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Everything I’ve Learnt About Public EV Charging With Two Failed Startups, by Anthony Agius
“The point of this post isn’t to analyse why I’m not an EV charging mogul with dozens of stations making mad profits around the country.”
Kevin Kelly:
“The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.”
“Prince Andrew, a friend of Jeffrey Epstein who this year settled a lawsuit accusing him of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl, will receive the queen’s corgis.”
Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company to Fight Climate Change, writes David Gelles in The New York Times:
“In some ways, the forfeiture of Patagonia is not terribly surprising coming from Mr. Chouinard. As a pioneering rock climber in California’s Yosemite Valley in the 1960s, Mr. Chouinard lived out of his car and ate damaged cans of cat food that he bought for five cents apiece. Even today, he wears raggedy old clothes, drives a beat up Subaru and splits his time between modest homes in Ventura and Jackson, Wyo. Mr. Chouinard does not own a computer or a cellphone.”
Encouragement to a friend who’s a brand new dad this week
All of your life’s work, efforts, learnings, skills and talents, has been for this next season, you’re now slave and superhero at the same time. You’ve brought your newest friend and your greatest die into the world.
Strap in. Shit’s about to get weird (and amazing!).
Welcome to the dad club. You’re going to rock it.
“All we can do is build trust, that’s the only asset a newsroom has.” - @reckless, or, Nilay Patel, Editor-in-chief of The Verge on Stratechery
Friday night on the drive home to the Gold Coast from Toowoomba
Who are you even going to choose? Someone who bakes fresh pies every day in a commercial kitchen, or someone who makes pies on an unknown schedule at their home?!
Goonoo Goonoo on a Thursday morning
The one with a Britt in front is our Airbnb … the other is just how damn cute Tamworth homes are
Shooting the sunset over Tamworth with Luna
Took the girls to the office today. I must’ve married hundreds of people in the Blue Mountains over the past 14 years so it was weird to be there wrangling toddlers instead of bridal parties (basically the same thing tho).
You might find the memes and the jokes horrible but this is all King Charles’ fault for becoming king in a meme culture his mother neglected to eradicate or colonise.
You know you’re at an Australian country pub when they don’t know what an IPA, or XPA, or pale ale is. I asked for a beer from a brand that’s less than a decade old so she gave me a local apple cider …
Glenbrook
Has anyone tried letting their toddler just leave and run into the wild? Maybe us parents are the only things holding them back from glory? Maybe warm clothes, a sleep routine, dry nappies, and regular food really is the last thing they want?
Got a new 24mm
I acquired a new lens for my Canon EOS R5 camera today, the new Canon RF 24mm f/1.8. I’m generally a fan of a long lens, like my favourite 70-200mm. If I had a pack horse with me (and endless money) I’d have the $20,000 600mm on me at all times. But for family photos, portraits, some landscapes, and vlogging you need something a little wider.
Britt loves a 35mm, me not so much. I’ve enjoyed my little 50mm, but it’s not wide enough, in that it’s not wide at all. I trialled the RF 16m but that’s too warped and wide.
When Canon announced the new RF 24mm I had three positive thoughts:
- The main camera on iPhones today is a 26mm equivalent, and the iPhone is where I fell in love with making photography
- With an R5 I can punch in with a 1.6x crop, which is a 38mm equivalent, so I can still get a tighter shot and although it’s cropping the 44.8 megapixels from the sensor, there’s still plenty to spare.
- My photo kit had gotten too big, particularly if we’re travelling.
So I sold my 16mm, 35mm, and I’m about to sell my 50mm, and I’ll be left with this 24mm and my 70-200.
How does the Canon RF 24mm compare to an iPhone 12 Pro 26mm? Here’s two moments captured by both, and edited in Lightroom on the iPhone with my friend Bec’s Story Keeper presets:
Shot on the iPhone
Shot on the Canon EOS R5 with the 24mm f/1.8
Shot on the iPhone in Portrait mode
Shot on the Canon EOS R5 with the 24mm f/1.8
When you’re trying to escape the backpackers
Everyone goes shopping and posts a selfie of the new clothes they bought while I’m over here like, I got some more camera things
