With luck this won’t actually kill me. With better luck it will.
I’m not going quietly, I’ll tell you that for sixpence.
What a fucking miserable excuse for a civilisation!
Oh and look! They’ve created an internal cafe syrup that’s ended up a wind tunnel. Did these arsehats do no modelling?
@LizSinnott Yes, so if you change it you say so, don’t call it a quote? What’s so hard about that! Same as in all other writing! FFS!
RT @Level20EastGuy Best time for summer shooting in Sydney is between 3 and 6PM [Exactly 5.23pm now.]
Jesus these people should be bloody well pleased that mo-one’s been killed yet.
Typical. No signage for exits to the street, only to the car parks. What fuckwits.
Clearly the way to live is buy the food court’s end-of-day $5 specials and spend the rest on $6 cleanskin reds.
RT @peter_tonoli Soft Drink? Anything under 20% a/v [Ah, gotcha, cheers.]
“Soft drinks”? Is that a thing?
I figure Dan Murphy’s should solve most of my nutritional needs.
Entering Hell.
How can a web page be a terrorist?
@ozdj How dare you suggest there’s any other solution to a problem other than whinging on Twitter. Don’t you understand the internet?
RT @en_gy I’m glad I Googled Gamification. It’s not what I thought it was.[Yeah I made that mistake too, but a fun night all the same.]
There’s enough battery on the phone for one more beer before the shopping centre. It’ll be needed.
@kristoforlawson All this said, it’s a rapidly-evolving lect, so who knows how it’ll all turn out.
@sophistifunk @nomadiquemc I don’t even know what a Cee Lo is. Am I admitting a character flaw?
@kristoforlawson It’s linguistics. Statistical analysts of the corpus (Twitter firehose) plus interview native speakers about their usage.
Oh FFS @smh, just how much of your so-called “journalism” in one day will be little more than “What random people said on Twitter”?
Tasering all the things.
@kristoforlawson But, our differing views on whether RT is assumed to be exact or not can be tested. Let’s get some evidence!
@kristoforlawson I don’t think it’s hard at all. Quote exactly in an RT, or write your own tweet and credit the source. Your policy is lazy.
Maybe it’s time to face the shopping centre.
So, Apple, if a MacBook Pro has a 7-hour battery life, I shouldn’t be running out after 2h 15m tweeting from the pub, right? Bah!
@kristoforlawson I disagree. Twitter’s RT doesn’t allow adfdfing commentary, which I add [in brackets]. I DO expect an RT to be exact.
@kristoforlawson Hmmm. I reckon RT is a quote mark. It’s how I use it, anyway, and well-established. MT less so. @HeraldSunEye @HeraldSunEye
@HeraldSunEye Thinking of Twitter as reportage or reportage as different from any other quoting is an error IMO. @kristoforlawson @Colvinius
Shocked. Baffled. Astounded. Bewildered.
@kristoforlawson Seriously, flagging the difference between quoting and paraphrasing is fundamental. @Convinius @sunnyhall @HeraldSunEye
@kristoforlawson What. The. Fuck? “Editor”? Um, importance to a writer of their form of expression? /cc @Convinius @sunnyhall @HeraldSunEye
@kristoforlawson @Convinius @sunnyhall @HeraldSunEye Case in point: I can’t stand my words being turned into txtspeak abbreviations.
@kristoforlawson @Convinius @sunnyhall @HeraldSunEye I disagree. If someone alters my wording, which I choose carefully, I want that noted.
Jesus I wish some so-called journalists would realise the 1970s ended and the prism of good versus bad is not the same today.
This pub is offering a free beer for old sporting trophies. Presumably for a display of some kind.
Which reminds me, from 2007: “The Inaugural Paul Neil Milne Johnstone Award goes to…arseh.at/4qcE4
@R_Chirgwin Look, just take a gun to them anyway. Even if wrong now, it’ll be required soon enough, and it’s just more efficient this way.
Listening to a man complaining of injustice. His insurance company didn’t cover something that wasn’t included in his insurance cover!
Oh those arsehts need to be named and shamed, @R_Chirgwin! “You’re not allowed to write about us unless we say it’s OK”? Fuck ‘em!
R_Chirgwin “Journalists intending to publish the story will need permission from the journal”. Time to be a provocateur?
“Does your dog suffer from carsickness?”
Well, @leslienassar, your instant Lego Afghanistan story is both heartwarming and a disturbing media commentary. arseh.at/q7t
RT @bhaverty: Did I mention “keep it under your hat”? :D [Hah! No, you didn’t. But then I didn’t reveal any actual facts about it…]
I’ve been invited to participate in a “Grumpy Old Men” style series thing. I has come to this.
Did we really need the iconic moments of 2011 recreated in Lego? Apparently we did. Sigh. arseh.at/q7s
@ozdj @NathanaelB There’s a reason I’m going to the pub before the shopping centre. If local shops existed in this wasteland…
I didn’t go in, @sylmobile, but it looks like the shopping mall and cinemas are complete and open, the office tower not quite finished.
Bleak. They’ll have no problems selling the lunar colonies. No-one interacts with the outside world as it is. Just market false glamour.
Mobile: Walk to Top Ryde City (a shopping centre, alas), and thence to The Royal Hotel for lunch.
Resolving to wash the dishes when I get home. No, really.
“Hashtags’ mission creep” at @LanguageLog arseh.at/q7p
Watching the Twitterverse reacting to @rupertmurdoch in real time via Twitterfail is fascinating. arseh.at/q7o
Finished on on @abclocal. A happy natter, tho someone should tell Ian Rogerson that Stilgherrian IS my real name.
On hold for ABC Radio to talk @rupertmurdoch. Listen at abc.net.au/sydney/
Oh, I hadn’t realised @smh did a story on @rupertmurdoch. Good to know I’m on the 2012 news cycle already. arseh.at/q7n
Thanks for all the other comments about @rupertmurdoch. Can’t respond to them all but they’re feeding into my thoughts. Appreciated.
Is @paulwallbank being a little harsh on @rupertmurdoch? He’s just been poking over the weekend. arseh.at/q7m
@_LeonieGSmith Heh! If it’s a PR person doing it, they’re doing a very good job of faking a bloke who can’t type properly.
@macleanbrendan @702sydney Time-outs are hard? Basic broadcast skill, I’d have thought. Well, YMMV, but I found them easy. [shrugs]
@_LeonieGSmith Oh that wasn’t speculation about @rupertmurdoch being parody. It’s not. It’s genuine. @expectproblems point was different.
@R_Chirgwin I would’ve thought that by my standards “loser” was being polite.
@expectproblems I didn’t get any “Could this be a parody?” vibe, it’s really just like any other old man trying out Twitter.
So, to the matter at hand. Is anyone actually following @rupertmurdoch? Does anyone care? What do the tea leaves of 18 tweets tell you?
Well yes, @chrisjrn, cricket is on the Grandstand stream, but the issue was finding the not-cricket. Cricket losers can fend for themselves.
So to clarify, cricket is on ABC Local Radio analog broadcasts only. Digital radio and all local radio internet streams have talk programs.
The question was “Which feed?”, @Softection @unpronounceable, but yes the answer is “Any local radio stream”. Nothing on website about it.
Hah! Presenters on ABC @702sydney just completely failed to finish before 1000 news, had to be cut off. Listeners will never know what’s on.
Thanks for that, @andrew_hedge, just what the poor bastards need.
RT @andrew_hedge: If using TuneIn Radio apps or similar, what people will get from all ABC Local stations is you, even if they want cricket.
Oh yes tunein.com, @mattcdef2000, but I meant more “Which feed?”. I sorted my listen-to-Windows-feeds problem.
The ABC Radio spot is on a digital- and internet-only feed for local radio listeners who don’t want cricket. I’m not sure how you listen.
Tue plan: A day of clearing comms and planning January, interrupted by 1100 ABC Radio spot on @rupertmurdoch and lunch Ryde somewhere.
OK, let’s try starting Tuesday again. That first attempt wasn’t do successful.
Chewsday, one way or the other.
@Knorts Man carrots have indeed been revealed, and they’re not at all scary.
@Knorts I’m assuming that “man carrots” will be explained in the program. Please don’t spoil it for me.
Here’s @charltonbrooker’s “2011 Wipe” on YouTube. youtu.be/4coGerRh4ZI