“Come, Natalia, hush. Take refuge in my moustache.” [nods] Sensible post-MAD strategy, Comrade.
It is the future, and everything that ever happens in Sydney is part of Vivid and opened by someone who once knew Brian Eno.
RT @mclayfield: Anyone need a full-time Moscow correspondent? Because I really don’t want to leave…
RT @dannolan_ebooks: It’s very solipsistic #qanda
“Before electric eels…” arseh.at/t5e Ping @firstdogonmoon
@MetaMikeBiggs @stusheridan I’ll post links to all the avatar sources tomorrow morning some time. Couldn’t be arsed just now.
RT: New “Patch Monday” podcast: “Future security: big data or Big Brother?” with RSA’s Art Coviello. arseh.at/t4z
@iiadamogrady “Better”? Is someone making value judgements?
Sometimes information is revealed and the nausea wells up so, so suddenly…
One, maybe two more Britannia avatars. Here is number six. No, I don’t know either.
@SnarkyPlatypus I’m not sure all those words mean what you think they mean.
@SnarkyPlatypus The “Britannia High” images I’ve found seem insufficiently self-explanatory or irredeemably shirtless and wrong.
I feel that I have moved well beyond the original conception of Empire Day and its traditions.
Questions. 1: What species is that, exactly? 2: Is that even an orifice there? 3: If… no. There are just two questions.
I attempted to head well away from Equestria ponies / bronies or whatever they are. Google Images has taken me a whole new world of wrong.
Various Twitter clients’ image caching may fuck up your evening, and mine.
Empire Day continues. Britannia avatar number 5 appears.
Resisting the temptation to go down the “Britannia High” path.
@R_Chirgwin The upwelling-of-sand theory makes sense. It matches the geology I can see, and there’s similar events along Railway Pde.
@ForsakenDAemon You have been especially blessed with Purity of Vision. Enjoy.
@R_Chirgwin I don’t see anything wrong with making our tags like that public. They’ll be outnumbered by links to houses and other features.
@R_Chirgwin OK, I’ll set it up properly as a public map with suitable markers etc over coming days. Like the one at arseh.at/346
@R_Chirgwin I have just emailed you a map with the location marked.
@R_Chirgwin Ah yes, I think I know the spots. William was playing with one of them, I believe. Did that sand appear via Alex?
@R_Chirgwin I am not sure which incipient spring you mean. Geolocate, please!
RT @JohnBirmingham: I know, I know, it does my head in too, but Andrew Bolt is 100% correct: bit.ly/wquczm [It’s true. Thank him.]
@sylmobile @R_Chirgwin That reminds me. I haven’t photographed my targets from the rifle range yet. I did OK. #SMEGs
Here’s some “everyone” people who “need” to build a rockstar profile. arseh.at/t55 arseh.at/t56 arseh.at/t57
“Everyone needs to aspire to build a rockstar profile!” Everyone. Needs. Thank @DaniBevins for braving a room filled with such arsehattery.
I think it’s important to reduce “social media success” to three or four short bullet points. Nothing is ever more complex. Nothing. Ever.
RT @ataraxite: you have got to be shitting me. arseh.at/t53 [But it’s “superb value” with “satisfaction guaranteed! It’s sensible.]
RT @GreenJ: about your current avatar … i thought you were vehemently opposed to self portraits? [Special day, I can make exceptions.]
And I’ll do a blog post with all of the avatars and full credits tomorrow morning.
Thank you, @Gwyntaglaw @duncanriley @yewenyi @JMRooker @sylmobile, there’s still a couple more Empire Day avatars to come this evening.
OH, cab driver: “Gina Rinehart is a really, really nasty piece of work.”
Right. Shopping then back to the Cottages. Stand by.
RT @liamberkery: @stilgherrian well it would be hard to eat sandwiches from your own wake. [Yes yes also thank you @virtualpete sigh.]
Eating the leftover sandwiches from someone else’s wake.
Right. It’s @Oprah’s fault. At least that’s clear now. arseh.at/t51
BTW, I’m pleased that @ApostrophePong’s award-winning short film arseh.at/7e will be shown at the MMA in NYC soon.
@expectproblems @ApostrophePong Note that in my previous tweet I originally wrote “people” but deleted it and wrote “buskers” instead.
@expectproblems I remember @ApostrophePong’s impassioned call for those silver status buskers to be pushed into the Harbour. Sensible man.
This was Empire Day in Sydney in 1948. Ain’t The Rocks and Circular Quay changed a bit. arseh.at/t50
@awelder A letter from @Barnaby_Joyce would be nice. I mean, we hardly talk these days. /cc @drueyjay
@jenbishopsydney In hindsight, I suspect I’d be a crap coach.
RT @jenbishopsydney: First cardio class in a week due to illness. How will I cope?! [You’ll do it. Easily. Some people face bullets daily.]
Damn. Someone else did the stopped clock joke already.
OH: “Normally you have a beer with the guy you bowl against, but they never supplied food or anything so I just fucked off.”
RT @bengrubb: @stilgherrian excited [By my current avatar, or by the news of Mr Jeremy?]
RT @drueyjay: Ben doesn’t want me to take him to MEL. He thinks there’s nothing there. So, Twitter, what IS in MEL? [Train to Adelaide?]
Replug: My special guest on “The 9pm Edict” podcast this coming Thursday is the very famous Ron Jeremy. Yes. arseh.at/t41
@GeordieGuy Oh, I cannot replicate your err… oh, erm, I see.
What’s a “Coldplay”, @rashasman? You mean “Hamlet” or something?
OH: “Do these NRL clubs employee their own tattoo artist?”
RT @en_gy: It is as though Occupy and Mardi Gras had a baby. [Exactly! And only good could come of that, right?]
So this avatar is heaps better, right @en_gy?
You are not helping, @heraldscum @wolfcat @tagdu, I think I’d better change Empire Day Britannia avatars again. Stand by.
Ah, the joy that comes when writing an analysis piece and newly-discovered facts change your viewpoint!
RT @RealNickHodge: You know who else was a “dud root”? is.gd/6rAK4o
So let me get this right… Harry Kewell is a dud root?
Some people have an odd, selfish idea of what “need” means.
Yeah but Obama’s re-election video wasn’t on Xtube.
If you like this Pax Britannia avatar, @en_gy, you’ll love the next one. I’ll change at around 1700 AEDT.
New “Patch Monday” podcast: “Future security: big data or Big Brother?” with RSA’s Art Coviello. arseh.at/t4z
@joshgnosis I would assume the national anthem means the Governor or Governor General is present. /cc @purserj
Speaking of celebration, @sleepingdingo, it’s time to change Britannia again. Equal opportunity time.
@sleepingdingo Well, the Prime Minister is celebrating Commonwealthj Day today, which is what Empire Day became. All terribly modern.
Made it. Just.
Mobile: Walking the dirt track then Railway Pde to Wentworth Falls for lunch at The Grand View. First time I’ve walked it in ages.
I do hope you’re all having a lovely Empire Day. I suppose I should wave. [waves]
Uploading…
@RealNickHodge I’m not sure. Did you slip in the shower?
@staticsan As mentioned earlier, there’ll be multiple avatars today. With caching, it’s hard to say which you’ll see when.
Meanwhile as Empire Day continues, it’s time for a change of Britannia.
Yay the audio editing is finally done. Now for the automated mix-down, rendering to MP3, writing words to go with the sounds, and uploading.
Editing is going more slowly that I had hoped. Plod. Plod. Plod. Plod. Plod.
RT @firstdogonmoon: @s_bridges Remember Scott, compassion costs nothing. [Bullshit. It’s $250 an hour these days, plus cab fares.]
Plodding through the editing of the “Patch Monday” podcast. Interesting material, but I’m not in the right mood for it today. Plod plod.
I’m slightly disappointed that the magpies didn’t arrive until just after the battery ran out. Oh well, back to the house I go…
Note 1: The birds falls silent when I start talking. 2: Forgot to check the Zoom H4n’s battery. Fortunately, I just managed to get it done.
For reasons now unclear, last night I decided the start of the “Patch Monday” podcast would be recorded out in the scrub. I go there now.
@PardusXY @MetaMikeBiggs @annetreasure [smirks]
“Long term devotee to social media”, @PardusXY? Like I’m a devotee to toothbrushes? Or shoelaces? Bah! They’re just tools. /cc @annetreasure
Note to self: Twitter is not IRC.
Me hands @ssharwood a tissue.
@jmacmullin I may or may may not talk publicly about the big decision when I get to that part of the day. I have other things to do first.
Mon plan: Complete “Patch Monday” podcast; write op-ed for @CSO_Online; make a big decision about web development; evening TBA.
@NathanaelB It’s OK, with a Prius you can still overdose on Smug.
Had I realised it were Empire Day I’d have planned to do a special imperial edition of “The 9pm Edict”. Such a shame. 6P.
Thank you. It’s from the Daily Mail, you know. In your heart, you knew that already. arseh.at/t4r
I have compiled a selection of striking and most attractive avatars into which I shall be changing during the course of the day.
Pax Britannia, everyone! Happy Empire Day. Oh, I mean British Commonwealth… oh no I mean just Commonwealth Day. For everyone, you know.
Monday. Told you.