Notices by Matthew Davidson (mjd)
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Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2019 23:47:45 UTC 
Matthew Davidson
@tregeagle Truth be told, me too. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2019 07:18:35 UTC
Matthew Davidson
@tregeagle Next time you go home, it may seem oddly familiar: https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/31259 Enter Bluebottle. Waits for audience applause. Not a sausage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o%27_war #Goons -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2019 06:04:46 UTC
Matthew Davidson
"Only Cask Wine From The Goon Region Allowed to Be Called Goon" https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/31256 #AU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goon_of_Fortune -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2019 12:08:33 UTC
Matthew Davidson
@tregeagle Reserve the #DrWho / JFK shooting anniversary weekend in late November. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2019 12:05:56 UTC
Matthew Davidson
@tregeagle I used to promise myself the most horrible junk food breakfasts to get myself out of bed and on the train in to work. Mind you, I'm too old to get the hangovers that would make that kind of bribery necessary, or the fat salt, and sugar so rewarding. Can barely touch that stuff now, but back in the day it was just laying down a foundation for the first beer of the morning. Ah, to be young… -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2019 02:56:59 UTC
Matthew Davidson
@tregeagle Know of any restaurants in #Sawtell or #Coffs that would appeal to people with a very 1970s palate? My parents are visiting next month, health scares permitting, and the only times I've eaten out in the last year have been when you've bought a bag of crisps with a round. [Brushes crumbs off belly] Oh, salt and vinegar! Why can I never say no? -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2019 11:32:09 UTC
Matthew Davidson
@tregeagle It was classic oven door #weather when I left the air conditioning. Then I crossed the railway line and got the #Sawtell 5℃ discount, and on my windswept promontory it was positively mild. But yes, it looks like it will be a harrowing summer. Blow wind, blow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI3tKFyux9M -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2019 05:29:19 UTC
Matthew Davidson
I don't know whether technically I live on a promontory or an escarpment, but either way, it's jolly windy up here today. #Sawtell -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2019 05:27:05 UTC
Matthew Davidson
@tregeagle I wish I had a fraction of my cat's hair. Growing on my head, that is. I've more than enough on my floor, my furniture, my clothes, etc. #WaterWaterEverywhere -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2019 10:06:22 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Absolutely shattered. Day off #work tomorrow. Think I might give my todo list the day off as well, and just snooze. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2019 10:15:58 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Nothing quite so good as a strawberry Moove from the school canteen. https://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/1978-launch-of-big-m/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7E3MaiSeLo -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2019 01:13:14 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Have just discovered, late in life, the joys of Colby cheese. Previously I thought of it only as a fictional second division football club ("Colby Cheese one, Partick Thistle nil."), but if you want the endorphin rush of milk fat solids unencumbered by flavour, Colby should be your go-to cheese. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2019 10:05:02 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Had a long-overdue haircut the other day. Within minutes I go from dotty old Professor Cycleclips to the character in a gritty East End drama who shouts things like "Oi! Who towd you to bring a shoota?!" -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2019 00:05:57 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Whenever I think Jonathan Pie has jumped the shark, he does something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQUglnEmhOc -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2019 00:37:42 UTC
Matthew Davidson
Woo-hoo! Daylight saving starts in a week. #Kitty will wake me an hour later for breakfast! I get to walk home from #work in daylight! https://www.nsw.gov.au/about-new-south-wales/daylight-savings/ -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2019 00:31:42 UTC
Matthew Davidson
@tregeagle Sounds like you're due for a holiday. Spend some time among people who have the luxury of aspirations beyond just making it to Christmas. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2019 03:09:22 UTC
Matthew Davidson
I used my mum's typewriter to write BASIC programs (I can't handwrite in monospace, so it never looked right otherwise) that I would then enter into the school computers at lunchtimes, so I used shift lock a lot. Ironically, this was on a Microbee, the #AU designed pre-PC micro which - uniquely for the time, I think - had proper lowercase characters due to an 8x16px character size rather than the typical 8x8px. So lower case 'g', 'p', etc. didn't have to sit up and beg like the aforementioned dog. BASIC being BASIC though, meant 'goto' (rather than 'GOTO') was a syntax error. This may have changed since; I'm not an MCSE, so I wouldn't know about cutting edge developments in BASIC. I hear it doesn't require line numbers now. Mindblowing. -
Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2019 02:55:09 UTC
Matthew Davidson
I remember how the shift lock key used to lift the carriage of my mum's typewriter like a dog raising its head in expectation of a treat. I feel like a product of a bygone age. https://medium.com/forwardtick/its-time-for-caps-lock-to-die-81c9eaa4dfa7
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