Deciding to stay in Sydney another night because many reasons.
@SnarkyPlatypus Un massacre ou deux peut améliorer la journée.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Mon humeur a été amélioré par une belle journée ensoleillée. Je suis confus. Et vous?
@jeamland Also, your Twitter profile is full of lies.
@jeamland I didn’t add any extra cloud because there seemed to be plenty of cloud in the cloud.
Well, on bits of SoundCloud. Their cloud is very cloudy and things take time to work their way through the caching.
The new episode of “The 9pm Edict†podcast is now also available on SoundCloud. https://t.co/5Mo0C30nO2
Oh hello, there seems to be a new podcast. “The 9pm Road to Warstilgherrian.com/edict/00028/Y#the9pmedictdict
I’ve just finished recording an episode of “The 9pm Edict†podcast. Now to mix, compress, package, upload, and write the web page. Joy.
Sun plan: Produce “The 9pm Edict†podcast; evening rail bus (exciting!) then train to Wentworth Falls; blog posts en route; collapse.
@SnarkyPlatypus Oh, vous pouvez obtenir le même effet visuel en Australie en augmentant le grossissement de l’axe Z et l’ajout de haggis.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. J’apprécie le lever du soleil, mais je ne suis pas impressionné par la douleur dans mon épaule. Et vous?
Sunrise over Sydney instagram.com/p/sVguiKCFsF/
@GreenJ This pleases me, for some reason.
@GreenJ Good morning Mr Green. Break a leg for the day’s wireless performance!
Sun plan, draft: Produce “The 9pm Edict†podcast; rail bus (exciting!) then train to Wentworth Falls; blog posts; look upon my works.
Sunday. Winter is about to end, but if you think that means that things will improve then you’re a fool. Sunday.
The groomsmen are nipping into the pub for a quick pre-wedding drink. As you do.
Wondering why a bell is tolling so incessantly. It’s a wedding. Fair enough.
@SnarkyPlatypus Oui.
Sat plan, draft: Sloth.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je suis dans la douleur, mais le bon type. Mon épaule a été … re-fait. Et vous?
Saturday. A warning has been issued, but it is meaningless because people are stupid. Laugh at them. Go on, laugh. Saturday.
Andâ€#batterylifefe has been dealt with. As has my shoulder. Friday, it is not long away from closure.
Do try to keep up.
RT @kcarruthers @stilgherrian by clowns? [No, by a rather large and enthusiastic dog, as previously photographed.]
Being eaten.
Oh FFS. instagram.com/p/sQ_HmuiFkc/
Jesus! instagram.com/p/sQ-8TziFkG/
Mate, we can all “publish” a speech.
Mind you, the less said about how Susie Elelman’s universe and mine intersect the better.
Random Susie Elelman encounter is random.
@hughstephens Never heard of ‘em.
RT @scottcarson1957: @stilgherrian The other guy, not wanting to be outdone, proposes: pic.twitter.com/vnFXiKG6A6 [You shouldn’t give me ideas.]
@arcadiagt5 @scottcarson1957 Thanks. I know the program vaguely, so I’ll add that to my reading list of early atomic history.
@AtomicMPC The other month @R_Chirgwin had to deal with an exploding water hater.
THEMONTHLY One year into his reign, does Tony Abbott have anything to smile about? New issue on sale Monday. pic.twitter.com/RqFiQqTMnc
RT @NewtonMark: How many of you guys locked an Emmy Award in your desk drawer for safekeeping last night? http://t.co/dfe03XuZCw
RT @scottcarson1957: Well…why the hell notpic.twitter.com/1CNpc0SexHxH [Hey, it’s oneway to make gravel…]
Crossing the Nepean instagram.com/p/sQqGezCFiP/
SharriMarkson Editorial in @australian today on the “moral emptiness of the left” bit.ly/1vTt5vz
RT @mearesy: The Prime Minister pic.twitter.com/NJ0SdDaAHv [And moving beyond the tongue, in the trousers there’s… um…]
Gizmodo A map of every device in the world that’s connected to the internet gizmo.do/oVs2ya3 pic.twitter.com/2QPMNv6ANm
“Organised crime busters’ wages and conditions to be smashedâ€, writes @noeltowell. Seems a good* strategy. http://t.co/pQ2lhyBXQL
RT @reselsnark: just don’t let it run into scroctober as that sounds a little off. [Yeah you kinda should never have told me that.]
@PeteLawler Thanks. I was all set to do it last weekend, and then food poisoning happened. I think the podcast is cursed. I’ll exorcise it.
It may not be called Scroungetember. There have been other suggested names for the subscriber drive. Happy to hear others too.
Since you (didn’t) ask, I will finally get to making that episode of “The 9pm Edict†this weekend, before I kick off Scroungetember.
RT @annetreasure: Gone With The Wind(farm) pic.twitter.com/aeXPPQPGcW [Yes, it’s another winner b@davpopepe.]
@MsLods @FarrellPF The determination to have a thing called “metadata†is the determination to maintain an obsolete accident of history.
@MsLods @FarrellPF It’s what happens when you try to describe a specific technical desire without using any actual technical terminology.
RT @mearesy: “I’m a human shield Madam Speaker” pic.twitter.com/AUUVxsV9sZ [Ms Bishop can take care of herself…]
RT @mearesy: The Prime Minister pic.twitter.com/NJ0SdDaAHv [Yes, that’s the one. He’s ju… well, I’m not sure what he’s doing.]
@rachelcallachor @SnarkyPlatypus $8.10 is the “default fareâ€, applied “if you don’t tap on or tap offâ€.
@rachelcallachor @SnarkyPlatypus The fare chart says you should have been charged $4.70 peak or $3.29 off-peak. http://t.co/Tneo8dFnu4
@BXGD No I haven’t. I gather it’s something worth watching?
@FarrellPF Indeed. It’s interesting to see how it’s evolved, what with the current version leaked earlier this week.
Fri plan: 0824 train to Sydney; errands, various; 1230 shoulder repairs; planning & comms backlog; @5at5daily; TGIF, details TBA.
An older woman, the station manager and I have concocted a plan for dealing with the unruly schoolchildren. It may get us arrested. Still…
RT @davpope: Those magnificent men <David Rowe ties it altogether in today’s AFR cartoon, gallery: http://t.co/eHnU3261iw&g… http://t.co/24SU…
Beneath the wires instagram.com/p/sQiRS5CFlX/
The PDF attached to that story is highlighted to show where all the redactions were when what remained was released under FOI in 2010.
Me at @zdnetaustralia yesterday: “Leaked paper reveals Australia’s obsessive metadata secrecy†http://t.co/7BJYIKNrtz
Mobile, kinda.
A few dozen well-placed strike sorties down Parramatta Road should solve all of her problems, right @702sydney?
Parramatta, thanks to traffic, is now “impossible to live inâ€, according t@702sydneydney caller. Well, F/A-18s to Iraq is the wrong choice.
Fri plan, draft: 0824 train to Sydney; errands, various; 1230 shoulder repairs; planning & comms backlog; @5at5daily; TGIF, details TBA.
“Retracing our steps on the march into Iraqâ€, writes @BernardKeane, coincidentally. http://t.co/0W3jz8Isnv
I AM IN A VERY VERY HAPPY PLACE RIGHT NOW.
Imagine if sick people had to fork over $7 instalments to cover Mr Rabbit’s military ambitions. Nah, that’d never happen.
I wonder whether Australia’s budget-repairing F-35 purchase is a similar flag-waving exercise. It’s certainly got fuck all mission needs.
Someone once suggested Australia bought M1A1 tanks so the next time the Anglo 5 rolled into Baghdad there’d be a few Aussie flags on TV.
Onward Christian soldiers.
Abbott sends in Soapy to “help†Muslims stop the mostly fantasy-threat of “radicalisationâ€. Helping Catholicism stop paedophiles, less so.
Remember, Abbott may not want to sell his arse to remain PM, but he’d be perfectly happy to sell your sons’ and daughters’ in a dodgy war.
Also a worry is Abbott’s apparent need to be pleasingly subservient in his “combat†and the idea that General Abbott would win in the polls.
Major-General Tony “Shit Happens†Abbott.
Mr Rabbit’s fetish for the military and kiddie-military language is a real concern as he seems ever more keen to get Australia into a war.
intelwire Shorter Obama: As soon as there’s a fantasy government in Iraq with help from our fantasy partners in the Middle East, IS will be defeated.
whpresscorps RT @adewolff: Shorter Obama: “We have no strategy for #ISIL yet”. Actually, that wasn’t a shorter Obama. It’s what he actually said.
RT @TheFix: RT @jaredbkeller: The Audacity of Taupe pic.twitter.com/fA4t8MzoRs [So, it IS war then.]
@SnarkyPlatypus @NuclearAnthro There is evidence to suggest that they can get in the way of your preferred daily routine.
RT @davidcochrane: Cannot. Stop. Staring. (Or. Clicking): google.com/teapot [It IS remarkably compelling…]
@SnarkyPlatypus @NuclearAnthro There’s a beautiful coffee table book of nuclear explosions called “100 Sunmichaellight.net/suns-intro/4wDjYb
@NuclearAnthro @SnarkyPlatypus No no, all under control.
@SnarkyPlatypus Aw, turn that frown upside down! @NuclearAnthro
RT @paulwallbank: I’m in a different time zone. Can I punch him tomorrow? [Yes, or save up for a proper pummelling when you get back.]
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Me at @zdnetaustralia yesterday: “Leaked paper reveals Australia’s obsessive metadata secrecy†http://t.co/7BJYIKNrtz
@NuclearAnthro Oh dear. I’ve just realised why my choice of image for the day seemed so familiar.
@SnarkyPlatypus Merci. Je visite L’Américain à l’heure du déjeuner. Les réparations seront alors commencer.
Friday reminder: “Have YOU punched Christopher Pyne TODAY?pic.twitter.com/aSIvEZ2lZy2lZy
@SnarkyPlatypus La langue anglaise est une terre glorieusement variée de confusion. Il est béni.
@SnarkyPlatypus Je suis dans la douleur, mais le médicament est de créer un monde parfait. Je suis parfait. Tout est parfait. Et vous?
And the trifecta, a primer on international affairs. Watch and learn. https://t.co/czctuNUlWi
You should also watch Clarke & Dawe to learn about the problems faced by an extremely senior Treasury official. https://t.co/pqLp3fcPsK
If you have not already done so, then you should stop whatever you are doing and watch last night’s @TheRoastTV https://t.co/NExUo2tGV5
RT @paulkidd: According to another tweet it is also Hello Kitty’s birthday. Coincidence? [I think not, Josef.]
A big Happy Birthday to Device 501, aka RDS-1 (РДС-1), aka First Lightning (ÐŸÐµÑ€Ð²Ð°Ñ Ð¼Ð¾Ð»Ð½Ð¸Ñ), the first Soviet atomic bomb, 29 August 1949.
Friday. Everything is in equilibrium. You wish the day would never end. Everything will be perfect forever. Friday.
Gorn.
RT @lukehopewell: @stilgherrian Hard mode: sherbet and pop rocks. [Now that’s quality thinking there, Sir.]
Thinking back to that earlier RT, if you shoved a meringue swan up your arse it’d just dissolve. You want a sherbet swan, for the fizz.
@SnarkyPlatypus This is a fairly lame kind of “made itâ€.
RT @fristle: I worry that a generation of programmers taught to monetize their users’ contact lists are now writing software to evade oppre…
RT @HappySinger: @stilgherrian And frightened? [No, I’m not easily frightened, I don’t think. This is not a challenge.]
Gawd, my ASIC is “hilarious and frightening” comment is now in Top Stories on the ABC app. I’m easily amused. abc.net.au/news/5701734
Me at @zdnetaustralia today: “Leaked paper reveals Australia’s obsessive metadata secrecy†http://t.co/7BJYIKNrtz
Bristol 7, suddenly, for some reason.
@semibogan Indeed. An excellent piece of work.
Listening to BBC Radio 4’s “Wars, Lies and Audiotapeâ€, on LBJ’s escalation in the Vietnam War. http://t.co/eD9Oye08f1
@SnarkyPlatypus @michaelneale London place names have been dead to me since the Great Fire and the destruction of Cuntgrope Lane.
I have no idea what that last retweet means, but I understand the desire.
Pete_Allison YOU CAN SHOVE YOUR MERINGUE SWAN UP YOUR ARSE, DIANA. #GBBO
BernardKeane According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, there have been zero deaths from rat bites since 2003
SimonGCooper In Boots. Oh the agony of choice. pic.twitter.com/aO2g7TNrtY
I see that @jonoabroad has captured the essence of the campaign, but not in a way that fits well with services’ terms and conditions.
RT @elronxenu: @stilgherrian The second conning. [I might save that one for Easter. Bound to win friends that way.]
RT @MsMountebank: @stilgherrian Septscriber. [Oh, I like that!]
Me at @crikey_news: “Govt modelling says NBN is just fine — as long as you don’t want to use the internet much†http://t.co/iSHaVxhTxU [$]
Thinking of name for my September subscriber / crowdfunding push. Begtember? Scroungetember?
@bengrubb I’ve no idea about the intermediate timelines, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
@will_ock “It†could’ve been an easier sell, is obviously what I meant. I’d be a hard sell in any market.
@will_ock I suppose this is my entire point. It’s the secrecy and evasion that’s driven public suspicion. I could’ve been a far easier sell.
@bengrubb Indeed. I’m assuming that in subsequent discussions the cost was understood and the idea dropped. [Shrugs.] “Discussion paper.”
@will_ock Thanks. And yet that paragraph is just a simple and, in my opinion, utterly uncontroversial explanation. [Shrugs.]
@nidhalaigh Indeed. Can’t risk this “premature and unnecessary debateâ€.
The PDF attached to that story is highlighted to show where all the redactions were when what remained was released under FOI in 2010.
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Leaked paper reveals Australia’s obsessive metadata secrecy†http://t.co/7BJYIKNrtz
“AFP accidentally lets sensitive metadata go publicâ€, reports @zdnetaustralia http://t.co/IdAjELxqgF
I AM NOT A PRIMA DONNA.
Well that was fun. Tedious, but fun. Like sex, really.
@pricj004 Thanks. And that’s a handy chart.
Story filed for @zdnetaustralia.
OK, back to the writing thang.
@Colvinius @gordonkerry Oh well played.
@maxious Bother. Not a lot I can do about that. I’ll leave it i@crikey_newsws’ capable hands.
Winning at l’esprit de l’escalier. I hate pre-lunchtime deadlines.
I have opined on the NBN modelling at @crikey_news, and invented the term IoETtNFttPbtLaW. http://t.co/iSHaVxhTxU [$, free trial]
Hey NBN fans, we have a video “explaining†the cost benefit analysis. Rock on. https://t.co/EIjUGSHB4Y
“ASIO chief unfussed by data-retention bypassesâ€, writes @joshgnosis http://t.co/v6lVsN8uji
That @mathewi yarn echoes stuff I wrote in 2008 https://t.co/Ysq4xgM0dV https://t.co/gfZgk8HcfL and in 2012 https://t.co/y8hq6NB6rf
“Journalism is doing just fine, thanks — it’s mass-media business models that are ailingâ€, writes @mathewi http://t.co/Lzeylk6eRN
firstdogonmoon I am making up names of bars to go to in melbourne and my editor is googling them and discovering they are not real.
AlcatelLucentAU Here’s a fully-integrated #NBN FTTN cabinet. Deployed, active and getting cosy with a ute in Woy Woy, NSW. pic.twitter.com/zl8YAVYpvH
alivingiano two of these people are tired of having this conversation pic.twitter.com/OOzZLsSZJp
In which I describe ASIC as “both hilarious and frighteningâ€. http://t.co/XHB4jycsJZ
@Cuff_S Not very famous, that’s just a rewrite of a story from last nightâ@amworldtodaypmaypm. I do a few radio spots most weeks.
RT @NewtonMark: Alan Joyce comes out swinging, blames massive losses on piracy, demands tougher copyright laws.
edzitron Just had an uber driver make me get in the front of his car because he didn’t have the permit to stop off at SFO. $16bn company right here
dobes Tone to resurrect TAA, Team Australia Air
Thu plan, draft: Write for @crikey_news; write for @zdnetaustralia; @5at5daily; plan the next three weeks; quiet evening, because pain.
CaptainAwwsum @drunkenpredator One comes with a warranty. The other catches fire on the runway…
RT @drunkenpredator: If the F-35 were a wristwatch, it’d be a glittering, $689 piece of status-symbol junk. OH HEY LOOK, IT ACTUALLY IS. ht…
bgpmon Large country wide outage affects Time Warner network.
Outages for ~3000 US prefixes between 09:30 and 10:52 UTC pic.twitter.com/qHxFLSw9EI
@thegrugq @PeteLawler I’m glad you understand the social equity issues involved here. Those suburban police have a busy job you know.
nigelcameron Perfection. A classic. RT @maxwellstrachan: jamie dimon really giving his new twitter account a nice personal touch pic.twitter.com/npuGyOnhMp
I think @thegrugq would enjoy this tale of excellent* OPSEC. http://t.co/sSeZGSGbRZ
RT @bigrb: @stilgherrian not criminal masterminds then? [It would seem not.]
Police approach car in no-stop zone, “20yo man in front passenger’s seat chopping cannabis on a P-plate on his lap.” http://t.co/sSeZGSGbRZ
@SnarkyPlatypus Mon subconscient est l’incarnation même de la sagesse.
@jeamland I think you are confused.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je gagne la clarté à travers les rêves. Et les canards. Et vous?
fanfiction_txt Another thing to do is read the Bible (just in case there’s a discussion or an argument and you need a few quotes) and maybe TV Tropes
Now, where are my pants?
There’s a moral in that for all of us.
“Quack,†they all say to Mr Rabbit. “Quack quack quack.†Then Peta Credlin takes a pump-action shotgun and kills the lot.
“Good morning, Mr Rabbit,†Pyne says, “I bring you your Duck Cabinet.†“Excellent,†says Mr Rabbit, “We are now completely ducked.â€
Imagining Christopher Pyne as King of all the Ducks, leading them down Commonwealth Avenue as proud as Punch in a chorus of quacks.
Weird dream. Someone had made Christopher Pyne a government minister. I mean, like that could happen. Oh, and a duck as well. So a duo.
Thursday. There is news of an improvement. There is no announcement of the eight new miseries, but you’ll find out soon enough. Thursday.
I have much to write tomorrow. I shall slink away now.
I believed described ASIC’s internet 1337 as “hilarious and scaryâ€.
@702sydney @champy @domknight I interviewed Franti in about 1990 or 1991. We talked US politics for 45 mins. He did economics at Uni of SFO.
I am not a lizard.
@jonoabroad No, no, I was having a different kind of flashback.
@702sydney @champy @domknight “Television The Drug Of The Nation” by Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy. Definitely. Michael Franti a nice guy.
@Colvinius @dobes Ah yes, I was listening live. It’s all very fun and games with ICAC at the moment.
“ASIC says staff misundertanding of internet led to 250,000 websites being blocked†from @amworldtodaypm. Bits of me. http://t.co/miBYlETPNx
No, to the mid-1980s.
Having flashbacks to 1993 and before.
@NuclearAnthro @glengyron @SnarkyPlatypus My pleasure.
Ah yes, @SnarkyPlatypus @NuclearAnthro @glengyron, this magazine includes a map of the secret underground UFO base. http://t.co/fMfrWlVqtM
@SnarkyPlatypus @NuclearAnthro @glengyron We need to introduce him to the secret underground US/Australian UFO base near here.
Seems a good week to retweet my calls for the term “metadata†to be killed off. http://t.co/PmlNFhpooD http://t.co/kBhgJwgIqp
@jonoabroad @SnarkyPlatypus “Boomer†is Cold War slang for a nuclear ballistic missile submarine. Well, current naval slang too, I think.
RT @joshgnosis: No data retention report from @SenatorLudlam until the end of October now because they’re extending out the committee.
@R_Chirgwin This is code. It means that he wants you to poison him.
@SnarkyPlatypus Look, I’ve told you before, this man needs his own television series.
SnarkyPlatypus Now my flatmate is telling me that global warming scientists are discredited due to the hats they wear.
@glengyron @SnarkyPlatypus Oh. This is a brand new rabbit hole for me. I think I need to thank you. Or kill you.
@SnarkyPlatypus No wait, I want to learn more about this new science.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: Flatmate says we need a black hole to protect us from magnetic pole reversal. Me: “the words you’re saying don’t make s…
@triplejHack @joshgnosis Ah, you’re infected with the “break down†for “explain†virus too. Please seek help.
You too can learn to be @firstdogonmoon, except that you won’t be. http://t.co/rtFqMwNKIy
@SnarkyPlatypus Australian top-four banks are ahead of most on real-time fraud detection. It’s a risk management thing.
@_crispinb @RadioNational That is to say, it’s not about who relies on the network, but how the network views the world.
@stufromoz @dobes Ah yes, the first ABC figure was NSW only. AAP and now @amworldtodaypm is using that Sinodinos-including total.
@_crispinb @RadioNational A “moneyed comment� Me? That’s kind of hilariously wrong. You’ve also missed that I speak of the ABC’s views.