A lovely day for the Makers’ Market at the University of Wollongong’s Innovation Campus ☀️
PhD Journal Entry 6: Escape on Lounge Ruminator
It starts to rain outside my office.
A colleague asks, ‘Is it raining?’.
Another colleague replies, ‘Wow’.
Fin
Hidden sketches in a public toilet wall
Episode 3 of my Lounge Ruminator podcast, It’s the Principle of the Thing, is now available. In it I discuss the importance of transparent and honest design, citing the work of Scolari, Mumford and Rams in their respective fields. 🎙
During a recent commute, I thought about how the devices that we use today are already augmenting and altering our sense of reality. Read more in Rumination 58: Everyday AR on Lounge Ruminator.
Coldplay’s latest album, Everyday Life is easily the most musically interesting album since Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends in 2008. On first listen today, I had no idea where it was going—totally unpredictable.
Wow… Vivaldi recomposed by Max Richter on Apple Music
On this day five years ago, I was just wandering around Berlin checking out cool stuff. I love that city. 🇩🇪
One of the basic oxygen steel-making vessels in Port Kembla
I was very fortunate to be visited at work by @NTKF today, who surprised me with the spontaneous delivery of a peppermint Magnum. She was in the area after finishing at work for the day and now I shall expect this all the time.
I agree with what Dan Moren has to say about autocorrect on sixcolors.com; I’d love to be able to add words to the iOS dictionary and remove unwanted ones. ‘Don’t’ often becomes ‘Donny’ for me and I don’t know anyone called Donny.
Wish List: Edit iOS’s autocorrect dictionary
During a trip to the shops, @NTKF and I were excited to test the new Logi Ergonomic Mango.
It has been a few days since I was on Micro.blog—too busy to think about it—which felt strange, now that it’s one of my favourite things to read each day. Every time that I’m here, I’m struck by how genuine people here are. Most other networks are noisy, artificial and boring.
The jacaranda tree at the front of our place is looking absolutely beautiful now that we’re in spring. They’re blossoming throughout the suburbs and it’s lovely to see the big return of colour!
Domestic cacophony
When Belgian and Australian culture collide… (It’s hard to have a Gaytime on your own.)
An awesome day at the Viva la Gong festival with @NTKF, featuring Sera’s delicious corn, soul flamenco and a gorgeous mother-daughter trio, called Putri Ayu Indonesia!
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: any good Saturday morning must feature Rage on ABC TV.
I get to use this photographic monster at work today. Woo!
A great show tonight by Alex Lahey at Wollongong UniBar! Naturally her song Don’t Be So Hard on Yourself was one of the highlights. 🎵
I am impressed by For All Mankind and will be sticking with it.
Rumination 57: Subconscious Ferrari on Lounge Ruminator
Check out the second episode of my Lounge Ruminator podcast, It’s Complicated, in which I discuss how Apple Watch complications and watch faces, like other technologies, have come to affect our behaviour and perception of time. 🎙
I could sit to watch these two for hours. 🥰🐤🐦