OK, I’m going to have dinner and then try to get some sleep. See you in the morning from somewhere over the Indian Ocean I guess.
@DavidFeng @chrisrauchle Train to Washington DC is not feasible.
@GreenJ @StephenGale201 Hi Stephen. We sort of just started chatting then.
@Davelennonabc Reassuring, or something.
@joannejacobs Thanks. :)
@DavidFeng @chrisrauchle I’m on the second leg of this three-legged flight. Right now I’m retracing the path I took… https://t.co/U5ksYeMf1z
This is us and the sky just got very lumpy. The aircraft is only five years old, it says, but it feels older. Perha… https://t.co/SOpanMvDfb
I have internets.
Transmitters off.
@JonoH Excellent. Thanks mate.
My strategy paid off. Empty seat next to me, in the bit at the back where’s there’s a few rows with just two seats… https://t.co/GTIN4DsiUD
OK, I don’t know that’s I have internets on this aircraft. Those seat fittings do not seem promising. Exploring now.
@JustJimWillDo No it’s a 777-ER. Flight EY461.
@seanpryor Many.
All remaining flights on this trip are in 787s.
The view from 44A, being near the rear of this not-new Boeing 777-ER. https://t.co/vnftF5TtEC
Sky-chariot number two. pic.twitter.com/0YAZv3rLtx
In the international terminal and they’re already starting the boarding call an hour before departure. Sigh.
@elronxenu It’s base on a 1950s protocol so who can say.
I don’t know the cause, but the captain said we were told to hang back for 20 minutes. https://t.co/LgMc6BtwT3
Touchdown Melbourne. https://t.co/f1COAo9Wdx
Transmitters off. See you in Melbourne.
@VirginAustralia Welcome to the drought. This plane hadn’t seen much rain lately, I suspect.
@garthk Is that are C Kenny reference?
@michaelneale Thanks. My GP offered to supply appropriate* drugs, so we’ll see how we go.
The view from 26A, a little towards the front from my usual seat. VH-VUJ needs a good wash, @VirginAustralia. https://t.co/hNQWSRyxne
Boarding. Pleased that my baggage is checked through to DC and I have all my boarding passes.
@SnarkyPlatypus Thank you. I believe I have the wi-fi on Etihad so I may well make my presence known along the way.
@number5 @NewtonMark Nah, that flight had been booked in a few months ago. This US trip came up maybe four weeks ag… https://t.co/daH4evbbI4
@StephenGale201 @NewtonMark @GreenJ Exactly.
It looks like we’ll be taking off towards the city, and right on sunset. But I’m on the left hand side of the aircr… https://t.co/04OMaAwUT6
@seanpryor @NewtonMark @StephenGale201 @GreenJ I know this joke.
@NewtonMark @StephenGale201 @GreenJ I’m curious now. Not that I’ll be buying an aircraft any time soon, just for general armchair geekery.
And there it is. VH-VUJ providing EY6304 aka VA238 ADL-MEL. pic.twitter.com/vnLZlL3W0D
RT @SethAbramson: This significantly undercounts and downplays Kavanaugh’s lies, including missing many key ones, but it’s nevertheless a g…
My first sky-chariot is running 10 minutes late. pic.twitter.com/VEz1TxSFfB
Do you ever get the feeling someone’s watching youpic.twitter.com/tLmYhEdur2r2
@SnarkyPlatypus I’m one of the others, obviously.
@StephenGale201 @GreenJ @NewtonMark Also, Mark has equipped it with more computer power than any such aircraft has a right to have. :)
@SnarkyPlatypus Epic trolling, that.
@StephenGale201 @GreenJ @NewtonMark Mark was telling me how he did call the guy who built it, yes. And having just… https://t.co/x3nP6v4SxF
RT @johnhalton: Bet the graphic art won’t be as good for the Festival of Brexit Britain. *sigh* https://t.co/2fXsZmtVtb
@StephenGale201 @GreenJ Hah. Yes. Yours has LIMITED on it, I see. @NewtonMark’s is labelled EXPERIMENTAL which is even more reassuring. ;)
@NickHodgeAU @EtihadAirways HAHAHAHAHA.
@erstkate @sylmobile @kcarruthers Yeah it’s all rather De Seuss.
@sylmobile @kcarruthers You’re not helping.
TheMERL We’re open at some point too
TheMERL So, there’s that.
TheMERL Kanye West changed his name
TheMERL we have nothing for you today
@SnarkyPlatypus Yeah I saw that mentioned by someone in relation to the death toll figures coming in slowly. And th… https://t.co/FXxh9JgUpS
RT @mattblaze: If nothing else we probably need to retire the expression “sober as a judge†now.
@kcarruthers To America I have been Fnu for years. It’s how they do things.
I like “1 German in good condition†like it’s an eBay listing. I like somewhat less the fact that people are still… https://t.co/XwNaq17tsS
RT @sylmobile: Three politicians walk into a bar… https://t.co/p71ozMMitN
@EtihadAirways Thanks, Ari. I’m looking forward to it. :)
@kcarruthers Yeah I was thinking of redacting that photo because I knew this would happen.
@kcarruthers Thank you. I think. #iamfnu
@JonoH Thanks. I’m looking forward to flying with @EtihadAirways because they have such a good reputation. It’s two… https://t.co/8oMPhwFo32
@CLjeSuppose Thank you. Yes, it’s a slightly silly itinerary, but I had my reasons.
ICYMI, the tweets and blurry photos from THE 9PM SIERRA OSCAR LIMA (OR LLAMA) are collected at https://t.co/6kcHLhTXJw #9pmsol
New blog post: “Weekly Wrap 435: Flying in aircraft small and large†https://t.co/ZMel07lWYz Covers 24-30 September. https://t.co/RyNzSsQr1z
@corduroy I like sniffing random humans who’ve been trapped in a metal tube for 14 hours.
@iammrdom Not really. The international legs are Etihad and this domestic leg is part of that same booking.
@developerjack There are other reasons also.
@iammrdom Masquerading as EY6304.
@erkpod It’s pronounced like it’s spelled, I guess? F’noo.
@iammrdom I’m not departing until 1805, so don’t rush out just yet.
@elronxenu That’s the American system. FNU for First Name Unknown. Even though it should be the other way around. I… https://t.co/P5dKqfEMpN
RT @benpobjie: So we should only call you Kanye West at state functions etc? https://t.co/a71Hvh3FiK
The Plan. Yes, I’m going the long way around, because reasons. pic.twitter.com/SiR9NUly7s
En route to Adelaide Airport.
I’ve just recorded a chat with @NicholasFryer that will soon become a podcast. In the next few days, whenever I can… https://t.co/62x2MVkP9q
matthewkaemingk Twitter is the result of a vast Calvinistic conspiracy to prove total depravity.
RT @gattaca: At @BSidesTO today our photog asked me to stand against the wall for a pic. This was my first reaction. https://t.co/dX34K0akJJ
@R_Chirgwin @darrenpauli I pull it off reasonably regularly.
@BeachPhilosophy @GiovanniTorre Um, “25 Jul 2017â€.
@darrenpauli @R_Chirgwin Drab conformity is drab.
@darrenpauli @R_Chirgwin How about a 95-word lede sentence? https://t.co/a4OzFVy7i7
Sun plan, confirmed: Slow start, because it’s Sunday; 1230 ACST lazy lunch and record a podcast with @NicholasFryer… https://t.co/IymBUKvr20
joshtastic You guys, Nike’s robots.txt says “just crawl it.” #seo #webdev pic.twitter.com/bhIdXcHoh6
@sylmobile Well there you have it.
RT @NewtonMark: Come over here and say that. https://t.co/JWOlwHTJYq
RT @MatthewBevan: Nearly a week on I’m still trying to figure out if Michelle Guthrie is the kayaker, octopus, or seal.
@misstweetergal I couldn’t see from this distance, but there were certainly plenty of gentlemen’s bikes. That is to… https://t.co/bUbkJZXtXT
There’s an extremely large number of motorcycles heading south along Pulteney Street. Like, a couple hundred.
@19bk69 @jonoabroad The IS an investigation under way…
@BXGD I agree. $20 million doesn’t sound like much, given the size of the hit on the company’s share price. As an a… https://t.co/6j4Lie3eFX
I think the 14% drop in the share price the other day also fired up his fans. ;) https://t.co/BXv26mAhwC
Sort of, in a roundabout way. “The settlement with the S.E.C. faulted Tesla for failing to make sure that informati… https://t.co/4JbK8TTSFp
Elon Musk fined USD 20 million and banned from being chairman of Telsa for three years, though he’s still CEO. Tesl… https://t.co/nFGvlUnBH0
@dj2mn Heh. These are all good comments, thank you. I can’t remember if I had any specific questions last night. Of… https://t.co/NjQjivcmp0
RT @conor64: If you tried to travel back to 2004 and explain this photo everyone would think you were insane https://t.co/pkPD87Zobn
Hurrah! No, wait. https://t.co/ucpQP6GQnE
@kcarruthers Yes, it’s wonderful now that all the Russian hackers have stopped.
@NicholasFryer Update 4, posted yesterday, explains what’s happening with the podcasts over the next few weeks.… https://t.co/TVCXAelZ6R
Sun plan, draft: Slow start, because it’s Sunday; 1230 ACST lazy lunch and record a podcast with @NicholasFryer; We… https://t.co/qL3TyNSCXP
RT @bruce_haigh: They are nesting at the moment in a tree in my garden, they come into the garage to remind me to feed them. I think the eg…
@kcarruthers It’s part of a diplomatic strategy so it must be good. https://t.co/tWVzLuM5CO
Sunday. The cracks can be filled with uncertainty. Sunday.
@dj2mn Hey can you do me a favour and check this guy out? https://t.co/9FHdzFuRc0
@JamarzOnMarz If there’s any A&R people who want to sign him up let me know, but if you give this guy grief I will… https://t.co/O5XJsfXc0f
Seriously. Follow @JamarzOnMarz. His music is damn good.
And like OK you can’t get more white than me, but he’s a damn fine musicipic.twitter.com/RHKIzMwBI8wBI8
Seriously, check it out. jamarzonmarz.com
Can I just say that this track from a friend of mine is awesome. https://t.co/mS3LtLElVn
Dear Everyone, isn’t this awful. https://t.co/iy6mFy2DLn
@Net_Metalrat I guess so.
@dj2mn I know exactly what you mean. But this band was actually good.
@DrNemski @NewtonMark Mate, you’re fucked. Don’t even try it. You’re gone.
New @JonathanPieNews: “Brexit: Deal or No Deal?†https://t.co/Pqyu24JnWd
@BXGD @SnarkyPlatypus He’s not that pretty. Or maybe I’m fussy.
@BXGD @SnarkyPlatypus OK, yes, but…
@stufromoz @SnarkyPlatypus @FeastFestival Mate, it’s all bullshit. You know this. I fly in yesterday and it’s about… https://t.co/Mk6k1FEjtV
@teknetia @SnarkyPlatypus Can I buy some paint from you?
@ChrissieM @teknetia @SnarkyPlatypus Yeah look…
@teknetia @SnarkyPlatypus We know how this works.
@stufromoz @SnarkyPlatypus @FeastFestival Mate, you’ve been around as long as I have — sorry! — but this is how it… https://t.co/yZOQcz5N5a
@stufromoz @SnarkyPlatypus @FeastFestival Hey it’s a paid ad in the program. I’m pretty sure the festival organiser… https://t.co/k0r8YO4Edh
@stufromoz @SnarkyPlatypus This is an advert in the @FeastFestival https://t.co/iuzKTmBZIs program book, and while… https://t.co/1MqKujTmnK
I just know that this advert will match @SnarkyPlatypus’ ideas about diversitypic.twitter.com/I2tU4K3jSYSY
@dj2mn Also, back of the Exeter after I’ve been drinking is a judgement that should be taken with grain of salt.
@dj2mn Exactly. :) So yeah these kids are OK. A couple of their songs were a bit all over the place, but the ones t… https://t.co/lGGwixd1pE
@SnarkyPlatypus It was a huge tram junction, if that’s any help.
thegrugq Shark week! pic.twitter.com/7NVspc3Ecj
@dj2mn Beautiful work. They weren’t twinks, they were Adelaide alt kids. Coopers, right? I’ve known kids like this… https://t.co/88xwnjZZPg
@twiddlekins @DrRhysPockett What about leather jackets?
@paulwallbank @BatchBrewCo Paul, I’m in Adelaide, and “side of the Harbour†discussions are irrelevant here.
@dj2mn What? No! These two kids were what makes the Exeter great.
@dj2mn I know exactly what you mean. Sadly I was distracted and then they’d closed shop. But I’m going to find out… https://t.co/Pdxjffaf0N
@CptHollingworth Well you have a day job, kinda. I just bullshit my way through all this.
@DrRhysPockett Thanks. Like, I completely understand your point, but no they were here in front of me and they were rubbish.
@iborgward Please don’t.
@DrRhysPockett No. Seriously, no. Maybe some, but not these.
Just look at the way he eyes that baby. Draw your own conclusions. https://t.co/phjYh27ofJ
RT @dphrygian: If algorithms were waiters:
Twitter: “Your friends like steak, try the steak. But first, dessert.â€
Amazon: “I’ll get that…
@CptHollingworth Not if they’ve got any sense.
@CptHollingworth How is this even allowed?
Men with shaved heads and leather jackets drinking espresso martinis hahahaha like what the fuck.
@CptHollingworth Well, yes. Sigh. The “whiney accuracy crowd†never seem to actually, like, know anything. But I kn… https://t.co/T1flN3p7GO
ellobec SEND HELP THIS DISTRESSED BABY IS GOING TO BE EATEN BY A GIANT LIZARD! pic.twitter.com/YXrhyXQFn7
@eldonnn I saw it first.
@lewellyn Imagine that. Travel insurance for the US is the same rate as for African conflict zones.
@lewellyn Well this is it. I was in Tanzania a few years back, and was almost scheduled to go into Sierra Leone, an… https://t.co/yyyxJGVK9O
@CptHollingworth What even is this? I’m all for surfacing the hidden queer history of WW2 but what even is this
@raaahbin And here we are.
@lewellyn What’s interesting* it that travel insurance going to the US is in the same band as going to central Afri… https://t.co/fDX7iVoYIa
@lewellyn I encountered his work in both computing science and linguistics, and it’s important, but there’s been no… https://t.co/uuf2JUohC0
@raaahbin Wot? Weren’t you paying attention?
@Textasniffa Then you were never in Adelaide.
@paulwallbank @BatchBrewCo What has democracy ever done for us?
@lewellyn Yeah Canadians and Australians and various Europeans wonder WTF is going on. At the worst, we might have… https://t.co/yUsH3hWnjn
Why is Noam Chomsky still a thing?
@lewellyn Exactly. Wait, what?
What the fuck even is this? Thanks, @violetblue. https://t.co/v3z1k8wcEW
@lewellyn You have my sympathy. This shit can’t happen here.
@_midofo_ @CollingwoodFC I haven’t watched the sports news today but I know what you mean.
@lewellyn In music or rootability?
@lewellyn Wait, what, this has nothing to do with music all comes back to rootability.
@lewellyn I sympathise with you here. As an Australian, like a Canadian, it’s like WTF this shit just happens for free because government.
Fuckin’ New Zealanders.
@portusprince Mate. No.
@lewellyn Thing is, though, in Australia to criticise Midnight Oil pretty much marks you as a fascist.
@lewellyn I’m old enough to have had Midnight Oil play at my university’s student bar. Before they were mega-famous. They were crap.
@paulwallbank @BatchBrewCo Who let you over that side of the Harbour?
How many people outside Adelaide know what the words “bung fritz†mean? https://t.co/X19IXmCX3v
@jpwarren I know, but the Exeter has not succumbed for decades and I feel confident.
Organising a cheese platter. Because this is my town.
@dave_serious @blahblahellis So, even worse.
And when the band finishes, they play Joy Division. Because of course.
I should get out of here. I feel like an out-take from “BoJack Horsemanâ€.
@spottytwit Meh. As I tweeted earlier the worst case scenario is that I drop into Melbourne having missed one dose. I’ll live.
I just had a wonderful conversation with a young couple here. They’ve been together for two years. They’re now 21 a… https://t.co/gPnD5u7gcR
@jpwarren Could it ever be anything else? (That’s too romantic a view I know. But this is the most nostalgic I’ve e… https://t.co/GsM89IZi6j
@spottytwit Sure. But I misread the expiry date on my repeats. I had a repeat left, but that script was JUST over a year old. Screwed.
@InfidelBogan OK I have stories about Two Dogs.
@displayb333 Excellent.
And obviously everyone is drinking Cooper’s because that’s the only thing on tap and because this is Adelaide and fuck the lot of you.
That’s the thing about the Exeter though. In the front bar, people appreciating good ales and political gossip and… https://t.co/2HlFUGPiWX
OK well maybe this song has lost its way.
The band is Townz. I’m liking them a lot. Their t-shirts are also very well designed and I’m tempted to buy one eve… https://t.co/rMpJQJtfDQ
I didn’t bring my recording gear, but they’re kinda Brit shoegazer like, say, Ride. I’ll find our their name shortly.
The first band has started. The Exeter is always empty on a Saturday afternoon, but the evening is when it happens.… https://t.co/YxF6tB528t
@Rhys_Needham What? No. It’s lovely.
This is a true fact. Don’t @ me. https://t.co/usadimm10s
@blahblahellis None of it was any good. Midnight Oil was and always will be a shit band.
@NewtonMark Wow. The last of those was built in 1956.
Dealing with a Croatian. Long story.
@NewtonMark @obi1666 Um, it’ll be an oil cooler. I am not an oil cooler personally. Mostly.
@NewtonMark They’d driven across from Canberra in 10 hours. He was somewhat envious of us.
So @NewtonMark, conversation with an older English tourist, wife, and friends led to what I was doing in town, whic… https://t.co/0s7OTGDvVp
RT @FullFrontalSamB: It begins.
https://t.co/rI2VqGPTAG
RedTRaccoon Its looks like a dystopian Norman Rockwell. pic.twitter.com/pNnuoV7zXV
@oberonsghost It’s a very geriatric Chinese thing to do too. There’s a woman who feeds birds in Belmore Park every… https://t.co/nxfWiGl7Lh
@NewtonMark @obi1666 Yep, pretty sure I’ll be an oil cooler. Look at any WW2 water-cooled piston aircraft and you’l… https://t.co/789z5AVbmI
@oberonsghost That woman feeds the pigeons every day, I think. I’ve certainly seen her there a lot.
RT @facebook: If you’ve been logged out of your account and asked to sign back in, it’s because we’ve discovered a security issue and are t…
@oberonsghost That is such a nice spot to sit. Not pretty, but handy to watch the world go by.