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Daily Rumination No. 5: Hipster Bulbs
Hipster style continues to spread throughout Australian cafés and eateries, homogenising menus, decor and more. Where the egg was once king, avocado now rules supreme. Never has non-conformity been so mainstream. In recent times, I’ve noticed the increasing installation of hipster ‘subway tiles’ as backdrops for café counters. Undoubtedly you’ve seen them before; they’re generally
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Daily Rumination No. 4: Compound Modifiers
The hyphen is a punctuation mark that I think about fairly regularly and today was no exception. Many grammatical freaks fret about the misuse of semicolons and apostrophes—nearly all hope is lost for this mark for both possession and contraction—but the failure to use hyphens properly is perhaps even more worrisome. Hyphens have a number
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Daily Rumination No. 3: Many Thanks
These days in Australia, when café owners and waitstaff approach you at your table with your coffee order, they often say ‘thank you’ before they’ve even set them down or you’ve had the chance to thank them for the beverages. Shouldn’t the patron be saying ‘thank you’ in this moment, or is this a confirmation
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Daily Rumination No. 2: Crests
People frequently choose the stupid, dangerous option of crossing a road on the crest of a hill, where they are unable to see any approaching traffic from the other side. Earlier this morning, I noticed a woman who was accompanying a young boy and a guide-dog-in-training across the road. Where did they cross? On the crest
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Daily Rumination No. 1: Caps
Many people—particularly young males—are surprisingly comfortable pinning their ears under their caps. It would drive me mad to have my ears pressed against my head like that and you can even see their ears being bent. Not to mention, these caps are often worn inside. I don’t get it.
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Poem: Happy Birthday, Mac
When I was the tender, young age of five, My parents bought our very first Mac. From the moment we pressed it alive, We knew there was no looking back. Through the classic OS I did click, Unaware of the company’s woes. I was in love with a GUI so slick, It could have collapsed
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Why HomePod Is My Favourite New(er) Apple Product
It has been some time since I first wrote about HomePod. Considering the general tech news angle that HomePod hasn’t been quite the success that Apple had imagined—which we don’t actually know for sure or in any real detail—I thought that it would be good to revisit the device and discuss how I’ve been using
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500ish Words: ‘The “iPhone Mini” Revisited’
Small. Medium. Large. You offer an iPhone XS Max, an iPhone XS, and an iPhone XS Mini. Or Micro. Or Nano. Or whatever. You already have the “medium” and “large” options, so you give the people what they actually seem to want: a “small” option too. I could not agree more with this excerpt from
Lounge Ruminator
by Martin Feld
Lounge Ruminator 