ajsadauskas
@ajsadauskas@aus.social
Australian urban planning, public transport, politics, retrocomputing, and tech nerd. Recovering journo. Cat parent. Part-time miserable grump.
Cities for people, not cars! Tech for people, not investors!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 🦦🦦🦦 Saturday, August 3, 2024 4 months ago:
@CEOofmyhouse56 @PeelerSheila Reminds me of a few years ago, when I had to go along to a friend's kids' birthday party.
I really didn't know what to get as a prezzie. I ended up picking a stuffed pink unicorn toy that cost maybe $10.
Fast forward to the party.
The kids parents and grandparents absolutely spoiled this kid.
I'm talking hundreds of dollars worth of toys. It was just obscene!
The living room of their house ended up filled with them. A Barbie doll house that was taller than this kid. A ride-on toy car. Half a dozen battery-powered things that made annoying noises.
Anyway. Eventually the kid opened my present.
Hrr eyes lit up. She grabbed it, cuddled that unicorn, and left all the other toys on the ground.
Her grandma and grandpa were visibly miffed.
So yeah. Sometimes a cheap, fun toy trumps hundreds of dollars of overpriced plastic crap. 🧸🦄🎁
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 🦦🦦🦦 Saturday, August 3, 2024 4 months ago:
@Duenan @Bottom_racer And people wonder why I'm scared of ladders!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 🦦🦦🦦 Saturday, August 3, 2024 4 months ago:
@melbaboutown @Seagoon_ I've definitely noticed a decline in their quality, especially with their elastics, stitching, and fabric quality.
Also, any "lace" trims will begin to fray in a wash or two, even if you handle it carefully.
It's very frustrating.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 🦦🦦🦦 Saturday, August 3, 2024 4 months ago:
@underwatermagpies @Seagoon_ The only thing about Uniqlo is that their sizes all tend to run a *lot* smaller than most other stores.
Normally wear a medium?
Okay, at Uniqlo you'll want to try a large and an extra large.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 🦦🦦🦦 Saturday, August 3, 2024 4 months ago:
@RustyRaven @dumblederp @Baku There's a whole thread about these guys over on the Choice website: https://choice.community/t/online-websites-that-appear-australian-but-are-not/29603/9
The short answer is that NineLife is not owned by or affiliated with Channel Nine, or its TV channels 9Life or 9Now.
NineLife looks like it's based overseas, possibly in the UK or the US.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 🦦🦦🦦 Saturday, August 3, 2024 4 months ago:
@Seagoon_ Let's get the ball rolling...
Much on over the weekend for everyone?
At my end, some of it will be spent planning last minute anniversary surprises for wifey. It's on the 12th of August, so I've really left it to the last minute 😔
Suggestions welcome...
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024 4 months ago:
@LowExperience2368 No wukkas, hope thd lessons go well 😊🎹🎸
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024 4 months ago:
@Duenan Leave for the snowfields?
Just 16,246 showed up for their game last week against the Giants.
So safe to say most have already been hitting Mt Hotham and Falls Creek for a few weeks already...
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024 4 months ago:
@Duenan A few years ago all their players wanted to return to the southern states.
Well, they fixed that problem.
Unfortunately, now none of their players want to play footy outside Queensland 😁
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024 4 months ago:
@LowExperience2368 @Seagoon_ If rock songs on piano are your thing, you might want to check out VKGoesWild on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@vkgoeswildofficial?si=k5IGWqsX27rU_AKE
She's a classically-trained pianist from Ukraine who's built a career doing cover of rock songs.
Here's her doing Bohemian Rhapsody. Seriously talented: https://youtu.be/rptV6K7nqu0?si=pRIGbSF5j8dwOoz8
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024 4 months ago:
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024 4 months ago:
@CEOofmyhouse56 Haha You've got great taste 👍😁
A couple to add:
Theme song to the film Boronia Boys: https://youtu.be/yRebOoCvBAg?si=BppkmDhO9Hci0XXC
And worth checking out if you like '80s-style Aussie rock: My bestie's partner's band Kandy Kobras: https://youtu.be/OMmA_j_9cwA?si=bzoRMWC7IdaaiK2C
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024 4 months ago:
@CEOofmyhouse56 @Seagoon_ Barnzy and Tina: https://youtu.be/crAgnI9BF6M?si=3hYFC5FPECPrMq-H
Barnzy and Farnzy: https://youtu.be/AU_bCchDWF4?si=QH_nwvz2o7Hd20-Y
Barnzy and Hutchence: https://youtu.be/OqSrEhuWrgY?si=Hcofpl9WmEsXUdEq
Barnzy and The Living End: https://youtu.be/HO5shojBCQ8?si=v-Tt8AN8_nE849AU
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024 4 months ago:
@CEOofmyhouse56 @Seagoon_ Farnzy, circa 1990 or so, doing You're the Voice, live: https://youtu.be/1em08fq8of0?si=vkiMK90cEQUj0B8M
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024 4 months ago:
@CEOofmyhouse56 @Seagoon_ Is there a theme, or just Aussie anx Kiwi rock?
If so:
Killing Heidi: https://youtu.be/01aq2JWk3d0?si=Y82AAlD4bjpBLfl2
Silverchair: https://youtu.be/8KHwuOtcALQ?si=kIzHfNTdoz5fC9wR
More Silverchair: https://youtu.be/ShiShrR_nh8?si=uJ_noi5P2AhF4xkO
Easybeats: https://youtu.be/rBJLoYd8xak?si=Kf4bOFeXuvPypmgf
Norman Rowe: https://youtu.be/rBJLoYd8xak?si=Kf4bOFeXuvPypmgf
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024 4 months ago:
@CEOofmyhouse56 Haha I like your thinking!
Any ideas on what I should say? I'm open to suggestions 😊
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024 4 months ago:
@Seagoon_ My boss (this is not the "manager") insists on having a team meeting every Friday afternoon.
She insists on having another one first thing Monday morning.
Are these meetings happening so we can talk about what we're working on?
Well, not really. That's what the Wednesday meeting is for.
No, I'm now 99% sure the whole point of the Friday meeting is so she can tell everyone how much fun she will have skiing or bushwalking this weekend.
And the Monday one? That's to force people to listen to how much fun she had skiing or bushwalking this weekend.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024 4 months ago:
@Duenan @CEOofmyhouse56 Parsley and fish definitely can work together 😊
Do you have any lemons?
Any neighbours with a lemon tree in the front yard?
If so, you might want to try a lemon parsley butter with your fish: https://www.recipetineats.com/lemon-butter-sauce-fish/
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024 4 months ago:
@LowExperience2368 @Seagoon_ Female friendships are the best ☺️
(The only catch for me is I tend to be someone people come to with problems. So there's been days when my bestie has come to me with troubles, and then my other bestie, and then mum, and then wifey 😫.)
Anyways. Grateful thoughts.
One of the ways wifey and I split jobs is that I do the dishes at night and she, in theory, puts them away every morning.
In practice, most days I end up doing it.
Well...
A couple of days ago, I waited to see how long it would take for her to do it.
6pm — nope. 7pm. 8pm.
Are you going to put them away? "In a minute!"
9pm. 10pm.
Eventually it gets to midnight. Still not put away and she's fast asleep.
So I put them away. At midnight. I might have made a bit more noise than usual in the process.
She wakes up: "Why are you doing that now? It's midnight!"
Oh sorry, it got to midnight and the dishes still weren't put away from this morning, so I'm doing it...
Anyways.
I woke up this morning, and the dishes were all in the drawers.
Grateful ☺️
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread 👩⚕️🐈🐕🐁🦜 Friday, August 2, 2024 4 months ago:
- Comment on Daily discussion. 👖🪑🌞🌫 Thursday, August 1, 2024 4 months ago:
- Comment on Daily discussion. 👖🪑🌞🌫 Thursday, August 1, 2024 4 months ago:
@Seagoon_ @melbaboutown They also start fraying in fewer washes than they used to. And the elastic on them goes sooner too.
As for window cleaning, my tip is, if you want a streak-free finish, try using scrunched up newspaper instead of a cloth.
- Comment on Daily discussion. 👖🪑🌞🌫 Thursday, August 1, 2024 4 months ago:
@melbaboutown @LowExperience2368 Huge hugs.
There were signs up around the apartment block where we live recently warning about a homeless guy who had been trespassing, and to call strata and the police if you see him.
Just from the photo, he looked creepy AF!
Apparently he spent a couple of nights in the basement carpark, and cut power to the building's alarm system one night. (The strata managers only found out after they reviewed the CCTV footage.)
And anyone angrily shouting homophobic slurs is always scary and confronting.
So I can definitely relate to how you must be feeling!
You're doing the right thing by trying to help. But I agree it really is shameful how much our pollies have cut the social safety net these past 40-odd years (and both major parties are to blame!). It means people who need help often don't get it.
Take care, stay safe 💜
- Comment on Daily discussion. 👖🪑🌞🌫 Thursday, August 1, 2024 4 months ago:
@CEOofmyhouse56 @underwatermagpies You inspired me to stop by the local Baker's Delight for lunch.
They didn't have any of those custard buns with coconut flakes (I looked!), but I did get a cheese and tomato bun.
- Comment on Daily discussion. 👖🪑🌞🌫 Thursday, August 1, 2024 4 months ago:
@LowExperience2368 I've got 15 minutes to wait for a compulsory company-wide Zoom call.
Not enough time to make headway on any of my tasks for today, but too ling to do nothing.
How's everyone else's day been so far?
- Comment on Daily discussion. 🏅 Wednesday, 31 July, 2024 4 months ago:
@melbaboutown Haha
Yeah, they're good at figuring out the hooman's schemes.
With Miss Mimi, we couldn't crush up her tablets and hide them in her food because one of our other babies likes indulging in other people's meals.
We tried these meat-flavoured pill pockets. She got wise to them within a day. She got good at eating the pockets and spitting out the tablet.
We tried this contraption that flings the tablet down her throat. She got wise to that.
We tried crushing the tablet, mixing it with water, and syringing it. She got wise to that.
We tried hiding the medicines in different places. She came to recognise the sound of the bottle opening.
We tried giving the tablets in different places.
We tried all the things. At best, they worked for a day.
At worst, she bit wifey's finger accidentally.
Most of the time, we thought she took the tablet, only for her to spit it out later.
The joys of having a sick cat...
- Comment on Daily discussion. 🏅 Wednesday, 31 July, 2024 4 months ago:
@Duenan Out of curiosity, what blend?
(We've got an old coffee machine that work was getting rid of, but I'm yet to pick up coffee beans for it. I'm open to recommendations! ☺️)
- Comment on Daily discussion. 🏅 Wednesday, 31 July, 2024 4 months ago:
@Duenan @wscholermann When you're still wide awake at 2am, you'll think to yourself: "Y'know, that aas a damn good coffee" 😹
- Comment on Daily discussion. 🏅 Wednesday, 31 July, 2024 4 months ago:
@TinyBreak @Seagoon_ This probably isn't quite what you're looking for, but it does involve a phobia.
I'm a little scared of heights, and a lot scared of falling off ladders.
The last place I lived was an old cream-brick 1960s-ish flat. It had really high ceilings, with that "popcorn" (possibly asbestos?) texture.
I was living there by myself.
One day, the light bulb in the living room blew.
This ceiling was high — I could just barely reach it from the second- or third-top rung (and I wasn't game to go any higher).
The light had one of those glass covers that had a screw in the middle, and then a couple of hooks on either side. After about 50-odd years, it was well and truly rusted and didn't want to budge.
Well.
After two goes, taking around half an hour each time, I finally managed to get the bloody cover off.
Then another 30 minutes to get the old bulb out.
Then another 30 minutes to get the new globe in.
After spending around two hours — basically the best part of a Saturday afternoon — trying to change one light globe, I was done. The cover can wait for another day.
Unfortunately, a few weeks later, I got a notice that the real estate agents wanted to do an inspection. The joys of renting!
That weekend, I asked wifey to come over (we hadn't moved in together yet) and help put the cover on.
Ladder out. Clip. Clip. Clip. Screw.
Done in, like, two minutes, tops.
I think I might have said something along the lines of: "Shit — it's that easy?"
The moral of the story?
Find a handywoman, move in with her, and get wifey to do it 😁
- Comment on Daily discussion. 🏅 Wednesday, 31 July, 2024 4 months ago:
@melbaboutown @Seagoon_ Poor Melbcat, hope she gets better soon.
And I don't envy you, especially if you had to give her tablets.
One of ours went to the vet recently and was given antibiotics.
Within a day or so, she figured out the signs and began hiding in a cupboard as soon as either of us opened the drawer where they were kept. Or she heard the pill bottle open.
It then became a two-person job to hold her down while feeding her the tablet.