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Notices by Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au), page 9

  1. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Monday, 13-Aug-2018 07:39:03 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Aw. Over 70% of monthly bandwidth quota gone within a fortnight. Will have to stop leaving my WiFi open. Who'd have thought neighbours with hostnames like "SuckMyBalls" would take advantage of me?
    In conversation Monday, 13-Aug-2018 07:39:03 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°53'0"S 151°9'22"E permalink
  2. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 01:03:40 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Man I'm wasted. Been drinking too much, thank heavens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_LuG_06K2o
    In conversation Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 01:03:40 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'14"S 151°8'22"E permalink

    Attachments

    1. The Libertines What a waster Live
      By kou from YouTube
  3. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 00:07:07 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    A good monospace font is an astonishing thing. Making an l or an i the same width as an a or an r is a remarkable feat of typographical subterfuge.
    In conversation Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 00:07:07 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'14"S 151°8'22"E permalink
  4. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Saturday, 11-Aug-2018 09:41:03 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    in reply to
    • Matthew Davidson
    Quite tipsy. #DLW & co. won yet another award (see #Facebook for photos). Recognised few faces in the #Coffs entrepreneurial community, The sharks are the same, but the minnows are refreshed every year by a new wave of naïve sea-changers.
    In conversation Saturday, 11-Aug-2018 09:41:03 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'14"S 151°8'22"E permalink
  5. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Saturday, 11-Aug-2018 03:47:06 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Going to one of #Coffs' many business award nights this evening, against my better judgment. Our entrepreneurs are very good at giving each other awards. Otherwise, they just prey on each others' gullibility while having no practical effect on the region's economy whatsoever.
    In conversation Saturday, 11-Aug-2018 03:47:06 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'14"S 151°8'22"E permalink
  6. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Saturday, 11-Aug-2018 03:43:12 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    • Ruben
    I never miss an opportunity to listen to Mark Blyth, as he's an excellent frustrated stand-up comic. His macroeconomics is not so sound, but that's a minor quibble. Academic appointments should IMHO give at least as much weight to one's skill as a raconteur.
    In conversation Saturday, 11-Aug-2018 03:43:12 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'14"S 151°8'22"E permalink
  7. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 10-Aug-2018 08:04:28 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    I'm not scared by bacteria that merely tolerate alcohol-based hand sanitisers, I'm scared of the ones that _like_ them. Imagine lying in hospital, teeming with manic single-celled Hunter S. Thompsons in Bermuda shorts, puffing at teeny little cigarette holders, on a mission to expose the dark underbelly of your dark underbelly. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/hospital-superbugs-are-evolving-to-survive-hand-sanitizers/.
    In conversation Friday, 10-Aug-2018 08:04:28 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'14"S 151°8'22"E permalink

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    1. Hospital superbugs are evolving to survive hand sanitizers
      from Ars Technica
      The drug-resistant bacteria aren't resistant to alcohol sanitizers—yet.
  8. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Thursday, 09-Aug-2018 07:56:50 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Holy cow. This is the #AU 80s-90s nostalgia motherlode: https://www.youtube.com/user/stereomusicvideo/videos
    In conversation Thursday, 09-Aug-2018 07:56:50 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'14"S 151°8'22"E permalink

    Attachments

    1. stereomusicvideo
      from YouTube
      High quality and often rare music videos remastered with stereo soundtracks.
  9. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Thursday, 09-Aug-2018 07:00:45 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    • Ruben
    @tregeagle True. I'm hopelessly addicted to all the extreme sports; the washing, the bins, the cat litter tray…
    In conversation Thursday, 09-Aug-2018 07:00:45 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'14"S 151°8'22"E permalink
  10. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Thursday, 09-Aug-2018 02:57:53 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Blimey. Was hanging out the washing, barely moving my feet, and toppled over for no discernible reason. That's a blow for the old hubris. (Thankfully #DLW had earlier been doing yard maintenance and harvested all the dog poop.) Welcome to the rest of your increasingly accident-prone life, I suppose.
    In conversation Thursday, 09-Aug-2018 02:57:53 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'14"S 151°8'22"E permalink
  11. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Thursday, 09-Aug-2018 01:45:21 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Ah. "Theories" that don't yield hypotheses, and the "theorists" who produce them are labeled as such because the words "philosophy" and "philosopher" can't be used by anybody who wants to hold down a job in neoliberal academia. As everybody of consequence from Karl Popper to Stephen Hawking have testified, #philosophy is finished, outmoded, and irrelevant. On the bright side, I expect this has had the salutary effect of purging carpetbaggers from the few schools of philosophy remaining.
    In conversation Thursday, 09-Aug-2018 01:45:21 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'14"S 151°8'22"E permalink
  12. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Aug-2018 09:42:44 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    in reply to
    • Matthew Davidson
    "If anybody asks, just say C of E. It's easier to spell."
    In conversation Wednesday, 08-Aug-2018 09:42:44 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'14"S 151°8'22"E permalink
  13. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Aug-2018 09:28:22 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    "I've always had this vision of bein' sixty and writing children's books. I don't know why. It'd be a strange thing for a person who doesn't really have much to do with children. I've always had that feeling of giving what Wind in the Willows and Alice in Wonderland and Treasure Island gave to me at age seven and eight. The books that really opened my whole being." #q John Lennon http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1975.0605.beatles.html #beatles
    In conversation Wednesday, 08-Aug-2018 09:28:22 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'14"S 151°8'22"E permalink
  14. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Aug-2018 08:48:50 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Good Lord, I had no idea that there was still a viable breeding population of Presbyterians. I was baptised as such despite neither of my parents belonging to that sect, nor having anything but the woolliest of religious beliefs. In the absence of non-Christian immigrants, the sinister enemy within of 1971 #AU was Catholics, so perhaps they thought I would serve on the militant front lines of this clash of barely distinguishable civilisations. I dearly hope that Paisley Jr. has inherited the familial stentorian timbre that will continue to pay the bills for satirical impersonators through the many scandals to come. http://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/14714
    In conversation Wednesday, 08-Aug-2018 08:48:50 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°54'14"S 151°8'22"E permalink
  15. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Sunday, 05-Aug-2018 00:02:20 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Wow. All in one convenient location! http://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/176260317183/cats
    In conversation Sunday, 05-Aug-2018 00:02:20 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°52'59"S 151°10'0"E permalink
  16. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Saturday, 04-Aug-2018 07:21:55 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    The ignorant rule the world because they don't know any better.
    In conversation Saturday, 04-Aug-2018 07:21:55 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°52'59"S 151°10'0"E permalink
  17. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 03-Aug-2018 03:23:06 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    • Ruben
    … of monstrous proportions. Cringely's book (https://www.cringely.com/tag/accidental-empires/) depicts a sadistic workplace manipulator. Met an American IT consultant in the late 90s who knew someone who had worked with him and was utterly devastated by the experience. I wonder (uncharitably) if without advance notice of his demise and consequent opportunity to position himself for tech sainthood he would be so well remembered.
    In conversation Friday, 03-Aug-2018 03:23:06 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°52'59"S 151°10'0"E permalink

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    1. File without filename could not get a thumbnail source.
      Accidental Empires Archives - I, Cringely
      from I, Cringely
  18. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Friday, 03-Aug-2018 02:48:32 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Damn. I've been feeling good about the amount of money I've been earning recently. Turns out it still puts me below the poverty line. That explains… a lot of things. https://melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/publications/poverty-lines
    In conversation Friday, 03-Aug-2018 02:48:32 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°52'59"S 151°10'0"E permalink

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    1. File without filename could not get a thumbnail source.
      Poverty Lines
      from Melbourne Institute
      Poverty Lines
  19. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 19:03:57 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    Good grief: 'In 2016, nursery staff suggested referring a four-year-old to the counter-radicalisation programme after he drew a picture of a cucumber and mispronounced the word as “cooker bomb”.' http://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/14599
    In conversation Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 19:03:57 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°52'59"S 151°10'0"E permalink

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    1. Nursery criticised for failing to spot signs of extremism among children as young as two
      from The Independent
      The pre-school has been told to improve the knowledge of its staff on safeguarding issues
  20. Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 07:02:34 EDT Matthew Davidson Matthew Davidson
    They have this weird tradition at work. Once a week, there will be a table in the corridor with a pot of oil on a hotplate and a plate of vegetables, seafood, chicken, and assorted pastry parcels. As you go by it, you're supposed to pop something into the pot for the next person who passes to fish out and eat. It's called "casual fry day".
    In conversation Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 07:02:34 EDT from microblog.mjd.id.au at 33°52'59"S 151°10'0"E permalink
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