With YNAB leaning into a new branding of Yet Another Price Increase or YAPI™, I’m trialing Actual Budget running on PikaPods. Early in my testing, but this could be good enough. Being in Australia I don’t get any of the fancy YNAB automation anyway.
Oppenheimer, 2023 - ★★★½
A 4-hour flight was the catalyst needed to watch this marathon movie. I didn’t realise I was signing up for a political thriller. It kept me engaged so it must have been okay.
I’m copying Pawel and have set my MarsEdit quick entry to Hyperkey-P. Now I have to internalise the shortcut.
Anyone But You, 2023 - ★
A vehicle for both Sydney’s and other anorexic women. Bryan Brown must have grabbed the bag.
I’m genuinely excited by what Apple has put forward in its WWDC24 keynote. xos18’s, Sequoia and Apple Intelligence all look brilliant. I’ve never been so excited for math worksheets.
It doesn’t matter how organised your task list is, you still need to do the task. I’ve procrastinated on my boots for two years!
🔗 ROSS GITTINS: The RBA has squeezed us like a lemon, but it’s still not happy
Problems such as higher world petrol prices and higher insurance premiums caused by increased extreme weather events.
I’d like to see Bullock put up a big sign in the Reserve’s office: “If it’s not coming from demand, interest rates won’t fix it.”
Ross Gittins succinctly notes the disconnect in the Australian economy and the frustration of interest rates as a singular mechanism.
Mortgage holders, such as myself, have cut back and the data shows it. The problem is elsewhere, and so the solution must be also.
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And, let me reiterate that I understand this was irrational, driven wholly by anxiety. These were inside thoughts, and inside thoughts are better left alone
Keenan has the best lines. I often listen to my inside thoughts even when I shouldn’t.
Episode 112 of Hemispheric Views was one of the crazier ones.
The orange one being found guilty has made me so happy. He’s going to be so full of rage now - watch out America.
Slash Guy
On Hemispheric Views it has become a bit of a running gag that when I become interested in something new or different, the phrase, “I’m an insert interest here guy!” is unleashed.
Most recently this was raised in Hemispheric Views E112 when it became clear that “I’m a footy guy!”.
Robb Knight has formalised the collection of slash pages across the IndieWeb.
Persuant to that list, I hereby submit an RFC—not to the IETF—but to the RKTF (Robb Knight Task Force) to formally add /preferred-pronoun as another potential slash page.
For my purposes, that page would be entitled /guy.
Hereforth, as best as I can recall and in no particular order is my current list:
- I’m a pencil guy!
- I’m a beach guy!
- I’m a footy guy!
- I’m a dSLR guy!
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I don’t do much in the way of ‘life advice’, but here’s one: get up early!
As in,
05:00early.
Today I woke up just after 5am. I read this post yesterday. I’m not pleased with Johnny’s undesired influence. I’m not a morning guy.
Over the past few years I have made some amazing Internet friends. I’ve met people with whom I have much in common. The only problem is they are distant. How much I would love to find a friend who is local. Whom I could go to the pub with and talk to in person.
I sometimes wonder how other people live. At dinner time, what do they eat? How do they organise their evenings? Do their homes resemble my own?
I would love the opportunity to observe a bunch of other lives, in other homes. Are we all the same? Or do we differ wildly?
It’s a curiosity of mine.
