@beneltham @thetowncrier Did you have a goose-related trauma, Jason?
@thetowncrier At least watch the video.
@DavidRDHeath I don’t think people realise how different the early versions sounded. A “design classicâ€Â in a way.
@swearyanthony @pjf There’s some odd machines out there.
@swearyanthony @pjf Anyway, nah, check out the original sound! https://t.co/dXVhhXMrwp
@swearyanthony @pjf Oh really? Goodness me.
@Tim_Coronel There’s so much magic here!
@StuartCRyan [Bows]
@swearyanthony @pjf Huh?
@jxeeno Au contraire. I think the timing is perfect.
@swearyanthony Of course. Have a listen.
What Telstra hasn’t advertised is that they’ll keep the 1194 Talking Clock operating in an unsupported mode with th… https://t.co/5Pj3EB01g1
RT @DrLindseyFitz: 18th-century dildo with plunger to simulate ejaculation. The sex toy was found in a convent in Paris, having been hidden…
@moylecroft @swearyanthony @dobes @rohan_p Wonderful. A story with everything.
@CADbloke @jpwarren @dobes @NewtonMark It’s funny but I dunno if I can be arsed looking further. :)
RT @andrewdotnich: Of course, I meant to type “seatedâ€. But the typo is apt in this case, at least.
RT @andrewdotnich: I admit to feeling a deep-seared unease whenever a machine tells me something is wrong.
“You, too, are mortal. You, to…
Well this is fine. @jpwarren @dobes @NewtonMark. https://t.co/ZpPYSyjx5Y
Private SNAFU’s “Diarrhoea and Dysenteryâ€, created by Theodore Geisel (Dr Seuss) and Phil Eastman.… https://t.co/BDiGNNV3NL
RT @johnthelutheran: Say what you like about the prophet Ezekiel, but he knew how to write an opening sentence. 💌 https://t.co/cNZPZ77VsW
@moylecroft @zdnetaustralia You and me both.
@NewtonMark What’s this Commie betrayal at the back?
@moylecroft @zdnetaustralia I’m just the messenger.
@GiovanniTorre Completely indifferent, though I wonder about the real reasons. https://t.co/Wd1wrHzrFA
JamesManning Something very Brexit about the path of Hurricane Lorenzo. pic.twitter.com/TgOqJM2AFz
@GiovanniTorre I don’t use it to check the time, but I do use it to test my set-up for recording phone calls.
Attn: @johnb78 @SnarkyPlatypus @dobes @rohan_p. https://t.co/T3mlwPFdtd
@GreenJ Relief that we’re not in them?
@jonoabroad @RealNickHodge Arf!
Me at @zdnetaustralia Friday: “More generic futurist hand-waving from Huawei’s founder†https://t.co/dFAkxLxqnO
@jonoabroad @RealNickHodge This has nothing to do with me.
@JohnBirmingham @rgmerk Too late, too late. https://t.co/sGjG4UTbLn
Margaret Thatcher on “Evil Geniusâpca.st/eZuK0tZp At@RealNickHodgeodge.
RT @NewtonMark: RT <locked>: https://t.co/oeQTQo3dbu
@JohnBirmingham @rgmerk I reckon you could get… or rather one could get into a rhythm. Then there’s the emphasis… https://t.co/98dkGn6Tfb
Helping.
@JohnBirmingham There’s also this. https://t.co/ruY2LrJCY4
RT @alisonkestrel: This has definitely been my favorite new-to-me invertebrate so far this year. #InverteFest, say hello to the fat innkeep…
@benbarberhays @JohnBirmingham @rgmerk I would say great, yes.
@JohnBirmingham @rgmerk Great minds, etc? pic.twitter.com/LL0Ku6kGYh
@JohnBirmingham @rgmerk Wait, did I say that out aloud?
@JohnBirmingham @rgmerk I guess it’s my last night to figure out whether it’s possible to masturbate to the Talking Clock.
@Vintuitive Originally a Tintin reference, according to Musk himself in something I saw the other day. https://t.co/qlwciFOshh
@JustJimWillDo Yeah, like who does maintain all these facilities?
I don’t think this is very much less dark. https://t.co/prqXie2GOm
Hahahah there’s an orange juice squeezer like the one we had when I was a kidpic.twitter.com/1paEavZ81v1v
Something else that worries me is the question of who built all those underground facilities on Tracy Island, and w… https://t.co/1EUHCbyYtf
@juhasaarinen Thank you.
Did anyone else see the “Thunderbirds FAB†stage shpic.twitter.com/m5jsuoDxOGDxOG
I can’t help but think International Rescue could’ve gotten on-site a shitload faster without all that faffing abou… https://t.co/8VH815XPGF
@feraldata Right in the middle of the decade (and a half?) of change, I’d say?
(This is really your patch rather t… https://t.co/gIdleSWcsi
trouteyes Inside a modern cow pic.twitter.com/jjrsJsQZuM
Martin Plaice. pic.twitter.com/D7KwNq3yFA
RT @MichaelRoddan: Superannuation is an incredible way to redistribute the wages of workers to the pockets of Martin place fund managers ht…
@SnarkyPlatypus I’ve heard enough strategic analysts say that “Asian Century†is a daft concept to come to the conc… https://t.co/maE30ZviIL
@jeamland @dobes @rohan_p @NewtonMark There’s a video. https://t.co/bCga8QlnRn
@jeamland @dobes @rohan_p @NewtonMark Clockchain! https://t.co/2ZEdoRZkVY
Hey @dobes @rohan_p @NewtonMark @jeamland surely there’s a conspiracy here? Where are the Talking Clock Truthers? https://t.co/GqeHkFuyAa
@JustJimWillDo I need to know more about the earlier part of this speech.
@jonoabroad @NSWRFS I’ve completely lost track over the years.
IMPORTANT LIFE ADVICE. https://t.co/qBOYGQ5jb5
@RhombusHatesYou R for Russell Crowe too, then.
RT @NSWRFS: From midnight the 2019-20 Bush Fire Danger Period (BFDP) will be in place for most of NSW. Fire permits are required for burnin…
I have been binging all the previous episodes of “Evil Genius with Russell Kane†and enjoying them.… https://t.co/N0YiIxLIaD
Saving this image for future Australian political commentary. https://t.co/5LMG5lg32c
@dobes @KetanJ0 Works for me. pic.twitter.com/QKzaefnQOT
Silly me. https://t.co/qWtMcdOaqa
Do we know how the bison voted? https://t.co/9QhvxYF9cn
PhilippeReines The 2016 election breakdown by human population, not bison & tumbleweed. pic.twitter.com/mpZWWS5aEP
Church on Sundays, pigs on Mondays! https://t.co/jJSVWd2pKr HT @juhasaarinen. https://t.co/rxjHuGJ52W
@mavsmum Well that doesn’t start with Q.
@chrisrauchle @SnarkyPlatypus Some of this already have that. We don’t need help.
@feraldata That’s not a bad syllabus.
@SnarkyPlatypus That platypus has a quokka looking up its arse.
Things! Ute! Vegemite! Crying now. https://t.co/eG0e7okzFr https://t.co/I8pOQS1o7x
@PatchouliW @Taco_Lad @SuperCroup @SnarkyPlatypus Then again. https://t.co/Ms0FzRW7RF
@SnarkyPlatypus Ah, then it’s designed to speed up the process, especially for people with earbuds in.
@PatchouliW @Taco_Lad @SuperCroup @SnarkyPlatypus There’s quite a bit of dreadful in this. https://t.co/p6ev8DGKWx
@SnarkyPlatypus I’m trying to think what its goal is.
@PatchouliW @Taco_Lad @SuperCroup Yeah they’re pretty dreadful. This is also important @SnarkyPlatypus content.
@SnarkyPlatypus Giving you time to get off the train?
Counterpoint: They, or someone else, had a home for a decade, and they still had it at the end. https://t.co/zYmCGk0JOI
Is the goose game a metaphor for Elon Musk?
RT @patstokes: DYLAN THOMAS: It pains me you are dying, father.
DAD THOMAS: Don’t worry, son: from this you will draw exquisite words, an…
RT @SuperCroup: Britain: the Brexit 50p coin is the most embarrassing coin anyone could possibly imagine.
Australia: hold my beer.
https:…
RT @qrtrmusic: a sunday morning meditation ✨ https://t.co/hEAc6hgY7r
adityasood Wanna feel old? Trump was trying to buy Greenland only 4 Scaramuccis ago.
RT @xsqoof: we have beef @amazon https://t.co/OLIEpVbOzr
@nnwakelam @AISA_National On the other hand, every conference has a dud speaker or two. And this means I can nip of… https://t.co/sixtWX3pch
RT @arothmanhistory: Don’t forget that Trump made up a fake Civil War battle on one of his golf courses https://t.co/woyLrdvNs8 https://t.c…
@nnwakelam @AISA_National As an aside, I interviewed Mitnick in 2016. He had nothing new to say. It was all just th… https://t.co/g6nwzBkpIb
@nnwakelam @AISA_National And 200 above 1138! pic.twitter.com/nqkVXZsgnH
@nnwakelam @AISA_National Just lie back and think 1337 thoughts.
@SnarkyPlatypus Part of their “charm†is that absolutely no one wants to be there.
@ApostrophePong I particularly like “LOL Dentistâ€. Very reassuring.
@iborgward I did not need this.
This is excellent, @ApostrophePong! https://t.co/IECs9OETsG
@JustJimWillDo But also accurate.
stilgherrian Hive Clamilton. pic.twitter.com/XLNvLby0Xx
@bigmac Now look…
@cragget @SnarkyPlatypus I should give it a go. I always love simple ideas done well, and the built-on-Debussy soundtrack intrigues me.
@SnarkyPlatypus This review seems quite positive. https://t.co/QAclPAqHPL
@SnarkyPlatypus The URL is even cute. goose.game
@SpinnyRin Well the article is pretty clear.
@paulwiggins It’s a good pub. I haven’t been there in ages.
@bigmac Yeah it’s been a while. The conference program looks packed with interesting stuff.
@franksting @SnarkyPlatypus Well what HAS she been up to lately?
@franksting @SnarkyPlatypus There is nothing more mundane than a Belinda Carlisle tour.
WARNING: I will be at this thing, and then remaining in Melbourne for the rest of the week through to Sun 13 Oct.… https://t.co/3VUeyDgN7C
@franksting Labor Party preselection?
“Australia hid documents about submarine deal to avoid offending Japan†by @knausc https://t.co/quZVjBFiVh
@Anthony_Caruana Heh. Don’t the police usually have their own stash?
RT @_pem_pem: “ronald reagan may have murdered people with aids, but at least he wore good suits” is the best/saddest encapsulation of gay…
“Pornographic video plays on I-75 billboard, police investigating†https://t.co/ORSeAlmbkA
@garrymck Goddam opals!
@Guruwil Yeah but people still spend their money somewhere, somehow. Here’s another factoid: State GDP per capita i… https://t.co/kjIoopCYdz
@staticsan @SnarkyPlatypus It’s not Wikipedia. It’s whatever comes up in Google Searpic.twitter.com/U3vbTwCiqJCiqJ
Good God. pic.twitter.com/5xTYHOXNsW
@munin This is true, but even so.
RT @FoxyLustyGrover: My 17 year old Mother chained herself to the Town Hall for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Teenage Activism is n…
The lock-out laws in a few tiny areas of Sydney “cost†the state economy $2,100 a year for every adult and child in… https://t.co/JQJaE2Yw0l
@SnarkyPlatypus Correct.
RT @tonyschwartz: Trump basically went nuts tweeting today. And retweeting a slew of people with virtually no followers — can’t imagine wh…
@glengyron Autosapiosexuals, I think you’ll find.
RT @speechboy71: It’s weird how Glenn Greenwald is spending more time defending two people who were not whistleblowers … and has had almo…
RT @AFP: Asics sports brand apologises after pornography is broadcast on large TV screens above its Auckland store for several hours
https:…
@upulie @jonkudelka I might have to organise a play-off between those two and “though leaderâ€.
@evcricket Yeah but political not social.
@jonkudelka This is what I was thinking.
RT @upulie: OMG please someone make this happen https://t.co/hQQ9LxAB86
Which is worse? A “public intellectual†or a “social commentator�
RT @NewtonMark: Just told a facebook correspondent that his CO2-emmissions-from-wind-turbines argument on facebook was the least productive…
@dobes Oh yes, thank you. This cannot be overemphasised.
@stephendann Honk!
This is a lot funnier than you’re giving it credit for. https://t.co/m5rM8vYLrl
Further alleged plans may be found in the Weekly Wrap, of course. https://t.co/3JGhxG5JvO
Mon plan, reworked: Pig joy (enjoyed); reduce the floor-based entropy (soon); sort out some things (how vague); qui… https://t.co/D2tV7fJd3y
@alexkidman Honk!
SlenderSherbet “don’t ask, Carol, just don’t ask”
#Caturday pic.twitter.com/CLDS7By0r5
Until the next one, anyway.
So “whenever the goose honked over the two-way radio†is my new favourite phrase. https://t.co/QdFeYMdS9D
@nigel_castle What, on the balcony?
Hive Clamilton. pic.twitter.com/XLNvLby0Xx
paulwallbank It seems Y2K has belatedly hit the Barangaroo Towers’ lifts. pic.twitter.com/wcGE31e6yg
RT @jjprojects: What was the banking royal commission even for? https://t.co/Hp0v8CCSDN
@VancityReynolds @deanog Forgive me for butting in, but it’s not particularly correct. https://t.co/J4lQzmSxS2
@patstokes @jonkudelka @damonayoung I love me a bit of Belgian Horn.
@RealNickHodge Mate. No.
@cafuego Plus a layer or two more, surely.
RT @HamillHimself: You misspelled “Fraud.”
#GoForceYourself https://t.co/ORY6eeyGgj
Breakfast pig with choi sum flowers. pic.twitter.com/QaF36zZrDD
@RealNickHodge Goddam bears.
I think I might stop looking in that directory because there’s way too much hilarity in there.
@RealNickHodge What were their names?
There is evidence to suggest that I’ve just been copying this directory from server to server and gradually upgradi… https://t.co/wDA5aF5iYm
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. pic.twitter.com/PP7Gei1663
@morebento Which just goes to prove that if you want it to work forever, write it in Perl.
Also, remind yourself to run the backups. (In my defence, it required shuffling some physical media.) pic.twitter.com/ImshxzWVq1
Also, always pipe your cron job’s error output to /dev/null so you’re never bothered by those pesky messages. Four… https://t.co/KuhDyJIsHJ
Pro Tip: If you can’t work out why something isn’t working, just turn it off.
Hahahaha look what I put in as a quick fix in May 2013 and was still running four times an hour until just now. I a… https://t.co/mgpIvX2aA4
RT @mmasnick: Today in headlines I didn’t expect to see. We are truly living in a dystopia when we need to worry about the cybersecurity o…
My life in a nutshell. https://t.co/wkaO5yyMjW
RT @DRWaus: Australians are now among the most heavily surveilled populations in the world. Additional safeguards for journalists within th…
I agree with this. “The Farewell†is an excellent film. https://t.co/2EmuTRkyuz
Starting my Monday, as always, with @theharryshearer’s “Le Shopca.st/pedsqqzsJakWFt
Further alleged plans may be found in the Weekly Wrap. https://t.co/3JGhxG5JvO
Mon plan, an outline: Pig joy; reduce the floor-based entropy; train to Wentworth Falls and back, because errands;… https://t.co/offZ3pZx3n
Sydney will be experiencing the kind of day I like. Lovely. pic.twitter.com/sugdSACMO9
Monday. There will be an Inconsistency. Find it. Monday.
This evening’s random message on Wickrpic.twitter.com/TLAynWiQSMSM
RT @ParrotOfTheDay: Crimson rosella, today’s #ParrotOTD, on the march seeking seed at Kennett River on the Great Ocean Road, SW of Melbourn…
@timpoliti I’ll take that as a no.
@timpoliti Were they aboard the good ship Venus?
“Daffodils are evil.â€
“I know, there’s a whole film about that, right? About daffodils being evil.â€
“That’s Triffid… https://t.co/XzGtdlKiYu
@glengyron @petstarr Or this. https://t.co/7d19ANHMIr
@glengyron Doesn’t he look happy with his lot.
RT @glengyron: I feel like I forgot something. Where are my keys. Oh. There. Guess I’m good then. https://t.co/ugq3sj7w3O
Pandamoanimum This is one of the best things I have ever seen on Facebook. pic.twitter.com/t3ikEg5x24
@timpoliti @kcarruthers Give Elon a chance. https://t.co/MnyhouhopI
@timpoliti @kcarruthers Arts Complex. https://t.co/4C1h7gKHVu
botandy time to gain knowledge pic.twitter.com/ue2KqDCo9q
@timpoliti @kcarruthers Well that’s REAL bullshit.
@timpoliti @kcarruthers Bullshit.
@kcarruthers Why are you in Moscow?
@NewtonMark @techoglot Well indeed. Or pipe the keyboard somewhere, because the keyboard is part of the OS. It’s al… https://t.co/lEdXOOjZbU
“Boeing MQ-25 First Test Flight†https://t.co/DYOVZIWZCf Sure, “autonomous drone†makes sense, but as an “aerial re… https://t.co/1n7gfpdaHs
@jonoabroad @techoglot I am familiar with most things that come out of a koala’s arse.
@jonoabroad You’ll need to as@techoglotot. But that’s not a Vietnamese thing you’re thinkinen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwakG30nOl
@NewtonMark In any event, a beautifully tight formation. You should be very happy.