During my week of Monday 11 to Sunday 17 January 2021 the “situation” in the United States really was quite distracting. It’s hard to take your eyes off the world’s most powerful nation tearing itself apart. Still, I did get that Quiz livestream happening.
Oh yeah, the Thai thing? “555” is the Thai equivalent of LOL or “Hahaha” because the Thai word for the number five is pronounced “ha”, roughly.
Videos
- The 8pm Quiz S01 E01, being the first pilot episode of a livestreamed pub-style quiz.
Two sets of 20 questions each meant it went longer than I’d planned — mostly because I’d made the questions too complex and I gave people more than enough time to respond. The latter was down to the roughly 60-second delay between me sending my words upstream and people’s comments coming back downstream.
The playback video is slightly butchered because YouTube’s copyright bots flagged a few problems. In particular the name-the-song question caused three hits, so that question will be dropped from future episodes. And the playout video at the end had to be dropped because it had a backing track as part of the performance.
If you want to see that video, but only after you’ve done the quiz because there’s a spoiler, check it out on YouTube.
Podcasts, Articles, Media Appearances, Corporate Largesse
None of any of these things. Yep, that Quiz thing. You can always read some of my previous writing at Authory, or subscribe to get a weekly compilation of new stories by email each Sunday morning, if there are any.
Recommendations
- “Since Trump’s almost out of office, I figured this would be a fun time to remind everyone of the weirdest & dumbest sh*t our failed dictator did in the last four years that we totally forgot about,” begins this wonderful Twitter thread.
- This Simple Tool Will Help You See What Websites Know About You, which I haven’t tried yet but it looks useful.
- Why Your Christian Friends and Family Members Are So Easily Fooled by Conspiracy Theories, from May 2020.
The Week Ahead
Week 44 of my Quarantimes continues at Bunjaree Cottages at Wentworth Falls, and I’ll definitely do my first writing for 2021. Definitely. Indeed, I’ve already half-written a story that I’ll finish on Tuesday, and I should be able to knock off another one later in the week.
On Wednesday I’ll watch my first US Studies Centre panel for the year, Key players in the Biden administration. Update 20 January 2021: Nah, I slept in. I’ll be watching the playback.
On Thursday night it’s the second pilot episode of The 8pm Quiz. It starts at 8pm AEDT on my YouTube channel.
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On Saturday and Sunday I’ll be covering Linux.conf.au 2021. I’m really looking forward to it.
Further Ahead
The last of the three pilot episodes episode of The 8pm Quiz will be on Thursday 28 January.
Also in the calendar:
- Mimecast Connect 2021, online, 25 February 2021.
- APRICOT 2021 / APNIC 51, online, 1–4 March 2010.
- Australian Cyber Conference, Canberra, 14–16 March 2021 (TBC).
- AusCERT 2021, Gold Coast and online, 11–13 May 2021 (TBC).
[Photo: A Sydney Trains B-Set train arrives at Ashfield station on 17 January 2021. This is a frame grab from a video shot on an iPhone 12 Pro.]