Matthew Davidson on microblog.mjd.id.au

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1. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2019 23:56:44 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   #OMGA, that's funny. That weird spike in the amount of cash USD in circulation? #Y2K #survivalism https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2019/02/how-much-cash-is-out-there/
2. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2019 21:31:12 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   It's not all bad news. I've done a lot of copying and pasting over the years, and the number of websites who favour caps lock over the #CSS text-transform property has now so diminished as to be statistically insignificant. I'm hanging my hopes for the future of our species on details like this.
3. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2019 20:49:49 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   "If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice." #q Abraham Lincoln https://drunkard.com/todays-reason-to-drink-february-12/
4. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2019 06:57:14 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   Forty-[mumble] years old, and I still can't negotiate answering machines, or their telco-cloud equivalent. Nothing else, save my disastrous wedding speech (I had hecklers), has ever left me so tongue-tied. Worst medium since Doris Stokes.
5. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2019 07:30:27 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   Weird thing about being a long-term casual employee is you get a kind of Stockholm Syndrome. When you're sent home early or have a shift canceled you don't think about the lost income, you're just glad everything's running smoothly without you. #work
6. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2019 07:13:13 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   Yes, definitely an angst-ridden teenager's album.
7. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2019 06:09:45 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   Positively chilly this evening. Half a month into autumn, summer may be just about done. #weather
8. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2019 21:01:57 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   The salty crumbs at the bottom of a bag of pretzels are like inadvertently gulping a mouthful of seawater. Except that you go back for more.
9. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2019 05:33:24 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   Enjoying the Douglas Adams biog @tregeagle loaned me. Delighted that DNA thought Plastic Ono Band the best album ever. Tempted to agree, but it's a tough listen. I only have it on vinyl, and I only ever bring the turntable out on holidays when it's not really appropriate. Years ago, I learned that Butch Vig only persuaded Kurt Cobain to double track his vocals by telling him …
10. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2019 05:11:14 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    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. …
11. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2019 04:58:01 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    Oh. Here we go. Makes ya proud. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/23997 #AU
12. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2019 03:21:13 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    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
13. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2019 06:34:36 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    Ow. Here's how they get ya: From the factory reset to before I could even get to the point of connecting to WiFi, the first message I received from #Telstra was the one telling me that I'd just used $20 worth of data.
14. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2019 05:34:38 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    After one more visit to the #Telstra shop, #DLW has a working, top-of-the-line surveillance device. I'm about to factory reset her old phone and install #F-Droid as soon as I pour myself another drink. Or perhaps a modest queue of drinks.
15. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2019 05:30:53 EDT Matthew Davidson

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    • Ruben
    Sounds like a live possibility. I'll have to check my work roster this time next week. I'm driving down to Nelson Bay the weekend before to chauffeur Auntie Chez back to #Sawtell. I wouldn't recommend joining us for that one, but I could road test a playlist at least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQtB_ZfP-Ew

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