National security is one area where we can expect bipartisan stupidity, and it's easy to understand why. Displays of insufficient condemnation are taken as not being hard enough, so the outcome is always an erosion of our liberties for (at best) modest outcomes. The bigger worry with this is how int...

Worst thing about it is the bipartisan support. So it's not like we even have a sensible opposition up oppose it.

After getting my degree, I've spent the next 12 years wondering why I didn't get a degree in something else. But unless you need a degree for a vocation, it's pretty easy to just learn stuff in your own time in whatever interests you.

Canberra always slows to a crawl in December, which suits me well. It's the time of year i can just relax.

Though this year I haven't gotten my work situation sorted out yet, so that's making me a little stressed/ nervous.

Want!

I finally got rid of my Commonwealth Bank CC and savings account. No more paying account fees for me.

Final step in my path to financial maturity is to switch from my retail super fund to an industry one, but I've got to get my head around the whole life insurance thing first...

It would be more exciting if I didn't already have the DVDs. But it's a good reminder to watch it again, even if I've been hanging out for Rebuild 4.0.

Our strategy tends to be just having coffee for breakfast, then having an early-ish lunch. So proximity to good coffee is essential for hotel selection.

These days surely all one needs to eat well is an internet connection on their phone. Thanks to trip advisor, I find great places to eat wherever I go.

I'm annoyed that I didn't make plans for Easter earlier - I sat on the knowledge that there's 3 public holidays in a week and didn't book anything.

I believe that's known as "adulting"

(Finally) got my full licence this week, so went wine touring around the local region. Spent way too much money on wine, but the cellar is now topped up with some good reislings and reds, so I'm pretty happy with that. Even got a few good drinkin' whites for the summer, and a couple of bottles for X...

Damn you, Black Friday sales!
Civ VI: Rise and Fall
Ashes Cricket

How come? What are they protesting?

Yeah, it's a weird arrangement. The government can't hire contractors directly anymore; they can only use approved companies for them. So the contracting firms are necessary middlemen between the government and the people doing the work. And in that there are some companies who operate by keeping th...

Two things: 1. Part of what I can differentiate myself on when I apply for jobs is price. When I put a figure that ensures I'm competitive, then a large fee on top of that may nullify the competitive gain I get by setting my price. 2. They do next to nothing on a weekly basis, and some take up to 20...

Two contracting firms contacted me to go for the same role. I can only go with one so I asked which one has the lowest overhead. One rang me up and got shitty with me about asking, trying every rhetorical trick in the book to avoid disclosing how much they'll make off my labour. This industry sucks,...

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17 Nov 2018, 23:59

They'll just use it to price gouge us somehow.

Valve has been pretty good with their pricing so far. It's the other publishers that have been awful.

Inconceivable!

Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You

New season of Narcos is up on Netflix.

Thursday:
- 19,200 steps
- 4.3km low intensity jog
- 2.3km brisk walk
- 4×15s plank 10s rest in between, 2×20 Russian twists
- under calorie goal

It's cash in an abstract form that you can use with them instead of real money.

Every time you shop, you can trade 2,000 points for $10 off. Alternately you can cash out a nominal figure and use that like a gift card to pay with.

I get pretty much all my shirts from Bonds these days. I used to get plain tees from kmart/bigw, but I found they would start looking worn out after a few uses. The bonds shirts last ages.

Can't get photos, but picked up the Humble Bundle DevOps bundle (some skillz to pay teh billz) and the 2nd tier of the Dystopian bundle. Also a couple of t-shirts from Bonds while they are on sale. https://media.bonds.com.au/catalog/product/cache/1/alt_image/300x450/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/...