“I used to think the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought with 30 years of good science we could address those problems, but I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy – and to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation and we scientists don’t know how to do that.”
– Gus Speth
My mate @scotty_mcdonald knows Brisbane better than you, and he’s writing an email about it called Brisbane is Weird and you ought to subscribe.
West Philadelphia born and raised, and now rebooted, much more dramatically
Morgan Cooper made a fan-trailer of a dramatic reboot of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 2019:
Will Smith saw that video and now there’s a real trailer and a real show!
That’s one of the best things about this new world without as many gatekeepers, and falttened lines of communciation and promotion. You can just have an idea, run with it, and see where it lands.
Reflecting on the original show, there’s obviously a darker storyline underneath the lighthearted primetime television show, but the 90s were never ready for that.
Will Smith talks about that idea in this video about the new reboot:
Where’d I get this rainbow fudge? The Country Non-Binary’s Association stall at the markets this morning.
A weird celebration: we won our first Covid court case
Today, on the 683rd day of March 2020, we won our first Covid wedding cancellation court case, a court hearing I attended from the carpark of a service station in Maryborough which had erected a statue of Ned Kelly in front of it. A weird culmination.
The first six were frustrated contracts which meant the contract was basically torn up and the judge had to make a decision as if they were a “man on the Clapham omnibus” which is pretty much the common law definition of the pub test.
Today, our contract stood up and was not frustrated, and the couple had cancelled the contract.
So the real winner in this pandemic is my original lawyer, who I fired after his legal advice when people started cancelling was for us to just refund everyone, something we couldn’t afford to do.
Wedding vendors are not wedding insurance, but for the past 683 days we’ve been treated like it.
The gestation period for new MacBooks is past the two month mark #joy
15 years of iPhone
Currently reading: Atomic Habits by James Clear 📚
Your Animals With Attitude artists were so preoccupied with whether they could make a Super Mario Koala, they didn’t stop to think if they should make a Super Mario Koala.
Why don’t they make phone screens out of the same glass they make fridge shelves out of?
I’m just saying, if you can’t trust people who spend billions of dollars to get fit good looking people to run around aggressively in arbitrary rectangular boxes, who can you trust?
Isn’t it wild to imagine that if everyone on the whole planet just stayed at home until February there’d be no Covid.
No deliveries, no takeaway, no construction or maintenance, and in Feb it’s 2019 again.
The government response to Covid this month seems akin to trying to stop a large boulder running out of control down a mountain.
I, for one, welcome our new geological overlord.
‘The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller.’
— Steve Jobs
W.L. George in The New York Herald in May 1992 didn’t think that “the little girl who sells candles at Grand Central Station” would be too impressed with 2022:
“The year 2022 would have to produce something very startling to interest her ghost”
I really thought that by this age I would’ve found Carmen Sandiego. Life is just a series of disappointments.
I remember my friend Clifford showing me these photos and us waiting for them to render. Seeing a girl’s naked shoulders was a big deal back then.
1 in 10 Brits will launch their own podcast in 2022 says Acast via @podnews
“Cricket and ten-pin bowling ultimately derive from the same sport. It makes sense if you think of the wicket in cricket as analogous to the pins in bowling.”