In German, Kraftwerk means Power Station, sounds like http://youtu.be/45Z3gYf5… In English, like http://youtu.be/ZUc629Oc… Discuss.
Emerges.
Persuading mammals. I may be some time. [exit]
RANDOM MEAT is always a bonus.
@jonoabroad No we walked FROM the arse end of nowhere. And, indeed, ‘cos we can and it’s a lovely city. East Hills seemed OK though.
Home, with aching legs.
@pauloryn Yes, this is Hell with sangria. And unexpected quails. Long story.
We have entered some.kind of Portuguese Hell, with beef.
It also pleases me to have seen a family of Calyptorhynchus funereus numbering about 10 this afternoon http://bit.ly/aVVlSN
It pleases me that the word “arsehat” seems to be achieving wider currency.
Also, East Hills to Petersham via Bankstown and Lakemba is a good 23km walk. We are brilliant, just brilliant.
@Zedsupremus Is what a nickname? My name? No, that’s my name. Or did you mean something else?
Oh there had better fucking well be sangria when we get to Petersham, let me tell you!
Jason Clare, Labor for Blaxland http://post.ly/pXkb
Euro Baby Cube! http://post.ly/pXkS
Secret Nazi bunker, Panania http://post.ly/pXOc
Brent Thomas, working for us http://post.ly/pXKU
Craig Kelly, Liberal for Hughes http://post.ly/pXGW
Warning: Red LED may indicate contents http://post.ly/pWyK
I’ve always thought that when people resort to name-calling or implied threats of violence that their position must be pretty weak.
@3288chrisc Come on, show the real sophistication of your politics! Hey, I know! Why don’t you call me another name! That always persuades.
@3288chrisc Your blind tribalism is hilarious. Keep going. Saves me writing my own scripts to satirise the angry mobs.
@3288chrisc So politics by slogan and personal abuse, eh? Would that strategy ever change opinions? Also, see previous tweet. #ausvotes
Oh dear, I wasn’t quite expecting such a quick and varied response. thank you, I’ll check them out over the next couple hours.
So what non-party non-media-company election websites should I tell ABC Radio about? Once that I haven’t already plugged. #ausvotes
@robbieg8s Indeed, I am tediously printing the PDFs to PDF, because they have carefully blocked “download”. Sigh.
@rdmcfarlane All gin is a victory, by definition.
Talking to the proles is such tedious hard work.
@mrgrumpystephen How culd this be anything but real? http://youtu.be/dQlsfsyp…
O noes! Plastic Bertrand is a fake! Ça planait pas dans sa voix! http://bit.ly/9MO1dJ
I grant you, @stuarthorrex, that is a better option yes http://twitpic.com/1t093e
@jasonlangenauer People who imagine that telephones increase RI automatically have no RI at all.
@franksting Of course, yes, Grayndler is much moar biggerer than mere Marrickville. Here be mappage! http://bit.ly/924jVf
@jasonlangenauer There is a distinct lack of RI amongst those queuing through the night to buy telephones.
@franksting I’ll check with Antony Green, but currently he’s listing Grayndler as “very safe Labor” http://bit.ly/9G3ZSR @SnarkyPlatypus
This human is just wrong. Wrong wrong wrong wrong. http://bit.ly/cqlNvR
@sylmobile Yes yes dear, we can see you there in your little striped cap… [pats]
@SnarkyPlatypus Grayndler’s a bit of a candidate backwater too, but then Anthony Albanese will piss it in http://bit.ly/bji4jt
@Nickhodge I don’t know how many arms the Swamp Stilgherrian had! I never saw it, and Ian Livingstone can’t remember which book it was in.
Full lists of 2010 federal election candidates now available on AEC website http://bit.ly/apQug5 #ausvotes HT @peterjblack
@stuarthorrex No, you don’t understand. Grilled cheese is disgusting. Truly disgusting. It destroys the cheese! BARBARIANS!
@Nickhodge I know only one fictional mention of me, an Ian Livingstone Fighting Fantasy Gamebook. A huge Stilgherrian emerges from a swamp.
ABC @RNFutureTense’s list of election-related websites: feel free to add more http://bit.ly/bHggtR #ausvotes
@middleclassgirl No no no that is 1 in New York and 2 truly disgusting http://bit.ly/aBwgpp
@SnarkyPlatypus I have wine but no cheese. Is there some sort of quality cheese delivery service available? [Not a euphemism.]
@BernardKeane I haven’t digested Schwab’s piece yet, I just pasted it in. No brainpower for that sort of thinking. Nice he replied, tho.
New blog post: “Adam Schwab’s NBN reply” http://bit.ly/buMlIV in which he responds to my http://bit.ly/9ShWnq
Home.
That woman’s hair looks like a wig, but it’s clearly attached to her scalp. The only logical conclusion is that her entire head is false.
As if by a different kind if magic, I am at Stanmore station.
@qryss I ding think I am following you. Are you following me?
As if by magic, I am at Central station.
CityRail appears to have given up hope on even guessing an ETA for the Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra lines etc resuming.
Three Mancunian backpackers stand, hands in baggy shorts pockets, thongs, gaping up at the gym opposite. The lads have seen actual women.
Stick insect legs, generous round arse: her torso sits on two Chupa Chups. Her knees do not bend. Black vinyl jacket with hood, yellow fur.
The Hare Krishna number four, and only one is so enthusiastic that he can lift his hands higher than his shoulders. Their drumming is drab.
@izevaka I saw nor heard no circus crier.
I have abandoned the railway. Drunk squeally women try to catch cabs which already have fares while their shoes fall off. 6.15pm. Lovely.
Delays on Eastern Suburbs and South / Illawarra lines at least 20 to 30 minutes.
At Kings Cross station. Due to a signal failure at Central station we are being indefinitely delayed.
@jonoabroad Oh. No. Kiwified is a speshul coad werd. It is speshul to speshul peoples.
Kiwified!
En route to Kings Cross station and thence Potts Point, briefly. Then…? Moderately acceptable RI at Central.
RT @thetowncrier: I can’t remember my own name. [Why not, Karen, what’s wrong with you?]
@bryceroney I’ve always envisaged NSW Governor Marie Bashir as more the hit-woman type, then doing a water-borne escape on Sydney Harbour.
@bryceroney Lots of stuff falls constitutionally under the Governor-General, but convention gives the PM actual command of the armed forces.
Is the PM permitted to order assassinations under caretaker conventions? Just curious…
Has the Space Vixen had Rudd taken out?
Standing up and moving forward: Enmore Rd; King St; lunch; bank; 1500 ABC Ultimo for a Radio National pre-record.
@jmacmullin The intention is for NBN fibre to completely replace copper, but customers will be able to opt out. I think that’s a flaw.
Thing is @Asher_Wolf there isn’t actually any news about IT and the election yet. Well, no NEW news. It might best be left a week.
@benmcginnes I’ve already covered the AGD’s discussions with ISPs on data retention in some depth on “Patch Monday” http://bit.ly/aAQWpB
@wolfcat The NBN announcement today is just to release the fine-grained maps of who gets fibre, who wireless, who satellite.
Oh, “Patch Monday” is a @zdnetaustralia podcast, about IT etc. It doesn’t cover telcos ‘cos that’s @phildobbie’s “Twisted Wire” podcast.
Wondering what I should cover in the “Patch Monday” podcast. There’s really been no IT / Internet-related election news as such so far…
“The fugitive role [Wikileaks founder] Assange adopts is a lifestyle choice, and not a necessity” http://bit.ly/aTuOVx
It’ll be interesting to see how many people think that quoting counter-arguments indicates my actual opinion or voting intentions. #ausvotes
Standing up and moving forward: Enmore Rd; Newtown station; Central station; East Hills station; setting out on foot for Sangria.
@3288chrisc Yes, it’s terrible that the ALP brought Australia thru the GFC in better shape than any Western democracy. Terrible. #ausvotes
@djackmanson “Wait and see” is a good strategy, yes. Just like global warming. Maybe it doesn’t mean anything. Just wait. And see. #ausvotes
RT @firstdogonmoon: I am running around in a panicked screechy circle #ausvotes [I’m glad someone is doing something useful. And you lot?]
Dear Fairfax, did I ASK you to play a video when I visited that web page to read a news story? No, I fucking well did not. So don’t, m’kay?
Pro tip: Having a whinge to your friends, who already likely have similar views because they’re your friends, won’t be the answer. #ausvotes
Supplementary question: “What will YOU be doing to help sway opinion amongst swinging voters in your nearest marginal electorate?” #ausvotes
If folks don’t like the polling reported by Fairfax today, my question to them would be “What are you going to DO about that?” #ausvotes
RT @jasonlangenauer: I must admit that when I hear the word ‘sangriafication’ my first thought isn’t that the sangria is administered orally
@beeso Them, yes. Note that Schwab now says his gripe is lack of cost-benefit analysis. I think that differs from his original Crikey piece.
@beeso If you do write something, make sure to read the precursor pieces. I’ll be fussy about running it or not. ;)
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Malgré tous les efforts de l’hégémonie du chat, je suis presque prêt pour les activités de la journée. Et vous?
Sat plan: 1000 meet @SnarkyPlatypus at Central for our planned walk from East Hills to Petersham for sangrification; that is all.
@beeso I’m more than happy to post responses to Adam Schwab, since I won’t have time to respond until tomorrow at the earliest.
“WikiLeaks and mainstream media” from @jjn1: such a big data dump probably weakened impact http://bit.ly/9iRaa5
If you get an election leaflet this weekend, please upload it to ElectionLeaflets.org.au http://bit.ly/9FBhZ0 #ausvotes
From last night: “Adam Schwab’s NBN reply” http://bit.ly/buMlIV in which he responds to my http://bit.ly/9ShWnq
New blog post: “Weekly Wrap 8” http://bit.ly/9AtaDE
Ars Technica mocks Tasmanians for not accepting free NBN fibre connection http://bit.ly/cmyjLh
Sometimes there are people who have been good friends for a very long time, but you still want to slap them HARD.
Emerges.
[exit]
That might be a bit wrong.
@Nickhodge @SnarkyPlatypus Do we need a compilation album, “20 Fabulous Hits by Famous Pedophiles”? http://youtu.be/CvtRkarV…
@SnarkyPlatypus Oh look! You mentioned Miley Cyrus and got @replied by one of the latest drive-by malware scams! Lucky you!
I find the sight of Bob Ellis accusing the electorate of collective Alzheimer’s to be particularly ironic. #abcnews24
Ah, #abcnews24 The Drum strikes another blow for balance via a panel of three grey-haired middle-aged urban whitefellas.
Pleased that due to rearranging my world I can stop writing, I ponder the remainder of the evening.
Very much appreciative of @penbo telling the old age pensioners of Australia to get stuffed http://bit.ly/cEPL3f
On hold for ABC Radio Statewide NSW.
Video of lightning strike recorded at 9000 frames per second, slowcoach http://youtu.be/-bvmEYxE…
t’s worth noting that https://www.belowtheline… is currently 2007 data, as the 2010 preferences deals aren’t done yet. #ausvotes
I agree that Open Australia is a good suggestion @theburgerman for finding out what your existing MP does http://bit.ly/PlP4C
By “community election-related” @SuperOpinion I mean anything helpful for understanding the election, not run by a party or media outlet.
I see Vote Below the Line is looking a bit more attractive too http://bit.ly/dp9TQ9
Any other community election-related websites I should plug in a forthcoming thingo what I am doing?
Have you all been uploading the election leaflets you receive to ElectionLeaflets.org.au? http://bit.ly/9FBhZ0
@piawaugh I’ve just sent the maybe-not-quite-up-to-date figures to your work address. Happy to chat and explain.
@erkpod Also, the bulk of that money goes to the money-collectors, then to the music labels, not to the original artists themselves.
@erkpod Yep, not cheap. For podcast is POA. Webcast is approx $700 per quarter minimum for non-commecial orgs, $500pa for individuals.
@piawaugh Yes, the broadcast license is only for the broadcast. Webcasting or podcasting requires an additional webcast license.
@piawaugh As for radio, music licensing in broadcast radio is paid by the licensee, not individual programs.
@piawaugh I have a copy of the APRA/AMCOSS license fees for commercial music in webcasts/podcasts I can forward if you like?
@shigawire Oh I think you doubt Mr Schwab’s knowledge! I’m sure he temporarily forgot Shannon-Hartley in the rush to write his analysis.
@franksting No, the live ABC Local Radio programs aren’t transcribed or turned into podcasts. But it’ll be nothing new for you.
I’m on ABC Radio Statewide NSW at 5.50pm (95 mins) talking DNSSEC and IPv6, would you believe. No stream.
@drueyjay Yep, we reduced usage from 34kWh per day to 29kWh at the same time last year, but nevertheless are paying $50 more.
Yes, Energy Australia Quarterly Invoice, our electricity costs have indeed risen around 10%. And same to you.
Home.
It says here on this sign that The Green Room Lounge on Enmore Rd opens mid-August.
@izevaka Typo corrected, thank you. Though an online heath service does sound fun. It’d probably be full of gnomes.
Thank you, @mtats, that reminds me to re-pimp my “Adam Schwab’s NBN ‘analysis’ arsehattery” http://bit.ly/9ShWnq
@ApostrophePong No, I’m not going to Pho Sure, they’re not open for lunch. Silly people.
Standing up and moving forward: Enmore Rd; pho for lunch; further errands only if necessary; back to my cave for more writing.
Now now @jeamland @renailemay @R_Chirgwin @shaneyoung72 … No jokes about wireless broadband. It IS the answer to everything. [smirks]
Me in Crikey: “A new cable brings the promise of more internet capacity” http://bit.ly/b6nlvP Can has 5.12Tb/s?
Crikey story filed! Whew! And do I feel crap? yes, I do. Continual pain and/or codeine are exhausting. Who knew?
The codeine is working.
Well, there’s my bit of the podcast “A Series of Tubes” recorded. It’s all up to @R_Chirgwin now. May God have mercy ‘pon his soul.
NBN Co coverage maps are linked off this ABC story http://bit.ly/cvaMNz @robbieg8s Not on NBN Co website yet, as of 5 mins ago anyway.
RT @deptofinternets: It’s not a PITA, it’s Web 2.0! [True, my mistake… There IS a difference. There is. There really is.]
Gosh @abcnews the NBN coverage maps in Scribd, not just as downloadable PDFs? What a PITA!
No, not you, @kcarruthers, I’m having a go at The Man With the Catchy-Titled Book. There’s always TMWTCTTB. #openinternet
So to translate, @kcarruthers, “Social media huge, important, say people whose income depends on social media being huge, important”? #smeg
Fri plan: 0900 record for A Series of Tubes; desk things; lunch & errands; 1500 ABC Radio recording; 1600 client phone conference; TGIF TBA.
Less ranty is FAS’ Steven Aftergood on Wikileaks’ lack of due diligence and transparency http://bit.ly/dt2MxC
@SnarkyPlatypus Aussi, je suis passablement, après avoir dormi 22 heures jusqu’à 2 heures du matin, et puis 5 heures 30 jusqu’à 7 heures 30.
“WikiLeaks is a brothel of self-promotion, Assange its puffed-up pimp”, says @tunkuv. Goodness! http://bit.ly/d0T88N HT @jayrosen_nyu
@SnarkyPlatypus Je savais, je savais que vous alliez à choisir cette chanson. http://youtu.be/F1FPK5-R…
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. J’ai remarqué que, parfois, les gens choisissent les héros les plus inapproprié. Et vous?
@snarkle Anyway, my comment was about Assange, not Wikileaks, and it wasn’t about hate.
@snarkle Equating “information wants to be free” with Wikileaks is a complete misrepresentation of the phrase’s origins. http://bit.ly/3LEZw
CEBPAKI: Cat exists between person and keyboard, inconveniently,
Ah. Emerges. Uhuh.
Oh is Julian Assange going to be on TV again? I think I might go to bed before I stab someone. [exit]
Since several people have asked about Julie Bishop… http://bit.ly/d7LJ2b
Apparently I am Julie Bishop, or so I have just been told.
Apollo you are a bastard cat.
@CastleJames @queerpenguinSX I suspect that neither the Khmer Rouge nor @LaurieOakes pay any attention to me, the arseholes. #ausvotes
“I’d have preferred to be hanging out on the beach than dealing with homosexual Nazis” http://bit.ly/bSMCrO HT @joshgnosis
@joshgnosis And were there enough laughs? Whale feces aside…
@CastleJames Well, I appreciate your Baroque theory. We shall see. @LaurieOakes, any thoughts? ;) #ausvotes
@CastleJames Doubtless Belinda Neal is a vengeful soul, but surely a certain KR is a simpler explanation for the leaks? #ausvotes
@joshgnosis Where are you and why are your tweets an hour behind the program you’re tweeting about?
@wunchn I understand your point, but personally I think left-right analysis limits understanding, is best abandoned. You won’t sway me here.
@CastleJames I don’t think you can finger Belinda Neal [eww!] for the ALP leaks. She wouldn’t have access to the cabinet debates. #ausvotes
@wunchn I think it’s easier just to look at each party as an entity in itself, and to forget the idea that one party is left, one right.
@wunchn Parties? They each have a cluster of messages to appeal to the swinging voters, some left, some right on the old scale.
@wunchn Tell me which “them” you’re referring to and I’ll tell you how I describe them.
@FixedR6 Nah, I’ll stick with my comment on that, actually. I’ll expand upon that into an essay at some point.
@wunchn My irony detector is not calibrated tonight, but I kinda laugh at anyone who still uses that 18th-century left-right analysis.
I am turning off the TV feed because I am in danger of finding out things that I already know.
Hang on #abcnews24 I saw this report on shock horror teenagers are hormonal violent don’t think of consequences who knew a week ago.
@Colvinius True, plagues of frogs aren’t quite my realm. My patter tends to stay within a millennium or two of the present date.
Oh here we go…
“I don’t have first-hand experience of whale feces, no.” Now THAT’S television! #abcnews24
Dear #abcnews24, if you want someone to play “bitter old cunt” other than Bob Ellis, I can do that and stay on topic.
@renailemay People registering for info on a consumer product isn’t interest in “tech”, it’s interest in consumerism. Very different.
WTF? My phone just auto-corrected “Grrrr” to “Greer”. Poor Germaine…
Seriously, @renailemay, tech is like sewerage. We all USE it, but only the obsessed and the mentally ill want to TALK about it.
RT @renailemay: Why does #abcnews24 have a health section but no tech report?? [To spite you, personally, because They Know.]
@renailemay The “ancient guy” on The Drum is Bob Ellis http://bit.ly/cQKbNV #abcnews24
Tom Switzer may object to my characterisation of him as middle-aged but, like, fuck him. He referred to Edmund Burke before 10pm. #abcnews24
Ah, so THAT’S what Glenn Milne looks like sober! #abcnews24
@thetowncrier Why do you hate Freedom? Or is it just email and the telephone? ;)
@yewenyi Well, this new pipe is 1.52Tb/s initially, how does that compare with your Big Number?
@bengrubb No, not retail. That whole price comparison was about a certain-sized Big Fat Pipe, as a pipe.
@bengrubb @joshgnosis The Middle East comparisons were about price not bandwidth. ME is 3x Australia, says my notes.
Erm, the new Pacnet fibre will double international data capacity initially, @bengrubb @joshgnosis Do I need to teach you chaps arithmetic?
@expectproblems Actually I find the gentle rain rather pleasant. But I need to find a comfy cubbyhole for a bit of work before heading home.
@expectproblems This may actually come as a shock, but I probably shouldn’t embark upon an adventure today. My gesture is hollow.
@expectproblems I am not “familiar” with it, though I know of it. But were you not joining me there? Or was that all a hollow gesture?
So, I’m in the Sydney CBD… What was that about Red Oak, @expectproblems?
@jeamland Yes, 1.52Tb/s initially, but they may add extra fibre pairs if they get more customers, and obviously it can be upgraded later.
Watch for the stories emerging this afternoon. Another 5.12Tb, online by 2013, more after that.
Pacnet has just announced a new JV with Pacific Fibre to lay new fibre AU-NZ-US which will double Australia’s overseas data capacity.
@MikeySlezak Yes, Jura is probably the place to look. Ah well, it’ll have to wait until next week.
Atlassian and Sussex St on a rainy day http://post.ly/p5Pu
I think I might track down the author of that poster and interview them for “The 9pm Edict” podcast some time.
RT @DanielOCnr: Looks like a lost dog poster until you start reading ;) [Actually, I think it IS a lost dog poster. Har har.]
I also like the fact that there are no contact details on that poster. Want to join the struggle? Tough. http://post.ly/p5Em
Newtown a police state, apparently http://post.ly/p5Em
Standing up and moving forward: Enmore Rd; Newtown station; Town Hall station; Cockle Bay Wharf; Coast Restaurant.