[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/03/12/like-many-amateur)
- If this photo I made ten minutes ago excites you, you're going to love this [real estate listing for our home](https://www.realestate.com.au/property/10-morshead-st-tugun-qld-4224/). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/03/09/if-this-photo)
- A lovely Qantas flight attendant yesterday asked me if I was Josh Withers, at which point I prepare myself to say yes and have a chat to her about a wedding of mine that she attended or how she saw me [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/03/08/a-lovely-qantas)
- Prediction: Wedding photography is about to undergo a massive change. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/03/04/prediction-wedding-photography)
- I’m fast realising that my only real talent in this world is being the member of the conversation who can provide the comedic exit of the conversation before we play a guitar riff, the station call si [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/03/01/im-fast-realising)
- I asked readers of my [Aisle Authority daily letter to the best celebrants in the world](https://aisleauthority.email) what they thought about the length of the daily email letter ... the winner was t [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/29/i-asked-readers)
- New favourite website: [fontreviewjournal.com](https://fontreviewjournal.com) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/27/new-favourite-website)
- I'm thoroughly convinced that email can be a meaningful method of communication, relationship, community, and entertainment in the future. I've always been proud of what my friend [@james@bne.social]( [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/23/im-thoroughly-convinced)
- The CEO of the biggest supermarket chain in Australia is stepping down because no other news media dared question an advertiser.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/21/the-ceo-of)
- Matt Ruby on metadata: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/20/matt-ruby-on)
- I find reading the news depressing but I still want to get an idea of what's happening in the local news so I made an AI bot that writes the daily Tasmanian news headlines as a poem: [tas.lol](https:/ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/18/i-find-reading)
- Hobart sunset - [high res download](https://withe.rs/y61S) for any Apple Vision Pro users, and [direct link to the 360 photo on Panoraven](https://thehost.au/en/embed/WTWZ73deht) and direct link to th [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/17/hobart-sunset-high)
- Levelling up in nerdom is [running your own AI/LLM](https://ollama.com) on your own hardware. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/15/levelling-up-in)
- [A unified theory of fucks](https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/unified-theory-of------):
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/15/a-unified-theory)
- [14 ideas to build and grow a podcast network today](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/14/ideas-to-build)
- I’ve just found out - through hearing it - that the Disney cruise ship horn blows the tune “When you wish upon a star” in port and now I feel all magical and whimsical. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/14/ive-just-found)
- Tracy Chapman & Luke Combs at the Grammys singing [Fast Car](https://grammy.com/videos/tracy-chapman-luke-combs-fast-car-2024-grammys-performance-66th-annual-grammy-awards) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/11/tracy-chapman-luke)
- 10 issues into my new daily letter to the best wedding celebrants in the world, Aisle Authority, and it's feeling good.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/10/issues-into-my)
- Seriously [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/08/seriously)
- No-one asked but if I was a wrestler my walk-out music would be In The Shadows by The Rasmus [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/31/noone-asked-but)
- For those of us that know Internet Explorer 4.0 was the GOAT, a reflection on the Geocities, marquee rage, dial-up Internet era, the 90s on the web, by [Zach Holman](https://zachholman.com/posts/only- [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/31/for-those-of)
- I've written the first seven issues of my new daily email letter for wedding celebrants: Aisle Authority.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/27/ive-written-the)
- For those of us that know Internet Explorer 4.0 was the GOAT, a reflection on the Geocities, marquee rage, dial-up Internet era, the 90s on the web, by [Zach Holman](https://zachholman.com/posts/only- [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/27/for-those-of)
- Took a peek at a peak across the Remarkables today [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/24/took-a-peek)
- # 40 years of the Mac and why I can't use anything else now [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/24/years-of-the)
- Marketing is actually part of the product. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/21/marketing-is-actually)
- Ben Thompson's interview p[o](https://withe.rs/6EQl)dcast with Spike Eskin about radio from 2023 is a really good listen if you have a Stratechery membership. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/21/ben-thompsons-interview)
- a mob of kangaroos [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/21/a-mob-of)
- If every website firewall brought [this kind of tease energy](https://theankler.com/p/postcard-from-sundance-starting-with-ed0?r=2d79) I'd be a broke man but journalism would be funded globally. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/21/if-every-website)
- I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can just nominate awesome people around you for an Order of Australia medal on the Governor-General's website.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/21/i-dont-know)
- Ten years on since we filmed the first season of Married At First Sight, nine years on since it aired, and I still get recognised. Just happened in Footscray. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/20/ten-years-on)
- [Listen to Really Specific Stories](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/20/listen-to-really)
- [Designing the iTunes Music Store: "Refer to the main.psd"](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/20/designing-the-itunes)
- A little life update: we handed the keys for our Gold Coast home back to the landlord yesterday. Today we’re home-less. I’ve just boarded a flight to Melbourne for a wedding there this weekend, then w [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/19/a-little-life)
- going to bed with an empty inbox and an audience size of 3 … [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/15/going-to-bed)
- I can’t escape this idea of what ‘taste’ is, as discussed on the [Ezra Klein show](https://overcast.fm/+oiPX6OddI/04:07). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/15/i-cant-escape)
- Surely, and please give me grace if this isn’t the case, surely the people really upset about not being able to buy new Chinese manufactured cheap plastic crap adorned with the Australian flag surely [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/15/surely-and-please)
- The [Farnham Street](https://fs.blog/) email: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/15/the-farnham-street)
- > I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world, this makes it difficult to plan the day. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/14/i-arise-in)
- How it started, and how it finished [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/12/how-it-started)
- [Flashback Camera, some first thoughts](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/09/flashback-camera-some)
- Disappointed this hasn’t come to pass yet [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/09/disappointed-this-hasnt)
- This [article](https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/all-futurism-is-afrofuturism-939?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) on "Afrofuturism" is so interesting, so I'll lead with the end:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/07/this-article-on)
- I love a sunburnt country,
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/07/i-love-a)
- Drove the 90 minutes from Exmouth to photograph the sunset in Coral Bay this afternoon and also see the couple I'm marrying this weekend, and after the sun had set I found that all the local restauran [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/05/drove-the-minutes)
- When I'm president I'm going to classify printers as terrorists [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/02/when-im-president)
- Digital incompetency truly will be the swan song of the people of the 2020s. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/02/digital-incompetency-truly)
- > "The information you consume each day is the soil from which your future thoughts are grown."
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/12/22/the-information-you)
- I wrote this [eight years ago on Facebook](/uploads/2023/64e5580ec0.jpg). I think it’s more valid today plus I want to preserve it on my blog: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/12/14/i-wrote-this)
- [My app defaults](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/12/05/my-app-defaults)
- > Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/11/28/things-which-matter)
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/11/22/nassim-nicholas-taleb)
- > You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/11/21/you-normally-have)
- It's amazing how close Google is to upsetting the iMessage monopoly and I'm betting they'll let go of the opportunity.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/11/13/its-amazing-how)
- The hardest thing about being a wedding celebrant is figuring out the right balance of smiley faces, exclamation marks, or periods, to end sentences in emails with.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/11/10/the-hardest-thing)
- You know, it’s super fun and easy to take a pot shot at the Humane AI Pin, but put your hesitations aside and 1) watch the [video](https://vimeo.com/882968794) and tell me it’s not actually kinda cool [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/11/10/you-know-its)
- Watch out guys, the police have installed new air drumming detection cameras and if you actually can't play drums or if you're out of time with the music it's a $2000 fine. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/11/09/watch-out-guys)
- Answering the most common question I get asked, "Do you travel for weddings?" [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/11/08/answering-the-most)
- This is so fascinating, [CT scans of real AirPods versus the fake ripoff AirPods](https://www.lumafield.com/article/real-vs-fake-apple-products-through-industrial-ct-airpods-pro-macbook-magsafe-charge [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/11/08/this-is-so)
- Sorry I missed your text, I'm currently being force-fed all of the information about the entirety of the existence of the human race, past, present, and future, through a handheld slab of glass and al [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/11/07/sorry-i-missed)
- Old people/nerds like me: Do you have memories, or photos, of the computer software and shareware kiosks from the mid-90s in Australia.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/11/06/old-peoplenerds-like)
- the more you K-sound now [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/10/28/the-more-you)
- We celebrated my moon girl's fifth birthday today and without doubt I have so much love for everyone that loves and celebrates her, but I wanted to share something I taught Luna today that is applicab [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/10/22/we-celebrated-my)
- [This musical tribute to the #SydneyOperaHouse by Tim Minchin and crew is the best thing on the internet today](https://youtu.be/l8ouigVtUvo) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/10/19/this-musical-tribute)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/10/14/211050)
- In my dream last night I had to explain the “bah-lark-eh” [substitute teacher joke from Key and Peele](https://youtu.be/zRpsRKuyi3Y?si=Byd5Sco7URNPnS9c) to a wedding guest named Blake. So I guess wedd [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/10/12/in-my-dream)
- I love how at no point is the world left wondering what Ziggy Stardust did and if he was good at it [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/10/11/i-love-how)
- GM - how people apparently say good morning on social media where - globally speaking - there is no real morning or night or day.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/10/10/gm-how-people)
- Here to help [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/10/05/here-to-help)
- Monthly photography revenue: $5 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/24/monthly-photography-revenue)
- Can someone check on [Mark Di Stefano](https://www.afr.com/rear-window/gurner-got-his-start-with-loans-from-his-boss-grandfather-20230913-p5e48z)? Surely the trust fund babies have a price on his head [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/17/can-someone-check)
- There’s a lot said about how we Aussies are more divided and alone than we ever have been in this country. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/15/theres-a-lot)
- Show me a more “Aussie” Aussie, than this legit Aussie legend. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/14/show-me-a)
- I have a confession to make: I’ve built an Australian news website that is purely created by large language models. It’s autonomous and although I can edit, delete, and stop it, I don’t unless somethi [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/11/i-have-a)
- [Hoo roo, Uluru, am I even supposed to be here?](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/11/hoo-roo-uluru)
- Flying into Sydney over the Blue Mountains from Uluru this afternoon was a visual treat [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/11/flying-into-sydney)
- Two Google conspiracy theories proven true today: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/11/two-google-conspiracy)
- Podcast recommendation for the media, podcasting, and tech nerds in my circles: [Really Specific Stories](https://www.rsspod.net). It’s by [@martinfeld](https://micro.blog/martinfeld) of [@Hemispheric [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/11/podcast-recommendation-for)
- Shane Parrish [on playing the long game](https://fs.blog/long-game/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/11/shane-parrish-on)
- Duelling Retro Roos sighting [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/10/duelling-retro-roos)
- > Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together—just the two of you. A library i [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/09/books-hold-most)
- Most of us, me included, can barely think past the next three minutes. We operate in this fear of lack, lack of good or sleep or money, that completely ignores the long arc of our life which gives us [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/07/most-of-us)
- I’ve driven 737km today, I have 93 left, and I just want to say there needs to be a royal commission into the state of servo food in this once great nation. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/05/ive-driven-km)
- I often wonder if Lin-Manuel Miranda is working on a Peggy spin-off [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/05/i-often-wonder)
- Many thanks to the airline gods for offering up a new CEO for our national flights of Australia for make benefit glorious nation of Qantastralia! May our new blessed CEO that is the one and only decis [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/05/many-thanks-to)
- [Guy who’s not the sharpest tool in the shed gets rolled by the world](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/05/guy-whos-not)
- [For sale: Leica Z2X vintage point and shoot film camera](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/03/for-sale-leica)
- Can anyone I know remember the name of the modern web browser for MacOS System 9? I don't know why this matters to me so much but I need to browse the web inside a virtual machine of System 9 just to [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/09/01/can-anyone-i)
- I'm a part of the Hobart wedding trail coming up in a few weeks. I'm expecting a great crowd to fly down and come and jump on a bus or boat and check out the Tasmanian wedding scene. My friend Nina at [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/30/im-a-part)
- You're never going to guess who [Nouba interviewed](https://nouba.com.au/josh-withers/). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/29/youre-never-going)
- I’m guest editing [The Sizzle](https://thesizzle.com.au) today. Apologies for any banana peel in the email. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/29/im-guest-editing)
- I'm the guest on the most recent episode of Polka Dot Wedding's Feel Good Wedding Podcast. My audio recording isn't great because it was recorded in a small tiled Italian co-working office room, but t [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/28/im-the-guest)
- YouTube [bringing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ3XMOdOdKM&lc=UgzYEWXxJUjo25JdaYZ4AaABAg) that dad energy [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/27/youtube-bringing-that)
- Death to paper straws [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/25/death-to-paper)
- Home [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/25/home)
- Can confirm, hearing the instrumental “Still Call Australia Home” as you’re settling in your seat as everyone boards, tickles an emotional muscle. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/19/can-confirm-hearing)
- I’m in the Qantas Singapore Lounge and the waiter poured me a glass of Shiraz, a 2020 from South Australia, on the left. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/19/im-in-the)
- Frames from Singapore [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/19/frames-from-singapore)
- Four year old just now at our Singapore hotel as we're getting ready to go to Singapre airport: I don't want to eat here, I want to eat at 'the club at the airport'.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/19/four-year-old)
- Luna calls cable cars “plane trains” and honestly, that’s a much better name. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/18/luna-calls-cable)
- When we took the kids overseas everyone told us to make sure we look after them … [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/15/when-we-took)
- Hello, Qantas my old friend [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/15/hello-qantas-my)
- Entering the [Paul Kelly](https://youtu.be/PmAPL8q6o5M) stage of our Europe adventure … [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/15/entering-the-paul)
- We're packing and getting ready for our homeward journey tonight in Paris. We've got three flights left, and the longest ones just earned us a text message from Qantas letting us know that the four of [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/14/were-packing-and)
- Michael A. Fletcher [reports for ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38190720/blind-side-subject-michael-oher-alleges-adoption-was-lie-family-took-all-film-proceeds) that the real life story beh [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/14/michael-a-fletcher)
- I walked out of the house this morning and a man was urinating onto the street, facing in my direction, two metres away. I called out that he was disgusting and he stared at me in the eyes. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/14/i-walked-out)
- Richard Rohr in Things Hidden:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/14/richard-rohr-in)
- We have 48 hours left in Paris. I'm I'm curious what your one awesome thing to do, see, eat, or photograph in Paris. We travel slow, don't travel like tourists, don't really hit the common "top 10 thi [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/13/we-have-hours)
- I think I’ve spent too much time in Paris this year. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/13/i-think-ive)
- Bearly made it home last night [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/13/bearly-made-it)
- Another chapter in the ever-growing story of how I interact with, and use, social media: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/12/another-chapter-in)
- Just a couple of Australians having a French win. Frame from last night in Paris with yours truly. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/12/just-a-couple)
- Will the Australian government send in an SAS extraction group to save Britt, the girls, and I when France loses to the Matildas in the World Cup quarter-finals today? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/12/will-the-australian)
- Did some A-grade marrying in the rain in Paris today [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/12/did-some-agrade)
- [A Modest Proposal](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm); For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/12/a-modest-proposal)
- I'd forgotten how [nice Facebook Paper](https://mikematas.com) was. What was the last great UX you experienced? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/12/id-forgotten-how)
- My daily steps over the past seven months [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/11/my-daily-steps)
- I think it's beautiful that the one thing that binds us together as a global community, regardless of colour of skin, religion, where we were born or where we live, or wealth or lack of it, is how our [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/11/i-think-its)
- Resume the conversation [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/11/resume-the-conversation)
- My only regret from my radio career is that I never once said, whilst on air, [the line](https://songwhip.com/beats-international/dubbegoodtome) that inspired my career: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/10/my-only-regret)
- An element of the wedding industry which offends so many inside and out, the part that eventually pushes many insiders out and back into the normal world where couples kissing in front of you all day [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/10/an-element-of)
- Sari Azout's "[letter to a friend who is thinking of starting something new](https://sublimeinternet.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-friend-who-is-thinking)" is beautiful. As Sari subtitles it, 'if you are [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/10/sari-azouts-letter)
- [Colonel Sanders and the sadness in scaling businesses](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/10/colonel-sanders-and)
- [Tess McClure in The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-savey-meal-bot-ai-app-malfunction-recipes) reports on Pak 'n' Save's mealbot:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/10/tess-mcclure-in)
- After two months in London, across regional Austria, Liechtenstein, regional Italy, Puglia, and Tuscany, it is so refreshing for my soul to be walking the streets of Paris again tonight. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/08/after-two-months)
- Why do airlines communicate a flight's departure time instead of a "be at the gate" time? Every airport and every airline has different timings and many of us live in flight anxiety because of the lac [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/08/why-do-airlines)
- Pro tip for flying out of Vienna Airport: you walk past a Starbucks before check-in, and you think, “awesome, a not-Austrian coffee! If there’s Starbucks at check-in there’ll be a Starbucks after secu [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/08/pro-tip-for)
- Over the weekend I wrote [a piece about the fluff coming out of commercial radio in Australia](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/06/commercial-radio-isnt.html), referencing my own time in a commercial [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/08/over-the-weekend)
- Driving from Siena, Italy, to Graz, Austria, today Goldie and I were looking for somewhere to stop for lunch and we decided on this place named after a beach in Los Angeles. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/07/driving-from-siena)
- [Commercial radio isn't \"booming\", it's barely paying the minimum wage](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/06/commercial-radio-isnt)
- Not everything is forever. Some things are just internet onions. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/06/not-everything-is)
- Things I can remember: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/06/things-i-can)
- Father of the bride yesterday asked me who's father I was. I'm now that old. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/06/father-of-the)
- This is your annual reminder that there is a pager emoji 📟 please don't forget to use the emoji for all of your pager-themed conversations. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/06/this-is-your)
- My favourite part of the wedding ceremony is when we show each other our best memes [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/05/my-favourite-part)
- Things I learned today: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/05/things-i-learned)
- I wonder if Mariah Carey ever regretted collaborating with Ol’ Dirty Bastard? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/05/i-wonder-if)
- [Adi Ignatius inteviewing Karim Lakhani](https://hbr.org/2023/08/ai-wont-replace-humans-but-humans-with-ai-will-replace-humans-without-ai) for the Harvard Business Review:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/05/adi-ignatius-inteviewing)
- Two applications I used daily in the 90s/2000s but don’t exist today and I haven’t sufficiently found replacements for are MS Money and MS Access. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/05/two-applications-i)
- For couples that book my David Copperfield package I do a cool magic trick and make your guests disappear.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/04/for-couples-that)
- WinRAR [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/02/winrar)
- Three years ago today [I called for](https://www.facebook.com/therebelsguide/posts/pfbid0BcV9Z41sAg7e9v7MwdtMYnQvZGUFA3Gdfuv2URaQQJkpJZMCmnXSdQeQfmokYH91l) a new Saint to be named in Melbourne. turns [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/02/three-years-ago)
- Jake Meador in [The Misunderstood Reason Millions of Americans Stopped Going to Church](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/christian-church-communitiy-participation-drop/674843/) in The [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/02/jake-meador-in)
- I love my email. Not because I love my email but because due to the swings and round-a-bouts of modern life needing email, and because writers and publications I want to hear from send emails, I've fi [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/01/i-love-my)
- I was today years old when I learned that the word 'homographic' didn't mean what my brain assumed it meant.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/01/i-was-today)
- [50 years of .... celibacy](https://nouba.com.au/celebrating-50-years-of-marriage-celebrancy/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/01/years-of-celibacy)
- Doing God's work over here, keeping [the Gold Coast honest about it's Super Mario koala](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/08/your-animals-with.html) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/01/doing-gods-work)
- I don't know who needs to hear this, but the All Saints sung, "flexing vocabulary runs through my head". Not, "sex and the vocabulary runs through my head." Not like I'd thought the latter for the las [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/01/i-dont-know)
- 📷🇮🇹 Siena, Tuscany [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/01/siena-tuscany)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/08/01/for-an-interesting)
- [I, for one, welcome our new British open web overlords](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/31/i-for-one)
- Tuscany for a week or so [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/30/tuscany-for-a)
- Look, all I want to do with my life is make enough money so I can afford to buy Yahoo! which owns AOL which owns Netscape so I can once more have a web browser that has an animated N in the top right [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/30/look-all-i)
- Shane Parrish on fs.blog with, [Hanlon’s Razor: Not Everyone is Out to Get You](https://fs.blog/mental-model-hanlons-razor/), is such an encouraging read today. I was only thinking about how we more o [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/30/shane-parrish-on)
- Years from now the people of Puglia will still talk of the strange man who came from the land down under, where women glow and the men have takeaway American coffee with cold milk. I said, "Do you spe [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/29/years-from-now)
- [Imagine your audience are the stupidest people alive](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/29/imagine-your-audience)
- I reinstalled the Twitter app when X first appeared just so I could experience this firsthand, in the flesh [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/29/i-reinstalled-the)
- [Opportunity cost and Eggs Benedict](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/29/opportunity-cost-and)
- 11:27pm Italy time and I've been slogging away for hours at the stupidest CSS thing that changed in the most recent version of the Shopify code. Felt good to feel like it was 1999 and I was a web deve [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/28/pm-italy-time)
- A MacBook with a [turntable instead of a keyboard](https://gizmodo.com/apple-patent-modular-laptop-with-attachable-turntable-1850679307?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)? Shut up and take my money [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/28/a-macbook-with)
- ABC Radio National's Andrew West interviewing Ian Buruma on in [The religious and spiritual ethics of wokeness](https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/religionandethicsreport/ian-buruma-and-the [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/27/abc-radio-nationals)
- Update on the book writing: I wrote a lot and I thought it was ok, I ran it past some friends and it wasn't as good as I thought, and on further reflection it was worse. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/27/update-on-the)
- A photographer at the water park we were just at asked a family to say "Mozzarella" because I guess formaggio doesn't make a smile? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/27/a-photographer-at)
- In Western Australia yesterday [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/26/in-western-australia)
- Amanda Holpuch in the New York Times in June 2023:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/26/amanda-holpuch-in)
- The deeper I traverse into life on Planet Earth, into fatherhood, business, weddings, photography, and friendship I am ever further interested in art, making art, and making great art.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/26/the-deeper-i)
- Uluṟu, that beautiful monolith that captures the very essence of Australia. It's my favourite place in Australia. This iconic natural wonder is far more than an awe-inspiring spectacle - it represents [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/26/uluu-that-beautiful)
- Reed Albergotti in [Semafor Technology](https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/07/26/2023/openais-rivals-can-give-customers-something-it-cant-flexibility):
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/26/reed-albergotti-in)
- [Keith Richards](https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/he-is-called-mick-jagger-29d), April 1962: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/26/keith-richards-april)
- I've been having problems for years where my iPhone would have no space left, yet seemingly actually have space left. I've always felt like it was an iCloud photos library problem. So I finally downlo [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/26/ive-been-having)
- 📷🇮🇹🏊🏼 Luna looking like she's not having fun in the water when she's truly having a ball. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/26/luna-looking-like)
- [Lefineder](https://lefineder.substack.com/p/when-did-people-stop-being-drunk):
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/26/lefineder-the-english)
- Do I get my eye scanned by Worldcoin when I’m in Paris in two weeks or do I just share my genitalia size here in public instead? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/26/do-i-get)
- [Anthony Agius in The Sizzle](https://share.thesizzle.com.au/the-ato-is-cool-with-scammers-ripping-off-557m-in-mygov-identity-fraud.html) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/26/anthony-agius-in)
- [Six years of making photos and droning](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/26/six-years-of)
- [Matt Mullenweg on Apple and 1.0 products back in 2010](https://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/):
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/26/matt-mullenweg-on)
- This has rocked my day. [Re](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/re) is its own word. It’s not short for regarding. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/26/this-has-rocked)
- [✈️ Flighty 3 is a private frequent flyers social network!](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/25/flighty-is-a)
- Imagine being the butt of this line in a [news report](https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23805390/sam-altman-launches-his-eyeball-scanning-crypto-project) "The launch of the **eye-scanning** cryptocu [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/25/imagine-being-the)
- Matt Levine on "Leon Smuk", from X: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/25/matt-levine-on)
- I'm looking for an erratic egotistical billionaire to trust my savings and family's future to, if you can recommend anyone, slip into my DMs [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/25/im-looking-for)
- [Scissor me on parenting](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/25/scissor-me-on)
- 📷🇮🇹 Our last Monday in Puglia [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/25/our-last-monday)
- 📚 After [backing](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/renai/the-frustrated-state) and reading Renai Le May’s [The Frustrated State](https://micro.blog/books/978064825950) it felt like Australian gov [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/25/after-backing-and)
- When people talk about how the 80s were better I want to remind them that there was a character on TV whose name was Gordon Shumway, called himself Gordon Shumway, but everyone called him ALF because [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/25/when-people-talk)
- [This](https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23805415/twitter-x-logo-rebrand-bird-farewell-to-birds) is terrible branding, design, and UX. How am I going to remember where to go to be an insufferable pri [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/24/this-is-terrible)
- [Thirteen eggs, four pregnancies, six years, and two children ago](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/24/thirteen-eggs-four)
- Michael Bierut: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/24/michael-bierut-no)
- Starting to feel a little bit alone over here in Italy. Trying to get some Aussie work done and it looks like Telstra cuts you off from WiFi calling after your SIM card hasn't been on an Australian Te [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/24/starting-to-feel)
- A birds eye view of Martina Franca, in southern Puglia, where we've been hanging out this month. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/23/a-birds-eye)
- [Enshittification reaches the wedding industry, revealing The Knot to be rotten](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/23/enshittification-reaches-the)
- I've just [finished](https://joshwithers.blog/finished-reading/) reading [Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution](https://micro.blog/books/9781328637239) by P. W. Singer, recommended by my fa [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/23/ive-just-finished)
- This is Luna, pitching you her idea for her new TV show. If you are a TV producer, Luna would like to sit down and talk about you buying the rights to her show. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/22/this-is-luna)
- [Love will save the day](http://www.lovewillsavetheday.fm) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/22/love-will-save)
- 📷🇮🇹🚁 Fifteen of Monopoli’s best from my Mavic in Puglia yesterday [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/22/fifteen-of-monopolis)
- 📷🇮🇹🏖️ Torre Canne, Puglia [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/22/torre-canne-puglia)
- One day we'll have to explain to our grandkids that we all dressed daggy now because of Elon Musk. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/22/one-day-well)
- Big news crew, new gender droppin [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/22/big-news-crew)
- Doing the right thing is always the right thing
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/21/doing-the-right)
- ⛪️ I did it, I finally did it. I crucified the sun.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/21/i-did-it)
- This might be a silly question for an old nerd to ask, but for those that know the answer, why is the book he famously write in prison, 'The Fugitive Game: Online with Kevin Mitnick', not really liste [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/21/this-might-be)
- Derek Sivers in [The past is not true](https://sive.rs/pnt):
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/20/173731)
- No matter how hard they try, [the modern web can't escape Wordpress](https://www.axios.com/2023/07/18/vox-media-chorus). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/19/no-matter-how)
- 📷🇮🇹🏖️ Family day at the beach at Cala Maka. The beach is apparently/allegedly called Torre Canne Nord Prima della Casa Grigia, which translated from Italian means, North Canne Tower Before the Gra [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/19/family-day-at)
- I shared these words from Craig Mod [a year ago today](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/19/craig-mod-devastatingly.html). But since then we made the choice to uproot our life in Australia, move to Mex [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/19/i-shared-these)
- [🗺️ Where’s Josh’o? An update](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/19/wheres-josho-an)
- I think this would be an awesome idea: a mashup of a reddit-like voting system with events calendar and geotagging plus some Atlas Obscura. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/19/i-think-this)
- Will the 2026 Commonwealth Games, [originally supposed to be in Victoria, Australia](https://slate.com/culture/2016/08/the-olymics-should-be-in-vancouver-summer-and-winter-forever.html), be the first [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/18/will-the-commonwealth)
- 📷🇮🇹 40 degrees celsius today in Martina Franca, but the second you step into the shade the temperature drops about fifteen of those bad boy degrees. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/18/degrees-celsius-today)
- Thought I would check on the two-year-old before going to bed ... [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/18/thought-i-would)
- [A Declaration of the Interdependence of Cyberspace](https://www.interdependence.online/declaration):
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/18/a-declaration-of)
- Apparently, it's wise to let people know you have things available if you indeed do have things available ... which I have neglected to do about my piece "South o' Talle" [being licensed to Priints in [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/18/apparently-its-wise)
- I really like [the tiny awards](https://waxy.org/2023/07/vote-on-the-tiny-awards/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/18/i-really-like)
- Much gratitude to [@Mtt](https://micro.blog/Mtt) for designing a really nice and extremely useful Micro.Blog theme in [Tiny Theme](https://mattlangford.com/tiny-theme/). I woke up this morning with a [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/18/much-gratitude-to)
- I feel like not a day goes by that I don’t witness an even more Italian thing than I had witnessed previously. Today’s most Italian thing I’ve ever witnessed is an Italian driver beeping at a parked I [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/18/i-feel-like)
- It’s always easy to differentiate Italians and tourists on the streets of Puglia. Italians are in the street yelling at each other, tourists are in the streets scrolling. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/18/its-always-easy)
- 📷🇮🇹 Alberobello, Puglia [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/17/alberobello-puglia)
- Looks like Canon is [doing five blades](https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/17/looks-like-canon)
- Aliens have come to Australia. When they ask for our leader, who do we call? Chuck, Albo, Sandilands, or Murdoch? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/17/aliens-have-come)
- 📷🇮🇹 Polignano a Mare, Puglia [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/16/polignano-a-mare)
- Wild times back in the forties [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/16/wild-times-back)
- Diver [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/16/diver)
- Swimming in the ocean and in ocean caves with your four year old is a workout right? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/16/swimming-in-the)
- This week ahead sees the Australian celebrancy movement celebrate its 50th anniversary. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/15/this-week-ahead)
- I sure hope these peeps who make somewhere between $150,000 USD to multiple millions a year are going to be financially ok through this strike. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/15/i-sure-hope)
- If I can be really frank, does anyone else “have parents” but honestly really doesn’t have parents relationally/socially/spiritually and when you have a down moment in life you just feel super alone? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/14/if-i-can)
- Italian kids get way more realistic puzzles than Aussie kids [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/14/italian-kids-get)
- The most terrifying thing I’ve seen in Italy so far was ten Italian youths aged around 12 years old loudly chanting “gay!” and aggressively geaturing in a way that was a little bit too familiar for th [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/14/the-most-terrifying)
- My favourite/least-favourite thing to do when travelling Italy is go to these million year old classical Italian osterias (restaurants) run by the village’s most heralded humans, and ask for takeaway. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/13/my-favouriteleastfavourite-thing)
- Does anyone else have weird iPhone storage glitches? I've had this problem for the last maybe 4-5 years where my iPhone doesn't actually know how much storage it has. I've been on a 256GB iPhone for a [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/13/does-anyone-else)
- The most fascinating, whilst also overwhelming, experience in travel, especially when you undertake it for more than a weekend is 'noticing'. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/13/the-most-fascinating)
- I think I just accidentally haggled with a vendor in an Italian street market. I thought the fruit cost less than five euros, I gave him five euro., he looked at me and giggled, winked, and points his [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/12/i-think-i)
- When I first went into self-employment over a decade ago now I set up templates for common or transactional emails and I was always aware that I didn’t want an email not from me, yet from me, to not s [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/12/when-i-first)
- You've heard the phrase "Content is King", coined by Sumner Redstone - the old rich white person behind CBS, Viacom, Paramount, MTV, Comedy Central etc who passed in 2020 - but Bill Gates popularised [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/11/youve-heard-the)
- 15 years of the Apple App Store and my first purchases are realllll nerdy [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/11/years-of-the)
- I’ve been featured in all the great newspapers around the world, the New York Times was one of the coolest. But none felt as good as having one of my photos printed six years ago in the newspaper I re [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/11/ive-been-featured)
- Why the rush to 5G? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/11/why-the-rush)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/11/jiddu-krishnamurti-the)
- “For everything there is a place but that of wonders is just a little more hidden…” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/10/for-everything-there)
- 📷🇮🇹 We went for a drive to the little village of Ostuni today and unknowingly stumbled upon a Dolce & Gabbana fashion show. We didn’t stick around to watch the beautiful people be beautiful, but we [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/10/we-went-for)
- 📷🇮🇹 Sunday frames from Martina Franca, Puglia, Italy [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/10/sunday-frames-from)
- Threads, compared to Mastodon and BlueSky, is the difference between an idea and a product.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/10/threads-compared-to)
- Apple Photos face detection software needs a "tell me the date and location of that photo" button when asking which of your daughters it is if the photo is of an infant. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/10/apple-photos-face)
- Programmed a Zapier zap to get ChatGPT to reply to my website wedding enquiries with an email and a text message in the form of our deceased cat reincarnated as AI. My AI assistant refers to me as "Jo [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/09/programmed-a-zapier)
- Pretty much me [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/08/pretty-much-me)
- Can I share a weird thing that has haunted me for over a decade now? Yoko Ono followed me on Twitter 10 years ago and I forgot to follow her back. Has it been too long? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/08/can-i-share)
- PJ Vogt's [new podcast](https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/wait-should-i-not-be-drinking-airline) helps me feel better about my deep desire to drink coffee mid-flight. Do you drink airline coffee? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/08/pj-vogts-new)
- One of my great loves in this world is the format and medium of audio storytelling. First radio, then podcasting, it's one of the most beautiful ways to tell a story.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/07/one-of-my)
- The girls say they’ll catch us dinner tonight. I’m googling pizzerias. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/07/the-girls-say)
- I think about the Malcolm Gladwell book ‘Talking to Strangers’ every day [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/07/i-think-about)
- My day job is to stand in between people on their wedding day and make them smile then kiss. It’s not a bad gig tbh. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/06/my-day-job)
- [Cory Doctorow was on the ABC talking about enshittification](https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/cory-doctorow-enshittification-platform-capitalism/102492918) and it was beautif [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/06/cory-doctorow-was)
- Advice I read recently said "Social networks: choose two" and I can't drop the feeling that it's quite sage. In the overwhelm and the overbearing influx of social media content and the greater network [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/06/social-networks-choose)
- The shining light in the rubbish pile that is Twitter is the [@HelpfulNotes](https://twitter.com/HelpfulNotes) service. There is so much misinformation out there, so many people so keen to share the m [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/06/the-shining-light)
- [Social media tier list - July 6, 2023, update](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/06/social-media-tier)
- [🧵](https://www.threads.net/@hellojoshwithers) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/06/121920)
- Normalise back to work after a sabbatical photos [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/06/normalise-back-to)
- First day back at work photos [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/05/first-day-back)
- After being on sabbatical for almost seven months I’m creating a marriage ceremony today. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/05/after-being-on)
- 🏖️ Tuesday at Spiaggia Lido Silvana, Puglia, Italy [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/04/tuesday-at-spiaggia)
- [Threads, a thread](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/04/threads-a-thread)
- Happy America Day [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/04/happy-america-day)
- We've been in more Airbnb's this last year than most people, about 35 so far I think. Most hosts mention either in person, or in their review, how it's unique to travel with our kids (four and two) an [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/03/weve-been-in)
- Remember when we'd suffix names with 2000 to make them feel cool and modern? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/03/remember-when-wed)
- 2023: when everything has to mean something.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/03/when-everything-has)
- If anyone’s forgotten their password recently I can pick you up a new one when this store opens later today [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/03/if-anyones-forgotten)
- Italian supermarkets: two aisles worth of pasta, but no rolled oats [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/03/italian-supermarkets-two)
- Sunday in Puglia [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/02/sunday-in-puglia)
- [My new Kobo is better than my old Kindle, but barely](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/02/my-new-kobo)
- Looking for fiction book recommendations. Give me the name and why you think I'll like it. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/02/looking-for-fiction)
- Hey Siri, prepare an edit of the Richmond FC players singing So Long, Farewell to Elon Musk. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/01/hey-siri-prepare)
- New month, new locale. Hello, Martina Franca, Puglia. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/07/01/new-month-new)
- [Temple of Valadier: Refuge for sinners](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/30/temple-of-valadier)
- [Rate my desk (June 2023 edition)](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/30/rate-my-desk)
- Is the future of TV, radio? Or the future of radio is TV? Either way, it's almost 7pm and this is what Italians are watching on TV? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/29/is-the-future)
- The number one indicator that you're an old dad is when your cables and leads company emails "Let's Catch Up!" and "We miss you!" as if you're high school buddies. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/29/the-number-one)
- [My (IMHO aweome) international travel charging situation](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/28/my-imho-aweome)
- Tonight we sojourn at the Tavignano Estate in Cingoli, Italy. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/27/tonight-we-sojourn)
- [Apple Vision has been 'in development' for 28 years](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/26/apple-vision-has)
- Was just driving and stopped at a red traffic light in a small Italian village and a civilian car drives up being me, looks around, and just overtakes me and runs the red light. I love Italy. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/26/was-just-driving)
- South Carolina, you go grrl [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/26/south-carolina-you)
- [Does Apple Vision mean 360 content is finally going to have its moment?](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/25/does-apple-vision)
- I just want to go on the record for being totally cool and not scared at all by the demonic kitten sound coming from the vineyard outside our Airbnb in Northern Italy. I am a big brave man and not sca [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/24/i-just-want)
- Apple Reminders in iOS 17 is finally getting pretty useful
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/24/apple-reminders-in)
- How Italians know whether to walk around shirtless or not [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/24/how-italians-know)
- Our Italian Airbnb’s TV made me feel all nostalgic [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/24/our-italian-airbnbs)
- I’m back baby! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/23/im-back-baby)
- Is there an AI tool around yet to help manage customer journeys? New client comes in, and the AI can take that journey on the pre-set rails we decide on in the business. Automation, but with intellige [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/23/is-there-an)
- Made our way into Italy today and [caught the sun at it's grandest, just before it goes to sleep](https://panoraven.com/en/embed/52i1AOQ0A8).
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/23/made-our-way)
- I accidentally installed the developer beta of iOS 17. It’s mostly fine with a handful of annoying bugs you’d expect to see three months away from launch, but I’m so grateful for offline Apple Maps. G [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/23/i-accidentally-installed)
- Whenever someone sees a photo of mine and asks me what iPhone I used my 25kg full ThinkTank camera bag weeps. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/23/whenever-someone-sees)
- The thing that’s extremely visible throughout Europe is that there was a time that buildings weren’t just built but they were created, and created beautifully. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/22/the-thing-thats)
- A 360 view of the sunset on our last night in Liechtenstein from [the Fürstin-Gina-Weg, or in English, Princess Gina memorial trail](https://panoraven.com/en/embed/q2pqDFuIQj) on the Sareis mountain r [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/22/a-view-of)
- Snuck over the border to Switzerland to watch the sun set today
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/21/snuck-over-the)
- Striking images at the Lichtenstein national museum of a medieval Liechtensteiner teenager using his early-model iPhone [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/21/striking-images-at)
- Weirdest thing I've seen in Liechtenstein award goes to ... [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/21/weirdest-thing-ive)
- How all men bathe [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/21/how-all-men)
- Hey, Europe. Why? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/21/hey-europe-why)
- Despite being 450km from an ocean or sea, summer has hit Lichtenstein and the country’s beach is open! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/21/despite-being-km)
- It's normally pretty hard to try and fit an entire nation in one photo. It's a little bit easier if you're making a 360 panoramic photo. But still, most nations don't fit. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/21/its-normally-pretty)
- Showed the kids what the early iPhones looked like at the Liechtenstein National Museum [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/21/showed-the-kids)
- Can you spot which country FIFA left off the list of countries that play football/soccer in the FIFA exhibit at the Lichtenstein national museum? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/20/can-you-spot)
- I have a confession to make. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/20/i-have-a)
- [You should not open a door and see someone pooping](https://www.experimental-history.com/p/you-should-not-open-a-door-and-see-677). Srsly. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/20/you-should-not)
- From the University of Berkshire Hathaway by Daniel Pecaut, Corey Wrenn: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/20/from-the-university)
- [AI and I just published a children's book: The Mountain Princess](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/19/ai-and-i)
- [Lichtenstein 3D](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/17/lichtenstein-d)
- > Be curious, not judgmental. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/17/be-curious-not)
- [From Apple IIe to AI: Embrace the Wave or Risk Irrelevance](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/17/from-apple-iie)
- I'll always remember the day I met the late Gold Coast Mayor, Ron Clarke, and he called me Red Dog for no apparent reason. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/17/ill-always-remember)
- In 2012 I was newly married. Britt and I had decided to take our wedding business somewhere bigger than 1-2 weddings a year, so we started marketing and building out content. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/16/in-i-was)
- [The fascinating story of Castle Itter and the last European WWII battle](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/16/the-fascinating-story)
- We're taking the girls to one of the smallest countries in the world tomorrow, somewhere I've known about since I was a very young boy. My aunt lived in Liechtenstein and would send me books, toys, an [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/16/were-taking-the)
- Retiring now [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/16/retiring-now)
- It's so pleasurable to read lovely and persuasive writing like [this](https://open.substack.com/pub/lettersofnote/p/the-disease-is-almost-universal-and?r=ilth&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/16/its-so-pleasurable)
- I know that we have ye olde internet, but I think I'd still like to have a physical encyclopaedia at home for our kids. Check out this [Ars Technica review](https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/06/rej [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/16/i-know-that)
- Watched the sun set into Germany across the German/Austrian border tonight. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/15/watched-the-sun)
- There’s no kangaroos in Austria. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/15/theres-no-kangaroos)
- [Travelling with children advice](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/14/travelling-with-children)
- Cuddling Goldie after a late night diaper change and I was contemplating how she and Luna have slept under almost 37 roofs since we left home in September and we have seven left. Some kids won’t go to [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/13/cuddling-goldie-after)
- Driving through Mondsee (Moon Lake) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/13/driving-through-mondsee)
- Blue skies and tailwinds makes for a good day in the office/Mavic 3 at Drachenwand (in English, Dragon Wall). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/13/blue-skies-and)
- I’m not sure I’ll ever feel an emotion stronger than what I felt when I saw this #iykyk [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/13/im-not-sure)
- There's a campaign to update the Australian Marriage Act of 1961 and every letter to a Federal Member of Parliament helps move the needle on getting the legislation changed and updated. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/12/theres-a-campaign)
- Views of and from and above Lake Wolfgang, near Salzburg, Austria [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/12/views-of-and)
- [David Cain in Everything Must Be Paid for Twice](https://www.raptitude.com/2022/01/everything-must-be-paid-for-twice/):
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/10/david-cain-in)
- I’m at a cafe in Pöggstall, middle of nowhere, Austria, and next to me are two elderly couples loudly discussing the issues of the world in German. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/10/im-at-a)
- We flew into Vienna two days ago and didn’t even go into the city, but straight out into the hills, which despite their beauty, they are not filled with music. Unless I’m deaf? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/10/we-flew-into)
- An important note from a local store [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/09/an-important-note)
- [Tonight’s AirBnb]() is [770 years](https://www.waldviertel.at/en/poeggstall-castle) in the making: [Pöggstall Castle](https://www.waldviertel.at/en/poeggstall-castle), in Lower Austria. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/09/tonights-airbnb-is)
- Who wins the MS Publisher 2023 wars? Canva? The new Adobe Express? Microsoft Designer? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/09/who-wins-the)
- [It must be lovely to be proud of where you're from](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/08/it-must-be)
- Our pilot wanted to give us the full Heathrow tour. Never go full Heathrow. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/08/our-pilot-wanted)
- Adios, Heathrow [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/08/adios-heathrow)
- The Withers family has done London [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/08/the-withers-family)
- David Whyte: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/07/david-whyte-the)
- Does anyone want to [start an Australian airline with me and ChatGPT](https://chat.openai.com/share/03a4aaef-cb3b-4e0e-a0ad-adcd29d7a483)? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/07/does-anyone-want)
- Did you know that the Windows XP Bliss wallpaper was photographed in Sonoma? The same Sonoma this year’s macOS is named after. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/07/did-you-know)
- People seeing the iMac, then iPod, MacBook, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, and then Apple Vision, on day one: it's stupid, not for me, too expensive, I'll never buy it. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/06/imac-then-ipod)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/05/232200)
- [ Vision Pro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX9qSaGXFyg) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/05/vision-pro)
- London is a fascinating place where Big Tea™️ has convinced an entire population that garbage water is a valid hot drink. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/04/london-is-a)
- Mum to kid (about 4) trying to get him to do something: … or someone’s going to be very upset with you. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/04/mum-to-kid)
- I needed help planning the month ahead's travel, having not been off the beaten track too much in Europe, so I engaged everyone's favourite help, ChatGPT. [Check out the chat transcript](https://chat. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/03/i-needed-help)
- British things [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/02/british-things)
- Come together, right now [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/02/come-together-right)
- Hey Britain, why did you all get so excited about leaving Europe but still walk on the right hand side of the footpath? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/02/hey-britain-why)
- Everyone’s talking about augmented reality at WWDC but no-one’s talking about sharing bodily liquid movements. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/02/everyones-talking-about)
- I'd like a 2023 version of Piano Man where Paul, the real estate novelist, upskills to writing prompts for ChatGPT, John the bartender starts a TikTok, and Billy Joel is sampling in Serato. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/02/id-like-a)
- 185 million views on Unsplash, 19 million views on Pexels, and I've just sold my first photo from my print store. Don't rush and twist an ankle, there's no queue at [https://art.josh.withers.co](https [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/02/million-views-on)
- Don't tell anyone but the opening of track six on the new Foo Fighters album had me thinking that there was a Taylor Swift collab inside. It's ok, it was Nothing At All. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/02/dont-tell-anyone)
- I made a [Steve Jobs chatbot](https://www.chatpdf.com/share/nWgbhiZ84xzEDE2ykkU4M) based on the book Make Something Wonderful and asked him how he would bring AR glasses to market.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/01/i-made-a)
- Luna’s following in my footsteps! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/06/01/lunas-following-in)
- Remember that classic scene from Notting Hill where Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts' characters meet at a travel bookstore and then get a doughnut from that Brisbane doughnut chain? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/31/remember-that-classic)
- Overcast and 14 degrees Celsius and the Britts are so sure it’s good weather that there’s a kid at the park in their swimmers. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/31/overcast-and-degrees)
- London things [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/30/london-things)
- WordPress [just turned 20 years old](https://wordpress.org/news/2023/05/celebrating-20-years-of-wordpress/), which means I've been using it for different projects for a smidge under 20 years.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/28/wordpress-just-turned)
- Luna, who considers herself royalty, wanted to present at the king’s house [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/28/luna-who-considers)
- Someone call the fire brigade [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/27/someone-call-the)
- Maggi Hambling: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/27/maggi-hambling-it)
- Withers on film in Hawaii [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/27/055428)
- Withers on film at the TWA Hotel. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/27/withers-on-film)
- Withers in Mexico. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/27/withers-in-mexico)
- Withers in Paris on 35mm film [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/27/withers-in-paris)
- What is, and isn’t, AI/artificial intelligence? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/26/what-is-and)
- Every leg of this journey we drop a bag. We’re down three suitcases so far. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/26/every-leg-of)
- Bought Luna her first camera, the Hyundai Excel of first cameras: a Nikon point and shoot. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/25/bought-luna-her)
- She called us to the church house, gin house, school house, and outhouse. She called us to the Nutbush City limits from the wedding dance floors of Australia to a little old town in Tennessee. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/24/she-called-us)
- AI is genuinely exciting and terrifying but most of us nerds have been thinking about it and talking about it for 30 years. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/24/ai-is-genuinely)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/24/134351)
- If you ever want to hate yourself you should try writing a book, then editing the book, and then reading it. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/23/if-you-ever)
- AI is super interesting to me [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/23/ai-is-super)
- [This is beautiful and terrifying](https://you.regettingold.com/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/23/this-is-beautiful)
- A terrifying argument for paper voting in voting booths from Ready Player One: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/23/a-terrifying-argument)
- Do dogs understand elevators or are they just like ‘Ok it’s time to get into the world changer’?
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/23/do-dogs-understand)
- [Those good family dinners, they’re no accident](https://apple.news/AMeiDVS9LRsODR8s5NrOoSw) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/22/those-good-family)
- Hawaii versus Paris [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/21/hawaii-versus-paris)
- I [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/20/i)
- Imagine being as big as a failure as Yahoo [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/20/imagine-being-as)
- Dan Shipper in [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of 1-1 Learning](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-1-1-learning-9713d7d6-e2d2-44cc-b3d6-25c982bf523f): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/20/dan-shipper-in)
- Just found out that Metallica played a concert across town last night and there were tickets available. I had Australian tickets for their Covid-cancelled concert. This is the most disappointed I've b [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/20/just-found-out)
- Film’s not dead. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/19/films-not-dead)
- If publishers paid as much attention to how their articles were experienced by readers as newspaper editors used to, maybe they wouldn’t be going broke? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/18/if-publishers-paid)
- “Non-smoking Garden of Eden” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/18/nonsmoking-garden-of)
- A mum playing Frozen on her phone for her daughter at the playground is super confused as to why every other kid at the playground is up in her grill right now. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/18/a-mum-playing)
- Watching 1980s Inspector Gadget with Luna this morning and I never realised how much Gadget influenced my life. All I ever wanted was Penny's computer book, Gadget's computer watch, and being accepted [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/18/watching-s-inspector)
- [Am I a man or a muppet?](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/17/am-i-a)
- Evidence that the world’s first mobile phone was probably French [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/17/evidence-that-the)
- Excited to share another chapter of [the book](https://www.rebels.guide/so-youre-engaged/) today:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/17/excited-to-share)
- None of the current large language models/artificial intelligences understand the concept of months, or calendar months, or leap years. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/17/none-of-the)
- Look, AI is great and everything, but I think we're going to be ok [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/17/look-ai-is)
- What a wonderful time to be alive: [malicious-content.zip](https://malicious-content.zip) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/15/what-a-wonderful)
- Photos I made yesterday in Paris [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/15/photos-i-made)
- I stacked a Lime scooter an hour ago to make this photo of this local tower in Paris so you better like it or share it or comment or something so my aching shin is healed by the algorithms that contro [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/14/i-stacked-a)
- The not her damn of paris - still under construction [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/14/the-not-her)
- The Brisbane Story Bridge of Paris is what they call it [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/14/the-brisbane-story)
- Parisian things [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/14/parisian-things)
- [Fourteen](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/13/the-th-of)
- [Paris’s final metre](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/13/pariss-final-metre)
- Milton Glaser:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/12/milton-glaser-you)
- [Apple Shortcut for recording photography metadata](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/12/apple-shortcut-for)
- I think this is the great pyramid of France [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/11/i-think-this)
- Introducing, an eye full tower. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/11/introducing-an-eye)
- When you order an americano with ‘some cold milk on the side’ in Paris [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/11/when-you-order)
- Stumbled into a second-hand-camera/new-Leica store in Paris and accidentally left with a Leica film camera after swiping my credit card. Oops. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/11/stumbled-into-a)
- Play [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/11/play)
- Luna Withers, art critic [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/10/luna-withers-art)
- [Paris’s NFT Factory](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/10/pariss-nft-factory)
- My favourite thing to do in the big cities of the world is to ignore the must-do lists, the must-see places, the hotspots and the icons, and to just walk around and exist in a different big city. Walk [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/09/my-favourite-thing)
- The playlist in the French cafe I'm sitting in just went from contemporary hits to one of the songs from Star Wars. Wild taste here. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/09/the-playlist-in)
- [The genesis story of Apple computers](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/09/ive-been-thinking)
- [12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/12-ancient-greek-terms-that-should)
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/09/ancient-greek-terms)
- [My review and photos of the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/08/my-review-and)
- [Bluesky lovin](https://bsky.app/profile/joshwithers.au) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/06/bluesky-lovin)
- If you see my travel photos and think they’d look cool on your walls, [I sell fine art prints, framed fine art prints, and canvas wraps in my online store](https://art.josh.withers.co). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/05/if-you-see)
- 44 hours door to door, Kona to Paris. Godspeed, us, with a four and two year old. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/05/hours-door-to)
- Ever since Twitter started falling on its face I’ve tried so many contenders, Mastodon, T2, BlueSky, Nostr, and I’ve been on micro.blog for years already and love if there, but Wavelength is the only [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/03/ever-since-twitter)
- [This is a lovely click for today](https://ncase.me/door/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/03/this-is-a)
- I can still remember my ICQ number 25 years on (49739400) but I can't remember the joke about remembering my ICQ number [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/03/i-can-still)
- Why [Nick Cave is attending the King’s Coronation](https://www.theredhandfiles.com/why-are-you-going-to-kings-coronation/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/02/why-nick-cave)
- The Withers family in the island of Hawaiʻi [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/05/01/the-withers-family)
- 🗿 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/30/230122)
- 🔱 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/30/225815)
- Some feelings of the Big Island of Hawaii, or the Island of Hawaiʻi, or Hawaiʻi Island, or Big Island, or Kona, or Hawaii County, or just Hawaii. I don't really know how to refer to this landmass tbh. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/30/some-feelings-of)
- 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 “weir [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/29/unkept-looking-bloke)
- 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 st [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/28/if-youve-ever)
- Lusting after the [new Teenage Engineering microphone](https://www.engadget.com/teenage-engineering-enters-the-microphone-space-with-the-gorgeous-cm-15-181721397.html) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/28/lusting-after-the)
- 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 sout [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/27/sitting-in-a)
- Harry Belafonte finally met Mister Tally Man and had his banana’s tallied. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/25/harry-belafonte-finally)
- James Tylor and Matt Chun [in the ANZAC Myth](https://open.substack.com/pub/unmonumental/p/gallipoli-campaign-the-anzac-myth): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/23/james-tylor-and)
- 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. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/23/the-saddest-part)
- 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. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/20/ive-been-saying)
- 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 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/20/i-need-help)
- For Polkadot Wedding’s Planning Issue this month [I wrote an article on choosing a wedding reading](https://polkadotwedding.com/2023/04/tips-on-how-to-pick-your-ceremony-readings/ ) and also how you d [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/19/for-polkadot-weddings)
- Well, count me surprised and dumbfounded /s that [this weird crap](https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/spotify-gives-49-different-names) is happening on Spotify. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/19/well-count-me)
- Stumbled across this [fascinating story of Little Richard being in Australia in 1957](https://rhythms.com.au/the-day-little-richard-found-god-in-australia/), seeing the Russian satellite Sputnik in th [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/19/stumbled-across-this)
- [My first tweet was tweeted 18 months before I even started tweeting](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/19/my-first-tweet)
- 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 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/19/im-working-on)
- 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 ga [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/18/i-was-moved)
- Shared my nerd bio in [my NerdyBio interview](https://www.nerdybio.com/interview/?search=Josh.Withers) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/18/shared-my-nerd)
- Everything that was old and awesome becomes new and terrible, whist still whipping the llama's ass. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/18/everything-that-was)
- [My “Batman only exists because of 9/11” theory](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/18/my-batman-only)
- 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. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/16/goldie-who-just)
- [The news is incentivised to be broken and terrible](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/14/the-news-is)
- Will, a mate of mine has written and released a guide on working in film and television production, something he's an expert in. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/13/the-production-industry)
- Because I’m a man-child I wanted to share my two of my favourite photos from photographing the horse sanctuary in Baja [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/13/because-im-a)
- I’m pretty sure I know enough old nerds who would enjoy [this](https://sharewareheroes.com) purely for the nostalgia. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/13/im-pretty-sure)
- Reckon we could get the ChatGPT guys to spend an an afternoon working on spam filtering? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/12/reckon-we-could)
- Once all the adults admit that they don’t know what a conservatory is we’ll finally get world peace [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/11/once-all-the)
- [Bad news](https://artifact.news/s/99Xuw36a9mA=) 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. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/11/bad-news-for)
- [Six months a gringo and no bad days](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/10/six-months-a)
- Our last Baja sunset for a while [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/10/our-last-baja)
- Our last day in Baja [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/10/our-last-day)
- Last day of school for the girls in Baja [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/10/last-day-of)
- Never forget the French [dancing plague of the summer of 1518](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/10/never-forget-the)
- Charlie Munger on how the world actually works: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/10/charlie-munger-on)
- 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](https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1/april-6-2023) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/09/ive-thought-about)
- 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 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/09/the-future-of)
- Location, location, location #playacerritos [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/08/location-location-location)
- You've got to get up early to catch the Mexican Coke dealers [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/08/youve-got-to)
- Todos Santos, BCS, on Good Friday [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/07/todos-santos-bcs)
- Still the best food and beverage proposition in Baja [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/07/still-the-best)
- Martha! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/07/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 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/07/im-doing-a)
- Good Friday for Luna [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/07/good-friday-for)
- 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. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/07/im-going-to)
- Apple’s gotta be the company to come in and either buy or partner with StabilityAI right? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/07/apples-gotta-be)
- “Please lower your standards” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/05/please-lower-your)
- Baja sunset [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/03/baja-sunset)
- [Synecdoche](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/03/the-worst-sin)
- Millennial quiz: What have you got if you've got Sick Puppies next to Puddles of Mud with Twenty One Pilots? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/03/millennial-quiz-what)
- How do you do fellow kids? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/03/how-do-you)
- 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. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/01/the-moon-over)
- Researching places to stay and this is the third sentence in the second paragraph in Wikipedia:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/04/01/researching-places-to)
- 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 the [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/31/ive-never-flown)
- 📷 Practice (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@hollie](https://micro.blog/hollie)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/31/practice-mbmar-micro)
- [My first look at the 400 megapixel mode on the Canon EOS R5](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/30/my-first-look)
- Ronald Sharp via James Clear’s excellent email, on how friendship transforms us (or any great relationship, really): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/30/ronald-sharp-via)
- > “Now this being so, how much happier and better would the world not be if only it could be purged of women?” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/30/now-this-being)
- 📷 Mirror (@Rori) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/30/mirror-rori-now)
- I'm feeling bullish on the new group-messaging app and platform, Wavelength, After reading John Gruber's [review](https://daringfireball.net/2023/03/wavelength), then using it and joining a group, I t [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/29/im-feeling-bullish)
- Eleven years ago I asked Britt to marry me, and honestly, it would still be my best idea yet. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/29/eleven-years-ago)
- Over a decade ago Vinod Khosla wrote a series of blog posts about artificial intelligence, the forecasts hold up today, and the headline basically tells the whole story: '[Do we need doctors?](https:/ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/29/over-a-decade)
- 📷 Slice (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@meandering](https://micro.blog/meandering)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/29/slice-mbmar-micro)
- Number of times a well-regulated militia has been required in the USA this year: zero. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/28/number-of-times)
- Dropped a new draft chapter of the Rebels Guide to Getting Married today: [choosing a person to marry](https://www.rebels.guide/choosing-a-spouse/). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/28/dropped-a-new)
- Thinking about the [Coolangatta boardriders](https://art.josh.withers.co/pics/017101348-coolangatta-boardriders) today [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/28/thinking-about-the)
- [Ted Gioia on becoming a Substack shareholder](https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/why-ive-decided-to-become-a-shareholder) and why the rest of the business isn't run like this. Why don't the creators own [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/28/ted-gioia-on)
- 📷 Prompt (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@moonmehta](https://micro.blog/moonmehta)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/28/prompt-mbmar-micro)
- I cannot imagine living in a community where the word “another” preceding “school shooting” isn’t cause for rioting in the streets and major societal change. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/27/i-cannot-imagine)
- I'm just a boy, standing in front of a couple, asking them to make out in front of their grandparents.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/27/im-just-a)
- When Vanilla Ice rapped that he was back with a 'brand new invention', he was indeed 'back' after his first hit, a cover of Play That Funky Music, but was the invention the lyrics (which is kind of th [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/27/when-vanilla-ice)
- Oh, this is awkward. The artificial intelligence doesn't know that the United Kingdom has left the European Union. If I tell it is it going to have an emotional meltdown? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/27/oh-this-is)
- 📷 Support (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@JohnAN](https://micro.blog/JohnAN)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/27/support-mbmar-micro)
- The computer at Picfair has decided that these pieces of art are the ones people are most likely to buy from my print store and hang on their wall, prove it wrong. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/27/the-computer-at)
- Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?' is playing in the cafe and I'm singing 'Have you ever seen Lorraine?' and the guy at the next table is not handling it well. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/27/creedence-clearwater-revivals)
- The one where Father Nathan Monk [casually suggests that Jesus might of been gay](https://open.substack.com/pub/fathernathan/p/unholy-sht-jesus-wept-but-why?r=ilth&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/26/the-one-where)
- [Are we giving the window washers at traffic lights too much money?](https://youtu.be/9CVco2G6pys) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/26/are-we-giving)
- 22 Jump Street is going to be Kanye’s Mother Theresa moment. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/26/jump-street-is)
- Which cinematic alien or monster do you think my huevos rancheros looks like? I’m seeing Dr. Zoidberg. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/26/which-cinematic-alien)
- I have a confession. I don't know where to take [the book I'm writing](https://rebels.guide/toc). I actually feel kind of stupid for even having thought I should write a book, when all I had was a han [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/26/i-have-a)
- 📷 Instrument (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@UnfocusedWanderlust](https://micro.blog/UnfocusedWanderlust)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/26/instrument-mbmar-micro)
- [All eyes on Apple’s AI move, are they going full neural?](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/26/all-eyes-on)
- Disco tech [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/disco-tech)
- Luna and I flexing our frequent flyer privileges this afternoon. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/luna-and-i)
- This week in cactus [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/this-week-in)
- While Britt’s been away this last fortnight I’ve had heaps of one-on-one time with Goldie while her big sister is at school. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/while-britts-been)
- Jose M. Gilgado [on embracing a title](https://josem.co/call-yourself-titles/) to help you actually become, that title:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/jose-m-gilgado)
- [Jon Haidt in Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest](https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/mental-health-liberal-girls):
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/jon-haidt-in)
- [Bono and The Edge's Tiny Desk Concert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxo-loXdcH0) is beautiful. In particular, the "argument between two mates", Stuck in Moment You Can't Get Out Of. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/bono-and-the)
- Missing home/Australia/Gold Coast tonight [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/missing-homeaustraliagold-coast)
- After reading [this](https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/la-without-a-car-part-2), all I want to do is walk the streets of LA. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/after-reading-this)
- Helen Garner on happiness in [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/feb/05/helen-garner-on-happiness-its-taken-me-80-years-to-figure-out-its-not-a-tranquil-sunlit-realm): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/helen-garner-on)
- Virginia Heffernan in the [Wired article on TSMC](https://www.wired.com/story/i-saw-the-face-of-god-in-a-tsmc-factory/), "I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory": [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/virginia-heffernan-in)
- 📷 Spice (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@cygnoir](https://micro.blog/cygnoir)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/spice-mbmar-micro)
- It's been four months since I've blasted this idea across the internet, so here's my regular reminder that I blog before I post on social, and that blog automatically sends a weekly roundup to anyone [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/its-been-four)
- I can't stop thinking about [this RIAA story with Steve Jobs](https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2023/03/24/the-riaa-v-steve-jobs/). It's amazing how fragile - while also strong - the world is. Thank God [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/i-cant-stop)
- [How to cook soup](https://web.archive.org/web/20010501174516/http://www.cardigan.com/2001/01-10/), by the [late](https://om.co/2018/01/18/dean-allen-rest-in-peace/) Dean Allen:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/how-to-cook)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/104209)
- Shane Claiborne in The Irresistible Revolution: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/shane-claiborne-in)
- Gurwinder: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/25/gurwinder-the-opinion)
- Help me name my new creation which I made for the kids for dinner tonight. It’s a quesadilla with leftover spaghetti bolognaise sauce and despite Luna’s objections, it’s great! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/24/help-me-name)
- Coming soon to old London Town, pixels that I made in Burleigh Heads. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/24/coming-soon-to)
- Rutger Bregman in Humankind: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/24/rutger-bregman-in)
- [Three years of hell](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/24/three-years-of)
- 📷 Court (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@rom](https://micro.blog/rom)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/24/court-mbmar-micro)
- Most people I respect or look up to journal every day but it's not a habit I can get into. Tonight I learned about the simple and powerful 1-1-1 journalling method, and then to get nerdy with it, ther [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/23/most-people-i)
- Had coffee at a cafe in Todos Santos today where they hand out 30-minute wifi access codes. They mixed my order up - bringing a cold americano with hot milk when I ordered the reverse - so my 30 minut [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/23/had-coffee-at)
- [A new website for Los Sagrados Horse Sanctuary](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/23/a-new-website)
- 📷 Chance (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@V_](https://micro.blog/V_)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/23/chance-mbmar-micro)
- 📷 Insect (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by a@alexink) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/22/insect-mbmar-micro)
- 📷 Tiny {people} (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@jasonmcfadden](https://micro.blog/jasonmcfadden)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/21/tiny-people-mbmar)
- It's easy to laugh at Rupert Murdoch getting engaged for the fifth time at the ripe age of 92, but at least he's doing his part to help the wedding industry after Covid. What are you doing? Have you e [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/20/its-easy-to)
- Maryanne Wolf [on reading](https://www.abc.net.au/religion/maryanne-wolf-cultivating-deep-reading-in-a-digital-age/102001224):
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/20/maryanne-wolf-on)
- You know yo've really embedded yourself in a Mexican community when you see a friend riding in the back of a truck on the highway. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/20/you-know-yove)
- 📷 Houseplant. Did I do the #mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt right, [@jensands](https://micro.blog/jensands))? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/20/houseplant-did-i)
- 📷🇲🇽 Analog (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@skarjune](https://micro.blog/skarjune)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/19/analog-mbmar-micro)
- 📷 Portico (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @annahavrom) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/18/portico-mbmar-micro)
- Dan Shipper's representation of AI/GPT as a [copilot for the mind](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/gpt-4-a-copilot-for-the-mind) harkens back to [Steve Jobs talking about computers in 1990](https:// [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/17/dan-shippers-representation)
- Ansel Adams: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/17/ansel-adams-you)
- 📷 Early (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@krisfredrick](https://micro.blog/krisfredrick)) also shared on [Pexels](https://www.pexels.com/photo/sea-landscape-sunset-bird-1 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/17/early-mbmar-micro)
- Everyone move along, there’s nothing to see here. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/16/everyone-move-along)
- A [bunch of smart people](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/02/critical-thinking-ignoring-brain/) say we need to learn "‘critical ignoring’ – the ability to choose what to ignore and where to invest [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/16/a-bunch-of)
- 📷 Road (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@Dejus](https://micro.blog/Dejus)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/16/road-mbmar-micro)
- Alexander Haymen: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/15/alexander-haymen-home)
- 📷 Patience (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@amit](https://micro.blog/amit)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/15/patience-mbmar-micro)
- 📷 Horizon (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@crossingthethreshold](https://micro.blog/crossingthethreshold)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/14/horizon-mbmar-micro)
- 📷 Connection (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@agilelisa](https://micro.blog/agilelisa)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/13/connection-mbmar-micro)
- 📷 Shiny (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@odd](https://micro.blog/odd)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/12/shiny-mbmar-micro)
- 📷 Gimcrack (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@jafish](https://micro.blog/jafish)). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/11/gimcrack-mbmar-micro)
- Friday afternoon in Pescadero, Baja California Sur [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/10/friday-afternoon-in)
- [July: great at selling luggage, not great at supporting it](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/10/july-great-at)
- You're a Miracle by Mike McHargue is a book that zings around the inside of my brain all day every day: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/10/youre-a-miracle)
- March 10, 1976, the [first](https://open.substack.com/pub/lettersofnote/p/articulate-speech-was-transmitted?r=ilth&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) and last time "Articulate speech was transmitted in [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/10/march-the-first)
- 📷 Ritual (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@drewbelf](https://micro.blog/drewbelf)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/10/ritual-drewbelf-our)
- Keith Richards:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/09/keith-richards-to)
- 📷 Together (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@sherif](https://micro.blog/sherif)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/09/together-mbmar-micro)
- [Rancho Gaspareño](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/09/rancho-gaspareo)
- Charlie Warzel in The Atlantic writes on [the vindication of Ask Jeeves](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/03/ask-jeeves-chatgpt-bing-ai-chatbot-google-search/673275/):
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/08/charlie-warzel-in)
- 📷 Early morning beach walks with my three girls (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt 'walk' suggested by [@lwdupont](https://micro.blog/lwdupont)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/08/early-morning-beach)
- When dating apps match you up and ChatGPT writes your wedding vows, it's like you're part of a high-tech breeding program for computers. We're like surrogate parents for algorithms, helping to create [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/07/when-dating-apps)
- Ten whale soup off Todos Santos yesterday 🐋📷🚁 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/07/ten-whale-soup)
- Just a wee little note that imma be on NBC News tonight from 8pm NY time talking about weddings with Gadi Schwartz in case you hadn’t heard enough from me lately [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/07/just-a-wee)
- Ed Catmull:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/07/ed-catmull-we)
- Jeff Hammerbacher, an early Facebook engineer:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/07/jeff-hammerbacher-an)
- Number three surprised me: [The Best Nikon Camera For Wedding Photography In 2023](https://weddinghangover.com/blog/best-nikon-camera-for-wedding-photography-2023). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/07/number-three-surprised)
- From [On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft](https://micro.blog/books/9780743455961) by Stephen King 📚
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/07/from-on-writing)
- 📷 Whole (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@val](https://micro.blog/val)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/07/whole-mbmar-micro)
- Well, that’s a wrap on another day of pretending like I know what’s happening. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/06/well-thats-a)
- Because I couldn't get my head clear to write this morning I worked on a cover for the book instead. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/06/because-i-couldnt)
- [The future of creating is damned](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/06/the-future-of)
- 📷 Engineering (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@ridwan](https://micro.blog/ridwan))
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/06/engineering-mbmar-micro)
- 📷 Tile (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @thedimpulse) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/05/122603)
- 📷 Tile (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @thedimpulse) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/05/tile-mbmar-micro)
- Talking to a lovely old Mexican bloke in Cabo San Lucas and he asks where we live, I say Pescadero. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/04/talking-to-a)
- 📷 Zip (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@miraz](https://micro.blog/miraz)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/04/zip-mbmar-micro)
- Local Baja news includes the taco price index [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/03/local-baja-news)
- If you look closely you'll find yours truly's name [mentioned in the New York daily rag](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/03/fashion/weddings/chatbot-wedding-vows-chatgpt-ai.html?unlocked_article_code= [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/03/if-you-look)
- U.S. petrochemicals giant Dow Inc and the Singapore government said they were transforming old sneakers into playgrounds and running tracks. [Reuters put that planted AirTags inside 11 pairs of donate [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/03/us-petrochemicals-giant)
- 📷 Solitude (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@circustiger](https://micro.blog/circustiger)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/03/solitude-mbmar-micro)
- The most interesting (to me) new app/social net-ugh-something-work is [Artifact](https://artifact.news/i?code=4SWAAE). It’s from the guys who created Instagram but it’s like a ‘TikTok for articles/blo [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/02/the-most-interesting)
- I fell victim to a phishing scam yesterday and man, I haven't felt shame like that in a while. [Here's what happened](https://celebrant.institute/business/i-got-scammed-and-itll-happen-to-you/), and h [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/02/i-fell-victim)
- Anthony Bourdain in 1999 before he was that chef guy everyone knew, writing ['Don't Eat Before Reading This' in the New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/04/19/dont-eat-before-reading-th [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/02/anthony-bourdain-in)
- I don't wish to cause the editors at Atlas Obscura any stress, but why is [this](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/thailand-drinks) not titled '[The God's Must Be](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/02/i-dont-wish)
- Islands, they’re always in the last place you look. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/02/islands-theyre-always)
- Celebrating Wayne Shorter ([1933-2023](https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/remembering-wayne-shorter-1933-2023)) with his [2018 open letter](https://www.herbiehancock.com/2016/12/10/an-open-letter-to-the- [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/02/celebrating-wayne-shorter)
- 📷 Weather (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@pcora](https://micro.blog/pcora)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/02/weather-mbmar-micro)
- 📷 Secure (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by [@mandaris](https://micro.blog/mandaris)) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/01/secure-mbmar-micro)
- They got me by talking about my main domain name and my main domain host. Even though it’s not hosted at VentraIP. I’m just so used to having to correct payments there. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/01/they-got-me)
- One of the little joys of being great at your art is inspiring others to take part in it. So often I am asked how to become a celebrant, that I have finally published my little eight-part guide on [ho [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/01/one-of-the)
- A letter from a freelancing poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, to her publisher, Poetry magazine, with the business inspiration we all could take, from [Letters of Note](https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/w [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/01/a-letter-from)
- I'm a sucker for a crazy plan of any genre, but a crazy plan to save newspapers, I'm all in, [Ted](https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/my-crazy-plan-to-save-the-newspaper). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/01/im-a-sucker)
- This line from the late Rich Mullins is my inspiration for writing, but gosh it's hard sometimes
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/01/this-line-from)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/03/01/094403)
- 📷 Four frames from El Pescadero, Baja California Sur, today [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/28/224513)
- 📷🚁🇲🇽 Four aerial frames from Playa Los Cerritos, Baja California Sur [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/28/four-aerial-frames)
- 📷✈️🇺🇸 Four frames out the window of AA2171 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/28/four-frames-out)
- 📷✈️🇺🇸 Four frames from LAX on Sunday [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/28/180907)
- 📷 Four frames from Newport Beach this past weekend [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/28/four-frames-from)
- Stephen King in On Writing: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/28/stephen-king-in)
- Debt by David Graeber:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/28/debt-by-david)
- Hey, don’t be alarmed or anything but the President of Mexico, the head honcho, the big guy in charge, has [tweeted](https://twitter.com/lopezobrador_/status/1629617208899895296?s=20) that one of his [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/28/hey-dont-be)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/26/220333)
- I’ve just had my peak Mexican moment. I delivered a dad joke in Spanish and it was perfect. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/26/ive-just-had)
- If you want surf and snow in the same trip, I can definitely recommend Los Angeles today. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/26/if-you-want)
- Drove past this park today and noticed something interesting on Google Maps at (33.6621623, -117.8775484). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/25/drove-past-this)
- Now I’ve just got to hope the people writing memos or sending emails regarding Bel’s Guide don’t stop me. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/25/now-ive-just)
- Do you think Carls Sr. is proud of his son? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/25/do-you-think)
- This is good content, we should podcast about it. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/24/this-is-good)
- Visited the Japanese mothership (aka Canon campus) in Los Angeles and asked them to clean my cameras and lenses. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/24/visited-the-japanese)
- Steve Jobs in 1984 spotting a Macintosh in the wild for the first time. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/24/steve-jobs-in)
- I tried but it turns out you can’t go Out before you go In [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/23/i-tried-but)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/23/163701)
- It’s so special to be in LA to watch the city fall to pieces with my own eyes. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/23/its-so-special)
- ‘dat light + reflection [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/22/dat-light-reflection)
- Los Angeles bound for a few days, thankfully it’s raining so we won’t stay long enough for it to make us soft. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/22/los-angeles-bound)
- Goldie, taking full advantage of the Shatner Seat [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/22/173403)
- What a time to be alive [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/22/what-a-time)
- Pure second child energy. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/21/pure-second-child)
- Hey everyone, make sure you update your … checks notes … [Apple power cord](https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/02/14/apple-issues-firmware-update-for-magsafe-3-charging-cable) … [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/21/hey-everyone-make)
- Mexican Marines [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/20/mexican-marines)
- Sunday // Playa Cerritos, BCS [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/20/sunday-playa-cerritos)
- Mark Twain's use of a typewriter. I wonder if AI-writing is today's typewriter? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/18/mark-twains-use)
- Steven Pressfield on going deep: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/18/steven-pressfield-on)
- What's the go with Mayor Humdinger? Is Foggy Bottom even a real township? Why does the Paw Patrol continue to rescue this evil man? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/18/whats-the-go)
- Tres es compañía (three frames of three humpback whales shot a few minutes ago in El Pescadero, Baja California Sur, Mexico) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/17/tres-es-compaa)
- Watched the sun set over the Pacific tonight as humpback whales came right up close to the shore so they could scratch their backs on the sand bars. What a time to be alive! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/16/watched-the-sun)
- Wednesday frames [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/15/wednesday-frames)
- [Whale watching in Baja](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/12/when-you-look)
- El Pescadero seafood stall [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/11/el-pescadero-seafood)
- I heard you were into Jesus, so I got you some Jesus [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/11/i-heard-you)
- For Britt’s 33rd birthday we went to CDMX, Mexico City, and painted the town pink. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/10/for-britts-rd)
- To celebrate Britt’s birthday we took a walking food tour of Coyoacán in Mexico City with Sabores Mexico Food Tours. 10 points to our guide, Enya, for an excellent tour and secretly arranging a little [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/10/to-celebrate-britts)
- [Zoológico de Chapultepec // Mexico City’s free zoo](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/10/zoolgico-de-chapultepec)
- [Freddie deBoer on SubStack](https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/its-so-sad-when-old-people-romanticize):
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/10/freddie-deboer-on)
- In a world consumed by the idea of creating content, Burt Bacharach created the most evergreen content we've seen in recent times: "what the world needs now is love, sweet love." [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/09/in-a-world)
- [The Rebel's Guide to Getting Married](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/09/the-rebels-guide)
- I'm unsure how many more [Om Malik blog posts I can read](https://om.co/2023/02/05/why-modern-leica-m-is-a-great-landscape-camera/) before I trade in my Canon EOS R5 for a Leica. Please stop taunting [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/09/im-unsure-how)
- Every day I experience another “Mexico moment” and I am hesitant to share them publicly because I don’t want to ruin things here, nor be a stupid gringo. But today was great. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/08/every-day-i)
- Wednesday in Todos Santos [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/08/wednesday-in-todos)
- Wednesday in El Pescadero [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/08/wednesday-in-el)
- If [Marie Kondo can give up on having a tidy house](https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2023/01/26/marie-kondo-kurashi-inner-calm/) you can give up on a whole range of crap. Celebrate quitting, cancel [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/08/if-marie-kondo)
- This is on the menu as Fresh Water or Agua Fresco. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/07/this-is-on)
- Ed Catmull in Creativity, Inc.: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/07/ed-catmull-in)
- Nick Cave: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/07/nick-cave-rather)
- A smart Australian government would’ve sorted their colonising the indigenous population problems out before the Internet. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/05/a-smart-australian)
- [UnClobber](https://micro.blog/books/9781611647594) by Colby Martin 📚
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/04/unclobber-by-colby)
- From [Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration](https://micro.blog/books/9780679644507) by Ed Catmull 📚
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/03/from-creativity-inc)
- D.H. Lawrence: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/02/dh-lawrence-the)
- Anthony shared this signed cover art in today's edition of [The Sizzle](https://thesizzle.com.au/) and very few images can conjure up so much nostalgia. I still remember visiting the shareware kiosk ( [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/01/anthony-shared-this)
- In [You're a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass)](https://micro.blog/books/9781984823267) by Mike McHargue 📚:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/01/in-youre-a)
- Spotting a scam email [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/01/spotting-a-scam)
- The most Mexican thing I've seen yet is a guy who has a table to sell so he's just carried it around the neighbourhood singing out if anyone wants to buy a table. Take that, Zuckerberg, and your stupi [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/02/01/the-most-mexican)
- Don't believe everything AI tells you. This bio sounds right, but it's not. From what I understand I've never been in Vogue, The Knot, or Martha Vomit Stewart Weddings. I am not a founding member of t [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/31/dont-believe-everything)
- Dan Shipper writes: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/31/dan-shipper-writes)
- From [Love Matters More](https://micro.blog/books/9780310358626) by Jared Byas 📚
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/31/from-love-matters)
- The duo behind Instagram - who sold for good coin and then left Instagram/Facebook in 2018 - have a new thing and it's right in my ballpark. Think TikTok's algorithmic feed but for text: [artifact.new [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/31/the-duo-behind)
- [The many branches of the Fediverse](https://axbom.com/fediverse/) by [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/30/the-many-branches)
- Do you know the most disappointing thing about the United States of America? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/29/do-you-know)
- Luna just asked Britt, “will you ever kill me, mummy?” And honestly, at the age of four it’s impressive that she’s already assembling friends and enemies lists, and that I got an auto-invite to the fr [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/29/luna-just-asked)
- [One Million Downloads on Unsplash](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/27/one-million-downloads)
- It might be 8yrs late, but you're finally getting my book: The Rebel's Guide To Getting Married is coming in 2023. It's a book about planning a wedding with intention and purpose, written by yours tru [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/23/it-might-be)
- Every time Buzz Aldrin comes up in the news or conversation I think of this [Rhys Darby standup piece from 15-odd years ago. Starts 2:30 in](https://youtu.be/WNR4PM8IWoY). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/21/every-time-buzz)
- Current status: forgot to put coffee in the percolator. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/21/current-status-forgot)
- Throwback to that time ten years ago when I had awesome not-grey hair [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/21/throwback-to-that)
- Judging by the [many](https://tim.blog/2023/01/12/rick-rubin-2/) different [recordings](https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/rick-rubin/) I'm hearing and also seeing pop up on the web of Rick R [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/21/judging-by-the)
- 📚 [The Art of Growing Up](https://micro.blog/books/9781760556723) by John Marsden:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/21/the-art-of)
- Current status: horizontal at El Pescadero [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/21/current-status-horizontal)
- E.B. White in Here Is New York: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/21/eb-white-in)
- If you’re wondering how Starlink is going, at my local Todos Santos (Baja California Sur, Mexico) post office today there 16 new Starlink packages and they say that every day there’s “lots.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/19/if-youre-wondering)
- Why is no-one talking about how most movies are just made up in people's brains?! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/19/why-is-noone)
- Sad. The person typing this has finally given up on the dream of eternal youth and is scaling back his dream of More Space to Default. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/18/sad-the-person)
- [Bill Bishop on living in DC](https://read.substack.com/p/private-message-bill-bishop). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/18/bill-bishop-on)
- Popped up to say hi then went back down again [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/18/popped-up-to)
- Hola [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/17/hola)
- I’ve lived around the ocean my whole life and I’ve never seen the ocean as angry and ferocious as I have at Todos santos, Baja California Sur, this week. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/17/ive-lived-around)
- In so many ways existing on earth has never been better with threat of war or famine never being lower for so many of us. But for 339 million people in 2023 things aren't so rosy. The New Humanitarian [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/17/in-so-many)
- Currently reading: [The Creative Act](https://micro.blog/books/9780593652886) by Rick Rubin 📚 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/16/currently-reading-the)
- Rick Rubin is the guest on [episode 649](https://tim.blog/2023/01/12/rick-rubin-2/) of the Tim Ferris show and this is one of those podcasts you really want to listen to.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/16/rick-rubin-is)
- Somehow both our girls have learned to pose like this and I have no idea how, or why, or where it’s from. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/16/somehow-both-our)
- Craig Hockenberry, of Icon Factory and Twitterific fame, [unloads](https://furbo.org/2023/01/15/the-shit-show/) on Space Karen. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/15/craig-hockenberry-of)
- In 1978, neurologist Dr. James Austin proposed that there are 4 types of luck:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/15/in-neurologist-dr)
- [Passport Photos](https://maxsiedentopf.com/passport-photos/) is a very fun and cool photo series by Max Siedentopf. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/15/passport-photos-is)
- Steve Jobs on how asking for help is a superpower: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/15/steve-jobs-on)
- Polina Pompliano with [15 People on the Most Important Question They've Ever Been Asked](https://theprofile.substack.com/p/15-people-on-the-most-important-question).
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/15/polina-pompliano-with)
- I've never felt more inadequate and stupid as a person whilst reading this [essay and list of recommendations for writing good English prose](https://thelampmagazine.com/2023/01/09/how-to-write-englis [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/15/ive-never-felt)
- My favourite fiction/not-really-not-fiction book of 2022 was [Russian Sleeper Cell](https://micro.blog/books/9798218079451) by Nathan Monk 📚 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/15/my-favourite-fictionnotreallynotfiction)
- Reading [*Publishers Weekly* top twenty-five bestseller list](https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/91256-colleen-hoover-was-queen-of-2022-s-bestseller-list.ht [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/15/reading-publishers-weekly)
- It's been [twenty years since Bill Gates expressed his frustration](https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates-tries-to-install-movie-maker) at his own operating system and the team behind it on how hard [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/15/its-been-twenty)
- Ok then, photorapture it is [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/14/ok-then-photorapture)
- In every intellectual relationship there’s the person who recommends podcast episodes, and there’s the other person who doesn’t even listen to the recommended episodes. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/14/in-every-intellectual)
- The Home Owners Association is not going to be happy [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/14/the-home-owners)
- 🏡 at El Pescadero, Baja California Sur, Mexico [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/14/at-el-pescadero)
- I’m not going to lie, I don’t have to hug everyone I marry when I first see them at the ceremony, but I want to. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/14/im-not-going)
- Luna asked me to play some fairy songs. So I search for such a thing in Apple Music. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/14/luna-asked-me)
- Seth Godin in his post, [The platform and the curator](https://seths.blog/2023/01/the-platform-and-the-curator/), on the difference between current platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/14/seth-godin-in)
- Friday afternoon at Pescadero [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/13/friday-afternoon-at)
- My friend Jay has made a really beautiful documentary about being a digital nomad, remote working around the Arctic Circle. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/12/my-friend-jay)
- Joe Mayall in [There's No "Woke Capitalism." Only Capitalism](https://joewrote.substack.com/p/theres-no-woke-capitalism-only-capitalism):
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/12/joe-mayall-in)
- The spare tyre for our car sits up and under the body of the car, under the front seats. Myself and the tyre guy took quite a while to figure this all out. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/12/the-spare-tyre)
- Quick little shoutout for a new series of daily/weekly emails I've recently subscribed to and actually really like. The formatting in the email is really nice, as is the writing and content: [Semafor] [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/11/quick-little-shoutout)
- Just between you and me most of the time when I’m alone and approach the car as the driver in the USA or Mexico I approach the passenger side accidentally so I still open the passenger door, pretend t [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/11/just-between-you)
- [Dataism, the newest religion on the block](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/10/dataism-the-newest)
- Thirteen years ago I read this on Seth Godin’s blog and it’s sat with me every day since: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/10/thirteen-years-ago)
- My 2023 challenge is to get really good at modern search engine optimisation, which is pretty different to 2019's SEO. So I've got a new project using [Superstash](https://superstash.co), and it's a [ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/09/my-challenge-is)
- You look at this photo and think it's some kind of grand cathedral in Rome. It's a storage room in Ravello. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/09/you-look-at)
- 16 years ago today the way I viewed the world changed completely. I can still remember seeing that little lump of plastic and metal in Steve Jobs's hand, watching a video stream, and thinking that eve [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/09/years-ago-today)
- When you elope in a far-away destination you’re choosing a very different vibe and moment than a domestic elopement. It firmly places your ceremony - the beginning of your marriage - in the middle of [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/07/when-you-elope)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/07/082624)
- [I chose a Kindle Scribe](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/06/i-chose-a)
- I have a long and beautiful history of catching up with friends in weird and wonderful places. I just had lunch with someone I’m pretty sure I met in the first month or so of my radio career, about 20 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/06/i-have-a)
- The rubbish being pushed by Instagram Reels is astonishingly bad. [Jacob Sweet unveils some of the nonsense in the New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-instagram-reels-gold-r [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/06/the-rubbish-being)
- Currently reading: [Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters](https://micro.blog/books/9781596980372) by Meg Meeker 📚 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/06/currently-reading-strong)
- [Steve Jobs: The thinker and the doer](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/06/steve-jobs-the)
- Elderly lady walking her dog with a Bluetooth speaker blaring Li’l Jon’s 2002 banger, Get Low. Stay cool, Nashville. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/05/elderly-lady-walking)
- Dear the United States of America, [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/04/dear-the-united)
- Tasted fine Kentucky Angel’s Envy bourbon with a Great Indiana Man™️ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/04/tasted-fine-kentucky)
- Roadtrip to meet an old friend for the first time [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/04/roadtrip-to-meet)
- [Naval in Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps](https://nav.al/credibility): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/03/naval-in-dont)
- [My new favourite parable: "sleep late, catch a few fish"](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/03/my-new-favourite)
- Better times [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/03/better-times)
- This nugget [from Cory Muscara](https://www.instagram.com/p/CmMQTZPuSpL/?igshid=YWJhMjlhZTc%3D) is sitting well with my soul today: "We often need to get out of alignment with the rest of the world to [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/03/this-nugget-from)
- [Kindle Oasis or a Kindle Scribe - which will be my new normal?](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/03/kindle-oasis-or)
- 🦇  [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/02/170008)
- 🐸  [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/02/165936)
- This bloke was just chilling but when he saw I had a camera he came and stood next to his sign as if he was at an animal trade show manning a booth  [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/02/this-bloke-was)
- Monkey business [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/02/monkey-business)
- Live footage of me trying to find a better deal on insurance by comparing deals available on the market [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/02/live-footage-of)
- Breaking news: not all flamingos are pink [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/02/breaking-news-not)
- My favourite Apple Watch feature is New Year’s Day [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/02/my-favourite-apple)
- I've assembled a top 10 list of top 10 lists I'm paying attention to this year: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/02/ive-assembled-a)
- [Noah Smith in The internet wants to be fragmented](https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-internet-wants-to-be-fragmented): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2023/01/01/noah-smith-in)
- Neighbourhood fireworks > City provided fireworks [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/31/neighbourhood-fireworks-city)
- Water damage and damage electrical damage to the house were housesitting thanks to frozen water pipes over Christmas means we’re bringing in New Year’s Eve with CNN via MacBook. Hilariously the intern [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/31/water-damage-and)
- Vale 2022 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/31/vale)
- Being in Tennessee for New Year’s Eve this year has really revealed to me [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/31/being-in-tennessee)
- Reflecting back over 2022 the one thing I can say for sure is that it’s been 21 years and I still haven’t forgotten about Dre [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/30/reflecting-back-over)
- As lovely as it is, TikTok is candy from Chinese spies and really ought to be banned purely on national security reasons. More at [daringfireball.net](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/12/28/tikt [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/28/as-lovely-as)
- Another day, another Airbnb, another part of Tennessee, another sunset. Seems cyclical. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/28/another-day-another)
- [Ted Gioia documents the story of Barnes and Noble’s rebirth and regrowth](https://open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/28/ted-gioia-documents)
- Boring kids [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/28/boring-kids)
- A Squirrel’s tale [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/26/a-squirrels-tale)
- So a white Christmas in Nashville is pretty cool [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/26/so-a-white)
- Old mate out on the back fence of our Airbnb in Nashville this morning is a bit cold. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/26/old-mate-out)
- Merry Christmas from The Withers, Tennessee edition. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/24/merry-christmas-from)
- Please let it be true, that 2023 is [the year of RSS](https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/12/this-is-the-year-of-the-rss-reader-really/). Death to big tech running our conversations, our views, our beliefs [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/23/please-let-it)
- That cold front hits Franklin, Tennessee and its -18 degrees Celsius but feels like negative 30. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/23/that-cold-front)
- So so cold [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/23/so-so-cold)
- Where you from? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/23/where-you-fromaustralians)
- I’ve been in Nashville less than 24 hours and the Christmas miracles have already begun [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/22/ive-been-in)
- It is well [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/22/it-is-well)
- and with that the 2022 wedding season comes to an end [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/21/and-with-that)
- [State of The Withers union, 20 December 2022](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/21/state-of-the)
- I’ve almost escaped Australia, just waiting for that delay to Dallas to stop being a delay [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/20/ive-almost-escaped)
- Pretty proud to see our AirBnb - [The Tugun Pause](https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/664131985860711112) - featured as a [best Gold Coast AirBnb beach house](https://www.theurbanlist.com/goldcoast/a-list/b [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/20/pretty-proud-to)
- Have you ever wondered what the last tweet will be? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/18/have-you-ever)
- Update on my [Playdate](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/24/months-wait-and.html) pre-order/order that I’ve been salivating over since 2019: they were kind enough to move me to American shopping and i [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/17/update-on-my)
- [You're Being Lied to About Electric Cars](https://www.motortrend.com/features/truth-about-electric-cars-ad-why-you-are-being-lied-to/) writes Jonny Lieberman: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/17/youre-being-lied)
- What a dramatic moment: Just dropped in to get a haircut from my favourite barber before I fly back to North America on Tuesday and he’s quitting his job as I walk in! Awkwardly shakes my hand then ge [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/17/what-a-dramatic)
- Really proud of how [The Sizzle](https://thesizzle.com.au) has grown. You deserve all the success, Anthony/@decryption. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/16/really-proud-of)
- > “If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), ‘Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?’ chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scar [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/16/if-you-find)
- I’m [selling a 245L Hisense freezer](http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/1305650250) if anyone is interested, like this totally genuine buyer. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/16/im-selling-a)
- [24 hours in the town I grew up in: Mackay](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/15/hours-in-the)
- Growing up in Central Queensland meant your coastline was always filled with ships taking coal and sugar to the world. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/15/growing-up-in)
- Before we get too excited about fusion energy, space travel and flying cars, it’s important to remember that this is how Australia Post wants me to find a lost package, with details from a Windows 200 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/15/before-we-get)
- My favourite thing about flying out of regional locations in Australia is that you can be having coffee with a mate just before the flight, watch the flight coming to land which, means you should prob [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/15/my-favourite-thing)
- iOS 16.2 means we can listen to music without the lyrics for focused work [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/14/ios-means-we)
- Chatted to a flight attendant today who is proudly quitting and taking a job with Virgin after Christmas because of all the "negativity at Jetstar" which is hard to believe because Jetstar seems like [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/14/chatted-to-a)
- Such a Century Gothic welcome [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/14/such-a-century)
- Is flying with your pillow a thing? Half the passengers disembarking and about the same boarding my flight have pillows. It’s an 11am 90 minute flight! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/14/is-flying-with)
- How is Jetstar the only Australian airline fully utilising the Apple Wallet API with flight and gate updates and heaps of info inside the ticket info page? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/14/how-is-jetstar)
- Nine years ago I had an internet-enabled egg tray. I feel like technology has not really advanced past this milestone. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/14/nine-years-ago)
- It's absolutely glorious [reading the reactions to the introduction of the push button](https://daily.jstor.org/when-the-push-button-was-new-people-were-freaked/). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/11/its-absolutely-glorious)
- Oxford University was over 300 years old when the Aztec Empire was founded - [more unlikely simultaneous events over at Kottke](https://kottke.org/14/02/unlikely-simultaneous-historical-events). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/11/oxford-university-was)
- [The invention of jaywalking](https://marker.medium.com/the-invention-of-jaywalking-afd48f994c05) by Clive Thompson. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/11/the-invention-of)
- Me doing my job on Bruny Island on Thursday from two different points of view
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/10/me-doing-my) -Patrick McKenzie’s travel recommendations post for Japan is really good:
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/10/patrick-mckenzies-travel) -I read posts like this and wish I was a better/wish I was a graphic designer. I jsut don’t hold the skill.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/10/i-read-posts) -I like the premise of this app, I’m always keen to have breakfast with someone new and interesting.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/10/i-like-the) -Cam Winstanley on Read Only Memory writes about the making of what I still consider the ultimate real time strategy game, Dune II;
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/10/cam-winstanley-on) - > "You have to think anyway, so why not think big?" [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/09/you-have-to) - back in my safe place: “going somewhere” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/09/back-in-my) - [A week in Tasmania](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/09/a-week-in) - Hey, you guys wanna play old people's [Seven Minutes in Heaven](https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/middle-school-party-games-revised-for-thirty-five-year-olds)? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/09/hey-you-guys) - Novelist Jeanette Winterson on the value of darkness: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/09/novelist-jeanette-winterson) - AI loves a good beach deer: "brown deer on white sand beach during daytime photo" [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/07/ai-loves-a) - Imma start sending this to everyone I ever meet so they know how to rate me when the social credit system from Black Mirror finally comes into play. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/05/imma-start-sending) - Brian Eno: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/05/brian-eno-one) - Ted Gioia: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/05/ted-gioia-mr) - Chris Dixon: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/05/chris-dixon-what) - Well, that will be the last time I ever take hot or not advice from Balenciaga. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/05/well-that-will) - The couple I married today at Freycinet’s Honeymoon Bay married in secret (after booking me four years and a pandemic ago) so I tried my hand at double-exposures and blurry photos. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/04/the-couple-i) - Annie-B Parson: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/02/annieb-parson-social) - Today milestones: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/02/today-milestones-yrs) - Today is day 10 away from my family. I embarked on this trip to Australia thinking I’d get lots of sleep and rest from being a dad. Instead of barely slept and miss them like crazy. Please don’t tell [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/01/today-is-day) - [Three reasons why Mastodon will succeed followed by three reasons Mastodon will fail](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/12/01/three-reasons-why) - Travel hack for New Zealand is to fly out of Queenstown Airport because they have a special check in counter for frequent flyers. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/30/travel-hack-for) - If you're thinkin' of being my burger it don't matter if you're black or white [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/30/if-youre-thinkin) - Glacier to Ground pop-up [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/30/glacier-to-ground) - The Mātukituki River valley [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/30/the-mtukituki-river) - ZQN bound [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/27/zqn-bound) - How am I supposed to drive five hours on an Ice Break [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/26/how-am-i) - I’m sitting in row three - the last row - of business class on this flight from Canberra to Brisbane after being upgraded overnight and the Queensland Premier just walked past me to economy. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/25/im-sitting-in) - Couple I'm marrying tomorrow: We'd like to have an entertaining and funny wedding ceremony. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/25/couple-im-marrying) - 🎶 It must be hard for musicians and songwriters to try and produce better songs than the best song ever produced, Frenzal Rhomb's Mr. Charisma. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/25/it-must-be) - The internet is more fun when you upload as much as you download. When you stop, comment, post, share instead of doom scroll. People create and also consume, not just consume consume consumer consume. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/25/the-internet-is) - Re: Bird app [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/25/re-bird-app) - Cute. On [the news that the leap second is being removed](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/science/time-leap-second-bipm.html), Rev. Pavel Gabor, an astrophysicist and the vice director of the Vatic [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/25/cute-on-the) - Breaking: news. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/25/breaking-news) - You take a six week break in Mexico and your phone gets real judgemental [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/24/you-take-a) - Philip Glass: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/23/philip-glass-i) - It’s not often you get Coolangatta and Surfers Paradise in the same photo. But that’s what happens when I’m back in Australia :) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/22/its-not-often) - Current status: Getting wasted on old fashioneds in the Los Angeles Qantas First Class Lounge. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/19/current-status-getting) - I don't think Trump will even make it to the Republican Nomination for President, let alone the actual Presidency. The Trump voter hates losers more than lefties and abortions. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/19/i-dont-think) - I've been talking about switching social networks for a decade now ... [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/19/ive-been-talkign) - Having my first experience of Live Activities on the latest iOS software. The app that is “live” is Flighty, and I really like this. The only negative is that 4G/3G/wifi is terrible here. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/19/having-my-first) - To chool for school [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/18/to-chool-for) - Experiencing the weirdest vibe right now. I’m packing to leave home for a month, and the place I’m travelling to is Australia. I never thought Australia would be somewhere I travel to, only from. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/18/experiencing-the-weirdest) - [Dane Winer](http://scripting.com/2022/04/26/120204.html?title=aBigPatchOfBlueSky): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/18/dane-winer-twitter) - Sharing [God's Law](https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/gods-law) from Letters of Note, as seen multiple times around the internet and on The West Wing, now in it's original form, by Kent Ashcraft: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/18/sharing-gods-law) - [Are you a parent of a toddler or an assistant to a male CEO of a tech startup?](https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/are-you-a-parent-of-a-toddler-or-an-assistant-to-a-male-ceo-of-a-tech-startup) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/18/are-you-a) - [Why Mastodon is "big" in Japan](https://ethanzuckerman.com/2017/08/18/mastodon-is-big-in-japan-the-reason-why-is-uncomfortable/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/18/why-mastodon-is) - I think about this [email that Steve Jobs wrote to himself](https://stevejobsarchive.com/) a lot [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/18/i-think-about) - Gosh I needed to enjoy this: ["You Can't Handle The Truth," but it's the Toy Story Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaDfMjzroSo) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/18/gosh-i-needed) - Touché Google Translate [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/18/touch-google-translate) - Watching Seinfeld and the episode ‘The Limo’ starts. Opening scene is at a NY airport and a Trump airline Boeing 727. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/17/watching-seinfeld-and) - Rancho Pescadero, the new old kid on the block, just re-opened. Keen as mustard to start making weddings there! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/17/rancho-pescadero-the) - ❤️ El Pescadero, Baja California Sur [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/17/el-pescadero-baja) - [You are all your work has](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/17/you-are-all) - Britt & I toured around this new resort, Rancho Pescadero, last week to talk about making weddings there. Those oceanview rooms are actually built into dunes & the cactus were geotagged then replanted [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/16/britt-i-toured) - This is Noah Sushi in Pescadero. The best sushi I have ever tasted, and I've had good sushi, even in Japan. It's on a dirt road, with no signage, and no fancy tables inside. People come from hundreds [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/16/this-is-noah) - Street names in Baja are wild, in that they barely exist. To prove my residence/address I need to show an electrical bill. So this street a few blocks from our house is hilariously named. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/16/street-names-in) - In the future we won’t share our most intimate stories with, and through, the world’s biggest tech companies. Mastodon and blogs might not be the complete indieweb story, but it’s at least in the firs [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/16/in-the-future) - I’ll never forget today. The day that my 20 month old daughter, whilst holding a banana, screamed for another banana, but when she had two, realised she only wanted one. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/14/ill-never-forget) - [A proposal: a social network owned by creators](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/14/a-proposal-a) - Siri, one of the foremost artificial [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/14/siri-one-of) - Apparently I don’t share my photography enough (sorry, Zac) so it’s mostly [on Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/@joshwithers). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/13/apparently-i-dont) - There you go ya filthy tech-news-lovin animals. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/13/there-you-go) - Gosh it irritates me when ‘down south’ writes the national news stories as if no-one from ‘up north’ reads it // @crikey_news @emmaels [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/13/gosh-it-irritates) - My favourite thing about Mastodon actually has nothing to do with Mastodon. It’s the experience of embracing a completely new network with a handful of existing connections but then start following ne [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/13/my-favourite-thing) - James Hennessy in [The Terminal](https://open.substack.com/pub/jrhennessy/p/collapse?r=ilth&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/13/james-hennessy-in) - A few thoughts on Mastodon at the end of day one: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/12/a-few-thoughts) - Fish tacos, margaritas, a mariachi band, all on the beach. A perfect night on the Sea of Cortez. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/12/fish-tacos-margaritas) - Balandra [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/12/balandra) - I could imagine this hanging on a wall somewhere, I’m really proud of it. On the left there you’ve got what the Mexicans say is there best beach, nationwide. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/12/i-could-imagine) - Fifty shades of blue [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/12/fifty-shades-of) - I decided I was being a grumpy old man by not even trying Mastodon - I think it has a stupid name for a modern product, great for an extinct elephant - but I've signed up ... @josh@withers.online is m [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/12/i-decided-i) - One of us, and I won’t say who, just fell off the bed and landed face first on the tiled floor [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/12/one-of-us) - On the Sea of Cortez, near La Paz, today [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/12/on-the-sea) - I can handle my parents being disappointed in me, my wife, children and friends. All of your disappointments will come and go. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/12/i-can-handle) - Notes for my gravestone [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/11/notes-for-my) - "This is not a verification status; it's an Important Blue Internet Checkmark, which in 2022 is just as legit. Also the Important Blue Internet Checkmark may turn into a bunch of crabs at any time 🦀" [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/10/this-is-not) - Finally, the BeReal competitor I’ve been waiting for: [TweetReal](https://apps.apple.com/au/app/tweetreal/id6444031566). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/10/finally-the-bereal) - Day 30 in Mexico: Still haven’t joined a drug cartel. Fish tacos are amazing. Send coffee. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/09/day-in-mexico) - [Trung Phan on the "massive" podcast opportunity](https://trungphan.substack.com/p/the-massive-podcast-opportunity) he's identified, and something I've thought about a lot: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/09/trung-phan-on) - So apparently the [Commonwealth marriage celebrants portal and database was hacked](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=committees/estimate/26251/&sid=0002) ... j [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/09/so-apparently-the) - [Is swashbuckling still a thing?](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/09/is-swashbuckling-still) - It’s weird to see so much talk about Mastodon and people walk right past [micro.blog](https://micro.blog). I’ve been a user since [@manton](https://micro.blog/manton) launched it on Kickstarter, and I [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/09/its-weird-to) - Missed the eclipse, but caught sunrise this morning [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/08/missed-the-eclipse) - We’re heading back to Hawaii in mid-January and it got me thinking about the last time I was there and I created a marriage ceremony across the bay from Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler house. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/08/were-heading-back) - [Apple Frames is the ultimate shortcut that most Apple computer users don't know about](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/08/apple-frames-is) - [We don't have a Trump/Musk/political problem, we have a being human problem](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/08/we-dont-have) - Martha Gellhorn in a letter to Victoria Glendinning on 30th September 1987: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/08/martha-gellhorn-in) - There are two kinds of people in the world, people who confidently pronounce “pho” and the people who anxiously listen to those people say it because they’re sure they’re not saying it right. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/08/there-are-two) - I can't believe that so much valuable conversation is {you should give me all your money} interspersed with ads and unrelated content {gamble your money away!} these days as if it's a natural way to r [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/07/i-cant-believe) - Apple executives discussing [iMessage for Android](https://www.techemails.com/p/imessage-for-android) is beautifully shortsighted. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/06/apple-executives-discussing) - Idea: The most important part of Twitter is the feeling of sending the tweet. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/06/idea-the-most) - I'm wondering whether "stay in your medium lane" is good advice for Elon Musk and Twitter today? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/06/im-wondering-whether) - [El Arco, Cabo San Lucas](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/06/el-arco-cabo) - “Chinese restaurant” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/06/chinese-restaurant) - Evan Amrmstrong at Every on [How Elon Wins](https://every.to/napkin-math/how-elon-wins): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/05/evan-amrmstrong-at) - Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry. Them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/05/drove-my-chevy) - I met Charles Wooley when I was in line to be his producer on what’s now called the Triple M regional radio network. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/05/i-met-charles) - [Wondering about Unsplash and why my recent work isn't resonating](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/05/wondering-about-unsplash) - In the Gold Coast Bulletin today @AnnWasonMoore nails it making the [biggest losses/mistakes the Gold Coast has experienced](https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/gold-coast/ann-wason-moore-shares [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/05/in-the-gold) - > Put a bag of cookies in the break room and it might sit for days. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/05/put-a-bag) - I think a lot about the guy whose car I ran into on the first day of owning a car in Mexico. I didnt put the car in park or put the handbrake on, classic idiotic move on the first day of driving on th [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/05/i-think-a) - “Good day” in Spanish is “Buenos días”, phonetically (in Josh Spanish) “beh-wan-ass dee-ass” and I now understand how Australian English must be hard for people learning English because Baja Mexicans [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/05/good-day-in) - [Cerritos](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/04/222427) - Just a boy and his favourite seventy to two-hundred millimetres of glass photographed by another boy and his medium format film camera, Jack Fitz at Playa Los Cerritos at sunset. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/04/just-a-boy) - John Ruskin in a letter to C. E. Norton, 4th Nov 1860: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/04/john-ruskin-in) - [Computerspielemuseum](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/02/thinking-about-berlins) - TomTom: [I came here to sell satnavs and kick ass, and I’m all outta satnavs](https://www.tomtom.com/newsroom/behind-the-map/the-future-of-mapmaking-tomtom-maps-platform/). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/02/tomtom-i-came) - Business idea: a coffee translator. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/02/business-idea-a) - I’m reflecting on the recent Optus hack today as I wonder what to do with my phone number I’ve had for 20 odd years. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/01/im-reflecting-on) - Reason no. 72 to read [James Hennessy’s email](https://www.theterminal.info/p/pulp-fictions?utm_source=substack&publication_id=15720&post_id=80222724&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&tr [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/11/01/reason-no-to) - Just going on the record before November 2022 hits to say that I had a blue tick before it wasn’t cool. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/31/just-going-on) - Nieman Labs reckons that [newspaper political endorsements](https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/10/this-political-era-has-nearly-killed-off-newspaper-endorsements-for-president/) might not matter anymore. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/30/nieman-labs-reckons) - Gary Voth's piece, [The Forgotten Lens](https://www.garyvoth.com/the-forgotten-lens/), reminds me why I love the 50mm so much. I only have a vintage Minolta f/2 manual focus lens at the moment but now [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/30/gary-voths-piece) - Is this mural on the toilet entry wall about menstruation? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/30/is-this-mural) - [Dave Winer with the best Twitter analogy](http://scripting.com/2022/10/27.html#a212435): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/29/dave-winer-with) - The latest in dynamic bus signage technology [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/28/the-latest-in) - Reporting for [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23426970/birth-weight-infant-traffic-congestion-lower-health), Justine Calma says that [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/28/reporting-for-the) - Someone just got a fire truck for their birthday or the truck celebrated its birthday. Either way, congrats! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/28/someone-just-got) - Tequila shot $1USD [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/28/tequila-shot-usd) - [James Cameron, artist: outside and other and alone](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/28/james-cameron-artist) - Thursday's sunset [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/27/thursdays-sunset) - [Netflix, One Tel, and me, a nostalgic love triangle](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/26/netflix-one-tel) - Good business sense tells me it's time to sell all my beef, children, petrol, and non-essential oils, and buy more computers. Thanks for the revealing graphs, [Nick Evershed at The Guardian](https://w [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/26/good-business-sense) - The moonrise over the Pacific Ocean was pretty cool tonight [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/26/the-moonrise-over) - It's funny how the human brain likes little milestones and we call it "feeling real" ... like just now how I put the finishing touches on a [Wedding Officiant in Mexico](https://withers.co/celebrant/m [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/26/its-funny-how) -  [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/26/on-ya-bus) - Bob Dylan: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/26/bob-dylan-boy) - Tuesday’s sunset from Todos Santos [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/25/tuesdays-sunset-from) - Punta Gasparino, Baja California Sur [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/25/punta-gasparino-baja) - Finally, it happened [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/25/finally-it-happened) - I'm a sucker for 360 spherical images, but the places you can view them not-flattened are few. Lightroom online is one, so here's the link for this one of El Pescadero at sunrise this morning: [adobe. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/25/im-a-sucker) - El Pescadero, the little fishing village we’re calling home this month [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/25/el-pescadero-the) - Deporte bus [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/25/deporte-bus) - El Pescadero // home [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/24/el-pescadero-home) - Felt cute, might delete later [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/23/felt-cute-might) - Hey, if you ever can’t get a hold of Jesus, lemme know, I’ll send you some Mexican Salvo, a sin remover. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/23/hey-if-you) - Did [Bono](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/22/bono-memoir-birth-of-u2-itunes-album-live-aid-mullet) actually encourage Tim Cook on services and subscriptions when they worked out the deal t [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/23/did-bono-actually) - [Bono in The Guardian on the birth of U2, that iTunes album and Live Aid](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/22/bono-memoir-birth-of-u2-itunes-album-live-aid-mullet): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/23/bono-in-the) - I’ve eaten sushi in Japan, Iceland, New York & Vancouver. Australians have made me sushi, Italians, Croatians & Kiwis. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/22/ive-eaten-sushi) - I’ve never heard of [Haiku photography](https://petapixel.com/2022/10/22/shooting-haiku-photos-in-iceland/) but I like it. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/22/ive-never-heard) - Breaking news: Luna rode a horsey and she is pretty flippin pumped about the whole idea. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/21/breaking-news-luna) - The directions to the Los Sagrados horse rescue we visited today said to go through the Cardone Forest. I was curious what a forest in the desert looks like. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/21/the-directions-to) - A helpful guide to our journey so far. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/20/a-helpful-guide) - Thursday in Todos Santos [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/20/thursday-in-todos) - [A Mexican reformat](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/20/a-mexican-reformat) - 2022, the year where Lettuce made the news twice. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/20/the-year-where) - My li’l mate, Luna, turns four today. She wants you all to know that she’s a big girl now. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/19/my-lil-mate) - [Ted Gioia](https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/have-smart-people-stopped-writing) asks if smart people do books anymore? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/19/ted-gioia-asks) - [Sammy J on ABC Melbourne](https://www.abc.net.au/melbourne/programs/breakfast/sammy-bom-song/101550288): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/18/sammy-j-on) - I can't help but feel that Mark Zuckerberg is a bit off Apple at the moment. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/17/i-cant-help) - [Travel money tips: Up Bank vs. Wise vs. Qantas Business Money (Airwallex)](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/17/travel-money-tips) - [Inherent problems in the internet of 2022](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/17/inherent-problems-in) - [Dear Kanye, get a blog](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/17/dear-kanye-get) - [Ted Gioia in the Honest Broker](https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/has-the-internet-reached-peak-clickability): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/16/ted-gioia-in) - "This could be Heaven or this could be Hell" [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/16/this-could-be) - [One week in Mexico](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/16/one-week-in) - [Todos Santos](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/15/todos-santos) - I love [Morpho](https://apps.apple.com/app/id1494942612), my new favourite currency (and other numbers) conversion iOS app. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/15/i-love-morpho) - Kurt Vonnegut: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/15/kurt-vonnegut-we) - It’s happened! We’ve had our first American tourist in Mexico think that Austria and Australia are the same place. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/16/its-happened-weve) - How can I nominate myself for the Father of the Year Awards? I just bought Luna a Paw Patrol car seat with and without beef. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/16/how-can-i) - Sam Kris: [The internet is already over.](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-internet-is-already-over) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/15/sam-kris-the) - Drove in Mexico for the first time today. I didn’t witness another car on the road in Los Cabos use it’s turn indicator. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/15/drove-in-mexico) - When asked at the restaurant what we were celebrating at dinner tonight I said “being alive!” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/15/when-asked-at) - The podcast series “Startup” was a thrilling listen as Alex Blumberg created Gimlet. [It’s depressing to now read how Spotify has gutted that creation after acquiring it](https://thisisthesqueeze.subs [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/14/the-podcast-series) - I’m using the new Apple Translate app every day in Mexico, it’s pretty cool. Currently having a full conversation with my zero-English Uber driver, Jesus Angel (his name, not a prayer). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/14/im-using-the) - A day in the life of the Withers family: day four (13 October 2022) in Los Cabos, at the Instituto Nacional de Migración (the Mexican National Institute of Immigration), activating our residency visas [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/14/a-day-in) - Wednesday sunset [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/13/wednesday-sunset) - Patron saint of pioneers and travelers, Saint Joseph of the capes. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/13/patron-saint-of) - “Fish killer of the week story” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/13/fish-killer-of) - Teaching the Withers girls how to share margaritas [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/12/teaching-the-withers) - [Episode five of Who’s Gonna Save Us with Saul Griffiths](https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/whos-gonna-save-us/05-better-call-saul/101453306), paraphrased by Kai in [Dense Discovery](https://www.d [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/12/episode-five-of) - Turns out that Cabo San Lucas is basically the Bali of the USA. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/12/turns-out-that) - What a wild ride. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/12/what-a-wild) - Mexican pests are chill AF [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/12/mexican-pests-are) - First Mexican sunset // Cabos [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/11/first-mexican-sunset) - Driving from the airport to the hotel in San Jose Cabo and I’ve spotted my first guard in a watch house holding a gun. Despite the girl at immigration saying so, I feel like I’m really in Mexico now. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/11/driving-from-the) - Mexicans really dislike BlackBerrys [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/11/mexicans-really-dislike) - This TSA agent at LAX is giving us a hard time [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/11/this-tsa-agent) - Adios, Australia [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/10/adios-australia) - Sitting on a flight that’s migrating our family to Mexico and I’ve never been more terrified and excited in my life. With any luck that energy, and Bluey, will help survive a 13 hour flight with two t [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/10/sitting-on-a) - One of these two people just vomited up a whole bloody watermelon on the Qantas lounge carpet [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/10/one-of-these) - Targeted ad of the year award goes to this lot who just advertised at me, the bloke moving his family to Mexico tomorrow [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/09/targeted-ad-of) - Self portrait of a tired and weary man who isn’t working for the next six weeks [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/08/self-portrait-of) - [Will Sansom at UT Health](https://news.uthscsa.edu/study-links-omega-3s-to-improved-brain-structure-cognition-at-midlife/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/07/will-sansom-at) - Freya Stark: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/07/freya-stark-there) - [14 years of the best job in the world](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/07/years-of-the) - This is so bizarre and weird to listen to: [AI-generated Joe Rogan interviews AI-generated Steve Jobs](https://share.transistor.fm/s/22f16c7f). By [podcast.ai](https://podcast.ai/). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/06/this-is-so) - Finally found the band for me [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/06/finally-found-the) - [Tim Burrowes reports on Rupert Murdoch's "remarkable" 70-year career](https://www.unmade.media/p/rupert-murdoch-goes-platinum-and) in the media: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/05/tim-burrowes-reports) - The world is starting to reflect on 2020-2022 and what everyone did, and how we reacted, and I'm not reading many pieces that are all in with their support. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/05/the-world-is) - [7 Photographers on Finding Your Voice](https://www.booooooom.com/2020/10/22/7-photographers-on-finding-your-voice/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/04/photographers-on-finding) - I could quote Robin Rendle's post, '[Take Care Of Your Blog](https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/take-care-of-your-blog-/)' forever: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/04/i-could-quote) - [We're off to Mexico and how we can stay in contact, a manifesto](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/04/were-off-to) - [An interesting piece from Ted Gioia where he highlights something I'd missed, that music, and music reporting, as turned from being fresh and new, to nostalgic and old.](https://tedgioia.substack.com [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/04/an-interesting-piece) - Six days to Mexico. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/04/six-days-to) - Making wedding photos today [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/02/making-wedding-photos) - [50 ways to be ridiculously generous—and feel ridiculously good](https://www.youcangetitdone.com/post/50-ways) by Alexandra Franzen. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/02/ways-to-be) - Rules for Online Sanity [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/02/rules-for-online) - [Becoming a dad shrinks your brain](https://archive.ph/k1EuT). I'm not mad, I'm just stupid. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/01/becoming-a-dad) - [Nine days until we migrate to Mexico, a country Britt and I have never been](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/01/nine-days-until) - I don’t know who needs to hear this, but despite their ads this week, Optus wasn’t attacked. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/01/i-dont-know) - [The most horrible hotel in the world featured in Tone Knob by Nick Parker](https://toneofvoice.substack.com/p/hans-brinker-budget-hotel?publication_id=540541&isFreemail=true): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/10/01/the-most-horrible) - [Does the Kindle Scribe replace a five year old Kindle Oasis?](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/30/does-the-kindle) - We called our Airbnb [the Tugun Pause](http://tugunpause.au) because a few times a day you get to take a one to two second pause in your conversations [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/30/we-called-our) - How good is it when you just find The One [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/29/how-good-is) - I call this one “Jetstar flight captured over Brisbane with a manual focus lens” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/29/i-call-this) - If you’ve ever wanted to use our dishwasher, TV, or closet? You’re going to love the [tugunpause.com](http://tugunpause.com). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/28/if-youve-ever) - Are there any signs we should look out for to see if Goldie is being fed enough? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/28/are-there-any) - [Ted Gioia’s predictions of the music industry in 2032](https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/20-predictions-for-the-music-business?r=ilth&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/28/ted-gioias-predictions) - [Cam Wilson in Web Cam](https://view.mail.crikey.com.au/?qs=02dae29843b0cdd86a14384dc21bc6657854f856deee99df3248ec81461539d6966e26587bafea5d8709ca98c45f2f1ddfc4ba5e885576badbf8c5026988de914c9346098b2d [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/27/cam-wilson-in) - [Andrew Greene reporting](https://twitter.com/andrewbgreene/status/1574546067588513792?s=46&t=JF7EzscuQv91K2-uzXyYlg) on the Optus data thief (they like to call the person a hacker): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/27/andrew-greene-reporting) - [The end of the shared experience that is music](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/27/the-end-of) - [Zane Lowe with Stevie Nicks is an beautiful podcast conversation](https://overcast.fm/+Rx82B3YIs) not only about Fleetwood Mac, but also about Tom Petty, Prince, Harry Styles, Neil Finn, Miley Cyrus [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/27/zane-lowe-with) - [Smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/27/emma-elsworthy-in) - Why so dramatic, Rockhampton sunrise? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/27/why-so-dramatic) - iOS 17 prediction: an Apple Shortcuts Store. After writing my first semi-complex-but-bit-that-complex shortcut for Apple Shortcuts today I can’t believe there’s not an App Store for Shortcuts. But I r [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/26/ios-prediction-an) - [Vinay Prasad, Professor, Hematologist, Oncologist, Health policy researcher, on the weird place we're at with Covid vaccines today](https://sensiblemed.substack.com/p/double-standards-the-atlantic-te [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/26/vinay-prasad-professor) - [Qantas T80 seat selection reminder shortcut for Apple Shortcuts](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/26/qantas-t-seat) - If I was going to make a travel vlog this week my episode would be about how you should just stay at home again, airports are terrible, it’s quicker to walk. All hail HRH Lord Joyce, the decider of al [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/26/if-i-was) - [It’s 2022 and there’s no real solution for blisters yet](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/26/its-and-theres) - I’m impressed by how many other people made the stupid decision to catch a 6am flight [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/26/im-impressed-by) - If only all of us queued for hours at airports had let them know we were coming. They need some kind of air travel ticketing system so they’re not surprised like this. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/26/if-only-all) - Be here [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/25/be-here) - Patrick O'Shaughnessy on the [power of audio](https://manual.withcompound.com/chapters/patrick-oshaughnessy-part-i): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/25/patrick-oshaughnessy-on) - Here comes the Sunday sun [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/25/here-comes-the) - If you’d like to buy bottles of Goldie’s energy, please back her kickstarter [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/24/if-youd-like) - [40 months wait and I’m pretty sure I’m never going to see this Playdate](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/24/months-wait-and) - George Bernard Shaw: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/24/george-bernard-shaw) - [Rattling the Cage by Rhian Sasseen](https://thebaffler.com/latest/rattling-the-cage-sasseen): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/24/rattling-the-cage) - Sitting at the next table from a group of people attending an NRL conference (wearing NRL logo shirts) and one guy jokingly says “fucking Polynesians” and now they’re joking about women in a sexist wa [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/23/sitting-at-the) - Hey, big apologies if I die in the next 24 hours. My 18 month old just sneezed directly into my open mouth and laughed. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/23/hey-big-apologies) - Good advice for people who have been Optus customers since 2017, I have been one, is to enact a credit freeze. [IDCARE has a fact sheet on freezing your credit](https://www.idcare.org/fact-sheets/cred [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/23/good-advice-for) - No woman, no cry? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/23/no-woman-no) - [What do sensors know?](https://om.co/2022/09/22/what-do-sensors-know/) - Om Malik: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/23/what-do-sensors) - When Donald Trump suggests that the FBI were looking for Hillary Clinton’s emails at Mar-a-Lago is he also suggesting that he has her emails? If so, big ups for Hillary for deploying a solid, if esote [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/23/when-donald-trump) - [Why Coles is getting out of the servo game](https://www.unmade.media/p/why-coles-is-getting-out-of-the-servo), asks Tim Burrowes: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/23/why-coles-is) - This psych study is going to set the metal world on fire: “[Extreme metal guitar skill: A case of male–male status seeking, mate attraction, or byproduct?](https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-76738-00 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/23/this-psych-study) - These old Qantas maps and timetables from the 1970s (lifted from the FFA fB group) are wild. That Acapulco is a destination but Los Angeles isn’t! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/22/these-old-qantas) - Big Bee Energy [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/22/big-bee-energy) - Astonished. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/22/astonished-the-best) - Is the Il Bogan Bridge over the Logan River the genesis of the Fully Sick Logan Bogan? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/22/is-the-il) - [“He came that I might have life. Therefore, let me live.”](https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/09/the-legacy-of-rich-mullins) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/22/he-came-that) - Getty Images says no to artificially generated art. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/22/getty-images-says) - I’ve been meaning to link to [Down Round](https://anchor.fm/downround) for a while, but most of my podcast listening is while I’m driving and that’s not a time that I’m blogging. Alas I remembered to [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/22/ive-been-meaning) - If there was a game that could drag me into purchasing a Nintendo Switch, it'd be [Monkey Island](https://returntomonkeyisland.com). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/20/if-there-was) - Ten years ago today that iOS 6 launched, removed Google Maps from the iPhone, and left us with Apple Maps while many [major landmarks around Australia were left inaccessible, like Broome, Mildura, and [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/19/ten-years-ago) - [Rose Eveleth on interrupting people](https://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2017/06/12/what-i-learned-about-interruption-from-talk-radio/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/19/rose-eveleth-on) - [Robin Rendle on blogging](https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/take-care-of-your-blog-/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/19/robin-rendle-on) - [‘Gifs are cringe’: Giphy](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/16/gifs-are-cringe-and-for-boomers-giphy-claims-in-meta-takeover-filing). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/19/gifs-are-cringe) - When I’m elected King of Straya I will make this our coat of arms in my first 100 days /via @ozkitsch [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/19/when-im-elected) - Mary Oliver: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/19/mary-oliver-doesnt) - I take back whatever I’ve said about wedding awards in the past. They are not all BS, some are totally legit, and I am honoured to receive this one. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/19/i-take-back) - Moving from my iPhone 12 Pro to a new iPhone 14 Pro would have to be the worst upgrade experience I've had in a long time. Where's the "yes this totally is my new phone, please for the love of god jus [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/18/moving-from-my) - Mother [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/17/mother) - Everything I've Learnt About Public EV Charging With Two Failed Startups, [by Anthony Agius](https://blog.decryption.net.au/t/everything-ive-learnt-about-public-ev-charging-with-two-failed-startups/10 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/17/everything-ive-learnt) - Kevin Kelly: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/17/kevin-kelly-the) - “Prince Andrew, a friend of Jeffrey Epstein who this year settled a lawsuit accusing him of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl, will receive the queen's corgis.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/17/prince-andrew-a) - Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company to Fight Climate Change, [writes David Gelles in The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/climate/patagonia-climate-philanthropy-chouinard.html): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/17/patagonia-founder-gives) - [Encouragement to a friend who’s a brand new dad this week](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/17/encouragement-to-a) - “All we can do is build trust, that’s the only asset a newsroom has.” - [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/16/all-we-can) - Friday night on the drive home to the Gold Coast from Toowoomba [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/16/friday-night-on) - Who are you even going to choose? Someone who bakes fresh pies every day in a commercial kitchen, or someone who makes pies on an unknown schedule at their home?! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/15/who-are-you) - Goonoo Goonoo on a Thursday morning [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/15/goonoo-goonoo-on) - The one with a Britt in front is our Airbnb … the other is just how damn cute Tamworth homes are [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/14/the-one-with) - Shooting the sunset over Tamworth with Luna [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/14/shooting-the-sunset) - Took the girls to the office today. I must’ve married hundreds of people in the Blue Mountains over the past 14 years so it was weird to be there wrangling toddlers instead of bridal parties (basicall [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/13/took-the-girls) - You might find the memes and the jokes horrible but this is all King Charles' fault for becoming king in a meme culture his mother neglected to eradicate or colonise. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/13/you-might-find) - You know you’re at an Australian country pub when they don’t know what an IPA, or XPA, or pale ale is. I asked for a beer from a brand that’s less than a decade old so she gave me a local apple cider [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/13/you-know-youre) - Glenbrook [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/13/glenbrook) - Has anyone tried letting their toddler just leave and run into the wild? Maybe us parents are the only things holding them back from glory? Maybe warm clothes, a sleep routine, dry nappies, and regula [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/13/has-anyone-tried) - [Got a new 24mm](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/12/got-a-new) - When you’re trying to escape the backpackers [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/12/when-youre-trying) - Everyone goes shopping and posts a selfie of the new clothes they bought while I’m over here like, I got some more camera things [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/12/everyone-goes-shopping) - 🌙 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/12/141440) - [Steve Jobs emails himself](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/12/steve-jobs-emails) - [Otto English in Politico](https://www.politico.eu/article/the-short-unhappy-life-of-elizabeth-windsor-queen-elizabeth-ii-obituary/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/12/otto-english-in) - [What scientists have learnt from COVID lockdowns.](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02823-4) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/12/what-scientists-have) - Richard Branson: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/12/richard-branson-all) - I truly struggle to understand why we - as a global community - are so weird about immigration. That because of the genetic lottery you were born in a certain fenced area so you mainly just stay there [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/12/i-truly-struggle) - I don't want normal, I want magic. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/12/i-dont-want) - Becoming a crypto bro just got easier [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/11/becoming-a-crypto) - Sunday morning at Bondi [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/11/sunday-morning-at) - [A delightful Batman story](https://boingboing.net/2017/06/10/how-adam-west-played-a-prank-u.html)[](https://boingboing.net/2017/06/10/how-adam-west-played-a-prank-u.html) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/10/a-delightful-batman) - It’s amazing to me that the least valued, least used, and most uncool social network in the world is constantly the most important. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/10/its-amazing-to) - Louis L'Amour: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/10/louis-lamour-there) - Proud to announce that I’ve been appointed as a noted person to dispose of any currencies with former heads of state on them. Please mail all currencies to my PO Box and I will dispose of the currency [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/09/proud-to-announce) - I miss old-school Steve Jobs era Apple product launches. Steve would say that they designed some cool tech, we’d all agree and cheer. Tim Cook’s Apple pads it out with marketing BS “products that are [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/08/i-miss-oldschool) - What’s the most you’ve paid for an Old Fashioned? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/07/whats-the-most) - Finally the Pringles people have removed the unnecessary lids. If once you pop you can’t stop, why have plastic lids? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/07/finally-the-pringles) - An opera I’d go to [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/07/an-opera-id) - You can say what you want about the downfall of a Sydney institution like Bread & Circus after being sold but I can’t trust a cafe that takes my order on an iPad with a 30 pin dock connector. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/07/you-can-say) - The Withers’ in Wonderland (at The Grounds of Alexandria) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/07/the-withers-in) - Experiencing Sydney through the eyes and words of a three year old is marvellous. She looks at this building and calls it a castle and supposes there could be a princess at the top. I said there’s mor [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/07/experiencing-sydney-through) - Luna upon seeing Circular Quay and the Sydney ferries for the first time: they’re like pirates! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/07/luna-upon-seeing) - Ten years of you trying to convince me to go halfsies with meals. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/07/ten-years-of) - How boring and sad for AFL, to keep up the boring old broadcast model for another 7 years. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/06/how-boring-and) - I’ve met the end of Chinese food game boss [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/06/ive-met-the) - #notallstains [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/06/notallstains) - No, just a little lower. There it is. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/06/no-just-a) - Well, this W really gets a round [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/06/well-this-w) - September in Australia, by @newyorkcartoons and @scottdools [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/06/september-in-australia) - [Why international standard paper size ISO 216, the standard you might know as A1/A2/A3/A4/A5/A6 is one of the greatest innovations of the 18th century, and the simple maths behind it.](https://scilog [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/06/why-international-standard) - Germany just finished a [three-month trial of selling €9 monthly 'all you can eat' public transport tickets](https://www.vox.com/world/2022/8/27/23316718/nine-euro-ticket-germany-energy-crisis-public- [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/06/germany-just-finished) - Epictetus: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/06/epictetus-wealth-consists) - Sydney this afternoon [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/05/sydney-this-afternoon) - The real conspiracy I’d like Qanon to tell me about is why Australians are denied eggnog. How does Big Nog continue to ruin the lives of everyday Australians? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/05/the-real-conspiracy) - [Darryl Campbell in The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/c/23311333/tsa-history-airport-security-theater-homeland): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/05/darryl-campbell-in) - Luna presents me with a self-portrait for Father’s Day. I say “noo-noo”. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/04/luna-presents-me) - Luna: discovers herself [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/04/luna-discovers-herself) - Teaching Goldie how to identify a sucker [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/04/teaching-goldie-how) - This Ars Technica article - [Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot -](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/08/remembering-the-best-shareware-era-dos-games-that-time-forgot/) - r [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/04/this-ars-technica) - Three year-old firstborn looks at me as I’m putting her to bed tonight and says “when you were a little boy I made you a daddy!” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/03/three-yearold-firstborn) - 11 weddings to go before Mexico! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/03/weddings-to-go) - It’s empowering seeing Ampol throw around the word “restaurant” so liberally. I’m going to erect a sign out the front of my house that says “male model”. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/02/its-empowering-seeing) - I make wedding photo [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/02/i-make-wedding) - Things people have said to me tonight as I DJ a wedding I wasn’t even supposed to DJ: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/02/things-people-have) - Someone on Hacker News found an unbelievable Wikipedia article about the [Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – men's marathon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics_–_ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/01/someone-on-hacker) - Steve Jobs: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/01/steve-jobs-when) - “Hey honey comma oh this is a voice message sorry babe anyway” is how I start every voice message to my wife on my iPhone. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/09/01/hey-honey-comma) - [This Mavic 3 drone footage over and from Mount Everest is beyond amazing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz9oI3B6v4c) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/31/this-mavic-drone) - Still waiting for Big Audio Dynamite III [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/31/still-waiting-for) - No-one’s singing in the streets again, Mackay, Mackay. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/31/noones-singing-in) - [Hey, you know, you can just do stuff, like you don't need anyone's permission or anything](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjvVN4Vp_r0) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/30/hey-you-know) - 100 ways to improve your writing [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/30/ways-to-improve) - Manyun Zou, Russell Goldenberg and Rob Smith have [done the hard work on The Pudding](https://pudding.cool/2022/08/censorship/) to report on how The Big Bang Theory is censored in the People's Republi [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/30/manyun-zou-russell) - This web app on [Baseten](https://app.baseten.co/apps/QPp4nPE/operator_views/RqgOnqV) was recommended to me to restore old photos and as you might be able to see with this ancient photo of yours truly [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/28/this-web-app) - Sunrise on a Sunday morning from Cabarita Beach, New South Wales [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/28/sunrise-on-a) - Someone was up at 4:30am and nothing would settle her. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/28/someone-was-up) - [25 lessons learned from working at Clubhouse](https://anu.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-at-clubhouse-) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/28/lessons-learned-from) - [Austin Kleon's Show Your Work, a summary](https://aliabdaal.com/book-notes/show-your-work/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/28/austin-kleons-show) - David Perell on the news: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/28/david-perell-on) - Rob Hardy on non-coercive marketing: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/28/rob-hardy-on) - Introducing the next joshPhone. You can design yours on [Neal’s website](https://neal.fun/design-the-next-iphone/). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/27/introducing-the-next) - Patrick Collison has assemblers a fascinating list of [questions](https://patrickcollison.com/questions), like: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/27/patrick-collison-has) - [The end of social media and the rise of algorithmic media](https://every.to/p/the-end-of-social-media) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/27/the-end-of) - [The rising cost of living is actually encouraging us to spend more](https://thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2022/08/20/the-stats-guy-the-rising-cost-of-living-is-actually-encouraging-us-to-spend-more/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/27/the-rising-cost) - The people behind [Refind](https://refind.com/wonderful-questioning-sparrow-2?invite=e03218d204) are doing something really interesting with the "here's a list of really interesting articles in an ema [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/27/the-people-behind) - Amelia Earhart: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/27/amelia-earhart-the) - The guy who goes out of his way to hilariously grimace and loudly say ”good practice for your next marriage” at every wedding must be elated when he gets an invite. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/27/the-guy-who) - Forever amazed at what people wear to weddings. It must be so beautiful to do that last gaze in a mirror at home before you leave for the ceremony and think ”damn I’m hot!” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/27/forever-amazed-at) - [Evan Armstrong supposes that if Steve Jobs knew how to speak finance (bs) he might have stayed CEO of Apple back in the 80s](https://every.to/napkin-math/finance-is-narrative-not-numbers): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/26/evan-armstrong-supposes) - [The average duration of a viral song on TikTok is 19.5 seconds. RIP music.](https://blog.pentos.co/blog/anatomy-viral-song-tiktok/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/25/the-average-duration) - [Letters of Note](https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/your-name-is-upon-every-tongue): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/25/letters-of-note) - the best part about travelling for work is coming home to a tribe that’s missed me [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/24/the-best-part) - I can’t believe no-one has been celebrating Digital Radio’s (DAB) 13th anniversary in Australia. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/24/i-cant-believe) - [Matt Damon very simply and succinctly explains why we don’t get the movies like we used to - and it’s all to do with the death of the DVD](https://twitter.com/todd_spence/status/1561480505882619904?s [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/24/matt-damon-very) - It might seem like a surprise but nine years ago in Seminyak I started thinking about moving to Mexico after reading this compelling sign. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/24/it-might-seem) - Wow, I didn’t know this but you can use your $50 Qantas voucher like a power-up mid-flight so the flight attendant doesn’t smash into your elbows with the drinks cart, or to be allowed to push the sea [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/24/wow-i-didnt) - Retro ‘Roo [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/24/retro-roo) - I’ve created marriage ceremonies in the coldest climates, through Californian deserts in winter, Iceland in winter, New Zealand mountaintops in winter. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/23/ive-created-marriage) - Seeing the #SolidarityWithSanna posts reminds me of something that happened 10 years ago next week: Alan Jones and Barnaby Joyce on the radio [proclaiming that "women are destroying the joint" 1:29 in [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/23/seeing-the-solidaritywithsanna) - I need to see Michael Heizer's [City](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/19/arts/design/michael-heizer-city.html) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/22/i-need-to) - Get back to me when your wedding invite is a bottle of craft gin. This is an actual wedding I’m at in December. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/22/get-back-to) - She watches her big sister (try to) do ballet all week [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/21/she-watches-her) - As a person born in 1981, the greatest dilemma I face is whether I identify as Gen X or Gen Y. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/21/as-a-person) - I get itchy when I sit with a photo I've made for more than 24 hours, I couldn't imagine dedicating [50 years to a work of art](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/city-michael-heizers-desert-masterpiec [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/21/i-get-itchy) - [Time to get off the hamster wheel: interview with Spencer Howson ](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/21/time-to-get) - DJ Patil - former U.S. Chief Data Scientist - has the best advice on building: dream in years, plan in months, evaluate in weeks, ship daily. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/21/dj-patil-former) - Nine years since I’ve walked through these doors [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/21/nine-years-since) - Henry Luce, founder of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated magazines: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/21/henry-luce-founder) - [Eve Peyser in Intelligencer on Mensa](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/08/my-week-with-americas-smartest-people.html): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/20/eve-peyser-in) - [B.D. McClay in The Hedgehog Review](https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-use-and-abuse-of-history/articles/whataboutism): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/20/bd-mcclay-in) - View the world through a series of incentives and you’ll find we’re doomed in every direction. Health departments want people to drink less. Tax departments want people to drink more. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/19/view-the-world) - [When this real estate agent announces a successful deal on Instagram, she doesn’t put SOLD or PURCHASED on the listing — she puts MANIFESTED!](https://www.curbed.com/2022/07/woo-woo-real-estate-agent [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/18/when-this-real) - How sunrise at Currumbin Rock looked this morning [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/18/how-sunrise-at) - An update to the whole ['my photos were stolen and published in a book at Kmart" story](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/28/off-to-the.html): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/17/an-update-to) - [Expo 88 is the reason I'm a nerd](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/17/expo-is-the) - My favourite kind of internet communication is when you write a joke then people comment with real advice. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/17/my-favourite-kind) - Sam Neil is bringing Jurassic Park down under! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/16/sam-neil-is) - My mate Jay has made a documentary about remote knowledge workers, digital nomads, working around the Arctic Circle and I'm pretty damn jealous of those landscapes, the visuals, and the lifestyle! [Ch [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/16/my-mate-jaytpp) - Temple & Webster bed: $450. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/16/temple-webster-bed) - The only correct way today can go in #auspol is if the Prime Minister does a press conference where he takes off an Albo mask and is Scott Morrison underneath. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/16/the-only-correct) - It’s weird when I hear about people watching the same TV show at the same time as other people because the antennas on a nearby mountain determined it so. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/15/its-weird-when) - Running your own business is the most powerful vessel for learning. Theory actualises itself into practical, meanwhile, you've placed a bet, you've made a sacrifice, on the learning. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/15/running-your-own) - An ever-changing and growing list of the top 50 life hacks at [50hacks.co](https://50hacks.co/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/15/an-everchanging-and) - Muppets magic. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/15/muppets-magic-id) - Salon Tom Weston’s Five Rules of Being A Grown-Up: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/15/salon-tom-westons) - How many fools you know that have specific global and Australian marriage law, rituals, traditions, and customs knowledge like this? Not many. If any? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/14/how-many-fools) - [On distrusting Instagram](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/14/on-distrusting-instagram) - Outside our front door just now [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/13/outside-our-front) - A solid opportunity to transfer some of your wealth to me and for me to transfer some of my art to your walls at [www.joshwithers.art](https://www.joshwithers.art) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/13/a-solid-opportunity) - Y’all bringing your outdoor furniture inside after using it? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/13/yall-bringing-your) - As an old nerd I find it fundamentally offensive when tech podcasts publish a 404th episode instead of skipping it, or maybe publishing a no-audio audio file. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/13/as-an-old) - Saturday morning coffee date [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/13/saturday-morning-coffee) - I’d rather have no phone than an Android phone. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/13/id-rather-have) - Why is it ok for William Joel to be professionally called Billy Joel but it’s not ok for Joshua Withers to be professionally called Joshy Withers? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/12/why-is-it) - [Science says we can all just stay at home and the Titans will still lose](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2011.00865.x) despite a home ground advantage. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/10/science-says-we) - Jerry Saltz is a gift to this generation, and [his Vulture article: How to Be an Artist](https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/jerry-saltz-how-to-be-an-artist.html) should be required reading for humans on [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/10/jerry-saltz-is) - Matt Ruby (plus every wedding photographer I know): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/10/matt-ruby-plus) - [I never knew I needed a Transformer that transformed into a Canon R5 until now.](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/b0b8y8z4wj/?tag=transformers-20) now it’s all I want in this life. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/10/i-never-knew) - [Answers to the 10 most common questions people ask about us moving to Mexico](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/10/answers-to-the) - A fascinating element of modern web design is that developing/producing for the open web has actually gotten harder, not easier. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/10/a-fascinating-element) - Never forget that time the two largest mobile phone software companies [partnered together](https://www.apple.com/au/newsroom/2020/04/apple-and-google-partner-on-covid-19-contact-tracing-technology/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/10/never-forget-that) - Sunrise this morning from Snapper Rocks [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/10/sunrise-this-morning) - Ok, this is cool: [makemydrivefun.com](https://makemydrivefun.com) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/09/ok-this-is) - Can confirm this is true. Please refrain from messing with me: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/09/can-confirm-this) - My favourite weekly email newsletter - Dense Discovery - just clocked over 200 editions. [Give it a read and subscribe](https://www.densediscovery.com/issues/200). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/09/my-favourite-weekly) - You know what the most disappointing element of the Trump presidency has been is finally finding out that Area 51, aliens, werewolves etc, they don’t know. If they knew, then he’d know, and he would’v [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/09/you-know-what) - Australian weather data on the iOS 16 public beta doesn’t look to be any better than previous incarnations. The leftmost app is Weathergraph which is using the Apple Weather API. The middle app is App [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/09/australian-weather-data) - Finally it's happened! [Millennials are old too](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/08/tiktok-gen-z-millennial-pause-parody/671069/)!!! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/08/finally-its-happened) - [Jideofor Onwugbenu on his Leverage Thoughts Substack](https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/to-become-wise-do-less) wonders if doing a lot really does much: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/08/jideofor-onwugbenu-on) - I found the 'Soon Horse' at The Ekka today [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/08/i-found-the) - [Ekka 2022](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/08/ekka-the-withers) - [John Dickerson in Slate](https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/01/at-a-certain-age-its-impossible-to-get-a-good-photograph-of-your-child.html): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/08/john-dickerson-in) - I’ve been working on getting my Instagram account back to friends and family, after a decade of “better follow this account for brand and business reasons.” Turns out that unfollowing a thousand odd a [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/08/ive-been-working) - Where are the most notable people on the planet from? [This really cool mashup of Wikidata and Openmaps shows you, on a globe](https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people). Looks like I've got to do so [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/07/where-are-the) - 28 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/07/132109) - [TikTok Moderators Are Being Trained Using Graphic Images Of Child Sexual Abuse, in Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2022/08/04/tiktok-is-storing-uncensored-images-of-child-sexual- [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/05/tiktok-moderators-are) - How annoying are cold fries [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/05/how-annoying-are) - Port Dougie this afternoon. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/04/port-dougie-this) - [Spain says no to nice aircon temps](https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/3/23291066/spain-bans-setting-air-conditioning-below-27-degrees-celsius): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/04/spain-says-no) - It's the crocodile you don't see you have to worry about. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/04/its-the-crocodile) - [Write one blog post every day that scares you](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/04/write-one-blog) - Free business idea: Instagram, but for photos. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/04/free-business-idea) - Many think that "the elites" or "the media" are pushing an agenda. They're not, it's actually worse. They're just giving us what we want so they can sell it to us and become wealthier. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/04/many-think-that) - > “When you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that makes it good or bad.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/03/when-you-hit) - Brisbane on a Tuesday afternoon [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/02/brisbane-on-a) - It was a good month for me on Unsplash. Zero dollars made, but millions of feel-good bucks. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/02/it-was-a) - [More Aussies](https://stockhead.com.au/news/we-asked-5000-aussies-where-theyll-stash-cash-over-the-next-2-years-and-it-got-weird/) - 18% - are going to be investing in crypto in the next 2yrs than re [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/02/more-aussies-are) - [TikTok's talking points are totally cool, nothing to see here, move along now, everything's cool ya see](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/02/tiktoks-talking-points) - Tugun Beach tonight [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/01/tugun-beach-tonight) - [What we measure is often not what matters](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/08/01/what-we-measure) - 🌙 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/31/165729) - [The radio is dead, long love the radio](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/31/the-radio-is) - [Reels is less than half as successful as Stories was on the same theft timeline](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/31/reels-is-less) - [Zuckerberg and the rice playpen](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/31/zuckerberg-and-the) - Another dose of inspiration for my family’s 2023: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/31/another-dose-of) - My 2023 goal in Mexico is to no longer know to do. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/28/my-goal-in) - May god save any of you who find this book in your family homes [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/28/may-god-save) - [Scott Rosenberg in Axios](https://www.axios.com/2022/07/25/sunset-social-network-facebook-tiktok): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/28/scott-rosenberg-in) - [Taylor Lorenz on why you don't want the old Instagram back](https://taylorlorenz.substack.com/p/you-dont-want-the-old-instagram): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/28/taylor-lorenz-on) - A fancy hotel in Brisbane is trying to engage the Streisand effect by asking that these photos be removed from my Unsplash profile. It's funny that brands are still trying to discourage user-generated [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/26/a-fancy-hotel) - I might not be TikTok cool, but I'm Grammarly cool [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/26/i-might-not) - Paul Ford in Wired mag might be onto something [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/25/paul-ford-in) - Where is trust growing? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/24/where-is-trust) - I feel [seen](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/07/22/more-on-humanes-change-everything), [@gruber](https://micro.blog/gruber) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/24/i-feel-seen) - Where the hell is she? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/23/where-the-hell) - One of the key elements to parenting is knowing whether to say “wow” or “no, don’t do that” when your kid screams “Hey, dad!” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/23/one-of-the) - The co-founder of podcast host Anchor has written about his perceived issue with podcasting in the [Standards Innovation Paradox](https://mignano.medium.com/the-standards-innovation-paradox-e14cab5213 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/23/the-cofounder-of) - [Instagram is embarrassing itself because it didn't steal, it copied](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/23/instagram-is-embarrassing) - Coffee. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/23/coffeecoffee-is-whats) - They’re showing off Wisk’s flying cars at King George Square in Brisbane today. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/21/theyre-showing-off) - Craig Mod (devastatingly) on travel: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/19/craig-mod-devastatingly) - Monday morning from Main Beach, Surfers Parasise, and the Broadwater [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/18/monday-morning-from) - Only 80s kids will know the answer: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/17/only-s-kids) - But … [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/17/but) - [The story behind "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain"](https://galaxymusicnotes.com/pages/how-shell-be-coming-round-the-mountain-evolved): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/16/the-story-begins) - Consider me sold on water filtration. Six months ago we got a complete home water filtration unit installed. I wasn’t against it, I just didn’t consider it necessary. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/16/consider-me-sold) - I still believe this 10 years on [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/15/i-still-believe) - The one where Charlie Day beats up Ben Abraham. [If I Didn’t Love You, the Music Video](https://youtu.be/ggGVxUO9y34). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/15/the-one-where) - [These Hubble vs Webb photos are amazing](https://johnedchristensen.github.io/WebbCompare/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/14/these-hubble-vs) - Jim Rohn: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/14/jim-rohn-you) - Do banks call debit cards, credit cards, and credit cards, debit cards? Because if it's a credit card for me, it's a debit card for them. Right? We both can't call them credit cards, that's not how ac [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/13/do-banks-call) - I swear I'm the only person who googles "New Amazon Kindle Oasis" every week waiting to see if I've missed the announcement I've been waiting for. The second I buy a new current generation Oasis will [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/13/i-swear-im) - I'm fascinated by this idea: [Vickrey auction as price discovery mechanism](https://kevinlynagh.com/notes/pricing-niche-products/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/12/im-fascinated-by) - [Queensland woman sacked for not including an emoji in a text message](http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/FWC//2022/1790.html): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/12/queensland-woman-sacked) - Tuesday sunrise from Tugun with Luna (and a visit to Highline Palm Beach for espresso afterward) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/12/tuesday-sunrise-from) - I’ve convinced Luna that Hall & Oates’ “Rich Girl” is actually “Big Girl” and that it’s about her. She now requests the song about her. I don’t know what I have done, but I’ve probably made a mistake. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/11/ive-convinced-luna) - [I can only, and will only, eat hotdogs from this day on, after I have been introduced like this](https://youtu.be/xqtWESh6zpc) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/10/i-can-only) - This story about Disney - and Hollywood - in China is wild: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/10/this-story-about) - James Clear: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/10/james-clear-many) - 🕵️ Fresh air [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/10/fresh-air) - Police are now targeting: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/07/police-are-now) - [Jetstar Informs Passengers Mid Flight That The Trip Has Been Cancelled](https://www.betootaadvocate.com/advocate-in-focus/jetstar-informs-passengers-mid-flight-that-the-trip-has-been-cancelled/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/06/jetstar-informs-passengers) - [Taking a pause from the Tugun Pause](https://tugun.substack.com/p/taking-a-pause-from-tugun?sd=pf) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/06/taking-a-pause) - Facebook, weve been married for like 15 years now, I really thought you’d know me better. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/03/facebook-weve-been) - Not everyone is an artist [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/03/not-everyone-is) - [James Dale Davidson](https://beta.startupy.world/content/the-sovereign-individual/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/03/james-dale-davidson) - A Josh-eyed view of Pullerbopulloke, or as the brits called it, Bacchus Marsh, named after Captain William Henry Bacchus and the marsh he brought his Tassie sheep to. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/03/a-josheyed-view) - [Love Gets Weird](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/03/love-gets-weird) - It’s great that Google’s automatically deleting location history to keep people safe, it’d just be nice if they extended it to include me buying ice cream. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/03/its-great-that) - Watching Melbourne wake up this morning from the Maribyrnong River [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/03/watching-melbourne-wake) - Nothing says “you’re awesome at decisions” like purchasing a $2 service station coffee at 5pm on a Saturday. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/02/nothing-says-youre) - A few observations on flying out of the Gold Coast this morning. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/02/a-few-observations) - Dr. Gabor Maté: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/02/dr-gabor-mat) - [Tom Johnson on realising his attention span has become fragmented](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/awakening-moment-to-how-smartphones-fragment-our-attention/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/01/tom-johnson-on) - I’d like to start a coffee shop in Cupertino called Appel Perk [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/01/id-like-to) - The Queensland government is rolling out a plastic ban, which is going to be detrimental to the Gold Coast surgical improvement market. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/01/the-queensland-government) - It's hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/07/01/its-hard-to) - I don’t know which PAW Parrol parents need to hear this but: Mayor Goodway is the mayor of Adventure Bay and Mayor Humdinger is the mayor of Foggy Bottom with a population of one - which is him. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/29/i-dont-know) - > "Hopefully this makes you really angry or confirms your preexisting biases and worldviews. Best of luck xoxo" [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/29/hopefully-this-makes) - [Off to the lawyers we go](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/28/off-to-the) - [Make known the unknown; murder your fantasies](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/28/make-known-the) - From my boy @JayT0pp's [email](https://jaytopp.com/optin1635405785072): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/28/from-my-boy) - Gold Coast winter’s sunset [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/27/gold-coast-winters) - View to Surfers Paradise in 1986 versus 2022. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/27/view-to-surfers) - Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/26/allow-yourself-the) - [Abortion Banned In Parts Of USA, So Children Can Live Long Enough To Be Shot Dead At High School](https://doublebaytoday.com/abortion-banned-in-parts-of-usa-so-children-can-live-long-enough-to-be-sho [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/25/abortion-banned-in) - [Kevin Kelly in The Need for World Government](https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-need-for-world-government/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/25/kevin-kelly-in) - owner [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/25/owner) - Some personal news: we’re moving to Mexico later this year. It’s time to get off the hamster wheel. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/25/some-personal-news) - > “I want something more concise, more simple, more serious; I want more soul and more love and more heart.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/24/i-want-something) - [The audio is dead, long live the audio!](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/24/the-audio-is) - Please sign my petition to have butter knives demoted to flat metal sticks. They're clearly not a type of knife. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/24/please-sign-my) - Get behind me, devil! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/24/get-behind-me) - The British Embassy versus the USA Embassy versus the Iranian Embassy in Canberra. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/23/the-british-embassy) - Fav YouTube of all time: [New Yorkers missing the train](https://youtu.be/iWh385F5lms) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/23/fav-youtube-of) - I don’t want to be the one to tell them that’s not how podcasts work [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/22/i-dont-want) - What a Story // Brisbane [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/20/what-a-story) - Spent today making profile and branding photos for a Brisbane cybersecurity firm which failed to protect these bread rolls from pigeons so I’m not sure if they’re any good. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/20/spent-today-making) - [Stolen valour](https://overcast.fm/+vA5wAP_Y8): Christianity Today’s Mike Cosper publishes a damming review of some Christian leaders that have made news of late. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/20/stolen-valour-christianity) - Good morning, Gold Coast [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/20/good-morning-gold) - Sign me up for this reading [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/19/sign-me-up) - Just a note for my obituary, if you’re looking for extra things to mention: every time I encounter a wrong address, or entry, or error on Apple Maps I report it. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/18/just-a-note) - Adults, we must rise up. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/18/adults-we-must) - Flying my drone to capture the sunrise this morning and on the way back home I stumbled across these magnificent creatures [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/17/flying-my-drone) - The moonrise tonight over the Paciifc Motorway at Ormeau [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/16/the-moonrise-tonight) - Derek Thompson: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/16/derek-thompson-work) - Not gonna lie, Internet Explorer peaked at version 3. [It’s been down hill for the 26 years since](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/15/microsoft-to-retire-internet-explorer-browser-and- [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/15/not-gonna-lie) - My in-depth review of the new Eclipse ‘Comfort’ mints in honey, lemon, and ginger flavour: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/15/my-indepth-review) - Heaven is the right USB-C cable [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/15/heaven-is-the) - Funny way to spell Straya [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/15/funny-way-to) - A re-release of Nickelback’s Photograph but it’s about Facebook Memories. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/15/a-rerelease-of) - iOS 17 Idea: Screensavers for iPhone. Specifically After Dark. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/14/ios-idea-screensavers) - She did this all on her own 🍆 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/13/she-did-this) - Posting this photo because I’m simply pretty proud of it. I’ve been carrying this 16mm lens around for a while in-case I was stuck between a rock and a hard place trying to get an interior shot. But y [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/11/posting-this-photo) - 99% of asking for advice is just confirming what you already wanted to do. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/11/of-asking-for) - ‘You only have one shot’: how film cameras won over a younger generation. [Imogen Kars in the Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/05/you-only-have-one-shot-how-film-cameras-won-o [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/11/you-only-have) - It's whack to think that 329 million people's identity and culture is built on a document written by a few rebellious 29-year-olds wearing wigs in 1776. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/10/its-whack-to) - Friday afternoon in Wentworth Falls, NSW [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/10/friday-afternoon-in) - [Josh Spector on writing a newsletter that helps you sell](https://joshspector.com/newsletter-to-sell-products/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/10/josh-spector-on) - The world as 100 people over the last two centuries. Spoiler: things are looking good. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/10/the-world-as) - This is cool: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/10/this-is-cool) - This is the weakest take. (See screenshot) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/10/093316) - [The world is a museum of passion projects](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/10/the-world-is) - > "Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money." [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/10/pessimists-sound-smart) - [It's Time to Bring Back the Away Message](https://www.wired.com/story/bring-back-the-aim-away-message/), Lauren Good in WIRED: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/08/its-time-to) - And Away [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/07/and-away) - Today in Sydney [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/06/today-in-sydney) - It’s now Six Guys, I’m that invested [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/06/its-now-six) - > “Once upon a time people were born into communities and had to find their individuality. Today people are born individuals and have to find their communities.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/06/once-upon-a) - It’s really nice to see the Queen finally make Platinum, but I thought @Qantas would’ve just given her an honorary frequent flyer status considering who she is. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/06/its-really-nice) - Whose pockets is Big Honeydew in so tht honeydew continues to be included as a token fruit salad filler. (Six months later I have an investigative podcast on this topic) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/04/whose-pockets-is) - [Elon Musk sentiment is slowly swinging negatively](https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/05/30/dogecoin-jackson-palmer-elon-musk-cryptocurrency-bubble/), but in a Trump-like fashion, where it’s not so much [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/04/elon-musk-sentiment) - Today in the Numinbah Valley [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/06/03/today-in-the) - > “So what’s the Original Sin of the Internet? Nearly all business models it supports require spying on consumers and monetising them.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/30/so-whats-the) - Say what you will about brand activations and capitalism ruining the world, I am 100% here for the Bondi Bigfoot and whatever has happened to The Sydney Morning Herald/The Hawkins Post this morning. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/28/say-what-you) - Norman Greenbaum's Spirit in the Sky but it's about coffee. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/27/norman-greenbaums-spirit) - > "Lust for the future, treasure the past." [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/27/lust-for-the) - Went to Sydney for 10 hours today and tried to go to Luna park which could honestly do some yard work. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/26/went-to-sydney) - Sydney today [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/26/sydney-today) - Is it tho? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/25/is-it-tho) - Simulating your life's finances like a computer game is depressing [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/25/simulating-your-lifes) - A cyber security [article](http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/cdc-usenix-sec02/index.html) published twenty years ago. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/25/a-cyber-security) - Was blessed to actually see colour in the sky this afternoon. Had to ask Google whether colour in the sky was a shepherd’s delight or not. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/24/was-blessed-to) - Anyone who isn't embarrassed by who they were last year isn't learning enough [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/24/anyone-who-isnt) - [He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/24/he-will-take) - Yes, I do want to report the problem now. Boots and swimmers is illegal I think. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/23/yes-i-do) - Apple has rebranded "Apple Pay Cash" to "Apple Cash" and launched [new splash pages for the service](https://www.apple.com/apple-cash/), along with new pages for Apple Wallet and Apple Pay. Is the mon [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/23/apple-has-rebranded) - I think about this daily. It really challenges my default setting of hitting life like a to-do list: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/22/i-think-about) - Anyone else just really want to see Louis Theorux’s Fiat? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/22/anyone-else-just) - Well, I'm so glad that we got the correct result with the election and all of our problems are solved and we can all just share cat videos online for the next three years, no more angry tweets right? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/22/well-im-so) - The “day after a federal election” vibes [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/22/the-day-after) - I, for one, welcome our new DJ overlord. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/21/i-for-one) - If I am elected President of Australia tonight, in my first 100 days I will bring back the stirring spoon to McDonalds McFlurries. I will make McFlurries flurried again. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/21/if-i-am) - Luna was really upset. She thought we were going on a boat when I said that we were going to vote. Teach your kids the difference between floating on water and enacting change. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/21/luna-was-really) - Name a better collab, I’ll wait [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/20/name-a-better) - As someone who attends weddings professionally, I find it amazing that in 'woke 2022 where we've #metoo'd, we're feminists, living in a diverse community with global internet access, that Millenials a [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/18/as-someone-who) - I just realised I slid into my 14th year as a marriage celebrant over the weekend. Three years ago the [Gold Coast Bulletin did a piece on me about how I'm not a terrible human or celebrant, so if you [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/18/i-just-realised) - "Leaving everything up to the publishing industry is not the best way to run a culture." [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/18/leaving-everything-up) - > “It is far easier to critique than to create” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/18/it-is-far) -
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/18/073920)
- Grandpa [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/16/grandpa)
- I think it’s beautiful that guys with crazy eyes who only wear gym shorts find love. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/16/i-think-its)
- Who had Louis Theroux being the most popular rapper of 2022 on their 2022 bingo card? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/15/who-had-louis)
- I, for one, welcome our new sunny and shining overlord [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/15/i-for-one)
- David Thorne was doing NFTs well before everyone else [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/14/david-thorne-was)
- One of the best things about the internet is how you are distincitly awards how few people are listening to you. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/13/one-of-the)
- [Rest In Peace, still images on Instagram](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/13/rest-in-peace)
- When a wedding vendor emails you prices and you don’t reply [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/13/when-a-wedding)
- Talking to a celebrant friend this morning and they have a funeral this afternoon where there's only one family member attending because the deceased pissed off everyone she ever knew. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/13/talking-to-a)
- Apple Photos’ memories feature can detect when I’m at a Foo Fighters concert but categorises the photos from the hospital at Southport where both our daughters first appear in the library as “Southpor [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/12/apple-photos-memories)
- As an Australian who consumes far too much American content in the form of podcasts and emails, let me [echo Douglas Adams](https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/please-dont-let-anyone-americanise): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/12/as-an-australian)
- When I'm not marrying people, or shitposting on social, I write a weekly email for the southern end of the Gold Coast called The Tugun Pause. In [today's issue I wonder if a monorail would be better t [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/12/when-im-not)
- Whenever I hear people talk about the Christian/Catholic vote I always wonder why it has nothing to do with Matthew 25. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/11/whenever-i-hear)
- Staff member of the 24/7 convenience store next to nightclubs in Fortitude Valley tells me that the clothes and footwear are how they make bank. The drinks and food are for the daytime crowd. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/11/staff-member-of)
- Playing with motion in Fortitude Valley tonight [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/10/playing-with-motion)
- Filed under "odd anniversaries" today is the 13th anniversary of the first time I saw a Newton in real life and also the Robina Apple Store opened. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/09/filed-under-odd)
- It’s funny that the term “PC” aka personal computer has been essentially been burned describing Wintel computers when the truest and most-personal computers today do not run Windows nor do they run In [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/08/its-wild-that)
- 🦋 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/08/104525)
- So, like, this wasn’t a thing before? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/08/so-like-this)
- Currumbin [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/07/currumbin)
- At first I was stridently against the idea of combining a hen’s party and a marriage ceremony, but honestly, it worked out fine. A++ would recommend. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/07/at-first-i)
- OOL [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/06/ool)
- > “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/06/let-everything-happen)
- Moon. No editing or filtering. Just the boring old moon standing there looking glorious tonight. As seen from Byron Bay. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/05/moon-no-editing)
- A [new issue of the Tugun Pause](https://www.tugunpause.com/p/416-crimes-and-a-beach-aint-one) is in inboxes with my proudest headline yet: **416 crimes and a beach ain't one**. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/05/a-new-issue)
- A friend just reminded me of that time I was on Sunrise for a Star Wars wedding on ... May the fourth. God bless the internets, [may you always archive my weird business endeavours](https://youtu.be/Y [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/05/a-friend-just)
- Tintenbar garden [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/04/tintenbar-garden)
- > "Everyone has talent; what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads." [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/04/everyone-has-talent)
- > "To keep young kids behaving on a car road trip, have a bag of their favourite candy and throw a piece out the window each time they misbehave." [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/04/to-keep-young)
- I love a sunburnt country [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/03/i-love-a)
- SYD [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/03/syd)
- [Photography from space was an afterthought](https://www.history.nasa.gov/apollo_photo.html?mc_cid=63db2781de&mc_eid=bd889a6ab6). Astronaut John Glenn bought a Minolta 35mm from a drugstore. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/03/photography-from-space)
- 329km driving. 807km flying. 11km hike. All to create a marriage ceremony on a Monday afternoon. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/02/km-driving-km)
- 12 French submarines < 255 French-ish aircraft [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/02/french-submarines-frenchish)
- That’s not a Qantas flight … that’s a Qantas flight. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/02/thats-not-a)
- That face when the situation is not escalating [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/02/that-face-when)
- Back at my Ryan Bingham impersonation this morning. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/02/back-at-my)
- 🏖 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/01/110736)
- Rich people need it. Poor people have it. If you eat it, you die. And when you die, you take it with you. [What is it](https://moretothat.com/the-nothingness-of-money/)? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/05/01/rich-people-need)
- Hastings Point this afternoon 📷 playing with a 45 year old 35mm manual focus Canon FD lens on my Canon EOS R5. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/30/hastings-point-this)
- ☀️ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/30/145826)
- My three year old loves making photos, has a Micro.Blog! Her username is [@lunawithers](https://micro.blog/lunawithers), [her blog is here](https://lunawithers.blog), and [this is the kids camera she’ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/29/my-three-year)
- Tom Cruise #notshotoniphone [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/29/tom-cruise-notshotoniphone)
- Is love of aviation photography a hereditary thing? I guess we’ll never know. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/28/is-love-of)
- 6:42am this morning // Brunswick Heads // Susara & Jake [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/28/am-this-morning)
- Set an alarm to get up for sunrise this morning …. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/28/set-an-alarm)
- What’s the story with hot air balloons carrying advertising? Is it a layover from former deals? Do the advertisers pay once, or a regular rate? It seems odd today. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/28/whats-the-story)
- Sunrise elopement at Brunswick Heads this morning [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/28/sunrise-elopement-at)
- Wategos Beach this afternoon [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/27/wategos-beach-this)
- Do you guys need me to pick you up anything while I’m here? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/27/do-you-guys)
- Whenever I am out in public with either or both of my children I always carry their birth certificate with me so that I can easily and quickly prove that I am a Certified Practising Parent and not som [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/27/whenever-i-am)
- How my body feels after the last two years of life and parenting [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/27/how-my-body)
- Everyone stop looking. I found them. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/26/everyone-stop-looking)
- [My thoughts on Elon Musk buying Twitter](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/26/my-thoughts-on)
- How old do kids have to be to ride on the dash? Asking for Goldie. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/26/how-old-do)
- Everyone’s worried about what @elonmusk is going to do to Twitter the social network, but no-one’s talking about how he’s going to get printed copies of all our draft tweets every morning and if he th [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/26/everyones-worried-about)
- I just can’t believe a rich guy bought the free bird website off other rich people. It’s like non-rich people only get to use the free bird website, not own it, I guess. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/26/i-just-cant)
- ☀️ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/24/210420)
- I’m a little bit obsessed with strapping this 50 year old Canon FD 50mm f/1.4 lens onto my Canon EOS R5 mirrorless camera with an Urth adaptor. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/24/im-a-little)
- Canon FD 50mm strapped onto a Canon EOS R5 ⛽️ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/23/canon-fd-mm)
- Police are now targeting podcast producers who say that they will put a link in the show notes, yet do not put that link in the notes. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/23/police-are-now)
- [VH-VPE, VH-VPD, VH-VPH at Wellcamp Airport](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/23/vhvpe-vhvpd-vhvph)
- Queensland Regional Accommodation Centre. Or as Scotty McDonald calls it, The Steven Miles Centre For Excellence, or as I’ll call it, The Queensland Labor Money Pit. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/23/queensland-regional-accommodation)
- Just three Boeing 777’s hanging out in a field. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/23/just-three-boeing)
- 💨 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/23/124458)
- If I had to choose, I’d give it all away for the simple joy of being their dad [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/23/if-i-had)
- This is weird, but I need your help finding a ball. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/22/this-is-weird)
- It is so weird to experience old white male sexism in the flesh. I am pushing a pram through a shopping centre with my one-year-old daughter in it and a guy who I’ve never seen before says to me “that [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/21/it-is-so)
- DF: [Biden Administration Looks Gift Horse in Mouth, But Can't See It Because the Horse Is Wearing a Mask](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/04/19/biden-admin-gift-horse) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/20/df-biden-administration)
- Danny Elfman, creator of The Simpson’s theme song, [performs The Simpson’s Theme Song at Coachella and it’s beautiful](https://youtu.be/CI8hh-0CcCo). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/19/danny-elfman-creator)
- Flight attendant said that if we “hear the words e and vacuate” then those of us in the emergency row have to do something with the window and it’s all I can think about now. Do I let her know it’s on [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/17/flight-attendant-said)
- Making like ScoMo and Canberra’s in my rearview mirror [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/17/making-like-scomo)
- At the risk of outing myself as a business guy and customer journey nerd, why don't cafes and shops just increase their prices by 1.5% instead of plastering signs like this across their business? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/17/at-the-risk)
- Finally someone answers the big question: Where has [Yahoo Serious been?](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jun/03/forget-the-pyramids-the-greatest-mystery-of-our-time-is-what-happened-to- [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/17/finally-someone-answers)
- Drove the dirt road from Tumut to Canberra this morning. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/17/drove-the-dirt)
- Is it street photography if you made the photo in a car? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/17/is-it-street)
- Argalong - population of 29 - at 6am this morning [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/17/argalong-population-of)
- Yes, I would like fries with that [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/17/yes-i-would)
- Waxing Gibbous from QF1765 tonight [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/15/waxing-gibbous-from)
- Damn Qantas gamifying being green so I feel incentivised to achieve an arbitrary goal. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/15/damn-qantas-gamifying)
- The Good Friday commute [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/15/the-good-friday)
- Pretty good Friday [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/15/pretty-good-friday)
- VA534 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/14/va)
- Game night at the Gabba [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/14/game-night-at)
- [Tonga’s triple disaster - Expsoure](https://ifrc.exposure.co/tongas-triple-disaster-of-ash-debris-and-covid): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/14/tongas-triple-disaster)
- I still have a bit of a traumatic reaction crossing this border to go to work. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/13/i-still-have)
- Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/13/cool-cool-cool)
- A list of principles for a class taught by artist and educator Sister Corita Kent in 1967-1968: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/13/a-list-of)
- If I’m making photographs for fun - aka not for money - I’m often shooting with a 41 year old lens that was passed on to me from my aunty, a Minolta MD 50mm f2 strapped onto the front of my Canon EOS [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/13/111410)
- “We’re the Aristocrats!” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/13/were-the-aristocrats)
- This weekend I’m in Gundagai for a wedding, and I’ve got a little bit of Saturday and Sunday morning exploration time. Where should I go exploring in this area this weekend? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/13/this-weekend-im)
- 
we're all looking for someting, not knowing exactly what it is. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/06/were-all-looking)
- I've got a hunch that this week will be the last one where Australia has a bloke named Scott Morrison as its Prime Minister. That election looms and the coalition wants someone else at the top. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/06/ive-got-a)
- The view from Kirribilli last night [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/06/the-view-from)
- This week is one of those weeks where I’m reminded that I’m actually quite good at being a wedding celebrant and I really enjoy it despite a pandemic tearing out my soul. Just completed wedding 3 of 5 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/06/this-week-is)
- It wet. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/06/it-wet-pilot)
- Layers [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/05/layers)
- Now that vaccinated segregation is coming to an end in Queensland why should we give up on classism now? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/05/now-that-vaccinated)
- Bedtime views [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/04/bedtime-views)
- Feels good to be back in Sydney/the Blue Mountains today. Feels like I’m back in the office like the good ol’ days. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/04/feels-good-to)
- Life with a three year old and a one year old feels like a blur [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/03/life-with-a)
- FINANCIAL LOSSES CAUSED BY DIVORCE [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/03/financial-losses-caused)
- Souht of 'Talle sunday afternoons [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/03/souht-of-talle)
- Australia [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/02/australia)
- Why the original iMac had a handle [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/02/why-the-original)
- Arrived home from work late tonight to a vomiting toddler. She managed to soil two compete bed settings, a bunch of Britt and my clothes, two pyjamas, and some fluffy animals. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/01/arrived-home-from)
- Eight hospitality trends/opportunities that could emerge from Covid: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/01/eight-hospitality-trendsopportunities)
- 2022: Mac Studio [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/01/mac-studio-ipad)
- Cows with a beef [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/04/01/cows-with-a)
- Turns out I’m very much not ready to see photos of my kids growing up. Luna’s 3.5 and I’ve got happy tears looking at photos of her from 2 years ago. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/30/turns-out-im)
- Charlie Munger: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/30/charlie-munger-show)
- [Steve Albini to Kurt, Dave and Chris, aka Nirvana](https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/nirvana): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/29/steve-albini-to)
- VA531 SYD-OOL [@virginaustralia](https://micro.blog/virginaustralia) Boeing 737 landing at @gcairport this afternoon. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/29/va-sydool-virginaustralia)
- Virgin aircraft offers me just the tip in my bathroom [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/29/virgin-aircraft-offers)
- One month ago, on the 28th of February we enjoyed 268mm of rain and our pool and lawn met for the first time. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/28/one-month-ago)
- Free business idea: software that monitors your email and to-do list and tells a stranger to call you when you get through all your emails and tasks - like, just doing your job - to let you know they' [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/28/free-business-idea)
- Hearing about Chris Rock and his mate today reminded me to watch Bel Air, the modern remake of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. It pushes The Batman way down the list in the gritty remake championships. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/28/hearing-about-chris)
- There was a really well known wedding photographer who was talking to Britt about shooting for The Elopement Collective, and on the phone to her (my wife) he told her that he hopes she fails in busine [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/28/there-was-a)
- [The Polestar O₂ concept car that will never ship has a built-in drone and now I hate every other car](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/28/the-polestar-o)
- The most unforgiving part of password parenting is needing to take your passwords to the gym so the other passwords don’t bully it for being weak. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/28/the-most-unforgiving)
- Pop quiz: name a song about New York in the year 1776 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/26/pop-quiz-name)
- [Against Right Liberalism, Adrian Vermeule](https://compactmag.com/article/against-right-liberalism): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/26/against-right-liberalism)
- Please sign up for my OnlyDads. $9.99 a month for all of my best dad content. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/24/please-sign-up)
- Every 'c' in Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/24/every-c-in)
- The shopping centre across the road was on fire, so our real estate office is now a temp daycare centre for the 70 kids from Busy Bees. Because I'm a father of two I know how to be responsible around [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/24/the-shopping-centre)
- Goldie and the light leak at Tallebudgera [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/23/goldie-and-the)
- A tourist is driving on the wrong side of the road on the Gold Coast Highway. It’s so beautiful now that the international borders are open again, nature is healing. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/23/a-tourist-is)
- A real estate colleague asked me yesterday how I marketed myself in weddings. I said, I just did really good work and then people enquired. Like this couple. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/23/a-real-estate)
- Marriage celebrants get all the cool stories. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/22/marriage-celebrants-get)
- 100% Bruce Wayne was influenced by "Son, when you grow up, would you be, the saviour of the broken, the beaten and the damned?" in 2006 when My Chemical Romance dropped the The Black Parade and he was [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/22/bruce-wayne-was)
- In light of the Hillsong news getting around, I've been reading [Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World](https://amzn.asia/5gJ6akB) by Elle Hardy on Pentecostal faith: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/22/in-light-of)
- Steve de Shazer: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/22/steve-de-shazer)
- In 2003 Pusha T wrote the McDonald's "I’m Lovin’ It" jingle, and because he wasn't properly compensated he's now [worked on a collab with Arby's and it's amazing](https://twitter.com/pusha_t/status/15 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/22/in-pusha-t)
- Good, good, the metaverse has a [volunteer police department full of randos](https://www.inputmag.com/culture/vrchat-virtual-reality-loli-police-department-lpd) planting weed on people and arresting p [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/21/good-good-the)
- I’ve always wanted to be able to watch planes land from my toilet. Now that our bathroom renovation is finished, I can! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/21/ive-always-wanted)
- [Splash of crocodile hatchling](http://let.josh.show/20220315-_DW_5620-Enhanced) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/20/splash-of-crocodile)
- A few more hours of doing absolutely nothing for a week in Cairns until I go back to figuring out how to convince someone to sell their house with me, plus doing all the postponed weddings from Covid [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/20/a-few-more)
- [Substack’s idealogy](https://every.to/divinations/substack-s-ideology) by Nathan Baschez in **Every**: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/20/substacks-idealogy-by)
- [March 14, 2020: The Day the World Stopped Traveling.](https://skift.com/the-month-global-travel-shut-down/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/20/march-the-day)
- Good news, the iOS Photos Look Up feature now works in Australia. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/19/good-news-the)
- At what point can I add photograoher for @DealStreetAsia on my LinkedIn? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/19/at-what-point)
- For everyone that’s thought Apple iCloud email didn’t have server-side rules/forwarding, [they apparently do now](https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/icloud/mm6b1a3f8a/icloud). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/17/for-everyone-thats)
- Great. Now I’m part of the “use a correct aircraft type” problem. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/16/great-now-im)
- Haycock Island [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/16/haycock-island)
- Smile from a crocodile [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/16/smile-from-a)
- Smile at a baby crocodile [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/16/smile-at-a)
- A morning on the Daintree River with some baby, and not-so-baby crocodiles [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/15/a-morning-on)
- Can confirm, the Canon EOS R5’s eye-autofocus for animals, does not work on baby crocodiles [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/15/can-confirm-the)
- That’s it, I’m done. I’m moving to Mars. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/14/thats-it-im)
- Apple event March 2023: We’ve put an M1 in the Polishing Cloth and it’s available for pre-order this Friday for $229. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/14/apple-event-march)
- From where you’d rather be, if where’d you rather be is a tropical paradise in the middle of a really rainy week [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/14/from-where-youd)
- Home for the next few days // Clifton Beach, Qld [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/13/home-for-the)
- People who like to party on ice have moved to my neighbourhood [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/12/people-whole-like)
- Hanging the boots up [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/12/hanging-the-boots)
- [Strip clubs and black holes, a review of a review of the life of Stephen Hawking](https://inference-review.com/article/underselling-hawking). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/12/strip-clubs-and)
- Well there goes my plans on starting an airline based around [coitus once we reach cruising altitude](https://search.ipaustralia.gov.au/trademarks/search/view/918446). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/11/well-there-goes)
- > “The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/11/the-realization-that)
- I uploaded 72GB of data for a project today and it only took a few hours. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/10/i-uploaded-gb)
- My dad gifted my 1 year old a commemorative 50c coin for her birthday. I don’t know what this means. Is this a secret code, like when someone leaves a pineapple in your bedroom when you’re visiting? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/10/my-dad-gifted)
- Two years ago this week, we were all walking into the last normal week we’d see in a while. We were so innocent and unaware. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/09/two-years-ago)
- auDA is celebrating the 36th birthday of .au today, a few weeks away from the launch of .au direct. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/09/auda-is-celebrating)
- So many of you have been asking how much money I make. I make a Medium income. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/08/so-many-of)
- I've been thinking a lot about the current disaster situation north and south of our home in flood devastated areas and how "the government" isn't doing anything. I don't think I want a government to [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/08/ive-been-thinking)
- James Greig in **[Stop making the Ukraine war about you](https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/55563/1/stop-making-the-ukraine-war-about-you)**: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/08/james-greig-in)
- A solid amen to Arne Bahlo on his article: [You're using email wrong](https://arne.me/blog/youre-using-email-wrong/). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/07/a-solid-amen)
- I'm really good at sales [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/07/im-really-good)
- Just attended my eight court mediation hearing because of Covid cancelling someone's wedding plans. If you ever want to feel sad come shout me a beer or eight and I'll tell you the stories. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/07/just-attended-my)
- [The Hustle](https://thehustle.co/how-ikea-tricks-you-into-buying-more-stuff/) via [Kyle Westaway](https://weekendbriefing.substack.com/p/weekend-briefing-no-421): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/06/the-hustle-via)
- [Evan Armstrong](https://every.to/napkin-math/pimp-my-ip-the-future-of-netflix): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/06/evan-armstrong-there)
- Every time I pick up an AFR lately and the front page headline isn’t “[World is Fukt](https://www.theguardian.com/world/australia-news-blog/2014/apr/25/apocalyptic-error-puts-the-f-in-afr)” I’m honest [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/05/every-time-i)
- Lismore and the New South Wales Northern Rivers needs help. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/04/lismore-and-the)
- Most advice is people’s own lost dreams disguised as good advice. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/04/most-advice-is)
- > “I think it’s important to live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/04/i-think-its)
- [Kevin is listening through every album of every band he loves](https://www.kevinsmokler.com/2022/01/25/in-praising-of-listening-through-every-album-by-your-favorite-artist/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/03/kevin-is-listening)
- [This Eater story of how a New York restaurant took the unpopular route of closing on Saturdays plus they increased profitability](https://www.eater.com/22951382/dame-restaurant-menu-pricing-closed-on [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/03/this-eater-story)
- > "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it." [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/03/thinking-is-the)
- “He mooed we must fight, escape or we'll die. Cows gathered around, cause the steaks were so high.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/02/he-mooed-we)
- Sunrise Surfers Paradise shoot this morning for a construction client [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/02/sunrise-surfers-paradise)
- Our precious Goldie turns one today! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/02/our-precious-goldie)
- [Deep cuts for Nikon photographers](https://youtu.be/qQ79NMpqpJs) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/01/deep-cuts-for)
- Luna’s taken it upon herself to put the front page of Spectrum from the weekend’s SMH on the fridge because she likes the bird. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/03/01/lunas-taken-it)
- Tugun got a bit wet today [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/28/tugun-got-a)
- #floodlyf [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/28/floodlyf)
- [Why You’re Christian](https://perell.com/essay/why-youre-christian/), by David Perell: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/28/why-youre-christian)
- Todays a good day to announce that we’re extending the pool and colouring it the same colour as the lawn [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/28/todays-a-good)
- Quiz [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/27/quiz)
- Friday 13 Mar 2020, and the [ABC quotes an F1 fan in its report](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-13/motor-sport-fans-angry-melbourne-grand-prix-cancelled/12052334) on the Melbourne F1 Grand Prix b [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/26/friday-mar-and)
- Just one moment [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/26/just-one-moment)
- [Eric Karjaluoto on the fallacy of individual wins](http://www.erickarjaluoto.com/blog/look-for-waves/) and benefiting from the one force that every great business success has leveraged: The Wave: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/26/eric-karjaluoto-on)
- Day four no bathroom. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/25/day-four-no)
- Chuck Klosterman [on the 90s](https://www.vulture.com/article/chuck-klosterman-interview-the-nineties.html): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/25/chuck-klosterman-on)
- David Ogilvy: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/25/david-ogilvy-the)
- > “Wonderful things can happen when your brain is empty.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/25/wonderful-things-can)
- The Russian Military website is down with [HTTP error code 418, which means it is a teapot](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418) #nottheonion [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/25/the-russian-military)
- I do appreciate how impossibly hard Kanye West has made to listen to Donda 2. It's like Schrödinger's album. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/25/i-do-appreciate)
- What ever happened to the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/25/what-ever-happened)
- Crime in Tugun: Cromulent. [A new issue of The Tugun Pause is in inboxes](https://www.tugunpause.com/p/a-tugun-pause-for-24-feb-2022). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/24/crime-in-tugun)
- [For those wondering where "Old Zealand" is, it's in the Netherlands and it's called Zeeland.](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/szf1hd/for_those_wondering_where_old_zealand_is_its_in/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/24/for-those-wondering)
- > “Whatever you are, be a good one.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/24/whatever-you-are)
- Day three without a shower and bathroom and I’m considering starting using Lynx Africa. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/24/day-three-without)
- I impulse purchased a Stem Player a while back because I convinced myself I needed something this weird in my life. Now I’m probably one of like ten people in Australia [who will be able to listen to [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/23/i-impulse-purchased)
- Most of you wouldn’t know about the disappointment I carry that my first personal computer was a 486SX and not a 386DX. All my friends had 386s and my dad rented a Packard Bell with a 486SX. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/22/most-of-you)
- Our bathroom, a photo series. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/22/our-bathroom-a)
- It’S TWOSDAY! Tuesday 22/2/22. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/22/its-twosday-tuesday)
- Guy in a Palm Beach cafe this morning: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/21/guy-in-a)
- In my humble opinion, one of the most under-appreciated literary works of the past 25 years are Chuck Lore’s vanity cards [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/20/in-my-humble)
- One day boomers are going to learn about Option + Shift + Command V and then us Millennials are going to be really screwed. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/19/one-day-boomers)
- Dear Vanessa Carlton, [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/19/dear-vanessa-carlton)
- > “Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/18/show-me-the)
- If NCIS: Sydney can get off the ground [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/16/if-ncis-sydney)
- Successful Man 2022 BC: Killed animal for family to eat. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/15/successful-man-bc)
- Good and new music alert: Ben Abraham - [If I Didn't Love You](https://benabraham.lnk.to/IfIDidntLoveYouEM) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/15/good-and-new)
- [Smiling for photos is largely the result of marketing campaigns](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/15/smiling-for-photos)
- René Girard in [Wanting](https://bookshop.org/books/wanting-the-power-of-mimetic-desire-in-everyday-life/9781250262486): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/15/ren-girard-in)
- A wild Filet-O-Fish spotted near Hinze Dam on the Gold Coast [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/15/a-wild-filetofish)
- Hey, feel free to join me, imma storm Meta HQ. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/15/hey-feel-free)
- If you didn’t watch the 2010 banger of a film, Valentine’s Day, tonight, you’re actually not in love. Trust me, I’m a celebrant, I’d know. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/14/if-you-didnt)
- [SMH reports that we are on the way to the darkest timeline](https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/sensitive-business-addresses-among-500-000-published-in-covid-data-breach-20220214-p59wal.html): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/14/smh-reports-that)
- Business idea: a screening of the Super Bowl for people like me who like to stay culturally relevant but don’t care about the football - and also have jobs. Just a little catch-up video. Help a brothe [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/14/business-idea-a)
- The sunset over Tugun tonight was all levels of madness. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/13/the-sunset-over)
- [Advice to a friend travelling Europe with a baby](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/13/advice-to-a)
- Every day I wonder why when I was a young boy my father never took me into the city to see a marching band. Just something else for me please thank romanticise over as I take these chemicals. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/12/every-day-i)
- It seems like the path to podcasting success isn’t to create good new content, but to have old good content [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/12/it-seems-like)
- Sliding into the weekend from Burleigh [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/11/sliding-into-the)
- Some people donate to good causes, my personal contribution to world peace is wasting time for scam callers. Rosie here just spent 30 minutes trying to get me to install the Anydesk app so they could [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/11/some-people-donate)
- Isaac Asimov: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/11/isaac-asimov-it)
- [Muhammad Ali's letterhead in 2003](https://www.letterheady.com/post/673627614491164672/goat) #GOAT [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/11/muhammad-alis-letterhead)
- What ever you do, do not google goats eyes. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/11/what-ever-you)
- > “He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/10/he-who-jumps)
- Elle Hardy talking her new book and the global Pentecostal movement with James Hennessy in [The Terminal](https://www.theterminal.info/p/its-wild-that-no-one-knows-about) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/10/elle-hardy-talking)
- [Alex Ross with Reasons to Abandon Spotify That Have Nothing to Do with Joe Rogan](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/imagine-a-world-without-spotify): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/10/alex-ross-with)
- The only thing more terrifying than a Black Hawk rocking up on you in the middle of a battle with a load of bad ass soldiers, would be a [ghost Black Hawk](https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/fe [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/10/the-only-thing)
- I'd bet $10 that the image was created on a Mac and saved without a .jpg extension. Can't wait for the link that proves this and the headline is about how a Mac broke a Mazda over the air. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/10/id-bet-that)
- If you say "website dot com" when it's a .com.au, you're a boomer. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/10/if-you-say)
- [The painting was defaced by a security guard who added two pairs of eyes to the painting](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10493235/740-000-painting-ruined-security-guard-draws-eyes-faceless- [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/10/the-painting-was)
- Why?! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/10/why)
- [Kaitlyn Tiffany in The Atlantic, "When Multilevel Marketing Met Gen Z"](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/11/breakaway-movement-gen-z-multilevel-marketing/620592/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/10/kaitlyn-tiffany-in)
- When I moved to Tugun four years ago we paid half what is now marketed as "Tugun's most affordable home" ... what a time to be alive. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/10/when-i-moved)
- Georgia O’Keeffe [//](https://www.nitch.com/posts/1643813161) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/10/georgia-okeeffe-i)
- Before he became CEO of the Trump campaign [Steve Bannon made his living selling virtual gold on the Internet](https://www.wired.com/2016/09/trumps-campaign-ceos-little-known-world-warcraft-career/) . [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/10/before-he-became)
- I think about [this](https://moretothat.com/the-nothingness-of-money/) a lot [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/10/i-think-about)
- James Clear: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/10/james-clear-when)
- C. S. Lewis in a letter to a young fan: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/10/c-s-lewis)
- [How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook, Darren Loucaides](https://www.wired.com/story/how-telegram-became-anti-facebook/):
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/09/how-telegram-became)
- How much are they paying for this myGov thing again? I got the notification email overnight, I've been anxious about it all day, finally got the guts to log in and find out what was wrong, and I owe t [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/09/how-much-are)
- [New data on how Americans drank themselves to death during the pandemic](https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/new-data-on-how-americans-drank-themselves), by Christopher Ingraham [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/09/new-data-on)
- The Final Comeback of Axl Rose, by John Jeremiah Sullivan in 2006, referenced in the Rubesletter by Matt Ruby, today: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/09/the-final-comeback)
- [Remember when (20 years ago) British Telecom tried to patent hyperlinks so that everyone who used the web would owe them?](https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1905-bt-in-court-to-enforce-hyperlink [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/09/remember-when-years)
- Sitting next to a couple on a first date (over lunch at a kebab shop) and the poor girl is really trying to make this work. After about 30 seconds of silence she asks “so do you read books?” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/08/sitting-next-to)
- Miles Davis: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/08/miles-davis-if)
- Sad to see that [TED Talks are actually useless](https://www.thedriftmag.com/what-was-the-ted-talk/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/07/sad-to-see)
- One day I'm going to open a restaurant called Alice's Restaurant so that the three other Arlo Guthrie fans have somewhere to come and take photos for Instagram. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/07/one-day-im)
- English writer and poet, D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/04/english-writer-and)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/03/122509)
- If there was a 24/7 streaming channel of just Rhys Darby talking about things in his funny manner, you could just pump that directly into my brain. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/02/if-there-was)
- Finally made it to Buzzfeed [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/02/finally-made-it)
- Every cricket season I think about the couple I met with who didn’t book me because I didn’t know who the groom was. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/01/every-cricket-season)
- Also currently reading: [On Reckoning](https://micro.blog/books/9780733647956) by Amy Remeikis 📚 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/01/also-currently-reading)
- Currently reading: [Things Hidden](https://micro.blog/books/9781632533869) by Richard Rohr 📚 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/01/currently-reading-things)
- [Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive:](https://www.science.org/content/article/chemical-emitted-babies-could-make-men-more-docile-women-more-aggressive) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/01/chemical-emitted-by)
- Yossi Ghinsberg is speaking to my Harcourts team today, this early statement about him reading books during school classes ignoring the teacher captured me all afternoon: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/01/yossi-ghinsberg-is)
- Readers and viewers aren’t dumb, via The Why Axis email. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/01/readers-and-viewers)
- I’ll probably do your wedding for free if you walk down the aisle to Goldfinger’s cover of 99 Red Balloons. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/02/01/ill-probably-do)
- Thinking about Citipointe Christian College in Brisbane this afternoon … [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/31/thinking-about-citipointe)
- Has Spotify had a deep clean yet? I’m staying out until everything on Spotify is 100% sanitised. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/31/has-spotify-had)
- > “You can do it like it’s a great weight, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/31/you-can-do)
- The year is 2034 and your 12 y/o is getting ready for school. She starts the day with classes on empathy and then human connection. After lunch she has class on using social media to diagnose mental h [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/30/the-year-is)
- Any other old school nerds ever just feel like re-visiting astalavista dot box dot sk? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/29/any-other-old)
- Are you even from Brisbane if you don’t come to the Gold Coast on a long weekend and arrogantly proclaim to your partner that (insert beach suburb name) has really come into it’s own. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/29/are-you-even)
- Notice how we keep on hearing from people who claim to be silenced? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/29/notice-how-we)
- [Jen Ortiz, The Cut](https://www.thecut.com/2022/01/weed-cannabis-safety-pregnancy-breastfeeding.html) on weed's last taboo, pregnancy: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/29/jen-ortiz-the)
- [What If We Just Stopped Being So Available?](https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/01/not-sorry-for-my-delay/621264/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/28/what-if-we)
- Whites Beach, New South Wales [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/28/whites-beach-new)
- [Please print this TikTok and put it on your bedroom walls](https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSebJvQxd/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/28/please-print-this)
- Gm Byron Bay 👋💪 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/28/gm-byron-bay)
- Wategos Beach for sunrise this morning [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/28/wategos-beach-for)
- "When rain falls, it flows downhill. If desired, you can collect the rain in a bucket and carry it uphill, but the natural tendency of water is to flow toward the lowest point. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/28/when-rain-falls)
- Name a banger more bangish than Orgy’s Blue Monday. I’ll wait. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/28/name-a-banger)
- What which craft is this? Surfing without waves!? #witchcraft #byronbay #wategosbeach #surfing [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/28/what-which-craft)
- If you’re interested in joining my new rectangle scheme we just give each other the same amount of money for doing nothing. Plus we get name badges. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/26/if-youre-interested)
- You know how we’d all hate a guy who annually celebrated the anniversary of that time he raped someone. Now think about January 26. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/26/you-know-how)
- Why Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a car, [Timothy B Lee](https://fullstackeconomics.com/why-agatha-christie-could-afford-a-maid-and-a-nanny-but-not-a-car/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/26/why-agatha-christie)
- A story of hope, that the [old internet might be coming back](https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/old-internet-coming-back.html), the old internet was when the internet was a wonderland. Not a compu [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/26/a-story-of)
- Brian Koppelman: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/26/brian-koppelman-to)
- [If you can live your life without an audience, you should do it](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/26/if-you-can)
- [The story of how five seconds of one movie changed the entire California wine industry forever.](https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/how-paul-giamatti-broke-the-california) The Sideways effect: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/25/the-story-of)
- It really bothers me that Logan City Council uses Lobster font for its entry to the region motorway signage. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/25/it-really-bothers)
- What lays beneath … // Cook Island, off Fingal Head [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/24/what-lays-beneath)
- Fingal Head this afternoon. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/24/fingal-head-this)
- A million dollar sunset over #Tugun tonight [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/24/a-million-dollar)
- [What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was At The Center Of Life?](https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/10/people-who-prioritize-friendship-over-romance/616779/) asks The Atlantic. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/24/what-if-friendship)
- A relationship is about inventing your own language, says Céline Sciamma: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/24/a-relationship-is)
- [Is a LIDAR capture of a person a photograph?](https://www.wired.com/story/photography-artificial-intelligence-technology/) Wired asks what is a photograph. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/24/is-a-lidar)
- This is nuts: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/24/this-is-nuts)
- [Why would you make new music when all the growth in the industry is from old music](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/24/why-would-you)
- I just want to get out ahead of any rumours being spread by our almost 11 month old and go on the record saying that we do feed her enough food, and some would say too much food. She’s well fed, don’t [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/23/i-just-want)
- I have issue with Apple’s Texas Hold’em game. Do they not have a graphic designer on staff? Could they not just get a photo of a bunch of Macs on a shelf in a garage from [@ismh](https://micro.blog/is [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/22/i-have-issue)
- Sea breeze [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/22/sea-breeze)
- Make taxi ranks car parks again. Return the taxi tanks to the people. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/22/make-taxi-tanks)
- If only he’d been like a bat out of Wuhan, still here when the morning comes, when Christmas comes, when the wedding comes, the funeral comes, still here, a few years on. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/21/if-only-hed)
- > “Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/21/like-a-bat)
- If you’ve ever worried about robots rising up and taking over, have no fear, they’re a long way off. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/21/if-youve-ever)
- Toowoomba’s, Gabbinbar Homestead, on a Thursday afternoon [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/21/toowoombas-gabbinbar-homestead)
- A Jewish scholar I once heard speak talked about how his people viewed life and death not as one season followed by another, life and then death, but that throughout your day they were states you woul [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/21/a-jewish-scholar)
- The one truth everyone that has ever existed can testify to is that you cannot stop people dying, but you can stop them living. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/21/the-one-truth)
- Who do I have to talk to about making the next Mission: Impossible movie about stolen NFTs. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/20/who-do-i)
- She turns around to tell me to make sure I take a photo of her on the scooter, “take photo of me!” My firstborn, [@lunawithers](https://micro.blog/lunawithers). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/19/she-turns-around)
- January 2022 [in the Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/business-florida-lawsuits-ron-desantis-racial-injustice-3ec10492b7421543315acf4491813c1b): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/19/january-in-the)
- [Jason Chatfield’s cartoon from his email today](https://mailchi.mp/aff367a3bf5c/chatfieldlist) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/18/jason-chatfields-cartoon)
- That face when dad makes you leave the beach [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/18/that-face-when)
- South of Talle’ on a Tuesday afternoon [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/18/south-of-talle)
- I’m not antistacks, I’m just saying, when you’re on the bottom of a stacks-on it sucks. It’s all well and good if you’re on the top of the stack, but the rest of us have a large weight on our shoulder [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/18/im-not-antistacks)
- I've upgraded my MacBook this week to a new MacBook Pro, and a friend asked me how it was. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/18/ive-upgraded-my)
- [@jkleske](https://twitter.com/jkleske/status/1471149873613488129?s=12): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/18/jkleske-a-signal)
- [The Algorithmic Trap by David Perrell](https://perell.com/essay/algorithmic-blindness/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/18/the-algorithmic-trap)
- Luna got a camera for Christmas from Uncle Harley & Ainsley, so tonight she wanted to go and make photos of planes taking off. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/16/luna-got-a)
- In 2022 I want to be a lot more deliberate about my inputs. Garbage in, garbage out. I'm continuing to craft my newsletters and subscriptions, [detailed on my inputs page](https://joshwithers.blog/inp [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/16/in-i-want)
- I’m not anti-tax, I’m just saying that we don’t know the long term effects of giving these politicians half our cash. How do we know they’re not going to make stupid decisions with it? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/16/im-not-antitax)
- Breaking news: Novak Djokovic wins the Australia Closed grand door slammed tournament. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/15/breaking-news-novak)
- When Britt and I were dating we lived in different cities the whole time as I travelled for radio work (Port Macquarie, Mackay, Cairns, Sydney, Brisbane) so we spent heaps of time at night on the phon [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/15/when-britt-and)
- Finished reading: [Volcanic Winter](https://micro.blog/books/9781480892385) by Mark Rutherford 📚 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/15/finished-reading-volcanic)
- Currently reading: [Fortune-teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels In The Far East](https://micro.blog/books/9780609809587) by Tiziano Terzani 📚 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/15/currently-reading-fortuneteller)
- > "Your goals are meant to honour you, not fix you" [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/15/your-goals-are)
- > "As soon as you decide to do without planes, you realise how they impose their limited way of looking at things on you. Oh, they diminish distances, which is handy enough, but they end up diminishin [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/15/as-soon-as)
- Proposal: Let’s drop the metaverse, and go all in on the meatverse. Less virtual reality meetings, more steak. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/15/proposal-lets-drop)
- > Dear Me, [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/15/dear-me-if)
- [Molly White](https://blog.mollywhite.net/blockchains-are-not-what-they-say/): blockchains are decentralised but not really, immutable but not really. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/15/molly-white-blockchains)
- [“Implicit egotism”](https://wordworking.medium.com/you-yourself-and-your-company-name-9584d821eea4) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/15/implicit-egotism)
- [Peter Sagal’s Rules of Twitter](https://twitter.com/petersagal/status/1457742811638472713?s=20): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/14/peter-sagals-rules)
- [Cows can be in the metaverse](https://twitter.com/shujauh/status/1479821836321918978?s=21). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/14/cows-can-be)
- I missed this [New York Times piece on my hometown](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/world/australia/global-warming-climate-adaptation-coastal-queensland.html), Mackay in North Queensland, about how [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/14/i-missed-this)
- Things we were very worried about in our youth that turned out to be non-issues: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/14/things-we-were)
- [2021, the year in typography](https://ilovetypography.com/2021/12/28/the-year-in-type/), if you're into that kinda nerdy thing like I am. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/13/the-year-in)
- [Om Malik](https://om.co/2022/01/12/can-we-ever-become-post-social/) on the lethal and constant feeling of self-importance we walk around with: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/13/a-constant-feeling)
- > “I used to think the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought with 30 years of good science we could address those problems, but I w [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/13/i-used-to)
- My mate @scotty_mcdonald knows Brisbane better than you, and he's writing an email about it called [Brisbane is Weird](https://www.getrevue.co/profile/scottymcdonald) and you ought to subscribe. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/13/my-mate-scottymcdonald)
- [West Philadelphia born and raised, and now rebooted, much more dramatically](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/13/west-philadelphia-born)
- Where'd I get this rainbow fudge? The Country Non-Binary's Association stall at the markets this morning. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/13/whered-i-get)
- [A weird celebration: we won our first Covid court case](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/12/a-weird-celebration)
- The gestation period for new MacBooks is past the two month mark #joy [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/12/the-gestation-period)
- [The best Bob Saget clip is the one when Hamish & Andy convinced him to join their gang.](https://youtu.be/Nqa9G9jGvp4) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/11/the-best-bob)
- 15 years of iPhone [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/10/years-of-iphone)
- Currently reading: [Atomic Habits](https://micro.blog/books/9780735211292) by James Clear 📚 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/08/currently-reading-atomic)
- Your Animals With Attitude artists were so preoccupied with whether they could make a Super Mario Koala, they didn't stop to think if they should make a Super Mario Koala. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/08/your-animals-with)
- Why don’t they make phone screens out of the same glass they make fridge shelves out of? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/08/why-dont-they)
- I’m just saying, if you can’t trust people who spend billions of dollars to get fit good looking people to run around aggressively in arbitrary rectangular boxes, who can you trust? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/07/im-just-saying)
- Isn’t it wild to imagine that if everyone on the whole planet just stayed at home until February there’d be no Covid. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/07/isnt-it-wild)
- The government response to Covid this month seems akin to trying to stop a large boulder running out of control down a mountain. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/07/the-government-response)
- > 'The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller.' [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/07/the-most-powerful)
- [W.L. George in The New York Herald in May 1992](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1922-05-07/ed-1?sp=87) didn't think that "the little girl who sells candles at Grand Central Station" would be [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/07/wl-george-in)
- I really thought that by this age I would’ve found Carmen Sandiego. Life is just a series of disappointments. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/06/i-really-thought)
- I remember my friend Clifford showing me [these photos](https://dmitryelj.medium.com/nude-pictures-on-early-retro-pcs-was-it-possible-3434b5c0447e) and us waiting for them to render. Seeing a girl’s n [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/06/i-remember-my)
- [1 in 10 Brits will launch their own podcast in 2022](https://podnews.net/press-release/acast-new-year) says Acast via [@podnews](https://micro.blog/podnews) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/06/in-brits-will)
- [Heresy from](https://www.jayeless.net/2022/01/cricket-and-bowling-related.html) [@jayeless](https://micro.blog/jayeless): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/06/heresy-from-jayeless)
- [Olivia Laing in 2015 on the future of loneliness](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/01/future-of-loneliness-internet-isolation): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/06/olivia-laing-in)
- The most disappointing element of modern society is the insistence that all stories (including the news, and celebrity or sport stories) must be completed as soon as possible so we can establish triba [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/06/the-most-disappointing)
- [Australia's space dot is too small!](https://aerospace.csis.org/data/spaceports-of-the-world/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/06/australias-space-dot)
- [How to design a house to last for 1000 years](https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/how-to-design-a-house-to-last-for) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/06/how-to-design)
- What could of been: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/05/what-could-of)
- [Shopify entering NFT's means your aunty will be minting an NFT before the end of the year](https://www.shopify.com/nft). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/05/shopify-entering-nfts)
- In 1931 ceilings in movies was impressive. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/05/in-ceilings-in)
- [A group of enterprising and nostalgic nerds want to take Blockbuster back](https://twitter.com/BlockbusterDAO/status/1474960373291749378?s=20). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/05/a-group-of)
- [There are only 25 blimps in the world, but this guy is trying to bring them back](https://citymonitor.ai/transport/why-blimps-and-airships-died-out-and-how-they-might-make-comeback-722). Can you imag [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/05/there-are-only)
- The Australian people for the last 30 years: “We want - and will vote for - smaller and governments, with lower taxes, which means less tax revenue, so less money to spend.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/05/the-australian-people)
- [The UX on this Small Child Is Terrible, McSweeney’s](https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ux-on-this-small-child-is-terrible): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/05/the-ux-on)
- Week one of writing an email about life on the southern Gold Coast is that poor that @revue isn't sure how to communicate it to me. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/05/week-one-of)
- I don’t understand magazine publishing in 2022. Today, January 4, a few minutes ago, someone published a pdf to Apple News and it’s about Macs released on November 10 with a release date of next month [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/04/i-dont-understand)
- One more Tokyo memory. No man has ever made me as happy as this man, as he handed me the nicest coffee my body has ever experienced. Japan is missing from me. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/04/one-more-tokyo)
- Whenever Brittany talks about having more kids, I start thinking about buying us a children buggy like this mum in Tokyo I saw in 2019. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/04/whenever-brittany-talks)
- I think about this bloke I saw out the front of a Tokyo train station in November 2019 reading a book with a magnifying glass quite a lot. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/04/i-think-about)
- [Nick Cave on Kanye](https://www.theredhandfiles.com/fear-losing-old-fans/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/04/nick-cave-on)
- The trick with life is you have to actually mean it, which can be the hardest part. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/04/the-trick-with)
- [As a very proficient speaker of radio, this video burns](https://twitter.com/larryandpaul/status/1478068063312433157?s=21) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/04/as-a-very)
- I've got an old friend and we share ideas with each other. Then years later we share a news article about how someone "stole" our idea. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/04/ive-got-an)
- In Praise of Conspiracy Theories, [David Perell](https://ckarchive.com/b/zlughnhz932k): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/04/in-praise-of)
- [Peter O'Dowd and Kalyani Saxena](https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/11/10/making-friends-adults): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/04/peter-odowd-and)
- [Understand the rules so you can break them](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/04/understand-the-rules)
- [Storytime with Seth Rogen](https://www.earwolf.com/show/storytime-with-seth-rogen/) is a new fav podcast and it's going on my inputs page. The most recent episode, The Ballad of Mount Doogie Dowler, [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/04/storytime-with-seth)
- Drafting up an email for my #southoftalle email list right now with all my photos from today where Ex-Tropical Cyclone Seth was hitting the Gold Coast beaches pretty hard. Into that kinda thing? [emai [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/03/drafting-up-an)
- Gold Coast afternoon [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/03/gold-coast-afternoon)
- Ex-Tropical Cyclone Seth brings some surf to Snapper [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/03/150243)
- Ex-Tropical Cyclone Seth is bringing some wind to the waves at Tugun and Snapper Rocks today. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/03/extropical-cyclone-seth)
- [Expect streaming TV consolidation in the coming years](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/03/expect-streaming-tv)
- I noticed a Jetstar Boeing 787-8 coming into Gold Coast Airport in some pretty strong winds and broke the camera out quickly. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/03/i-noticed-a)
- Happy 120th birthday to the Federal Government, its birth of course being an issue for the states. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/01/happy-th-birthday)
- Joan Didion on being in the world: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/01/joan-didion-on)
- I never thought I’d be in such a winning position, but if anyone is trying to buy a rat, the ones under my house are of good breeding and honestly I’m happy for you to take as many as you can hold. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/01/i-never-thought)
- Sliding doors. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/01/sliding-doors-the)
- [Some of Betty White’s best recent work was for Air New Zealand](https://youtu.be/O-5gjkh4r3g) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/01/some-of-betty)
- In 2016 Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Academy Award. Many scholars believe this upset the gods and brought torment on our people and the only worthy sacrifice would be Betty White. May her sacrific [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2022/01/01/in-leonardo-dicaptio)
- Some personal news, I’m changing the definition of fun to things that take less than four hours to do. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/30/some-personal-news)
- [James Cameron walks into the boardroom and](https://www.cinemablend.com/interviews/james-cameron-confirms-that-the-most-badass-aliens-story-about-him-is-100-percent-true) “wrote the word Alien on a b [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/30/james-cameron-walks)
- [I'm selling my car, if that's the kind of thing you're looking for](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/28/im-selling-my)
- Song idea: Nugget Connection. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/27/song-idea-nugget)
- This is the first episode I’ve heard of Seth Roger’s Storytime podcast, but it’s a beautifully made podcast, and this episode is gripping and the story is so good! • [The Ballad of Mount Doogie Dowler [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/27/this-is-the)
- Productivity inversely affects creativity, and vice-versa. So, welcome to the lowest productivity week of the year. May your creativity flourish. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/27/productivity-inversely-affects)
- A letter to a newborn child, requested of Desmond Tutu by the girl’s father, July 2016: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/27/a-letter-to)
- Whenever I hear Carol Of The Bells I have this tribal urge to run home to protect it because I think it’s about to get robbed. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/26/whenever-i-hear)
- Disney+ thinks that Iron Man 3 is a Christmas movie. Is everything a Christmas movie now? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/25/disney-thinks-that)
- [Bob Lefsetz, self-proclaimed boomer, on boomers](https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2021/12/24/the-kennedy-center-honors-2/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/25/bob-lefsetz-a)
- > “A tribe without enemies is, almost by definition, not a tribe. As a consequence, tribal dispute and warfare is part of what defines humanity.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/25/a-tribe-without)
- I met a Betty once and told her that when she calls me she can call me Al. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/23/i-met-a)
- If you got your professionally shot wedding, couple, or family photos printed at Officeworks, Harvey Norman, Big W this Christmas, know that you broke your photographer’s heart. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/23/if-you-got)
- [Kate Lindsay in Embedded:](https://embedded.substack.com/p/how-emily-ferrier-edits-for-youtubers?r=ilth&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/23/kate-lindsay-in)
- [there is no perfect monitor ra…](https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/21/22848957/lg-dualup-32-inch-4k-ultra-fine-monitors-announced-specs) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/22/there-is-no)
- When I’m elected your President I will legislate that bakeries are allowed to make and serve real rum rum balls. None of this bullshit chocolate ball stuff. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/22/when-im-elected)
- A lot of people whinge about Jesus being taken out of Christmas, my issue is much more important. My two local grocery stores have zero Christmas food. Who took the rum balls out of Christmas? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/22/a-lot-of)
- There’s a very late model MacBook Pro on my kitchen table and aside from all the power in that chip, I’m getting serious PowerBook Titanium G4 vibes from the body shape. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/21/theres-a-very)
- [Pretending to be important.](https://busysimulator.com) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/21/pretending-to-be)
- Sophie Zhang and a Honduran disinformation researcher on Facebook’s election problem: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/21/sophie-zhang-and)
- [The British Medical Journal fact checks Facebook's false fact checking of the BMJ's “news blog”](https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635/rr-80). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/21/the-british-medical)
- PSA: next year isn’t actually 2022, it’s 2020 Two. It’s the sequel. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/21/psa-next-year)
- [How grunge started](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/21/how-grunge-started)
- I really want to help [this guy find this photo of Leonardo DiCaprio at the University of Sydney student bar](https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdy8k/leonardo-dicaprio-manning-bar-sydney-university), b [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/21/i-really-want)
- Is Santa coming on a one horse open sleigh, or with nine reindeers? Why are there so many holes in a fabricated story? Does Christmas need better writers? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/21/is-santa-coming)
- [Chinese spies infiltrated Aussie telco using Huawei gear and installed malware](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/20/chinese-spies-infiltrated)
- [A new religion is being formed on the Internet](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/20/a-new-religion)
- [COOKIES.TXT in 1994 according to Microsoft](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/20/cookiestxt-in-according)
- Some personal news: in the new year I’m also going to be studying a diploma in the difference between the “Auto Intensive”, “Auto Wash”, and “Super Wash” modes on my dishwasher. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/19/some-personal-news)
- What a time to be alive. When Dawkins defined a meme as “unit of cultural information spread by imitation” he was definitely thinking of [Sidetalk NYC’s Thanksgiving on IG](https://www.instagram.com/t [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/19/what-a-time)
- What exactly is Crazy Frog riding? Is it a spacecraft, a motorbike, a bicycle, an Imperial Speeder Bike? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/19/what-exactly-is)
- [Some worker’s preferences and lifestyles may have shifted after a year and half out of the labor force](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/18/some-workers-preferences)
- [Ira Glass on beginners](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/18/ira-glass-on)
- Alan Jones’ “audience didn’t go anywhere. It’s still there and it’s still being fed the same old shit to serve the same old interests of the truly wealthy, madly powerful and deeply, deeply unaccounta [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/17/alan-jones-audience)
- Spiders, mannn looks large over Brisbane [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/16/spiders-mannn-looks)
- 📈 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/16/074615)
- Calile-rise [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/15/calilerise)
- [Astral Codex Ten on the potential threat of ancient plagues emerging](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ancient-plagues?r=ilth&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/15/astral-codex-ten)
- Listing of the day: [“With minimal land left in this stunning new estate”](https://coolum.randw.com.au/property/0000470309.html) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/15/listing-of-the)
- [Stand back, imma fix email](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/15/stand-back-imma)
- [Science](https://www.science.org/content/article/chemical-emitted-babies-could-make-men-more-docile-women-more-aggressive): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/13/science-researchers-have)
- Just a heads up and reminder - because [@scottymcdonald](https://micro.blog/scottymcdonald) reminded me - that maybe you’re walking around with excess blood this Christmas, so why not donate some and [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/13/just-a-heads)
- Nature is healing! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/13/nature-is-healing)
- Business idea: Home Alone 6: Too home, too alone. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/13/business-idea-home)
- Name the song with lyrics and without searching: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/13/name-the-song)
- How you know email communities are a real threat: when Facebook enters the game. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/12/how-you-know)
- James Clear: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/12/james-clear-someone)
- [Some personal news, December 2021](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/11/some-personal-news)
- Mavic 3’s 1x versus 28x zoom. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/11/mavic-s-x)
- Somewhere in my nerdiness - born in DOS, grew into Win 3.11-XP, morphed on over to macOS sometime in 2006 - I missed the workshop that explained how websites work in 2021. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/10/somewhere-in-my)
- I’m so keen I reckon I’ll double these numbers before 2022 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/09/im-so-keen)
- After being grounded for over a year - since the great wave vs. drone fight of 2019 - some of my favourite people bought me a new bird to commemorate my 40th birthday. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/09/after-being-grounded)
- [Cherian George for Nieman Lab](https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/12/global-cynicism-about-democracy-will-expose-media-to-attack/): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/09/cherian-george-for)
- Photoshoot with a spider [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/08/photoshoot-with-a)
- The most depressing take on the state of "the media" today is the one in [Max Read's email](https://maxread.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-buzzfeed) that basically suggests that Buzzfeed's public lis [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/08/the-most-depressing)
- Happy Pretend to Be A Time Traveller Day! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/08/happy-pretend-to)
- I’m vibing this [Dutch multigenerational living space](https://www.dwell.com/article/three-generation-house-beta-office-for-architecture-and-the-city-89ce07b5) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/07/im-vibing-this)
- Ever seen a goanna scale a brick wall? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/06/ever-seen-a)
- > “So let's sink another drink, [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/06/so-lets-sink)
- With every drop of news about Omicron I feel sicker about our future. The pandemic is strangling the life out of a business we've spent 10 years building. Even just on Saturday with the closure of the [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/06/with-every-drop)
- [Why eleven babies have been born on (in?) Antarctica](https://medium.com/good-to-know/why-11-babies-have-been-born-in-antarctica-7409e0cc98f) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/05/why-eleven-babies)
- > “If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/05/if-you-want)
- Spouses, as you cross the 75% completion mark of cleaning up after dinner, be like: “oh, honey, I’ll clean up, leave it to me” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/05/spouses-as-you)
- Hello! I’m Josh Withers. You may remember me from such movies as Regional Breakfast Radio Guy, Weird International Wedding Celebrant, Super Zoom Photographer, and 2022’s Newest Real Estate Agent. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/05/hello-im-josh)
- All the world’s a social feed, and all the men and women are merely variables in an algorithm. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/04/all-the-worlds)
- [That time Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/04/that-time-microsoft)
- I find it interesting that this important research of 60,000 Australians [released as a YouTube video](https://youtu.be/QrSkkOAXzrI) has only been watched 154 times. It’s fascinating data on Australia [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/02/i-find-it)
- Southern Gold Coasters wondering what’s happening at the old Pizza Hut beachside pavilion, it’s called [Siblings, and I’ve been documenting the build](https://withers.co/josh/construction/siblingskirr [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/12/02/southern-gold-coasters)
- > “Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/30/ninetynine-percent-of)
- [My 2020-2030 prediction](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/30/my-prediction)
- Thought I’d share something I’m proud of today: I’ve consolidated all of our family’s brands and business ventures under the one website/domain name: [withers.co](https://withers.co) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/30/thought-id-share)
- [You’re Probably Not Late](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/30/youre-probably-not)
- We’re proud to announce that we’re expecting. Santa that is. We’re expecting Santa. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/30/were-proud-to)
- I don't know who needs to hear this, but we don't use whisky stones, save your money [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/30/i-dont-know)
- Epidemiologists: Omicron’s not a big deal guys. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/28/epidemiologists-omicrons-not)
- 1859 or 2021? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/28/or-it-was)
- Finally, ScoMo will keep me safe from you all. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/28/finally-scomo-will)
- We’ll that’s the last time I try to rent a hit man through RentAHitman.com, [the guy behind it just forwards all the enquiries to the police and they aren’t proper hitmen](https://www.washingtonpost.c [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/28/well-thats-the)
- Business idea: drone birth photography. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/26/business-idea-drone)
- Britt: You’re not going to be able to get the cactus inside once you’ve repotted it. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/26/britt-youre-not)
- Got fizzy photographs // documented the build of Hard Fizz’s first home here on the Gold Coast. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/26/got-fizzy-photographs)
- #toiletsofthegoldcoast #hardfizzhq [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/25/toiletsofthegoldcoast-hardfizzhq)
- My secret superpower is telling people that the lyrics in the chorus of George Ezra's Budapest are “I'd leave it all”. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/25/my-secret-superpower)
- What’s the @qldpolice definition of illegal littering? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/25/whats-the-qldpolice)
- I'm on a conference call right now with Dally Messenger and other leaders of the celebrant community with the Attorney-General’s office, and he's made a big claim: That people who aren't Australian Fi [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/24/im-on-a)
- Ten years ago yesterday: ["I believed that he was clearly implying that News Corp would run news stories or editorial content concerning any issue I wanted if I was to cross the floor and oppose the ( [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/24/ten-years-ago)
- A tale of two burghers [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/24/a-tale-of)
- One of the best things about working in the wedding industry through Covid is that I've finally become the disappointment my step-mother said I was. #kickinggoals [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/23/one-of-the)
- [My three most embarrassing celebrity interview stories](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/22/my-three-most)
- [More evidence suggests that nature does something essential for our mental health](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/21/more-evidence-suggests)
- I turn 40 in a few weeks. There was a time where I never believed I'd make it past 21 as I saw friends and people around me dropping like flies. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/20/i-turn-in)
- There's a new Terminal command in macOS Monterey: networkquality. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/20/theres-a-new)
- Is this how Apple News is supposed to work? I make an active decision to not engage with content from a certain brand, and in its place I just get a full page notice that I’ve chosen to not engage wit [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/20/is-this-how)
- I don’t know who need to hear this, but the young male voice that says “Welcome to McDonalds, we’ll be with you in a moment” as you pull up at a McDonalds drive through is a pre-recorded message. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/19/i-dont-know)
- > “Most people in life want one-of-a-kind outcomes. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/19/most-people-in)
- You need to know about, and install the Shortcut for, [12ft.io](https://12ft.io) if you browse the webs and don't want to have a subscription to every flipping news website on the planet. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/19/you-need-to)
- Presenting the Hard Fizz HQ Gold Coast toilets … shot for zero 9. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/19/presenting-the-hard)
- Taking expressions of interest in a Slightly Interested Koalas Yacht Club from any of you that have too much money. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/18/taking-expressions-of)
- > “Over the last couple of years, governments have been telling Australians what to do, now there has been a need for that as we have gone through the pandemic, but the time is now to start rolling al [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/18/over-the-last)
- If you’re waiting for a sign … [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/17/if-youre-waiting)
- > “I realised that anything I did long enough to master was no longer useful to me.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/17/i-realised-that)
- A mate mentioned pirating software and it took me right back to 20 years ago where we had a keygen or a hack or serial number for ecverything. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/17/a-mate-mentioned)
- [This thread on antivaxx](https://twitter.com/mykebartlett/status/1460149500601798657?s=21) rings so true right now in my own life 🧵 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/16/this-thread-on)
- > "Rich people need it. Poor people have it. If you eat it, you die. And when you die, you take it with you. What is it?” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/16/rich-people-need)
- [Have you heard the one about how they bought the US constitution in a DAO?](https://www.constitutiondao.com) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/16/have-you-heard)
- The “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” declassified in 2008 and available on the CIA’s website, provided instructions for how everyday people could help the Allies weaken their country by reducing produc [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/16/the-simple-sabotage)
- [“Divorce does funny things to people.”](https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/11/09/divorce-does-funny-things/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/16/divorce-does-funny)
- Introducing Luna to the great Australian tradition of running through sprinklers naked in summer [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/14/introducing-luna-to)
- I’m not an anti-vaxxer I just enjoy typing those five words to trigger you. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/14/im-not-an)
- Currently reading: [Inside Steve's Brain](https://micro.blog/books/9781782390398) by Leander Kahney 📚 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/14/currently-reading-inside)
- [The awkward story of my first photo](http://get.shudderspeed.co/issues/the-awkward-story-of-my-first-photo-840790) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/14/the-awkward-story)
- Will driverless cars do burnouts? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/14/will-driverless-cars)
- It’s cool that there’s a Catwoman, Batman, and Spider-Man, but where’s all the stories about Possumperson, Koalaman, and Wombatwoman? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/13/its-cool-that)
- Reminder today of the best coffee I’ve ever drink in the whole planet, two years ago in Tokyo: Sarutahiko Coffee, outside a train station. Their classic French blend will forever be my gold standard f [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/12/reminder-today-of)
- Seven years ago since Kim Kardashian broke the internet. Hopefully they'll start fixing it soon. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/12/seven-years-ago)
- Is this like climate change? How long have they been recording it? And by what measure do they define it being good or bad? I have so many questions. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/12/is-this-like)
- 1991 tech ad from [Brashs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_cjdpDBRVY) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/12/tech-ad-from)
- What's the best New York street? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/12/whats-the-best)
- If I can be real for a bit, I find it extremely disconcerting that the unvaccinated are being treated like this. Seriously. It's scary how a society and government can decide to ostracise like this. I [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/10/if-i-can)
- [The Metaverse already exists, it's just currently called the Internet](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/10/the-metaverse-already)
- > “Doing small things with love is the atom of bravery.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/10/doing-small-things)
- Listening to radio on the Sunshine Coast and the announcer plays three grabs of three songs then says “find out which one we’re going to play after the break” so it’s good to know they’ve not invented [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/10/listening-to-radio)
- Proposal: Reclassify the Logan Hyperdome to a Logan Dome. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/09/proposal-reclassify-the)
- > "Most people optimise for the day ahead. A few people optimise for 1-2 years ahead. Almost nobody optimises for 3-4 years ahead (or longer). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/08/most-people-optimise)
- Something no-one talks about is how if you’re really cool in the metaverse, you’re actually not really cool in real life. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/07/something-noone-talks)
- Just minted an NFT of the current vibe in my house after I’ve sole-parented all day. Critics are calling it a “hollowed out tree trunk of a man”, others are saying “I would not spend 1eth on that.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/07/just-minted-an)
- I don’t want to be Elon Musk Rich, I just want to be Extra Guac Even If I’m Not Sure Rich. I [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/07/i-dont-want)
- Cool story [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/06/cool-story)
- The year is 2051. All of us but the elite are working for below minimum wage in the Farmville metaverse tending to digital crops and feeding metaverse animals in overseas countries so we have a metave [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/06/the-year-is)
- Local barista wrapped up our conversation saying “see you next week!” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/06/local-barista-wrapped)
- It was an overcast morning for shooting the build of the new restaurant at Kirra Pavilion but they wanted it to look bright and sunny. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/06/it-was-an)
- In the metaverse there are no clothes. Just pixels. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/06/in-the-metaverse)
- Proud of you Scotty, you’ve now written 100% more books than most other people on the planet. You join the ranks of Seth Godin, the Apostle Paul, John Green, Stephen King, and of course Nick Earls. Pa [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/05/proud-of-you)
- [Sharing a little highlight gallery](https://joshwithers.photos/johns-road-construction-update) from a property I'm documenting for Zero 9 Constructions. We're a few weeks away from handover at this s [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/05/sharing-a-little)
- If our parents disown us in real life do they disown us in the metaverse? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/05/if-our-parents)
- Shoot day for a bunch of Gold Coast businesses today [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/05/shoot-day-for)
- Please do not worship me, but I just wound up a dish cloth tightly and whipped a fly to its death. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/04/please-do-not)
- Age groupings [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/04/age-groupings)
- [Imagine being on the Q train](https://overcast.fm/+y5QFdOw1Q/) from Brooklyn into Manhattan, a regular Tuesday morning in September 2001, the train comes above ground and the World Trade Towers are j [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/04/imagine-being-on)
- Snapper Rocks [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/04/snapper-rocks)
- One of my earliest memories - and there's only a few from this traumatic time in my life - is watching my new step-mother, Selena, pile up all of our childhood photos, memories of my mother, and the f [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/03/one-of-my)
- How do floorboards work? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/03/how-do-floorboards)
- Real talk fam, are people really paying $50 or $75 a month for LinkedIn? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/03/real-talk-fam)
- A little demo of Adobe Photoshop 2022’s Neural filter on one of my photos [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/03/a-little-demo)
- Qantas: Yeah, look, there's been a slight delay with your flight, you're going to be four weeks late … [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/03/qantas-yeah-look)
- I hope one day I can look back on my life and say I was wrong more than I was right. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/03/i-hope-one)
- That distinctive, earthy odour that is associated with rainfall is called petrichor. When raindrops land on a porous surface, air from the pores forms small bubbles, which float to the surface and rel [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/02/that-distinctive-earthy)
- > “I heard that Warren Buffett addresses the early drafts of his shareholder letters to his sister, Dorothy. Once he finishes it, he replaces her name with "Shareholders." [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/02/i-heard-that)
- How I’m feeling through this season: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/02/how-im-feeling)
- Can you believe that we’ve turned Australia off and on again a few times, but we still have this silly Melbourne Cup virus running around our system. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/01/can-you-believe)
- Boy, am I feeling this after the last two years of hell in my business. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/01/boy-am-i)
- Netflix says 142 million households have watched Squid Games. Wikipedia says there are 2,178 million “households” in the world. So, 6.5% of the households have seen the most popular Netflix show ever [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/01/netflix-says-million)
- People across the liberated democracy of Australia celebrate as they are now liberated to visit other countries *muted cheers as everyone realises they've got to go through LAX customs in a few hours* [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/11/01/people-across-the)
- > “I just want to fucking make it one more day.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/31/i-just-want)
- Chinghee Creek on a Saturday Night for Travis & Christie [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/31/chinghee-creek-on)
- > “Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/31/some-people-die)
- [Rob Bell on the comments section](https://overcast.fm/+ydXAfpc3g/26:41) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/31/rob-bell-on)
- [Happy 50th Sea World](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/30/of-my-and)
- Not in a million years could I of imagined Miley Cyrus, Elton John, WATT, Yo-Yo Ma, Metallica’s own Robert Trujillo on bass + Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith on drums covering Nothing Else Matters - [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/30/not-in-a)
- Remember that time that the Black Eyed Peas hadn't hit the big time yet, but when they did they had to re-record one of their songs? I'm prepping for a wedding I’m DJing tonight and wondering how peop [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/30/remember-that-time)
- On @danilic's prompting I've installed DaVinci Resolve and am trying it for the first time this morning. I don't know what this does but I am frightened at how it could edit me. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/30/on-danilics-prompting)
- My favourite macOS Monterey feature is the bug when you spread your four fingers to expose (Mission Control) the Desktop but the Desktop isn't usable to drag and drop onto, or into folders. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/30/my-favourite-macos)
- Luna’s learning the ancient story of Saint Vincent de Paul, the mysterious saint that roams the homes of naughty children taking their favourite toys to sell them for a gold coin. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/30/lunas-learning-the)
- [The most fascinating grave in Hollywood](https://www.vulture.com/article/movie-grave-hollywood-funeral-scenes.html) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/29/the-most-fascinating)
- Friday sunrise at Snapper Rocks [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/29/friday-sunrise-at)
- Corporate headshots don’t have to look like you were just dragged in front of a photographer to get a photo for the website. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/29/corporate-headshots-dont)
- [One story out of many on how the Sydney Covid lockdown currently ending has cost me so much money](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/29/one-story-out)
- Zuckerberg chose Meta over Oasis?! That’s $100 to the bookies I’ll never get back. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/29/zuckerberg-chose-meta)
- Dreading the day that I see in VR a friend commit real-life suicide in the middle of a metaverse flame-war because they’re antivax or think pineapple on pizza is important. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/29/dreading-the-day)
- It’s super cute when people talk about national debt like it’s not a completely made up concept, not a scientific force of nature like gravity. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/28/its-super-cute)
- Sunrise elopement at The Calile Hotel this morning [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/28/sunrise-elopement-at)
- Sorry sir, I am all out of way [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/27/sorry-sir-i)
- It’s hot, damn hot. If you're getting married when it's hot: 1) Bring cold water, so much flipping water, 2) Get married as late in the day as your venue and photographer will let you, 3) find the sha [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/26/its-hot-damn)
- All of my Apple devices are upgraded and now there's a openthread.thread.home.arpa on my network. Nest Smoke Alarms, or HomePod Minis? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/26/all-of-my)
- FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8. 20 years of Windows XP #neverforget [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/26/fckgwrhqqyxrkttgwbq-years-of)
- Monday afternoon in Burleigh Heads [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/25/monday-afternoon-in)
- Luna’s birthday week comes to a close. Now we have 51 weeks of mourning until her fourth birthday celebrations can begin. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/24/lunas-birthday-week)
- When Apple started using the phrase “there’s an app for that” in 2009, they were definitely not thinking of an app that [simulates a cat purring on your lap](https://apps.apple.com/au/app/ronron/id158 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/24/when-apple-started)
- Uh, oh, watch out petrol cars, the Chief Health Officer is coming for ya! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/24/uh-oh-watch)
- [Two iPods are some of my favourite computers of all time](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/24/two-ipods-are)
- Panic’s Cabel Sasser shares a [prototype original iPod](https://panic.com/blog/a-prototype-original-ipod/) on the iPod’s 20th birthday. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/24/panics-cabel-sasser)
- Steve Jobs’s [resume](https://web.archive.org/web/20100106211429/http://homepage.mac.com/steve/Resume.html): [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/24/steve-jobss-resume)
- My Kindle Oasis is starting to get a bit long in the tooth, almost four years old and it’s battery barely lasts a day or two. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/23/my-kindle-oasis)
- > “I’ve long thought that the destruction of time in which to think – and do nothing else – is a much more massive problem than anyone cares to think about, nor has time to.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/23/ive-long-thought)
- Just some personal news, I’ve decided that I know about the same amount about epidemiology, public health policy, firearms, the movie industry, bushfires, human rights, sexuality, religion, climate, a [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/23/just-some-personal)
- Facebook’s algorithm automatically sent a bot [“full-on Qanon”](https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1451681699629260801?s=12) within 48 hours. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/23/facebooks-algorithm-automatically)
- Life status: my three year old lives on my shoulders. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/23/life-status-my)
- I’ve got 99 problems and they could all be solved with a new MacBook Pro, a DJI Mavic 3, and maybe a new 35mm lens I think. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/23/ive-got-problems)
- Seeing as though my social media influence is waning on the daily I have some personal news, I’m starting a Withers Media & Technology Group. You’re going to love it. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/23/seeing-as-though)
- How do you know things? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/22/how-do-you)
- > “The committee recommends that the Australian Government establish a new Decentralised Autonomous Organisation company structure.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/22/the-committee-recommends)
- Every day I wonder when the day will arrive when it’s the last time I ever pick Luna up. What I mean is that when she’s 35 I’m probably not going to pick her up and throw her on my shoulders. So when, [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/22/every-day-i)
- > “You always know when you’re doing something for the first time, and you almost never know when you’re doing something for the last time.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/22/you-always-know)
- [Explaining stocks to NFT kids](https://thereformedbroker.com/2021/10/05/i-collect-cashflows/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/22/explaining-stocks-to)
- [Speedtest’s quarterly Australian internet report](https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/australia?fixed#fixed) shows that Aussie Broadband outperforms everyone else, including Telstra. I’m an Aussie [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/22/speedtests-quarterly-australian)
- The most annoying position anyone can take through this season is a religious devotion to vaccines, or anti-vax, or lockdown, or open up, or whatever fucking position you think is correct. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/22/the-most-annoying)
- GG [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/21/gg)
- Guy on the phone with me right now from Australia Post is trying to convince me that Australia Post does other things on top of delivering mail, I’m like “just deliver me my mail, mate” and he’s not t [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/21/guy-on-the)
- Ben Sherpherd’s “[The Commercial Experience 21.11: Programming the news media](https://thecommercialexperience.substack.com/p/the-commercial-experience-2111-programming)” dissects how the news has cha [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/21/ben-sherpherds-the)
- A walking disappointment to his mother [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/21/a-walking-disappointment)
- The Gold Coast gets one case of Covid, the first in 15 days in Queensland, and the whole state breathes in through its teeth. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/21/the-gold-coast)
- > “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/20/an-intellectual-says)
- > “The stated mission of a company worth almost two trillion dollars is to “organize the world’s information” and yet the Internet remains poorly organized.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/20/the-stated-mission)
- Happy third birthday Lu, I’m so proud to be your dad [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/19/happy-third-birthday)
- Me, telling friends about the Hamilton soundtrack being re-released in spatial audio [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/19/me-telling-friends)
- What the actual? The notification takes you to the iCloud Backup section of settings to make sure you’re backed up before you switch to a new iPad?! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/19/what-the-actual)
- > "The measure of a commercially successful newspaper is not simply how well it reports the big events, but what it does when there are no dying statesmen, bloodthirsty desperadoes, or heinous crimes [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/19/the-measure-of)
- Avis Car Rental brings “car as a subscription” to Australia. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/19/avis-car-rental)
- Have you ever wondered who coined the term “Content is King”? The year was 1996, and [Bill Gates](https://medium.com/@HeathEvans/content-is-king-essay-by-bill-gates-1996-df74552f80d9) published an ess [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/19/have-you-ever)
- Apple Prediction in October 2021: the Apple Music Voice/Siri plan lasts no more than two years. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/19/apple-prediction-in)
- The year is 2061, @Anthony_Wiggle with a long grey beard is sitting on a large wooden throne in Wiggle Town making an announcement of a new Wiggle coming & an old Wiggle leaving; people in virtual rea [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/19/the-year-is)
- I’ve just finished the seven episode podcast, [9/12](https://podnews.net/podcast/i9c9u), which tells the story of a post 9/11 America, and crescendoes to a beautiful finale. It’s a valuable story to e [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/18/ive-just-finished)
- Sunday was a doozy. Over the past few months we’ve shared photos on social media from trips when travel was allowed and legal, in a time when it wasn’t allowed. So the Queensland Police received an an [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/18/sunday-was-a)
- Ben Shepherd is asked a question that I think about often: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/18/ben-shepherd-is)
- > “I find it hard to understand in my mind what it means to love you after you are dead — but I still want to comfort and take care of you — and I want you to love me and care for me.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/18/i-find-it)
- > “The human race is likely to be wiped out by a doomsday virus before this millennium is out unless it starts to colonize space, top British scientist Stephen Hawking warned on Tuesday.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/17/the-human-race)
- > “We are born with only one obligation – to be completely who we are.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/16/we-are-born)
- Turns out that in 2005 I was the 312th person to register for an account on the new website, Reddit, and today I’m one of 30 of that 312 still registered users. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/16/turns-out-that)
- I’m that insecure the password to my heart is my first daughter’s first name, capital first letter, followed by the number 1 and an exclamation mark. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/15/im-that-insecure)
- Please tell me there are more than 30 people that have been on Reddit for more than 16 years?! I [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/15/please-tell-me)
- Hey, I don’t like to discuss medical freedoms on here, but what is Apple TV+’s insistence on viewers watching the show’s credits to the end? Every other streamer shows the “watch next” selection strai [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/15/hey-i-dont)
- > "The best business ideas have yet to be tried. The best books have yet to be written. The best relationships have yet to be formed. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/15/the-best-business)
- Your top 20 songs by plays says a lot about who you are [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/13/your-top-songs)
- “We are a revolutionary cloud-based website” says this guy selling virtual staging to real estate agents. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/13/we-are-a)
- Hey nerds, I was not aware of how nerdy we are. Someone in my Certificate IV in Real Estate class right now just asked the trainer “how many people do you think are moving to smartphones”. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/13/hey-nerds-i)
- Lodge [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/13/lodge)
- Brisbane as the clouds subsided today at sunset [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/12/brisbane-as-the)
- JQ940 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/12/jq)
- I auditioned to join the Kyle & Jackie O show in 2011 & was flown to Sydney. In the interview the EP asked if it was ok for Kyle to call me a c*\*t, so him defending Denis Handlin isn’t surprising. I [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/12/i-auditioned-to)
- Buying a property soon? I’m hearing some crazy stats about meth and what it means for your personal health if you live in a house where meth has been used. The trainer is recommending people sign cont [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/12/buying-a-property)
- Over the last 18 months of the spicy cough tearing apart the wedding and events industry, confidence has never been lower. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/12/over-the-last)
- 🌵 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/12/092822)
- I think about this daily: [Your Professional Peak Is Earlier Than You Think - The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/work-peak-professional-decline/590650/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/12/i-think-about)
- For the first time in history, Robert Palmer’s Simply Irresistible has been followed in a playlist by Feel Good Inc from the Gorillaz. Attending this real estate course this week has been a wild ride [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/12/for-the-first)
- My greatest fear, as recognised in 1947 by ad-man, Bill Bernbach: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/12/my-greatest-fear)
- Remember that time [Sesame Street’s Bert marched with Bin Laden?](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1594600.stm) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/12/remember-that-time)
- [Bond Can't Take On Beijing](https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/05/bond-no-time-to-die-daniel-craig-hollywood-china/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/12/bond-cant-take)
- QR898 B777 8 Oct 2021 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/11/qr-b-oct)
- Dear, tonight's hotel, two things. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/11/dear-tonights-hotel)
- Can you recommend a relationship manager/app that’s very iOS/iPadOS/Mac/internet native. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/11/can-you-recommend)
- I’m still really proud of this photo. It was my first photo that “went somewhere” … it was printed on the side of a Queensland Rail Citytrain. Taken from what is now @hotagc. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/11/im-still-really)
- [Three years ago I pontificated](https://joshwithers.blog/2018/05/17/an-apple-camera.html) that the future of the iPhone was the Apple Watch, @markgurman lent that way today in his Power On email … sh [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/11/three-years-ago)
- I’m in training all week this week and it’s fascinating to be reminded that not everyone is all in on the Apple ecosystem. 20+ people, me and 2 others on Apple. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/11/im-in-training)
- You are not an aspirant. You are as complete as you can be today. None of us are finished. All of us are aspiring, so none of us are. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/10/you-are-not)
- [A Primer on the Parasocial Economy - Cybernaut](https://every.to/cybernaut/a-primer-on-the-parasocial-economy) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/10/a-primer-on)
- Revenue generating idea for Facebook: I will pay lots of dollars a month, maybe even $3, for any of your apps to never show me a red dot or notification ever again. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/10/revenue-generating-idea)
- Honestly, if you saw Nate become (redacted) in the season two finale of Ted Lasso you’re officially smarter than me. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/10/honestly-if-you)
- Luna just found out that polar bears and dogs can be friends and it’s like that scene in Ted Lasso when the billionaire tells Banksy and Sam that they both just met a cool person. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/10/luna-just-found)
- I’ve been on the job hunt for a while now and I’m open to new roles that might benefit from a set of skills someone like me has. Here’s my [resume](https://ahoyjosh.com/resume) … I figure that if you [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/09/ive-been-on)
- Fairlane [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/09/fairlane)
- Thanks [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/09/thanks)
- Ever since they named me Person of the Year 2006 I knew that this Time magazine thing might go somewhere [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/08/ever-since-they)
- [Why You Should Stop Reading News](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/08/why-you-should)
- > "The more you create, the more powerful you become. The more you consume, the more powerful others become." [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/08/the-more-you)
- [There are two ways of making a living. The familiar, predictable way, and a Pareto style payoff.](https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1369000642967142401) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/08/there-are-two)
- Tyre shop guy: we’ve got tyres in that size from brand blah blah we’ve got the bluh bluhs and from brand ughh we have their gobble gobbles and the crapshoots. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/08/tyre-shop-guy)
- > "Either we are the makers of our future or we’re the victims. And if we don’t understand these fundamental components of how the world works, our actions may undermine our goals as well as the peopl [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/07/either-we-are)
- There needs to be some sort of 1300 Hotline situation for people whose partners and families are antivaxxers. They are dealing with so much bullshit it’s like fighting a bushfire. We need pamphlets pe [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/07/there-needs-to)
- This website is doing god’s work [canyonmid.com](https://canyonmid.com) ... please enjoy [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/07/this-website-is)
- > "There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/07/there-is-always)
- If you’re wondering what it looks like when you take your wife’s keys and they’re on the Find My Network … [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/07/if-youre-wondering)
- I would pay at least $5, maybe even $6, to be able to log in to my old ICQ account (49739400), IRC servers, or my old MSN Messenger account, and scroll through those awkward chat logs. I’m barely conf [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/05/i-would-pay)
- Why is it called a podcast? [I love that the iPod hackers paved the way](https://podnews.net/article/history-of-word-podcast). Thanks [@podnews](https://micro.blog/podnews) for compiling everything to [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/05/why-is-it)
- [Deconstructing Christianity](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/05/deconstructing-christianity)
- The [Mind Body Prescription](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xidL-WMJWwg) is blowing my mind. About to read the book and become "that guy”. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/05/the-mind-body)
- 20 years ago in Australian tech news, Australian composers, Nigel Helyer, aka Dr Sonique, and Jon Drummond, copyright every possible phone number as a touch-tone tune. [As reported in The Age at the t [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/05/years-ago-in)
- I’m no saint, but whenever I get a scam call I’ll lead them on for as long as I can just to annoy the scammer and to waste their time. I also ask them if they tell their mother what they do for work, [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/05/im-no-saint)
- Ten years on we’re all still bitching about iPhone launches, still looking for that 2007 iPhone feeling [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/05/ten-years-on)
- Goldie, there’s nothing silver about her. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/05/goldie-theres-nothing)
- [Everything will be hacked, today it’s roaming text messages for the last few years](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/05/everything-will-be)
- “Take the money and run” is the title of a [blank canvas currently being exhibited](https://petapixel.com/2021/10/04/artist-tricks-museum-into-handing-over-84000-for-a-blank-canvas/) that cost the mus [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/05/take-the-money)
- Harris Farm: Due to Covid-19 please do not touch the fish. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/04/harris-farm-due)
- [The final words of a newspaper man with 8 decades of published words](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/04/the-final-words)
- This [podcast episode by Rob Bell](https://overcast.fm/+ydXB6SXUw) really helped me understand the antivaxx movement. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/03/this-podcast-episode)
- Palaszczuk, Berejiklian, quarantine. Words I still need to Google to make sure I’ve spelt them right. That will be my Covid legacy. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/03/palaszczuk-berejiklian-quarantine)
- My top played songs ... a peek into who I am [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/02/my-top-played)
- For no real reason, here's the top three lunch-time radio station boardroom performances from my time on commercial radio. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/02/for-no-real)
- In the name of efficiency, why don’t we turn our Australian corruption bodies to finding politicians that aren’t corrupt and are without sin. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/02/in-the-name)
- [My internet speed in 2021](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/02/my-internet-speed)
- My bet for today is that after yesterday being teased for not locking Southeast Queensland down because of the NRL Grand Final, Mumma Palaszczuk grounds us for a week with no TV privileges or somethin [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/10/01/my-bet-for)
- The year is 2061 and your local “Golden Oldies" radio station is playing Limp Bizkit and honestly, I am here for it. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/30/the-year-is)
- Wedding planning red flag: when the wedding venue/vendor refers to clients as "brides" instead of couples. Run for the hills. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/30/wedding-planning-red)
- Hey, just some personal news: if the rest of you could completely align with my values and not say anything asynchronous to them, that would make my existence so much easier. Please delete all interne [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/30/hey-just-some)
- [Happy 10th birthday [@patrickc](https://micro.blog/patrickc) + Stripe](https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1443289393695911938?s=21), about six and a half years ago we took the bold step to take cred [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/30/happy-th-birthday)
- Aside from making the world’s best weddings, I’m also the 3rd best photographer in my home, so I’ve decided to make the not-so-radical call & launch a [print store](https://www.joshwithers.art). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/29/aside-from-making)
- I’m becoming increasingly good at avoiding death by truck [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/29/im-becoming-increasingly)
- Not so gold, Coast [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/29/not-so-gold)
- My social media notifications are busy because I dare wade into anti-antivaxx conversations with “let's not be dicks to anitvaxxers" types of statements, and honestly, I'm probably ok with dying on th [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/29/my-social-media)
- Law & Order Season 21, episode 1, opening scene: A restaurant in Chinatown and a CGI Detective Lennie Briscoe is checking vaccine passports on people's phones. This continues for the entire episode. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/29/law-order-season)
- I'm just saying, if Sharon the team psychologist, and Coach Ted Lasso don't end up together romantically, I'm burning my AFC Richmond jersey in a symbolic disappointment ceremony that will be live-str [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/29/im-just-saying)
- Some personal news, I’ve been photographing and filming construction projects for Zero 9 Construction and I’m getting addicted. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/28/some-personal-news)
- > “The page loads, and a little video ad box rises from the bottom left of the screen and begins buffering. Then a big box pops up over the small one with an offer to subscribe to the paper at a speci [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/28/the-page-loads)
- "Life should be a marvel, not a habit." [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/28/life-should-be)
- Damn, I’ve only got Diners Card. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/28/damn-ive-only)
- The memo between advertising agency DDB and Avis Rent A Car that took Avis from a $3.2 million loss to a $1.2 million profit within the year. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/28/the-memo-between)
- Splash [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/28/splash)
- The best watch face in WatchOS 8 is the Portraits face because it looks really cool with this photo of Goldie. The worst watch face in WatchOS 8 is the Portraits face because it doesn’t actually tell [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/28/the-best-watch)
- Doing my part for the Gold Coast rumour mill today by creating and sharing this [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/28/doing-my-part)
- Have you noticed a rise in [Facebook posts asking questions](https://www.politicalorphans.com/something-weird-is-happening-on-facebook/)? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/28/have-you-noticed)
- Luna // under the bed // showing off her “baby belly” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/27/luna-under-the)
- If you're interested in taking better photos, [this is a great starting piece to read and be inspired by](https://medium.com/s/the-photographers-almanac/how-to-photograph-a-vacation-acc3038356e7). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/27/if-youre-interested)
- Author Anne Lamott on imperfection: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/27/author-anne-lamott)
- Not-so-main distribution frame [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/27/notsomain-distribution-frame)
- Burleigh Heads: a bin chicken story [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/27/burleigh-heads-a)
- Aviation nerd win: I heard a plane landing over my house, thought, it’s stop big to be a B737 or A320 as would be normal into OOL, too loud to be a B787, is it an A330. Yes it is. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/26/aviation-nerd-win)
- I hope all the computerised facial recognition systems around the world are freaking out over face masks. I wonder if the facial recognition companies are the ones pushing anti-mask propaganda? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/25/i-hope-all)
- Bridal table > guest tables > the kids table > the wedding vendor’s table [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/25/bridal-table-guest)
- Me: time to edit this video [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/25/me-time-to)
- Why haven’t there been more waxed/vaxxed puns? Are all of you in Big Pun’s pockets? Are you just anti-waxxers? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/25/why-havent-there)
- Negative 5G [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/24/negative-g)
- Mt Coonowrin + Mt Beerwah, from Mt Ngungun [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/23/mt-coonowrin-mt)
- Mt Ngungun at sunset yesterday for an elopement [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/23/mt-ngungun-at)
- Hut rules [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/22/hut-rules)
- Otto von Bismarck said “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best” ... I wonder if the Victorian government is willing and able to find the possible, the attainabl [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/22/otto-von-bismarck)
- “We’ll never go to war” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/22/well-never-go)
- When one of the Ted Lasso writers is a comedian and a parent [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/21/when-one-of)
- Social media: mentally toxic. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/21/social-media-mentally)
- Found my six month old sucking on my thong (flip flop). My father of the year trophy is now in question. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/21/found-my-six)
- If there’s a real silver lining to Covid, it’s the resurgence of roadmaps. Apps like @googlemaps and satellite navigation were putting the final nails in roadmap’s coffin, but thanks to the pandemic, [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/20/if-theres-a)
- Global platitude supplies are reaching an all time low. At this rate we’ll be completely out of platitudes by Christmas 2021. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/20/global-platitude-supplies)
- My favourite people are the people who look at protestors and see hurting people. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/19/my-favourite-people)
- Instagram 2011: Let’s make that shitty iPhone photo look acceptable. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/18/instagram-lets-make)
- Why do people watch other YouTube videos when this superb specimen exists? [The Australian Army’s Marching Band covering Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name Of, whilst the Bathurst Police d [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/18/why-do-people)
- Hey, I was wondering if any tech bloggers were up to the task of telling me which iPhone I should buy, or not buy, or whatever, today? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/18/hey-i-was)
- So disappointing, we were only three submarines away from unlocking our own Statue of Liberty achievement for Rundle Mall. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/18/so-disappointing-we)
- Shit. I just ate my toddler's entire supply of sultanas. I'm going to need a new passport with a new identity. Can any of you take me in? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/16/shit-i-just)
- [Global misinformation study: The best fact-checking tries to anticipate questions that audiences have, she said, which is why she recommends explainers that address audience questions](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/16/global-misinformation-study)
- Go be amazing [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/15/go-be-amazing)
- [Instagram internal research: ‘We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls’](https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/15/22675130/facebook-instagram-teens-mental-health-damage-internal-research [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/15/instagram-internal-research)
- There’s something about bolting 35 year old lens onto a brand new image sensor that feels cool [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/15/theres-something-about)
- I think the wedding industry is changing. My first 2023 wedding booking is for a lunchtime wedding on a Monday in May. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/15/i-think-the)
- The mighty bin chicken [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/15/the-mighty-bin)
- I ❤️ Russel #swell2021 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/15/i-russel-swell)
- The tech press’ obsession with Ming-chi Kuo and Mark Gurman took a hit today as Apple leant into the idea of annual incremental upgrades while Kuo and Gurman have been talking a big game. We love a go [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/15/the-tech-press)
- Merry king of the bush is he [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/13/merry-king-of)
- The Gothamist: Why We United After 9/11—But Less So For COVID? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/12/the-gothamist-why)
- Do you ever wonder whether we miss the old school prejudices so much that we're actually kinda excited about vaccinism because it's like a cool and popular prejudice that won't get us cancelled? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/10/do-you-ever)
- > "If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive." [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/10/if-my-hands)
- > “With its stock characters, punch-lines, reversals and running gags, ancient humour worked in much the same way as its modern counterpart.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/10/with-its-stock)
- Are conspiracy theories/anti-vaxxers, a personal problem or a social problem? The [Boston Review](https://bostonreview.net/politics/nicolas-guilhot-bad-information) suggests they are a social problem. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/10/are-conspiracy-theoriesantivaxxers)
- ok wow… unfollowing now. was a big fan of their music but i was not aware they were using it because their happiness was slowly creeping back now you're at home. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/10/ok-wow-unfollowing)
- Well, the more you [know](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter) #foofighters [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/10/well-the-more)
- “[Conspiracy theories like QAnon are ultimately a social problem rather than a cognitive one. We should blame politics, not the faulty reasoning of individuals.](https://bostonreview.net/politics/nico [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/10/conspiracy-theories-like)
- [Long Covid: the numbers](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/long-covid-much-more-than-you-wanted) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/10/long-covid-the)
- [Triggered!](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/10/124632)
- [Triggered!](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/10/triggered)
- [SimCity and car parks just don't get along](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/10/simcity-and-car)
- I'm proud to announce that our lawns are mowed, gardens are tidy, and we've cleaned our house, so we're now accepting visitors until our toddler comes home from kindy. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/10/im-proud-to)
- When we asked an algorithm to decide humour we should’ve known that income inequality was going to be deemed hilarious soon [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/09/when-we-asked)
- Are you that rich that you’re not immediately aware of your net worth? There’s an app for that. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/09/are-you-that)
- RU Even Aware Of What OK Looks Like Anymore? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/09/ru-even-aware)
- I think aliens visited Burleigh Beach today and left a message. Can anyone help decipher this? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/08/i-think-aliens)
- > "[You bloody fool](https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-58476891)"
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/08/you-bloody-fool)
- Heads up, tomorrow is RUOK Day, so make sure you are prepared to pretend to have your shit together for a day. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/08/heads-up-tomorrow)
- Swell is back, 1.8km from the border [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/08/swell-is-back)
- Have you ever considered that we’re all just flying around the universe on a big rock making shit up and taking made-up currencies off each other for the pleasure of making shit up for each other? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/07/have-you-ever)
- If you’ve ever read my shit and thought “it’s a crime that I’m getting this for free” then here’s a chance to pay for it. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/07/if-youve-ever)
- [“There goes a truly great drummer.”](https://www.theredhandfiles.com/do-you-work-out-before-you-go-on-tour/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/07/there-goes-a)
- For nine years I’ve been lucky enough to call you my wife, Britt. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/07/for-nine-years)
- Sunrise from Tallebudgera Creek this morning [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/06/sunrise-from-tallebudgera)
- Instead of labelling antivaxxers or vaccine-hesitant people as stupid etc, could we consider how we as a society have contributed to the rapid distrust of elected officials and pharmaceutical companie [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/05/instead-of-labelling)
- [The history of the blue, under-lined, hyperlink](https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-dives/why-are-hyperlinks-blue/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/04/the-history-of)
- [“If the plan is clear no meeting is needed”](https://mgs.blog/if-the-plan-is-clear-b4a7f1febf6a) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/04/if-the-plan)
- I've finally come to the realisation that the wedding industry can't provide for my family for the near future, so I'm taking on small business clients to tell their story. Recorded and produced my fi [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/03/ive-finally-come)
- Something no-one really tells you about adulthood is that it’s mostly just waiting. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/03/something-noone-really)
- Going, going, goonnneeee [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/02/going-going-goonnneeee)
- [Ten years ago today Sea FM Gold Coast fired it's drive and night radio shows](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/02/ten-years-ago)
- "When you're young, you look at television and think - There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realise that's not true. The networks are [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/01/when-youre-young)
- Spring’s first sun has sprung [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/09/01/springs-first-sun)
- Even the Illuminati has to deal with the hell that is Gmail’s Promotional folder. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/31/even-the-illuminati)
- x% of all sales go to a good cause. The remainder goes to me, a not-good cause. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/31/x-of-all)
- Channel 4's [tribute](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRPngk5QyK4) and [favourite moments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Zl1TRDJs0) YouTube clips in remembrance of Sean Lock are solid gold. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/31/channel-s-tribute)
- Choices [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/31/choices)
- Kesha, the artist, is a prophet: Her ’09 debut single Tik Tok turns out to be quite the business plan for the 2016 social network bearing the same name. 2010's Blah Blah Blah describes, well, it descr [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/30/kesha-the-artist)
- 🛹 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/30/190947)
- In the last 18 months, how have QR codes taken off but Touch-Free Copper Keys not? I feel like 2020 was the Copper Key’s year but the key missed it. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/30/in-the-last)
- [An ode and a farewell to my Apple iMac G4](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/29/an-ode-and)
- On in-person education: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/28/on-inperson-education)
- *record scratch* yup, that’s me, catching a ride out to attempt a drone rescue after a bird attacked it and sunk it into the Gold Coast Broadwater [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/28/record-scratch-yup)
- Number 2 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/28/number)
- Highline // Palm Beach [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/28/highline-palm-beach)
- The wedding industry is weird, it’s one of the few workplaces where you’re encouraged to make your clients cry, [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/27/the-wedding-industry)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/27/135841)
- ☕️ Merlo [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/27/merlo)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/26/203459)
- The Calile [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/26/the-calile)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/26/090619)
- "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/26/in-times-of)
- 39 images, all glued together with digital sticky tape 🌳 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/25/images-all-glued)
- As a native speaker of Strayan’ English, I feel like our own whistled language has been ignored by [the Smithsonian Magazine here](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/studying-whistled-langu [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/25/as-a-native)
- [Ira Glass on loving the gap](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/25/ira-glass-on)
- 🚙 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/24/215003)
- 🐮 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/24/204643)
- Secret beach [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/24/secret-beach)
- [A weak link in Microsoft's Power Apps portal service has exposed 38 million personal records. Great.](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/24/a-weak-link)
- “...there is no ladder of intelligence. Intelligence is not a single dimension. It is a complex of many types and modes of cognition, each one a continuum. … we have no measurement, no single metric f [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/24/there-is-no)
- Australia’s Channel Seven’s The Morning Show, explaining how Apple’s The Morning Show is called Morning Wars in Australia: “lawyers” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/24/australias-channel-nines)
- Happy third PM anniversary, Scott Morrison [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/24/happy-third-pm)
- 🌺 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/23/201933)
- 🌊 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/23/201901)
- Sunshine Beach [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/23/sunshine-beach)
- The worlds greatest scientists: do you think we can combine PPE and speed dealer sunglasses? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/23/the-worlds-greatest)
- New moon Sunday [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/22/new-moon-sunday)
- A lot of people who don't live in a border region posting big words regarding the protest from those living in border regions today. I live 1km inside the Queensland border to NSW and if you cared, I [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/22/a-lot-of)
- “[The Media Is Too Clueless and Sensationalistic to Properly Explain Breakthrough Covid](https://newrepublic.com/article/163148/delta-variant-breakthrough-media-failure)” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/22/the-media-is)
- >” I worry about a world in which many people will believe anything, but I worry far more about one in which people believe nothing beyond their own preconceptions." [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/22/i-worry-about)
- The protested-against take issue with the protestors, who aren’t in lockdown, and are allowed to meet and peacefully protest. Cool story, Nazi Queensland. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/22/the-protestedagainst-take)
- 🏖 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/20/104935)
- Well guys, I think that just about wraps up our first dress rehearsal for humanity. Let’s come back tomorrow and start a fresh and try and do it properly then. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/19/well-guys-i)
- [BREAKING: Netflix Secures Exclusive Broadcast Rights To NSW Premier's 11am Press Conference](https://doublebaytoday.com/breaking-netflix-secures-exclusive-broadcast-rights-to-nsw-premiers-11am-press- [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/19/breaking-netflix-secures)
- [2060 US Presidential election prediction](https://twitter.com/notkavi/status/1413894417664991245?s=21) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/19/us-presidential-election)
- 🚲 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/18/230837)
- 🌙 Luna [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/18/luna)
- 🎢 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/18/211413)
- Ok, real talk, in Paw Patrol, why does Ryder, a human, get a Jetpack, but the pups have to drive or fly with their paws? Also, why don’t they deploy all pups to all jobs? Through each episode they all [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/18/ok-real-talk)
- 🐬 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/18/172218)
- Spammer has given me the name of my next podcast, “Voice Massage” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/18/spammer-has-given)
- Come on Australia, we can do this, just keep on posting about Covid and we’ll solve it once we reach heard immunity. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/17/come-on-australia)
- > “Unravel from toxic individualism. You do nothing by yourself. Your whole life is a collaboration.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/17/unravel-from-toxic)
- Phone call starts with a recorded Australian accent speaking “This call is from National Crime Authority, the legal department of Services Australia” and I'm probably one spam phone call away from nev [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/17/phone-call-starts)
- Hometown [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/17/hometown)
- Magnetic Island [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/17/magnetic-island)
- Proposal for a name for a new Gold Coast region: SoTal. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/16/proposal-for-a)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/16/212032)
- 🐄 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/16/202752)
- Sunday [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/15/sunday)
- Real talk, it's been 17 months today since the first restrictions on what I call, the Australian Beforetime. Since then our every day has simply been different. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/15/real-talk-its)
- Hey, does anyone know how Sia feels about cheap thrills? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/15/hey-does-anyone)
- #shotoniphone [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/14/shotoniphone)
- [Scientific evidence that social media makes us sadder and angrier](https://news.yale.edu/2021/08/13/likes-and-shares-teach-people-express-more-outrage-online). Why do we do this? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/14/scientific-evidence-that)
- Hey, if masks are going to be a thing, could we at least use them to remind me who you are and how I know you? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/13/hey-if-masks)
- The most ignorant thing I read these days isn’t from conspiracy theorists or anti-vaxxers. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/13/the-most-ignorant)
- For most Australians, before March 2020 we’d never identifed as a Queenslander or a West Australian, outside of the odd game of sport, or in a fleeting moment of pride. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/13/for-most-australians)
- A few hours on Magnetic Island, Queensland [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/13/a-few-hours)
- 🧲 Island [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/12/island)
- Thursday morning // Brisbane [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/12/thursday-morning-brisbane)
- Whatchulookinat [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/11/whatchulookinat)
- Yo [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/11/yo)
- Alright, real talk, how far from an airport can you be and still call yourself an airport hotel? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/11/alright-real-talk)
- Everyone has their little covid skill they've learned. Some of you might have sourdough, or knitting. I have the ability to clearly and concisely respond to emails from the Office of Fair Trading in u [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/10/everyone-has-their)
- On [ABC radio this morning](https://www.abc.net.au/radio/goldcoast/programs/mornings/josh-withers-on-abc-goldcoast/13490220) I predicted that the cost of weddings will rise post-covid because the wedd [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/10/on-abc-radio)
- I haven’t got a job because of a resume in over 18 years (thanks Ali and Sea FM Mackay!) but I [made one today](https://ahoyjosh.com/resume) because I think the pandemic has fired me from being self-e [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/09/i-havent-got)
- > When consumed moderately, whisky’s many medicinal benefits include preventing the “head from whirling, the tongue from lisping... the hands from shivering, the bones from aching.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/09/when-consumed-moderately)
- As the Gold Coast left lockdown today [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/08/as-the-gold)
- [Follow-up to](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/07/followup-to-im)
- [A wedding celebrant’s Covid story: I’m not ok](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/07/a-wedding-celebrants)
- Recreating the [After Dark screensavers in CSS](https://www.bryanbraun.com/after-dark-css/) is a strong, super strong, nostalgia kick. I’d pay good money for a Flying Toasters screensaver today just t [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/07/recreating-the-after)
- Luna Hawk Amateur Skater [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/07/luna-hawk-amateur)
- Friends often ask what it’s like to cross the border from NSW into Queensland so I filmed today’s border crossing after collecting essentials from Tweed Heads icon, Bread Social (I have a permit to cr [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/07/friends-often-ask)
- I'm studying for a Certificate IV in Real Estate at the moment, and there's a whole section on how real estate agents can be human. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/07/im-studying-for)
- Meme, circa August 2021. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/07/meme-circa-august)
- [Hey Siri, please remind me of this every day](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/07/hey-siri-please)
- > “A writer—and, I believe, generally all persons—must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intens [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/07/a-writerand-i)
- Toying with the idea of flushing my entire digital identity down the toilet for my 40th birthday later this year and starting a fresh. New phone number, email, domain, Apple ID, Google Account, blog, [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/06/toying-with-the)
- I’d pay money for an iOS upgrade that acknowledged swearing in autocorrect. I’ve never in my almost 40 years wanted to get tucked or ducked. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/06/id-pay-money)
- [On paying more](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/06/on-paying-more)
- Please check surroundings [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/05/please-check-surroundings)
- Good news, I finally get to leave the quarantine I never went into, but have been texted about every day for 14 days, despite calling the Victorian Dept of Health to let them know I left Victoria an h [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/04/good-news-i)
- Failed to save a spider [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/04/failed-to-save)
- James Gandolfini, aka Tony Soprano, was paid [$3M by HBO to reject a $5M offer](https://deadline.com/2021/07/talking-sopranos-podcast-ricky-gervais-james-gandolfini-the-office-hbo-paid-3million-to-for [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/03/james-gandolfini-aka)
- Forty years ago today, August 1 in the USA, 1981, MTV launched by playing [Video Killed The Radio Star.](https://youtu.be/W8r-tXRLazs) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/08/02/forty-years-ago)
- Everybody, through this lockdown, please think of the birds [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/31/everybody-through-this)
- The lockdowns will continue until morale improves [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/31/the-lockdowns-will)
- You used to call me on my landline, late night when you neeeed my love [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/29/you-used-to)
- She’s my daughter [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/29/shes-my-daughter)
- Hey Siri, are there less people believin’ these days because there are less midnight trains goin’ anywhere? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/28/hey-siri-are)
- Tugun [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/28/tugun)
- It's been made aware to me that some of my social media broadcasts over the last year might paint me as some sort of person, politically etc.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/27/its-been-made)
- Hey, do you remember that time our Australian state and federal governments drove us all so far apart to the point of madness and hatred of those we love and even strangers we’ve never met? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/25/hey-do-you)
- Pro-vax, anti-vax, pro-lockdown, anti-lockdown, everyone's trying to join a team, but so few people are understanding the hurt that others are feeling. Whilst you might be annoyed by wearing a masking [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/23/provax-antivax-prolockdown)
- JQ133 to Auckland this morning. I think the sun was rising as well. @jetstarairways [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/23/jq-to-auckland)
- The @iocmedia: The winner is Brisbane! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/21/the-iocmedia-the)
- The Olympics are coming home! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/21/the-olympics-are)
- MSM [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/21/msm)
- The Australian states in 2020/2021. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/21/the-australian-states)
- > “Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/20/death-is-only)
- [Are you average?](https://thanaverage.xyz/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/20/are-you-average)
- A [year on year decrease in traffic](https://twitter.com/farhip/status/1417167409081950213?s=21) might lead one to say that the media is incentivised to encourage Trump-like politics. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/20/a-year-on)
- Yes [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/19/yes)
- Forgive me for thinking that the Victorian government doesn’t know what is going on. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/18/forgive-me-for)
- One of my favourite views is from a few thousand feet above earth at sunset [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/18/one-of-my)
- “By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/18/by-their-fruit)
- Transiting through Melbourne Airport this afternoon [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/18/transiting-through-melbourne)
- Widgets on iPadOS 15 are glorious. A year late, but glorious. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/18/widgets-on-ipados)
- Apple Photos thinks Britt and I had couple photos taken in Tenerife to commemorate a day Australia celebrates killing horses because we gamble on them. Algorithms are fun. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/17/apple-photos-thinks)
- Off to court today for the third couple who had booked us for an international ceremony wedding but would now prefer a refund over a reschedule. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/16/off-to-court)
- "For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe." [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/14/for-peace-of)
- Curtis Falls [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/13/curtis-falls)
- [I’m going to start trying to make wedding photos professionally](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/10/im-going-to)
- I just want you all to know that I did intermittent fasting four days this week and I'm still not skinny, so it clearly doesn't work. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/10/i-just-want)
- Sunrise at The Spit #goldcoast #sunrise [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/10/sunrise-at-the)
- Walk like a Goldcoastian [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/10/walk-like-a)
- [Lockdown Effectiveness: Much More Than You Wanted To Know](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/07/lockdown-effectiveness-much)
- [There's a conspiracy theory for everyone, and hence very few people are immune](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/06/theres-a-conspiracy)
- The six causes of burnout are: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/06/the-six-causes)
- FaceTime - 6.0/iOS15/Monterey - links to join a chat are easy and beautiful, and much more elegant than a Zoom link if it's just a simple chat. I can see them taking the place of many a meeting. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/05/facetime-iosmonterey-links)
- Screenshot from iPadOS 15 Photos. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/05/screenshot-from-ipados)
- >”The core idea behind the Metaverse proposition is to create an immersive digital place that duplicates reality without physical constraints.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/04/the-core-idea)
- [Steve Jobs in Japan](https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/1622/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/04/steve-jobs-in)
- After the pandemic I’d like to start a comedy band called Pearlmite where we sing Australian parodies of Pearl Jam songs. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/03/after-the-pandemic)
- Billy Joel on his farewell tour [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/02/billy-joel-on)
- [Vale Alan James Snow](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/02/vale-alan-james)
- [Apple Weather in iOS 15 is still wrong in Australia](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/02/apple-weather-in)
- Take me to Iceland ... or if you can't, let's just look at [Andre's photos](https://500px.com/p/andreabe) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/01/take-me-to)
- [“Coping by conspiracy”](https://mashable.com/article/mental-health-disinformation-conspiracy-theories-depression) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/07/01/coping-by-conspiracy)
- As Brisbane goes into lockdown - 6pm June 29, 2021 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/29/as-brisbane-goes)
- Brisbane for the next few days [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/29/brisbane-for-the)
- Every day, since whenever the feature launched, my iPhone has generated a set of Featured Photos from my 27,000 odd photos in the library. Since June 22 it’s stopped. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/29/every-day-since)
- It's nice how things are precedented now. Remember back in 2020 when it was this whirlwind of unprecedented stuff, nowadays we hear that a state premier is warming up a new announcement and we put our [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/28/its-nice-how)
- "Starting from zero can be a gift. If you don't have much to begin with, you don't have much to lose. You can be bold when you aren't trying to protect something." [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/27/starting-from-zero)
- Do you ever wonder who the Ambulance calls if they’re sick? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/26/do-you-ever)
- Good news, Australia has [twice as many cults as Arizona!](https://rogersbacon.substack.com/p/the-cult-deficit-analysis-and-speculation) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/24/good-news-australia)
- Who knew you could report junk spam to Apple. Where does that data go, and how does it play out? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/24/who-knew-you)
- If Google was serious about organising the world's information, the Lano and Woodley episode "Mother" would be on Youtube, but here I am describing the skit to a friend instead of sharing a link. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/21/if-google-was)
- Nostalgia – its delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means ‘the pain from an old wound.’ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/21/nostalgia-its-delicate)
- Honestly, is there anything more Australian than dropping in to see family while you’re on a work trip and claiming it as a travel expense? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/21/honestly-is-there)
- So apparently the tax department website has a queue now. Does the ATO know websites don’t have queues? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/21/so-apparently-the)
- TF when Google invites you to sit at the Knights Round Table [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/21/tf-when-google)
- I believe my fellow young people would call Luna a “vibe” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/20/i-believe-my)
- Felt fatherly, might delete later [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/20/felt-fatherly-might)
- I’ve decided to follow my dreams and become a nonfluencer. Please don’t follow me. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/19/ive-decided-to)
- Good news: AirTag works [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/18/good-news-airtag)
- TF when you accidentally get the Covid-09 vaccine and only get 4G. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/16/tf-when-you)
- Remember when everyone's method to cope with Covid was Tiger King, sourdough, and the Hamilton soundtrack?
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/16/remember-when-everyones)
- We, the people of Australia, have spent $6.7 million dollarydoos detaining the Murugappan family, instead of spending zero dollars and letting them earn a wage and pay tax. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/14/we-the-people)
- I might not amount to much in this life, so if I die and that’s the case, please put this on my gravestone. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/14/i-might-not)
- Conspiracy theory: The spicy cough was invented by Tourism Australia to stop Aussies from holidaying abroad. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/14/conspiracy-theory-the)
- > We are a nation of believers. If only Americans could begin believing in politics less fervently, realising instead that life is elsewhere. But this would come at a cost—because to believe in politi [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/14/we-are-a)
- [Sony AirPeak S1](https://sonycine.com/articles/sony-electronics-announces-new-airpeak-s1-professional-drone/?fbclid=IwAR3Xa82KQiFPl6N0vav3H5WK-uoR_gIx6CFM3KnNWy0UBkU7tMT1-yXKAQU) ... want. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/10/sony-airpeak-s)
- [Weezer’s Buddy Holly, from Windows 95 to Apple Music 2021](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/10/weezers-buddy-holly)
- The hotel quarantine system is obviously not working, I say we move to a motel quarantine system where we lock people in highway motels in the Australian Outback for two weeks. Nothing like Free Foxte [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/09/the-hotel-quarantine)
- Parenting hack: Let your kid join other families at the playground and eat their food. It’s money in your pocket. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/09/parenting-hack-let)
- "Once you become informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of grey. You realise that nothing is as clear and simple as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralysing." - Calvin, of Cal [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/08/once-you-become)
- *flicks through his bible furiously trying to find the verse about content delivery networks (CDNs) going down meaning that this is the beginning of the end times* [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/08/flicks-through-his)
- “(A recent) audience survey showed that the word podcast is becoming linked to the word interview. So here we are.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/08/a-recent-audience)
- As a geriatric millennial, [I feel seen](https://thenib.com/caring-for-your-geriatric-millennial/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/06/as-a-geriatric)
- Looks like someone in ASIO has finally experienced booking a Qantas flight at the last minute. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/06/looks-like-someone)
- All these years on I’m still no wiser as to what it is that the fox say. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/04/all-these-years)
- Mare of Easttown spoiler: it was the adult female horse of Easttown. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/04/mate-of-easttown)
- The 2007 email that spawned Uber, Snapchat, Tiktok, Instagram, and trillions of dollars worth of other companies - via @techemails [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/04/the-email-that)
- Is this the year for editable iMessages? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/02/is-this-the)
- What’s the secret to not getting text message spam? This phone number is my wedding celebrant number and I’ve had it for over 15 years, so I’m not in a position to change numbers or turn on Filter Unk [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/01/whats-the-secret)
- It just occurred to me that I could personally profit off the Victorian lockdown, so here goes. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/01/it-just-occurred)
- Instead of calling it “the jab” what if they called it a “dad joke”? That way everyone would get it? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/06/01/instead-of-calling)
- Police are now targeting people who lose all sense of time whilst ordering at a cafe and feel the need to share long stories with the uninterested barista. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/31/police-are-now)
- If you’re curious how commissions and incentives shape the technology retail sector, JB HiFi at Robina doesn’t stock Apple TV units on the shelves, they’re “out the back”, because Apple’s sales incent [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/31/if-youre-curious)
- >”Convincing someone to change their mind is really the process of convincing someone to change their tribe. If they abandon their beliefs, they run the risk of losing social ties. You can’t expect so [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/28/convincing-someone-to)
- Revved up like a deuce, another roller in the night [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/27/revved-up-like)
- Strangers really underestimate how much I want to receive a phone call. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/27/strangers-really-underestimate)
- The humble Australian ritual of gender reveal via a burnout.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/27/the-humble-australian)
- Photographing a blood red supermoon, a lunar eclipse, is seemingly outside of my skillset. I made many photos and all were degrees of terrible, these two - one shot on my 25mm and the other on my 70-1 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/26/photographing-a-blood)
- Life is so busy, complex, and tiring right now, that the US government has confirmed that UFOs are a thing and everyone that finds out just shrugs and moves on. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/26/life-is-so)
- Did you know there’s no wombat emoji? I’m calling the president. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/25/did-you-know)
- Three fun wedding facts you probably didn't know: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/25/three-fun-wedding)
- Moses? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/25/moses)
- Sk8r grrl carving up the skate park [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/23/skr-grrl-carving)
- My top three favourite songs about meeting your newborn child: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/21/my-top-three)
- I just watched a retail worker wash her plastic gloved hands with hand sanitiser. Curve flattened! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/21/i-just-watched)
- TF when you think someone is going to steal your stick [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/20/tf-when-you)
- The kind of rainbow that would make YouTube’s Hungrybear9562 weep with joy, a double rainbow. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/20/the-kind-of)
- Pot of coffee at Highline Palm Beach at the end of the rainbow [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/20/pot-of-coffee)
- For the first time in many years I took what I thought was common advice and wisdom and I've started using Mail.app on MacOS (Big Sur on Apple Silicon MBA). Three email accounts, one with 170,000 odd [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/19/for-the-first)
- Your stripper name is the first 16 digits of your credit card number, then the month the card expires, and then the year, and then the three digits on the back lol. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/19/your-stripper-name)
- Australia's Department of Defence: Defence announces Space Division [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/19/australias-department-of)
- We decided to sell our Covid-escape-beach-unit in Palm Beach on the Gold Coast. If you’re currently looking to escape to a beachside apartment, [I highly recommend it](https://www.realestate.com.au/pr [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/18/we-decided-to)
- Why is it called a wedding tax when wedding vendors decide to not undercut each other, and instead focus on being profitable and sustainable? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/17/why-is-it)
- Why are people in small businesses so afraid of making an profit, having a day off or even a holiday? Why is sustainability and profit demonised in our society? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/17/why-are-people)
- Wedding planning pro tip: Choose a wedding vendor team, then a date, instead of spending your whole life trying to find a team available on your date. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/16/wedding-planning-pro)
- If you inserted a MYST CD-ROM into your computer sometime in the early 90's and found yourself entrenched in the wonder that was MYST, then [this Soundcloud is going to do something to your nostalgia] [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/16/if-you-inserted)
- John Mulaney getting getting divorced is the kind of celebrity news that makes me want to take the week off and empty some ice cream tubs whilst crying. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/14/john-mulaney-getting)
- 📷 Friday sunrise on the #GoldCoast [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/14/friday-sunrise-on)
- Hanging with useless nipples Withers. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/13/hanging-with-useless)
- View out my window right now [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/12/view-out-my)
- Bitey McBiteFace [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/11/bitey-mcbiteface)
- > "The big money is made not by exposing the truth but by papering it over or concealing it."
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/11/the-big-money)
- Hey, bye @heyhey [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/11/hey-bye-heyhey)
- Don't forget that we're all competing in a game where if we hit the right keys on the keyboard in the right order at the right time we win money and get donuts. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/11/dont-forget-that)
- The worst thing about having an AirTag in your luggage is that instead of guessing that your luggage is about to come out, it removes any doubt that it isn’t. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/10/the-worst-thing)
- Burleigh Heads on a Monday morning [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/10/burleigh-heads-on)
- If you’ve ever wondered how weird you are, if you don’t eat the deceased at their own funeral, you’re not that weird. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/09/if-youve-ever)
- Who would’ve ever imagined that the BBQ-lovin Covid guy was actually trying to buy the whole chain of Barbecue’s Galore stores!? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/09/who-wouldve-ever)
- Just say that after the traumatic 14 months behind us, we were considering selling everything and travelling Australia in a caravan with a toddler and newborn and you had prescient advice, what exactl [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/09/just-say-that)
- An old friend of mine from like 20 years ago has released an album and I found out because someone had a typo in their email address which landed the newsletter intended for Paul Withers' into my old [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/08/an-old-friend)
- I’m dying of dystentery over this announcement. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/08/im-dying-of)
- Photos from inside my house identify as photos taken at houses down the street, from a GPS angle I understand this, but my iPhone knows my home address, and the wifi SSID I’m connected to overnight ev [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/07/photos-from-inside)
- I am going to move my personal/non-wedding email account away from Hey. I don’t want to go back to GMail for privacy reasons, no to Outlook because of UX, and I don’t want to go back to Fastmail becau [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/07/i-am-going)
- Sunrises at airports are my theme of 2021 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/07/sunrises-are-airports)
- Melbourne weather: cloudy with a chance of Josh. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/06/melbourne-weather-cloudy)
- If you’re curious about AirTag use through a flight whilst on inflight wifi, Find My believes that Qantas dropped my luggage from a great height somewhere over Armidale. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/06/if-youre-curious)
- Someone’s been to the salon [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/04/someones-been-to)
- Cows on buns [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/04/cows-on-buns)
- Yarra. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/02/yarra-the-valley)
- The one where Pete Townshend from The Who recorded an anti-smoking song while smoking cigarettes. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/02/the-one-where)
- I’m sitting opposite a person in the Qantas Lounge who is eating so violently. Like she’s abusing her mouth with her fork of food. I can’t help but watch and I wish you could all experience this passi [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/02/im-sitting-opposite)
- Mel [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/02/mel)
- [Four different weather reports in Lilydale, Australia. How is weather reporting still so hard?](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/01/four-different-weather)
- "As I reached for my Hasselblad, suddenly the Earth popped up over the horizon” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/05/01/as-i-reached)
- Name a more important Australian institution than the Great Regional Aussie Pub. Where would these acts play if not for the local? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/30/name-a-more)
- You probably don't know this about me, but the main reason I'm a happily married man and wedding celebrant, and not a professional footballer is so I don't have to [explain consensual threesomes to ju [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/30/you-probably-dont)
- QF [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/30/qf)
- Doing my part for USA and Australian relations by making a photo of a @united B787 kissing a @qantas A330 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/30/doing-my-part)
- [My first photography commission: Reece Bathroom Life](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/30/my-first-photography)
- 🚙 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/29/211020)
- Luna approves of the Sydney Qantas Business Lounge [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/28/luna-approves-of)
- [App Tracking Transparency, ATT.](https://youtu.be/Ihw_Al4RNno) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/27/app-tracking-transparency)
- “I’m studying to become a lawyer for my friend’s upcoming court case” said no-one ever. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/27/im-studying-to)
- The only bridge climb in Australia better than the Storey Bridge Climb, of the two available [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/23/the-only-bridge)
- Take me hommmmeeeee, country airline [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/23/take-me-hommmmeeeee)
- Syd [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/23/syd)
- That shining glint in the Crown of capitalism [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/23/that-shining-glint)
- Hey, guys who decide how comfortable Uber Comfort is, it’s not a Toyota Camry [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/22/hey-guys-who)
- If you’re in Circular Quay this afternoon, the playlist is mine [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/22/if-youre-in)
- Sarah and Michael's awkward start to their wedding ceremony [included a promo for the Gold 104.3 Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show](https://youtu.be/GMOdWT0mam8) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/22/sarah-and-michaels)
- > "This is lockdown’s near forbidden secret and terrible truth — that at the heart of grief, and midst mayhem, carnage and deep sadness, people do beautiful things."
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/22/this-is-lockdowns)
- It was not my final destination [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/21/it-was-not)
- Important noodle information [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/21/important-noodle-information)
- When I grow up I’m going to run a cafe and an AirBnb, both of which have functional and high speed wifi. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/21/when-i-grow)
- School’s out at Lismore Primary [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/20/schools-out-at)
- Daylesford [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/20/daylesford)
- What did Ausnet do?! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/20/what-did-ausnet)
- In sad tech news, my favourite Melbourne store - Mac Addict - has shut down through 2020. I literally booked a hotel across the road so I could check it out today. [Heres a 2017 review from EFTM](http [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/19/in-sad-tech)
- Trying out the NKOTB to Melbourne today [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/18/trying-out-the)
- Conspiracy theory: Hungry Jacks has never had thick shake machines. The whole idea of a shake from HJs is a ruse. They’re under the control of Big Softdrink. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/18/conspiracy-theory-hungry)
- “I’m only posting about @ARationalFear so @DanIlic [sends me a prize pack”](https://arationalfear.substack.com/p/national-lampoons-vaccination) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/16/im-only-posting)
- Oh that burns @decryption [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/15/oh-that-burns)
- > “Today we pay with both money and attention according to the direction of artists” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/15/today-we-pay)
- If you want to hate the world and Twitter at the same time paste “lang:en” in a Twitter search bar will give you live and direct access to the firehose of tweets that is the entirety of English speaki [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/15/if-you-want)
- [Childhood screen time and attention problems not so closely linked](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/15/childhood-screen-time)
- > ‘Everyone can have their own reality’ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/15/everyone-can-have)
- [Can the new city of Próspera be the better world we dream of?](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/15/can-the-new)
- Very very few stories are worth telling in their infancy. Most require research, understanding, context, empathy, and nuance. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/15/very-very-few)
- [So, you saw a video of girls twerking on a navy ship](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/15/so-you-saw)
- Luna’s first phone/block of wood [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/15/lunas-first-phoneblock)
- ["It's the second-best bridge climb in the country, of both available."](https://youtu.be/tlWeUyc7YjI) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/14/its-the-secondbest)
- Toddler, living her best life, sitting in a Coles Supermarket trolley, eating tuna sushi. Circa April 2021. iPhone 12 Pro 4.2mm lens, f1.6, 1/50 sec, ISO 200. Photographer: Joshua Withers. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/14/toddler-living-her)
- Google “where does vanilla flavouring come from” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/13/google-where-does)
- I’m going to be an Icelandic pop star, what are you going to be? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/13/im-going-to)
- [The economics of COVID-19](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/13/the-economics-of)
- Five years since DJI has handed down an Inspire or Phantom from on high, and three years since a Pro Mavic has been bestowed upon us. What, oh Chinese lords, what will you gift us this week? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/13/five-years-since)
- The Blue Mountains before the sun rises are a flippin treat [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/12/the-blue-mountains)
- This is a 13,000 word essay most Australians won’t read, or even if they click through to it, they’ll find it “a bit long”, but it’s actually important, and will deeply affect you. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/12/this-is-a)
- > "A new generation of Gen Z investors are willing to take risks to counter a deck that may be stacked against them” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/11/a-new-generation)
- Top three songs to listen to on your headphones whilst walking off an airplane through an airport: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/11/top-three-songs)
- sunday flyday [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/11/sunday-flyday)
- > “The reason that most of us are unhappy most of the time is that we set our goals not for the person we’re going to be when we reach them, but we set our goals for the person we are when we set them [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/11/the-reason-that)
- An author's view of the next 25 years on earth, [published in January 1997](https://www.wired.com/1997/07/longboom/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/10/an-authors-view)
- Accidentally tested the water proof capabilities of the iPhone 12 Pro today. It survived a 10 minute pool swim without a hiccup. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/10/accidentally-tested-the)
- That was quick, Find My, considering there’s no items to add or find yet [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/09/that-was-quick)
- This is a powerful read: [How doctors die](https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2013/03/how-doctors-die/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/04/this-is-a)
- Wearing your mask hanging off one ear is the 2021 version of kids riding their bike with their helmet hanging on the handlebar. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/04/wearing-your-mask)
- > "I promise you that no-one is coming for your son's head. The data is clear, the number of false accusations that stick is negligible. If your son does not cross the line, if he doesn't teeter on th [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/04/i-promise-you)
- Nothing says you’re staying at a fancy hotel like naming it after Australia’s shiftiest bird then putting the word budget afterward. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/03/nothing-says-youre)
- It’s been a while since I’ve taken the 6am Saturday flight to Sydney for a wedding, it feels good. I feel dribs and drabs of normality returning to my life. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/03/its-been-a)
- Person next to me in the bottle shop finally chooses a carton of cider and I say “so that’s decider” and got nothing. So now I’m telling you. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/01/person-next-to)
- What a brave, cunning, and linguistic call for Tourism SA to make. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/01/what-a-brave)
- Gold Coast Mayor calls in Evergreen to cause our own Suez Canal incident on the M1 to stop Brisbane people going “down the coast” for Easter. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/04/01/gold-coast-mayor)
- #notthebetootaadvocate [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/30/notthebetootaadvocate)
- When the time comes, I will 100% support mandatory vacations, those who don’t should be forced. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/30/when-the-time)
- You think that after the last year I'd be able to spell qarantein without using spellcheck. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/30/you-think-that)
- Really surprised the humble salute didn’t make a comeback in 2020. It’s better than an elbow bump, and far more socially distanced, in fact the mere gesture implies that you should take a step back. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/28/really-surprised-the)
- [If cancel culture was real](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/28/if-cancel-culture)
- Turns out that the Queensland Government just thought having five people together in a house at the same time was what they image a really awesome and fun and large party would be like if they ever go [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/28/turns-out-that)
- I feel like the marketing team at Zarraffas have never had breakfast, they just saw an Instagram Reel about it once [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/28/i-feel-like)
- You haven’t lived until you’ve live texted a Covid press conference with all of your wedding clients getting married in the next few days. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/28/you-havent-lived)
- Cheers to the freakin weekend [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/28/cheers-to-the)
- In a way, aren’t we all boats stuck in a Suez Canal called life? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/27/in-a-way)
- 1yr ago today Queensland closed its border to other states with Police manning that border. That day was the beginning of a year from hell for our family and talking to a friend yesterday I realised I [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/26/yr-ago-today)
- We’re only one or two more “Covid ruined my wedding and now it’s your problem, Withers” away from collecting the whole set. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/26/were-only-one)
- Have you been overseas in the past 14 days? Have you been in a Covid hotspot or been in contact with someone who has Covid? Do you have a fever, runny nose, or a cough? Have you felt like visiting a [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/26/have-you-been)
- Time to fly, Melbourne [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/26/time-to-fly)
- “I’m working in Epping, Epping is barely Melbourne, and I’m working with a group of engineers that don’t smoke!?” is literally a sentence spoken by a Collingwood supporter walking to the MCG through R [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/25/im-working-in)
- If you’re wondering if airports have spent the downtime they've been gifted over the last year to make their coffee better, they haven’t. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/23/if-youre-wondering)
- I keep on finding this weird smudge on the top of some of my photos when I get them back from the film lab. Anyone know what’s causing it? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/22/i-keep-on)
- If you’ve ever been disappointed, know that you’ve not been truly disappointed unless you have prepared food for a toddler to not eat despite telling you that they wanted that exact thing you just mad [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/22/if-youve-ever)
- For all intensive purposes words don't matter, right? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/18/for-all-intensive)
- I, for one, welcome our new unable to understand actual consent so we’re using a sexual consent app overlords. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/18/i-for-one)
- PSA: Your kiwi fruit experience will improve once you realise you don’t need to spit out the seeds. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/18/psa-your-kiwi)
- Just say, hypothetically, that you were married to a heavy rug user, what are some things you can encourage your partner to do to stop buying rugs and eventually kick that rug addiction? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/17/just-say-hypothetically)
- In the first two months of both our girls lives we've moved house. Oddly enough, into the same house both times. Tomorrow we're out of the Palmy Crew and back into the Tugun Flight Path! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/16/in-the-first)
- Police are now targeting a part of the people who misuse the word apart. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/16/police-are-now)
- Did one person a million years ago cross their fingers and magically their situation changed for the better, or are we all just crossing fingers for feels? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/15/did-one-person)
- [It's not all men, but it's only men.](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/15/its-not-all)
- Most Aussie shop ever [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/15/most-aussie-shop)
- Boooo [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/15/boooo)
- > "Many of us don’t have enough stories of being taken advantage of or of having something stolen because we don’t take enough risks. Any time we love someone, we risk being hurt. But it’s worth the r [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/14/many-of-us)
- Remember when internet things were called cyber? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/14/remember-when-internet)
- Shiver me timbers. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/14/shiver-me-timbers)
- I remember reading about wireless networking technology in computer magazines in the 90s. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/14/i-remember-reading)
- Sitting next to a couple at the airport lounge who have just completed a whole photo shoot, different angles, poses, trying the different camera lenses on the phones, to capture the beauty of their fr [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/14/sitting-next-to)
- Years ago, when I was a younger man, you’d get your car serviced and they’d put air in your tyres for free, but I guess that’s how inflation works. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/13/years-ago-when)
- Life’s never going to be the same once you realise what the Barenaked Ladies song “One Week” is really about. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/13/lifes-never-going)
- 🏄♀️ Bells Beach [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/12/bells-beach)
- 🐨 For once, the sign didn’t lie [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/12/for-once-the)
- Something not quite right? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/11/something-not-quite)
- I want the photographer that does the McDonalds menu photos to do my headshots. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/11/i-want-the)
- Not many people know this, but Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know was actually written about Melbourne and I through 2020. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/10/not-many-people)
- let’s fly jetstar tonight [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/10/lets-fly-jetstar)
- After our year of “travelling” we’ve got our keys back. We’re going home! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/10/after-our-year)
- Hey world, why are we giving kids middle names if every time - as a marriage celebrant - I ask one of my couples for the full name of someone, they don't think the middle name is part of the full name [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/10/hey-world-why)
- You might be surprised to find out that Harry & Meghan are not the first people to get married before they got married. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/10/you-might-be)
- > "My interactions with Bartercard (Qoin) have not raised any red-flags, and as a blockchain tech enthusiast I appreciate its efforts to onboard many non-crypto users.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/10/my-interactions-with)
- "We just wanted to get on Zoom with you to make sure you're as much of a smart ass as you look like on social media"
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/09/we-just-wanted)
- Luna is a really coming around to this big sister vibe [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/09/luna-is-a)
- First films [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/09/first-films)
- I for one am shocked to find out that the Colonialist White British Empire’s Royal Family is racist. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/08/i-for-one)
- [Social media is evolving](https://world.hey.com/joshwithers/social-media-is-evolving-b234a4b7) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/06/social-media-is)
- [Goldie Grace Withers' birth](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/05/goldie-grace-withers)
- If you complain that you phone is listening to you, but use Google Chrome as your web browser, you're a hypocrite - quite possibly innocently - but Google Chrome is becoming the least private web brow [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/05/if-you-complain)
- 🌞 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/04/084254)
- When Luna met Gracie [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/03/when-luna-met)
- [Let me introduce you to Goldie Grace Withers](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/03/let-me-introduce)
- 🌙 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/02/111042)
- Funny looking Old Gum Tree there m8 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/01/funny-looking-old)
- I just picked Luna up from her trying to play with some rude kids who didn’t want to play with her, so in front of the kids and their yucky mother told her that “we don’t have to play with yucky kids. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/03/01/i-just-picked)
- What’s with midwives not going all the way and becoming full wives? Asking for a friend. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/28/whats-with-midwives)
- Luna, we’re taking a photo for mummy, just hold on for a second [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/28/luna-were-taking)
- I’m at the markets talking to a friend and Luna walks off, treks across the whole market, to go to the stall she knows has watermelon. She gets a basket, puts a watermelon in it, and a carrot, and goe [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/28/im-at-the)
- I love how Mentos stubbornly believes that people at service stations know what “Chewy Dragees” are. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/27/i-love-how)
- I know that worrying works because nothing I’ve ever worried about has happened [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/27/i-know-that)
- Saturday morning, February 27, 2021. Baby still going through customs. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/27/saturday-morning-february)
- Sounds like a Pearl Jam song [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/27/sounds-like-a)
- I would like to make a public statement regarding the most recent episode, number 175, of the [Wedding Photo Hangover podcast](https://weddinghangover.com).
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/26/i-would-like)
- Palm Beach Boardriders [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/26/palm-beach-boardriders)
- The Gold Coast property market right now ... [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/25/the-gold-coast)
- Use Vegemite. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/24/use-vegemite)
- If domestic violence killed as many men as it does women, and if it the threat was higher to older people, would we fight domestic violence like we are fighting COVID? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/24/if-domestic-violence)
- You know you’re reading an article not for you when the first interview question is answered by beginning with “we millionaires”. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/23/you-know-youre)
- > “We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/23/we-never-really)
- Imagine having [never heard Enter Sandman before](https://youtu.be/Zd_UcjMusUA) ...
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/22/imagine-having-never)
- If your preferred mode of transport is your Facebook profile pic, I live for your Facebook comments, keep them coming. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/22/if-your-preferred)
- [This story](https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/ki6fnd/oregon_i_accidentally_created_an_army_of_crow/) is my favourite story of today, plus, [the update](https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvic [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/22/this-story-is)
- Minutes before this screenshot I was on the front page of Hacker News, which is all a nerd honestly wants in his life. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/22/minutes-before-this)
- Sometimes when I want to feel fancy I imagine my car is a private jet, but for roads. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/22/sometimes-when-i)
- [Tap your phone at Gold Coast bus stops to access my website](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/22/tap-your-phone)
- Just checking because I don’t want to screw up this vaccine thing: Are we all supposed to wear the green and gold for our vaccination selfies? Did ScoMo wear his under his formalwear? Did he change? W [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/21/just-checking-because)
- > “People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/21/people-fall-so)
- I’m titling this sad piece “July 2020, an infrequent flyer” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/20/im-titling-this)
- The Facebook news ban hammer fell on our training business a day after I [posted an article on surviving a Facebook ban](https://celebrant.institute/marketing/if-facebook-shuts-your-page-down-are-you- [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/20/the-facebook-news)
- [The Foo Fighters were AIDS denialists?](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/19/the-foo-fighters)
- [Who should be a politician and why?](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/19/who-should-be)
- [Dear DJI,](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/19/dear-dji)
- [Australian news you can use](https://chaser.com.au/national/an-exhaustive-list-of-the-liberal-partys-corruption-over-the-last-7-years/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/19/australian-news-you)
- “Why Josh was never invited back onto Studio 10” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/19/why-josh-was)
- What a beautiful time to be alive in Australia [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/19/what-a-beautiful)
- James Clear’s [3-2-1](https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1/refer?rh_ref=dc6519aa) regular email is such a nice format, I have to recommend it. 3 ideas from him, 2 quotes from others, 1 question. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/19/james-clears-regular)
- > “I wish Australia would take Facebook’s rejection as a sign it should rethink its approach to media regulation entirely. It could just tax companies based on their revenues, for example.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/18/i-wish-australia)
- Well that was quick, [Zoom](https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360056477312-How-to-Remove-Your-Cat-Filter) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/14/well-that-was)
- I'm looking for someone in a full-time, or maybe almost full-time, role as a content creator working almost explicitly inside Wordpress. They need to know Wordpress, writing, photo blogging, and have [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/14/im-looking-for)
- So I’ve been thinking about this a lot. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/14/so-ive-been)
- Luna vs. Shark [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/12/luna-vs-shark)
- Hanging out on ABC radio this morning [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/12/hanging-out-on)
- I'm (apparently) the celebrant you call when you want to find out if you have to have sex with your new spouse on the wedding night … [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/11/im-apparently-the)
- Everything you've just read here, and everything you're about to read, including this, is a performance. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/11/everything-youve-just)
- On a personal note, as of midnight tonight my borders are closed to people from the Greater Border Closing region. If you have closed a border in the last 14 days, you’ll need to quarantine for 14 yea [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/10/on-a-personal)
- Guys, I can’t stress this enough, real life snakes are nothing - I repeat, nothing - like Allens Snakes. Do not eat. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/10/guys-i-cant)
- The most fascinating element of big tech is when a newcomer has such a good idea that it’s deemed stealable by the incumbents. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/10/the-most-fascinating)
- I’m looking for the cheapest possible prices to get ‘Make Poverty History’ shirts manufactured please. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/09/im-looking-for)
- Butterfly on inside of the windscreen. Circa February, 2021. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/09/butterfly-on-inside)
- [When you’re still worried about the rona but wanna look like you’re not](https://maskalike.com/products/mask-on-bottom-of-chin-illusion) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/09/when-youre-still)
- Babymoon @ The Calile [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/09/babymoon-the-calile)
- Tuesday sunrise because sleep is overrated // Jolly’s Loookout, Mount Nebo [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/09/tuesday-sunrise-because)
- 6:29am and the staff member at the hotel lobby bar & cafe says to the barista, “you know what I like” and smiles. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/09/am-and-the)
- > “Must everyone like you?” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/09/must-everyone-like)
- Hey, be real with me, do you guys ever wear your daughter’s dresses? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/07/hey-be-real)
- February 2021 would have to be the most visually pleasing month I’ve ever seen. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/07/february-would-have)
- Sunrise [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/07/sunrise)
- Jumping into Sunday like ... [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/07/jumping-into-sunday)
- May, the EK [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/05/may-the-ek)
- How good is it watching the elected leaders of the different Australian states squabble like children in a playground whilst they sink their states into financial distress. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/05/how-good-is)
- Peggy [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/05/peggy)
- Fried chicken [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/05/fried-chicken)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/04/213833)
- Do we want our journos tweeting or not? [NYT asks the big questions about bias and opinion](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/business/media/journalists-twitter.html?referringSource=articleShare) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/03/do-we-want)
- [Running the numbers on great writing](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/03/running-the-numbers)
- What if I’m not smart enough to know if my thoughts are correct? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/03/what-if-im)
- Not a 5G tower, bro, but cool birth story [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/02/not-a-g)
- 🌈 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/02/215431)
- What the hell is going on with guys who don’t tie up their shoelaces? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/02/01/what-the-hell)
- If there's one thing the month of January 2021 has taught me, it's that the Australian celebrant population (9000 odd celebrants) isn't emotionally prepared to have received two emails from me in the [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/31/if-theres-one)
- On today's business to-do list: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/31/on-todays-business)
- 🌙 Our two year old adult [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/31/our-two-year)
- That face when mum has moved your stash [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/30/that-face-when)
- You know newsletters are a thing when Facebook feels so threatened by them that it needs to develop it’s own newsletter product. Via the [Techmeme via the NYT](http://www.techmeme.com/210128/p47#a2101 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/29/you-know-newsletters)
- I can't help but feel that Margot Robbie in a bathtub would explain Gamestop better than most journalists. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/29/i-cant-help)
- Robin Rendle's beautiful essay on newsletters and the original sin of the internet is that, beautiful, and inspiring. [Please view the essay](https://www.robinrendle.com/essays/newsletters). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/26/robin-rendles-beautiful)
- [To disrupt legacies of exclusivity, institutionalized racism, and complicity. To build a culture of inclusion and accountability.](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/26/to-disrupt-legacies)
- Happy Australians-arguing-about-a-public-holiday-whilst-not-doing-anything-actually-good-for-the-country week! It's a real invasion on my senses. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/25/120557)
- Sunsets // a new way of measuring each day until it's gone [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/24/sunsets-a-new)
- This is the kind of drone video I wish I made, one where [a crocodile attacks the drone whilst making the film](https://youtu.be/okXXOq16Rso). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/24/this-is-the)
- Install [Hush](https://oblador.github.io/hush/) on your Mac and iPhone/iPad to get rid of all those annoying banners, pop ups, distractions asking you to approve or accept cookies. Hallelujah. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/24/install-hush-on)
- I can honestly say the most exciting stage of parenting a toddler for me so far has been when she learned how to use door handles. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/24/i-can-honestly)
- [How cheap money and algorithms shaped the last decade and the opposite will shape the next](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/23/how-cheap-money)
- 10 seconds of pure iPhone exposure [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/23/seconds-of-pure)
- With all the science, research, wisdom, and love in the world well never stop people dying. But we can stop people living. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/23/with-all-the)
- The most misunderstood element of the internet is how you or I can just post things there and they become truth. At least that's what I was aiming for when I created the internet. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/23/the-most-misunderstood)
- Guy freaking out a little bit a disco: I should write a song about having a sense of poise and rationality. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/23/guy-freaking-out)
- Google threatens to [block Google search from Australia!!!](https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/google-threatens-to-disable-search-in-australia-if-media-code-becomes-law-20210122-p56w2h.html) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/22/google-threatens-to)
- A friend kindly and jokingly mentioned that life for us looked to be all fun going by social media recently.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/22/a-friend-kindly)
- > “As the automotive brand with likely the highest name recognition across all demographics in spite of not having a new product in 40 years, we still believe that none of the above is insurmountable [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/22/as-the-automotive)
- Thing I’m just casually dropping into conversation today then laughing: “more like QA-wrong, am I right?!” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/22/thing-im-just)
- Podcasting turns 20 today. [@podnews](https://micro.blog/podnews) [tells the story with Eric Nuzum](https://podnews.net/article/first-podcast-feed-history). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/20/podcasting-turns-today)
- Luna, presented without caption [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/20/luna-presented-without)
- I don’t like to boast, but sometimes I use occasional chairs frequently. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/20/i-dont-like)
- President Trump has just pardoned my passing of gas that everyone's been talking about. I'm a free man. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/20/president-trump-has)
- [Podcast you should sample: Queens of the Drone Age](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/20/podcast-you-should)
- What a time to be alive
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/19/what-a-time)
- Honestly, you haven’t lived until you’ve watched from afar as your daughter interrupts a beautiful little Instagram moment a mother is capturing of her own child. The mother looks around for an adult [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/19/honestly-you-havent)
- Luna (runs around the house screaming): Noo pooooo! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/18/luna-runs-around)
- 7:30pm Queensland time tonight (GMT+10) I’m [hosting my first @joinClubhouse](https://www.joinclubhouse.com/event/VPGegngM) room and it would be absolutely grand if my friends would join me for a chat [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/18/pm-queensland-time)
- With most new relationships being the result of algorithmic matching, does that mean computers are breeding humans? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/16/with-most-new)
- The DJI Mini 2 couldn’t deliver the still images I was hoping for. Who would of ever thought that a drone lighter than an orange wouldn’t deliver great photos ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/16/the-dji-mini)
- Have any M1 Mac owners recently tried to install an iPhone app .ipa file (circumventing the developer not making the iOS app available in the Mac App Store)? It worked for some apps when I first upgra [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/15/have-any-m)
- Let’s be honest guys, in this algorithm driven world, it’s only going to be a matter of time until the word ‘ducking’ is classified as a swear word. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/15/lets-be-honest)
- Do yourself a retro favour and search for [“SOL.EXE”](https://apps.apple.com/au/app/sol-exe-retro-solitaire/id1542164345) in the iPhone App Store [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/14/do-yourself-a)
- This is one of those articles I think I’ll read a few times over the next few weeks. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/14/this-is-one)
- > “Whenever you poo or pee, sterilise it for half an hour before flushing, this is to protect our city’s sewage.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/14/whenever-you-poo)
- I’m two days deep [Clubhouse](https://www.joinclubhouse.com) and I’m feeling bullish about its potential. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/14/im-two-days)
- Show me a more Australian meal than a Chicken Schnitzel shaped like mainland Australia, served with veges, chips, and gravy. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/13/show-me-a)
- We brought a Peugeot to a V8 fight ... [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/13/we-brought-a)
- Feature request for iMessage, Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs, and Facebook Page Messenger: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LET ME SEE UNREAD MESSAGES SO I CAN "READ" THAT ONE UNREAD MESSAGE WHICH I CAN'T FIND [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/13/feature-request-for)
- Just googled “Is it ok to just leave the toys out spread across the lounge room floor overnight like does it even matter” in case I was wrong. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/11/just-googled-is)
- [Homo sapiens won the evolutionary race because we were connected](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/11/homo-sapiens-won)
- [I’m speaking at the Wedding Business CEO Summit](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/10/im-speaking-at)
- When I’m president imma make it illegal for kids to crawl or climb up slippery slides. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/10/when-im-president)
- How, in the 2021st year of our Lord, do we still need to go to two different huts for sunglasses and pizza? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/09/how-in-the)
- You know what’s really underrated? Cookies. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/09/you-know-whats)
- I can’t help but feel that the rice must have had a really good PR team early on. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/08/i-cant-help)
- *record scratch* [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/08/record-scratchfreeze-frameyup)
- Today was the wrong day to want to legitimately want to buy toilet paper in Southeast Queensland. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/08/today-was-the)
- Little bit morbid there, Apple Photos [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/08/little-bit-morbid)
- When Orange Hair says to his followers that their journey is "only just beginning" does that mean they're all about to drink Kool-Aid before the alien space ship comes and collects them? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/08/when-orange-hair)
- > “(Trump) has refused to accept the basic bargain of democracy, which is to accept the result, win or lose.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/08/trump-has-refused)
- “Tech level determined using Qsin” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/08/tech-level-determined)
- [America, our love story, and how we fell out of love](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/07/america-our-love)
- A shop displayed a sign announcing that they were “only excepting card payments at this time” and it’s really sitting with me hey. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/07/a-shop-displayed)
- Day one of Baby Drone making photos and we’re back into lockdown because of fear of getting wet. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/07/day-one-of)
- Watching this wombat sleep today reminded me that the wombat is my spirit animal [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/06/watching-this-wombat)
- 👩🚀 I always wanted you to go into space, mannnn (photo not by Babylon Zoo, only the caption) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/05/i-always-wanted)
- We can dance if we want to. We can leave your friends behind. Cause your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance, well, they're no friends of mine. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/05/we-can-dance)
- [‘Nice’ doesn’t sell ads](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/05/nice-doesnt-sell)
- In case you’d heard the outrage and you weren’t sure who he was, I just wanted to clarify: I am not the bean dad. I only make Luna wait her entire life for baked beans. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/04/in-case-youd)
- No-one is born with a passion, or a dream. Passions and dreams come from and are nurtured in our community, which is why we need to fight for and protect our common unities, our community. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/04/noone-is-born)
- The fact that Uber achieved the same growth in 10% of its $150 million as spend is one thing, [the story of how they got there](https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1345774768746852353?s=21), that’s [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/04/the-fact-that)
- [How to overcome Phone Addiction [Solutions + Research]](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/03/how-to-overcome)
- It’s cute to see New South Wales and Victoria playing a game of State Of Origin. It’d just be sad to see NSW lose at the Covid football version tho. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/03/its-cute-to)
- With many of us grounded, has anyone had a play of PC Globe to try and scratch that travel itch? You might need to upgrade to a 486 to run it well. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/03/with-many-of)
- “Dadda, not Josh” is Luna’s new way of introducing me to strangers. She’s a weird Hype Girl. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/03/dadda-not-josh)
- The book 1984, but [instead of Big Brother, it’s Facebook](https://1984butfb.com). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/02/the-book-but)
- [Guilty as charged](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/02/guilty-as-charged)
- > “A prank attempt went terribly wrong for a 14-year old boy from Boise, as he was raped by a 700-lb grizzly bear while walking around in the woods in a sasquatch costume.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/02/a-prank-attempt)
- If you've been following for a while you might have sensed a tension between the joy I find in being online and the disappointment I find in news feed algorithims. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/02/if-youve-been)
- A podcast I first heard a year ago today still sits with me a year later, and I've listened to it maybe five times over. [Cooking As an Art, With Jerry Saltz and Dave Cheng](https://overcast.fm/+M41kj [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/02/a-podcast-i)
- The [future of music journalism](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/tiktok-music-journalism-1103594/) is on (wtf) TikTok (sad face) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/02/the-future-of)
- [Simon Owens on 'the Substack problem'](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/02/simon-owens-on)
- [My issue with Spotify and Amazon muscling in on podcasting and how Apple has failed as well](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/02/my-issue-with)
- Have you played the hottest new web game of 2021? [School or Prison](https://www.schoolprison.com) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/02/have-you-played)
- Much applause to the people behind Pentax cameras for this [seemingly crazy idea](https://petapixel.com/2020/12/28/pentax-cannot-go-mirrorless-ricoh-imaging-ceo/) to not go mirrorless. The unpopular r [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/01/much-applause-to)
- This is a fascinating story about an Australia man with an illness [discovering horology](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-01/horology-reuben-schoots-handmaking-mechanical-watch/12992718) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/01/this-is-a)
- [Algorithms are destroying our communities and what can we, or I, do about it?](https://joshwithers.blog/2021/01/01/algorithms-are-destroying)
- Thriller idea: As the year 2020 is escorted from the courthouse to a life sentence in prison, after a solid 365 days of wrecking havoc on the earth, a terrorist group hijacks the cavalcade and release [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/31/thriller-idea-as)
- In my almost 40 years on the planet, and most of them in Queensland, I’ve never kissed a stranger on NYE, or any other time. Am I doing life wrong or is the Chief Health Officer saying that sexually a [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/31/in-my-almost)
- Don’t let anyone tell you today is December 31st, 2020. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/31/dont-let-anyone)
- If you thought everything else that happened this year was scary, 2020 is going out with a bang with [delightfully terrifying dancing robots from Boston Dynamics](https://youtu.be/fn3KWM1kuAw) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/31/if-you-thought)
- [This was life changing photography education](https://weddinghangover.com/blog/one-cool-trick-to-taking-photos) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/30/this-was-life)
- Don’t even talk to her before her morning oat milk froth. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/30/dont-even-talk)
- There’s a mum sitting in the conductor’s seat of the playground train Luna wants to drive. Do I have jurisdiction here or do I have to just sit here and let her ruin my kids day? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/30/theres-a-mum)
- [A new family and travel photo workflow](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/30/a-new-family)
- Luna. Takes no bull. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/30/luna-takes-no)
- An interesting thought exercise is to imagine that something was being introduced fresh today, how would we approach it. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/30/an-interesting-thought)
- Money shot [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/30/money-shot)
- Turns out the TARDIS gets it’s time travelling power from books. Important lesson for us all to learn, ya know? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/29/turns-out-the)
- Calling all true crime podcasters, I’m desperate to know the story of Henk and Lane and how the small Tasmanian town of Penguin got two IGA supermarkets next to each other. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/29/calling-all-true)
- 2014 article on ‘Silicon Valley data’ being the new ‘Wall Street debt’ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/29/article-on-silicon)
- I try to avoid hot political issues here, but if Paw Patrol is a police officer, clumsy firefighter/paramedic, some tradies, & a pilot, how is it that they “always get the job done?” Surely they’d nee [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/29/i-try-to)
- > “Life is short, like Joe Pesci.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/29/life-is-short)
- Tasmanian Devil time [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/28/tasmanian-devil-time)
- Emu [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/28/emu)
- Wombats [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/28/wombats)
- Galah [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/28/galah)
- Luna vs Kangaroo [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/28/luna-vs-kangaroo)
- > “One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/28/one-of-the)
- 🐧 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/27/212751)
- How to spot a good fish and chip shop. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/27/how-to-spot)
- All I want for all of you is to enjoy life as much as Luna enjoys ice cream [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/27/all-i-want)
- I don’t like to boast on here, but I wanted to silence all the haters and the non-believers. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/27/i-dont-like)
- So it sounds like MONA is celebrating being open again, this is the view from Dodges Ferry. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/26/so-it-sounds)
- Nothing to see here, just an Independence Day-alien-ship-style laser beam going into Hobart ... [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/26/nothing-to-see)
- Hello Coles, it's modern news media here, [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/26/hello-coles-its)
- Dodges Ferry. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/26/dodges-ferry-with)
- Proud to be racing in the Salamanca Place to Hobart pram race today. Photographed is my First Mate taking us over the starting line. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/26/proud-to-be)
- Bloke at the pharmacy tells me that this is the second highest selling fragrance in Australia this Christmas [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/26/bloke-at-the)
- My personal answer to [this thought](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/26/the-damage-has.html) is that I’m barely “on Facebook.” I publish any and all thoughts, opinions, photos, et cetera, to my perso [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/26/my-personal-answer)
- [The Damage Has Been Proven, So Why Are We Still on Facebook?](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/26/the-damage-has)
- Quote I’m pondering thanks to Tim Ferriss’ pondering it ... [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/26/quote-im-pondering)
- Spending Christmas in the Switzerland of Australia’s south [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/24/spending-christmas-in)
- Shop inside a regional Tasmanian town’s local shopping centre. The professional life coach on staff on Christmas Eve is wearing knock-off AirPods. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/24/shop-inside-a)
- Our li’l traveller [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/24/our-lil-traveller)
- I've just watched an episode of The Wiggles where they're singing about, and boating in, The Big Red Boat. In this episode Anthony is assuming the position of captain, which is confusing, because for [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/24/ive-just-watched)
- ✈️ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/24/100341)
- Santa forgot a DHL sleigh at BNE [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/24/santa-forgot-a)
- A Christmas wish list from, and to, the wedding industry. Give the gift of algorithmic love this Christmas, to your favourite wedding vendors. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/24/a-christmas-wish)
- Ballin’ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/23/ballin)
- Me at age 2: *has never heard of sushi*. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/23/me-at-age)
- Welcome, newcomers. The tradition of #Festivus begins with the airing of grievances. I got a lot of problems with you, 2020! And now you're gonna hear about it. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/23/welcome-newcomers-the)
- [Australia's NBN declared finished, not because it is, but because we need to say it's finished](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/23/australias-nbn-declared)
- [This Rob Bell podcast series is making me feel seen right now](https://overcast.fm/+EA17SqVyc/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/23/this-rob-bell)
- # A South Australian Christmas
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/22/a-south-australian)
- Even at the age of six I was a media tart, I just whanted you to know about me. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/22/even-at-the)
- South Australia is literally issuing tickets for admission to the state. (Not a joke, you get a ticket for answering the border questions correctly) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/21/south-australia-is)
- Every airline’s business class is just an upper class hostel in the sky, and the frequent flyer lounge is just an upper class hostel kitchen, free to those who frequent the hostel. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/21/every-airlines-business)
- [The Nature of Order by Christopher W. Alexander](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3131171-the-nature-of-order-four-volume-set)
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/21/the-nature-of)
- [Thirty years of the World Wide Web](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/21/thirty-years-of)
- > “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/20/all-of-humanitys)
- Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Cactus Country // The closest I got to a desert this year, regional Victoria’s Cactus Country. [It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/20/collection-of-my)
- A storm is brewin’ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/20/a-storm-is)
- Berrrd [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/19/berrrd)
- > “Facebook’s argument is along the lines of arguing that the police shouldn’t crack down on burglaries because it might hurt pawn shops.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/19/facebooks-argument-is)
- You’ve got to read this [LA Times report](https://www.latimes.com/projects/toxic-chemicals-planes-covid-19-travel-woes/) on how toxic jet engine fumes have been making their way into airplane’s air su [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/18/youve-got-to)
- If you’re flying into Gold Coast from today expect to stand in the sun for a while as they screen everyone entering. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/18/if-youre-flying)
- 🦅 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/18/094948)
- 🍄 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/18/083149)
- I never knew I wanted a [Trump Presedntial Christmas Address deep fake](https://youtu.be/h_jrebvmPlk) for Christmas but here we are. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/17/i-never-knew)
- On Thursday’s we fly in the rain [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/17/on-thursdays-we)
- Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Blue Mountains // I'm going here today, one of my favourite places in Australia. [It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store]( [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/17/100111)
- I don’t know what crime Remember The Milk committed to be left off this [App Store list](https://apps.apple.com/au/story/id1338858356), but it must’ve been bad [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/17/i-dont-know)
- Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Birds on a wire // I think this is how the internet worked before computers. [It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store](http [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/17/collection-of-my)
- Kinda feel embarrassed about my previous 38 Decembers where I’ve proclaimed something stupid about how it’s been a “big year” or something philosophical about how next year’s “our year.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/16/kinda-feel-embarrassed)
- If I worked at a newspaper in the buy, swap, and sell section, I would tell people my job was classified. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/16/if-i-worked)
- > “Flight capacity into Gold Coast Airport has soared, with Melbourne to Gold Coast gaining traction as the busiest route in Australia for Jetstar and Virgin Australia. Sydney to Gold Coast also tops [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/16/flight-capacity-into)
- Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Olive // Olive this photo of an olive tree. [It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store](https://ahoyjosh.com/collection) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/16/130558)
- [Search on the web is a broken system](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/16/search-on-the)
- Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Cows // This photo is one of Luna’s favourites, because she loved seeing cows so close. [It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/16/collection-of-my)
- Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Surfing // My classic favourite photo is a top down of a surfer. This one’s at Palm Beach. [It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my onli [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/15/202009)
- It’s almost a crime how good Instagram works on a Mac (Apple Silicon + Big Sur) considering Instagram doesn’t allow it to be installed without a bit of hard work. You can just drag and drop an image o [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/15/its-almost-a)
- Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Valley // Particles that have travelled at the speed of light for 8 minutes and 20 seconds, just to fall here. [It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/15/153337)
- Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Lorikeet 🌈🦜 // Hungry li’l Rainbow Lorikeets. [It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store](https://ahoyjosh.com/collection) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/15/143323)
- Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Dunedin // The only international travel I made this year was to New Zealand. On a day off in between elopements Harley and I went to Dunedin and found [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/15/collection-of-my)
- Currumbin Foam [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/14/currumbin-foam)
- If you're not onboard with a password manager already, then you're leaving yourself at risk using the same password or password-ish for every website. I mention this because there's a deal right now f [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/14/if-youre-not)
- Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Burnt // Literally hours before rushing back to Queensland before the border closed, I made this photo from one of the regions affected by bushfires at [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/14/135505)
- Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 All of Brighton // Well before @karenfrombrighton3186 did all of Brighton, back on the 5th day of March this year, I was in Melbourne making a photograp [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/14/collection-of-my)
- Palm Beach at high tide this morning, no wonder it’s closed [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/14/palm-beach-at)
- Finally convinced the Apple Silicon (fanless) MacBook Air to heat up. 45 minutes of 4K video render in Final Cut Pro in an Australian summer. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/13/finally-convinced-the)
- I'd like to say that I'm doing this due to popular demand, but the truth is, only 3 people asked. So based on that small cohort I've assumed that everyone would [like to purchase on of my favourite ph [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/13/id-like-to)
- Next month I’m talking at the Wedding Business CEO Summit. But because I can’t be there in person, I recorded it today. Start saving your pennies though, I’ll post about it when there’s tickets availa [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/13/next-month-im)
- Is the @remarkable the best tablet for a wedding celebrant? Here's [my Celebrant Institute review](https://celebrant.institute/celebrancy/the-best-tablet-computer-for-celebrants-is-it-the-remarkable/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/12/is-the-remarkable)
- Best Australian TV ad of 2020 has to be [this banger from BCF](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ISnNg5BCHoo) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/12/best-australian-tv)
- 🌖 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/12/110639)
- [When Melbourne threw the kitchen sink at a coronavirus](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/12/when-melbourne-threw)
- > “They try to get their users to do things that their advertisers want them to do, because that's how you sell advertising” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/11/they-try-to)
- Just Britt and Luna two years ago breastfeeding mid-walk on the Venice Pier as Britt mothers our two month old daughter in Los Angeles as if it’s her twentieth child. You’re a wizard, Britt, I’m so pr [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/11/just-britt-and)
- [the difference between a wedding and an elopement and why that’s important](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/11/the-difference-between)
- There are two types of Australian online stores. The first doesn't ship to PO Boxes and doesn't take American Express. The second is everyone else. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/11/there-are-two)
- [What made Airbnb, Airbnb](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/11/what-made-airbnb)
- I’m pretending like everything is fine, please hold your applause til the end of the performance. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/11/im-pretending-like)
- Palmy Army [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/11/palmy-army)
- Light and cameras explained in the most technical but easily understood way. If you want to actually understand how a camera works, [read this through](https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/11/light-and-cameras)
- I could watch this [YouTube channel all night long](https://youtu.be/lzElVtVBC9w) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/10/i-could-watch)
- Finally mapped out my talk for next month’s wedding business summit, now I just need to find a quiet place to film it [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/10/finally-mapped-out)
- Just received an awkward phone call from someone contracted by a real estate agent, to wish me a Merry Christmas “on behalf of” the agent. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/10/just-received-an)
- I’m forecasting that within 12 months the remaining non-greys will be turned to the grey-side as we embark upon what will be our busiest and most taxing year ever. 2021 sees Britt and I with a newborn [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/10/im-forecasting-that)
- Whatever your wedding photographer is charging you, Luna will beat their packages by 10%. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/09/whatever-your-wedding)
- Nashua [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/09/nashua)
- [If AirPods Max offend you, that is the correct response ... for you](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/09/if-airpods-max)
- and roundabouts [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/09/and-roundabouts)
- 🌸 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/08/213836)
- [Report](https://m.jpost.com/omg/former-israeli-space-security-chief-says-aliens-exist-humanity-not-ready-651405): Humanity not ready for aliens to be ready for humanity to be ready to find out that a [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/08/report-humanity-not)
- In honour of my birthday today, please make a donation in my name to the Human Fund, money for people. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/08/in-honour-of)
- Three weeks into taking a shot on Qoin, an Australian crypto currency launched by Batercard that you can actually use in retail and for services, and although I have not spent money yet, I’ve sold a f [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/08/three-weeks-into)
- The reports of my 39th birthday are greatly exaggerated. I’m actually only 12. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/08/the-reports-of)
- A [story](https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31700049) about an Aussie athelete who posted himself in a crate from the UK to Australia, disappeared from Adelaide after he was charged with conspiracy to [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/07/a-story-about)
- I'd neglected to mention weight/size in my reMarkable 2 review - [so it's been updated](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/06/can-the-remarkable.html). The reMarkable is 18% smaller than the iPad Pro an [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/07/id-neglected-to)
- I’m starting to focus on self portraits [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/07/im-starting-to)
- [Can the reMarkable 2 replace my iPad Pro?](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/06/can-the-remarkable)
- Luna, teaching bubba to swim [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/06/luna-teaching-bubba)
- [Bullish on Airbnb in a post-Covid world](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/06/bullish-on-airbnb)
- This is Maddie and Casey’s elopement, with me creating the [marriage ceremony](https://joshwithers.com.au), photographed by [Bec Zacher Photography](https://beczacher.com) for [The Elopement Collectiv [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/06/this-is-maddie)
- What do I actually do? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/06/what-do-i)
- Looks like a glasshouse ... [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/06/looks-like-a)
- Aircraft doing hard time [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/04/aircraft-doing-hard)
- [Do you think the COVID-19 vaccine should be mandatory?](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/04/do-you-think)
- Feels good to be back, standing outside the Gold Coast Qantas Club with a bunch of other members moments before it opens, as each new person who would imagine the lounge to be open by now, stridently [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/04/feels-good-to)
- Sunset from Mooloolaba to the Glasshouse Mountains [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/04/sunset-from-mooloolaba)
- Ok, it’s competition time, let’s do this. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/03/ok-its-competition)
- The first rule of drone club is don’t take your drone swimming. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/03/the-first-rule)
- Today we find out if my iPad Pro is for sale [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/03/today-we-find)
- [Did you know alcohol is a carcinogen?](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/03/did-you-know)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/02/122117)
- 🥭 ❤️ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/02/110223)
- [On being woke with conspiracy theory](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/02/on-being-woke)
- [What if we banned the comments section of the internet?](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/01/what-if-we)
- [What to do? You can’t argue people out of paranoia.](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/01/what-to-do)
- > 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, n [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/12/01/there-is-a)
- [Start a Ponzi scheme!](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/30/start-a-ponzi)
- 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 minu [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/30/zoom-slaughters-the)
- 🍦❤️🐢 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/30/121327)
- [Pixelmator made my 11 year whale photo look a little bit better, about 10mb better](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/29/pixelmator-made-my)
- [Not all iOS apps are terrible on macOS running Apple Silicon](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/29/not-all-ios)
- 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 i [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/29/im-only-speaking)
- Instagramception #AppleSilicon [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/29/instagramception-applesilicon)
- Stellar little Black Friday deal from Aussie Broadband: 250mbps down and 25 upstream for the price of 100/40 for a few months. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/28/stellar-little-black)
- 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](https://reneweconomy.com.au/tasmania- [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/28/in-a-year)
- [24 hours with a MacBook Air sporting an M1 Apple Silicon chipset](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/28/hours-with-a)
- Brisbane [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/28/brisbane)
- [The 2019 marriage statistics have been released and there’s been a bit of a drop ...](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/27/the-marriage-statistics)
- 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 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/27/if-you-really)
- Takeaway [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/26/takeaway)
- Who’s house? Run’s house! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/26/whos-house-runs)
- 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 b [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/26/this-afternoon-i)
- Parking lot [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/26/parking-lot)
- Heard it on the wire [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/25/heard-it-on)
- As John Gruber said when he linked to [this page of vintage Soviet control rooms](https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/vintage-beauty-soviet-control-rooms/), these would make for some cool Zoom backgrou [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/25/as-john-gruber)
- 🏄♀️ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/25/153328)
- Today’s office: Byron Bay Airport. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/25/todays-office-byron)
- 🌊 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/25/101911)
- [The Gig Economy Is White People Discovering Servants](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/25/the-gig-economy)
- [GUYS! WE’RE FINALLY GETTING ALIENS! In 2020 of course.](https://twitter.com/i/events/1331324252612669440) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/25/guys-were-finally)
- 🌉 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/25/084615)
- Fire on the water, a smoke in the sky [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/25/fire-on-the)
- Someone asked me recently what my personal brand strategy was. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/24/someone-asked-me)
- Instead of calling a parmigiana a parmi or a parma, let’s call it a parmo #worldpeacesolved [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/23/instead-of-calling)
- Sunset over what we call Summer Bay, despite the map saying Palm Beach. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/23/sunset-over-what)
- 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 s [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/23/one-of-my)
- Two daughters and a wife [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/22/two-daughters-and)
- I think the book is about marijuana [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/22/i-think-the)
- [Qarrtsiluni](https://wanderingtravelographer.com/2018/06/17/untranslatable-words-qarrtsiluni/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/22/qarrtsiluni-inuit-v)
- [Privacy and free can’t co-exist online](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/22/privacy-and-free)
- Houseporn [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/21/houseporn)
- Woman, circa 2020 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/20/woman-circa)
- 🐝 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/20/232558)
- Poncho time [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/20/poncho-time)
- Self-portrait [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/20/selfportrait)
- Victorian and South Australian COVID outbreaks have both been linked to problems with security guards at quarantine hotels.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/20/victorian-and-south)
- Apple Photos’ Memories feature is getting a bit desperate when it’s like, “remember that time you crossed the border into NSW?” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/19/apple-photos-memories)
- Tony Damn is my favourite person to receive emails from [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/18/tony-damn-is)
- > To con-vey one's mood
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/17/to-convey-ones)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/17/105346)
- Mullockdown [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/16/mullockdown)
- 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 fig [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/16/are-there-any)
- Happy 100 year birthday, Qantas [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/16/happy-year-birthday)
- 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 fr [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/15/if-you-see)
- Scrolling through our wedding photos and remembered a time when people had pocket computers with physical keyboards ... [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/14/scrolling-through-our)
- This little photo I made two years ago in Burleigh has gone gangbusters on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/1PWhYZ_erME)! Over 10,000 downlaods, and over 1 million views! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/14/this-little-photo)
- Which country do you think this photo was made in? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/14/which-country-do)
- “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. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/14/how-many-fingers)
- [The Macstories macOS Big Sur long read review](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/14/the-macstories-macos)
- Troy: "That's one of my biggest fears." [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/14/troy-thats-one)
- 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. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/14/if-youre-looking)
- Luna’s upgraded to a big girl bed. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/14/lunas-upgraded-to)
- How did salt and pepper take pride of place on our tables from all the seasonings available? Another cruel blow from Big Condiment. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/14/how-did-salt)
- [Why do you want to end the world?](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/13/why-do-you)
- All of Luna’s friends were getting orange phones so Britt and I buckled and got her an orange phone #badparents [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/13/all-of-lunas)
- 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. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/13/im-applying-for)
- When I’m president I’ll make Ted Lasso president. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/13/when-im-president)
- "An assertion of will and personality," much like pro-wrestling. That is the Donald Trump presidency, it's been a pro-wrestling presidency – [@gruber](https://micro.blog/gruber) [on the November 6 epi [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/13/an-assertion-of)
- [3051 drones in a drone show in China!](https://dronedj.com/2020/11/12/the-biggest-and-best-drone-show-youve-seen-yet/) My bet is that by New Years Eve 2025 the Sydney New Years' Eve fireworks will re [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/13/drones-in-a)
- 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. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/13/i-can-confidently)
- Apple's underdogs series is marketing at its best. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/12/apples-underdogs-series)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/12/101636)
- Golden shower [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/11/golden-shower)
- In other audlting news today, Britt and I just fist-pumped on a baby name subject to certain condtions. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/11/in-other-audlting)
- [Luna and Dad’s first shakedown](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/11/dads-first-shakedown)
- 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 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/11/so-who-ever)
- 🌈 Rainbow, where the bow is actually full of rain. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/10/rainbow-where-the)
- 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](https://overcast.fm/+UrmjZwJ5M) to the whole podcast. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/10/gary-vaynerchucks-take)
- 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. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/10/wanna-join-luna)
- There are two things in this world that take no skill, spending other people‘s money, and dismissing an idea. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/10/there-are-two)
- If you were wondering, I'm a massive advocate for colours and emojis in calendars. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/09/if-you-were)
- [Hypocrisy in conservative politics in Australia](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/09/hypocrisy-in-conservative)
- 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. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/09/when-i-grow)
- > “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/09/nothing-is-permanent)
- This is a Warning. Mount Warning. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/09/this-is-a)
- 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. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/09/the-first-issue)
- A power full picture [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/09/a-power-full)
- It’s Luna’s third mango season, or as she calls it, Mangomas. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/08/its-lunas-third)
- When John McCain lost the presidential election to Barack Obama, [he made this humble speech](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Mba8ncBso). Humility is an attractive element of any person, especially [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/08/when-john-mccain)
- Netflix staffer: so, it’s like Netflix, but you don’t get to choose what you watch, it just shows up automatically. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/07/netflix-staffer-so)
- Unknown bride looking person [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/07/unknown-bride-looking)
- > "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 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/07/social-media-encourages)
- When you lose the wings you gave yourself [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/06/when-you-lose)
- [9 hours in Tokyo, November 2019](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/06/hours-in-tokyo)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/06/151850)
- For anyone who thought [fake crowd noise for baseball matches in empty stadiums wasn't a beautiful art](https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/09/05/baseball-fake-crowd-nosie) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/06/for-anyone-who)
- 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 Palaszcz [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/06/trying-to-run)
- As a wedding celebrant, this is my 2020 email template: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/06/as-a-wedding)
- Loch Ness Duck [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/06/loch-ness-duck)
- 🏄 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/05/202407)
- 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. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/05/when-australia-elects)
- Nothing reminds you how much of a gross and disgusting person you are more than your AirPods case. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/05/nothing-reminds-you)
- 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 Stra [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/05/us-news-today)
- 
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/05/125819)
- 6am hustle [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/05/am-hustle)
- 25 week mama [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/05/week-mama)
- Maggie [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/05/maggie)
- [Weirdest story of the US election so far](https://gizmodo.com/republican-politician-who-died-of-covid-19-wins-electio-1845568935) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/05/weirdest-story-of)
- > “There is an awful lot of anger in the world and there is a real need to be creative with it rather than destructive.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/04/there-is-an)
- 🌙 More attitude than a professional wrestler [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/04/more-attitude-than)
- Photo of the current president of the USA on stage. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/04/photo-of-the)
- Mountains aren’t just funny, they are hill areas [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/04/mountains-arent-just)
- 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. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/04/six-years-ago)
- Business idea: Thirdhand bookstores, so your secondhand books can be sold and not just thrown out like you currently are. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/04/business-idea-thirdhand)
- It’s a rare day when you get to love animals and capitalism in the same action [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/04/its-a-rare)
- Life hack: save the money on building a toilet, just pee in the ocean. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/04/life-hack-save)
- 🚣♀️ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/04/075512)
- 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. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/04/when-fox-news)
- >”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 con [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/03/a-crisis-doesnt)
- Beach daze [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/03/beach-daze)
- The next [Apple Event webpage](https://www.apple.com/apple-events/) has an AR Easter egg, tap on the Apple logo in the hero image [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/03/the-next-apple)
- 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 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/03/its-that-time)
- 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. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/02/nerding-out-on)
- 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 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/02/going-through-old)
- 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 buttorfleo [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/02/i-dont-like)
- [Grace](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/01/grace)
- [This is why we will never want to stop travelling](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/11/01/this-is-why)
- [Why did Damon Wayans Jr leave after the pilot of New Girl](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/31/why-did-damon)
- I wanted to see how much the iPhone camera had changed between the iPhone 6 and iPhone 12, so I took the same nine photos with four different iPhones, and [blogged the results](https://joshwithers.blo [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/31/i-wanted-to)
- [Comparing the cameras on iPhones 6, SE, XS, 11, and 12 Pro](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/30/comparing-the-cameras)
- [This really good report from El Pais](https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-and-a-class-how-the-coronavirus-is-spread-through-the-air.html) not only tells you how coronavirus spr [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/30/this-really-good)
- [What was happening just before the 2016 US election?](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/30/what-was-happening)
- [How is it allowable and legal for a political party to text message me blatant lies today?](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/30/how-is-it)
- [I’m a guest on the podcast, Book(ish)](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/29/im-a-guest)
- [The official Josh Withers iPhone 12 Pro review after using one for eight hours.](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/28/the-official-josh)
- Seeing as though I’m not an influencer, I don't get many influencer opportunities, but when I do ... [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/28/seeing-as-though)
- Life hack: sugar. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/28/life-hack-sugar)
- You know you’ve built a great society when every few years the most civic-minded of the society are forced to publicly beg, cheat, lie, and steal to get a job in management and guidance of the society [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/27/you-know-youve)
- The girl is addicted to sparkling water [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/26/the-girl-is)
- There is no perfect twee... [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/26/there-is-no)
- recalcitrant berd [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/26/recalcitrant-berd)
- It’s the most, magical time, of the yearrr [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/25/its-the-most)
- She stops to wave and say hi to bush turkeys. We raised her well. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/25/she-stops-to)
- I see 2020 has a side hustle [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/25/i-see-has)
- On the off chance that there are people that can't make it to your wedding, I stream your wedding with epic video and audio quality, so everyone feels like they're right there ... even though they're [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/25/on-the-off)
- Look at the flowers, look how they shine for you, and everything you do. They were all yellow. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/24/look-at-the)
- Nothing says “you're a weak little nancy boy" like an Instagram ad for some flippin cool gadget that is algorithmically designed to get me to purchase it. Tonight I might have won the battle, but cool [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/24/nothing-says-youre)
- The sun's version of making a grand exit [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/24/the-suns-version)
- It’s really good that one of our local Brisbane wedding venues can host your little footy final this afternoon, Melbourne. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/24/its-really-good)
- What a novel method of podcast promotion. /cc [@podnews](https://micro.blog/podnews) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/23/what-a-novel)
- There’s probably a horror movie at the end of this road [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/23/theres-probably-a)
- 🌙 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/23/103127)
- So energetic [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/23/so-energetic)
- The anthem of Melbourne, 2020. *Melbourne* by [Slowly Slowly](https://youtu.be/HGylTNLM4og) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/22/the-anthem-of)
- [Why have I listened to 400 episodes of ATP?](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/22/why-have-i)
- It's come to my attention that I need to clear something up and I'm so sorry if you have been following me here for the wrong reasons. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/22/its-come-to)
- >”Hyun, if you are living a life that is content my advice is to learn to live inside it, examine it, relish it, and most of all remember it — this extraordinary thing, a happy life:” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/22/hyun-if-you)
- Anyone else struggling getting their head in a good and peaceful place at the moment? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/22/anyone-else-struggling)
- Got troubles? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/22/got-troublessolve-your)
- Highway robbery [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/22/highway-robbery)
- Flag berds [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/21/flag-berds)
- I don’t like to talk politics on here, but what’s with lasagne not being a popular dish anymore? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/21/i-dont-like)
- Rob Bell {[through his podcast](https://overcast.fm/+EA16LurY0)} encouraged me to talk to my friends [about our antennas.](https://overcast.fm/+EA16LurY0) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/21/rob-bell-through)
- Look, I’m not saying anyone should do this, but has anyone considered getting some horses to race around a Melbourne wedding to make it legal? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/21/look-im-not)
- Tree [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/21/tree)
- Mask fashion > mask wearing? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/21/mask-fashion-mask)
- Hey, has anyone pinned the pandemic on the guy who invented QR codes yet? I reckon he might be responsible. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/21/hey-has-anyone)
- The most friction in my life this year is my longing desire to see the sun finally set on 2020, whilst also acknowledging my deep desire to be present today, to be aware of what I am learning as runni [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/21/the-most-friction)
- I think I'm the only person on the Canberra Airport free wifi network right now - I haven’t seen anyone else in the airport - because I just uploaded a 12gb 4K video to Dropbox so quickly that I'm not [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/21/i-think-im)
- Bernt [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/21/bernt)
- 🌄 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/21/000955)
- 🌳 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/20/095642)
- With the decrease in tourists flooding the Australian outback, native Australian beers are being spotted again in the wild #lifefindsaway [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/20/with-the-decrease)
- Well grounded beef [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/19/well-grounded-beef)
- Posting this photo online for the next time there’s an alpaca related scandal and someone searches Alpacagate, or Alpaca Gate, or #alpacagate [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/19/posting-this-photo)
- The greatest shame in my life today is how the Apple Watch hand-washing detection doesn’t detect my hand-washing. How can I convince this little computer that I am cleansed? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/19/the-greatest-shame)
- Today our Luna becomes a two year old and you know what the worst part about it is? That all the cliches are true. They do grow up so fast, they will grow out of it, it does get easier, this too will [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/19/today-is-our)
- Opinionated ‘gulls [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/18/opinionated-gulls)
- “It’s an article of faith in the United States that more speech is better and that the government should regulate it as little as possible” - [The First Amendment in the age of disinformation. By Emil [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/18/its-an-article)
- Today is the first, and I’m guessing probably the last, flight I’ll take from Gold Coast to Canberra on a) a 717, and b) with Qantas. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/18/today-is-the)
- I’m the father of a two year old (well tomorrow I will be) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/18/im-the-father)
- Let's get some real talk happening. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/18/lets-get-some)
- Out of all the books I've read that are not about the 45th president of the United States of America, but are about climate change, [Volcanic Winter](https://www.archwaypublishing.com/en/bookstore/boo [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/18/out-of-all)
- A helmet might seem a bit extreme for cake, but we’re taking no risks after the dancing incident a fortnight ago. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/17/a-helmet-might)
- Politics takes up a lot of our mindshare today. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/17/politics-takes-up)
- You know, over the years, we’ve all made a lot of fun of Melbourne. But I’m pretty keen to experience a [Melbourne cliche sometime again real soon.](https://youtu.be/ap-t46_Sy3A) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/17/you-know-over)
- *Mon, Dec 21, 2020. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrew’s takes the podium* [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/15/mon-dec-victorian)
- 📷 #ADayInTheLife of Luna. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/14/adayinthelife-of-luna)
- Marketing isn’t that hard, you just need to put the right story in front of the right people. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/13/marketing-isnt-that)
- When’s the right age to start pile driving your daughter? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/13/whens-the-right)
- I don't know who needs to hear this, but Rove McManus's actual first name is John. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/13/i-dont-know)
- One year ago today I dressed my daughter like a nerd after visiting Cupertino. I have no regrets. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/12/one-year-ago)
- > Companies collecting data for pubs and restaurants to help them fulfil their contact-tracing duties are harvesting confidential customer information to sell. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/12/companies-collecting-data)
- Marilyn Nonroe [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/11/marilyn-nonroe)
- Hollywood Stunt Driver Show, still the best show at Movie World [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/11/hollywood-stunt-driver)
- A little FYI that we’re going to be socially distanced from contemptible people until scientists do the impossible & develop a vaccine for fools. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/11/a-little-fyi)
- 📷 The Covid lockdowns and restrictions have resulted in far less tourists in Australia so we’ve seen the native Australian blow up animal flocking back to Gold Coast hinterland homes in great numbers [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/11/the-covid-lockdowns)
- 📷 Rearview sunsets [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/11/rearview-sunsets)
- [A guy off a local Facebook Group tried to bash me up at a cafe today](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/10/a-local-palm)
- Study reveals link between internet access coming to people and scepticism of government [- The Economist](https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/10/10/faith-in-government-declines-when-mobile- [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/09/study-reveals-link)
- “Discovering things is clumsy and sporadic, and the results don't at first compare well with the glossy and lauded works of the past. You have to keep reminding yourself that they went through that as [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/09/discovering-things-is)
- I have a memory of seeing someone eat avocado on toast and it being something I couldn’t have. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/09/i-have-a)
- My new favourite iPhone game, [Upspell](https://apps.apple.com/au/app/up-spell-by-up-games/id1531758067) It’s like your own personal 2 minute game of scrabble without a scrabble board, plus you can du [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/08/my-new-favourite)
- On the chance that you were wondering how the different levels of government in Australia worked, in the 19th century all the states we now know as Australia (and for a second there, almost Fiji and N [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/08/on-the-chance)
- “Here’s a deal to a place you can’t fly to right now, but maybe soon, but who knows, look, I don’t know, I’m just in charge of sending emails and convincing people to buy tickets to places, my job is [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/08/heres-a-deal)
- People in an airplane. Circa October 2020. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/07/people-in-an)
- You wouldn’t know she has six stitches under that bandage. She’s back at full speed! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/07/you-wouldnt-know)
- A rather lonely planet [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/05/a-rather-lonely)
- “Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful — be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and prote [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/05/build-a-good)
- There is only one coffee I’ve ever had that I still think about today, and I was served it in [Tokyo](https://www.japanhousela.com/articles/for-the-love-of-coffee/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/05/there-is-only)
- Tiny, Luna’s BFF, isn’t doing so well though. Went in with literally zero symptoms and walked out with antibiotics, a splint, and a bandage around the head. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/04/tiny-lunas-bff)
- Luna’s doing really well today, thanks everyone, and [@cheesemaker](https://micro.blog/cheesemaker) [@maique](https://micro.blog/maique) [@Munish](https://micro.blog/Munish) 💪🏽 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/04/lunas-doing-really)
- Proof of life, and smile [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/04/proof-of-life)
- Due to Withers family government restrictions, dancing is not allowed in the Withers house until further notice. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/03/due-to-withers)
- Just a reminder for Australians that before you go to bed tonight, to change your clocks back to the future, I’m thinking August 2021 personally, it should all be over then. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/03/just-a-reminder)
- Science ... the [microcovid.org](https://www.microcovid.org/) website calculates the risk of you contracting COVID-19. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/10/01/science-the-microcovidorg)
- Oh good, someone’s figured out how to make TikTok worse. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/29/oh-good-someones)
- Autobiographies are just word selfies. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/28/autobiographies-are-just)
- So many of my couples are on their third, fourth, or even fifth wedding plan. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/28/so-many-of)
- [Are we living at the 'hinge of history'?](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200923-the-hinge-of-history-long-termism-and-existential-risk) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/27/are-we-living)
- Conundrum: a confusing and difficult problem [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/27/conundrum-a-confusing)
- Today is March 210th, 2020. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/26/today-is-march)
- Bellicose: demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/26/bellicose-demonstrating-aggression)
- We live in the age of general. Where the average is enough. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/26/we-live-in)
- In the literature underpinning the Christian tradition, the main character of the stories, asks 307 questions. He is asked 183, and he directly answers three. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/25/in-the-literature)
- Hi, I’m Josh. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/25/hi-im-josh)
- iPadOS 14 would be one of the more disappointing released of iPadOS/iOS for iPad. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/25/ipados-would-be)
- New tree mulch from this upstart author/uncle, @markrwriter [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/25/new-tree-mulch)
- Did you know there’s an Australian journalist on the 16th day of his US extradition court case in England at the moment? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/24/did-you-know)
- Relax, just do it [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/24/relax-just-do)
- Anyone else have an issue with the idea that we as a people struggle to do the right thing in a pandemic unless our civil liberties are severely restricted by legislators? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/20/anyone-else-have)
- Did you know the Apple Watch comes preloaded with the last time and date that a free U2 album would’ve been cool instead of a meme. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/19/did-you-know)
- It’s Intermational Talk Like A Pirate Day so make sure when you visit a store, restaurant, cafe, or airport today you talk like a pirate and casually drop that you’ve been sailing through Victorian wa [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/19/its-intermational-talk)
- My hobby is to comment "booo" on anti-progress boomers in local Facebook groups. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/18/my-hobby-is)
- I’m clearly going to Bunnings too much if I’m getting photos of Luna on the same date sitting in a Bunnings trolley. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/17/im-clearly-going)
- > “Transport bosses in Greater Manchester confirmed a snake was not a valid face covering.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/17/transport-bosses-in)
- She thinks we’re playing, I think we’re training, we’re a great team. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/17/she-thinks-were)
- I'm worried that the world doesn't know how much I really don't want my little black pocket computer to randomly start vibrating and making sounds because someone's decided how I should spend the next [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/17/im-worried-that)
- Thought you might need to read this as well if you're making a speech at a wedding [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/16/thought-you-might)
- [The story](http://www.tertangala.net/absolutely-devastated/) of how Air New Zealand tried to sell Ansett to Singapore Airlines or Qantas for just $1. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/16/the-story-of)
- 🐮🐮🐮 #shotoniphone [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/16/shotoniphone)
- > For security reasons, we try to change our Prime Minister every six months, and to never use the same Prime Minister on multiple websites. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/16/for-security-reasons)
- In 20-40 years our kids and grandkids will host COVID-19 lockdown themed weddings and parties and they’ll think it’s so cool. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/16/in-years-our)
- Anyone else getting fat-wrist-shamed by Apple? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/16/anyone-else-getting)
- Day one of being a bike person. Cycling sucks. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/16/day-one-of)
- 🐄📷 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/15/221359)
- >Every year there was a less than 1 per cent chance of experiencing a similar event. "However things can change, so we need to be vigilant," he said.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/15/every-year-there)
- The September of the penguins [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/15/the-september-of)
- The moment Luna knew she wanted to be a Toddler Mutant Ninja Turtle [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/14/the-moment-luna)
- Keith: serious Murwillumbah business [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/14/keith-serious-murwillumbah)
- Luna: “this TV is way better than Mum and Dad’s” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/14/luna-this-tv)
- That's the way it's gonna be, little darlin' [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/14/thats-the-way)
- >Your phone is your castle [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/14/your-phone-is)
- Self portrait at Keith’s [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/14/self-portrait-at)
- Now showing, at the Murwillumbah Cinema. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/14/now-showing-at)
- Culture behind bars [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/13/culture-behind-bars)
- Orange Floyd’s wall [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/13/orange-floyds-wall)
- Calile-lyf [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/13/calilelyf)
- Here it is [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/13/here-it-is)
- The berds are growing in numba [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/13/the-berds-are)
- It’s actually crazy that public policy for resuming work and life in Australia is hinging on an unknown, possibly non-existent, possibly not effective, not tested, Covid vaccine. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/13/its-actually-crazy)
- Outbak Straya [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/12/outbak-straya)
- Burd [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/11/burd)
- I love Luna loves to read [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/11/i-love-luna)
- Burd [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/10/burd)
- 🥃🏡🏔🌅📷 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/09/142413)
- Boat & chopper looking for a Great White Shark that killed a surfer yesterday. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/09/boat-chopper-looking)
- What? I’m just standing here watching my kid sleep and posting photos of it on the internet, [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/08/what-im-just)
- >”Relentlessly prune bullshit, don't wait to do things that matter, and savour the time you have. That's what you do when life is short.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/08/relentlessly-prune-bullshit)
- Semi-intimate is the relationship status everyone wants to be reported as when your semi-boyfriend is caught out after curfew. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/08/semiintimate-is-the)
- Hey, is adding “Really strong gif game” to my resume worthwhile? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/08/hey-is-adding)
- [Scientific American on](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unlimited-information-is-transforming-society/) what it means when we have unlimited access to information. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/08/scientific-american-on)
- Hey world, it’s (pretty much) beach weather, according to [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/07/hey-world-its)
- Dear whitegoods manufacturers, no one on God‘s green earth ever requested a feature where your machine would beep when finished. Please remove the beeps from all whitegoods in the future. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/07/dear-whitegoods-manufacturers)
- I’ve just tonight finished reading Malcolm Gladwell’s book ‘Talking to Strangers” and I’d safely call it one of the most important and helpful books released in 2020. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/06/ive-just-tonight)
- Important Father’s Day topic [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/06/important-fathers-day)
- Doctor Luna [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/06/doctor-luna)
- Of all the things I’ve achieved in my life, all of the places I’ve been, people I’ve met, things I’ve said and done, they are all pale in contrast to being dad. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/05/of-all-the)
- >What everyone wants to belong to is a community but they keep winding up in audiences instead and I think this is the cause of a tremendous amount of suffering right now. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/05/what-everyone-wants)
- You don’t realise how much parenting changes you until after you put your daughter to bed you find yourself standing in front of the TV to find out how this episode of Peter Rabbit ends. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/05/you-dont-realise)
- Saw these guys, far from home, in Darwin, the Young Tigers. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/04/saw-these-guys)
- What if, perchance, we weren’t [all in this together?](https://www.9news.com.au/national/queensland-hotel-quarantine-coronavirus-covid19-pippa-bradshaw-tragedies/e40ea522-3b00-4f70-a2b9-bd7d63824351) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/04/what-if-perchance)
- The reason I'll stay a wedding celebrant as long as they'll have me, despite pandemics and BS, is because of the bizarre and beautiful relationship I have with our couples. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/04/the-reason-ill)
- [What an ad.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=-l61NE0eqkw) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/04/what-an-ad)
- Best karaoke song to sing if you want to establish that you didn't start the proverbial fire, but also, that you’re really knowledgeable about world history? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/04/best-karaoke-song)
- Guy on the flight on Wednesday wore his AirPods like this. Is this a thing? 📷 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/04/guy-on-the)
- Just one guest at today’s wedding 🍻 #victoriabitter [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/03/just-one-guest)
- 📷 Sleeping giant [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/03/sleeping-giant)
- It’s been 183 days since the first postponement email. The longest 183 days of my life. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/02/its-been-days)
- Five Darwin observations: [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/02/five-darwin-observations)
- 📷 Burd [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/02/burd)
- Everyone talks about a Darwin sunset. Charlestown delivered. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/01/everyone-talks-about)
- 📷 I appreciate clear and concise signage as much as the next guy, but ... [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/01/i-appreciate-clear)
- I just read the line in a headline “Oprah’s favourite life coach” and all I want to know is how to remove the taste of vomit from your mouth if you’re not carrying mints. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/01/i-just-read)
- 📷 Florence Falls, NT [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/01/florence-falls-nt)
- Hey can someone just quickly explain literally everything to me. I think I missed something. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/01/hey-can-someone)
- >”The (US) debt isn’t going to be repaid; it’s going to be refunded.” - [Warren Buffett](https://link.medium.com/vIrR7Mgup9) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/09/01/the-us-debt)
- 📷 In the Northern Territory of Australia termites have been exiled from the urban areas and forced to make their own homes in the bush. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/31/in-the-northern)
- I thought I'd take the time to tell you an old story from the first time I ever thought about a wedding, it was actually 25 years ago this month. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/31/i-thought-id)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 31 📷 Love [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/31/august-photo-microblogging)
- Humble brag photo post about travelling somewhere [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/31/humble-brag-photo)
- I don’t think I’ve ever wanted an Android device as much as [this one](https://youtu.be/R1CNwBzYqRs) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/31/i-dont-think)
- So I hire a car from Avis for the night because that’s the easiest and most simple way to get to Brisbane Airport early tomorrow morning, and only $10 more than an Uber and the Airtrain. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/30/so-i-hire)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 30 📷 Discovery [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/30/august-photo-microblogging)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 29 📷 Flake [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/29/august-photo-microblogging)
- “People pay money to see others believe in themselves” — Kim Gordon, Sonic Youth [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/28/people-pay-money)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 28 📷 Emotion(s) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/28/august-photo-microblogging)
- “Out there things can happen [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/27/out-there-things)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 27 📷 Overcome - as the Australian burnt bush fights its way back to green af [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/27/august-photo-microblogging)
- Hey guys I would like to invite you all to join my multi level marketing scheme for beer. If you can convince 10 of your friends to drink beer, and they can convince their 10 of friends to drink beer, [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/26/hey-guys-i)
- If Google was really committed to not being evil, they would remove pre-roll ads on Rick Rolls [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/26/if-google-was)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 25 📷 Relentless [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/26/august-photo-microblogging)
- Fill ‘er up, mate [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/25/fill-er-up)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 25 📷 Hope [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/25/august-photo-microblogging)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 24 📷 Frosty [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/24/august-photo-microblogging)
- This is so awkward, I misunderstood. I’ve been preying for you, not praying for you. I don’t know what I’m going to do with these dead animals. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/24/this-is-so)
- Never forget the day ScoMo became PM [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/24/never-forget-the)
- Anyone else find themselves trying to lead a really exiting life so when the COVID contact tracers release the list of places you’ve been, everyone would think you’re cool? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/23/anyone-else-find)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 23 📷 Graceful [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/23/august-photo-microblogging)
- The year is 2020. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/23/the-year-is)
- Helping my friend [Tatiana Neumuller](https://tatiananeumuller.com) with a new website tonight :) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/22/helping-my-friend)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 22 📷 Home [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/22/august-photo-microblogging)
- The best part about Luna learning the word ‘no’ is that when she says ‘no’ loudly to my face in no way does that trigger any deep-rooted rejection trauma and I’m totally ok with it. Parenting is so ea [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/22/the-best-part)
- A lady has just taken a photo of me and obviously thought I couldn’t hear her speaking. She thought it was beautiful and sad that I was the only person on the whole beach, sitting by myself, reading. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/21/a-lady-has)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 21 📷 Crunch 🦈 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/21/august-photo-microblogging)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 20 📷 Change (of scenery for a day) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/20/august-photo-microblogging)
- Are islands called islands because they “is land”? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/19/are-islands-called)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 19 📷 Ribbon (of islands I just flew over) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/19/august-photo-microblogging)
- Thinking about rejigging all my marketing to just pictures of me shirtless, grinning, holding up fish. It seems to work for guys on Tinder. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/18/thinking-about-rejigging)
- >This wasn’t a collaboration with Bechtel with a contract and payment; it was Apple doing a favour under the table for the Department of Energy. But access for that favour went only so far. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/18/this-wasnt-a)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 18 📷 Grid [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/18/august-photo-microblogging)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 17 📷 Cuddly [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/18/194947)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 16 📷 Stationary [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/16/august-photo-microblogging)
- Nick Cave [on Cancel Culture, and mercy](https://www.theredhandfiles.com/what-is-mercy-for-you/). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/15/nick-cave-on)
- “Cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort” – Clive ‘Papa Roach’ Palmer, looking at Palmer Coolum Resort. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/15/cut-my-life)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 15 📷 Silhouette, from the last time we were in Bali, for our babymoon with L [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/15/august-photo-microblogging)
- What’s the etiquette around putting handcuffs on toddlers? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/15/whats-the-etiquette)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 14 📷 Among [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/18/201402)
- Microsoft Flight Simultor is a 11 months younger than I am as a human, so [this montage is a crazy and fantastic display](https://youtu.be/NZLC5ekNJUY ) of how computing power has changed in my lifeti [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/14/microsoft-flight-simultor)
- Did you know that if you bury a flatearther when they die, they actually pop out the other side of the disc because the earth actually rejects them, like when you get a little splinter in your finger, [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/14/did-you-know)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 14 📷 Among [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/14/083210)
- You wouldn’t know this about me, because I don’t like to boast, but I once stopped eating a tin of Pringles. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/13/you-wouldnt-know)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 13 📷 Filter [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/14/august-photo-microblogging)
- In 2011 Redfoo proclaimed “now stop ... hatin' is bad” in the middle of LMFAO's breathrough banger, Party Rock Anthem, and I can't help but wonder why people still hatin’. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/12/in-redfoo-proclaimed)
- "Very little art arose out of the Spanish flu" a guest on a podcast recently commented. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/12/very-little-art)
- Can we talk about indoctrination? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/12/can-we-talk)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 12 📷 Sound // photo from me operating sound for a jam sesh [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/12/074330)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 12 📷 Sound (love this sound) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/12/august-photo-microblogging)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 11 📷 Transport, take two. I just flw past this on my drone. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/11/172822)
- 📷 The song of the marmoset [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/11/the-song-of)
- The Peggy character in Hamilton is such a Peggy, saying responsible things like “Daddy said to be home by sundown,” reminding the sisters to not go downtown, and just popping in to remind everyone are [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/11/the-peggy-character)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 11 📷 Transport [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/11/august-photo-microblogging)
- “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/11/security-is-mostly)
- How much of our understanding of reality is shaped by algorithmically-curated, ad-funded digital for-profit products? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/10/how-much-of)
- [I thought Scooter was an antisemitic band. They’re not.](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/10/i-thought-scooter)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 10 📷 Windows [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/10/august-photo-microblogging)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 9 📷 Black and white [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/09/210646)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 8 📷 View [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/09/august-photo-microblogging)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 7 📷 Daytripping [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/07/august-photo-microblogging)
- 🚲 Cherub takes up cycling 📷 [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/06/cherub-takes-up)
- [August photo micro-blogging challenge](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) day 6 📷 Bisect (maybe? probably not?) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/06/august-photo-microblogging)
- [Someone’s thoughts on collective responsibilities](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/05/someones-thoughts-on)
- Just got out of the car and for the first time in over a decade I thought about having cigarette. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/05/just-got-out)
- [August photo blogging challenge day 5](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) 📷 Flow [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/05/august-photo-blogging)
- [August photo blogging challenge day 4](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) 📷 Peace (at Coolangatta Beach) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/04/163724)
- [August photo blogging challenge day 3](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) 📷 Bug, but probably not the bug they’re expecting [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/04/august-photo-blogging)
- [Photo blogging challenge late entry for day 2](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) 📷 Floating [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/02/203548)
- Saint Valentine of Rome was martyred on February 14 in AD 269 after he continued marrying people when marriage was banned. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/02/saint-valentine-of)
- [Photo blogging challenge late entry for day 1](https://micro.welltempered.net/2020/07/23/august-photoblogging-challenge.html) 📷 Up [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/08/02/photo-blogging-challenge)
- “But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying. The [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/31/but-of-course)
- Nostalgia wins. [Install Mac OS 8 on your current computer](https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/31/nostalgia-wins-install)
- Everyone's having the great mask debate and I'm over here just dancing by myself. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/31/everyones-having-the)
- Feeling horny but might delete later idk tho [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/30/feeling-horny-but)
- Look, if you’re wondering when to get married, Tuesday the 22nd of February, 2022 is pretty cool, because we’ll call it a Twos Day Wedding. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/30/look-if-youre)
- My local UberEats selection becomes super boring/corporate after 9pm. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/29/my-local-ubereats)
- In case any of you guys wanted to join the illuminati, I've got an in [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/28/in-case-any)
- [The one thing I know for sure](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/27/the-one-thing)
- I feel like a new man after leaving the house to be creative today. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/27/i-feel-like)
- Do people not offended by #cooncheese even buy anything other than supermarket-brand cheese? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/26/do-people-not)
- Get back to me when your daughter has a PLU on your local cafe’s point of sale system. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/25/get-back-to)
- Whenever someone talks about closing the boarder I’m always impressed that so many people are renting out spare bedrooms to people who don’t mind being opened and closed. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/25/whenever-someone-talks)
- Check out our Europe 2020 travel photos! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/25/check-out-our)
- Syncing to the cloud [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/24/syncing-to-the)
- Watching Luna chase a reluctant mum + 2 kids around the public playground hoping that they could all play together is bringing me much joy. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/23/watching-luna-chase)
- Nice flex, Qantas [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/22/nice-flex-qantas)
- Britt and I argue over getting news and information from Instagram or memes, and this is my argument, as written by Terence. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/20/britt-and-i)
- Luna upon seeing a polar bear IRL. I think it might’ve been a nicer experience if the polar bear was in the wild and we were running for our lives, but here we are folks. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/20/luna-upon-seeing)
- I was tracking flights for January for a wedding I have/had booked in Orlando. I think it just got a little more expensive/impossible. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/20/i-was-tracking)
- Luna us leaving home and moving to Sea World [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/20/luna-us-leaving)
- To save you the awkward work of calling your dentist asking if you can pay with exposure, [let Ryan Jon do it](https://youtu.be/yBS4n5NqQdg) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/19/to-save-you)
- Now taking applications for people wanting to join my Mindful Clown Posse. We meet on Tuesdays at 6am for chai tea. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/19/now-taking-applications)
- Breaking: Yacht club memberships are rising suddenly in Victoria as the premier rules masts to be compulsory for all Victorians [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/19/breaking-yacht-club)
- A music video ["filmed"](https://youtu.be/uDE5ygucFyY) all in a screen recording on a Mac, pretty cool! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/19/a-music-video)
- That feeling when you’ve done all of Brighton. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/19/that-feeling-when)
- What’s everyone’s thoughts on forewords and introductions in books? If they were supposed to be part of the book they’d be chapter one, right? Am I a bad person for skipping them? Am I missing out? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/18/whats-everyones-thoughts)
- The lockdowns will continue until morale improves [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/18/the-lockdowns-will)
- The new FlyerKeeper initiative is a winner, thanks ScoMo ✈️ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/18/the-new-flyerkeeper)
- 150 people at a wedding in NSW, but, everyone seated, no mingling, no singing, no dancing. Make sure you invite Kevin Bacon to your wedding. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/17/people-at-a)
- I’m no psychologist but I’m willing to bet that the elderly man driving his 1970s Mercedes Benz with the windows down through the streets of Palm Beach loudly blaring Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls is havi [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/17/im-no-psychologist)
- "In Iceland, we are lucky enough to have vast open spaces and beautiful nature that is the perfect place to let out frustrations, we feel this is just what the world needs.” says Sigríður Dögg Guðmund [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/17/in-iceland-we)
- Them’s fightin words [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/16/thems-fightin-words)
- She learned how to toilet from me, by sitting there reading for half an hour. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/16/she-learned-how)
- “New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual (if he wants it, and almost everybody wants o [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/15/new-york-blends)
- Anyone else in the “out before midnight closing the three rings club?” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/15/anyone-else-in)
- The biggest giveaway that my only military service was a school term of Army Cadets is when I need to use phonetic letters on a phone call. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/15/the-biggest-giveaway)
- Qantas's last 747 on it's Farewell flight past Surfers Paradise this morning. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/15/qantass-last-on)
- Get the down-low on The Virtual Wedding Fair this weekend by listening to my podcast, [The Rebels’ Guide To Getting Married](https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-rebels-guide-to-getting-married-a [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/14/get-the-downlow)
- I’m always asked if I can tell whether a couple will ‘make it.’ [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/14/im-always-asked)
- Most Australian's don't even know that Nelly and Kelly Rowlands' 2002 hit 'Dilemma' is about how Kelly was with 2020 but all she could think about was 2019. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/14/most-australians-dont)
- [Those small business vibes are real](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/business/small-businesses-coronavirus.html). Every day I fantasise about working for some big corporation who doesn’t know who [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/14/those-small-business)
- One of the hardest things about living in Queensland is that through the depths of winter you often walk outside in shirt, shorts, and thongs, and you’ll think to yourself “it’s a bit cold, I should o [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/14/one-of-the)
- My inbox is a wonderland, by Josh Mayer. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/13/my-inbox-is)
- Hey, just a question from the audience.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/13/hey-just-a)
- [Please come to my comedy show](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/13/please-come-to)
- Luna is upset that I cut an apple up, and she’s now trying to mend the apple by holding it all together, while calling for her mumma. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/13/luna-is-upset)
- I’ve been trialling the news iOS 14 Back Tap feature and every single activation has been accidental, and any intentional activations fail. So I’m turning it off. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/12/ive-been-trialling)
- I know I've been a whinge guy about COVID lockdowns, and that's because financially and in our business we've had a rough time with it. But [reading](https://www.businessinsider.com.au/ohio-man-vetera [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/12/i-know-ive)
- My iPhone buzzes me, alerting me of some photos it’s curated into a cool album named “Celebrate Good Times”, so I excitedly tap the notification excitedly and it shows me a blank photo album. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/12/my-iphone-buzzes)
- For those of us worried our phones are listening, the next version of iOS due out in a few months let’s you know in Control Centre exactly which apps are listening, or have been. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/12/for-those-of)
- Boat people found [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/12/boat-people-found)
- I'm very good friends with 25 letters of the alphabet, I don't know y. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/12/im-very-good)
- I've been making websites on php based content management systems for over 20 years, mostly Wordpress for the last 17, so I'm struggling to understand JAMstack. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/11/ive-been-making)
- Hey, has anyone made a ‘Victoria - Garden State’ into ‘Victoria - Basket State’ joke yet? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/11/hey-has-anyone)
- Is this the future of the media? [Hot topic opinion pieces by people who don’t exist](https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wing-media-outlets-duped-by-a-middle-east-propaganda-campaign). [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/11/is-this-the)
- Anyone else in beta club? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/10/anyone-else-in)
- It feels really nice and normal to hear flights back into Gold Cost Airport this afternoon. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/10/it-feels-really)
- There's a new episode of my podcast out, and honestly, I'm pretty bloody proud of it. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/10/theres-a-new)
- What is a Virtual Wedding Fair? Here’s a snippet of the most recent Rebels Guide To Getting Married talking about it. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/09/what-is-a)
- Good news everybody, the people in charge of time have decided to [not make 2020 one second longer than it has to be](https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.60). That's the kind of leadership [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/09/good-news-everybody)
- [Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer, a Podcast by Rob Bell](https://robbell.podbean.com/e/hazor-megiddo-and-gezer/) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/09/hazor-megiddo-and)
- I think it’s time someone called 7-Eleven on their shit. They are open way outside those hours. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/08/i-think-its)
- The real cost of the travel restrictions is in my sunglasses acquisition and ownership strategy, [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/08/the-real-cost)
- If I’ve got to wear a mask, I might as well look good [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/07/if-ive-got)
- Be warned that despite the name, the Disney+ production ‘Hamilton’ has absolutely nothing to do with the Whitsundays island, and instead seems to be about a man who literally published a book about hi [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/06/be-warned-that)
- Is this an Alan Jones advertisement or a reportage of a sad story about Alan Jones? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/06/is-this-an)
- Channel 7 announces it’s glad that Pauline Hanson will be more available for Sunrise now that the Today Show has finally let go of her. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/06/channel-announces-its)
- The border township of Albury–Wodonga is set to become the duelling towns of Albury versus Wodonga as the border closes tomorrow! [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/06/the-border-township)
- [I've been pwned, and my password used to be becool88](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/05/ive-been-pwned)
- America, just think of Kanye West as your rebound president. You don't need to love your next president, you just need to spend some time with someone else for a while so you can learn to love yoursel [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/05/america-just-think)
- I, for one, welcome our new Yeezy overlords. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/05/i-for-one)
- How do you break it to your mother-in-law that you eloped in secret? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/05/how-do-you)
- If any out of state friends need to get into Queensland to watch an AFL match, or to witness affordable house prices, my cartel is taking expressions of interest in a tunnel. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/04/if-any-out)
- The year is 2020 and Victorians being smuggled into Queensland is a concern [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/04/the-year-is)
- [A change of format to The Rebels Guide To Getting Married](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/03/a-change-of)
- "'Right,' she nods—because there really isn't a great way to try to respond to an older, popular male talk show host telling you that all men have sexual thoughts about underage girls." - [Elle Magazi [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/03/right-she-nodsbecause)
- Because Victoria can't control it's Rona, Queensland, hilariously, is now the 'Home of the AFL'.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/03/because-victoria-cant)
- Weren’t the eighties a different time. Could you imagine The J. Biebers Band releasing a song today about how Justin’s found his high school crush on the front page of Pornhub. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/03/werent-the-eighties)
- Having never attended an orgy, and not being educated on orgy culture, is The Beatles’ Come Together an anthem for orgies or is it too obvious an inclusion so dumped from the orgy playlist? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/03/having-never-attended)
- Nothing grounds you more than an email from a potential client apologising for a delay to an email because "this week is a chemo week" [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/01/nothing-grounds-you)
- Made the news today [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/01/made-the-news)
- [Apple’s Beats 1 radio station launched five years ago today](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/07/01/apples-beats-radio)
- In case anyone asks, I'm listing all of you as deductions on my tax return this year.
[link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/30/in-case-anyone)
- Name a better Wiggles song than The Wonder Of Wiggle Town. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/30/name-a-better)
- I feel like I’m going through a break-up with the best-laid plans of mice and men. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/28/i-feel-like)
- Hello? Is that the police? I’d like to report a group of people youthing outside my home. It’s past my bedtime and they’re just out there being youth. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/26/hello-is-that)
- If it’s good enough for the finance bros, it’s good enough for me, I’m starting a new year on July 1. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/26/if-its-good)
- Just remember guys, we're all in this together, except Victoria. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/26/just-remember-guys)
- Not many people know this about me, but I’m not an astronaut. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/25/not-many-people)
- An email from @Walgreens and @Channel9 about an @abcnews report on @BillGates and @richardbranson investing in #Bitcoin was plausible until I realised the ABC can’t afford this kind of investigative [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/25/an-email-from)
- I hope there’s someone still employed in media to do one of those cool end of year wrap up videos to enjoy as we all drink ourselves into oblivion on the evening of December 31st, 2020. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/25/i-hope-theres)
- I don’t talk about this much, but I used to be married to the idea of sleeping past 7am. Now that I’m a dad, and because Britt wanted us to be exclusive, we had to divorce, but I really do miss sleepi [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/24/i-dont-talk)
- I think the girl walking ahead of me is in real trouble. It smells like she’s drowning. Drowning in perfume. She may be on the way to buy more perfume. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/24/i-think-the)
- Nestle, why not just rename Chicos to ‘Small Dark Skinned Children Lollie That Has A Racist Undertone’. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/24/nestle-why-not)
- Luna’s all about new apple products this week [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/24/lunas-all-about)
- Things you never think you'll say to your child: "Do you want to wear a hat while you do a poo?" [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/24/things-you-never)
- [Full access?! Thanks, Emily](https://youtu.be/pAOjDXdiUzM) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/24/full-access-thanks)
- I feel like a lot of the opinion on lockdowns is coming from people who's businesses and incomes haven't actually really been affected. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/24/i-feel-like)
- When COVID-19 took the stage, the Australian government/s simply wanted to flatten the curve, so we shutdown society and put people out of work. Today the curve has flattened, they’re talking about wa [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/24/when-covid-took)
- Some people think the Hackintosh is dead after today’s Apple announcement about moving to Apple Silicon. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/23/some-people-think)
- Luna & I are walking through a local shopping centre when she points at a girl & loudly proclaims “Mumma!” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/23/luna-i-are)
- Has anyone considered how the Flight Centre captain is doing through all this? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/23/has-anyone-considered)
- [With their tanks, and their bombs, and their guns, and their drones, in your head, in your head, they are dyin’](https://youtu.be/9XaS93WMRQQ) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/23/with-their-tanks)
- [A cop keeping mandatory social distancing rules finds a house flouting the law.](https://vimeo.com/429453494) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/23/a-cop-keeping)
- Melbourne during COVID-19 or the Melbourne Zombie Shuffle? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/23/melbourne-during-covid)
- Only Apple would, and could, run an advertisement encouraging me to watch a keynote presentation at 3am. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/22/only-apple-would)
- Remember that time that K-Pop Twitter and Alt TikTok worked together to make the President of the USA look like a fool? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/21/remember-that-time)
- If Donald Trump is campaining to make America great again, is that hinting that he didn’t succeed the first time round? [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/21/if-donald-trump)
- > “From schools to workplaces, we are told that ordinary negative emotions and experiences—fear of failure, or sadness over a breakup, maybe—should be treated or eliminated. Feeling bad is bad.” [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/21/from-schools-to)
- You won’t see [this](https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/06/conspiracy-mainstream-media-trump-farage-journalism/612628/) covered by the mainstream media [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/20/you-wont-see)
- [Day one running Windows 10 on a 16](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/20/day-one-running)
- Turns out I'm a rockstar. I just started riffing on a song about puppies today, the lyrics simply being the word "puppies" repeated over and over and Luna danced along. Please contact Britt for any gi [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/20/turns-out-im)
- Audio tweets you say. It's almost like this isn't the first time that Twitter has had that Odeo'ea. [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/18/audio-tweets-you)
- Amish on [holiday](https://dinalitovsky.com/Personal-Projects/WHERE-THE-AMISH-VACATION/thumbs) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/17/amish-on-holiday)
- [I don't want to be 'that COVID-19 guy', but ...](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/17/i-dont-want)
- This is amazing, someone has recreated online one of my favourite things to do, [drive through cities listening to the local radio](https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com) [link](https://joshwithers.blog/2020/06/17/appl)
- People: Mainstream media