I couldn’t stomach any delays today, but I was kinda hoping we’d get the slightest delay so I could test the new machine learning features in Flighty 4
Donut not have kids … they’re the best
It honestly is impossible to get a doctors appointment in the Huon Valley, I called around a few weeks ago (from today’s newspaper)
South Hobart tip shop find of the week: $15 for a 1971 Auto Tamron 80-250mm F/3.8 telephoto lens with a Minolta mount. Add on my MD-RF adaptor from Urth and I’ve finally got a telephoto for my Canon EOS R5 again.
Photo of Britt’s Fuji camera is through the lens, I’m looking forward to playing with it in the daylight tomorrow.
On dying, from @Geordie@aus.social who recently died:
It’s because we don’t die online properly.
We need a way to die online. If my time comes tomorrow, I want the offline funeral to serve as a way — as best as funerals can — of drawing a line under my life and letting the grieving process begin.
Reading The Sizzle’s opening lines today by @decryption@aus.social really took me for a six. No day in this life is promised to us, but I’m glad to have spent today with each of you.
Here’s to you, Geordie Guy. May DNS pay for what it did to you.
(There needs to be a new word for people we follow and are followed by online, haven’t met in real life, but have admiration and respect for.)
ABC Chairman on the web: a “pretty ancient concept now”
Josh Withers: “kill me now”
… however I do agree with his stance on lifestyle news receiving so much priority at the ABC.
Honouring soldiers from all three of Australia’s major wars here at Samsonvale
Took a Demo of Apple Vision Pro
Amazing on two notes.
Amazing technology to experience today in real life, not in a YouTube video or a TED Talk, especially considering the poor demo I received from the Apple Carindale kid who clearly had no interest in technology, the future, Apple, or immersive computing.
Secondly, amazing on where we’ll be a few years from now. If we’re here today, 2034 computing will be beyond our comprehension.
A notable missing piece is Apple’s native support for 360 photos. The VisionOS platform is out-of-the-box made for 360 photos, but they can’t be experienced on any Apple platform without third-party apps.
The setup I received was uncomfortable on my head at first, but some strap adjustment and getting used to it brought comfort eventually.
Apple Store staff in Carindale are not well-trained in the device, and there’s clearly an apathy around the unit that sits firmly at the feet of the high price, meaning that none are selling.
This is clearly the future. The Apple Vision Pro, but smaller, lighter, faster, better.
I also think that there’s a big opportunity to start capturing life—like weddings and children—in immersive photography and videography today, so that in 20 years, when we’re all wearing these, we can look back on our 2024 memories and see them immersively. It’s a remarkably different experience from current photography and videography.
I’ve just been named the number one Asia-Pacific photographer who made zero dollars from their passion in the month of July but had a lot of fun doing it. I’d like to dedicate this award to my wife and children who roll their eyes every time dad gets the camera out.
Guy next to me on my flight is pricing up bacon and how much it costs him to produce and I’ve never wanted more to strike up a flight-friend-for life.
Ever since Bo Burnham’s Inside I’ve felt like it’s not worth creating anymore. Content peaked in 2020 with Inside. Now we live in the post-Inside era.
“Do you want to be really good at a thing? I’ve got bad news for you. You’re going to have to be significantly worse at a lot of other things in your life.” – @cgpgrey, Cortex episode 157
Lady at this cafe in the Huon Valley is working on an 11” MacBook Air running one of big cat OS X operating system releases.
It would have to be more than a decade old at this point wouldn’t it? It’s still such a beautiful machine. Honestly, I think it would be my favourite computer I’ve owned.
I’m researching for project in Tasmania and I think, to the best of my research and knowledge so far, this is the oldest and first photograph of Tasmania. The photo is of the south-eastern-most tip of Tasmania, Cape Pillar by James Backhouse Walker onboard the Beagle with Charles Darwin, enroute to Hobart on February 5, 1836.
My greatest fear in life is that Jaycar could go broke and shutdown
If you talk to anyone in the destination wedding industry they have their bucket list of places they want to work. Mine is remarkably weirder than most.
I’ve been lucky enough to create marriage ceremonies all around the world in places like Iceland and Italy, New York and New Zealand, Croatia to Canberra, Fiji to Vancouver.
But my favourite places to travel are the weird places, more likely to be featured on Atlas Obscurer than Lonely Planet.
My destination wedding and elopement bucket list:
- North Korea because I want to fly Air Koryo and live to tell the story.
- Saudia Arabia and Qatar because a Middle East desert elopement would be wild! Plus I’d love to be the guy that delivers personalised and fun wedding ceremonies in the Middle East.
- Tuvalu, Bora Bora, Tonga, Samoa, and The Cook Islands because I’ve got big Pacific Island energy.
- Bhutan where Gross National Happiness is a real thing they measure.
- Kazakhstan because of Borat.
I think it would also be cool to do a wedding in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales because writing that name on a marriage certificate would be fun.
Tuscany versus Amalfi
When I first started as a wedding celebrant in 2009 you’d write some blog posts, build some SEO, and maybe attend a wedding expo to promote yourself as a celebrant and earn a living.
Now, however … things have changed.
Lord knows if it’s for the better? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
