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.

  • One of my oddest hobbies is cloud watching. I can spend whole flights just staring out the window. These are some odd clouds over Scott’s Head this afternoon. I probably should read a book on clouds so I can give a better descriptor other than “clouds”.

  • Two daughters and a wife

  • I think the book is about marijuana

  • Qarrtsiluni

    Inuit / v. / kartz-sih-loo-nih – Sitting together in the darkness, perhaps expectantly (e.g., waiting for something to happen or to ‘burst forth’); the strange quiet before a momentous event.

  • Privacy and free can’t co-exist online

  • Houseporn

  • Woman, circa 2020

  • 🐝

  • Poncho time

  • Self-portrait

  • Victorian and South Australian COVID outbreaks have both been linked to problems with security guards at quarantine hotels.

    Australia could be travelling around Australia today if the hotel quarantine program was managed better and the guards were paid well.

    Via the ABC.

  • Apple Photos’ Memories feature is getting a bit desperate when it’s like, “remember that time you crossed the border into NSW?”

  • Tony Damn is my favourite person to receive emails from

  • To con-vey one's mood

    In sev-en-teen syll-able-s

    Is ve-ry dif-fic

    A haiku via The Red Hand Files

  • Mullockdown

  • Are there any nerd-like people that can point me in the direction of how to upload an image to micro.blog from a macOS automator action, and an iOS Shortcut. I'm nerd smart but not code smart, but figure I can learn. I'd love to be able to right click and upload an image/images.

  • Happy 100 year birthday, Qantas

  • If you see me dancing in an Instagram Reel or on TikTok, know that this is a call for help because I will have been taken hostage and I need to be rescued. Please screenshot this and put it on your fridge as a reminder.

  • Scrolling through our wedding photos and remembered a time when people had pocket computers with physical keyboards ...

  • This little photo I made two years ago in Burleigh has gone gangbusters on Unsplash! Over 10,000 downlaods, and over 1 million views!

    Created with a DJI Mavic Pro (the OG)

  • Which country do you think this photo was made in?

  • “How many fingers am I holding up?” Before every ceremony I conduct a quick and easy eyesight with your guests. It’s all part of the #marriedbyjosh service.

    Me at Alex and Laura’s wedding in Adelaide, photographed by Mike Hemus.

  • The Macstories macOS Big Sur long read review

  • Troy: "That's one of my biggest fears." Abed: "What is?" Troy: "If I ever, like, wake up as a donut..." Abed: "You would eat yourself? Troy: "I wouldn't even question it."

    I miss Troy and Abed, in the moornning.

  • If you’re looking for me this weekend, I’m just waiting in my building’s elevator so when people get in it looks like I’m trying to tap to play these videos.

  • Luna’s upgraded to a big girl bed.

    Please don’t tell her that a big girl bed is just a cot with a side taken off. She thinks we bought her a new bed.

  • How did salt and pepper take pride of place on our tables from all the seasonings available? Another cruel blow from Big Condiment.

  • Why do you want to end the world?

  • All of Luna’s friends were getting orange phones so Britt and I buckled and got her an orange phone #badparents

  • I'm applying for a new Qld/NSW border pass and they've somehow made an already complex system, more complex. Oh the joy to live and work around the border this year.

  • When I’m president I’ll make Ted Lasso president.

  • "An assertion of will and personality," much like pro-wrestling. That is the Donald Trump presidency, it's been a pro-wrestling presidency – @gruber on the November 6 episode of Dithering.

  • 3051 drones in a drone show in China! My bet is that by New Years Eve 2025 the Sydney New Years' Eve fireworks will replace the fireworks with a drone show.

  • I can confidently tell you that the Apple Leather MagSafe Wallet fits three cards easily, no more, not even three cards and a $20 note folded up.

  • Apple's underdogs series is marketing at its best.

    April 2019: Apple releases "Apple at Work — The Underdogs"

    July 2020: Apple release "The whole working-from-home thing — Apple"

    Working on story telling at this height would honestly be so cool!

  • Golden shower

  • In other audlting news today, Britt and I just fist-pumped on a baby name subject to certain condtions.

  • Luna and Dad’s first shakedown

  • So, who ever knew that Australian states were kind of a "thing". It's like in 2020 we all had a lesson in realising that the "Commonwealth of Australia" is pretty much just a passport issuing and tax collecting authority

  • 🌈 Rainbow, where the bow is actually full of rain.

    One of these is an iPhone 12 Pro shot, ones a Canon 5D shot.

  • Gary Vaynerchuck's take on the Apple of today and why he thinks they're leaving money on the table and should buy Target (the US one) - Listen to the whole podcast.

  • Wanna join Luna and my scooter gang? Aside from terrorising the residents of Palm Beach we also smuggle dogs across the New South Wales border.

  • There are two things in this world that take no skill, spending other people‘s money, and dismissing an idea.

  • If you were wondering, I'm a massive advocate for colours and emojis in calendars.

  • Hypocrisy in conservative politics in Australia

  • When I grow up I’m going to start a Hall of Fame for band names and the first inductee will be Reel Big Fish.

  • “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles”

    — Charlie Chaplin

  • This is a Warning. Mount Warning.