Kallax Storageborn - I saw this on Mastodon today, and I had to get Rodd to explain to me WTF I was looking at. I’ve never played Skyrim, but apparently your character can have an NPC “companion” that can do things for you like fight. The most common use, he tells me, is to increase your inventory by […]
Sydney folks - any recommendation for a place to get the battery in my perfectly good iPhone 14 Pro replaced? Looking for somewhere quick and reliable. (Apple Store is $169, so that's the backup option but I suspect they might be slower.)
I am losing my goddamn mind, IKEA just released a skyrim mod where you get a kallax companion voiced by matt berry.
They’ve (not just Apple, everyone) has done such a tremendous job of taking all the fun out of tech that I’ve just completely lost interest in stuff like this.
iPhone launch day used to something, as a nerd, that I looked forward to. The idea of expanding the capability of the device I use for multiple hours a day was cool. It was exciting.
But this? Now? Who fucken cares.
Sydney Fringe - Tonight’s volunteer shifts were at the Entertainment Quarter. I saw a bit of Return of the Godz, where fit guys did aerial acrobatics and threw knives in skimpy Greek costumes. Excellent! And then I scanned tickets for “Love at First Bite,” where a large group of gender and body diverse goths danced through various tableaus […]
The Odyssey - Me: Woohoo, here we go! Tell me all about that complicated man! Opens book and sees literally 100 pages of introduction. Bugger.
We need a new Carnegie! - Last night was the annual David Scott Mitchell Oration at the State Library, which was delivered by Richard Ovenden OBE, Bodley’s Librarian at Oxford University. His topic was the library as a “radical idea,” and the place was absolutely packed. I saw him present last year when he visited Sydney Uni and I found it […]
Is using a local LLM any worse than playing a video game? No clickbait here, the answer is "yes, much worse", but perhaps you will be interested in an explanation of why: https://blog.glyph.im/2026/09/but-what-about-video-games.html
NSW History Awards 2026 - Last night was the annual NSW History Awards at the State Library. The room was filled with historians and their supporters, and just like last year’s ceremony, I loved it despite not having read a single one of the shortlisted works. The vibe was set early on by Uncle Brendan Kerin’s Welcome to Country: “Two types of people don’t like a Welcome to Country – the uneducated and the racist. And I’m going to teach you about it now, so if you still don’t like them afterwards, I know which box to put you in.”
Musical train 🚂 - Ha! The Miniatur Wunderland team set up hundreds (thousands?!) of wine glasses along the track to make a musical train. My favourite part was the pan past the control room. 😂 But how did they film it? I was convinced at first that it was a drone, but the commenters on Insta and Reddit seem […]
Google Maps Introduces Crawling Directions For Cyclists Hit By Truck
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How to respond to a fascist - “I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” That’s from Bertrand Russell back in the 1960’s, responding to Sir Oswald Mosley. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, pretty much every […]
Flying Toasters - This makes my heart happy. afterglow is a free emulator that runs the old After Dark screensaver modules, many of which are available at the Internet Archive. I was honestly torn between the toasters, the fish tank, the puzzle, and “NightLines,” so I’ll probably switch it up regularly. (I had to download three different modules […]
Sydney Bike Rave - OMG this sounds like so much fun. I’ve just signed up for the next one on the 26th. Anybody else going?
Possum-proofing, v3 - Here is a proud man with his Impenetrable Fortress of Tree Solitude. After the magnolia tree put out its single flower, we noticed new green leaf buds appearing on the branches. The time had come to update our defences against Mr. Possum. The Snook came up with a plan to sink some angled steel posts […]
New Zealand Spy - I saw this Kiwi show recommended on Mastodon recently and we finished it last night. All six episodes are available on iView. It was charming! A bit silly, but there were a few bits that made us laugh. (The fireworks thing at the end had me guffawing. So dumb, yet funny.) It has a ton […]
Beginner Printmaking - Today’s class was all about linocut printing! I brought along a trace from a photo of Petey Cat for my design. Once I transferred it to the block, I started carving the outlines. It took me a while to get the hang of it, but thankfully I managed not to cut myself. Here’s how it […]
Fast & Furious - Last night we continued our immersion into the FFCU with the fourth movie: Fast & Furious. Not only is it confusingly named, it also jumps back in time to before Tokyo Drift, the third movie! (The overall timeline continuity took us like a third of the movie to work out.) And finally we get some returning characters […]
The Living Jar - Well, that was fun! A few months back I saw in the Opera House newsletter that Head Chef Jimmy Ryu was going to run a kimchi workshop so I grabbed tickets. We arrived early today in blazing hot sunshine and waited with other attendees for the doors to open. (No sign of Benny the Seal […]
Kimchi Workshop - Makin’ kimchi at the Sydney Opera House on a beautiful day!
