← 2020 November 2020
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
– Issac Asimov
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Zoom slaughters the Apple Silicon Macs' batteries. Every time I jump off a Zoom call I'm surprised at how much it's dropped compared to regular usage. The circled part of this screenshot was a 25 minute Zoom call.
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I'm only speaking for myself, but 2020 was going ok until I found out that when I think I'm putting wasabi on my sushi I'm almost totally actually putting horseradish and mustard with food colouring in it.
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Instagramception #AppleSilicon
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Stellar little Black Friday deal from Aussie Broadband: 250mbps down and 25 upstream for the price of 100/40 for a few months.
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In a year where it’s been closed off to wasteful-on-holiday interstate and international tourists, Tasmania has declared itself 100% powered by renewable energy.
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Brisbane
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If you really wanted to take issue with macOS Big Sur you should be protesting on the streets regarding the external drive eject icon #wethepeople
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Takeaway
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Who’s house? Run’s house!
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This afternoon I sold my 16” MacBook Pro so I could buy a MacBook with an M1 CPU. I prayed to the ghost of Steve Jobs and said “please don’t let me buy the wrong computer” as I struggled whether to buy an Air or a Pro and now the Apple Store is down, so if that’s not a sign ...
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Parking lot
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Heard it on the wire
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As John Gruber said when he linked to this page of vintage Soviet control rooms, these would make for some cool Zoom backgrounds
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Today’s office: Byron Bay Airport.
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Fire on the water, a smoke in the sky
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Someone asked me recently what my personal brand strategy was.
I just see go to places, see cool things, make photos of them, and post the photos online where they get 2-3 likes.
I’m not very good at being strategically cool.
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Instead of calling a parmigiana a parmi or a parma, let’s call it a parmo #worldpeacesolved
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Sunset over what we call Summer Bay, despite the map saying Palm Beach.
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One of my oddest hobbies is cloud watching. I can spend whole flights just staring out the window. These are some odd clouds over Scott’s Head this afternoon. I probably should read a book on clouds so I can give a better descriptor other than “clouds”.
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Two daughters and a wife
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I think the book is about marijuana
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Inuit / v. / kartz-sih-loo-nih – Sitting together in the darkness, perhaps expectantly (e.g., waiting for something to happen or to ‘burst forth’); the strange quiet before a momentous event.
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Houseporn
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Woman, circa 2020
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Poncho time
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Self-portrait
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Victorian and South Australian COVID outbreaks have both been linked to problems with security guards at quarantine hotels.
Australia could be travelling around Australia today if the hotel quarantine program was managed better and the guards were paid well.
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Apple Photos’ Memories feature is getting a bit desperate when it’s like, “remember that time you crossed the border into NSW?”
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Tony Damn is my favourite person to receive emails from
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Mullockdown
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Are there any nerd-like people that can point me in the direction of how to upload an image to micro.blog from a macOS automator action, and an iOS Shortcut. I'm nerd smart but not code smart, but figure I can learn. I'd love to be able to right click and upload an image/images.
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Happy 100 year birthday, Qantas
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If you see me dancing in an Instagram Reel or on TikTok, know that this is a call for help because I will have been taken hostage and I need to be rescued. Please screenshot this and put it on your fridge as a reminder.
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Scrolling through our wedding photos and remembered a time when people had pocket computers with physical keyboards ...
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This little photo I made two years ago in Burleigh has gone gangbusters on Unsplash! Over 10,000 downlaods, and over 1 million views!
Created with a DJI Mavic Pro (the OG)
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Which country do you think this photo was made in?
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“How many fingers am I holding up?” Before every ceremony I conduct a quick and easy eyesight with your guests. It’s all part of the #marriedbyjosh service.
Me at Alex and Laura’s wedding in Adelaide, photographed by Mike Hemus.
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Troy: "That's one of my biggest fears." Abed: "What is?" Troy: "If I ever, like, wake up as a donut..." Abed: "You would eat yourself? Troy: "I wouldn't even question it."
I miss Troy and Abed, in the moornning.
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If you’re looking for me this weekend, I’m just waiting in my building’s elevator so when people get in it looks like I’m trying to tap to play these videos.
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Luna’s upgraded to a big girl bed.
Please don’t tell her that a big girl bed is just a cot with a side taken off. She thinks we bought her a new bed.
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How did salt and pepper take pride of place on our tables from all the seasonings available? Another cruel blow from Big Condiment.
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All of Luna’s friends were getting orange phones so Britt and I buckled and got her an orange phone #badparents
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I'm applying for a new Qld/NSW border pass and they've somehow made an already complex system, more complex. Oh the joy to live and work around the border this year.
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When I’m president I’ll make Ted Lasso president.
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"An assertion of will and personality," much like pro-wrestling. That is the Donald Trump presidency, it's been a pro-wrestling presidency – @gruber on the November 6 episode of Dithering.
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3051 drones in a drone show in China! My bet is that by New Years Eve 2025 the Sydney New Years' Eve fireworks will replace the fireworks with a drone show.
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I can confidently tell you that the Apple Leather MagSafe Wallet fits three cards easily, no more, not even three cards and a $20 note folded up.
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Apple's underdogs series is marketing at its best.
April 2019: Apple releases "Apple at Work — The Underdogs"
July 2020: Apple release "The whole working-from-home thing — Apple"
Working on story telling at this height would honestly be so cool!
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Golden shower
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In other audlting news today, Britt and I just fist-pumped on a baby name subject to certain condtions.
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So, who ever knew that Australian states were kind of a "thing". It's like in 2020 we all had a lesson in realising that the "Commonwealth of Australia" is pretty much just a passport issuing and tax collecting authority
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🌈 Rainbow, where the bow is actually full of rain.
One of these is an iPhone 12 Pro shot, ones a Canon 5D shot.
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Gary Vaynerchuck's take on the Apple of today and why he thinks they're leaving money on the table and should buy Target (the US one) - Listen to the whole podcast.
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Wanna join Luna and my scooter gang? Aside from terrorising the residents of Palm Beach we also smuggle dogs across the New South Wales border.
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There are two things in this world that take no skill, spending other people‘s money, and dismissing an idea.
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If you were wondering, I'm a massive advocate for colours and emojis in calendars.
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When I grow up I’m going to start a Hall of Fame for band names and the first inductee will be Reel Big Fish.
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“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles”
— Charlie Chaplin
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This is a Warning. Mount Warning.
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The first issue a Josh Withers presidency will address is this crap with health balls looking like rum balls. These two things need to be kept separate and sacred.
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A power full picture
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It’s Luna’s third mango season, or as she calls it, Mangomas.
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When John McCain lost the presidential election to Barack Obama, he made this humble speech. Humility is an attractive element of any person, especially a leader.
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Netflix staffer: so, it’s like Netflix, but you don’t get to choose what you watch, it just shows up automatically.
Netflix execs: wow
Rest of humanity: are you just describing TV?
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Unknown bride looking person
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"Social media encourages the myth that who we are is defined by the opinions we type. But the older I get, the less interested I am in how well people can script their beliefs in front of a computer and the more interested I am in how tenaciously they go about grinding out their moral existence. I’m impressed when someone can get up every single day, determined to be a better human being than he or she was yesterday. Typing out what we “stand for” is easy. But loving well isn’t. I am not down on typing out our opinions—clearly. I’m only down on thinking that typing in and of itself constitutes an ethical life. May we stop thinking that becoming the kind of person we want to be is as easy as typing “me too” at those we agree with and “stupid people” at those we don’t. That’s a distraction from the real work of being human. And I’m ready to work."
From Love Matters More by Jared Byas
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When you lose the wings you gave yourself
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For anyone who thought fake crowd noise for baseball matches in empty stadiums wasn't a beautiful art
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Trying to run a non-local business in 2020 = early grave, silver hair, deep familiarity with how Australian governance works, looking forward to a future of never hearing the words Annastacia Palaszczuk again, regrettable subscription to the Courier Mail.
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As a wedding celebrant, this is my 2020 email template:
Hi! We start the email with factual text that sucks because COVID is ruining more wedding plans. But then conclude with a sentence ending with an exclamation mark & a smiley face so we still seem like nice people! :)
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Loch Ness Duck
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When Australia elects me as its president, the first item on my agenda will be outlawing the use of the term “The Coast” in regards to anything else but the Gold Coast.
No other coasts will be “The Coast”.
Vote 1 me.
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Nothing reminds you how much of a gross and disgusting person you are more than your AirPods case.
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US news today via #thesizzle & I thought it was interesting to read that the use of a risk algorithim to determine bail was rejected. This issue was covered in Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Talking To Strangers, and overwhelmingly the algorithim made better decisions than people.
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6am hustle
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25 week mama
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Maggie
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“There is an awful lot of anger in the world and there is a real need to be creative with it rather than destructive.”
— Alice Walker
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🌙 More attitude than a professional wrestler
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Photo of the current president of the USA on stage.
It’s a galah taking flight.
Just to be sure we all got the joke.
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Mountains aren’t just funny, they are hill areas
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Six years ago, on this day in 2014, I saw the most and best American thing outside the White House, with my own eyes. Nothing that happens in America today will trump this performance.
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Business idea: Thirdhand bookstores, so your secondhand books can be sold and not just thrown out like you currently are.
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It’s a rare day when you get to love animals and capitalism in the same action
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Life hack: save the money on building a toilet, just pee in the ocean.
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When Fox News references problems with Mainstream Media you know the phrase, and the conversation, is broken. Fox is MSM. They are part of the problem.
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”A crisis doesn’t have to be a negative event. A wedding is a crisis–one ceremony, one day, over and done. All eyes, all attention, all on this moment. That’s why we do it–even though the chronic condition of the marriage itself is always more important.”
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Beach daze
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The next Apple Event webpage has an AR Easter egg, tap on the Apple logo in the hero image
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It's that time of year agin for me to be that wet paper bag of a man I am and say that Melbourne Cup, horse racing, gambling, and the entire culture in Australia that supports and celebrates the three is embarrassing and sad.
Please continue eating your roast chicken and drinking your wine knowing that I like wine and chicken, but don't like what gambling or horse racing does.
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Nerding out on putting a MagSafe case on an iPhone 12. It’s a peach case and obviously that’s communicated to the phone so it does this cool animation.
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Going through old files and I found a 2009 iPhone 3GS rumour mock-up and I thought it would be interesting to see it next to an iPhone 12 rumour infographic
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I don't like to get political on here, but how have we let butterflies be called butterflies for so long when they have nothing to do with butter, it's just an amalgamation of flutterby and buttorfleoge and boterflye.
