@Hippopeteamus Actually he doesn’t say it would have helped. He deliberately [?] doesn’t join the dots. It’s just allusion.
@JustJimWillDo That’s not how I remember it, but I am beyond caring now.
Remember what I said about the broom handle.
Judging. Much judging.
Me at @zdnetaustralia today: “Brandis takes the data-retention debate beyond logic” zdnet.com/article/brandi…
What a long day.
@AlisterAir @HughRundle @zdnetaustralia I suspect it’s just falling for a logical fallacy or something. I’m too tired to think now though.
@HughRundle @zdnetaustralia Thank you very much.
@AussiemacJ @danger5tv Of course you can watch. #keepingitclean
I am being taken to a very special place by @danger5tv.
Watching last night’s @danger5tv again is dangerous. It doesn’t clarify. Rather, there’s even more confusing detail. sbs.com.au/ondemand/video…
@SnarkyPlatypus It’s… remarkable.
@SnarkyPlatypus Something else for you to track down is “Black Mirror | White Christmas”.
@SnarkyPlatypus @danger5tv Well, you’ll just have to make do with what you can find in the bathroom or under the sink.
@martinmiles Yes. Alas, “excrete” was lost in the editing today.
@SnarkyPlatypus For series 2 of @danger5tv, vast quantities of cocaine seems to be the correct procedure.
@SnarkyPlatypus Yes. I guess I will. I think I will also re-watch last night’s @danger5tv to see if it makes any more sense.
Wondering whether ordering curry was a wise move.
Heh. I won’t be fitting in before 1800 AEDT. The joys of live radio. Good first day back, though, @NewsTalk2UE. Give ‘em hell!
@NewsTalk2UE All good. :)
I should have arranged cider or something.
OK, the @NewsTalk2UE radio spot is now at around 1745 AEDT, so in about 10 minutes.
@1doles @zdnetaustralia Thanks very much. I was in a mood, I guess.
RT @gnoll110: Putting on pants? [Wot, for radio? No, this is a pants-off medium.]
Hmmm… I should get ready for this radio spot.
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Brandis takes the data-retention debate beyond logic” zdnet.com/article/brandi…
@Adrian_Dodd All pies are real.
“Anonymous vows to avenge Charlie Hebdo massacre”? theregister.co.uk/2015/01/09/ano… I’ll discuss on @NewsTalk2UE ~1730 AEDT. 2ue.com.au
@Adrian_Dodd I think it’s fair to say that there isn’t enough pie in my life.
5at5daily 5at5 number 134: Aliens from 1977, Nazi cows, rockets in warfare, addictive social media, and some animal patterns. tinyletter.com/5at5/letters/5…
RT @_crispinb: Bet you didn’t know we’re failing at the internet because we don’t have a “cyber-based network”? abc.net.au/news/2015-01-1… [No!]
@MsLods @Andrew_Zammit Ah yes, I think it was @BernardKeane’s piece that I remember.
@nicknack1981 Yes, I should make more use of that.
@nicknack1981 Oh that’s right. Ah, the joy!
@nicknack1981 I’ve forgotten why that is now. Sad.
@Andrew_Zammit @MsLods Hmmm… Memory is fuzzy on this, but I do seem to recall some number in… Estimates? TIA Act annual report?
@0x1C @NewsTalk2UE Yeah, @regvulture pretty much wins today.
@dobes @ShaneWMurphy Thank you, gentlemen. The Muse was with me today. Sometimes it just flows.
@ctudball Thanks. But you know, I was unsure whether to go with that last line ‘cos it’s an obvious joke. Getting the rhythm right is hard.
jnarls Poll Claims 120% of Americans Believe Scientists Falsify Global-Warming Data #FoxNewsFacts #LOL pic.twitter.com/15kV5o3dPk
GreenJ we can all go home now. heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/…
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Brandis takes the data-retention debate beyond logic” zdnet.com/article/brandi…
dobes “I’ll gladly lose the excretion to keep the tool.”
The things I have to read each day
@XanderPlooy Why does this ring a bell?
“Anonymous vows to avenge Charlie Hebdo massacre by blitzing jihadist sites” theregister.co.uk/2015/01/09/ano… I may be on @NewsTalk2UE later re this.
@AutumnMandrake @uknowiSS @vanbadham @otiose94 Yep yep. Akamai’s latest “State of the Internet” quarterly report came out the other day.
@SnarkyPlatypus @triplej Oh yeah. Good idea. A shame I don’t have a car that I can crash into a tree.
@SnarkyPlatypus @triplej Yes. They all forget.
@PointZeroOne A date to watch television? Not this sort of video, no.
_cingraham Godwin’s Law applied to Reddit: More than half of posts with 2,000+ comments contain references to Hitler or Nazis pic.twitter.com/Ef0JMlpl5Y
Maybe I’ll finally get listed on the @triplej Wikipedia entry.
There’s a TV doco about 2JJ / Triple J etc on ABC TV next Monday night. youtube.com/watch?v=7ZU5YA…
RT @wolfcat: The date this Saturday is the 17th of Jan, 2015, hope that helps. [Here’s a revolver. Please do the right thing.]
The @triplej 40th anniversary reunion party would actually make excellent audio fodder for “The 9pm Edict” now, wouldn’t it. Hmmm…
Oh that’s right. The @triplej 40th anniversary reunion party is this Saturday night. sa2.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/… Should I go? I’d need a date.
frankcottrell_b Perhaps the most eerily beautiful grammar-crash of all time pic.twitter.com/Pfa14ssDbC
“A Rocket Renaissance”, quite a lengthy feature on their use in warfare. thinkdefence.co.uk/2015/01/rocket… HT @BlogsofWar
@scott_thewspot I’m sure there’s plenty to go around.
@SnarkyPlatypus @ClintonDucas I caught a convenience store doing this, I think without disclosure. I must see if they have a tiny sign.
“Were we contacted by aliens in 1977?” bbc.co.uk/guides/zqdbgk7 In 1977, you say? Well, they MIGHT have been aliens. This WAS 1977, after all.
RealDavidHeath Meanwhile in Thailand….RT @nationnews: Bull elephant causing strife at Khao Yai nationmultimedia.com/national/Bull-… pic.twitter.com/GFmHle20WL
@arcadiagt5 True. But I went with it anyway. It’s Monday. Let’s ease into the week.
“One more anti-terror tool”, wrote Attorney-General George Brandis. theaustralian.com.au/opinion/one-mo… You can add your own joke to that one, right?
“Data retention ‘an urgent priority’: Brandis”, writes @joshgnosis zdnet.com/article/data-r…
Column filed for @zdnetaustralia. Ping @dobes.
arawnsley cc @HerbCarmen RT @tmcarr: Wow. Epic. pic.twitter.com/G5MdeNifE9
nocombrick It started in Birmingham in the eighties with bands that radicalised young people like ‘Koran Koran’ #FoxNewsFacts pic.twitter.com/GtnEFIBoVl
@Rob_Stott Agreed. And I shall use it in a sentence today.
OK, thanks everyone, I think it’s “excrete” for this context. No more suggestions needed.
RT @hughstephens: disgorge? disembogue? protuberate? [I’m thinking that’s a great band name right there…]
@futureidentity Yeah, it needs to be transitive.
RT @futureidentity: Prolapse? [Ouch! Um, I’ll remember that for another use, thanks, but no it’s looking like ‘excrete” might be the go.]
RT @PSyvret: Not sure of your context, but “squelch” might work, and ticks the onomatopoeia box. [Oh! Yes, excellent sound. Hmmm.]
RT @Epigrammist: spew. [A good word, but the end product is more… scattered than I’m envisaging. Thanks, but not quite right today.]
RT @mgherman: excrete [“Excrete” has the right, um, flavours, yes. Thanks also, @perrynfowler. Considering.]
So I need a verb like “extrude”, to squeeze out a new thing, but one that sounds more sloppy, juicy, gross. Suggestions?
@cheshireb @j_hutch I think it’s fair to say that breastfeeding is not one of my special subject areas.
RT @j_hutch: Sourcebottle gold: “Searching For Men Who’ve Breastfed” [Rule 34.]
RT @GreenJ What a grim, abusive and suddenly joyless place this twitterverse has become. [Open a new search tab for “kittens”. Still there.]
Mon plan, revised: Write for @zdnetaustralia; deal with the extensive comms backlog; laundry; regret; @5at5daily; quiet evening, I guess?
reillystyley I hope Brandis realises that I had to watch a puppy video before I was able to start read his op ed…
Rabeb_Othmani If you are a non-muslim and would like to visit Birmingham #illridewithyou #FoxNewsFacts
MattSibson The Queen of England is a Muslim. Here she is in her hijab. #foxnewsfacts pic.twitter.com/JggXCU9DjH
@noreasonspec @MikeCarlton01 @cathywilcox1 As I pointed out a couple of times already.
NewtonMark Three. RT @themetresgained: So how long was it between the Charlie Hebdo massacre and someone being like WE NEED METADATA? Four days? Five?
paulkidd “I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992.” Happy birthday, HAL. pic.twitter.com/WnUShdVEON
Ah. I have now been commissioned to turn these tweets into some sort of more joined-up writing. Bitter, joined-up writing.
@MikeCarlton01 @cathywilcox1 People do have a right to fall over, you know. WHY DO YOU HATE FREEDOM?
Sci_Phile When a bunch of medical students press their phones into bacterial growth media nerdist.com/2015/01/what-i… pic.twitter.com/Kkd2QP5El0
@cathywilcox1 Bathtubs. It’s the bathtubs. falkvinge.net/2012/11/15/we-…
@perrynfowler @MikeCarlton01 Or bathtubs. Or staircases. Or beds without rails to prevent people falling out of them. falkvinge.net/2012/11/15/we-…
@cathywilcox1 The events are not tedious. The endless repetition is.
@cathywilcox1 My mute list is… idiosyncratic. I once muted “Melbourne” for three months. Though that may have been an accident.
@dobes @MikeCarlton01 Ah yes, the “I have a lot of books so that proves I’m smart nyer nyer” school of thought used by bumpkins everywhere.
RT @MikeCarlton01: @stilgherrian Logic is not Soapy’s strong point. [Agreed. So what IS his strong point?]
RT @evcricket: Lots of good internet out there today [Yeah I know but we’re working on it. Should be rid of most of it by lunchtime.]
Brandis is fucking hilarious.
So Brandis is using events in Paris, where they have data retention, to support data retention in Australia to prevent events like in Paris.
RT @BlogsofWar: I think I’m really kind of over this whole Twitter thing. [Remember to make it look like an accident.]
I think I might mute the word “Paris” for a week, because you lot really are fucking tedious.
@oberonsghost @NewtonMark And now I’m thinking of a special vegan jail.
@wolfcat @NewtonMark @glengyron I love it when you talk dirty.
@glengyron @NewtonMark @wolfcat No, I hate to think what they’d taste like. We should just kill them for sport.
@NewtonMark @wolfcat @glengyron Sorry, I have been energised with bacon.
@wolfcat @glengyron Yeah @NewtonMark has this hang-up about things “working”. Dunno what’s wrong with him.
RT @NewtonMark: There really should be a steakhouse in Silicon Valley called “Meatspace.” [And it should be vegan and gluten-free.]
“Bitcoin value continues to decline”, writes @juhasaarinen itnews.com.au/News/399289,bi…
Mon plan: Deal with the comms backlog, which has become rather extensive; laundry; regret; @5at5daily; quiet evening.
@marcoostini @OaaSvc Well I notice that this year #AusCERT2015 doesn’t clash with NetSuite’s SuiteWorld, so it might actually work.
MsLods I do hope Australian journalists point out to our govt that France already has mandatory data retention laws eulawanalysis.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/does-e…
@OaaSvc @marcoostini Thank you for your kind words. And yes, we shall make it work properly next year. Also, please ignore @jplonie.
@PacketNetworks I probably should try ESET too, yes. I met their CTO and CRO recently, and they are also nice people.
@OaaSvc @marcoostini I simply forgot to organise myself a way of going this year. Sheer incompetence on my part.
Installing a 30-day trial of Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac. bitdefender.com.au/solutions/anti… It keeps winning the tests, and they’re nice people.
RT @marcoostini: @stilgherrian if your not here sadness will visit me :/ #lca2015 [I am not there, because I am a bad person.]
RT @OaaSvc: @stilgherrian look. [Is that your safe word? It’s not a very good safe word. You should reconsider.]
I remind everyone at #lca2015 that it’s their own goddam fault. Please write your chosen safe word on a piece of paper, legibly, and pray.
You know, I think having diarrhoea for two days last week was better than having to put up with the ever-faster ever-more-stupid news cycle.
@BundyB @danger5tv Oh he’s originally from Sydney. He sent me all the local numbers that I “needed”.
Last night I tried explaining @danger5tv to a friend in London and today he’s sent me phone numbers for counselling services. #Danger5
TV_Rev Confused by what you saw on last nights #Danger5? The Sensible Chuckle podcast offers the answers you need. televisedrevolution.com/podcast/sensib…
Didn’t Europe already do that thing where everybody gets angry with everybody with a different religion? I suppose it’ll end well this time.
Mon plan, additional: I may also need to watch last night’s @danger5tv again because my brain hurts. sbs.com.au/ondemand/video… #Danger5
Mon plan, draft: Deal with the comms backlog, which has become rather extensive; laundry; regret; @5at5daily; quiet evening.
sylmobile What we need is a strong leader.
jeamland The reason @stilgherrian hasn’t destroyed the world yet is that the Doomsday device he got requires a valid first and last name to activate.
Remember, a broom handle is the length it is for a reason, even if you find it uncomfortable or even painful at first.
Monday. It’s not deception if you’re too stupid to understand the words. Monday.