← 2023 April 2023

  • Unkept looking bloke who’s loudly mumbling to himself and is scaring the parents at the playground he’s circling because he looks like an addiction that hasn’t showered in a few days, says to me “weird day man, weird day” and gives me a cheeky grin.

    Weird day.

  • If you’ve ever been the first guy to map parts of Australia and New Zealand, to witness the transit of Venus so ya bois in the lab could figure out how far earth is from the sun, or named an Aussie state, then this memorial marks the place some Hawaiians murdered you because they don’t take kindly to colonisers here.

  • Lusting after the new Teenage Engineering microphone

  • Sitting in a Starbucks in Kona just now and a family of four Brits fresh off the Quantum of the Seas cruise ship which just arrived in town. That's the ship that lost a passenger overboard 1400km south of here. Apparently the person's nickname/codename onboard the ship is "Old Mate". I guess this is what it feels like to be a minority.

  • Harry Belafonte finally met Mister Tally Man and had his banana’s tallied.

  • James Tylor and Matt Chun in the ANZAC Myth:

    The Australian government has fabricated a nationalist mythology around the invasion of Gelibolu Yarımadası (Gallipoli), telling a story of heroism and sacrifice.

  • The saddest part about Elon Musk screwing up Twitter and Twitter Blue is that the Internet needs to install a values system where we understand things have a cost and Twitter shouldn’t be free.

    But now paying $8 for Twitter is a meme, not an exercise in human betterment.

  • I’ve been saying crap on the internet and into microphones connected to radio and TV towers for 20 years next year, it’s a miracle that the most scandalous thing I’ve done is MAFS series one.

  • I need help with panoramic images made with my DJI Mavic 3 drone. The camera itself stitches the images together but the stitch is never great. So it saves the 25 individual images, but Photoshop and Lightroom can never deal with them well. What software can help with this?

  • For Polkadot Wedding’s Planning Issue this month I wrote an article on choosing a wedding reading and also how you don’t need one so if you have one, let it have purpose.

  • Well, count me surprised and dumbfounded /s that this weird crap is happening on Spotify.

  • Stumbled across this fascinating story of Little Richard being in Australia in 1957, seeing the Russian satellite Sputnik in the sky and thinking the world was going to end so he takes the stage to preach the gospel at his concert instead of performing so the promoter offered refunds.

  • My first tweet was tweeted 18 months before I even started tweeting

  • I'm working on a new business that is a web service - a mobile/desktop web app with video and audio upload components + email. I've never directly hired devs for this kind of project before. What kind of web dev language and tech should I be asking for in 2023?

  • I was moved to hear of Father Bob's passing. I've never met or talked to a crankier, lovelier, old bloke who was thoroughly and passionately focused on loving and caring for humans without personal gain or agenda.

    When I think about being Christ-like, I think of Bob.

    Many publicly-known priests and ministers are loved by church leadership whilst being in the news for scandal and crime, while Bob was hated by church leadership whilst in the news for loving the outcasts of society.

    I'd rather die a man lambasted by church leaders and known as a friend to outcasts, the downtrodden, the forgotten, the least of our society. That's who Bob was.

  • Shared my nerd bio in my NerdyBio interview

  • Everything that was old and awesome becomes new and terrible, whist still whipping the llama's ass.

  • My “Batman only exists because of 9/11” theory

  • Goldie, who just turned two, just buckled up her own airplane seat and is patiently awaiting takeoff whilst playing peek-a-boo with three different strangers and babbling to her neighbour.

    So yeah, I think she’s doing ok developmentally.

    Nashville, Tennessee ✈️ Phoenix, Arizona ✈️ Kona, Big Island of Hawaiʻi

  • The news is incentivised to be broken and terrible

  • Will, a mate of mine has written and released a guide on working in film and television production, something he's an expert in.

    I thought readers of my blog might appreciate the book if they or people they knew aspired to work in film production (it's a great and personal read, even for me, an old man without film and TV aspirations), but also, they'd enjoy this excerpt about what technology you should own and be proficient in before you start as a production assistant.

    “Seriously, people will look at you like you have three heads as you drag that eighty-pound hunk of plastic with the extended numerical keyboard from your bag and plop it on the desk.”

    If you, or someone you know, wants a start in the film and TV production industry Will's the book is a must-purchase and must-read - and it's now on Kindle.

  • Because I’m a man-child I wanted to share my two of my favourite photos from photographing the horse sanctuary in Baja

  • I’m pretty sure I know enough old nerds who would enjoy this purely for the nostalgia.

  • Reckon we could get the ChatGPT guys to spend an an afternoon working on spam filtering?

  • Once all the adults admit that they don’t know what a conservatory is we’ll finally get world peace

  • Bad news for plastic kitchen good lovers, Tupperware is about to go broke. Turns out they were about seven decades too early on the influencer marketing trend.

  • Six months a gringo and no bad days

  • Our last Baja sunset for a while

  • Our last day in Baja

  • Last day of school for the girls in Baja

  • Never forget the French dancing plague of the summer of 1518.

  • Charlie Munger on how the world actually works:

    Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.

  • I've thought about these three points pretty much every hour of every day since I first read it three days ago in James Clear's 3-2-1 email

  • The future of content: video of someone watching a video of someone who wrote a song about their low self esteem sponsored by a real estate agent I’d not do business with if only because I’m not going to click an ad to take me away from watching this train wreck of a video.

  • Location, location, location #playacerritos

  • You've got to get up early to catch the Mexican Coke dealers

  • Todos Santos, BCS, on Good Friday

  • Still the best food and beverage proposition in Baja

  • Martha!

  • I’m doing a redesign of a website whilst also moving them from Squarespace to Shopify and I’m pretty sure the cheeky copy sprinkled across the new homepage won’t make it past the first review, but I’m quite proud of it, so I had to share it somewhere.

  • Good Friday for Luna

  • I’m going to miss living in the desert when we leave next week. So many cactus started flowering this week and they’re beautiful.

  • Apple’s gotta be the company to come in and either buy or partner with StabilityAI right?

  • “Please lower your standards”

  • Baja sunset

  • Synecdoche

  • Millennial quiz: What have you got if you've got Sick Puppies next to Puddles of Mud with Twenty One Pilots?

  • How do you do fellow kids?

  • The moon over Baja tonight was so beautiful. Here it is captured by three lenses. Ones an iPhone 14 Pro’s 24mm lens, another is a Canon RF 35mm, and another is a Canon RF 70-200mm cropped.

  • Researching places to stay and this is the third sentence in the second paragraph in Wikipedia:

    In 1968, five Swiss artillery shells accidentally hit it, damaging a few chairs that were sitting outdoors.

  • I’ve never flown Delta Air Lines, but Britt did last week, and a friend here in Baja is a frequent flyer with the airline, both, unprompted, cited the seat-back entertainment as one of the reasons they would fly them again.

    Customer satisfaction win for Delta.