Considering it’s treated as nothing more than a comedy song (because, to be fair, it is very, very funny), there’s no reason for Horse Outside to be such an incredible tune. I’m actually annoyed that I didn’t think of it for last night’s show.
Sorry if I’m quiet for a bit. Last night I started getting pain again in my side.
Got worse and worse and I wasn’t able to sleep at all till 7am.
Kindney stones again. Time pieces probably but the pain is just as bad.
Slept most of the day and now the pain is starting again, so tonight will be hell again. Not to mention the nausea.
Really hope that the rest of the pain passes soon. I’ve had kidney stone/gallstone type internal pain twice in my life and can still remember just how excruciating it was and how never-ending it seemed - I would not wish it upon my worst enemy. Take care mate.
Housing prices today are absolute nuts; in 2003 our apartment cost less than half of the median unit price in Melbourne today. God knows how we'd buy a place nowadays on freelance incomes. Way past time for government to remove property investor tax incentives.
Australia property prices: Average household would struggle to buy average house
Indeed. Turning what should be homes into investments has been the worst thing. We managed to buy a house in 2007 but despair of our kids (or anyone else's) ever affording anything.
Problem is the LNP see nothing wrong and Labor are just as bad - pretty much all of them from Albo down have multiple investment properties, so they're never going to do a thing that will actually help.
Tough times for restaurateurs. This quote rings true:
“Hospitality can’t pass prices on in the same way that most other industries can,” he says. “There is only so much you’ll pay for a coffee or sandwich or bowl of pasta.”
The only thing as shitty as leveraging so-called "AI" into every nook and cranny is completely off the mark ads like this. Glad I only have to use Microshit at work.
Essentially saying that they're the Empire and there's no point in joining the rebellion. Via way of an inaccurate Vulcan reference.
I've been back on Mac too for my own stuff since 2011, after about ten years using Windows at home as well as work. Apple have their own issues, obvs, but having had to work professionally on PC since DOS days and used every version of Windows from 3.1 to 10, my dislike for M$ is deeply ingrained.
Not even close. In that game alone, there were harder puzzles. But elsewhere in Infocom’s catalogue – and more widely in text adventures – there were tougher tests.
Where the Babel Fish puzzle got things right was through being clever, funny and absurd, and in also deviating radically from expectations. It’s as far as possible from other media, where the fish is simply put into Arthur’s ear. And so that makes it memorable. #retrogaming
At #Continuum16, #c16Reboot the Australian science fiction writers con, and the main, constant lament seems to be that it's so difficult to get any traction as a new author, either through small press or self publishing. There are so many books!
It's definitely a problem, and not just for new authors. One of my oldest friends has over 30 books out (disclosure: a few of which I've proofed and/or edited) and has gone from niche publishers (TSR/WOTC) to self-pub and now trying small press again. They're currently very much surviving on Patreon support and an occasional RPG book sale.
(Sidenote: Loving 'Cruel Provocations'! Will say more later - only six chapters in but it's got its hooks - or possibly threads - in me. 😉)
Always Tom. A friend played ‘Swordfishtrombones’ for me and I was hooked, but was mainly a fan of that album and everything that came after.
But then one day I picked up a second-hand copy of ‘The Heart of Saturday Night’ on a whim, when trading some unwanted CDs, and absolutely loved it for its different vibe. So now I have every studio and live album, plus a few bootlegs… I have a Tom for any given mood… 😉
Article commenting on the lunacy of everything having to be five stars to be good. Agreed. When I was reviewing comedy shows for The Age, I ran the gamut from awarding 1 to 5 stars. It was useful.
(Doh! I’d completely forgotten eBay as I somehow went from someone on there pretty much daily to someone who hasn’t bought or sold a thing there for 6 or 7 years.)
Apparently it actually arrived yesterday - I've been in "bedroom isolation" away from rest of the fam this week while I have Covid again (yay...) but was apparently asleep when the post came and then my partner got distracted and only remembered to bring it in to me this morning.
Will be sure to let you know - I'm just finishing off another book so hopefully will get to start it tonight! 😁