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30 December 202430 December 2024

Weekly Wrap 761: What if your life was a pie?

On a grey city footpath someone has discarded a meat pie, but it can barely be seen beneath a frantic milling flock of around 22 grey feral pigeons.

Monday 23 to Sunday 29 December 2024 was my last full week for the year. I was wondering what photo to use for this final Weekly Wrap, and then Fate provided exactly what I needed. This discarded pie represents your world, Good People. Peck peck peck.

22 December 202430 December 2024

Weekly Wrap 760: Two podcasts, and for some reason a pub

A view across a city intersection on a rainy day. In the centre of the frame is the Great Southern Hotel, Sydney, a five-storey red-brick Art Deco construction nestled between an modern glass office building and a narrow Victorian-era four-storey business building. Two tram tracks run from behind the viewer through the intersection and to the right.

During my week of Monday 16 to Sunday 22 December 2024 I managed to knock off two podcast episodes, a newsletter, and a bunch of planning, despite suffering from a mild cold. I’m so pleased with myself that I’m posting a photo of a pub from five years ago.

16 December 202420 December 2024

Weekly Wrap 759: Am I the perfect parrot perch, perchance?

A male Australian king parrot, a medium-sized bird with a bright red head and belly with back and wings in various shades of green. He is standing on a man's left hand, the palm of which holds a selection of seeds to eat.

During my week of Monday 9 to Sunday 15 December 2024 a certain king parrot decided that I am now his feeding perch. I finally wrapped up the spring series of The 9pm Edict podcast. And my injuries continued to heal quite quickly. I’ll definitely tell you more about them soon.

01 December 202405 December 2024

Weekly Wrap 757: Welcome the Parrots of Productivity

Two tree stumps. On the left one, the taller of the two, are two Australian king parrots. The male has a bright red head and belly with back and wings in various shades of green. The female is a paler green with olive sections, and a red belly, although overall she is more drab.

My week of Monday 25 November to Sunday 1 December 2024 was finally a bit more productive. There’s yet another podcast. There were billable hours. And most importantly, we’re in the final stages of this season’s crowdfunder.

24 November 202424 November 2024

Weekly Wrap 756: Productivity with memories of bushfires

Looking from the concourse end of Sydney Central terminal down the tracks between two platforms. Sitting at the right-hand platform is a V-Set train, with its fluted stainless steel body and bright yellow and red nose. On the centre stabling track is another. There’s nothing at the left-hand platform. Overhead, it’s a sunny sky smudged with the brown of bushfire smoke.

My week of Monday 18 to Sunday 24 November 2024 began with a burst of productivity, including a bunch of podcast work, but the weekend brought fatigue. It also brought some random reflection on the bushfires of five years ago. Time no longer has any meaning.

19 November 202427 November 2024

The 9pm Secrets of Dinosaur Club on Ketamine with Snarky Platypus

A vast strange robotic creature only vaguely like a whale drifts through an aquatic environment. In the foreground, silhouetted against the bright blue scene, is a crowd of onlookers. — China’s aquariums utilise robotic whales to reduce the costs associated with keeping live animals. Photo: SCMP composite / Shutterstock / Weibo. Platypus inset photo by Taronga Conservation Society Australia / Chris Wheeler. Digital composition by Stilgherrian.

No, we’re not really on ketamine. But as the spring series continues we’re going sideways with a bonus episode featuring my good friend Snarky Platypus and many, many topics.