Said it before, but again: Australia’s Medicare is a gloriously efficiemt operation. Thank you.
@kcarruthers Well, to turn Bono into jerky, you’d only have to add the “y”. ;) But I have no beef with him personally. Har har. #toto
@scotartt True, the portrayal of Sol Trujillo as a cartoon Mexican was always lazy and unimaginative IMO.
@ApostrophePong @kcarruthers How about we feed Bono to the starving Africans? His ego’s more than 1000 daily requirements. #toto
“Red Bull pulled in Germany after cocaine test” http://tr.im/mnrv Hat-tip somebody who’s already scrolled off my screen.
Wed plan: Desk day at home, some writing but an awful lot of bookkeeping catch-up that was meant to happen yesterday; 1800 SEKRIT drinks.
@sylmobile @viveka As it happens, I like to think my essays are my best writing. A gnome-oriented one is almost done. #toto
From 2004, but still valid, Paul Graham’s idea that the Essay is a natural form of writing online. http://tr.im/mu21
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Mon monde est plein de mots, beaucoup de mots. Et pas assez de sommeil. Et vous?
@BernardKeane There’s more than one Frank Devine? Oh. Dear. They. Breed.
Emerges. The alarm cat went off early, but I managed to ignore it for a while. Not so now. Botheration. Proper sleep is lacking.
Uhoh. Battery fail. [exit]
@barrysaunders “The Frankfurt School… of neo-Marxist critical theory”? There’s not enough vodka in the world to endure that!
@kcarruthers Too late. That table of students has gone. Even the cute one. No stamina.
@katska Chomsky’s 1950s linguistic work on generative grammars was groundbreaking. Respect. His political frames, however, are way dated.
@barrysaunders I suspect I should be glad that I’ve never even heard of Adorno and Horkheimer. Is that correct?
@ThePlasticAge Anger is not a vice. Anger is a healthy emotional response to the world’s vast stupidity.
I’ve finished drafting my response to The Gnome Issue, but will post tomorrow or later once I’ve slept on it and added linkage and pictures.
Oh God. The students at the next table are debating issues from Noam Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent”. IT’S 2009, PEOPLE!
@Nickhodge Hah! BBEdit just said I should spell your surname “hodgepodge”!
@sleemol Examples are upstairs bars empty during the day, organisations I’m connected with.
@sleemol Yes, I have a couple SEKRIT spots which are perfect for writing.
@mgherman Not hiding under the Westin, no, but that’s a good theory.
My other SEKRIT city hidey-hole is filling up with dull corporate folks discussing their iPhones and middle management. Time to move.
@NewtonMark @mpesce It’s not just teens who are fluid in their conversations across media. I do it myself. And I’m no teen.
@vealmince This was an adequate goat curry in the CBD. I haven’t really come across any especially wond’rous goat. Yet.
Last week’s AusCERT 2009 conference audio is online at http://tr.im/moyB, program at http://tr.im/moyC
Goat consumed. Continuing errands in the Sydney CBD. Attention limited.
Skulking.
Canberra, August: “Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums & Wikimedia: Finding the common ground” http://tr.im/moay Hat-@Wittylamalama
@ocean Well, #toto is a backronym http://tr.im/mnQ9 but it’s from The Overseas Training Operation.
There is an irony in mis-spelling “efficient” there. Medcrare is effiemt doog kekrgj jphddwwww wwwwwwwwwww wwwwww. Poo.