Story filed for @zdnetaustralia, heading westward, with devices turned off.
I shall now disappear until I get this goddam thing written.
Fri plan, draft: Finish feature for @zdnetaustralia; late lunch; TGIF; train to Wentworth Falls; collapse.
Friday. Do you feel that pain? No? Don’t worry, you soon will. Friday.
RT @franksting: I’ve been a bad bad boy
@SnarkyPlatypus There is enough danger in the world.
This is why I’m glad I had a nap instead.
https://t.co/fXFVx4JH3N
@kjmci No, no, it’s a thing.
I’m not sure what I just watched, but here it is again. https://t.co/ekXh1CKQ54
RT @TheFeedSBS: If you missed it, we put it on an internet. #BroadcastBattleground. #TheFeedSBS https://t.co/Cnm7buf3dQ
@scott_thewspot @bunjaree Not many.
The thing to remember about these people is that they’re the service droids. They are of no consequence.
Just remembering that last I dreamed there were two giraffes wandering around @bunjaree.
One more. Maybe two.
These people are fool. Well-presented fools.
No wonder you look so miserable.
Is that all you’re eating?
God they all look so miserable.
Oh God I am going to need this sake.
Combining sushi with anthropology.
@SnarkyPlatypus Anyway, hope you shake your cold before your flight. I think I might seek our sushi how, or perhaps salad.
@SnarkyPlatypus The Internet Industry Association has been disbanded, but the boat party goes on.
@SnarkyPlatypus Actually I’m also annoyed that I had to skip the boat party and then drinks with someone.
@SnarkyPlatypus Thanks. My main stress is finishing the feature I have to finish tomorrow. It’s well on the way, but still.
RT @seamus: Just saw a red BMW with black/red number plate SELF13. I don’t even… I can’t even…
I think a light dinner and an early night, before getting up very early tomorrow to write, that will be my strategy. It may defer the cold.
@oberonsghost This is alarming news.
JessySahota This just happened… golf ball hail storms v glass building.. Brisbane cbd. Storm season pic.twitter.com/qci3iHM8iL
RossFairchild @LeahR77 @donnalashe I’m speechless! I yield the floor to John Wayne. pic.twitter.com/zRmTmVA4D4
RT @heylandy: Car acrobatics. St Pauls Tce now a river. Cops are here #BNEstorm http://t.co/PFhO7ZYXT5
RT @heylandy: Umm where did the second car go?? #BneStorm http://t.co/UdaWJ9rxnY
RT @heylandy: Cars now floating up Alexandria St #BNEstorm http://t.co/60y3kUhyTx
RT @C_K_7: The carnage at Archerfield Airport #bnestorm #brisbane pic.twitter.com/LcCBrLbx90 [How not to do aeroplane.]
Me at @zdnetaustralia Wednesday: “Australia’s data-retention plans look increasingly out of touch†http://t.co/b736Y51J8L
SwiftOnSecurity If I wasn’t Taylor Swift, this would be pretty weird.
Pollytics We’re all going to die RT @paulwiggins: RT @JoshHoltTEN: Severe storm about to hit Brisbane. pic.twitter.com/pRwDL8pEOy
Helpful nap was helpful.
I am going to need a small nap, I think.
kathradical every christmas my bff and i send cards to random addresses pic.twitter.com/4XQl5p8UCN
Your tweet is stupid.
My plan from here is to check in reduce the pain levels, and settle in to the long, long haul of writing.
Pho’d.
Shouldn’t Crusader Rabbit’s barnacles show through his speedos?
I have pork and I have pho, so, you know, fuck you, basically.
@caseyjohnellis Also, great t-shirts.
@caseyjohnellis THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY.
Goddam hackers.
Just saw three guys walking through Haymarket with t-shirts reading “Grace Hopper has a posse”. So apparently she does.
@SnarkyPlatypus I’ll have to watch that later, when I’m not wandering the streets.
How good are moodswings I think they’re excellent turd turd turd.
Pondering where to have lunch. I’m probably drifting northward from Railway Square to Haymarket.
Lovely quick coffee was lovely.
dobes Anyone made any “I’m with Tone” twibbons yet?
Back to judging.
Me at @zdnetaustralia Wednesday: “Australia’s data-retention plans look increasingly out of touch†http://t.co/b736Y51J8L
Right. I’m in Sydney now. Things had bloody well better improve.
Crossing the Nepean, with raindrops instagram.com/p/v4gubHCFn0/
Extra judging.
Judging.
RT @duckbytheoboe A man in the APH carpark just took his pants off. #okaythen [No, The Code series 2 isn’t filming just yet…]
Chomsky, eh? So it’s come to this..
Snuffling.
mikemaccana This checks out. pic.twitter.com/O1VWbiOfkM
Well that’s OK, AFP, because the job of Apple, Google is to protect their customers’ data, not help criminal investigations.
“Apple, Google encryption ‘not helping’ criminal investigation: AFPâ€, writes @joshgnosis http://t.co/17bphTQyYn
Thu plan: 1024 train to Sydney; errand; hide away for the rest of the day, writing for @zdnetaustralia. Disappointed to be cancelling stuff.
WernerTwertzog I shall celebrate Black Friday by burning the last of my possessions so that, unencumbered, I might crawl towards death.
In which David Rowe (@darbyrowe) stares into the abyss… pic.twitter.com/iPLhhXqNnE
Those clever dogs… H@dppp@jonoabroada@rynobibpic.twitter.com/7zAqFNI8ndnd
matthew_d_green I woke this morning to find my 7 y/o levering my finger onto the TouchID sensor of my phone. Maybe time to go back to passwords.
cathywilcox1 David Johnston makes his own canoe. pic.twitter.com/MVCqf6G5i3
Escalation.
RT @tinderfessions: Went on a salsa date… things quickly escalated to role play, anal & fisting. 10/10 no regrets! - Jon
@StevenWalling Oh no, I’m quite happy with the world as it is. Ambiguity is healthy.
I bet Tony wishes he had a tiger.
RT @OHnewsroom: Reporter: “I have a migraine. Does anyone have any medicine?â€
Editor: “There’s wine in the kitchen.â€
RT @StevenWalling: How often is someone fatally shot by police in the United States? qr.ae/ly5rj [Usually just the once.]
jonkudelka Working up to a limpet.
@MsLods Thanks for that reference. I won’t get to read it today, alas.
I don’t think I’m going to make it to the boat party, though. There’s still too much to do on the article.
Me at @zdnetaustralia Wednesday: “Australia’s data-retention plans look increasingly out of touch†http://t.co/b736Y51J8L
Thu plan, draft: Write for @zdnetaustralia; 1024 train to Sydney; errand; 1600 internet industry boat party, maybe; drinks, etc.
Thursday. They are compiling their lists. Yes, you are on those lists. Thursday,
SwiftOnSecurity The journalism bubble won’t be done deflating until Don Lemon smells ComicCon and Glenn Beck sells bear piss to ward off dinosaurs.
SnarkyPlatypus Future family dramas will just consist of actors passive-aggressively tweeting each other.
Ah, not only has The Code season two been announced, but so has Jan Parke. “Dangerous ideasâ€, apparently. http://t.co/7CS3vUERXF
@explanoit Just… just… just reality.
Oh FFS God no.
feed_the_chooks I’ve blasphemed the lizard
jonkudelka Life with Tony:
“Tony could you pass the salt please?”
“Sure, yes I will pass you the salt.”
*Tony does not pass the salt.*
“sigh.”
etc
mpbowers Jacqui and Ricky now sit together on the cross bench in the #BrickSenate @murpharoo @gabriellechan @GuardianAus pic.twitter.com/iYVVNlkAGK
RT @mpbowers: Jacqui Lambie talks to Glenn Lazarus #BrickSenate @murpharoo @gabriellechan @GuardianAus http://t.co/dxZxKbj6NB http://t.co/7…
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Australia’s data-retention plans look increasingly out of touch†http://t.co/b736Y51J8L
I probably shouldn’t be doing this thing with the chicken again.
RT @jeamland: Pictured: Coalition policies. http://t.co/p2QVBfDoNc
@timothygrey [Nods.] I was a quick recording from a park while I was dashing to a meeting. It’s actually easy to forget. That’s my story.
It hurts.
@timothygrey Oh. Took me a moment then to figure out when you meant. Then I remembered a brief thing for @amworldtodaypm yesterday?
Sulking.
SnarkyPlatypus One inappropriate button press on that bidet could result in tragedy.
The sexual abuse in the army and on submarines I can figure out, and even in a canoe with good balance, but not the sex with barnacles.
MT @bairdjulia: SOON ON #THEDRUM; Cheryl Kernot, Tom Dusevic, @GreenJ on sexual abuse and the army, canoes, submarines and barnacles…
@alexkidman @R_Chirgwin @joshgnosis If it’s good enough for Cyndi Lauper, it’s good enough for me.
RT @peterjblack: “Who Will Replace Chuck Hagel?” http://t.co/gzv0S9x1ml [I know! I know! https://t.co/H8QTnXiU7B]
Mind you, @joshgnosis, the AFP banned me from a presentation two weeks ago. It’s not cool any more.
RT @Polyflare: @xntrik And all press releases should be dioramas. [Oh now here’s a media reform I can support.]
@joshgnosis Controversial is good. Keep up the outstanding work, soldier.
Is @joshgnosis having fun? That’s what we need to know. I think he’s having fun.
prinnbanktce “We regret to inform you Dunedin will be nuked from orbit”
I misheard.
mipearson OH “Steve Jobs > Julia Gillard > Tony Abbott > Uber > Hitler > Killing Baby Seals > systemd”
Darthbx @carr2n Thanks. We’ve only been doing podcasts forever. But, you know, Serial is the one. Gtfo.
RT @JohnBirmingham: Award winning five dollar Tempranillo and cheap fire axes. @ALDIAustralia are always my first choice for apocalypse pre…
robbie_buck Wow. They’re screaming really loud. #teens#arias pic.twitter.com/g4kcVb7btE
RT @jendudley: My kickstarter internet-connected teddy bear finally arrived! instagram.com/p/v2dTAuqmZ3/ [Never fall asleep near it. Danger.]
MT @joshgnosis: AFP’s Tim Morris says that the AFP doesn’t want to need to seize connected fridges or toasters. [Bah. Lack of imagination.]
GordyPls Life hack: stop making stupid decisions based on information your idiot friends post on Facebook.
Oh, that @mscott chap, eh, @chrisjrn? WellI suppose I can now tell everyone that there will be a second series of The Code.
RT @ABCTV: #TheCode will return in a second series. The new series will be again created by Shelley Birse and directed by Shawn Seet.
@michaelmeloni ALL MY TWEETS ARE IMPORTANT YOU LITTLE RAPSCALLION.
@yabbie5674 @zdnetaustralia That’s terrible and you should be ashamed of yourself.
@chrisjrn Oh, has somebody said something somewhere?
@timothygrey Wot?
Column filed for @zdnetaustralia. I am now eating an apple.
Writing.
“US expresses ‘concern’ over EU proposal to break up Googleâ€, writes @richardjnieva http://t.co/6YPW7xYX4K
glengyron Oh. Is this a resignation speech? RT @billshortenmp: Reform takes values, vision, courage. It takes leadership.
Coffee then writing then crying.
Oh please dear God don’t let Shorten try to make another joke.
Following my own advice.
Oh I have just seen… terrible things.
RT @NewtonMark: Tony Abbott denies ever appearing in the 2013 election campaign. http://t.co/pWPg5mfKTw
@jeamland @SnarkyPlatypus No thanks, I’ve just put one out.
And if whinging on Twitter doesn’t help@SnarkyPlatypusu@frankstingng, there’s always opiates.
@SnarkyPlatypus Whinging on Twitter solves most things.
@SnarkyPlatypus I know one that insists that its internet banking password are EXACTLY six characters.
“It takes real effort to make an entire roomful of bankers gasp at your insensitivity.”
“On stage at Goldman Sachs event, Uber CEO compared his company’s woes to Fergusonâ€, writes @paulcarr http://t.co/Y5o8UhjY3s
Kate_McClymont I have received some weird things in the mail but this really takes the cake, or should I say the pack. @smh #ICAC pic.twitter.com/aFxGZuS1WS
@SnarkyPlatypus Oh yes, the topic was decided yesterday. It’s just putting all the bile into a series of grammatically correct sentences.
RT @bernietb: You could have just put “wanker” and saved me a bit of reading. http://t.co/01emMK3SfK
This is all putting me in an excellent mood for writing a column today.
rpy Clicked quit on Photoshop, Photoshop crashed, eh close enough
“Utah Considers Cutting Off Water to the NSA’s Monster Data Centerâ€, reports @Wired, which would be funny. http://t.co/jOmNx6LOGT
@tppwholesale I appreciate your quick response, though, and that’s reassuring.
@tppwholesale No need for now, thank, Georgia. I’ll write up some feedback at another time, when I’m not on deadline.
@SnarkyPlatypus Le principal problème avec le monde d’aujourd’hui, ce est qu’il ne est pas en feu.
RT @mpbowers: Paddling his canoe to trouble town-Brandis defends Johnston in the #BrickSenate @gabriellechan http://t.co/dxZxKbj6NB http://…
RT @DavidParis: Brandis says his side of politics has an innate suspicion of state power. He’d like to have all of your metadata and impris…
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Aujourd’hui ne est pas le meilleur jour pour être sur cette planète. Il doit être purgé. Et vous?
Of course @tppwholesale’s interface didn’t tell me what the limit actually was. I just had to keep trying until “too long†went away.
According to @tppwholesale’s account management interface, a 24-character password is “too longâ€. I beg to differ. I’d say 16 is too few.
Well isn’t the Attorney-General such a pretty ornament to democracy.
troyhunt Look, I know that Sony is having a rough time of it this week, maybe this will help: pic.twitter.com/oyaMZVVyGF
@MsLods The internet really ought to be shut down.
I didn’t even know we had a defence minister. Are they any good?
@MsLods Is it.
Wed plan, draft: Write for @zdnetaustralia, working through the list of things; @5at5daily; quiet, sensible evening.
Much needed sleep-in was much needed.
Wednesday. They stand silently, watching you. Each time you move, they take notes. Later, they will confer, and judge. Wednesday.
@SnarkyPlatypus No. At least I don’t think so. It’s more that it increases activity in the tubing.
So having slept on the train, and prior to that filled myself with tub waan, I now find myself awake again.
I am finally back at @bunjaree and in no fit state to fly a high-performance aircraft.
RT @kcarruthers: Prescient RT @annetreasure: South Korean authorities ban selfie sticks http://t.co/fYjtOKxh9m good
@Kimota Good luck.
@myrcurial I sincerely hope not.
@Kimota @franksting There was very little left in the bottle.
As I wait for a taxi, the drunk chap roams the empty streets, randomly shouting “Fuckers!” at closed shopfronts.
@franksting @Kimota Well, there was the entertainment of the utterly drunk guy with the remains of his Jack Daniels and an inner dialogue.
@Kimota No fucking hospitality whatsoever.
This is altogether far too tedious.
@michaelneale It does not look like this will happen this evening.
Poor bloody @paulwallbank, however. Just look at the shit he is having to endure.
Not only did I misread the timetable earlier, so I caught the 2018 train, it is now abandoning me for a bus at Springwood.
@SnarkyPlatypus @JustJimWillDo Not on my watch.
This is the lamest parallel universe ever.
Where am I?
RT @dobes I’ve seen what hell looks like http://t.co/XQWf3esaB2 burn down the internet.]
ryansrumblings Dear kid who graffitied some cool Ray Bans and a mustache on me. I’m not even mad. pic.twitter.com/cTjNat1Pyy
I am an arsehat.
Right, I think I can now compose myself sufficiently to walk across the part and catch the 1932 train up the hill.
@sebasu102 Oh I’ll go the two. Also, ped ped mâak.
Tub waan moo aroi maak.
Indict all the things.
RT @Renzo_Soprano: “Just get in the car, Alice. I’ll explain on the way.” http://t.co/GaATyXX2Zj
Endorphines, how good are they?
Oh dear God what have I done?
As an aside, I am not totally opposed to the concept of burning down selected sections of America.
So @TurnbullMalcolm can suggest something and then seconds later say he didn’t suggest it. Sleep well at night, Sirpic.twitter.com/5CpUd3Cydodo
BernardKeane Here’s @TurnbullMalcolm’s conspiracy theory about the ABC. Next - Turnbull on how the ABC put Holt on the Chinese sub pic.twitter.com/9TY5z9XZuA