Whimsy

Writing insane crap is seriously underrated.

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If the northern coast of Australia is tropical, why don't more people live there?
16 Apr 2023
Image source: I figured googling “tropical hell” would produce something neat, and as you can see it totally did - but turns out it’s also a game. It just wouldn’t be cricket if I nicked ...
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RUDE MODE
25 Feb 2023
I write software. Web apps. My current day job bangs out, among other things, Covid testing software. On balance I thoroughly enjoy programming, but my god it can be dull. The other day...
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The customer is always sausagey
20 Jan 2023
This evening I was at a supermarket. I was purchasing, among other items, sausages. Both the checkout operator gal and the attendant bag-packer dude present asked me, with tones of world-...
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Kratom and brittle hair and dry skin and aging, oh my
1 Nov 2022
Image source: https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/kratom-wha... Ever heard of kratom? I hadn't. Until about 2015. It's a collection of tree species in Southeast Asia. If you d...
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Make tuis fly across 15 monitors
3 Oct 2022
Who'd like to chain together 10-15 monitors in a row and display some kind of gorgeous native-bush wilderness panorama splashed across the lot, with birds and other wildlife critters swoo...
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Moonwalking whilst motorbiking
13 Jul 2022
In the last four years, I've been pulled over by cops whilst motorbiking, not once but twice, for dancing. Dancing. I'd genuinely thought I'd only been slightly rocking out, but both cops...
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HARLEY DAVIDSON [*****]
16 Jun 2022
My motorbike jacket has been amazing and phenomenal and served me beautifully, but the rigours of a decade-plus of motorbiking have made it quite spectacularly scruffy. Bits of it are lit...
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The difficulties of becoming skilled at measuring web developer skills
29 May 2022
It would appear that if certain web-dev companies wish to test job applicants' technical savvy, they just google "web dev technical testing" or something, yoink the first vaguely-interest...
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Brilliant assholes versus hilarious frauds
16 May 2022
... And that wraps up possibly my most enjoyable and successful job role I've had in about the last five years. A three-month web dev contracting job! Loads of fun. Couple of reasons: Th...
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How to score unlimited free coffee
8 May 2022
Yesterday I was passing through an airport cafe in Adelaide and ordered an espresso. The barista apologised and told me the machine was broken. I stared at the oodles of unground coffee b...
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Writing less crap horror movies
14 Mar 2022
Chris asks I WANT A TRUE HORROR MOVIE WHERE ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE INTELLIGENT AND DO ALL THE RIGHT THINGS AND TAKE ALL THE PROPER PRECAUTIONS BUT STILL WIND UP GETTING KILLED BY THE ANT...
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Most folk aren't nerds!
12 Mar 2022
I've found that around 99% of the general population regard the nitty-gritty details of my web development day job to be witchcraft, and sorcery, and hideous soothsaying. It puts them off...
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