In my week of Monday 29 September to Sunday 5 October 2025 I did some client work I can’t talk about yet, and recorded a podcast. I also saw a snake, which I’m not showing here.
Podcasts
- Snarky Platypus and I recorded a new episode of Another Untitled Music Podcast on Sunday afternoon, with the theme Songs About Places, so that will appear in the next few days.
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Articles
- The Weekly Cybers #87. Optus fails again but pays no tax, more pushback against the social media age restrictions, plenty of AI news, and much more.
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Photos, Videos , Media Appearances, Corporate Largesse
None of these, although you there’s plenty of podcasts coming up. You can subscribe to my YouTube channel to be notified when new videos appear and when livestreams are scheduled.
Some Interesting Links
- How do you shoot down a drone? You find an old Yak-52 and a pilot, and a bloke with a rifle.
- It’s from a year and a half ago, but it’s well worth watching this re-enactment of every sci-fi space movie ever.
- I dunno why I’m only finding out now, but the Australian Frog Atlas is now in version 3.0. It’s a free download, including all the KML files.
- From The Daily Show, a skit: Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!.
- Given that this is Weekly Wrap 801, here is an old blog post, Post 801: Kill the Hallucinating Goldfish (2008).
The Week Ahead
Monday is a public holiday in NSW for Labour Day, and I think I’ll take advantage of that. I’m currently housesitting in Sydney through to 20 October or so, with various random returns to the Blue Mountains.
I have some client work to do. I have an episode of Another Untitled Music Podcast to edit and post. And on Friday there’s The Weekly Cybers newsletter as usual.
On Saturday I’ll be participating in the various SEKRIT tasks. I’ll tell you about them next week.
Further Ahead
I’d hoped to lock in more of the podcast recordings, but the long weekend intervened. Next week.
- The 9pm Edict recording with Dr Alice Gorman and Rami Mandow, 15 October 2025. If you have a space-related TRIGGER WORD or CONVERSATION TOPIC for this episode, please get it to me by 11am AEDT that day.
- Aussie Bird Count, 20–26 October 2025. It’s always good to be part of science.
- Sam Campbell: Window Sucker, Sydney, 31 October 2025.
- NEW: ATARASHII GAKKO!, Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, 4 December 2025 (TBC). This Japanese group is well worth exploring. I’m not sure who I’m taking to this gig yet. Make me an offer.
[Photo: A pair of Australian king parrots (Alisterus scapularis) who have become regular visitors. They were photographed on 29 September 2025.]