Notices by Matthew Davidson (mjd)
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Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 29-Mar-2020 01:59:21 UTC 
Matthew Davidson
Damn it. Spent three days adjusting my circadian rhythm to suit a 1am shift tonight, and it's been cancelled. Looks like it's going to be a lean few weeks at #work. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2020 11:25:31 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Ha. Already did this course. Well, 95% of it. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcome-to-your-hastily-prepared-online-college-course #edu -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2020 11:12:48 UTC
Matthew Davidson
@tregeagle I'm beginning to think that when every organisation with your phone number, from your superannuation fund to your cat's vet, misuses SMS to send you daily updates on their #covid19 preparedness, foul-mouthed abuse is an entirely appropriate response. No context or explanation: Not "F**k off, I was sleeping", or "F**k off, I was expecting something important", or "F**k off, that is what email is for". Just "F**k off, you f***ing c***s!" #DerekandClive -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 26-Mar-2020 10:51:46 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Need to stay awake because shifts starting at 1am are a thing now at #work, and I have one in a couple of days, so I must recalibrate. Don't have a good track record with night work. Thankfully F-bomb Freddy at the far end of the landing and Pinky Tuscadero downstairs are engaged in a stereo war tonight. It's Total Eclipse of the Heart versus some generic heavy metal at the moment. Ordinarily I'd be annoyed, but since you can't get pseudoephedrine over the counter any more I'll take this instead. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2020 09:28:37 UTC
Matthew Davidson
#SocialDistancingTips: Play a game of Mastermind. It's as old as I am, and has that awesome photo on the cover. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/34772 https://www.autistici.org/gnome-mastermind/ -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Mar-2020 02:43:32 UTC
Matthew Davidson
As with every time I've been to an optometrist I feel like I've been railroaded. Though to be fair, this time I needed multifocals. Spent $200 more than budgeted. Getting old is expensive. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2020 02:41:52 UTC
Matthew Davidson
@tregeagle There's always this race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMinwf-kRlA -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2020 23:50:12 UTC
Matthew Davidson
@tregeagle No more ten-hour shifts for the foreseeable, but I still spend at least a few hours a day showing customers round empty shelves where any products even remotely connected with hygiene used to be found. People are thinking laterally now, asking for rubbing alcohol, glycerine (for home made hand sanitiser), etc. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/34631 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2020 09:48:25 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Been delaying a haircut for months. Now sporting an Alain de Botton on the top, but a grey, wiry Farrah Fawcett at the back and sides. It rather suits me, but I have to get it cut anyway. In a few months, everybody in #Toormina will be wearing their hair like that. It's a burden being a trendsetter. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2020 08:59:41 UTC
Matthew Davidson
#SocialDistancingTips: Fill in the gaps in your musical knowledge. I am bingeing on #TalkingHeads, who I've never seriously listened to. I loved the film True Stories on VHS weekly rental as a kid. And (heresy alert!) I preferred the Chris-and-Tina-produced Happy Mondays album ...Yes Please! to Pills 'n' Thrills, which was dated the second it came out, and insubstantial in retrospect (actually, I felt Oakenfold drained the life out of the band at the time). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MIHT9d25wY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkhQKV5o1-g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoP9QnRc89k -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2020 08:38:49 UTC
Matthew Davidson
#SocialDistancingTips: Take the opportunity to wallow in nerdy nostalgia thanks to the #InternetArchive and #Wine (both kinds). https://archive.org/details/cdromsoftware?&sort=-downloads I am currently rekindling my obsession with RollerCoaster Tycoon. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2020 08:30:13 UTC
Matthew Davidson
#SocialDistancingTips: Be married for two decades. You now have nothing more to learn about coping with isolation. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2020 00:40:50 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Surely something else is happening somewhere? https://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/34704 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Mar-2020 08:17:35 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Been #watching #Avenue5 S01E08. Breathtaking sketch of individualistic entitlement culture hitting reality and reality hitting back. It's almost like a metaphor for something. Can't quite put my finger on it. Been in the news a bit lately. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2020 12:28:27 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Empty shelves do indeed look really grim. I wonder if the panic buying is spread by Facebook meme waves with a rolling menu of doomsday must-haves. It started with toilet paper, then tissues. Then pasta, rice, tins of soup, baked beans and spaghetti. Antibacterial soap, antibacterial cleaning wipes, antibacterial laundry liquid. Indeed anything with a label including a word prefixed by "anti". Then flour, but of course you can't do much with flour alone, so it spread to eggs and milk. But hang on: the eggs and milk will expire within a month. Shouldn't we be stockpiling chickens and cows? Never mind; one step at a time. Bleach - obviously. Vinegar, and come to think of it: what are we going to do with all this pasta? We'll need jars of sauces, tinned tomatoes, mince. Oh! We'll need a chest freezer! Several! And an electricity source. I know; we can burn some of this toilet paper in a steam generator, freeing up more storage space for dog food, paracetamol, chicken necks, batteries… -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2020 11:31:57 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Another long day at #work, which is starting to resemble a Soviet supermarket. We wear ill-fitting red shirts and have many fine consumer goods, just not today the ones you need. Panic buying has snowballed from idiot #covid-19 doomsday preppers to people panicked by the idiots, to people panicked by the people panicked by… And so on, but for how long? https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/34631 -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2020 09:40:28 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Thank Yeshua the Nazarene, the festival of lazy, loping, stoner rhythm guitar is finally over. I demand noisy neighbours with better taste! #Sawtell
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