Dave Winer with the best Twitter analogy:
“Why would I leave Twitter? It’s like living in NY and not taking the subway. Sure it’s dirty and smells bad, but it’s how you get places.”
The latest in dynamic bus signage technology
Reporting for The Verge, Justine Calma says that
“Traffic jams are tied to lower birth weights.”
It’s almost like us humans are making ourselves extinct eventually.
Someone just got a fire truck for their birthday or the truck celebrated its birthday. Either way, congrats!
Tequila shot $1USD
James Cameron, artist: outside and other and alone
This New Yorker profile of Director, James Cameron, hit home with this line:
“He sees himself as essentially outside and other and alone; he bites the hand that feeds.”
Thats a solid mark of an artist, that they create from the outside-ness, the loneliness, and in doing so they bit the hand that feeds.
Just yesterday a photographer friend and I were lamenting this feeling in ourselves. It’s why I found it so easy to transplant to a new country, maybe why I feel so at home with an airline ticket.
So if you feel alone, you’re not alone, despite the fact you truly are.
Thursday’s sunset
Netflix, One Tel, and me, a nostalgic love triangle
Britt and I are watching Netflix’s new show The Mole at the moment and as that guy who knows Queensland like the back of his hand I’ve been following the filming locations keenly. (If you know what that Daintree resort is, please tell me!)
So as the team reached “The Great Barrier Reef” aka The Whitsundays I immediately recognised the location as Woodward Bay, just a few minutes’ drive north of Airlie Beach. Visitors in the past include the King of Morocco, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, but most importantly for this story, the owner’s husband, Jodie Rich. Apparently, they all helicoptered in, but I just drove when I visited.
I’ve been brought in - pretty sure it’s 1999 or 2000 - to install two Alcatel PABX telephone systems, one that sits at the front gate, and another in the main compound, connected by fibre optic, to allow the main compound to make and receive phone calls, but also for the fancy new gate to be opened by phone call.
I worked for a local company called Business Solutions, and my experience there has always stuck with me. We were a one-stop shop where we provided actual business solutions, not just products. I still love doing that in businesses today.
Anyhow, I’m on this amazing property that Tom Cruise has just stayed at, and Japanese property developer, Kumagai Gumi, has just dropped $150 million on the property, then sold it to Jodee Rich’s wife for $2.5 million so that’s probably a totally cool and normal transaction.
The whole thing was out of reach of ASIC as One Tel went broke because the husband didn’t own the property that was attributed to him, but his wife did. That’s the kind of business sense that gets you places, like starting your own top-level domain (.CEO) and NFT.NYC, kill me now, this bloke has such an epic legacy of grifting.
Seeing the property in The Mole was cool, it looked so similar twenty years on. It is honestly a really beautiful property. Back then they allegedly had lasers across the bay to keep people out, and as a young bloke, it’s the nicest property I’ve ever stepped foot on. I remember being told that the coffee table was made from a door of a monastery.
Interested in staying the night? It’s only five figures a night.
And if you need a PABX installed in a weird situation twenty years ago, give me a call.
Good business sense tells me it’s time to sell all my beef, children, petrol, and non-essential oils, and buy more computers. Thanks for the revealing graphs, Nick Evershed at The Guardian
The moonrise over the Pacific Ocean was pretty cool tonight
It’s funny how the human brain likes little milestones and we call it “feeling real” … like just now how I put the finishing touches on a Wedding Officiant in Mexico page on my website, and enabled the Squarespace translation webpage feature.
On ya bus
Bob Dylan:
“Boy, I hurried… I hurried for a long time. I’m sorry I did. All the time you’re hurrying, you’re not really as aware as you should be. You’re trying to make things happen instead of just letting it happen. You follow me?”
Tuesday’s sunset from Todos Santos
Punta Gasparino, Baja California Sur
Finally, it happened
I’m a sucker for 360 spherical images, but the places you can view them not-flattened are few. Lightroom online is one, so here’s the link for this one of El Pescadero at sunrise this morning: adobe.ly/3f55Fp3
El Pescadero, the little fishing village we’re calling home this month
Deporte bus
El Pescadero // home
