@ApostrophePong I know. Thanks tot hose fucking cockroaches we’ve got the whole “Silent Spring” scenario going on here. http://tr.im/k9O7
RT @Pollytics: Will Turnbull Coalition become the first party ever to be seen a worst to handle every single policy area? http://tr.im/k9NG
@toneyfitzgerald I’m fairly certain that I’m not Collette Dinnigan’s accountant. And she should be glad of that.
@toneyfitzgerald How does Colette add to the economy? Um, isn’t that her “making stuff and selling it for a profit” thing?
RT @rod3000: If Collette Dinnigan is so amazing, why is the Australian economy going down the crapper? [Ditto Peter Costello in a skirt.]
Fri plan: Gentle start (aches); 1100 #sekritmeeting #secretmission North Sydney; work at SEKRIT CBD eyrie; 1745 chiropractor (aches); TGIF.
New blog post: “Episode 45 is online, Peter Costello!” http://tr.im/k9lM
@SnarkyPlatypus C’est étrange. J’étais juste écrit Peter Costello.
@ikostar The answer to “What is the death rate for Swine Flu?” is “No idea, too early to say”. Tests have too many false positives.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je me sens… terrible. Pourquoi n’y at-il un shaker sur mon bureau? Et vous?
US deaths from “Swine Flu”: 1. US deaths from regular flu every year: 36,000. http://tr.im/k8XY Falling in bathtub: 300. http://tr.im/k8Yz
Emerges. Carefully.
[exit]
If, for some reason, you missed “Stilgherrian Live” episode 45, it’s at http://tr.im/k5Sw
“Stilgherrian Live” starts is less than 30 minutes at http://stilgherrian.com/… … be warned!
On my way home to do “Stilgherrian Live” in just 45 mins. I have to buy tomatoes on the way. This will be so full of win.
“Cnut of the Week” nominations close 8.30pm http://tr.im/k4UD then @Nickhodge 8.30pm http://tr.im/k4UK then me 9.30pm http://tr.im/k4UT
If you’ve not nominated a “Cnut of the Week” before, I’ll not be able to moderate your comment until I get back, but…
Mobile. Enmore Rd / King St / @SnarkyPlatypus / gym / dinner? / prep for “Stilgherrian Live” at 9.30pm Sydney time.
RT @ApostrophePong: Bloody cats have taken our liverwurst. How am I gonna punish them?
I’m done. Are you done?
Setting up a video camera and lights in the bathroom. True.
@unsungsongs True, we do have a furniture-related geographic difficulty. But if anyone can collapse spacetime, we can. Stand by.
dd @barrysaunders Oi! We are not allowed to mention #bombtheswiss yet!
RT @FiBendall:@stilgherrian you are called to #secretmission #sekritmeeting 2 morrow no #peacocks allowed…c u at the meeting point…shh!
@unsungsongs You’re on. ‘Cos there IS an old sofa that needs burning. All we need now is a suitable space, video cameras and absinthe.
Meanwhile, I’m shocked there’s so few nominations for “Cnut of the Week”. THERE’S A PRIZE TO BE WON! http://tr.im/k3Kd
@unsungsongs Then again… “implosion”… you DO make it sound very attractive. Maybe you can help me burn our old sofa.
@unsungsongs Half the space sounds the better option. Though I suspect that us collaborating on anything would be… dangerous.
Rearranging the universe into a series of shallow, looping curves. In time, rather than space.
RT @zern: You cannot outsource love. [True. And neither can you outsource nausea or vomiting.]
Reminder: Nominations are open for “Cnut of the Week”. THERE’S A PRIZE TO BE WON! http://tr.im/k3Kd You MUST enter at the website.
Dept Environment, Water, Heritage & Arts releases consultation paper on a National Waste Policy, including e-waste. http://tr.im/k3Lw
Nominations are therefore open for “Cnut of the Week”. THERE’S A PRIZE TO BE WON! http://tr.im/k3Kd You MUST enter at the website.
Thu plan: Record a pitch video; lots more tax documentation; evening gym with @SnarkyPlatypus; 9.30pm (Sydney time) “Stilgherrian Live”.
@shermozle Twitter client access is via HTTP too, so I’d been assuming it would also show up in Nielsen web stats? Can someone tell me?
@GreenJ Actually. Twitter’s 40% rate of continuing is HIGH for “log in and try it” services. Also,we did this yesterday. http://tr.im/k3C9
@tyeshasnow Well, thank YOU. I do like to “provoke people to think”. Needs to be more of it. :)
@tyeshasnow Hey, glad you like my little tag line! :) It’s a pretty mixed bag on my website.
Gosh. More than a year after first publishing it, my “Super Hornets are Go” is getting new comments! http://tr.im/k3uL
@SnarkyPlatypus Vous vous sentez comme une chanson de Fleetwood Mac? Pardon? Dull, inutiles et très sur-évalué?
@wolfcat My photo’s “very thought provoking”? Huh? I thought it was nice random colours. http://tr.im/k3nL Like this one. http://tr.im/k3o5
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Le jour du départ se rapproche, et je suis plus … agité. Et vous?
New Scientist: “Eight things you didn’t know about the internet” http://tr.im/k3lW Can you spot the lies?
Emerges.
New blog post: “Homebush Bay Scum” http://tr.im/k0Ti
@JonoH Ah no, “The Punch” is the new politics web / TV / print project from News Ltd. http://tr.im/k0BR
Oh, and yeah I am no longer doing stressful documentation for the Tax Office. Until tomorrow, anyway. Now I just have cats to annoy me.
Oh dear. “The Punch” is such a SEKRIT SQUIRREL project that it has… a sekrit squirrel. http://tr.im/k0zv
My attention is now severely limited while I do awfully annoying sensate work on my bookkeeping. Or curl in a ball and cry. One of the two.
RT @SBSNews: More than 60 per cent of Twitter users fail to return the following month, a study says. http://cli.gs/9RnRyA
RT @baethan: Reminds me of a t-shirt I saw once: “born looser”. [Indeed. That brings a VERY different image to mind!]
@mpesce Oh are you STILL fucking whinging about the weather? Go put on a nice woolly jumper and tell someone who cares. FFS!
@jeamland Precisely why YMMV. The N80 was what I needed at the time. You hated it. That’s why I avoid recommending specific tools.
Dear Twitterverse, is anyone in my herd of sheep-like but oh-so-wonderful followers working at Suede in Sydney by any chance? Please ping.
@mtats True, when asking most people to do something the Magic Word is “please”. With a telco it’s “Ombudsman”.
RT @cowspanker: Australia freaking about swine flu? Nope. 37th most-read story of week. [Well, ADD MORE BREASTS! Der!] [See, shortened too!]
@thegrenville I only looked at Nokia ‘cos after using the N80 I didn’t want to learn a new operating system. iPhone is useless for me.
@thegrenville Agree re “paralysed by choice”. @SnarkyPlatypus just got an E71, so if Nokia is the go that may be your choice.
@mtats I’ll say it again: Moving Vodafone to Virgin Mobile was a huge mistake. I’m now stuck on a contract. #badoptus
@thegrenville If I chose again, I might pick something with a QWERTY keyboard.
@thegrenville N96 fine for my needs: calls, SMS, photos, video, Bluetooth modem for laptop. Non-tactile keypad annoys. Your needs my differ.
OK, time to start doing something productive. I’ll be approving Cnut nomination-comments at http://tr.im/k3QK but otherwise dark for a bit.
@babycakesjase A live studio audience could be fun, yes, but it adds a LOT to the production workload. And there’s no income from this yet.
@Nickhodge Yes, we will indeed do Something Very Special for Eurovision. Plotting continues.
@babycakesjase However I’ve responded by implying you’re the Cnut for trying to hold back the tide of Swine Flu panic. ;)
@babycakesjase Nothing wrong with being cheap-arse and going for a prize, no. Now, how to make it so you have to watch the program too…?
@Nickhodge I suppose I should start doing interviews again. Anyone got any suggestions?
[US] Supreme Court rules against TV swearing. http://tr.im/jXh1 [Yes, let’s further divorce TV from The Real World. P.S. Killing still OK.]
@WoollyMittens Exactly. Accidental typos are OK. Continual carelessness with language, the Tool of Thought, is shoddy workmanship.
NYT: Chinese firms as small as 10 people can now churn out black-market mobile phones for USD 20. http://tr.im/jXeP
Police in Denmark hug bicyclists without helmets, then give them helmets. http://tr.im/jXcX (@BoingBoing, via @ecoknowgrapher.)
@WoollyMittens Heh! Well, I can think of worse people I’d want to have living in Australia. And I can list a few I’d like to deport.
I simply can’t take anyone seriously if they spell the verb “to lose” as “loose”. For me, it just shrieks “illiterate moron”.
Australia ranks #26 o world IT IQ scale, which Perceptric just made up. http://tr.im/jX6X
O’Reilly’s “The Twitter Book”: A Sneak Preview. http://tr.im/jX5x Table of contents plus chapter 3 “Hold Great Conversations”.
@nwjerseyliz Indeed, having to put down someone else’s behaviour is a symptom of one’s own insecurities about status.
@nwjerseyliz “Other”. “Oversharing”: a word to put down someone else’s behaviour. You don’t HAVE to follow if you’re not interested.
RT @nwjerseyliz: Twitter has been called part of a new “culture of oversharing.” What’s your opinion? http://twtpoll.com/1hwhvx
Emerges. Yes, I remember this time of day. This is when they demand to be fed, and I must feed them.
Despite earlier imagery of chocolate ovaries, the presence of two sleeping cats and no energy inspires me to pretend to sleep. [exit]
@barrysaunders Apology accepted. :)
@barrysaunders See, it’s NOT just me! The whole world is like that!
RT @Jen_Bennett: OMFG Chocolate ovaries would be awesome!
@johnhalton If you’re channelling Senator Conroy, real or fake, then you’re a braver man than me!
Mark Twain (maybe): “Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.”
@JonoH At this stage, yes, there should be a “Stilgherrian Live” on Thursday night. Things are intense this week, though, so we’ll see.
@Jen_Bennett I find the thought that you have been eating your OWN eggs to be rather… disturbing. Sort of a reverse-IVF?
@viveka Yes, where have you been, young man?
RT @BernardKeane: WTF is “probable” swine flu death http://bit.ly/qdYwv Can’t they tell if they’re dead or not?
@BreakfastNews @retrogrrl Exactly! “Barack Obama: first rootable President since Jack Kennedy.” Discuss THAT, Trioli! (Joe can join in too.)
@CassieST Oh now I’ve got a craving for cheese, and I blame YOU.
Did everyone catch the new ACMA report on the state of Internet filtering and other “cyber-safety” (ugh!) measures? http://tr.im/jTMb
@BreakfastNews We need to see more of Obama shirtless. What we’ve seen so far was just teasing.
@nicster Oh stop your fucking whinging and GET A GUN! Sheesh! IT CAN ALL BE SOLVED IN MINUTES!
@julie_posetti You’re right, adding Swine Flu to the mix is good. Keep ‘em confused! #secretmission #mkultra #loungefurniture #peacocks
@SilkCharm I can say that it’s international and… well… isn’t that enough? #secretmission
@SilkCharm I’m not sure what I can say about #secretmission yet, I must be guided by @FiBendall. Maybe more will emerge later.
@mistressmia Oh the whole concept of “debating” what something is “for” is bullshit, yes. It’s people wanting to look clever. Ho hum.
RT @lyndons: So far, yr #secretmission involves gin, tequila, the tango & lambada, Saudi princesses & ambassadorship 2 Mexico. Sounds OK.
@barrysaunders Maybe the correct hashtag is #fucktheswiss.
@SnarkyPlatypus Hmmm… I’ll have to think of a different #hashtag ‘cos #secretmission is too long. I’ll decide before Friday.
@alanjlee Actually, #secretmission isn’t in Sydney. Or even in this continent. And (checks map) not even in this hemisphere.
@trib @mpesce Why does Twitter have to be just ONE thing? Can’t it be notetaking AND dialtone AND broadcast AND a cheese grater?
@barrysaunders I think your understanding of #SECRETMISSION is somewhat a’kilter.
I suppose I should re-read the Proposal and just remind myself what I’m in for.
Thanks for all the messages of “congrats” coming in, especially those who have NO idea what #SECRETMISSION is. Hmmm… What can I say…?
RT @FiBendall:@stilgherrian #SECRETMISSION is now to be officially undertaken … Go Go Go! [And my head just assploded! Yay!]
Continuing to plough through “paperwork”, which is less interesting than you are, but not by much. Especially when “need” is considered.
Tue plan (belated): Continue the never-ending stream of “paperwork” until the entire thing pops out the other end.
RT @ThePlasticAge: If anyone wants to RT this link to my store, I would appreciate it: http://tr.im/jS9I Yep, they’s some nice skateboards.
RT @kcarruthers: Had weird dream with @stilgherrian in it wearing pink washing up gloves & khakis. [I’ll ask for explanations later.]
@willhughes That means, however, that it’s IMPOSSIBLE to do “Stilgherrian Live” mobile with anyone except Telstra Next G. #badoptus
RT @willhughes: That’s actually not too bad a speed, considering everyone (except T) runs 3Mbit… shared per cell. #badoptus
@ccoaster2002 Oh. They’re mostly sales and account management. I shouldn’t have RTd. I feel dirty now.
RT @ccoaster2002:Want to join us? News Digital Media has 11 roles on offer: http://tinyurl.com/czmynf #jobs #media
@EmperorNorton Well, the more extreme fundamentalists have (slightly?) less of a profile here in Australia. So far.
@nwjerseyliz Yeah I’ve head “oversharing” used too. Still, it’s making a judgement, “over”, instead of an observation, “more”.
@TimNoonan I open nominations for “Cnut of the Week” at my website on Thursday mornings. If there’s a program tomorrow.
Virgin Mobile via my Nokia N96 in Enmore just now. 870kb/s down, 30kb/s up. For HSDPA, that’s shoddy. #badoptus
@EmperorNorton I hear you, but as fundamentalists go, Pastor Danny Nalliah is at the weird-arse end of the spectrum. http://tr.im/jXZL
RT @thornley: US teens watch TV 60% less than their parents and spend 600% more time online than their parents. @pgillin #SNCR
RT @thornley: US Magazine newsstand sales fallen 22% this year. The age of the average network evening news viewer: 63! @pgillin #SNCR
@trib Oh I’m sure Peter Costello must’ve done SOMETHING useful during his adult life? Apart from support that strange fundamentalist.
Fairfax: “How Fail Whale became a hit”, interview with @YiyingLu. http://tr.im/jXVA [Yeah, yesterday. That’s the priority I give Fairfax.]
@thetowncrier “The Australian” is sort of like a politicians’ old-folks home where they can all whinge about how the young’uns are so bad.
Wed plan: Breakfast on Enmore Rd before a long, long and stressful day preparing documentation for the Tax Office. Yes, there are problems.
@SnarkyPlatypus Oh non! Cela ne ressemble pas à faire appel à tous! Que faire?
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Mon cerveau est comme une grande laitue, avec moins de secret escargots. Et vous?
@monkeytypist OK, if you don’t like language as Tool of Thought, how about “Tool for Communicating Thought”?
@trib I think the Twitter book would be handy. We do now tend to criticise new folk rather sharply. Also, shows possibilities.
Previous tweet hat-tip to @eloisamiller. I didn’t have room for both a credit and my own snark. Guess which won.
@trib Bah! “Surfing” #Facebook when you’re #sick (unfit for WORK) is no different from calling a friend to say you’re OK or reading a book.
@trib Yeah, well, the Swiss are a boring bunch of smug self-centred cunts anyway. Not that I’m racist or anything.
RT @SBSNews: A Swiss insurance worker lost her #job after surfing #Facebook while off #sick. http://cli.gs/1hH3yd
I am already well behind the pace after a rather restless night. I have a bad feeling about this.
Emerges.
The implications of my last few @replies are confusing. And not a little exciting. I think I’d better go before… well, just go. [exit]
@PeterBlackQUT “Boston Legal” IS Shakespeare.
@SnarkyPlatypus Playing Sinead O’Connor never helps. You might as well put your head in the oven now. Unless you’re a 50yo lesbian. Are you?
@mr_billiam I almost feel the urge to equate pedantic insistence on consistent language with shoving a broom handle up one’s arse, but no.
“Twitter Job Description by Date Joined” http://tr.im/jOgU Yep, this looks largely right to me. Additions? Give them to the guy.
@mr_billiam You’re right re Old English / incomprehensibility. I used to know bits. On the table of useful life skills, not in the top 5000.
Remembering with joy the great Middle English entertainment, “Serpentes on a Shippe!” http://tr.im/jOaJ Thank you, Geoffrey Chaucer!
The @mayorofnewtown nominates his Top 5 Newtown Eyesores. http://tr.im/jO8m
@courtney_gibson I could perhaps not be Ja’mie King’s father, if I cannot spell her name.
@middleclassgirl Think about that for a moment. DO YOU TRUST ME WITH YOUR EYELASHES?
@courtney_gibson I refuse to confirm nor deny that I am Ja’mai King’s father. http://tr.im/jO27
@missie17 You’ll have to check @firstdogonmoon’s stream from early today for the ‘flu jokes. He is a god.
Temporary Eyelash Extension $45.
Mobile again, this time to the gym (quite early!) to meet @SnarkyPlatypus and my own blubber. Attention depleted.
@Initiatives_lib I don’t know about any other domains, I just found that one by accident.
Excellent! abc.net.au is not the only URL to use for the ABC website. ;) http://tr.im/jMKU
Mobile. Enmore Rd / King St / various errands / maybe a bit to eat / absorb Vitamin D (well, you know what I mean) / circle mountaintops.
Arguing with a cat, who wants me in the living room where he is, not the office where the office is. Compromise: a woolly jumper to sit on!
Paul Budde: “NBN Luddites will be proven wrong: No vision and little real business sense” http://tr.im/jMbC
“Internet-Age Writing Syllabus & Course Overview” http://tr.im/jMaS Includes “LIT: 202—The Literary Merits of Lolcats”
RT @thetowncrier: Channel 10 news not quite frivolous enough for you? Well now it’s going to run for an hour and a half!! http://is.gd/uL0N
Reading the full strategic plan for my SEKRIT international project. Seeing the details in black & white gives it a scary reality.
@cohen_sydney Ah! The questions should go to @BernardKeane, not me. :) He’s the poor sod in Canberra.
RT @BernardKeane: Stephen Conroy (real one) discussing NBN at NPC today. Crikey will be there. Suggestions (non X-rated) for questions?
That article re Operation Tannenbaum http://tr.im/jRJU fails to mention the other reason it didn’t go ahead: Abwehr! http://tr.im/jRKk
@trib Oh look! http://tr.im/jRJ4 The story isn’t that she was “on Facebook” but she lied about how sick she was. @SBSNews is tabloid now?
Should I actually read the story and see WTF I’m actually shouting about? Or would that ruin it?
@trib Operation Tannenbaum should be dusted off and given the green light. http://tr.im/jRIl
RT @OverlandJournal: A history of people prosecuted as war criminals (and even executed) by the US for waterboarding (PDF) http://bit.ly …
Droning languidly-depressing ballads begin. I’ve had enough misery and heartache in my life without listening to yours, woman. Home time.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: A glorious vision: The Veronicas doing “Smells Like Teen Spirit” with totally inappropriate video. FULL OF WIN!
“Guy bets that he can endure 15 seconds of waterboarding” [video, plus links to more examples] http://tr.im/jJvo
@SnarkyPlatypus Maybe the 8-bit Nirvana cover needs a Mac speech synthesiser vocal line added?
The urge to stay for the roast is gone. The “live entertainment” has begun, destroying my peaceful look-out-the-window pondering.
Nirvana (kinda): “Smells Like Teen Spirit (8-Bit Remix)”, which I consider to be überawesome. http://tr.im/jJs9
Noticing the quality of the Sunday lamb roast, there’s a certain temptation to stay and savour its virtues. Ditto the gu… um, hang on.
@totalomnivore Too late to do the no-devices wander. But the purpose was to do some writing, and I need devices for that, to do the rese …
So that I’m not inside ALL day, I’m about to stroll to The Afternoon Officeâ„¢ for a quiet beer, maybe write a little, and then stroll back.
@SnarkyPlatypus “Purge, eat, purge, repeat” is probably not a successful life strategy. In fact, I’m sure it’s been evaluated already.
@ApostrophePong It is not the time for another dead animal. We have done nothing all day, and are already full of dead animals from earlier.
@willhughes Actually, I think the moving focus and POV perfectly reflects the chaos of a party where everyone’s talking. Well done.
On second thoughts, maybe that video has rather too much of me. And certainly too much of my tongue. http://tr.im/jJcx #STUB
Hah! “What is wrong with Strawberry Amyl Nitrate?” [video] http://tr.im/jJaX I still think i’s a reasonable question, @willhughes! #STUB
All the ransoms paid to Somali pirates amount to roughly 0.002% of the bailout paid to AIG. http://tr.im/jJ0M
@HappySinger I think “groups” should be kept out of the Twitter API. Separate the core message switching from display, IMHO.
Stephen Colbert: “A Middle Eastern country is an ‘ally’ in the time between when we give them weapons and when they start using them.”
Dear Many New Followers, I have been overwhelmed with you, but I do see all @replies even though the Twitterriver flows fast.
@ApostrophePong has just declared it “Walrus Time” and I have no idea why.
@dizzystuff I’m sorry, I don’t understand French. You’ll have to speak louder. (And I’m glad I didn’t understand what you just said.)
@SnarkyPlatypus Nous avons encore beaucoup de porcs et de poulets. Ils doivent être consommés.
@ApostrophePong has wet himself watching this video. It it from Japan, of course. http://tr.im/jIDL
@kirkbroadhurst I know Steve Reich’s “Music for 12 Musicians”, but the Cale/Riley “Church of Anthrax” is new, thanks. I shall explore!
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. J’ai discuté les seins de Virginia Triol avec@courtney_gibsonn. Les plus rafraîchissant! Et vous?
@courtney_gibson Here is the reference. It was BEFORE 0700 on 26 November. Check the tape. ;) http://tr.im/jIB3
@courtney_gibson How can I respond without mentioning poo again? Anyway, Virginia Trioli talked about saggy breasts at 0700! Blame her!
@dr_nic “Smartdrugs” was indeed a 90s buzzword, maybe even late 80s. And yet they return.
New Yorker: “Brain Gain: The underground world of ‘neuroenhancing’ drugs” http://tr.im/jIw3
@mediahunter Panic about ‘flu isn’t helped by everyone saying “I’ve got the ‘flu” when they have the Common Cold or some other random virus.
@thetowncrier Alas, I can’t watch Dave Letterman without constantly being reminded that he’s just a lame copy of Steve Vizard.
Sending, storing and sorting spam consumes 33 billion kWh per year. http://tr.im/jIp4
@thetowncrier Indeed, Mr Letterman is a loveable crank. He seems to be a little late to the fold in ridiculing Twitter though, no?