@jeffsonstein Or, “railroads”, “fiber”, what is wrong with you people? ;)
@jeffsonstein There’s a company here in AU doing the same, buying fibre rights from the railways, independently of the NBN etc.
@jeffsonstein I’m thinking Kansas City (for Google Fiber), Chattanooga TN, and Lafayetteville LA, and whatever else.
@jeffsonstein And so much of the transcontinental fibre (fiber) follows the rail routes.
@jeffsonstein Or “gigafiber”, as you might spell it. (Looks weird to me.)
@jeffsonstein Actually I’m formulating that as a plan. Not to drive, because I don’t, but to Amtrak it through the gigafibre cities.
@hereforthehops @NewtonMark @ApostrophePong Misery, pure misery, I am sure. I hope you survive.
tinderfessions Tinder is the shit, how else could I plow 18 year olds now that I’m out of college - Mathew
tinderfessions Met a cop on tinder, fucked him in walmart parking lot. Then drove to meet up with another guy from tinder, fucked him for 4 hours - Shayna
@NewtonMark @ApostrophePong @hereforthehops Followed, thanks Mark.
@ApostrophePong 100 baht? Oh fuck off lol.
@ApostrophePong I can say it’s my patch when there’s a barman who knows how I like my martinis, right? (OK, throw stones now.)
@ApostrophePong OK, OK, so I know SFO is better than DC, I can’t whinge. SFO is now the city I know best outside AU. “My patch”, even.
@ApostrophePong It’s better to move a container full of slabs of beer than trying to replicate the production process.
@ApostrophePong Yeah there’s issues to do with maintaining consistency with a smaller-scale brewery when there’s a global brand. Chemistry.
@ApostrophePong But then again I’ve been to San Francisco quite a few times now, and to San Jose several times, and I know the Valley well.
@ApostrophePong I’m envious ‘cos you’ve been on the US east coast. I haven’t been anywhere further east than Las Vegas.
@ApostrophePong I’m kinda spoilt ‘cos I’ve been visiting the US at least twice a year and have had the chance to hang around.
@ApostrophePong Yes, I agree. There’s smaller-scale American ales that are closer to Coopers Pale Ale, but you won’t get them outside US.
@ApostrophePong Do you know whether you’re getting Sierra Nevada direct or made under license?
@ApostrophePong It’s one of the beers I drink when in the US, but I must admit that the craft beer think is actually working in America.
@ApostrophePong Sierra Nevada beer is everywhere now. Like herpes. But slightly more tasty.
@petercoffee We must talk some time about this magic word “disruptive”. But it’s red wine time in AU, so I’ll butt out.
@j_s_n_d Well that the professionalism in it, right? Knowing how to distill the whole thing to twonutes when we’d take ten.
@jonoabroad They won’t. Because they are stupid and a waste of good carbon atoms.
@j_s_n_d Must be.
Meanwhile, Clarke & Dawe have made an outstanding thing, well, for Australians. youtube.com/watch?v=RSJzLf…
@petercoffee @briansolis I think what you mean is that most businesses don’t understand the difference between bullshit and actual reality.
Don’t start.
Christ.
Well fuck you and your so-called “facts”.
@SnarkyPlatypus So from here to Wollongong and back? :P
@jonoabroad @SnarkyPlatypus I assume you’re paid in GBP?
@TheFailedProjek Ah yes of course. Well I’ll add that to the list of topics. I should play the game harder, I sometimes think.
@dain_ger I doubt it. The “influencer” thing is all bullshit anyway. This is just standard loyalty scheme stuff.
@jonoabroad That said, he’s a single man. For a family, there are different requirements. But I’m happy to explain further, wine or not.
@jonoabroad No, I’ve spoken with quite a few hotel managers about the broad principles. It works.
@NewtonMark It soon builds up, right? Particularly in this technology industry.
@jonoabroad Yep, that’s him. Search his name and “living in hotels” to find many references.
@skwashd Well your travel schedule is insane, yes, but it doesn’t take much to differentiate from the once-a-year traveller.
@jonoabroad @JonoH And a 6pm checkout? Just tell the latecomer proles tomorrow their room isn’t ready yet and give ‘em a coffee.
@jonoabroad @JonoH A wine they have for $48 on the menu, maybe $28 at a discount store, costs the hotel in bulk maybe $6.
@jonoabroad @JonoH That’s exactly how it works, yes. The more you fill the hotel with regulars, the less, far less, you spend on promotion.
It’s just a matter of understanding how the accommodation industry works and, in many ways, paying attention to @paulcarr’s writing on same.
For little more than a squalid 2.5-star shithole I get a 4.5-star executive suite with 6pm checkout tomorrow, free internets and free wine.
I must write a thing some time about how to turn your frequent travel on other people’s tab into benefits for when you’re paying yourself.
@jonoabroad Yeah, I have things to do early and I knew the train trip etc would prevent an early start. And I found an excellent deal.
@JonoH Oh absolutely. The loyalty scheme keeps me in that system, but this hotel’s personal service is what I choose them when I can.
@JonoH Exactly that. The duty manager hears my name being said aloud as I check in, and the service escalates another notch again.
@JonoH Oh I don’t peer behind the curtain. I just know that I have been a good customer here in recent years and they take care of me.
@nancycato1 By a young Japanese woman, actually. So probably not Pauline.
Well this hotel’s CRM system seems to be operating correctly. Also, institutional memory FTW.
Also, #infiniteinternets.
@sylmobile It’s not that kind of place.
A bottle of Keith Tulloch 2012 Hill tops Merlot has just been delivered.
Being seriously upgraded.
Making discoveries.
Oh dear.
FUCK WHAT IT WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE JUST SHOUT ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS ON TWITTER IT WILL FIX THINGS JUST FUCKING WELL DO IT YOU FOOLS.
Maybe shouting on Twitter a bit more will solve that problem you’re concerned about.
Colvinius Like a Chinese Vermeer. @Dame_Rouge: @literatura_rte - pic.twitter.com/GBSJA1zUS8 Femme d’inspiration chinoise via @paulwiggins
@mpesce THIS IS MY ENTIRE POINT.
@mpesce Just show them the site. They’ll write the note.
“A Walk-in Tub could help increase your independence”, I am advised by an important email from a random address.
@PeteDotAscian @mpesce @haruki_zaemon @R_Chirgwin @snerdish It’s a motherlode, certainly.
Pleased with my manipulation of the global accommodation booking system.
KMT @Tzarimas: Four men have been arrested over the fumes, which closed the Devonshire Street Railway tunnel, in Sydney’s CBD.
@RealNickHodge No.
@Colvinius @paulwallbank Thank you. Rubber gloves are definitely required.
Hey ABC people, is the Social History Unit still a thing?
@SnarkyPlatypus I’d like to do some serious oral history of these folks, like ex-ABC Tim Bowden used to do in the Social History Unit.
@rashasman Oh dear. Yes, Blue Mountains Triangle as a prog rock band: flute, percussion and synth/vocals.
@OaaSvc Oh, I didn’t know about that one! There’s some reading for me. Ta.
@SnarkyPlatypus No, but I’m thinking of going. I think it’d be awesome* to hang out with the Blue Mountains UFO Research Group.
“The Australian Yowie Research Centre Established By Rex Gilroy in 1976” australianyowieresearchcentre.com
@SnarkyPlatypus ASIO is the least of my worries.
@SnarkyPlatypus The author is still alive and holds regular meetings in Katoomba.
Maybe @mpesce needs to drop half a dozen trips and lose himself in this website for a few days. mysteriousaustralia.com
“BLUE MOUNTAINS TRIANGLE SECRET UNDERGROUND AUSTRALIAN / AMERICAN BASE AND THE E.T. CONNECTION” mysteriousaustralia.com/australian_und…
“Was a doomsday device detonated in the WA desert?” weirdaustralia.com/2011/11/04/was… Ping @mpesce @haruki_zaemon @R_Chirgwin @snerdish
OH: “It’s probably more drugs. It’s just young people off their face.”
@TheFailedProjek Wot?
Dear All the Spooks, have I used enough Rainbow Codes and referred to enough Stuff today? Quota met?
@mpesce @haruki_zaemon @R_Chirgwin Yeah, covert nukes. Sigh. Compare with the Vela Incident. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Inci…
I am so gonna get a phone call about this.
@mpesce I haven’t heard of a covert Japanese nuclear incident, but hey it’s a big country.
Purple Possum. [Nods.]
@mpesce Erm, no, I believe that was the British government.
Meanwhile, @dailytelegraph reports on some OMFG BE AFRAID OF ALL THE THINGS arsehattery. bit.ly/deadpoolsydney pic.twitter.com/9lqJnuxB5g
RT @glengyron: Helping [Ditto.]
So, @mpesce, does オウム真理教 (Ōmu Shinrikyō) mean anything to you?
RT @mpesce: SMH: ‘Hazardous substance’ closes Central Station tunnel smh.com.au/nsw/hazardous-… (with photo by me!) [Yeah so NOT my fault, OK?]
The Devonshire Street Tunnel is closed by a police operation, but that’s only affecting platform 24 and 25 services.
@SnarkyPlatypus Ils ont indiqué qu’ils ont appris des choses. Il n’ya pas de scores négatifs sur les formulaires de rétroaction. Victoire!
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je suis épuisé, mais apparemment j’ai fait du bon travail cette semaine. Et vous?
5at5daily 5at5 number 82: Dirty commie spacecraft, dirty British chickens, dirty bearded microbiologists, and more. tinyletter.com/5at5/letters/5…
Railway Square, Sydney, Friday evening instagram.com/p/q3Y1_2CFty/
And my UTS work is done for the day. I think I need a drink or something before heading back up the hill.
RT @CyberPrefixerAU: Ex-Woolies cyberexecutive appointed to major cyberrole at US retail cybergiant [CYBERGIANT!]
@nancycato1 Well it’s that evil @paulwallbank, he can’t be avoided. He’s like that black mould in bathrooms. Once it’s there you’re stuffed.
RT @PeteLawler: @stilgherrian @nswpolice I do hope Sabine Altmann had a sense of irony and absurd… [Me to…]
Yeah sorry, @nswpolice, but our “Writing for the Web” class at UTS was… well, “amused” is probably the wrong word. You know what I mean.
“This year @nswpolice congratulates Brian from Castle Hill for an impressive working-over of his girlfriend Tracey…pic.twitter.com/a27eT2LHUbUb
Being compared with Pauline Hanson.
Haha! I’m teaching “Writing for the Web”, and one of the students has taglined her blog “Screw kale.” Instant distinction mark for her!
@dannolan Thanks. It’s a bit weird being on this side of the road and not in the communist stronghold of the ABC. But I must educate people.
And here we are for Day Two… instagram.com/p/q2dtU5iFtT/
Express yourself, apparently instagram.com/p/q2dcAiiFs4/
Grace Brothers instagram.com/p/q2cUscCFrB/
Fri plan: 0930-1630 present UTS course, day 2; @5at5daily; train to Wentworth Falls, research en route; TGIF, in a quiet and lonely way.
@PeteLawler Well, apart from the podcast feed itself, and that’s got a certain minimum overhead.
@PeteLawler Yeah, I need to consolidate a mailing list or something for the Edict. I don’t have an easy way to tell everyone stuff.
RT @PeteLawler: What’s the go with the edict? not enough subs to keep it monthly? [I’m recording one tomorrow. Pass it on.]
@1johnhampshire @MikeCarlton01 I’m all for clear and direct communication.
@MikeCarlton01 “What a cunt”?
@NewtonMark Indeed. I’ve only skimmed it so far, but that’s a great bit of integration work. I wonder how easily extensible it is.
I believe that @mpesce should take a little look at this thing. arseh.at/4kmh HT @NewtonMark
RT @NewtonMark: This is excellent. Streisand: arseh.at/4kmh [The Streisand Effect, automated. Sweet idea.]
@michaelneale Well it works for North Korea, so it must be the way to go.
RT @BadAlbumCovers: Happy days. pic.twitter.com/2jSimAvqdz [If this cheers you up then reconsider your life choices.]
@CosmicRami @kcarruthers I suspect that “of late” is the recency illusion at work. Siberia is big and I’ll-reported.
Watching the queue of desperate, miserable people aching for their little plastic pots of alkaloid stimulant drugs. Judging them.
RT @CosmicRami: And then a second mysterious hole appeared in Siberia … bit.ly/1qD6C7H [Shoddy Soviet workmanship. @kcarruthers]
There shall be eggs.
RT @sylmobile: Four years until one of the F-35 jets we bought is (projected) to arrive in Australia… [I knew they flew slow, but… Jesus.]
Similarly, @GordyPls, don’t say “I didn’t get the invoice” when I manage your email systems too. “Shall I open a fault report?” “Um… no.”
MT @GordyPls: Sysadmin day facts: we’re legally allowed to set you on fire if you insist you didn’t delete something you indisputably did.
SnarkyPlatypus ‘Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies’ RT @Clarke_Melissa: Malcolm Turnbull tells Ch9: “I trust Joe and Joe trusts me.”
rachelking 100% accurate. MT @rubinafillion: The menu at every trendy restaurant in the U.S.: bit.ly/1qD3loK pic.twitter.com/jfPrW6Ox3V
NASA 45 Years Ago Now: #Apollo11 splashes down bringing Neil Armstrong, @TheRealBuzz & Michael Collins home to Earth pic.twitter.com/fORqvqQnz9
@sw Yesterday’s avatar in my ever-rotaing series of historical tributes was aviator Amelia Earhart. I look a bit different.
fieldproducer That’s Gaza sorted RT @SydConfidential Nicole Kidman Keith Urban post vid ‘praying for peace’ bit.ly/1sZQWLu pic.twitter.com/YAhYWrhzXM
johnthelutheran \( •_•)_† RT @PeterMillett1: Has your dog been taken over by bad spirits? Don’t take him to a park in #Pendle! pic.twitter.com/LtsFJIIUmI
Fri plan, draft: Administrivia; 0930-1630 present UTS course, day 2; @5at5daily; train to Wentworth Falls; TGIF, is a quiet and lonely way.
RT @stewart: Actual real life conference rooms. #largeairporthotels pic.twitter.com/UYpvoNfb6X [Arson is justified. HT @juhasaarinen.]
A big thank-you to William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone, who demonstrated the first commercial electric telegraph on 25 July 1837.
Friday. They gnaw at your stomach. They’ve gotten inside you. Their teeth slice bloody strips from your innards. You are powerless. Friday.