Sat plan: The usual slow start with a few chores; podcast post-production; fetch some wine from the village (when it’s not raining); and this evening, a chat with wine. Anyway the podcast post-production is the main thing.
Right, time to attempt walking to the village and back while the Rain Parrot tells me I have a clear hour and a bit.
Here we go...
My errands are done. It takes 20 minutes to stroll back to @bunjaree, but the @rainparrot currently reckons I've only got 16 minutes. Let's see.
@bunjaree@rainparrot Easy peasy. Anything predicted to be patchy or variable up in the Mountains usually peters out by the time it gets to @bunjaree, because landscape.
Right. Back to the podcast editing. I want to get this episode on the line tonight, so I won’t be paying much attention here.
Editing done. Mixing now.
Uploading.
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Hey Kids, I’d nearly forgotten, but it’s an Essential polling Tuesday! essentialvision.com.au
Let’s see what we can find. As usual, this polling was done Wed–Sun and the margin of error on top-line figures is around ±3 percentage points. Here we go...
“The Prime Minister’s approval rating has dropped to 48%, the lowest of the last 12 months (54% last month), with disapproval at 42% (37% in October).”
It's a moist and potentially noisy day for weather in the Blue Mountains.
COME SOUTH YOU LAZY STORMS!
“Severe Thunderstorm Warning for DAMAGING WINDS, LARGE HAILSTONES and HEAVY RAINFALL for people in parts of Central Tablelands, North West Slopes and Plains, Central West Slopes and Plains and Upper Western Forecast Districts.” bom.gov.au/products/IDN21…
There is a thunderstorm coming in from the west right now but as usual it's passing south of here.
Sat plan: Slow start, because Saturday; a few household chores; podcast post-production, so you can listen to the lovely @markhumphries with your ears tonight; quiet evening.
The podcast editing is going quite well, albeit slowly because I’m faffing around and chasing birds out of the house. Meanwhile, @markhumphries, here is that radio documentary we discussed.
Last night I dreamed that I was untangling the telephone cables in @GreenJ’s radio studio, which was equipped with an ancient Telecom Commander system like this one from Museums Victoria.
While doing so, someone made a call on speakerphone to a number in Port Hughes in South Australia, where two young children answered the phone. We didn’t talk to them, but they didn’t hang up, so we just had them there on speaker in the background for ages.
Mr Green didn’t actually feature in the dream in terms of plot, but somehow we just knew they were his studio phones. A technician and I discussed how modern radio studios were all digital and had much better phones.
Starting momentarily is a separate event, a Digital Rights Watch and Twitter panel, “Online Anonymity and Pseudonymity: Why it Matters”. This is for us alleged journalists so I may well be reporting on this. I will tweet little bits on this thread.
Kara Hinesley is introducing this by saying, as I suspected, that this session was prompted by recent news in Australia about the government’s plan to ID social media users.