Bought myself a kaweco sport and a travellers notebook for work notes. I’ve found that going pen/paper for notes is a breath of fresh air compared to text editors. I find myself referring back to them more often, making bullet to-dos, and I’ve worked hard to improve my hand writing.

Does anyone have any experience with changing owner’s corporations? It’s been two years since the townhouses on our block were moved in to, no AGMs or meetings, no responses to emails or phone messages.

We purchased moved into our townhouse in 2022, and except for me making a couple of calls to ask about fees and things, we haven’t heard anything from the owners corporation about meetings, plans or anything else. I suspect it’s the same for other townhouses.

I don’t know if our block just has a rubbish owners corporation manager, but does anyone know if they are obligated to communicate anything to the property owners?

Does that make 1999 a boomer shooter year? Because Q3A vs UT was one of the great joys of this GenXers early 20’s…

I feel like I’m letting the SMS scammers down by not having a citylink toll account or whatever they’re called nowadays. They’re trying so hard to be convincing, and I’m just not giving them a chance.

I thought I saw Escape in exodreamm, if that helps. There were a few monkey island games in there, I just wanted to play Yoda Stories lol

The street binfluencer should get an honorarium or public holiday. Songs should be written for them, for they are the quiet heroes.

During the first month or so I did try to rationalise it: Knox (Boronia) has a glut of blocks building 5 or more two bedroom, 1 garage townhouses, and most have no outdoor space (it got used by the obligatory water tank and shed/box.)

With no backyard to mow, they didn’t have or need a green waste bin, but this year they’ve had to take one, and there’s nowhere to put it. To make things worse, the waste bin is now a fortnightly pickup, and anyone with a pet now has two weeks of ripeness instead of one.

Since Knox went to the green-blue-yellow bin rotation (rubbish and recycling fortnightly, green waste weekly), the idiots over the road either don’t care or don’t understand and just put all their bins out every week and add to the uncollected bin there. This makes the uncollected bins more and more overflowing, and the crows very pleased. They currently have a bin each to themselves until Tuesday morning, with food options not unlike the old Smorgies buffet restaurant.

That said, if interest rates go much higher, I might be fighting them for the leftovers.

Damnit, if even one of Ruby’s parents is a Palpatine clone, I’m going for the pitchfork.

I read someone moaning that we’re a long way from Caves of Androzani. They conveniently forget that Caves of Androzani will forever be followed by that classic, end-of-season spectacular, The Twin Dilemma. And, while the critics might have quickly pointed out the flaws in Twin - namely, the characters, the plot, the pacing, the writing, the coat, the direction, and Mestor the mucus monster, it didn’t get criticised for the musical number, which it didn’t have, which is weird, as a lot of Brit actors were doing Panto at the time. But I digress.

I liked Church, I liked the fresh start, I liked the contrast of the Gilliam-esque absurd/surreal comedy horror (a musical number while a baby is threatened) followed by the famous bleak British horror (the darkness of humans without joy).

Big box computer games, with manuals and maps and those game brochures showing you all the other Ocean software products.

Managed to go into this without any-trailers/spoilers/etc. Hated the “Children in Need”-esque intro, it felt like the ye-olde cartoon before the movie starts.

I can understand concerns about this being the second of only three Tennant/Tate episodes, that it’s the anniversary and we want big celebrations and megabucks worth of explosions and monsters and all that. Instead, we get a full episode with the two stars and their talent, no distractions or crawling through attics. PS. Sylvia and Wilf still - and always will - be awesome.

This was like RDT’s and Moffat’s lovechild, like Midnight and Event Horizon and Alien. Confidently slow-paced with great writing and time for running around, and still having time for a proper ending rather than a magical macguffin arse-pull.

Properly loved it.

As someone else wrote somewhere… RTD’s back, which means the carnival’s back in town. Lots of running about, flashing lights, loud music, a stunt show with exploding things and people shooting at each other, and comedy hi jinks.

I liked the small things - the time vortex having open areas with multiple paths from 13, the helping/oh-shit-nope-not-helping with the stacking, the psychic paper not keeping up, ‘she’s fine/she’s not fine/been fine’, Sylvia’s “YOU!”, Donna’s ‘WHAT THE HELL!’, the ‘you can’t know your future conversation’ up until they mentioned (again) that Donna dies if she remembers. Didn’t mind the parademons, like the idea of the Sonic having a UI (but hated the shields), loved The Meep even after they got sidelined for the big ending. Console room was kinda meh still, big and bland atm.

Just waiting for the next nerf…

There’s one over the road, we go there occasionally to see what we can get off the shopping list before going further. They also have lots of dog toys that are cheap enough to not get upset when the pups tear them apart lol

We bought a Tiger rice cooker and has been flawless for years.

Just added wefwef to my home pages in place of Apollo. There’s almost no upskilling from Apollo to wefwef - they’re very very similar. Also, I can’t believe web apps have come so far in the traditional ‘app’ user experience.