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I got a new lens for my old camera. @martinfeld made me do it.
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My Australian Census is complete. A lot easier doing it online compared to when we used to fill in paper forms like animals.
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I’ve never worked with another person who knows Markdown. Is it too much to ask? I despise having to put shit into a Word document.
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It’s that time of my podcast app subscription cycle where I see if Apple Podcasts is good enough for me this year. The answer will likely be no.
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Am I the only one who sees the new Siri icon and thinks it should be the badge of some random Chinese car manufacturer?
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I’ve lived here a while now and this bank of light switches remains a guessing game every time.
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I signed up to Glass again.
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My son and I went to Dwellingup Tree Top Rope Climb Adventures . Huge fun. Perfect gloomy weather but without rain, kept others away. So we had plenty of space to enjoy the zip lines and climbs. I pushed myself at the end doing a hard circuit. The fatigue really kicked in the for the old man!
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I did not have high hopes for Cape Fear on Apple TV+. I was wrong. The cinematography is next level. Music is great. Dramatic tension feels old timey and yet modern. I’m a fan. 📺
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I’ve been getting into The Brain again. I’m currently liking it more than Obsidian for my work notes. I like that relationships become more visible and tangible.
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I thought my 2019 iMac was a dust gathering paperweight. Turns out, with the price of RAM, it’s 32 GB RAM upgrade might actually be my retirement nest egg.
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WWDC26: The macOS apology tour.
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Perth by night. 📷
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I was mighty impressed with Your Friends & Neighbours committing fully to the set dressing. She wasn’t writing her book in Pages, as we so often see. She was writing it in Scrivener, and she even had a full sidebar. I had to stop and take a photo. 📺
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Have a Fucking Website - Other Strangeness — merritt k : if you are a business or an individual artist or creator, have a fucking website. “But-” fuck you, have a fucking website. Couldn’t have said it better myself. Link discovered via Flamed Fury .
The AI Hype Bubble
When the AI hype bubble bursts, a lot of people (myself included via my superannuation fund) are going to get burnt. I find using an LLM useful at the margins; I’m glad I’m not working in a company or industry that has a belief it is the great messiah - only to find out the costs are blowing out… I do love how Ed Zitron writes about this stuff in his latest piece, AI…
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The Hemispheric Views June-boree Challenge is up and away! It’s not too late to join in and have some fun with us. Prizes and global fame awaits!
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Watched: The Mandalorian and Grogu 🍿I took my teenager to see this. It was good if considered an extended TV episode. I think Jeremy Allen White was a miscast; his voice didn’t work for me in the role of Rotta.
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I held a silver medal from Tokyo 2020 Olympics. It was heavy.
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Currently reading: Gravity Let Me Go - A Novel by Trent Dalton 📚
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Currently reading: Raising Good Humans A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids by Hunter Clarke-Fields 📚
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My son’s First Holy Communion.
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Australian interest rates up another 0.25%. Thanks in large part to the Orange one. The portion of Australians who own a mortgage doing the heavy lifting once again.
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Watched: The Outfit 🍿 Would have been better as a stage play.