Near the end of my week of Monday 27 April to Sunday 3 May 2026 I walked past a pub, because I’d just been at one pub and was on my way to see a show. I did get some things done this week, though, including a little client work. Please pat my head.
On Sunday night I caught the final Sydney show of He Huang’s TEMU Joke Factory before she heads over to the New Zealand Comedy Festival, which is why this is being posted on Monday morning. It was brilliant. I’ve seen three of her shows before and this was both different and very personal. Five stars.
There’s still no progress in finding The Lost Module that contains a third of the stuff I had in storage, and that’s all I’ll say about moving to Campsie and its related crowdfunder this week. Oh, except that my birthday is somewhere in the next nine days, so you know what to do. Or is that too desperate? Yeah, probably.
Articles
- The Weekly Cybers #115. Australia to have another go at shifting cash from big tech to news mastheads, applications open for new top-level internet domains, medical devices are still easy to hack, and more.
Videos
- The Great Unboxening | 03, livestreamed on Thursday night. It was all about the vinyl records for sale, although nearly all the books are still up for grabs. Please do check out the lists and make an offer!
Podcasts, Photos, Media Appearances, Corporate Largesse
None of these. You can subscribe to my YouTube channel to be notified when new videos appear and when livestreams are scheduled — like the one coming up on Thursday night.
Some Interesting Links
- It’s Ukrainian propaganda, sure, but it’s also an intriguing story about a 77yo woman following a drone for eight kilometres to guide her to a waiting robot, which then drove her two hours to safety.
- ??? (Home) is the first track off Balming Tiger’s new album, and the video is amazing, Read about the album. That story is behind a ad-blocker blocker but I’m sure you know what to do.
- You can also read an interview with Balming Tiger’s Omega Sapien.
- An astoundingly British tribute to the Vickers VC10 airliner.
- 18 silly finalists from the Comedy Wildlife People’s Choice Awards.
- Sharath from Building Beautifully has a tribute to the renewal of Parramatta.
- Make a note of this one for spring: Bti honeypot traps for killing mosquito larvae.
- I kinda miss CBC Radio’s news satire program This is That, but some of their sketches exist in video form. Such as Maker Series: Artisanal Firewood, and Canada rolls out a universal car horn language. Of special note is ‘Thought Leader’ gives talk that will inspire your thoughts.
- This week’s suggested follow: This one will either become an addictive rabbit hole, or it’ll annoy the stuffing out of you. The Beef And Dairy Network Podcast has appeared monthly for more than a decade. “The number one podcast for those involved or just interested in the production of beef animals and dairy herds,” it says, but yeah nah, it’s a parody — and quite surreal. Some of the characters are long-running, so you may want to start at the beginning to understand all the references. At the time of writing there’s 133 episodes plus bonus content.
The Week Ahead
Monday is a day of client comms and administrivia, at least once I post this Weekly Wrap. As you probably know it’s usually a Sunday evening thing.
On Tuesday I’ll try to catch CSIRO Conversations: Quantum for Every Business. I’d like to hear what actual scientists reckon we can do with this quantum stuff.
Thursday night will see another livestream in The Great Unboxening at 8pm AEST, this time focusing on things other than books and vinyl records. Definitely DVDs and probably CDs, plus whatever I can get into a spreadsheet by then. I’ll also try to make this one more interesting than the previous episodes.
As with last week, though, the bulk of this week is about trying to find some more work, or at least some revenue, and organising the next few podcast episodes.
The Weekly Cybers newsletter will appear as usual on Friday afternoon — after which I’ll be heading to a local pub to exercise my superpower and win the meat raffle.
The coming weekend sits near my birthday, so there will be drinks somewhere on Saturday afternoon. I haven’t decided where yet, so watch my socials. Update 6 May 2026: I’ll be at the Mountbatten Hotel at 701 George Street in Haymarket from 3pm AEST on Saturday. It’s a small pub so we may well be able to take it over! Some of you may know it from when it was a run-down old men’s pub, but it’s now part of the JDA Collective.
Further Ahead
- Takashi Wakasugi’s Wabi-Sabi Comedy, Sydney, 16 May 2026. I saw Takashi’s work-in-progress show back in December, so it’ll be interesting to see how it all comes together.
[Photo: Hotel Sweeney’s in the Sydney CBD, whose name I’ve always thought would work better as Sweeney’s Hotel, photographed on 3 May 2026. This is a curious pub, with a typical blokey front bar but a very different vibe for each of the other floors. On this occasion I did not go in.]