Big W supposedly have Lego 60423 on clearance, but every Perth store has sold out. If you could grab one (or actually just let me know if you spot it in stock), I have a kid who will be very grateful.
You're not wrong. The first innings of the cricket last night while Perth was batting was lively and boisterous. The second half of the was utter silence except for wickets. 41,200 people all with nothing much to say can be eerie.
There's nothing like it. An AFL crowd always has a decent portion of opposition supporters. The Rugby State of Origin is almost 50/50. While I'm certain it wasn't, BBL felt like it was 100% home crowd.
It was a fun game. We have family visiting from Brisbane and Canberra. Twelve of us all went together. Great family bonding.
I'm literally sitting in Optus Stadium, waiting for the BBL Scorchers v. Heat game to start. It's definitely a spectator game.
It feels like the final hours of a One Day match where you are chasing a run rate of 6-8 per over. All game. Games only go for about 3 hours total. A little longer than an AFL game.
I've had decent luck with hams going cheap. Christmas stuff like those fruit puddings etc also gets very cheap.
I had it at the inlaws yesterday, only he changed his Admin password from what I set it to and doesn't know what it is. I didn't have a USB on me that can boot to a live Linux image and hack that.
So I'll need to go back in a day or two. 😭
If you have access to a Colesworth that either stands alone or has a very small shopping center around it, it should be bearable.
People will be flocking to the bigger shopping centers. Good luck!
I got my nephew a remote controlled fart machine. He keeps sneaking it under adult seats and setting it off, the grown ups are being good sports and playing along. The kids are in fits of giggles. It's a happy game that I think the kids will remember throughout their childhoods. It's very wholesome. ❤️
I haven't looked in a few years, but Apple Music was just a re-brand of Beats Music, which was itself an enshitified rebadge of the old MOG music service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOG_(online_music)
Yes, Apple have enough money to improve it. But unless they have already been improving it, they didn't make the existing service.
Spud Shed is a legitimate competitor in WA. At least as good as Aldi in terms of range. They're also the only stores open 24x7, here. Colesworth close at 9pm on weekdays and 5pm on weekends.
They don't play on the same level as Colesworth though. Maybe a few percent market share even here?
Woolies could argue that every dollar spent at Spud Shed isn't being spent in their stores. That seems to be what they say that about literally any store selling a product found on their shelves.
I'm totally making it up to her. Her present is a big Nerf gun that shoots tennis balls.
If you have Apple, Airtags are the best. Stupid expensive ($50) though. You can get cover things to make them into keyrings.
Has the advantage of being able to find your keys on an app wherever you left them.
At less than half the price and with a much smaller 'find my tag' network is the Tile Mate. You can get them at JB or Officeworks.
So, there's a bug with the graphics drivers at work, where if the 4K displays go to sleep, all the windows are on the primary display when I get back to the computer. It's super annoying, but nothing worked to stop it.
In the end, I bought a little gadget that stops the display from going to sleep. It is a small USB device that moves the mouse 1 pixel every 10 seconds. While it solved my problem, it is designed for your exact use case: https://amzn.asia/d/cyeA6qH
It presents as a USB mouse to the computer, doesn't need any software. It keeps you "available" all day. Just thought you might like to know it exists. 😉
If Joe's Emporium of Essentials opened tomorrow with the same range as Colesworth, but cheaper prices, watch that "loyalty" disappear overnight. The duopoly have reached a comfortable equilibrium and know that so long as they remain cheaper than IGA, they're good to extort us.
I got home after a graveyard shift one time many years ago and had a minor existential crisis because I truly didn't remember the drive home. I read a couple of years ago that this phenomenon has a name: Highway Hypnosis. In theory, I shouldn't have been fatigued that day, but that's also a plausible explanation.
It truly doesn't matter. An automated task would be out by a few seconds occasionally anyway.
If you are interested in playing with it, brisbot's code is here.
I'm on holidays. 🎄
Feels good. Now to scramble for the remaining presents.
I have spent a lot of time on Victorian roads, both as a cyclist and as a driver. I'm with the Victorian police: Victorian drivers be crazy.
Best evidence I have to back this up is that my car insurance premiums dropped by $800 when I moved from Victoria to WA. The insurance companies think you are far more likely to claim in Victoria than you are in WA.
Never before in Australia has a state government had so much political power with so much wealth at its disposal. What does Labor have to show for its total control?
At just 16, Gout Gout removes Peter Norman's national mark that had stood since 1968, producing a faster time than what Usain Bolt ran at the same age.
With a kid in Little Athletics, I've taken an interest in junior track and field this year. I've been following Gout's antics for about six months, now.
At 16 (almost 17), He just ran the fastest 200m time by an Australian sprinter, ever.
https://youtu.be/bjb4ku7GeLc
For the record, he also ran a 100m in 10.04 this year.
This is my thinly-veiled request for Christmas ideas for a bunch of people I need to buy presents for - some of whom I don't see all that often and know all that well. I thought it'd be handy to have a thread of present ideas that we can all crowd-source off each other. The best ideas are going to be neat stuff that people won't know exists and won't have already bought for themselves. I'll end up getting some people obvious stuff like alcohol and nice chocolates. Those aren't really he ideas I'm looking for.
I don't want to make rules, but I think we need a couple:
- Let's at least cap them at $50. Telling people you want a Drone, a Steam Deck or PS5 simply isn't realistic. I'm not looking for ideas in that price range (even though I'd probably love all these, myself).
- Avoid intimate stuff. I'm not talking sex toys (though avoid those too - I'm not buying my sister-in-law a dildo), but more things that are really personal like jewellery, watches and stuff that you need to know the person's tastes to get right.
The Commonwealth Bank has unveiled major changes to one of its main everyday account offerings, which will see customers charged $3 to withdraw their own money.
I hope this inspires a massive migration off CBA and a rollback of the policy. Because if it doesn't, the other banks will be sure to follow.
The Privacy Commissioner finds Bunnings Warehouse interfered with the privacy of its customers by using facial recognition without consent in 63 of its stores over a three-year period.
Apparently, Bunnings have my face on-file. I don't think I like that.
Police allege a women charged with the theft of 63,000 limited edition Bluey coins earlier this year was the getaway driver. The 27-year-old Western Sydney woman is the third person to be arrested for the theft as 40,000 of the missing coins were discovered.
I still don't think you can get any dollarbucks for yourself!
A 17-year-old girl was so severely malnourished doctors feared she was at risk of a heart attack, but her father claimed she was "the healthiest child he knew", the Perth District Court is told.
For reference, my kids both reached 30kg when they were seven!
Reece Joshua Sturgeon broke into the outback facility and remained there for two days, wearing a uniform, eating in the kitchen and telling Defence Force personnel he was on a "special mission".
Investors with 10 or more properties to their name have more debt than smaller-scale investors but use negative gearing and capital gains discounts to keep buying, tax office data shows.
And as the article says - this data is only from individual tax returns. It doesn't cover companies.
I stumbled across a sports article from a US publication and thought it interesting that it showed the USA leading the medals table.
Instead of the regular table that gives weight to Gold, silver and bronze, they just see total medals.
I sorta like it. Celebrating all medal winners equally is nice. It feels a little like fudging the numbers, though.
A Perth woman collapses in a court dock after being sentenced to nine years in prison for trying to murder her husband who had been diagnosed with dementia.
Super sad case. She tried to kill him to ease his suffering. If he'd been on the record supporting her decision, I think the sentence would have been very different. And she lost him to natural causes anyway. 😞
The gunman who shot and killed a mother and her teenage daughter in Perth's affluent western suburbs did so because he thought his ex-partner was at the property.
WA's teacher union rejects a second pay and conditions offer from the state government, stoking concerns of interruptions at schools as the union threatens to forge on with a potential strike on Tuesday next week.
Just when you thought you'd made it through the holidays. 😀
I think a half-day strike is just as bad for parents than a full one. We still need to arrange for the kids to be taken care of until 12:30. Apparently we can send them in anyway, but they won't be in class and it isn't exactly supporting the teachers to do that.
I hope there is progress in the negotiations and the strike gets called off.
The 28-minute episode doesn't disappoint with a special wedding and an answer to whether the Heelers sell up and move. But look a little closer and The Sign is full of other hidden treats too. Here's nine you might've missed. Spoilers ahead.
I just sort of assume everyone has watched the episode by now. If you haven't, I recommend doing so before you get to the end of this article.
Just 57 mega polluters are responsible for the bulk of the world's greenhouse gas emissions and most big fossil fuel players have increased, rather than decreased, their output since the Paris Agreement in 2015, a staggering new report finds.
On the one hand, it makes it really hard to stay motivated with the teeny contribution I make to reducing emissions. On the other, think of how much of a difference these 57 companies could make if they actually reached net-zero targets.
To understand why 30-somethings feel like they're struggling financially, the ABC analysed five factors — housing, healthcare, debt, tax, and income. The data reveals this generation is caught in an economic perfect storm.
I'm sure this whole article comes as a shock to nobody, but it's nice to see it recognised like this.
As Aussies head to the beaches and parklands this summer, we asked a venom expert to rank the top 10 most painful creatures they might encounter.
Facebook profited from the decline of Australia's news organisations, but enforcing the News Media Bargaining Code will make a bad situation worse without solving the problem of who will pay for the news.
Try and get past the fact that this is sort-of about Facebook. Because it's more about the demise of news than it is about Facebook, specifically.
> news organisations were never in the news business, Amanda Lotz, a professor of media studies at QUT, said. > > "They were in the attention-attraction business. > > "In another era, if you were an advertiser, a newspaper was a great place to be. > > "But now there are just much better places to be."
> The moment news moved online, and was "unbundled" from classifieds, sports results, movie listings, weather reports, celebrity gossip, and all the other reasons people bought newspapers or watched evening TV bulletins, the news business model was dead. > > News by itself was never profitable, Professor Bruns said. > > "Then advertising moved somewhere else. > > "This was always going to happen via Facebook or other platforms."
It's a really fascinating read. We can all agree that independent journalism is valuable in our society, but ultimately, most of us don't so much seek news out as much as we encounter news as we go about our day.
I'm sure the TL;DR bot is about to entirely miss the nuance of the article. I recommend reading the whole thing.
Tony found himself with too much time on his hands at work. What he did next challenges long-held notions of loyalty in the workplace.
I don't think this movement really got off the ground in WA, we never really had the lock-downs and remote working culture introduced through the pandemic that the Eastern states got. Still, this makes for fascinating reading.
