Culture behind bars

Orange Floyd’s wall

Calile-lyf

Here it is

The berds are growing in numba

It’s actually crazy that public policy for resuming work and life in Australia is hinging on an unknown, possibly non-existent, possibly not effective, not tested, Covid vaccine.

It’s like me saying I’ll stop punching you once an alien spaceship arrives.

You’re going to have some bruises and you’ll probably never see an alien.

Outbak Straya

Burd

I love Luna loves to read

Burd

🥃🏡🏔🌅📷

Boat & chopper looking for a Great White Shark that killed a surfer yesterday.

Reminds me of the ep of Chappelle’s Show where the Police call it an open & shut case of break & enter because they found a black man in a house where he’d put up pictures of his family everywhere.

What? I’m just standing here watching my kid sleep and posting photos of it on the internet,

”Relentlessly prune bullshit, don't wait to do things that matter, and savour the time you have. That's what you do when life is short.”

• Paul Graham

Semi-intimate is the relationship status everyone wants to be reported as when your semi-boyfriend is caught out after curfew.

Hey, is adding “Really strong gif game” to my resume worthwhile?

Asking for a friend.

Scientific American on what it means when we have unlimited access to information.

Technology is blurring the lines between consumers and producers, amateurs and professionals, and laypeople and experts. We’re just starting to understand the implications.

Hey world, it’s (pretty much) beach weather, according to

Dear whitegoods manufacturers, no one on God‘s green earth ever requested a feature where your machine would beep when finished. Please remove the beeps from all whitegoods in the future.

Yours sincerely, Josh.

I’ve just tonight finished reading Malcolm Gladwell’s book ‘Talking to Strangers” and I’d safely call it one of the most important and helpful books released in 2020.

If you talk to strangers in your work or life, you need to read this book.

Important Father’s Day topic

Doctor Luna

Of all the things I’ve achieved in my life, all of the places I’ve been, people I’ve met, things I’ve said and done, they are all pale in contrast to being dad.

What everyone wants to belong to is a community but they keep winding up in audiences instead and I think this is the cause of a tremendous amount of suffering right now. – @girlziplocked

You don’t realise how much parenting changes you until after you put your daughter to bed you find yourself standing in front of the TV to find out how this episode of Peter Rabbit ends.

Saw these guys, far from home, in Darwin, the Young Tigers.

What if, perchance, we weren’t all in this together?

The reason I'll stay a wedding celebrant as long as they'll have me, despite pandemics and BS, is because of the bizarre and beautiful relationship I have with our couples.

Emailing with a couple at the moment and they're literally looking into ways to get an exemption for me to be with them at their wedding in California.

Despite 2020, the wedding industry is still the best place to be employed.

Except for working at KFC of course. The easy and direct access to fried chicken is obviously really cool.

What an ad.

Also, as much as I’d like to have that fancy new Microsoft Android thing, I’m firmly we’d to the idea that I don’t want Google’s fingers in my pockets.

Best karaoke song to sing if you want to establish that you didn't start the proverbial fire, but also, that you’re really knowledgeable about world history?

Guy on the flight on Wednesday wore his AirPods like this. Is this a thing? 📷

Just one guest at today’s wedding 🍻 #victoriabitter

📷 Sleeping giant

It’s been 183 days since the first postponement email. The longest 183 days of my life. 154 displaced weddings and elopements. Some couples are onto their third, fourth, and fifth wedding or elopement date or location. 46 cancelled flights to 15 different countries. $67,200 in cancelled invoices for future elopements or weddings. Thousands more lost to non-refundable accomodation, ferries, etc and about $20,000 tied up in travel vouchers. If anyone wants to fly Brussels Airlines before December 31 I’ve got some vouchers. Who knows the actual real cost to our business (me + The Elopement Collective). 3 court appearances coming up because we couldn’t refund and the couple didn’t want to reschedule.

1 virus.

I’m ready for all of this to be over now. How has Covid-19 affected you?

Five Darwin observations:

1. Where the goal for people in many cultures is to become a doctor or a lawyer, in Darwin it’s to become an air-conditioning salesperson or refrigeration mechanic.

2. The true status symbol of greatness in Darwin is to drive a dust-stained Toyota 4WD. Everyone else is a lesser than.

3. There are an inordinate number of retired airstrips in the region, which would be really helpful if you had lots of planes you needed to land at once.

4. The flies here are much more motivated than the common fly in the rest of Australia. The territory flies have a deep-rooted belief that your skin is merely masking the best thing a fly could ever want, like searching for the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, flies are intent for getting literally under your skin.

5. There is a coffee conspiracy in Darwin. My current understanding is that a mean person banned good coffee beans from ever coming to Darwin and if you are visiting there is a thriving black market for smuggled quality coffee beans. This is a guaranteed method of instant wealth.

📷 Burd

Everyone talks about a Darwin sunset. Charlestown delivered.

📷 I appreciate clear and concise signage as much as the next guy, but ...

I just read the line in a headline “Oprah’s favourite life coach” and all I want to know is how to remove the taste of vomit from your mouth if you’re not carrying mints.

📷 Florence Falls, NT

Hey can someone just quickly explain literally everything to me. I think I missed something.

”The (US) debt isn’t going to be repaid; it’s going to be refunded.” - Warren Buffett

📷 In the Northern Territory of Australia termites have been exiled from the urban areas and forced to make their own homes in the bush.

Abandoned by humans and the government the termite people gather dust from their surrounds and build cathedrals, sacred mounds that these vermin call home.

I thought I'd take the time to tell you an old story from the first time I ever thought about a wedding, it was actually 25 years ago this month.

So on this one faithful August night in 1995, I was about to propose to my girlfriend when my roommate Joseph barged onto the verandah out of nowhere, tripped and fell over, breaking a glass outdoor table with his face.

Totally ruined the mood.

Now, I didn't know Joseph that well, I can't even remember where he was from, but I'm sure you could imagine I put my plans on hold to help get him to the hospital.

Joseph had gotten big glass shard in his eye leaving him completely blind in that eye. He was walking around with one of those cotton pads on his eye for a couple of months. Then suddenly, he disappeared, along with my girlfriend!

Apparently they'd bonded during the time after his injuries, and they eloped together, leaving me behind without as much as a note. I tried to track them down, but never could.

As happy as I am today, if it hadn't been for cotton eye Joe, I'd have been married a long time ago.

Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, cotton eye Joe?

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 31 📷 Love

Humble brag photo post about travelling somewhere

I don’t think I’ve ever wanted an Android device as much as this one

So I hire a car from Avis for the night because that’s the easiest and most simple way to get to Brisbane Airport early tomorrow morning, and only $10 more than an Uber and the Airtrain.

Now someone’s crashed into the hired car.

My life is so exciting.

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 30 📷 Discovery

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 29 📷 Flake