Oh dear God, why must people RT that arsehole into my timeline?
Oh dear. The medication seems to be wearing off.
Feeling a very strong urge to play Sink. Very strong indeed.
@laurenetrim Erm, the “where” question is answered in the photo description. And in the map.
Also, at dusk that slender-billed cuckoo-dove from this morning flic.kr/p/bAbk62 came back for more food, and it brought a friend.
firstdogonmoon Today we are all the possum who broke into the bakery and ate all the cake RT @ben_hr: @firstdogonmoon you’ll love this arseh.at/t18
Why is @jg_rat telling @ERN_Malleyscrub about his sexual fantasies?
That’s right. I’ve got it now. The National Broadband Network will fail because of canal boats in it. Like Venice. It will sink.
Nothing beats a good canal, @SnarkyPlatypus. Unless the fibre is superseded by new technology. Or something. I seem to be confused.
No, there is no “south of Sydney” either, @chrisjrn. Sydenham marks the end of the world in that direction.
No, @chrisjrn, PROPER canals. Like คลองแสนแสบ. arseh.at/t16 Also, there is no such thing as south Sydney. Sydney has no South.
Sydney needs more canals so we can push things into them. [nods]
RT @ApostrophePong: I’m not expecting a harpsichord to be played live in Bangkok. [Then push it into the canal! Solved!]
@SnarkyPlatypus I’ll have you know met the founder of Deep Forest. He was French. And tedious. Oh, yeah, that explains…
Well that’s both interviews for the “Patch Monday” podcast recorded and edited. An easy assembly job in the morning before. Yay.
Oh. Here we go. Shoosh, or you’ll end up in the podcast.
Awaiting the appearance of talent on Skype before recording my interactions with same.
@acaderama What the fucking fuck? I was pleased to be 100km from that tedious, clichéd celebration-of-shallow-conformity FaggotFest™.
Woof.
There are good reasons for not letting common people access the free drinks in the lounge before their flight.
Audio from the Recordkeeping Roundtable panel “Freedom of Information?” with @Ausflatfish @purfler and me now at arseh.at/t14
So, time for a light dinner and some preparation for the 2000 AEDT recording. And then an early collapse, I think.
So, the bear’s piano performance of “Ride of the Valkyries” is inadequate. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!
“There’s no way in hell I’m gonna run around France chasing tail when Lady Liberty herself is in danger.”
THANK GOD FOR MULTI-MODE GAS-DISPENSING ROBOT DOGS!
“It’s nine in the morning. You see no issue with drinking at nine in the morning?” HOW IS THAT EVEN A QUESTION, CLAIRE?
@RealNickHodge Bzzzt! Russell Crowe IS on the list. I shit you not.
No, Toni Pearen is not on the list. But Gai Waterhouse is. Sort of the same thing.
@expectproblems So, did you watch the next “Danger 5” episode? It has a talking dog and zeppelins. arseh.at/t13
@BernardKeane Oh and of course Michael Fucking Leunig, star of whimsical giveaway calendars in a Fairfax newspaper near you.
@BernardKeane Surely the real national treasures on that list are Cheryl Kernot and John Howard.
@peterjblack And I realise your thingy is only quoting the headline. But the headline does not reflect the facts presented. Quite unusual.
@peterjblack Erm, that child porn access statistic is not how you summarised it. Any access attempts to whole domains, even robots.
I’m thinking of leasing out one of Clive Palmer’s chins for holiday accommodation.
@jeamland Sorry, are you talking about fallopian tubes again?
That reminds me. I’m booked for a speaking engagement in Perth on 27 Apr and was reminded “There’ll be children in the audience”. Why?
Anyway, “self-centred billionaire cunt” is a vital component of Australian public culture. We would be a lesser nation without them.
Oh “Woman’s Day” is the official organ of Australian culture, @pblakez, didn’t you know?
People criticizing Clive Palmer being a “living treasure” should consider how devalued the term had already become. arseh.at/t12
@R_Chirgwin Battery at 49.6V, I think it’ll be fine.
R_Chirgwin Clive Palmer, national living treasure, says his nomination is a “vote of the people”. Reality is now officially too strange. Get drugs.
Explaining all the things.
@sroc It’s a literary reference.
Being chivalrous.
Hmmm… hanging that quilt on the balcony to air turns out to have been a tactical error.
@CatrionaPollard Oh. I wasn’t challenging the figure, just looking for the source.
So, on the basis of that, what if we accidentally all the men?
RT @whatiris b
Because the women know that statistically, they’ll be rid of the men shortly. [Oh yeah. Ta.]
How come when women reach their 70s and 80s they become at one with the world, and men become bitter, self-centred arseholes?
@CatrionaPollard Did Ms Greer cite a source for that rape-in-army statistic?
@jacqueprior_ Either way, it is quite possible you need to up the medication.
Suddenly remembering the nostalgic tone of stories in Ray Bradbury’s “R is for Rocket”.
Spelling and typing fuck you all.
@expectproblems Oh. It’s nit just a bookshelf, but a book CASE! How grand. Wanker.
OH, woman: ” Yes… yes… yes! Yes! YES! YES OH YES!” Oh. She’s watching the rugby on TV.
@ABCNSW @abcriverina How will “liking” a SES Facebook page help the SES, exactly? Surely all it does is hand more mineable data to Facebook.
@expectproblems Mate, you’re going to crash into the bookshelf. Pull up!
@absalomedia Why would you even do such a thing to people? That’s just cruel.
Also, a little onion.
Meat lover’s spaghetti has meat. Plenty of meat.
Does Parliament House, Canberra, use RSA SecurID tokens for remote access to the DPS network? Inquiring minds…
@kofeyh Goodness me. I might anger someone because of something I said. I quake in my sneakers. /cc @erkpod
@grum @lukecaporn Chickens don’t have vaginas. Don’t ask me how I know that.
@erkpod Hah! I don’t think International Women’s Day is something people travel to. Or is it?
Oh I know there’s the FaggotFest Surcharge™, @Melissa_Moyle, but oddly Thursday is booked heavily and other nights nearby not. Go figure.
@moldor I’d previously avoided feeding the local fauna. But yes, they do seem eager to be pleaded.
What’s happening in Sydney on this coming Thursday? Hotels are booked out or expensive.
Cab phone operator asks “Do you know where you’re off to?” Um, yes. Do they have to ask that a lot?
@ataraxite Thursday at 2039 is the Full Moon, so that might work. I shall work on The Plans…
@ataraxite Apart from your need to kill everyone around you right now, would Thu or Fri be better for drinks?
Why would you even go there?
@networkjanitor It’s true, lorikeets are even more attention-slutty, but they seem to be in the minority at Wentworth Falls. Go figure.
Right, with the recording session set for 2000 AEDT, my next task is a decision: Which Upper Blue Mountains pub has the best Sunday roast?
Agreed, @R_Chirgwin, definitely a juvenile. Still some down on chest, and it wasn’t all that big compared with wattlebirds I have known.
Aha! Thanks to @Glebe2037 and @RealNickHodge I can confirm it’s a Little Wattlebird. A kind of honeyeater. flic.kr/p/bnhPxb
These rosellas are such attention-sluts!
Now here’s a conundrum. Random honeyeater, or wattlebird? Can you positively identify this bird? flic.kr/p/bnhPxb
That rosella is still sitting on the wicker chair just outside the door. He or she looks rather at ease.
New photo, as promised moments ago: “Rosella in da House” flic.kr/p/bnhNLm
Well, I don’t have to wait. A rosella has just come into the dining room. Photos to come soon enough.
Thanks, @drueyjay @bigmac. I’m tempted to stay at Wattle Cottage ‘cos one pair of rosellas is getting very bold, almost coming in the door!
@emmackat I still haven’t got my head around which parrot species prefer which ecosystem. But here it’s Rosellas’R’Us.
Australian Institute of Criminology website down. aic.gov.au A shame. Minister for Home Affairs media release just linked to it.
Just in case you didn’t click back thru the stream, this is a much better rosella photo. flic.kr/p/bAbkDR
@no_filter_Yamba Thanks, though I think the trick to looking like a competent photographer is just to not publish the crap photos.
Oh. Starting with that photo means you scroll backwards thru time to get to the cuckoo-dove. But I’m sure you’ll cope.
So here’s the first “Awwww, so cute!” photo of a rosella. Then click back thru the set. flic.kr/p/bngvQG
Oh ta, @no_filter_Yamba @PardusXY @justjjoke. Yes, they have me well trained.
The cuckoo-dove, @smperris? Here’s one I prepared earlier. flic.kr/p/aRAcRv
Oh hello. And now the rosellas have arrived. Three of them. No, four. Photos coming shortly.
Gawd, a cuckoo-dove just walked up to the glass door on Wattle Cottage and indicated that some food would be nice. And I fed it.
I am really quite astounded at who gets to breed in this society. Quite astounded.
Look, I know it’s wrong, but “Tankard Reist” really does sound to me like a yeast infection common amongst brewery workers.
@SulphurCocky Google for “telco pricing site:zdnet.com.au” and variants, it might provide a few leads. /cc @brettatitnews @engochick
@SulphurCocky There’d be plenty on telco/ISP pricing over the years but don’t recall any specifics. /cc @brettatitnews @engochick
@SulphurCocky That explanation seems far from misleading. Whether an advert was or wasn’t is another story. /cc @brettatitnews @engochick
@SulphurCocky But unless it’s misleading, it’s just a provider setting a pricing model in a free market, no? /cc @brettatitnews @engochick
@SulphurCocky I don’t see a problem with “Do it this way to use our CDN deals so you don’t get charged.” /cc @brettatitnews @engochick
@SulphurCocky So to access “free” data items you must do so using the interface Amaysim provides? /cc @brettatitnews @engochick
@SulphurCocky I have no idea what you mean by “Twitter Excludes”. Can you link to a reference or something? /cc @brettatitnews @engochick
Sun plan, unordered: Produce “Patch Monday” podcast; map out the week ahead; 2 x blog posts; consumer a Sunday roast somewhere.
Sunday, I suppose.