mjd: Nobody does lockdown like #AU. Though when I were a lad it was called "Saturday afternoon". Locked down at Nana and Pop's art deco house with Adora Cream Wafers, Arnott's Savoury Shapes, and shag pile carpeting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pPcGyBEUjc
mjd's status on Tuesday, 28-Apr-2020 07:10:02 EDT
Nobody does lockdown like #AU. Though when I were a lad it was called "Saturday afternoon". Locked down at Nana and Pop's art deco house with Adora Cream Wafers, Arnott's Savoury Shapes, and shag pile carpeting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pPcGyBEUjc
mjd: Urban foxes are great (keep your #cats indoors at night), but they're no kangaroos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF59Q69posY #AU #lockdown
mjd's status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2020 22:26:45 EDT
Urban foxes are great (keep your #cats indoors at night), but they're no kangaroos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF59Q69posY #AU #lockdown
mjd: Brittanica? Sheer luxury! When I were a lad, before I stopped bothering with homework altogether, I used my mother's old sets of encyclopedia from the 1950's. There was one 8-volume set of world encyclopedia, and a 3-volume encyclopedia of Australia. Sri Lanka was called Ceylon, the sun never set on the Empire/Commonwealth, there was this awfully interesting new social system https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/87902
mjd's status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2020 07:14:08 EDT
Brittanica? Sheer luxury! When I were a lad, before I stopped bothering with homework altogether, I used my mother's old sets of encyclopedia from the 1950's. There was one 8-volume set of world encyclopedia, and a 3-volume encyclopedia of Australia. Sri Lanka was called Ceylon, the sun never set on the Empire/Commonwealth, there was this awfully interesting new social system…
mjd: F-bomb Freddy, at the other end of the landing, is in fine voice today. Nothing serves so well as a reminder that one lives in #AU as someone farking saying farking farking all the farking time.
mjd's status on Monday, 17-Feb-2020 00:48:10 EST
F-bomb Freddy, at the other end of the landing, is in fine voice today. Nothing serves so well as a reminder that one lives in #AU as someone farking saying farking farking all the farking time.
mjd: @tregeagle I love a bit of scaffolding. When I came of age, striped-shirt suspender-wearing yuppies were tearing down lovely old buildings all over #Sydney. Then suddenly the entrepreneurs were all in countries without extradition treaties with #AU, and their holes in the ground surrounded by scaffolding became permanent fixtures. Last I saw the holes were all replaced by App https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/86268
mjd's status on Monday, 10-Feb-2020 05:14:50 EST
@tregeagle I love a bit of scaffolding. When I came of age, striped-shirt suspender-wearing yuppies were tearing down lovely old buildings all over #Sydney. Then suddenly the entrepreneurs were all in countries without extradition treaties with #AU, and their holes in the ground surrounded by scaffolding became permanent fixtures. Last I saw the holes were all replaced by App…
mjd: The Cashless Welfare Card: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RZSTx9khWw #AU
mjd's status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2019 03:45:19 EST
The Cashless Welfare Card: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RZSTx9khWw #AU
mjd: @tregeagle @rpcutts I've relatives in Newcastle, apparently. My father was born there because apparently my grandmother thought moving from #AU to an industrial town within spitting distance of the channel was a sensible thing to do during the war. Some shrewd decision-makers in my family, myself among them in my own small way.
mjd's status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2019 08:12:14 EDT
@tregeagle @rpcutts I've relatives in Newcastle, apparently. My father was born there because apparently my grandmother thought moving from #AU to an industrial town within spitting distance of the channel was a sensible thing to do during the war. Some shrewd decision-makers in my family, myself among them in my own small way.
mjd: #OMGA, this is all kinds of sexy. Bear in mind that, this being #AU, these photos were all taken in the last year or two. All these machines are humming along thanks to #NBN broadband. https://boingboing.net/2019/10/16/men-in-shorts-operating-comput.html
mjd's status on Friday, 18-Oct-2019 22:30:02 EDT
#OMGA, this is all kinds of sexy. Bear in mind that, this being #AU, these photos were all taken in the last year or two. All these machines are humming along thanks to #NBN broadband. https://boingboing.net/2019/10/16/men-in-shorts-operating-comput.html
mjd: "Only Cask Wine From The Goon Region Allowed to Be Called Goon" https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/31256 #AU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goon_of_Fortune
mjd's status on Monday, 14-Oct-2019 02:04:46 EDT
"Only Cask Wine From The Goon Region Allowed to Be Called Goon" https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/31256 #AU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goon_of_Fortune
mjd: I used my mum's typewriter to write BASIC programs (I can't handwrite in monospace, so it never looked right otherwise) that I would then enter into the school computers at lunchtimes, so I used shift lock a lot. Ironically, this was on a Microbee, the #AU designed pre-PC micro which - uniquely for the time, I think - had proper lowercase characters due to an 8x16px character https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/80595
mjd's status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 23:09:22 EDT
I used my mum's typewriter to write BASIC programs (I can't handwrite in monospace, so it never looked right otherwise) that I would then enter into the school computers at lunchtimes, so I used shift lock a lot. Ironically, this was on a Microbee, the #AU designed pre-PC micro which - uniquely for the time, I think - had proper lowercase characters due to an 8x16px character…
mjd: 'Bag-in-a-box packaging was used in America in 1955 to transport battery acid. Australian wine-makers were the first to grasp its potential as a wine container.' Makes ya proud. [Slurp] Hmm… Battery acid. Yes, I'm getting notes of that. And a refreshingly abrasive mouthfeel, followed by an invigorating involuntary shudder, and a finish which puts me in mind of that charming https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/78814
mjd's status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 06:01:33 EDT
'Bag-in-a-box packaging was used in America in 1955 to transport battery acid. Australian wine-makers were the first to grasp its potential as a wine container.' Makes ya proud. [Slurp] Hmm… Battery acid. Yes, I'm getting notes of that. And a refreshingly abrasive mouthfeel, followed by an invigorating involuntary shudder, and a finish which puts me in mind of that charming…
mjd: Ladies and gentlemen, #Queensland: #AU's #Florida. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/28040
mjd's status on Wednesday, 03-Jul-2019 04:39:58 EDT
Ladies and gentlemen, #Queensland: #AU's #Florida. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/28040
mjd: Sorry, I don't understand. 30℃ is the temperature #AU trains are heated to in winter, so that we can all continue to enjoy the toxic cocktail of fumes from soap, shampoo, deodorant, after shave, perfume, etc. to its fullest extent. It certainly makes the morning walk to the station along the trail of rancid slime dripped out of the garbage truck seem mild by comparison. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/27953
mjd's status on Monday, 01-Jul-2019 07:37:33 EDT
Sorry, I don't understand. 30℃ is the temperature #AU trains are heated to in winter, so that we can all continue to enjoy the toxic cocktail of fumes from soap, shampoo, deodorant, after shave, perfume, etc. to its fullest extent. It certainly makes the morning walk to the station along the trail of rancid slime dripped out of the garbage truck seem mild by comparison. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/27953
mjd: @dick_turpin @andyc Indeed. As the child of loyal children of the Empire (I did my primary school projects from my mother's old 1950s encyclopedia, in which half the globe was indeed pink), you should hear me trying to do an authentic #AU accent. It's like the massed Bruces of the Philosophy Depaaaatment of the University of Woolloomooloo. #Python https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkZjhljJhOw
mjd's status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2019 04:32:35 EDT
@dick_turpin @andyc Indeed. As the child of loyal children of the Empire (I did my primary school projects from my mother's old 1950s encyclopedia, in which half the globe was indeed pink), you should hear me trying to do an authentic #AU accent. It's like the massed Bruces of the Philosophy Depaaaatment of the University of Woolloomooloo. #Python https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkZjhljJhOw
mjd: @tregeagle #AU comedian Anthony Morgan. Made a lot of money one year, then it went off the rails. Very funny, but pre-Internet, so nobody knows him apart from old farts like me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z97zo8FKJ_8 https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/26231
mjd's status on Saturday, 11-May-2019 04:06:16 EDT
@tregeagle #AU comedian Anthony Morgan. Made a lot of money one year, then it went off the rails. Very funny, but pre-Internet, so nobody knows him apart from old farts like me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z97zo8FKJ_8 <a href="https://www.heraldsun.com.au/remote/check_cookie.html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.heraldsun.com.au%2Fentertainment%2Fcomedy-festival%2Ffunnyman-anthony-morgan-back-in-the-comedy-saddle%2Fnews-story%2F6c030a3c1955533a5c6f49ac6f163311" title="https://www.heraldsun.com.au/remote/check_cookie.html?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.heraldsun.com.au%2fentertainment%2fcomedy-festival%2ffunnyman-anthony-morgan-back-in-the-comedy-saddle%2fnews-story%2f6c030a3c1955533a5c6f49ac6f163311" class="attachment" rel="nofollow">https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/26231
mjd: I love a good remaindered bookshop. Used to be able to get great stuff that was never even published in #AU for the price of a couple of newspapers, because it came over in a container from the #UK.
mjd's status on Wednesday, 08-May-2019 02:39:47 EDT
I love a good remaindered bookshop. Used to be able to get great stuff that was never even published in #AU for the price of a couple of newspapers, because it came over in a container from the #UK.
mjd: Could not design a library like this in #AU. That much sunlight would mean covers bleaching, glue crumbling, books falling to pieces. Not to mention an astronomical air conditioning bill. https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/one-of-my-favourite-libraries/
mjd's status on Friday, 19-Apr-2019 00:41:39 EDT
Could not design a library like this in #AU. That much sunlight would mean covers bleaching, glue crumbling, books falling to pieces. Not to mention an astronomical air conditioning bill. https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/one-of-my-favourite-libraries/
mjd: @tregeagle If you can think of a better way to monitor a bloke's Vegemite and tomato sauce levels in later life, I'd love to hear it. #AU
mjd's status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2019 01:07:24 EDT
@tregeagle If you can think of a better way to monitor a bloke's Vegemite and tomato sauce levels in later life, I'd love to hear it. #AU
mjd: #OMGA. It looks like a Blue Peter competition entry, and not a winning one. Perhaps it's all an anti-forgery strategy. No self-respecting forger would want to create something so hideous. https://www.rba.gov.au/media-releases/2019/mr-19-02.html #AU
mjd's status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2019 06:09:54 EDT
#OMGA. It looks like a Blue Peter competition entry, and not a winning one. Perhaps it's all an anti-forgery strategy. No self-respecting forger would want to create something so hideous. https://www.rba.gov.au/media-releases/2019/mr-19-02.html #AU
mjd: In 1945, "Nugget" Coombes prepared a White Paper of Full Employment for the #AU gov. (Britain had a similar document): "In the worst period of the depression well over 25 per cent were left in unproductive idleness. By contrast, during the war no financial or other obstacles have been allowed to prevent the need for extra production being satisfied to the limit of our resourc https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/59751
mjd's status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2019 23:46:08 EDT
In 1945, "Nugget" Coombes prepared a White Paper of Full Employment for the #AU gov. (Britain had a similar document): "In the worst period of the depression well over 25 per cent were left in unproductive idleness. By contrast, during the war no financial or other obstacles have been allowed to prevent the need for extra production being satisfied to the limit of our resourc…
mjd: Honestly, bigotry is the only socially safe attitude in #AU, outside of a scant few middle class enclaves. You can be as publicly bigoted as you like, secure in the knowledge that anybody who disagrees with you will most likely bite their tongue for the sake of a quiet life. I'm a closet cosmopolitan; I wouldn't feel comfortable admitting to it to any but my closest friends. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/58302
mjd's status on Friday, 15-Mar-2019 05:11:14 EDT
Honestly, bigotry is the only socially safe attitude in #AU, outside of a scant few middle class enclaves. You can be as publicly bigoted as you like, secure in the knowledge that anybody who disagrees with you will most likely bite their tongue for the sake of a quiet life. I'm a closet cosmopolitan; I wouldn't feel comfortable admitting to it to any but my closest friends. …
mjd: Oh. Here we go. Makes ya proud. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/23997 #AU
mjd's status on Friday, 15-Mar-2019 04:58:01 EDT
Oh. Here we go. Makes ya proud. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/23997 #AU
mjd: This c*** from #Grafton, a couple of hours up the road from here, killed 40 people for no sane reason. And I can tell you that there will undoubtedly be, for no sane reason, thousands (millions?) of people in #AU and #NZ cheering for their new hero. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/23994 #misanthropy
mjd's status on Friday, 15-Mar-2019 03:21:13 EDT
This c*** from #Grafton, a couple of hours up the road from here, killed 40 people for no sane reason. And I can tell you that there will undoubtedly be, for no sane reason, thousands (millions?) of people in #AU and #NZ cheering for their new hero. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/23994 #misanthropy
bobjonkmanformer: RT @mjd Well played sir! The #AU #PirateParty ran in the last election under the slogan "Transparency, Liberty and Digital Reform". TLDR.
bobjonkmanformer's status on Wednesday, 12-Oct-2016 04:36:55 EDT
RT @mjd Well played sir! The #AU #PirateParty ran in the last election under the slogan "Transparency, Liberty and Digital Reform". TLDR.
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mjd: Well played sir! The #AU #PirateParty ran in the last election under the slogan "Transparency, Liberty and Digital Reform". TLDR.
mjd's status on Wednesday, 12-Oct-2016 03:12:18 EDT
Well played sir! The #AU #PirateParty ran in the last election under the slogan "Transparency, Liberty and Digital Reform". TLDR.