Hi! My name is Josh, this me blog.

The dance of pleasing the social media algorithims of the world’s biggest companies, whilst being beat to death by strangers with their comments displeased me so now I’m here.

I wish I were the kind of person who could just live without broadcasting. But there’s an animal inside me — right down in the marrow — that keeps asking ‘can you see me?’ and silence has never once soothed it.

  • View out my window right now

  • Bitey McBiteFace

  • "The big money is made not by exposing the truth but by papering it over or concealing it."

    – NewRepublic

  • Hey, bye @heyhey

  • Don't forget that we're all competing in a game where if we hit the right keys on the keyboard in the right order at the right time we win money and get donuts.

  • The worst thing about having an AirTag in your luggage is that instead of guessing that your luggage is about to come out, it removes any doubt that it isn’t.

  • Burleigh Heads on a Monday morning

  • If you’ve ever wondered how weird you are, if you don’t eat the deceased at their own funeral, you’re not that weird.

    “In many villages, when a person died, they would be cooked and consumed. It was an act of love and grief.”

    via NPR.

  • Who would’ve ever imagined that the BBQ-lovin Covid guy was actually trying to buy the whole chain of Barbecue’s Galore stores!?

  • Just say that after the traumatic 14 months behind us, we were considering selling everything and travelling Australia in a caravan with a toddler and newborn and you had prescient advice, what exactly would that advice be?

  • An old friend of mine from like 20 years ago has released an album and I found out because someone had a typo in their email address which landed the newsletter intended for Paul Withers' into my old Hotmail. Serendipity 2.0?

  • I’m dying of dystentery over this announcement.

  • Photos from inside my house identify as photos taken at houses down the street, from a GPS angle I understand this, but my iPhone knows my home address, and the wifi SSID I’m connected to overnight every night, surely we could bring that data together and say “if he’s on this wifi SSID, and GPS is weak or non-existent, maybe the actual photo and AirTag location is ‘home’”?

  • I am going to move my personal/non-wedding email account away from Hey. I don’t want to go back to GMail for privacy reasons, no to Outlook because of UX, and I don’t want to go back to Fastmail because it feels like the 90s over there. Any recommendations?

  • Sunrises at airports are my theme of 2021

  • Melbourne weather: cloudy with a chance of Josh.

  • If you’re curious about AirTag use through a flight whilst on inflight wifi, Find My believes that Qantas dropped my luggage from a great height somewhere over Armidale.

  • Someone’s been to the salon

  • Cows on buns

  • Yarra.

    The valley, not the river.

  • The one where Pete Townshend from The Who recorded an anti-smoking song while smoking cigarettes.

  • I’m sitting opposite a person in the Qantas Lounge who is eating so violently. Like she’s abusing her mouth with her fork of food. I can’t help but watch and I wish you could all experience this passive aggressive treatment of a cake hole.

  • Mel

  • Four different weather reports in Lilydale, Australia. How is weather reporting still so hard?

  • "As I reached for my Hasselblad, suddenly the Earth popped up over the horizon”

    Earth Restored

  • Name a more important Australian institution than the Great Regional Aussie Pub. Where would these acts play if not for the local?

  • You probably don't know this about me, but the main reason I'm a happily married man and wedding celebrant, and not a professional footballer is so I don't have to explain consensual threesomes to judges

  • QF

  • Doing my part for USA and Australian relations by making a photo of a @united B787 kissing a @qantas A330

  • My first photography commission: Reece Bathroom Life

  • 🚙

  • Luna approves of the Sydney Qantas Business Lounge

  • App Tracking Transparency, ATT.

  • “I’m studying to become a lawyer for my friend’s upcoming court case” said no-one ever.

    So apart from “because Joey from Friends did it” why are people spending thousands of dollars and more than a year of their life becoming a celebrant instead of hiring a professional?

  • The only bridge climb in Australia better than the Storey Bridge Climb, of the two available

  • Take me hommmmeeeee, country airline

  • Syd

  • That shining glint in the Crown of capitalism

  • Hey, guys who decide how comfortable Uber Comfort is, it’s not a Toyota Camry

  • If you’re in Circular Quay this afternoon, the playlist is mine

  • Sarah and Michael's awkward start to their wedding ceremony included a promo for the Gold 104.3 Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show

  • "This is lockdown’s near forbidden secret and terrible truth — that at the heart of grief, and midst mayhem, carnage and deep sadness, people do beautiful things."

    – Nick Cave

  • It was not my final destination

  • Important noodle information

  • When I grow up I’m going to run a cafe and an AirBnb, both of which have functional and high speed wifi.

  • School’s out at Lismore Primary

  • Daylesford

  • What did Ausnet do?!

  • In sad tech news, my favourite Melbourne store - Mac Addict - has shut down through 2020. I literally booked a hotel across the road so I could check it out today. Heres a 2017 review from EFTM to showcase how beautiful the store was.

  • Trying out the NKOTB to Melbourne today