It’s true, t.A.T.u have come of age. youtu.be/h0vQ9_BhU1M HT, um, somebody I forget who.
My judgement is being questioned.
Unforgiveably, I have been reminded of the existence of this song and this video. youtu.be/FSYZrsHnFCQ
“Play the Rick Santorum drinking game, where you simply take a sip anytime he annoys you.” I like simple rules.
“Baileys, orange vodka, bitters and chocolate flakes”? Oh dear God, no! arseh.at/t3f
@R_Chirgwin Partial migration to Rosella tonight then.
Please go away and drink wine, @R_Chirgwin.
So what happens now is that I stroll to Woolworths to buy everything I need to last until the morning that they’re permitted to sell.
I do so love the email at 5pm every Friday telling me how I can contact the Prime Minister over the weekend. They are so trusting.
RT @paulcarr: I’m worried we’re setting the bar very low if Terry Jones’ ability to recall people is considered news.
RT @feed_the_chooks: Do you think Bob Ellis is down with the Cloud? #idlethoughts [Down with anything / everything he can manage, I guess.]
“Cloud up my fucking arse!” is going to be the slogan of the year, IMO.
@nanopunk You have no idea how reassuring that isn’t.
“Soaked in resentment”, @GreenJ? Is that the new fragrance from…who? “Resentment!”
I am so pathetic.
RT @joshgnosis: @EricssonAUSTNZ Is that because of the way the spectrum band is arranged? [Never a minor key, guys. Never.]
Sometimes I want to slap people.
@voirol I’ve no idea what @UberFacts calculation was based on, but I figured it was a round number for conversational purposes, Grinch.
RT @UberFacts: 100 years from now, there will be about 500 million dead people on Facebook.
There seems to be an entire generation of “political commentators” at university in the 1960s who could safely be bulldozed into a landfill.
I want to know what Nicky Gallas ACTUALLY said, because “started gratifying himself” is the journo’s euphemism. arseh.at/t3d
RT @RealNickHodge: I think I have rather maximised what I can do this week. [I commend this tweet, and also agree with it.]
‘Something with a 1” body that’s in everybody’s garden’, @R_Chirgwin @samsonjbutler? arseh.at/t3d Oh. “Body”. Sorry.
RT @rod_benson: If only I’d registered the name “Sydney Institute” all those years ago, I’d be old, cranky and wrong by now too.
RT @ataraxite: Do you know something about Gerard Henderson that we don’t? [Doubt it. I didn’t study the psychopolitics of the Pleistocene.]
It can’t just be persistence, @MrPkD @jonkudelka, or we’d just automatically give airtime to the deluded and mentally ill. Oh wait.
It’s a rule in Australian media: You have to agree with all the homosexuals for one full media week after Mardi Gras, right @samsonjbutler?
RT @samsonjbutler: @stilgherrian Some unkinder souls than myself might ask exactly the same question of you ;-) *ducks* [I agree, actually.]
It’s like when every journalist, editor and talkback host had Bruce Ruxton’s number on speed dial. And they whinge about slacktivism!
Or is it just the relentless laziness of a media that knows they can press a button and get a comment, regardless of its merit?
Why Gerard Henderson? I mean, seriously, why is SO much attention paid to just one cranky old bloke? Does he have dirt, or what?
It happened slowly, almost imperceptibly. But it happened. And now barmaids almost uniformly call me “Darl”.
“Looking for unlikely animal friendships in Queensland”, possibly #notaeuphemism arseh.at/t3a
@expectproblems @franksting A Google Images search for “giant douche” is a richer seam of possibilities than I’d thought.
RT @GotPrivacy: Audience member “much of the privacy we enjoy is a result of inefficiency” how do you argue for #privacy w/o inefficiency?
RT @franksting: Is “to facebook” actually a verb? [Yep, I’ve heard it in the wild plenty of times.]
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: Are you trying to fuel your homicidal instincts? [I don’t need to go to Leura for that!]
“White Westerners high-fiving each other online about their social conscience in a giant round of moral masturbation…”
“Fairfax blogger Sam De Brito, whose normal beat is the frustrations of having a penis, embraced the campaign enthusiastically…”
I also congratulate @BernardKeane on the phrase “a click too far”.
“Send in the sock puppets: social media manipulation and Kony”, writes @BernardKeane, without swearing. arseh.at/t39
Mobile. I shall zoom up to Leura for lunch, I think. See you there.
@Lumension_Aust Stand by. I’m awaiting some timings for a vital interview Thursday, which I’ll have today. Something should be possible.
Me at @CSO_Australia: “Oz ethical hackers to be set professional standards” arseh.at/t38
Wot’s this code? “Researchers can’t identify programming language used in Duqu, ask for help” arseh.at/t37
@Lumension_Aust Monday? I doubt it highly. I’m in Sydney on Wednesday afternoon and overnight to Thursday it would seem, TBC at this stage.
“Android Market riddled with bogus security products”, writes @LiamT arseh.at/t36
RT @R_Chirgwin: At this point in the day, I think it most appropriate if I find a corner and curl up, whimpering. [Recommended action.]
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: Considering where you are, I think your opportunities for homicide are limited. [There ARE taxis up here you know!]
RT @theburgerman: OH: “Why would you buy those Beats headphones if all you’re going to do is hang them around your neck?” [Oh we know why.]
Fri plan: Several unrelated sysadmin annoyances; move cottages, maybe; write at least one article; TGIF. Overall, try not to kill anyone.
RT @michaelneale: I have all these pitchforks and torches, where are we going today?
Friedday. And I still feel crap. I’ll see what the plan will be once I delete all the strange automated emails in the ol’ inbox.