RT @ViciousPotato I’ll just sit here, listening to the teddy bear’s picnic song on loop… [First sensible idea I’ve seen all day.]
They choose to read mX. All of them. No-one is forcing them.
@SnarkyPlatypus Interesting, but the extensive and expensive wine bar must wait until another time.
To the disappointment of cheese lovers and fans of accidental drownings everywhere, I have decided to go home, thus avoiding stabbiness.
I am slowly getting closer to the Harbour…
Architectural marvels, Sydney CBD http://post.ly/180cb
OH, man on phone, leaving voicemail: “I’ve decided to get pissed today, so why don’t you give me a call.”
RT @alexkidman: Invent a new type of cheese, using only the implements you can beg, borrow or steal. [Now THAT’s a challenge! Plus, cheese.]
The appeal of going into the new Westfield thing is minimal, @teknetia @Jay_GW_Ng. Yet another cluster of the same brand-name shops? Yawn.
I know it’s IT industry jargon, but whenever I see “vendor” I think of old blokes selling stale vegetables from ill-maintained wooden carts.
My 1830 meeting has been postponed. I am in the Sydney CBD. Do I go home? Run amok here? Throw myself into the Harbour? Other suggestions?
@JonoH Do you know when the OTA Android 2.2 upgrade for Telstra’s HTC Desire will happen, for those of us not on Windows? ;)
I’m talking NBN [pre-recorded] with @synmedia at 4.30pm AEDT, streamed from http://syn.org.au/
Ben Pobjie’s Guide To Twitter. Because there’s a worldwide shortage of Guides to Twitter. http://bit.ly/96VKPA
Transition complete.
The Transition is proceeding quite painlessly.
RT @meadea The Woman’s Weekly has Christmas on its cover… [Ta, I’d have missed that. Christmas is getting very silly.]
Dear QVB, putting up your Christmas tree in October smacks of desperation.
@inanaj Feel free to email me something, I’ll be able to look after my errands. Market growth stories tend to bore me though.
RT @ChasLicc Scary & overprotective parents just got a lot more scary & overprotective http://bit.ly/acniBi [This truly disgusts me.]
@franksting My Virgin Mobile contract is expiring so I’m porting my number to Telstra Next G immediately. #badoptus
@dfg77 The “why” might be interesting, maybe, but the research couldn’t be knocked off on an afternoon. Too many people to chase.
@dfg77 Vendors and their staff not using their own products sounds more like a written list than a conversation, but yes.
Mobile: Enmore Rd; Newtown station; Town Hall station; 1200 Telstra T[life] store, 400 George St; remainder TBA.
Pondering what I should do for the “Patch Monday” podcast this week. You are permitted to make suggestions.
@Tamarajawad Embrace chaos. And demand free airline tickets. ;)
Stephen Bartholomeusz reckons NBN Co got Telstra’s network at a bargain price, with provisos. http://arseh.at/1a7
My “Weekly Wrap 21” was posted last night, because I’m organised. http://arseh.at/19l
New blog post: “Return of the Hallucinating Goldfish: Help!” http://arseh.at/1a6 Ping @stubbornmule
@stubbornmule I don’t suppose you’ve ever updated your graph of Australia’s historical debt-to-GDP ratio? http://arseh.at/1a4
Yeah.
Yeah well bye.
Adam Curtis pays tribute to the Lada, via a 1977 film etc. http://arseh.at/19u
Polite society is easy to find, @lelak @Nickhodge, it’s the thing where you don’t have a bum in your face.
While “journalists” were busy reporting “politics”, here’s what Parliament actually did. http://arseh.at/19t HT @timdunlop
Look, I don’t care what species you are, I don’t wish to examine your vagina that closely right now.
DFAT holding info sessions on ACTA in CBR, SYD, MEL. http://arseh.at/19q HT various.
I often ask myself that question.
Dear Media, “Holiday Cliché Lockdown is now in force”, says @johnemcintyre. And rightly so. http://arseh.at/19n
New blog post: “Weekly Wrap 21” http://arseh.at/19l A bit early, maybe, but now I get to sleep in tomorrow.
@kristinmoore2 @SnarkyPlatypus One glass of wine per hour seems a bit… torpid.
@MishoBaranovic I suspect there’s a certain amount of tribalism involved here. I was just stirring a mate.
@SnarkyPlatypus Can you further explain the work-to-red-wine equation? Do you have a newsletter?
@MishoBaranovic I’d have thought it was rather obvious I was talking about technical rather than creative aspects of the photographs.
@helendickenson Surely you’re not suggesting that unless Murdoch gives you a few pages of tabloid tripe you can’t think of anything to do?
Maybe I should update the Hallucinating Goldfish post with more recent examples. Seems dated now. http://arseh.at/19h
@SnarkyPlatypus I think I should mention “debt”, “great big tax” and “Hansonism” [whatever the fuck that’s mean to mean]. And get a cloth.
So @franksting this Instagram thing is some hipster toy that hides the fact that the camera in your phone takes really shitty pictures?
Agreed, @natecochrane, what debt is used for makes a BIG difference. #multipliereffect But now we stray a LONG way from my knowledge. ;)
Oh, you like the Hallucinating Goldfish thing? Here’s my original blog post ‘pon same. http://arseh.at/19h
Uhoh! Combinatorial explosion of people to @reply to. And I wasn’t going to get into politics this afternoon. Oopsie!
My preferred term is that we’re governed by Hallucinating Goldfish. No long-term memory, and a world of imagined horrors.
I do remember, @aqualung. But politicians and their co-dependent media live in what @BernardKeane calls the Perpetual Present.
RT @aqualung: Do you remember a few years back Costello was very proud to get DOWN to 6% debt:GDP … now Libs complain of 6% after stimulus
In that context, to use the customary example, 6% of GDP debt is like a household with $100k income taking out a $6k loan. Dearie me.
Debt is not automatically bad, @skaye. People borrow money to buy a home, for example, and it’s considered quite normal.
Australia worries about “debt” at 6% of GDP, when US is 60%. Or is it really 14x that? US bankrupt? http://arseh.at/19e
How to explain the internet to a 19th century street urchin, a flowchart. http://arseh.at/19d
Fellow Media People, may I suggest you run media releases and speeches thru this Gobbledygook Grader. http://arseh.at/19c
“Latest Newspoll has NSW Labor back to 1904 Levels”, says @AntonyGreenABC. Contains graphs. http://arseh.at/19b
@spandaslui “Jealous”? Home doesn’t mean I’ve stopped work. Far from it.
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