Currently reading: Just Money by Royce Kurmelovs 📚
Family Getaway - Four Elements Farm Stay
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
We spent a few days at Four Elements Farm Stay in the South-West of Western Australia. I relaxed into it quite quickly. The owner of the Farmstay, Pete, offered daily activities for the kids in the morning and the evening. While the ride in the ATV would have been enough, catching marron in the dam was even better. These photos don’t do justice to the size of this bonfire. It was pumping out some serious heat.
The micro.blog community is the best! Both @jack and @twelvety have provided me with with thoughtful, genuine feedback about Roam.
Kids and their phones these days. What happened to a good old fashioned conversation?
I’m being drawn towards Roam. I’ve emailed @twelvety for his thoughts, and I imagine @jack must have some too. It’s expensive, but I’m also searching for a really great daily note system and knowledge database combined.
Buying an iMac late last year must go down as one of my best ever computer purchasing decisions. I freakin' love this thing, and timing it for the year of working from home has been perfect.
Outliners & Daily Notes
Thursday, October 8, 2020
I’ve been considering whether my current DEVONthink daily note is the best system for rapid note taking. Of course there’s nothing wrong with it, other than it being super-basic. DEVONthink Pros Wikilinking (automatic and manual) to other notes. Integrated into broader DEVONthink Search/See Also system. No-nonsense, no futzing with formatting. DEVONthink Cons No genuine Markdown editing support. No outlining support Just a plain text document. I’ve been looking at Dynalist and Workflowy.
The Hemispheric Views podcast has hit the big time, scoring a guest appearance by the one and only @macgenie. @Burk, @martinfeld and I were honoured to chat with her about micro.blog’s upcoming Day in the Life of… photoshoot, old things in our house and streaming media.
Containers for Change
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Over the past two years my wife has been working at Containers for Change. This is a not-for-profit organisation enabled by the Western Australian Government and funded by the private sector. When she started it was a start-up organisation working out of a tiny shared office with big plans to get a container deposit scheme (i.e. return drink bottles and cans for cash) up and running across our State. A week ago, the scheme launched.
An important breaking news update coming in from Cardboard TV Network. Headlines include Deadpool v Coronavirus. Tune in to find put more.
My brother casually mentioned to me that he had been building up a second brain using the PARA methodology in Notion, supported by Readwise and Instapaper. Does he not realise that I’m the geek of the family? He’s getting close to stepping on my turf.
I think I’m falling down the Dyanalist rabbit hole. I like outliners, and this is so much better than OmniOutliner, which has regressed continuously since version 3.
Kakistocratic Nepotism
Monday, October 5, 2020
Biden’s next move after Trump’s COVID-19 hospitalization - Axios: But with Trump in quarantine for the foreseeable future, the campaign is now relying on members of the first family — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka, and Eric and Lara Trump — to carry the torch as part of a new “Operation MAGA” campaign… Cool, that should go well then.
A quick thank you to @sarcassem from the youngest of this home’s podcast listeners.
Trump Jokes Coming Thick and Fast at The Shovel
Friday, October 2, 2020
Australia’s answer to The Onion is The Shovel. They’re having a fun time with the news of Trump contracting COVID-19. Frantic Donald Trump Unable To Open Childproof Cap On Bottle Of Hydroxychloroquine: Shouting at White House aides to bring him a hammer or an axe, US President Donald Trump was this evening desperately trying to navigate the childproof cap on a bottle of hydroxychloroquine. Trump Refuses To Accept Result Of Covid Test | The Shovel:
I love a good fire.
If I didn’t have OmniFocus to help manage my work; I’d be screwed. I have no idea how people get through work and life without one. I have so many juggling balls that OmniFocus is the only way.
Hey @ohbananajoe is this effort close enough to “The Walking Dead”? 🤣
My little farmer.
The Sizzle
Monday, September 28, 2020
I have a paid subscription to an Australian daily technology newsletter called The Sizzle. While I’ve sometimes already heard the news of the day from other sources, it’s the irreverent writing of publisher Anthony ‘@decryption’ Agius that I really enjoy. Case in point, from Issue 1217: Part of me likes the fact a fuckwit can be sued by an MP for mouthing off on social media, but one day I could be that fuckwit so maybe it’s not so good.