Collapsing. Need sleep.
@franksting Crocs? I only saw kangaroos that seemed to be on Mogadon, and all manner of birds. There was a report of a 1m iguana.
@peterjblack Thank you. I think.
@cheshireb I didn’t hear @Jeff_Sparrow indicate relative troubledness, more surprise I thought, but I’ll re-listen with that in mind.
@darrenpauli Lt Col, not Lt, but yes truly brilliant and I hope to be able to speak to him outside Chatham House Rule.
WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO BE SO HUMID.
People who create alleged maps with no legend, and numbers too small to read. #IceMoonPrison
People who build vast winding-road resorts with illogical numbering, and suite numbers unlit. #IceMoonPrison
Wined. Dined. Illuminated. Impressed. Exhausted. Walking the 8500km across the resort to my suite. Kangaroos permitting.
Dinner speaker: Dr David Kilcullen, who you can Google for yourself. Not reportable, sorry.
Freedom Flowers instagr.am/p/OqdAgOCFog/
!!
The #RI here is abysmal. I may have to resort to dry-humping Miranda Devine after the cocktails tonight, then hog into the banquet.
FREE AS IN BEER! Also wine and (not pictured) spirits. What could possibly go wrong? instagr.am/p/OqYtRGCFnX/
Entering the Preparation Facility where I shall be readied for the Probe of Freedom instagr.am/p/OqW78JCFmr/
The locals are only slightly interested instagr.am/p/OqWSGoCFmX/
It’s remarkably like a real one instagr.am/p/OqV2IFCFmO/
So what happens now is that I’ll walk via The Village (IT’S ACTUALLY CALLED THAT!) to The Pavillion to register, and then get a large drink.
Everything important is on speed dial instagr.am/p/OqUywBCFl7/
I have decided that I’ll be taking notes at this event using a Fair Work Ombudsman branded pen.
@Wyld @SisterMorphine So, you know how Google has this Image Search thing…?
And is it just me, or is Leonardo DiCaprio starting to look like an ageing Rip Torn?
@LethalLeigh @SisterMorphine @SnarkyPlatypus @chrisjrn Oh it’s fine. I hadn’t noticed before, but Leonardo DiCaprio has very big hands.
Hey hold on! Why didn’t they appoint ME to the Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority?
@chrisjrn And, let’s be clear, you are/were at a Python conference. @LethalLeigh @SisterMorphine @SnarkyPlatypus
Isn’t the internet just a special place, @LethalLeigh @SisterMorphine @SnarkyPlatypus
So, about that “Titanic” thing… with thanks [?] to @LethalLeigh yfrog.com/hshoeqoxj Ping @SisterMorphine @SnarkyPlatypus
“The Consilium Lounge is home to the Hayek Internet Café which features 3 laptops [and] a black and white printer.”
@T4RD1S I will grant you, The Village seemed to provide all sorts of benefits. Except this one bills it back to your room. Well, suite.
My panel is Saturday 1100. My opening remarks are sketched out. I’ll do the detailed writing over two successive 0600 hangovers.
Why am I at Clive Palmer’s Golf Resort? I’m presenting at the Centre for Independent Studies’ “Consilium”. stilgherrian.com/personal/im-go…
So, Photoshop folk, that thing just then from @SisterMorphine what I tweeted? That’s your homework for the day. (What have I done?)
SisterMorphine You know, I think I might actually be able to sit through ‘Titanic’ if somebody were to Photoshop @stilgherrian ‘s head onto Kate Winslet.
So, has anyone seen “The Prisoner”? instagr.am/p/OqMorSiFji/
Being ferried in a golf cart to some outlying township.
WILL WE GET TO SEE LEONARDO? instagr.am/p/OqJI65CFiC/
Vulture instagr.am/p/OqIq7iCFhx/
The true, brutal face of Libertarianism instagr.am/p/OqIeKWCFhs/
RT @missdi_k @stilgherrian @SnarkyPlatypus hot dogs and apple pie [Suspiciously foreign-sounding Freedom, that.]
En route to Clive’s joint instagr.am/p/OqHeI3iFhJ/
@SnarkyPlatypus What does Liberty smell like?
There are early indications that I’m not taking this quite as seriously as might have been hoped. This augers well.
On the CIS Liberty Bus we can choose our own seats BECAUSE FREEDOM.
The Arrival of the Lizard People instagr.am/p/OqGJ_jCFgn/
Levers of the Western Economy instagr.am/p/OqF4GBiFga/
The CIS Liberty Bus, taking us to the Clive Palmer Resort of Market Freedom. instagr.am/p/OqFmyxCFgT/
Dogs with L-plates! instagr.am/p/OqE7HqiFgD/
Hello, Sunshine Coast.
Up the back of the bus, transmitters off instagr.am/p/Op2ncHiFnW/
Boarding.
There’s an awful lot of talk today about the punters not understanding the purpose of journalism. I wonder whose fault that is?
@mishaketch @AttardMon For me, Fairfax needs to be able to explain their USP. “What can you provide for $400pa, giving competing interests?”
@PriceyJohnDoe Ah thanks but no, I wasn’t planning to go. I needed information for the story I filed at 1000. How long a queue at what time?
I can hear Christopher Wren spinning in his grave instagr.am/p/Opye31CFkn/
“‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ and a Mars Bar? Could you draw me a diagram?” instagr.am/p/OpyEC0iFkV/
Dominant architecture instagr.am/p/OpsQKlCFgM/
Mobile: Check out; cab to Sydney Airport; 1245 JQ786 SYD-MCY; vehicle of some sort to Palmer Golf Resort, Coolum.
@michaelmeloni So… I should turn around…?
@GlennBroadhurst Not vague. It’s an amending Act. Terms like “enforcement agency” are defined in the Act(s) it amends. austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/c…
YES SYDNEY I GET IT IT’S SPRING SHEESH BUT I HAVE TO GO TO THE AIRPORT NOW instagr.am/p/OpplsSiFuS/
@jaydeem @sylmobile @RatbagsDotCom @SnarkyPlatypus Have they used “rootrat” in Puberty Blues. Dunno. Used to work with Gabrielle Carey tho.
@publicaddress @juhasaarinen I know. As I pressed “send” I realised I’d missed a valuable opportunity for an original joke.
@michaelmeloni You never call me a rootrat though… [sulks]
So rootrats are a thing. “Rare root rat found in Sulawesi forest forage” radioaustralia.net.au/international/… HT @theremonstrator @DarkTalent
@HarrisonPolites The real trick is knowing when you’re well within rights to LEAVE OUT the word “allegedly”. ;)
wolfcat MT “@CraigEmersonMP: [ to Abbott ] So, you find time for Fifty Shades of Grey but not the BHP statement?? [ Advantage Emerson ]
RT @AdamFowler_IT: @stilgherrian I can report that the robots haven’t taken over Adelaide yet. [Damn. These robots are just rubbish.]
Yeah eleventy coffees is probably enough.
Jesus fuck the toilet in this hotel room flushes so loudly and violently and gutturally that I reckon it’s ejecting my excreta to Saturn!
So do we know how the trial of these Korean prison guard robots turned out? bbc.com/news/technolog…
Story filed for… hang on… adding the word “allegedly”… OK, we’re good to go. Story filed for @technologyspec.
Can anyone near 450 George St, Sydney, tell me what sort of patronage the #SamsungExperienceStore has at the moment?
Like the earlier image, but different instagr.am/p/OpaCi9iFhq/
Ok, really actually properly starting writing now. I’l respond to stimuli in about an hour, when I take my first break.
“It doesn’t matter what physical activity they’re engaged in, they grunt when they do it.” theonion.com/articles/2ndgr…
Right, the hotel internets have turned to shit, which is a sign that I should be on with my writing for this 1000 deadline.
@SnarkyPlatypus Je crois que pour moi ce sera descendre quand je rencontre @JohnBirmingham dans la taverne plus tard aujourd’hui.
I’m possibly the first Australian to say “rootrat” since 1978.
Oh! So that rootrat IS staying at this hotel. Well well well.
Yeah I was wondering how long it’d take to get company… instagr.am/p/OpTNqFCFsk/
If it’s any consolation, you probably get paid regularly and earn twice as much as I do.
I will admit that I’ve splashed out today ‘cos this is the last meal that I actually have to pay for until this time next week.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. J’ai du mal à faire face à mes voyages, et ils ont tout juste commencé. Et vous?
Burden instagr.am/p/OpR78ZiFrl/
This resources boom, the peak of which we’ve passed. How many peaks does it have? ‘Cos I seem to recall we’ve passed quite a few already.
“Abbott seems to have priorities right”, says the headline on Geoff Kitney’s AFR yarn. So that’s that then.
Pier with Succulent instagr.am/p/OpQw9siFqv/
A politician is interviewed on TV. His supporters think it was too harsh. His detractors think it was spot on. THIS IS NOT NEWS, FOOLS!
The burdens of my nomadic lifestyle instagr.am/p/OpLtVcCFnY/
I’ll be in Coolum until Sunday, then fly BNE-SYD-LAX-SFO to spend next week in San Francisco for #vmworld and some other meetings.
Thu plan: Write for @technologyspec; 1245 JQ786 SYD-MCY; vehicle to Palmer Golf Resort, Coolum; write for Consilium stilgherrian.com/personal/im-go…
And there’s this other docket from somewhere that mentions someone called “Scotty2Hotty” and a series of line items that baffle me.
I remember the barman saying “I’ll give you an itemised receipt too, just in case you have some way of claiming 74 martinis on tax.”
And good morning to you too.
Piecing together some sort of mental picture of my world and memories of yesterday before I tackle the stark reality of the day’s tasks.
Oh well, as the great man said, “Sleep is for the weak.”
Oh now I’m not terrible impressed with this!
Gorn.
RT @brettking: plastic - so hard to tell them apart from one another :) [Yeah, the word DEBIT or CREDIT on the front is so… invisible. ;)]
Right. So the BitCoin “credit card” was actually a debit card. Another journalism fail. money.cnn.com/2012/08/22/tec… HT @brettking
“Tech company” seems to have eroded to mean “does something on the internet”. Like, um, my local laundromat. Useless category.
RT @HLMenckenBot: The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
How can you not love @TurnbullMalcolm when he talks about “Conrovian fallacies”?
RT @franksting: @stilgherrian because humans rely on people having a tv for their pay check? [REASONS TO NUKE PLANET EARTH #9744]
Setting the alarm for 0530 when it’s already 0030. STRATEGY FOR SUCCESS!
@SnarkyPlatypus Can’t you just get a kebab like any normal person?
@bernardocamejo @Andrew_Zammit Thank you for your kind words. I’m flat out for the next couple of weeks but yet, whither Cyber White Paper?
@franksting Why the fuck would I want to buy a television?
@NewtonMark Yes I’ve been having a life for hours too. And yet, here I am.
So you’re still going on about some political sideshow that was on TV more than four hours ago? Can’t you just masturbate or something?
Gawd.