the station are not your best options, but go out any station gate and walk 2–3 blocks (a few hundred meters) and then just walk in anywhere.”
I read posts like this and wish I was a better/wish I was a graphic designer. I jsut don’t hold the skill.