Chuckling quietly at other people’s suffering. #ks10
Thanks for the butcherbird link there, @bgosford http://bit.ly/bQbTCs They do always sound so lovely. Makes up for being in a swamp. ;)
Please insert the word “get” in the last tweet but one. Wherever you think it’ll make most sense.
Mon plan: Kickstart Day 2 http://bit.ly/7jTLCT #ks10; record & edit “Patch Monday” podcast; do “The 9pm Edict” in some manner.
I’m not sure how I’m going to everything to fit today. I think the answer is that it won’t.
Hmmm… @SnarkyPlatypus We need to provide Google with a suitable French translation of “stabbiness”. Must consider.
Hmmm… @anthonybaxter I appreciate the sentiment here http://bit.ly/asJ2so but the photo editing work is a bit shoddy, IMO.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. C’est un beau matin dans un lieu de caractère artificiel complet. La douce pluie est apaisante. Et vous?
Listening to a species of butcherbird I haven’t heard before. Beautiful. The people in the pool for a morning swim, less so.
Appreciating Science, laughing at those lacking it.
Investors would’ve made more money if their funds managers disappeared, didn’t make a single trade. http://bit.ly/d1rkYu
Emerges. Blurrily.
[exit]
Avoiding what otherwise might be inevitable.
@Wyane It can’t be a “shaving kit” if it also contains a toothbrush, no? I must admit, this is all getting very confusing.
@cjlambert A little talc in one’s fresh socks after having a shower at the end of the day… was standard in our house when I grew up.
RT @kedgie: Why do you even have talcum powder? [Erm, because I wash? *puzzled*]
One day after flying… just one day… I’d like my talcum powder NOT to burst open in my toiletries bag.
Checking in and freshening up before dinner. And wondering what to cover for the “Patch Monday” podcast. #ks10
Nous sommes arrivées! #ks10
OMFG! There’s water almost to the edge of the road! It’s true! Tsunami PHEAR! #ks10
We seem to be driving an awfully long way. #ks10
So even geeks stand like fuckwit sheep in the way of people collecting luggage from the conveyor. Bleat bleat bleat. #ks10
Rootability Index quite inadequate, but better than the National Seachange Taskforce’s. Significantly better.
We descended thru hundreds of sunlit little fluffy clouds, like being trapped in Luke Steele’s wardrobe.
Touchdown OOL.
Finding that I’m actually rather quite pleased about other people’s misery. I think today will be quite enjoyable. #ks10
Heading home ‘cos I have an early pack’n’fiight for the Gold Coast. May the gods help me. #ks10
Zero corkage FTW!
Transitions.
@jeamland Actually I’ve turned of the naughty plugin now. You have Edicts.
@jeamland Alas I can’t fix The 9pm Edict’s feed from here. It must stay broken for now.
Another sign reads: “Cheapest mounting” I’m slightly excited.
Sign logic: “Wanted: experienced cover bands or musicians.”
Mobile: Enmore Rd; King St; @SnarkPlatypus; gym; dinner etc. Attention very limited, and probably expensive.
@PeterBlackQUT I don’t know whether we are permitted to leave the compound. ;) But I would like a quick yarn yes.
@alexkidman What’s wrong with the otters? #ks10
Also a quiz, “How Millennial are you?” http://bit.ly/aT3cc1
Pew report: “The Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change.” http://bit.ly/6RyiXV
I need to choose a new avatar for use during Kickstart Forum too, I think. Something sub-tropical. #ks10
@alexkidman But… But… You’re reducing the number of things I can whinge about! This will not do! #ks10
Indeed @neerav the whole dressing-up thing is just another barrier to entry for busy people, especially if not gregarious extroverts. #ks10
@franksting So this iPhone app comes with some sort of cattle prod electrical device? [puzzled]
Afghan Goat Fight FTW! http://bit.ly/9sJFIe
New blog post: “Gold Coast? Kickstart? Pirates? Oh dear!” http://bit.ly/9puTOp #ks10
Looking at the Sanctuary Cove “Behind the gates” tour. Horrified. http://bit.ly/dxO3xu #ks10
@franksting Why do you need an iPhone app for #city2surf?Isn’t the real key, you know, getting off your arse?
@pilgrimhawk @SnarkyPlatypus. If it’s any consolation, I’d never heard of Tom Ford either. He designs clothes? Care factor 0. Yawn. B Ark.
Boarding of JQ406 SYD-OOL won’t start for another 10 mins. Meanwhile, the hordes gather and gossip… #ks10
True @sylmobile there is a @Westpac ATM in T3 but I couldn’t be arsed going through security checks again.
Alas @rod_benson everyone but ANZ has indeed had their ATMs evicted from inside the SYD secure zone. Oh well. Cash shall have to wait.
Oh it’s not the ATM fees @expectproblems @NathanaelB but functionality. And yes, St George, Westpac and Bank SA are the same thing.
Astounded at the number of people whinging about the rather unchallenging task of “getting up in the morning”. #ks10
@SnarkyPlatypus Que sont-entendez-vous? Ils ne radiographiés mon sac à deux reprises aujourd’hui.
Oh botheration! How come no @Westpac ATMs inside SYD airport? Does ANZ have some exclusive deal? If so, that rather foul.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Ca a commencé. J’ai passé les contrôles de sécurité. Et vous?
Mobile: Cab to SYD airport; you know the rest, at least I’ve you’ve been paying attention, which you may not have been.
Maybe I should pack the video camera @NewtonMark ‘cos a Boeing 737 will ride that wave like Layne Beachley.
I’ve seen the movie, @NewtonMark I can out-run blue crosshatching in a golf cart. I will liveblog my Escape from Blue Crosshatching.
RT @NewtonMark: OMG, not Sanctuary Cove! You can’t go there, it has blue crosshatching on the map. BLUE CROSSHATCHING! http://is.gd/9kXRZ
Sun plan: 1005 Jetstar JQ406 SYD-OOL; Sanctuary Cove for Kickstart Day 1 http://bit.ly/7jTLCT #ks10; record “Patch Monday” podcast.
Who needs roller coasters any more when we can generate recreational fear through tsunami warnings without even leaving home?
Dear Artemis, I know it’s a Full Moon tonight and you’re a cat, but please don’t point that end of your body at me and emit that odour.
Erm @wolfcat the tsunami warning does NOT cover “all of NSW” ‘cos it’s a maritime warning. Just the little bit next to the coast, Sir.
Current Australian tsunami warning is at http://bit.ly/103Uhm #ks10
@alexkidman Christ, I have to share an aircraft with you today, don’t I? I shall be Sally Seagull then.
Seagull time.
Emerges. Uhuh.
I have an early start, so absent amphetamines I need to get some sleep. [exit]
@renailemay Stop working. You set a bad precedent for everyone.
@harleyd For Americans, describe @crikey_news as “The Drudge Reports for alcoholics”.
Home.
Two disturbing headlines from today’s Business Spectator: “Garrett’s passion is not enough”, “The Greek pain spreads”.
In my SEKRIT Sydney CBD eyrie, plotting.
Sir, when you shaved your chest down to your collar line, you were wearing a t-shirt with a much shallower collar.
Sign logic: “Nothing over $15* (*selected items only)”
Baffled.
ATM skimmer found in Drummoyne. Police warn people in Sydney’s Inner West. http://bit.ly/djVb7H
Chinatown.
Mobile (again): On a bus, on Parramatta Rd, City-bound. Hungry. Fearful.
Not puzzled. Well, not puzzled by the specific thing that was puzzling me. There may well be other puzzlements.
Puzzled.
@SnarkyPlatypus Vous aidez pas. Je dois être parfait pour la Côte d’Or!
@SnarkyPlatypus Est-il samedi? Comment peut-on samedi? J’ai encore tant à faire! Et vous?
Emerges. With prejudice.
[exit]
Home.
@jasonlangenauer MG volunteers? Same as every year: exploited and taken for granted while the organisers get paid full tote salaries.
Wynyard station still looks like an old urinal.
Wending my way home. I name this train Wendy in honour of this occasion.
Going partially off-grid and underground.
Being incredibly patient. Because I am an incredibly patient person.
Live-tweeting conferences, @cafedave? Try my “Why Twitter is useless for covering conferences” http://bit.ly/akHWiN
Since when have those stupid pretend-statte buskers from Circular Quay infested Pitt St Mall as well?
Descending from the eyrie. Welcome to Mixed Metaphor Monday™!
“Out Of A Forest” Danish stop-motion video http://bit.ly/aubBDi HT @theinquisitr Ping @ApostrophePong
Oh dear. I think I’m in Heaven. http://bit.ly/bNZB5m
[hop]
“Not Always Right” continues to astound and confound me. http://bit.ly/d8vWpv
Gawd, the things sailors do to amuse themselves… http://bit.ly/bvKfnS
@VodafoneNews_AU Problems solved, thank you. http://bit.ly/dhgCqD Though I don’t have an account with you so number and PIN won’t help. ;)
[hops]
All that said, the key question for me is what my coverage from Kickstart can do that isn’t just like everyone else’s. #ks10
Is this the time to mention how much I really truly HATE dress-ups and themed events? Like, even more than tofu. #ks10
RT @renailemay: RT @izevaka: New post: What Conroy’s tag cloud really looks like - http://bit.ly/9Cvfzw
Pondering my Plan of Attack for Kickstart Forum. http://bit.ly/7jTLCT Shuddering at the “themed” events. #ks10
@jg_rat I have always thought of myself as a delicate, tasteful amphibian.
@athempel Yeah I was talking about Sen Conroy’s Ministerial website “censorship” last night. Ta for thinking of me though.
@ssharwood I am laughing conspiratorially on the inside. And it causes indigestion.
DBCDE website explicitly hides “ISP Filtering” from “most popular search terms” tag-cloud. http://bit.ly/9Yp2bZ HT various.
RT @crispin_harris: Rather fond of “Fifth Leg” and “Devil’s Lair”. [You keep your weird sexual positions to yourself!]
RT @artywah: Don’t forget the “evil” and “bitch” wines http://bit.ly/bzhYPq
Pondering the teen vampire lesbian combined wine and massage oil market… There’s money to be made here!
@phildobbie Is there ANYTHING sexually cheaper than a Young Liberal?
Oh. My. God. I had no idea you all cared about wine labelling so much. Yes, @dobes, “Rainbow-Farting Unicorn Cab Shiraz” is yours! [*bless*]
For simplicity I’m working on a standard hourly rate, unless it’s fetish or Young Liberals, @phildobbie
Anyone who brands their wines “Lush”, “Dusk” and “Velvet” is clearly aiming for the connoisseur market.
Oh @Cacotopos any order or any combination of those duties is fine, and there are other options too. Shall I send a rate card?
It turns out I’ll be in the Sydney CBD tomorrow morning, if anyone needs me for anything. Consultancy? Random sex? Beers?
Lars von Trier directs new Danish tourism adverts. http://onion.com/dduOvl Ping @ApostrophePong
Nice dismantling of bullshit in The War on Garrett, @Pollytics! http://bit.ly/9gpVeF
Hang on @RichardGiles! You can’t call audience members “tools”. That’s MY job! #media140
New ‘Tubes podcast by @R_Chirgwin: Cisco on security; me on NBN laws, Lundy proposed laws, Facebook outlaws. http://bit.ly/bMkD0U
Mobile: Enmore Rd; King St; Bank (the money place, not the pub); some reading/writing spot.
US-CERT explains “Aurora” hacks of Google etc (rather technical) http://bit.ly/90oOuQ
RT @Nickhodge: Option (b) is Julie Bishop. [This is always true.]
@Nickhodge Is @KateLundy close enough to the “achievements of women in technology and science” theme? http://bit.ly/uWIhh
For Ada Lovelace Day http://bit.ly/uWIhh last year I interviewed @piawaugh http://bit.ly/FHee5 Who this year?
Did we just declare war on Israel? Man, that takes balls!
Kill me. Kill me now.
Botheration. It’s raining. I knew I should’ve paid more attention to the lorikeets than to the Bureau of Meteorology.
RT @jasonlangenauer: For those who want MOAR DATA on given name popularity: http://bit.ly/9mYZxB [Won’t look myself. Always too depressing.]
@Warlach “Padawan”? You’re a small flat-bottomed boat? WTF?
The Gold Coast “appeals”, @Cacotopos, ‘cos Sun-Tue is Kickstart Forum. http://bit.ly/7jTLCT
Sadly @funk_ink or possibly thankfully, Foucault didn’t figure highly in computing science or linguistics or geography.
RT @funk_ink: Stilg, you are like the Foucault of Aussie IT media methinks.. yes.. first week uni-speak coming back in. [Baffled.]
@Cacotopos Combining the phrases “convergent lines … pointing” and “bucket of arse” seems ill-advised… [shudder]
Erm @Cacotopos if you think I base my worldview on what someone says about “social media” you’re somewhat off the mark. Storm. Teacup.
Mobile: Enmore Rd; amble the back streets of Newtown, Stanmore, Petersham, Leichhardt; 1100 meeting on Norton St.
Great. I will be spending 3 days in a giant pit of arse. A 5-star pit of arse, true, but nevertheless… Je désespère!
RT @SophieAG: All of SE QLD is one giant pit of arse. It’s the Florida of Oz. The place to retire to if you’ve lost the will to live.
Pro Tip: It’s best not to search for “multiple arses” on Google Images if you don’t have SafeSearch turned on.
RT @smperris: Also, Logan. Also, Caboolture. All arse.
RT @barrysaunders: Also, Ipswich. every end of Brisbane is the arse end.
RT @jasonlangenauer: You are wrong to assume the Gold Coast has just one “arse end”. Look at the horrible McMansion wastelands of Robina etc
@SnarkyPlatypus @smperris I suspect I’ll be inside the hotel most of the day anyway, since it’s a conference-like thing.
It seems the Gold Cost weather forecast is “A few showers 28C” for the next 4 days, @SnarkyPlatypus They don’t get a 7-day forecast.
A “rehabilitated” swamp @expectproblems? Sounds like reforming a criminal. But this is the Queensland constructi… Oh. Wait.
Ahem! “Sanctuary Cove” is not a cove at all. It’s in the middle of a fucking swamp! http://bit.ly/bjV1h2
Fri plan (v2): Local errands; 1100 meeting Leichhardt; SEKRIT Sydney CBD eyrie for work previously mentioned; TGIF.
@SnarkyPlatypus Parfois, je vous hais.
@SnarkyPlatypus J’ai le plaisir de connaître ce que je fais face à des défis pour la semaine à venir. Également, http://bit.ly/a8d16g
Fri plan: 1000 meeting in Sydney CBD; work from SEKRIT eyrie; quotes for new clients; plan attack on Kickstart http://bit.ly/7jTLCT; TGIF.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Il ya un certain plaisir à vendredi. J’apprécie ce plaisir en ce moment! Et vous?
Astrology is broken. :(
Emerges.
[exit]
“Amy Winehouse to be reclassified as Class B Celebrity” http://bit.ly/a2oeIx Ping @SnarkyPlatypus
RT @ikostar: That’d be Hephaesteous or someone. Greek bird. Had issues. [I love the Art of Understatement.]
Home.
RT @notrez: The kind that calls the second one Dakota, or Destiny, or Shaniqua.
@zuzu She didn’t strike me as a potentiak Adrian Mole fan.
What sort of mother calls her daughter Pandora?
Mobile: Enmore Rd; King St; @SnarkyPlatypus; gym; dinner; strangle cats; early night.
@shanemo I think the correct term is “Social Media EXPERT Guru”, or “SMEG”.
Gosh. 37.7 cm. http://bit.ly/bnib9W
I’m getting too old to figure out other people’s code.
I’m about to go a-wandering @jdub @brettatitnews but something weird-arsed is going on there!
Browsing @SnarkyPlatypus’ Facebook friends because, um, there was a sudden urge.
But @brettatitnews what’s this JavaScript fragment at http://bit.ly/9Yp2bZ which IS in the page?
I can confirm that the sneaky JavaScript tag-cloud-tweak is still on http://www.minister.dbcd… right now.
Recording. Mixing. Editing.
RT @ragnarok1971: Will two half-arsed ones do?? [Alas, I think that will end up being my path.]
I need a fully arsed producer.
@expectproblems That said the Edirol R-44 is a lovely piece of kit by the looks. Lemme know if you need an audio monkey any time.
No @NereadersDigest the insurance costs will never be more than the equipment cost, that’s still plenty of profit. ;)
@expectproblems The H4n does have XLR, as did H4 before it. H4n records 4 channels: 2 x XLR plus 2 x built-in mics. http://bit.ly/d8dPg5
It’s OK @bernietb if I just read the news now it will inspire me. Plus I have stabbiness-inducing procedures I can follow.
But @NewtonMark the Edicts are for OTHER people. Lesser people.
Being quite uninspired in my scriptwriting for “The 9pm Edict”. Everything must be perfect in the world.
@expectproblems Indeed. I just realised I want something like a Zoom H4n for Kickstart Sun-Tue and was… shocked. :)
Wow audio equipment hire is a profitable gig. A $600 device is rented out at $50 a day card rates.
That said, I love how the Herald-Sun sources the photo as “Supplied”. Yes, very transparent, that. http://bit.ly/d9b1Af
Um @Nickhodge @franksting I’m not sure how Godwin Grech’s house is something to analyse on an audio program.
Actually @BiteTheDust I don’t mind of the client is on Twitter, ‘cos I’m quite open with voicing my opinion of how things went.
Well that was quite an interesting meeting with a new client. Crazy but sensible all at the same time.
Hmmm… I think some of these young men may not be entirely certain about their sexuality.
Actually yes @BiteTheDust, @Pollytics’ figures on insulation fires are fascinating. http://bit.ly/blr62Y
The kids are already queuing outside the Enmore Theatre for tonight’s Placebo gig. There are… hairstyles.
Mobile: Enmore Rd; 1430 client meeting; quiet writing spot to do some writing.
Wondering which news story I should dig into for “The 9pm Edict”.
RT @barrysaunders: Next week is ‘eat a meat pie against class-based oppression’ day.
I am a fairly straightforward person. I don’t like mysteries.
If anyone wants to leave an audio comment for tonight’s “The 9pm Edict” you still have time. ;) http://bit.ly/cb6Vn7
RT @renailemay: Conroy releases draft NBN Co legislation: http://bit.ly/cIJLFv
RT @kcarruthers: what is the collective noun for strategists? [A “masturbation of strategists”, maybe?]
Music/movie industries lobby for counties using open source software to be added to piracy watchlst. http://bit.ly/9QGCSX
Government announcement of web accessibility guidelines fails web accessibility guidelines. http://bit.ly/cjUzmp
@adelaidetweet I haven’t ever seen any reliable figures for active Twitter users in Australia, no. Twitter itself is cagey about numbers.
@expectproblems Anyway, I shall pimp your videos here ‘cos I didn’t get around to that blog post yet. That man from Hulu was very annoying.