Hi! My name is Josh and this is my personal blog, my web log.

The dance of pleasing the social media algorithims of the world’s biggest companies, whilst being beat to death by strangers with their comments displeased me so now I’m here.

I wish I were the kind of person who could just live without broadcasting. But there’s an animal inside me — right down in the marrow — that keeps asking ‘can you see me?’ and silence has never once soothed it.

  • Not so gold, Coast

  • 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 this hill. Burn me at the stake for employing empathy please.

  • 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.

  • 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-streamed on Bantr.

  • Some personal news, I’ve been photographing and filming construction projects for Zero 9 Construction and I’m getting addicted.

  • “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 special promotional rate. As you contemplate it, the video begins to play in a muted spasm. This throws a scrim of gray over the rest of the page, making it impossible to read.

    Before you can deal with any of this, you’ll need to close this subscription box. You can achieve this by clicking either a tiny “x” or a passive-aggressive statement like “No, I don’t want great articles.” But while you’ve been triaging a second small video player has floated up into the middle left of the screen. A sedan silently snakes along a road hewn into a mountain and forces itself into your consciousness. It switches to a video of the Mets’ new manager, which you do not really want. Also, you now have to close a new rectangular ad at the bottom of the screen, advertising the same subscription offer as the first pop-up box.”

    – David Roth

  • "Life should be a marvel, not a habit."

  • Damn, I’ve only got Diners Card.

  • 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.

  • 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 the time, which is its only job really.

  • Doing my part for the Gold Coast rumour mill today by creating and sharing this

  • Have you noticed a rise in Facebook posts asking questions?

  • Luna // under the bed // showing off her “baby belly”

  • If you're interested in taking better photos, this is a great starting piece to read and be inspired by.

  • Author Anne Lamott on imperfection:

    "Almost everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, scared, and yet designed for joy. Even (or especially) people who seem to have it more or less together are more like the rest of us than you would believe. I try not to compare my insides to their outsides, because this makes me much worse than I already am, and if I get to know them, they turn out to have plenty of irritability and shadow of their own. Besides, those few people who aren’t a mess are probably good for about twenty minutes of dinner conversation.

    This is good news, that almost everyone is petty, narcissistic, secretly insecure, and in it for themselves, because a few of the funny ones may actually long to be friends with you and me. They can be real with us, the greatest relief. As we develop love, appreciation, and forgiveness for others over time, we may accidentally develop those things toward ourselves, too."

  • Not-so-main distribution frame

  • Burleigh Heads: a bin chicken story

  • 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.

    Welcome to my Ted Talk.

  • 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?

  • Bridal table > guest tables > the kids table > the wedding vendor’s table

  • Me: time to edit this video Siri: this could go one of two ways

  • Why haven’t there been more waxed/vaxxed puns? Are all of you in Big Pun’s pockets? Are you just anti-waxxers?

  • Negative 5G

  • Mt Coonowrin + Mt Beerwah, from Mt Ngungun

  • Mt Ngungun at sunset yesterday for an elopement

  • 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 attainable, in the middle of the whole situation in Melbourne?

  • “We’ll never go to war”

  • When one of the Ted Lasso writers is a comedian and a parent

  • Social media: mentally toxic. Social proximity: physically toxic. Being alone: emotionally toxic. Mainstream media: intellectually toxic.

    We’re all going to need a bit of a detox after this. Whatever this is and however or whenever it ends.

  • Found my six month old sucking on my thong (flip flop). My father of the year trophy is now in question.

  • 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, they’re back! #longlivetheroadmap

  • Global platitude supplies are reaching an all time low. At this rate we’ll be completely out of platitudes by Christmas 2021.

  • My favourite people are the people who look at protestors and see hurting people.

  • Instagram 2011: Let’s make that shitty iPhone photo look acceptable.

    Instagram 2021: Girls dancing whilst hard truths appear on screen in captions that aren’t related to the song or the dance.

  • 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 dance along at the 2015 Bathurst 1000 V8 Supercars.

  • 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?

  • So disappointing, we were only three submarines away from unlocking our own Statue of Liberty achievement for Rundle Mall.

    Malls Balls 4eva.

  • 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?

  • 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

  • Go be amazing

  • Instagram internal research: ‘We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls’

  • There’s something about bolting 35 year old lens onto a brand new image sensor that feels cool

  • I think the wedding industry is changing. My first 2023 wedding booking is for a lunchtime wedding on a Monday in May.

  • The mighty bin chicken

  • I ❤️ Russel #swell2021

  • 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 good rumour though.

  • Merry king of the bush is he

  • The Gothamist: Why We United After 9/11—But Less So For COVID?

    “Unity needs division”