@jeffsonstein @andrewbarnett If you can say it without the word “solutions” I’ll put the gun down again.
UNBALANCED DOUBLE-QUOTES IN PREVIOUS TWEET WILL CAUSE UNIVERSE TO IMPLODE! Sorry.
Retweet @Nedra via @servantofchaos: TV viewer’s average age is now 50: major media generation gap.” http://tinyurl.com/6aufbk
Tue plan: Work from Mosman client’s office, doing all sorts of things while initial backups run; evening TBA. Will I fit in some writing…?
Computers Off Australia! http://is.gd/Jb8 Tom Worthington’s notes on launch: http://is.gd/Jbd Computing produces as much carbon as airlines.
@SnarkyPlatypus If I were choosing an organ in which to store my tweets I don’t think “heart” would be my first choice. Spleen, possibly. ;)
Oops! It’s after 0800. I’d better open the Pandora’s Box of my job-tracking system and see what emerges. It won’t be hope, I know that much.
@SnarkyPlatypus How come NONE of your favourite tweets are from me? Given my tweet frequency and our mind-meld, that seems… inappropriate.
@andrewbarnett The current spammer strategy is to Follow, the user will visit their Twitter page and then (maybe) click thru to the adverts.
@lewellyn Good article on how Australia’s digital TV regime is b0rked. http://is.gd/Jak Tried US model when little cable penetration here…
Retweet @leslien: hey, what do you know, games developers focusing on iphone. inexplicable! http://tinyurl.com/5azvvt
@andrewbarnett But auto-filtering out “following > followees * 1.2” would mean some auto applications might be impossible. A bit TOO …
Retweet @joshsharp: “Clever idea on how to monetise twitter: http://is.gd/J9A ” Micropayments FTW! I reckon doing Freemium would be fine…
Between @Mediamum and @lewellyn, my visual imagery system just assploded. I must curl up and sit shaking in the corner for a little while…
ACMA’s full report on Australian digital TV now released. 42% of homes have it. http://is.gd/J9F Heavy skew against low-income homes though.
@lewellyn (Mind you, I am very strong on “freedom of expression” issues. Censorship is the obscenity, not eroticism. Your world may differ.)
@lewellyn The couple in the photo are clothed. They hold a penis-shaped piece of plastic. If that pic gets you thrown out then they’re sick.
@SnarkyPlatypus Productivity is indeed doing what someone else wants you to do, as opposed to what you want to do. Another controlling word.
@SRindler Fair point. No, “staff” is a “bulk” noun like “sheep” or “fish” or “flour” and is routinely used as singular or plural.
Retweet @andrewsayer: “Worst idea you will see all day (NSFW) http://www.rent-a-dildo…. …” But if pre-used by celebs, premium rates! ;)
Retweet @neuraxon77: “Employees who socialize between tasks, but not during, are more productive.” http://is.gd/J8s Your staff ARE human! ;)
@lewellyn Re http://tweet140.com I just watch the character count. I write long sentences, have to trim, quickly punctuate to hit 140 chars.
@andrewsayer Someone commented on my blog too. I blame the inernetz.
Emerging. It’s a new financial year in Australia. Smells just like the last one.
The entire Twitterverse is a pack of useless cunts.
@snarky Platypus says that he doesn’t object to The Veronicas.
Loose on Oxford St. Wrong village, but it’s on the way.
Via @JonoH: Telstra confirms iPhone for 11 July too. That makes 3 of the Big 4 telcos, leaving only 3. (How confusing is that!)
auDA discussion paper on competition in domain name industry. Submissions close 1 August. http://tinyurl.com/5bo6gu
@Alegrya You are to blame for many things, it seems. I will consider my options before committing to anything. ;)
@garthk I’m pretty knackered, but what sort of timeline for that geekery? Someone said “miniSTUB 6.30pm at Pontoon”. Connected? Connectable?
Meeting finished. Green Park Hotel, watching wheeling sulphur-crested cockatoos eating from a balcony. Cruisey music. @SnarkyPlatypus, next?
My client meeting in Darlinghurst is scheduled for 3pm, about to leave for same. That leaves me “flexible” from about 4.30pm. Suggestions?
@Grymhorn [smirk]s] I did give plenty of warning about the #poltech tweets, but yes, there were rather a lot. And now I have to read them…
@PaulHamon Hi! Let’s hope we manage to catch up in SYD since we missed each other in BKK. @ApostrophePong is about somewhere too… ;)
OK, world, time for me to be heads-down again and get some work done. End of financial year stress doez not want kthxbai.
@johnculberson Australian politicians are still in the Ark compared to what you’ve just done! :)
@johnculberson Excellent, Mr Culberson, I’ll look later. Aust’s first Politics & Tech Forum was last week. http://is.gd/
@trib Fark! A congressman on Twitter and ACTUALLY USING IT! @johnculberson I will certainly use that in #poltech follow-up, thanks!
@SnarkyPlatypus Yes they are indeed patient. Plus it was a VERY non-urgent task. One of those that if left long enough can be ignored.
OK, I’m going mobile. Phone battery’s nearly dead, so my disappear off the grid completely until I arrive at Mosman. Like you care anyway…
@mpesce Also unconstitutional. The one right to free speech we have in Australia is in a political context. We MUST do something about this!
@mpesce The WYD laws described at http://is.gd/JdM are religiously biased. Illegal. I’m not Catholic, so people annoying me don’t get fined.
Final caffeine transfer procedures are in progress before commending latitude-reduction manoeuvres. All systems nominal.
@SnarkyPlatypus [sigh] Another trigger word. There’ll be a match some time and I’ll want to both kill Prince William AND act like a chicken.
@SnarkyPlatypus Sturgeon’s Law http://is.gd/8i2 does NOT explain Crystal Antlers. All hail Eris!
@SnarkyPlatypus Are you allowed to invoke Crystal Antlers in advance? Hmmm… must check ritual operating instructions. #antlers
@jeffsonstein @JonoH Oh, yes, of course GIFTS of alcohol perfectly fine… ;)
Dead cows would also be perfectly acceptable. We don’t NECESSARILY have to have beer or wine with it.
@JonoH @ApostrophePong and I are ravenous, however. Noodles somewhere sunny sounds good. Can haz noodle bar with sun?
OK, Twitterverse, lunch suggestions please! @ApostrophePong and I are bored with our usual Newtown/Enmore choices.
@SnarkyPlatypus Antlers! http://is.gd/I5l
@jeffsonstein Dear Jeff, @SnarkyPlatypus and @ApostrophePong are not teh same person either kthxbye.
@SnarkyPlatypus I would prefer Iemma to be deposed over a bottomless pit filled with vipers, brimstone and pointed sticks.
@lewellyn Confirmed. I have no problem with the magnet.
@iamarigby “Sycophantic rectum” to you too! Hmmmph!
@TimNoonan I am not fuelling your endless lust for filth and perversion, sir! I am a man of quality and respect!
@garthk The farm animals are similarly grateful. They do look yummy, though.
How to grow creative people. Nice video explanation. http://is.gd/wWm
@stevendoyle “why would a talking insurance gekko have an english accent?” I often find myself asking that. [nods]
@ApostrophePong Look, I’M not the one who put a 19yo Robbie Williams naked in a video clip, m’kay? Nor his naked friends.
@SnarkyPlatypus I think @AostrophePong and I are going WAY beyond Billie Piper. ;)
@ApostrophePong Noooo… that THAT! :P http://is.gd/I2s YouTube at 20 paces? Duelling FTW!
This sound would be MUCH better. http://is.gd/I2m
I can hear this sound coming from the next room. http://is.gd/I2k I am not impressed.
@andrewdotnich Your dream interpretation is delightful. http://is.gd/I1D I’ll respond when I have input from others too. Love program name!
@agibson ~1KTF vs ~100K1OF theory depends on cost of acquisition vs cost of maintenance vs income. If $ is the aim rather than “attention”.
I am not a filthy Vulcan. I just wish to make that clear.
@Seanabc @R1ss4 @thotcriminal361 @Ty_Coughlin Hi an hope you find something of interest in my Twitterstream, and vice versa. [waves]
I am now searching my cupboard for “drugs with no side effects”. Also, perpetual motion machines, elixir of youth etc.
@SuperMacMan “If alkaloid is a drug that can have side effects, DON’T DO IT!” ALL do. The alkaloid in question is caffeine. Ever had it?
Emerges. Monday. Last day of the financial year. Why do I suspect this is going to be very, very hectic? Alkaloid dosage doubled!
[exit]
@SnarkyPlatypus The Anglosphere and Shanghai, perhaps. I suspect I’m in the bit marked “filler”. Maybe “cocktails”. http://is.gd/Ifb
New York Explained http://is.gd/Ifb
@SnarkyPlatypus Platypus’ +3 venom > morphine? Cool, I might finally get some decent sleep!
Just to clarify, if it’s imported beer it doesn’t count towards your calorie count, right? This is Budejovicky Budovar, so fine.
@jeffsonstein Hugh MacLeod is on Twitter as @gapingvoid. He has a clue, even if a fan of Margaret Thatcher. Everyone has their weaknesses.
@SnarkyPlatypus Platypus photo shoot? You mean with a big net AND A FRYPAN! ;)
@jeffsonstein This implies you do not know http://gapingvoid.com, so here’s one of my faves. http://is.gd/IeC
@jeffsonstein Or, “Social Objects for Beginners” http://is.gd/Ieu
@jeffsonstein For “social objects” read Hugh MacLeod… http://is.gd/6QM is a good a place as any to start.
Drinking Czech beer sure beats working on what I was meant to be doing.
@jeffsonstein Wikipedia crossing street: “You say a truck is approaching? Original research! Show me authoritative reference!” [loud splat]
@YiyingLu I bow down before your cetacean wonderfulness! @garthk and @mpesce reckon we should meet to help plan your world domination. #fwpa
@jeffsonstein I am not only a perfectionist, I am perfect in every way. Just ask @funkycoda and @SnarkyPlatypus and @andrewdotnich.
@jeffsonstein @DenubisX wow, I have The Golden Bough in paperback, read it years ago. Turgid, yes, but fascinating.
@funkycoda I’m fairly sure that Mary Poppins doesn’t drop the f-bomb and the c-bomb quite as often as I do.
@garthk That’s OK deskbound. But what about a MacBook Pro needing ~2TB when at desk, but still want portable? @ApostrophePong needs this. :)
@SnarkyPlatypus Sadly the vampire platypus looks great big, but doesn’t scale to an icon. Cropping it loses the wings, which kills the joke.
@funkycoda But we are ALL stardust. And, according to @andrewdotnich, I am Mary Poppins. You MUST deal with this.
@monkeyjedi Welcome to my Twitterworld, fellow human. How did I blip up in your world, if I may ask? (To the 3 marketers I blocked, FOAD…)
I’m going to base my next episode of Stilgherrian Live Alpha on this video. http://is.gd/IcD Imagine me doing this. With or without beard?
@wolfcat BB can be enjoyed as a psych experiment that wouldn’t otherwise pass an ethics committee. But I haven’t watched this yeah.
Big Brother website. I click on “Watch BB”. All they offer is clips from yesterday or a 3 Mobile phone plan. I can’t ACTUALLY watch. FAIL!
YES! I am #9 on the leader board at http://tweet140.com! I AM A TWITTER GOD AND YOU MUST ALL BOW DOWN BEFORE ME! [opens fly]
@IanKath Sorry, I’ve missed a link somewhere. Why am I a connection to adrenochrome? http://is.gd/Ic1
@ApostrophePong Yes, Tim Knappstein of Clare Valley is one of my favourite wineries but his Enterprise Brewery has just produced GOLD lager!
@Entregreeneur Yes, @ApostrophePong and I have been together 7+ years. For Bangkok stories see http://is.gd/IbB and http://is.gd/IbD Enjoy!
@trib We will give more sensible suggestions when at home with proper keyboards and intertubes.
You. Can. Get. Anything. In. Bangkok. Anything.
@trib Silom Rd, firing range. For about $30 give ur 10yn an assault rifle with a full mag of live ammo. ;)
@trib Actually, hire a longtail boat for the day and go wherever u want. River, canals… Cheap by Aust standards.
@SnarkyPlatypus I do not sway awkwardly to music. Chang yet!
@trib Or just catch a canal aoat in rush hour, scarier than any amusement park ride.
@trib Get a book “Very Thai”, a fun explation of Thai popular culture. Also Hi5 is the big social media site in .th.
Blondie “Heart of Glass” and house SSB FTW!
@trib Remember @ApostrophePong is Thai. Harrass him. ;)
@limburger2001 I was thinking classy with a capital F.
@Mediamum Oh I love games. Just difficult now because m.twitter.com is FUCKING B0RKED!
60 Minutes promo on TV: “New evidence on Belinda Neal, the night she went bananas at Iguanas.” Classy.
Bombay Sapphire 700ml $39.99 at Vintage Cellars.
Loose on King St, Newtown. Be warned. SMS if you want us for some reason as m.twitter.com is b0rked.
@shanegold Comparison of Wikipedia & Encyclopedia Britannica was done by Nature journal.
@Alegrya That is not an owl. Cartoon ornithology FAIL!
Mobile. Watching out for owls. #antlers
Retweet @PulpSpy: “Current favourite song: A Thousand Eyes by Crystal Antlers” That’s spooky. #antlers
Since the Twitterverse proved useless, @ApostrophePong and I will have noodles at Happy Chef, King St, then some shopping. Leaving shortly.
If there’s a job ticket that’s been “on hold” for 592 days now, should I perhaps just close it?
@alanzeyes I understand that the Twitetrstream can be overwhelming. Still you don’t HAVE to drink everything from the fire hose. ;) Ciao!
@jeffsonstein @YiyingLu only joined Twitter on the weekend, oddly enough, thanks to @garthk I suspect. She may be overwhelmed by it all.
@jeffsonstein Surely you should ask @YiyingLu herself to be a judge of the label design? She’s in Sydney, and it IS her whale. #fwpa
Retweet @jeffsonstein: See also http://tinyurl.com/6x7vwg for text of Vermont “ACT RELATING TO DIGITAL CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS”
Videos of last week’s Microsoft Politics & Technology Forum now online. http://is.gd/Irg Than@Nickhodgeod#poltechtech
Vermont allows company board meetings to be held “virtually”. (In sarcastic article about Second Life.) http://is.gd/IqR
@SuperMacMan “I didn’t know what alkaloid was”? Ah Apparently there’s this thing called “internetz” where you can look stuff up. ;)
Mon plan: Deal with MASSIVE pile of bookkeeping & admin tasks; 2pm client meeting Darlinghurst; back to the desk. Little chance of writing.
@SnarkyPlatypus Go the @FatPlatypus, Mr Rolly Polly. ;)
@SnarkyPlatypus I would never use your Twitterstream or any other aspect of your persona for nefarious purposes. Landfill though, maybe.
@neerav Then you, sure, are a true gentleman.
@neerav “Backpacking” has descended from “travel world for enrichment” to “global party by indulgent drunken arseholes”. Hence, “gas them”.
@4fthawaiian Oh agreed, for some people it IS only about traffic. That’s why @Jasoncalacanis posts about dogs. Hence http://snurl.com/2qcy5
I agree with whoever said this guy doesn’t “get” Twitter. http://tinyurl.com/5nzbel I have commented appropriately.
@andrewdotnich Drat, Moriarty, foiled again!
Full of sushi & sake at the Civic Hotel. Relaxed and comfortable. Alert but not alarmed. Asahi in ha@ApostrophePongPong arrives momentarily.
Rule #283: If a friend uses your web browser, log them out before doing anything else (except snarfing their netbanking passwords).
@andrewdotnich Greetings, sir! T’was a very great pleasure to meet you last week.
All backpackers should be gassed. Slowly.
Uhoh French rugby fans.
@kcarruthers My lawyers are advising me not to answer that question. So are his.
I like it when @SnarkyPlatypus is wild.
@goaldeebug What do the duties of “birthday slave” involve? [mind boggles] Are there pics?
Gin is an adequate substitute for sake, for now.
@SnarkyPlatypus & I at C Bar, Thainatown, leeching free WiFi while we wait for sushi bar to open.
Gym over. I am so fit now. Next stop: Haymarket for sushi & sake.
If those 2 matcihng carr with “Life” stickers belong to a couple I will puke.
OK, going mobile to meet @SnarkyPlatypus at the gym. All goes downhill from there. See previous tweet for itinerary.
@Mediamum Agreed re Seth Godin. Message of Purple Cow: “Be memorable”. Gosh, who’d ha’thought? Tell people obvious things, they lap it up.
Related blog post from 2007: “Scaring the shit out of clients” http://is.gd/aeF
@cait Yes, the “old media” were condescending and patronising about matters of which they only has 2nd hand knowledge. Rude. #pubcamp
2. At #poltech I insulted a political staffer but we chatted after and agreed that by Canberra politics standards it was “kid gloves” stuff.
1. @Jasoncalacanis told me that if a non-Australian had called him a prick he’d have been offended, but I was OK. http://is.gd/HHk
@bronwen @jedwhite Exactly, without community context it an appear harsh. Two other examples of that recently…
@TimNoonan Why hold back? If your heart is telling you to say it, say it. ;)
@jedwhite I don’t tweet anything that I wouldn’t say to people’s faces. And yeah, I swear. So do kids on buses. The world copes. #pubcamp
@jedwhite Twitter can’t be “rude”. Twitter is a bunch of computers. PEOPLE can be rude IN/ON Twitter. But they meant me, yeah? #pubcamp
On more coffee before heading off to the gym, I think. Can wrap up my snarky morning.
@jeffsonstein I’ll try to find time tomorrow to document the evolution of Fail Whale linguistically. Nice and serious for them. [sigh] #fwpa
@jeffsonstein Maybe someone else can deal with that Fail Whale stuff while I’m away? I can’t run the entire Internet you know!
Sat plan: Leave shortly for gym with @SnarkyPlatypus, thence sushi/sake in Haymarket, thence C Bar (free WiFi) thence… Brownian motion. ;)
Fail Whale’s Wikipedia page has been tagged for “multiple issues”. Needs a non-FW friend to re-write it, I assume? http://is.gd/HDd #fwpa
@matthewdaniels @jjprojects The best Summize.com search to find ONLY all material about/to you is “username -from:username”.
I’m imagining that Fail Whale Pale Ale would go well with sushi. #fwpa
@NathanaelB I just used you as an example on Wikipedia. ;) See “History” section at http://is.gd/HDd #fwpa
Thinking my new business cards should just be my name, Stilgherrian, then “I’m on the Internet”.
@adampurcell It’s SAAS, not self-hosted, but I find Basecamp really fits my work style for managing client projects. http://basecampehq.com
We love Fail Whale most when he is not seen. I see a TVC coming together. “Drink FWPA and your worries disappear.” #fwpa
BTW, I see that the request for rapid deletion has been removed from Fail Whale’s Wikipedia page http://is.gd/HDd #fwpa Now where’s mine…?
@mpesce Yes, you napped briefly and missed the creation of Fail Whale Pale Ale and a global beer tasting day in Sept. http://is.gd/HDd #fwpa
@dizzystuff Just use Summize to search for “dizzystuff -from:dizzystuff” and it’ll work just fine. Until we all overload Summize, of course.
@jeffsonstein @mpesce Do we know someone with data viz skills who could create an animation of that? #fwpa
@jeffsonstein @mpesce @SilkCharm Two kinds of neural links in global hive-mind: @replies to friends and #hashtags via summize.com etc. #fwpa
@jeffsonstein @mpesce @SilkCharm This #fwpa thing is a fine example of meme-spreading and community-building. And so fast!
@jeffsonstein I think we need to set up a Ning account or something for Fail whale and supporters. This is growing nicely. #fwpa
@jeffsonstein Perhaps you’ll like the opposing team supporters in http://is.gd/HF3 .. there’s some fine TVCs for beer here in Aust.
@duncanriley I guess like so many things advertised on teh internetz, it’s vapourware. Still, I just want some beer with our own labels. ;)
@agibson And that “collaboration at a distance” is thru both space and time, though the “time” aspect can mean “hyperfast, globally”.
@ApostrophePong So we need to register is.no.gd too? ;)
@agibson MUST get them to stop thinking about tech & asking “How can it be used?” It’s just collaboration; now they can do it at a distance.
I actually remembered my dream from last night, but WTF does it mean? http://is.gd/I1D Interpretations please!
@nwjerseyliz Now, of course, we’ll both be over-concerned about misinterpretation. Well, I certainly will, until my bitterness returns.
5% of Australians over 15yo victims of fraud, majority (77%) credit card / bank fraud. ABS stats (PDF file) http://tinyurl.com/4p4wfc
@nwjerseyliz Methinks you need to recalibrate your irony detector. ;) Plz lower threshold on high-pass filter kthxbye.
Dilemma. Desire: Write about Twitter and Fail Whale etc. Need: shopping, end of financial year bookkeeping. Resolution? More caffeine.
@nwjerseyliz As I’ve said many times before, in the words of that great philosopher H J Simpson, “Sleep is for the weak”. :)
@SnarkyPlatypus We are channelling each other a little too closely at the moment plz make it stop kthxbye.
@Akula In my experience with small businesses, only a minority of users know that a browser home page CAN be changed.
RT @Akula: “I feel like the entire MSN business was based on the premise that Windows users are too stupid to change their homepage.” Uhuh.
Emerges. Ah, Sunday!
[exits]
@copyblogger makes perfect sense re Coldplay. ;) http://twitter.com/copyb…
@jeffsonstein I have just emailed you a KML file with the location of our bedroom, from which we are currently tweeting. Silly technology.
@jeffsonstein Where’s your office? @ApostrophePong and I are just looking at the RIT campus in Google Earth Street View.
“Clup”? I have become a New Zealander!
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Oops I meant this clup. http://is.gd/HQ5 Brendan Nelson is indeed a cockatoo.
@jeffsonstein You can get a live feed from http://www.aph.gov.au … though parliament is in winter recess until August.
@jeffsonstein Now that @SnarkyPlatypus is in the shower I can say, yes, Aust parliament Question Time is as fun as the UK. http://is.gd/Hkm