So the listeners missed all like good conversation about planning on the hardware.

Everything the last we recorded probably what forty forty five minutes of just solid entertainment.

We did. We did. It wasn't hit record.

I know. We always do that.

We always record too late and then quit recording too early.

And then all the good stuff happens either side of recording.

We should just have something that records all day and then we just chop out the part where we actually hit record.

Just throw that part away.

Crappy bit, yeah.

Yeah, and then just keep the outside bits.

Yeah. Well, what we were talking about was bunnings to a small extent.

Bunnings. And you know what bunnings sells?

They sell everything,

as I talk as I was telling you.

But they also sell light switches.

Now apparently light switches is something that's been a a burning passion of yours.

You've been wanting to talk about light switches.

I think it's been I think it's been on there for like two or three shows now and it's because of this remodel project that we were talking about before,

which again,

man, that would have been good content.,

but it wasn't Listeners missed.

Capital Cat or what is it?

Hashtag content is what they call that.

Maybe we should do a one prime plus special.

And we probably should.

Just talk all that stuff again.

We probably should. Um light switches.

So I have a question for you.

You're gonna represent the entirety of Australia from this because um someone is not here if if people haven't noticed yet.

Usually he talks by now,

but he hasn't said anything.

So it's pretty safe to assume he is somewhere undisclosed,

not trying to dox,

but I think he's like doing a thing,

secret mission of some kind.

I'm not sure what. It's not river dance,

is it? It might be.

He might have he might have gotten the urge from a previous phone call he's had.

We don't know. So light switches.

Okay. You've been to the US before?

Hmm. I have,

yes. Yep? Yep.

Yep. Okay.

You are probably at least a little bit familiar with the late switches here.

Yes. The either the the little nubbin toggle or like the big flat toggle thing where it's in a paddle.

It's generally always an up and down motion.

Yes. Right?

Okay.

Now looking into some research on your light switches,

yours,

if I'm not mistaken,

tend to be more of a horizontal rock left to right versus up to down.

Am I correct? No, you're incorrect.

No? You're incorrect.

Oh well that throws everything off then.

Because I thought you had left to rights.

It's an up and down, but I think we'd have to check this,

but I think our up and downs might be opposite to your up and downs.

Because that's okay. So this is this still works.

This okay, the topic still lives.

Hold on. It's still got some legs.

Here's my question for you.

Yes. For me,

a light switch that is an up and down,

up should be on.

Down should be off.

I have several light switches in my life currently that are reversed from that,

including the one in this very office that I record from where hitting down turns the light on and hitting up turns the light off.

That seems wildly incorrect to me.

So my initial question was going to be:

if you're a left to right,

is there a similar thing there for like left should be off and right should be on,

but it sounds like you're up and down as well.

So what are your what's your feeling?

So left to right left to right would be absolute madness.

Okay. Who the fact that anybody would come up with that system has just absolutely lost their mind.

My follow-up question was gonna be how do you deal with your everyday life having something go left to right for on and off?

Okay. Now, this is where it also gets difficult because when you say up and down,

what what are you actually saying?

Because the nature of a switch means that you flip it and it exposes the other half.

So is that so there is a we need to get our nomenclature correct here.

But let me preface that by saying I think that yours might be inverted to ours because I think yours might have something to do with earthquakes.

That's my theory.

And I don't know if that theory is even true.

That if an earthquake rattles the building,

the natural tendency of the switch will be to flip down because it will fall because of the nature of the movement and therefore turning everything off as a safety mechanism.

Is that something I have in t entirely invented in my mind or did I learn that fact somewhere along my lifetime.

Two things are at play here.

Either A you have completely fabricated a memory of United States light switches and their safety codes in your mind.

Yes. It is possible. Or B,

you're absolutely correct,

and throughout the forty some odd years of my life,

I've never heard that even once.

Okay.

I think we have to play with.

Given that I've I've visited but have never lived in the US,

why would I know that my date?

That would be a very absurd.

I don't know, but that that's one of those things that could actually be the case where it's like,

hey, I've been oblivious to this my entire life and Andrew has been here once and knows that.

I don't know. But I I don't think so.

Sorry, but that by me saying that it gets to my point.

So it's a rocker switch.

Right. Yes. On our light I'm looking at a switch as I say this.

Ours are like little they're they're really general that they've got to be more fancy,

but I t uh typically uh everyday button light switch is very small.

It's a fingertip.

It's like a circle almost,

right? Like kind of a Pac-Man,

just like a tiny Pac-Man.

It's a squirrel. Squirkle.

Okay. And it's about the size of an apple.

Like a zoom. Like a zoom like a zoom controller.

Eh.

No, it's just a toggle switch.

Okay. It's a toggle.

But it's it's only the size of your fingertip.

It's not one of those big paddles..

Yeah Right?

And so if I push the bottom of it,

so if I flip it down down,

the top half flips comes out out and that would typically have a little red mark on it and that means it's on.

So I flip it down to turn it on.

We're reversed.

That's absolutely correct.

Yeah.

In in the way I would prefer that to be would be when I walked up to a dark room,

yes, the bottom part would be recessed and I would not be able to push it,

and I would push the top part to shove that part into the wall and the bottom part would pop out and then the light would turn on.

Which is incorrect.

Which is backwards. Which is the the correct way,

which is how it should be.

Is this is this a toilet situation?

Is it because we're upside down from one another?

It could be. Maybe there's something to do with the met the polarity of the earth.

That could be. But it's it just seems like you want to you I flip it down.

You go you can push it or you can go and you're it's a downward motion to turn it on.

I just feel like that's an off.

That feels like an off to me.

It's probably why I had so many troubles with light switches in America.

Probably you're like they're all broken.

They're all supposed to be on,

yet they're all off. What's going on here?

Just gotta flip that thing one hundred and eighty degrees.

So there you go. Maybe we just turn them all sideways to really just soak chaos into the world.

It's sideways light switches for everyone.

So hence so therefore I this goes back to my theory that I must have I either fabricated this theory.

I'm or I probably sat there in the dark many a night in the US thinking,

why are there light switches backwards?

And I could have come up with that theory about it being s a safety measure because of earthquakes.

You think you like justified it to yourself in that way?

Oh well surely this wasn't just that they're stupid.

There had to be like a really genius reason.

Yeah.

The safety thing.

Whereas ourselves.

We don't earthquake. We're in a our tectonic plates are very stable.

Um, rarely would we ever experience an earthquake so we just don't think about it.

We're like, who cares if the earth's not going to shake and shake our light switches down to on,

leading to a safety.

What about spiders though?

You got those big ass spiders,

they might be walking on that thing and turning the lights on all the time.

They could do that.

Then it's like an early warning system.

The spider turns the light on,

you're like, ah, where is he?

Oh. You can see that's oh,

okay. If the light turns on,

you know spiders are amongst us.

And you can then go kill it.

So we have it for earthquakes,

you have it for spiders.

This actually makes perfect sense now.

It's completely we just figured it out.

Okay. That's all I got on that.

Okay.

It's a hot start.

So okay.

Good solid start.

We've we've identified that you think I'm wrong and I think you're wrong.

So that's great.

The next one is actually pretty related in that there are okay,

there are local food restaurants,

right? Like there's like a one-of-one,

there's this one place, that's it,

that's what you get.

There are chains of many places.

We I think we share maybe you could count on one hand the number of places that are the same,

potentially. Maybe they have different names,

but we have a coup yeah,

a couple fast food places are the same.

What I'm curious about is we have something here where people will fall all over themselves to profess how great and wonderful a particular chain is of a restaurant.

And they're categorically wrong about that.

And I'm wondering if that is the same there,

where there are food restaurants,

I think probably mostly fast food,

but it could be it could be like a one-of-one place.

Sure. That are,

in your mind,

which is correct,

completely overrated,

and you cannot understand why people rant and rave about these places.

Are there places like that?

In the WA?

This is where we really need Martin.

He would have such a good answer for this.

You know it, right? He would.

He would know.

He probably just thought in his head right now of three places,

even though he's not here.

Yeah. He's gonna be so angry with my answer.

Well, I can tell you right now,

mine is gonna get me even further cancelled from the internet be more than I already am.

So I'll I'll but I'll let you I'll let you ru ruminate on that.

So I think it probably ours is probably Tex Mex in general.

Um there's a couple of chains.

One is one is the one that pops into my mind is um actually a sponsor of the Perth Redbacks,

so I need to be a little careful here because I don't want to jeopardize any commercial relationships that may exist.

Are they a sponsor of this show?

No., No no, so stuff.

Okay., right Um Gomez.

It started off good because it was it was dudes who started a business and they wanted it to be good.

Then you know what happens?

They get all excited about expansion.

You know what else happens?

They start to make money.

You know what else happens?

They decide let's list this thing on the Australian stock exchange.

Oh, okay. All of those things do not correspond with excellent Tex Mex food.

So the quality of Guzman and Gomez has declined over time.

People still think it's really good.

I disagree.

But I will still eat it if provided to me while I'm working at Perth Red Bags.

Okay. If it's a free catered meal,

we're okay with it.

Totally. But I won't I don't buy it.

Follow-up question on that.

That sounds like a lot of words to say for a restaurant for you for you all.

Is there a is there a push down?

Yeah, we typically say G and G.

Okay. I thought there had to be.

There was no way there wasn't.

There's no way you're saying all those words.

Or just gozman.

Okay. I was gonna say I was gonna go with goozies.

Oh yeah, that would that's surprisingly hasn't taken off.

I think because goozy is like when you when you spit or you slag or you bo bring up one of those big lines.

That word already for probably already taken.

Okay. You don't want to associate that with food.

No, you don't want to be nah.

So I like your effort.

I try. It's part of the citizenship test.

I have to come up with at least three new original words for things that already exist.

It's on the test.

So all right,

well I'll throw my two out real quick just to further alienate um listeners.

Uh and those two would be and y you probably I don't think you would have eaten it either of these 'cause you I think were more I don't know.

Well let's say I'll throw them out there.

See if you know.

In and out burger.

I had one. I liked it.

Absolute trash.

It was a while ago that I ate it,

but I'm and I'm disappointed to hear it.

Absolute trash. I had it at the marina of San Francisco.

Oh, interesting.

Okay. I didn't wrote all the way all the way on the west at some point.

Yeah, I was in the Bay Area.

I I I went on that little windy road,

you know, the zigzag guy.

Why didn't you come and say hi?

Oh, I guess that would probably be part of it.

I'm actually pissed off.

That would have been good. We would have hung out.

We would have had a good time.

The second one is Chipotle.

I've had the yeah, yeah,

yeah. Yeah. Also,

absolute shit.

Yeah, that was meant to be one of the bet I think that's kind of taken the Guzman approach,

hasn't it? Started off good it's N I think it's always been trash,

actually, okay.

Yeah. Tex Mex again.

Yeah, not good.

Not good at all.

So there goes my rest of my reputation I had on the internet.

And next topic.

Well before no, before we go to the next top,

I want to say those two places were two of the places I was actually excited to visit when I went to because everyone hypes them up to be so great.

Yeah, and I thought at the time In and Out Burger,

apart from having to wait for bloody long time,

it was chaotic.

Um, I I like enjoyed the burger.

I remember thinking it was too small.

Um, but I think now Australia's caught up.

I reckon I could take you to a few places that would rival in and out burger just locally here.

What did you think of their fries,

if you at all remember?

Oh it was a long time ago, but I think the fries they were quite they were quite crisp crisp and kind of long and stringy,

very thin. Um I think they were okay.

But I was more about the burger than the fries.

Yeah. Okay.

Um Okay.

And the the one the other place that I'm s so glad you didn't mention.

Dunkin' Donuts.

That was the other place I was really excited to try.

That's a good one to have an exhaustive I didn't have an exhaustive list of all of them.

I thought I'd save some of 'em up for future episodes to to really get people going.

Anyway, I enjoyed the coffee at Dunkin' Donuts,

which is apparently a bad thing to say.

Because people say it's terrible,

right? But I was into it.

I don't know. I think people say that their coffee's good.

Oh, okay. All right. Well I thought it was good.

There you go. There you go.

Uh Uh don We've got a long list.

We're never gonna get through all this.

No, we're we're gonna go rapid fire at some point probably,

but I had this this one actually is pretty quick.

Outgrowing apps it goes in both ways.

Yeah, what does that mean?

And usually so what I mean by this is usually you're using an uh you know some kind of app and you then require something additional that it does not have which then sends you seeking for something else okay that has that additional feature.

Turns out it goes the other way where the app outgrows you and it just starts doing way more shit than you need so you just kind of fold and decide I'm gonna back away from this.

And I just I don't obviously Martin's not here and he would wouldn't be able to answer because he'd be like,

Well, I don't know, I just use Safari.

Exactly. Remind us work just fine.

Yep. And so that wouldn't work.

But I was curious if you had any uh anything like that happen to you where you're like,

God, this is just doing way too much crap now.

It's like I can't keep up with what it's even trying to do anymore.

That's a really good question. I nothing springs to mind immediately.

Because I tend to just the one for me,

if it helps, the one for me was Raycast,

where it used to just be like kind of a simple launcher that just gave you some extra powers but then now it does like if you look at the settings it's 35 pages long and I'm like no I'm good I need something different.

I've been I've just I've been on Alfred for a while.

I actually just switched back to launch bar again just to see how that's holding up these days.

You have to. Is it still s version six?

Yeah. Or is it now seven?

Oh still six. Yeah,

the last eight years or whatever.

Hey. Good value for money.

The only one that I can think of when you say it is probably Devonthink.

Um because that thing does so much.

It does everything. You think of something?

Yeah, it does it.

It may not do it in a particularly elegant way,

but it will do it. But it does it.

It does it. And as so I reckon I use about five percent of its powers.

But I'm happy with the five percent I get.

And so I just keep using it.

So I haven't really outgrown it.

I just limit my use of all its features.

It's not like in your face about it though.

Nah. Nah,

it's very well behaved. It just lets you do what you want to do with it.

That's good. I'm going the other way.

Whereas um yeah,

moving a bit down the the run sheet,

I've I'm just looking now at whether I should move into a better raw raw photo editing app,

which is something I swore I would not do.

I feel like we talked about this already and we said don't deal with that and now you're trying to deal with it.

I know well it's just I've been shooting JPEG and that's fine,

but then I think uh maybe we're maybe I could get a bit more out of it with my old cameras that I brought back to life.

And so I I loaded up Photomature on iPad.

Photomature?

Yes.

And Photomature on iPad.

I still have a license. I apparently I have an early adopter license for photomotore.

Wow on iOS.

But that's actually not surprising at all that you would have an early adopter license for anything.

No. But then on the Mac I do not have that.

They want me to pay subscribe for fifty bucks a year or something.

Photo Mature for Mac OS.

Yes, do I want it?

That's the question. Is it worth it?

Because I'm not getting back into Lightroom.

Don't make me do Lightroom.

I'm Adobe Free.

Have you tried that new one that everybody's talking about in the forum?

The A Afera,

I guess you would call it.

A-P-H-E-R-A?

Afera? Afera?

You should take a look at that.

That's been in that's been in the forum lately.

What's the forum?

Oh, that's uh that's a little place we like to call chat.hemisphericfuse.com if you haven't heard of it.

There used to be this thing called Discord that was super lame and intrusive that no one should use anymore.

And then um then there was this thing that was created thirty years prior to that called forums.

Um and now we have one of those instead.

So people should probably go look at that,

I would suggest. It does not run PHP B B.

It does not, no.

But there's probably PHP in there.

Oh I'm sure there would be.

It's a forum. Has to be.

Yeah. It's it's the internet.

I think you can't spell internet without PHP.

Yeah. Speak and so P okay.

So you're saying I should because I see in the notes you say I should get photomature.

So I love Photomature.

Yeah. Okay. I think it's great.

I think it's absolutely great.

I think they have a trial too.

I think they have a 30-day trial.

Some sort of trial. Yeah,

I'll probably do that. Yeah,

give it give it a give it a go.

I need to shoot some more photos before I start the trial.

So I've got to get my chicken and egg sorted out.

Oh, that's true. Yeah,

you want to get a little little stockpile before you get going.

Okay. Correct. So do that,

then get the thirty day photo mature.

Okay. And then you'll be good.

Okay. And so then looping back to PHBB,

what if we were to set up a show notes situation that was He has been begging to move the show notes.

Like all he wants to do every time,

all I hear is can we move the show notes?

I don't like the fact that this one is marked down and works perfectly.

That's all he says all the time.

So it it looks good.

It's simple to use.

We all understand markdown.

I think we need to move.

Yeah. I think it's time to move because it's just working too well.

So if we spin if we do spin up before,

I mean so you think about it,

we run it Topic per episode.

We we we each have a user account,

so we need to set up permissions.

We would have to write in we wouldn't take Mark down.

It would be like that what was that code that they it was like a whole little code for four of us.

Was that like B B code or something?

Yeah, something like that. Yeah.

Yeah. So we'd probably have to learn that again.

It was always very arcane.

He's BB code.

Perfect. And maybe we could get one of those.

Remember they used to have those little um editors?

Had it had a name for it,

I've forgotten the name, but it almost made like W Wordord,

ninety seven within your web browser with your little ribbon of uh That sounds great.

Of icons you could make bold and italic by clicking the buttons.

I've sold already.

Do you think he's I think he's probably on board.

I think he'll like it.

So we'll do that. We'll have that ready for next um get that ready to go.

God, he w can you imagine if he showed up for episode one,

what is this? This is one seventy,

so for one seventy one.

And he's like, Wait, where's the heading to put the notes for one seventy one?

Oh, and there's just a link that then sends him somewhere else to put the notes there instead.

And he has to log in.

He's gonna log in for this.

And this one's completely locked,

so he can't even write anymore on it.

Oh Martin.

Look, Martin's up for new things.

He was at football last night.

Wait, what?

Yes. Martin football?

He went to sport.

Wow. Man,

I don't talk to him for two days and he's just a whole new person.

I don't I don't even know who he is anymore.

Football Martin, that's what we call 'em.

Can't believe it.

What's next? Speaking of games.

Man, we're just now we're tuning through we're picking up the pace.

I sense it. I sense it.

We're moving. What do you got?

Games. Big walk.

Big walk. Are we setting are we gonna set up a hemispheric big walk or what?

I gotta say, I gotta say,

like I was really excited to buy the game.

I bought the game.

It has got a like talk about deflating.

I bought the game.

I loaded it.

First thing I noticed.

For whatever reason it wasn't identifying this microphone that I'm talking into you now.

Just no inputs were detected.

I was like, eh. I'll figure that out later.

Steam Mac.

Uh Steam. Yep.

On the Mac through Steam.

Mac Steam. Okay.

Uh load it up.

And it's like gather your friends.

I'm I don't have any friends.

So that's where we have to schedule the friction.

It was the most sad launch of a game ever because I'm like doesn't work,

microphone doesn't work,

got no friends, I loaded it up,

I wal walk into this little arena,

my little character.

And there's a bunch of like what looks like puzzles,

like training puzzles to get your head around the game,

I suppose. And I look at it.

Yeah. All I could do was turn a light on and off because it was just me.

Okay, well first of all,

yes it is you need d other people.

It's definitely a multiplayer game.

It's absolutely multiplayer.

There is no single player.

You can't play it.

No, there is no single player.

No, you have to have people.

Which is why we need to schedule hemispheric big walks.

I mean, yeah. I think we're gonna have to.

I'm just annoyed because the people we made it right,

house house, they're Australian.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah. And they know you don't have friends there.

They know that we're in our time zones.

Stuffed. Like who am I gonna play with?

When I'm awake, you' orre slave well we gonna schedule we're gonna schedule it around a time zone that works for most and maybe we'll offset it maybe we'll do one for here and there one for Europe and there.' Well kind of get yeah.

Uh we're gonna make a schedule.

So I'm excited for this game,

but I haven't even played it. I don't know if it's good or not.

I cannot I need your commitment that we're gonna get a schedule.

I will commit, but yeah,

okay. Who's gonna do it?

We're we're gonna create a schedule,

we're gonna we're gonna put it through the bylaws,

we're gonna get it stamped into law,

and then we're gonna post it publicly.

Okay. And is this gonna be is this a one prime plus benefit or can any joker join in with us?

Let's be honest. With when we're dealing with time zones,

we can't be straight.

Yeah, we can't limit it.

We can't be limited. We gotta just open this thing wide up.

Wide open. We can't who do we think we uh Yeah,

we're not we're not anywhere near trying to trying to get keep that.

Yeah, the other thing I noticed big walk,

I was excited. I thought, oh look,

at least Jason will play with me.

Yeah. One one friend of mine in Steam has it on his wish list.

That one friend is you.

You haven't even bought the game.

Oh, I have it on the Switch too.

Oh. Okay.

Does it support crossplay?

Yeah. Oh. Yeah, crossplay,

Switch, PlayStation,

Steam, Mac.

It I think it works on everything,

but maybe Xbox or maybe it's on Xbox 2.

Should I have bought it on a different platform?

I don't think it matters.

Should be able to do it.

I might actually buy the Steam one as well because I've now heard that the Switch 2 one is like kinda not as good as maybe the Steam one so I'll probably get the steam one as well because Valerie needs it too so then she can play it on Steam and then I can play it as well.

I can get my kids to buy it on PlayStation Xbox or something.

I think if you have it on Steam I,

think you can do like the family share thing.

Oh really? I think so.

I gotta research this.

Alright. Wow. Yeah,

you're gonna have to look in a few friends.

Family, not friends. Hmm.

We'll see. We got family.

Or what is it?? What's the thing What's the car show?

The thing.

That Rob likes? Yeah.

Yeah, that's what it's cool. I don't have friends.

I have family or family is friends,

friends and family discount.

I don't know. Something. He's gonna be pissed now,

but sorry, Rob.

Well he never finished that podcast anyway,

so who cares?

Still subscribed.

Still waiting for that next episode.

Oh, like and subscribe.

Um, so speaking of blood donations.

Do you do blood donations? Do you do blood donations?

Yes. Good.

Definitely. I like it.

Because you get to you get to sit there,

you get to not do anything for a while.

And then when you're done you get like some snacks.

Oh they give you snacks too.

Yeah you get like I feel like it's usually like a juice of some kind and maybe like cookies or I think it's like cookies and juice usually is like the go to.

Is that the same for you? Well, this is the thing I don't know anymore.

I used to donate blood.

You don't have any more blood to give?

I was an avid blood donor.

But it used to be that was like a long time ago now.

And I suddenly realized to myself the other day,

I should get back to donating blood.

And um so I of course,

but when I used to go there was no app because I don't think we even had phones.

I think I had a Blackberry last time I was donating black.

Oh god, apps.

No, it was all paper forms.

You had to fill out a thing with a pencil.

Yes. It was a paper form.

Yep. Oh.

I remember saying, have you had tattoos?

No No., no tattoos.

Have you been to these four countries in the last three months?

No. No. Yep. So that was but now is an app.

So I downloaded the app.

And amazingly, it still has all my details.

I can like I had to create an account.

Good slash concerning.

I had to create an account, but then it it found me because it didn't have an app account,

but then the app account found me.

I was like cool, look at that.

Um so I intend to go donate blood again.

And so yeah. Do you ever do the plasma one?

I've done it three times.

That's the one where it's like a long time and you're like there for a while.

And they give you that little f- You get extra good snacks for that.

It's like a little fizzy lemonade kind of weird people don't like it,

but I quite enjoy it.

I'll drink it all day. Um the one I have I have apparently donated platelets once and I think I think I hard I think I noped out of that one.

Oh wait, platelet is that what I'm thinking of?

No. There's three. There's plasma.

There's whole blood platelets.

Whole blood, plasma,

and then platelets.

And I remember I have a vague.

There's platelets where they shove it back in.

I think so. On the other side.

I think that yeah, they like take it out and it like spins and then they like shove it back in.

I think. Yeah,

I didn't like that one. That one feels weird.

Like I don't know. Do I want that back?

I don't know. You probably just ha I guess I w you would you need it back because they take so much Yeah,

'cause if they take it out, if they don't give it back,

then they've got to donate blood to you.

And it's like, well, what's the point of that?

That's That just defeats the whole purpose because now you're just taking take it on one side,

give it on the other. What are we doing?

Exactly. So okay.

I encourage people,

donate blood.

Um it's sadly sadly I have memories of last time I went because it was so long ago.

Little old ladies would give you the snacks.

And um it's sad to think that all those little old ladies are probably now dead.

Oh, they're long they would be definitely dead.

Um yeah, for sure.

So rest in peace,

little old ladies. I don't know how the snack situation works.

Now they've changed buildings in the same building.

I gotta figure a whole whole new system out.

I'm gonna be like a I'm gonna be like I bet they got good snacks still guy who's been in prison for like thirty years walking out,

just being like how, does anything work anymore?

How do we even what do I do?

How does this what do I do? Yeah.

But do it. We drive on the left side or the right side?

How do we do this? Huh.

I don't know. Who knows? Yeah,

you should do it though. I bet Martin does it.

That is something Martin does,

hey. Has to be.

He would totally donate.

He would donate. Maybe that's why he's not here now.

You think he's doing platelets?

I reckon he would do it all.

He's doing he probably does all three at the same time.

He's like just put three lines in matrix style.

I reckon he's probably got his kids already done adding.

He's like yeah. He wants to be in that little goo pot like in the movie,

and he wants to like be in there giving the blood.

I bet that's how he does it.

He's such a good good citizen.

Oh, so good.

Thanks for giving your platelets,

Martin. That is good.

He's sitting there like what he's listening to this right now,

like, what the fuck are you talking about?

I want to know it's his turn to edit,

but is he gonna edit or is it gonna be on me again?

No, I think he's definitely editing it.

I think he should. There's no need to edit.

Marker. Ship it.

Ship it. We should just yeah,

we'll just l launch it right after we're done today.

Alright, we're moving on,

because we are working through this list.

It's such a long list. We never have a list this long.

It's crazy.

Um keep going.

You heard our last show,

Jason. You weren't here, but you heard our last show.

Did you enjoy it?

Oh, I didn't listen to it.

No. What happened? Where I talked a bit about cameras.

Oh that's exciting.

Lenses. I've got an update.

Hm. Got an update.

What do you got? Uh I bought another lens.

Okay. Is this what what new what new lens purchase is this since you started doing is this number two now?

Uh this is the second lens I bought,

yep. So I had 'cause I had to buy a replacement fifty millimeter.

Oh right, 'cause the motor was broken.

Yeah. So So I had to buy that.

that's all good. But then did you what did we end up doing with the original?

Did we just did we e waste that thing?

We bin it? So sometime in like tw mid 2028 that'll get taken over there.

Twenty twenty eight, that's optimistic.

So yeah, so that's sitting there.

I've got the new one, it's all working great.

But then I discovered so over the past week I was like,

I I have another old camera.

Actually I had two old cameras,

but I literally lost one of them.

Do not know where it is.

But it was the oldest one.

Maybe I threw it out. I don't know.

But I did find mine.

You might you might check that e Waste pile.

It might just be kinda over there.

But the one I have found is the one that replaced the one that I've lost.

So it's all it's all okay.

And it is a Panasonic DMC GX seven.

Um and so Martin and I've always only just had the Git lens,

the little Git zoom lens that came with it.

To the point where I almost didn't even realize it could support replaceable interchangeable lenses.

But Martin told me I had to get this one,

so I went to the famous eBay and I found a local seller within WA was selling it.

Um, and so I've got myself a 20mm F one point seven lens for the microphone.

Oh, it's a twenty mil on a micro four thirds is a forty,

which is the perfect uh the the forty mil is the perfect perfect.

Perfect. That's the best. Yeah,

it's like it's you can't beat forty mil.

It's like a fifty mil on a DSLR,

right? Worth 35 mil.

It's best. I love forty. Because I the number of times Martin and I have talked about this,

I was always thirty-five and fifty.

Switching back and forth,

turns out right in the middle,

forty just do that.

So yeah. Or forty two and a half or whatever.

So I did it. I did it.

And I like it.

It's a delightful little thing.

This little camera.

Little four micro four thirds camera.

I think I've underappreciated it all its life.

It's it's the life still being however many year olds years old it still takes better photos than your phone.

Yeah, yeah.

Like it doesn't have the computational photography.

And so that's where I notice it the most.

You notice the iPhone photos look quite nice because it's doing all its taking a million exposures and piecing them together and doing all that.

Imagine how much work it's doing just to look like pretty good versus a dumbass camera like that does nothing and still looks great.

Like it's crazy.

I was at the at the beach.

I just took a few photos of the beach and you can just have it just feels more creative.

So I I enjoyed it.

I am noticing I've got a problem with this camera though that its battery backup battery is dead.

So if I take the battery out to charge Can you charge it through the camera?

Does it have like a USB charge?

Which is a good question. I don't think so.

I've never done that. I'm afraid that I think that might be one of is a Panasonic you said?

I did little research and it seems like it's a whole thing where you gotta solder a new battery onto it.

So I'm maybe taking it to the I think Fuji did that too for a while.

You have to like dismantle the whole damn thing.

So I might take it to the camera shop and get them to do a little service situation.

Yeah. You only I guess the only other thing you could do is just dump all the photos into a thing to reprogram the metadata for them or whatever,

but that's kind of a pain in the ass.

Something like photomature?

Photomature,

perhaps. For the Mac.

So everybody everybody should get into photography because now I've gotten back into it.

Um it's great.

Well, I mean now if you if Andrew's into it now,

I think now we can say it is the time.

Slash guy get in there.

I think Rob sent me a master on tweet saying I'm photo guy.

There you go. Have you updated it?

Have you updated it? Probably not.

It's been a while since I've done a slash guy.

So here we go.

Could be time. Could be time.

And get on glass as well.

Glass is good, man.

It's really good. Oh man.

Look at his bombshells he's dropping.

Photography is great and fun.

Glass is a great app.

If he if you tell me the tapestry is good at this point,

I just don't even know what I'm gonna do.

Tapestry is essentially my RSS reader of choice now.

Oh my goodness.

This is I feel so validated.

It's really good. I've set up channels in tapestry.

You do this, don't you?

Yeah, I remember remember several times ago when I was telling you that if you weren't using it you were wrong.

The only annoying thing is hard to reply.

Like it's not it's very much consumption only at this point.

It's not made for replying.

It never was. I don't know why everyone wants to reply.

Which for version next,

whatever the next version is, I think that's what we're replying.

That's not what it's for. It's should again,

not every app needs to do everything.

It does what it does super incredibly well.

Let it be. If you want to reply to Mastodon,

use a Mastodon app.

That's what they're for.

Oh I do now.

I've given up on Mona.

I'm using ivory now.

Oh my god.

Oh I feel just I feel so warm in the world.

You're a trailblazer. All of this.

I am trying like hell.

Oh my goodness.

Well, I'm genuinely happy about the photography.

I think it's great. Keep going.

I will only say don't try to force yourself into constantly being Mr.

Photographer because you'll burn yourself out and you'll be like,

oh, this is all I ever do.

Just have fun with it.

And take it with you.

Even if you take it and don't use it,

that's fine. Okay. Can I ask you?

Or if you take it with you and then you decide,

you know what? I this is just a phone picture,

that's fine. Like that's fine.

Can I ask you one other question?

Okay. You have the choice to pick up the micro four thirds with the twenty mil lens or the Nikon DSLR with its prime lens?

Uh the micro four thirds.

Because it's smaller and easier to carry around.

And forty millimeters,

again, I think is the best focal length.

For day-to-day,

everyday kind of stuff.

Okay, that leads to another question.

Because I've got a bit of OCD.

With the microphone that's camera,

I had this compulsion to take a few photos and then to switch it off and put the lens cap back on.

Is that ridiculous?

Just leave it powered on.

Leave it let I I set mine to be a power off time of I wanna say five minutes.

Cause I figure like if five minutes has gone by,

like that's probably fine.

Cause if you just leave it on all day,

it's just gonna die. Because the camera's batteries are not great.

Um but if it's off and you have a lens cap on,

you're gonna miss everything you want to take a photo of.

Yeah, I found that you say there's a car I want to take a photo of and I missed it.

Take the lens cap off,

throw it in the ocean and don't actually throw it in the ocean.

Um and just let it ride.

Okay. Okay. Live on the edge.

Alright. Good advice.

Thank you. I'm bit I've I've always been a bit O C D about switching it off again.

Turn the turn the auto off timer to like five minutes and just go with it.

Thank you, sir. Yeah.

Lens cap though, pfft throw it in a pocket,

forget about it. Don't leave it on there.

It's fine. You're n the likelihood of you hitting the lens on something is like so incredibly small.

Which means you will now do that immediately tomorrow,

because I've said that.

But no,

yeah, it you're gonna capture zero photos with a lens cap on.

That's that's what I have found.

That's yeah, that that is true.

And then I forget the lens caps on and I take a photo and it's a black thing.

Hmm. Yep.

Not not a great photo.

And you're not gonna want to bring that into photo mature.

No. There's no saving.

No amount of raw.

Just enhance the exposure?

Should be fine, right?

Just bring the levels up.

Make the S curve and it's fine.

Oh my gosh.

Alright, media corner. Alright.

What do we got next? Media corner.

Media corner.

Media corner.

There it is. You don't even need there you go,

Mark. That's done.

Media corner.

I've got two. I don't know if you have any.

Um I've got one the the He-Man movie.

I think it's not actually called the He-Man movie.

I think it's called Masters of the Universe.

I'm pretty sure. It's the He-Man movie.

Come on, mate. We all know this.

Yeah. But I call it the He-Man movie,

yeah. Uh we watched it yesterday.

It didn't seem like it had great reviews,

and it didn't really make a lot of money,

but we thought it was quite great.

I thought it was hilarious.

So sorry, was it in cinema?

No, this was on Plex.

Ah, okay. Cool.

Oh, maybe I should do the same then.

You should. I think it's great.

It was yeah, it was a really fun movie.

I don't know why Valerie thinks it's like a weird expectation thing where like hardcore He Man people,

which apparently those exist,

like are were upset,

I guess or something,

but I don't know.

Did it have a PSA at the end?

Yeah, it did. Yes.

Yeah, just like G.I.

Joe. They did the same kind of thing where it's like the Yeah,

kids don't take drugs.

Yeah. Yep.

With the little guy. I forget what I still forgot to look it up.

I forget what it is. I forget what his name is,

but yeah, that guy. I used to I remember being a young kid watching those shows in Australia where the I don't think the scourge of the you know the the rampant cocaine use I certainly wasn't aware of it.

But they would come up with these PSAs where it was like and I'm just as like what?

I'm just like this six year old kid watching watching some He-Man and at the end they're like hit you with this heavy stuff and I'm like You're like heroin what what is happening It's crazy world.

It's the eighties.

Okay, so I'm pleased to hear that because I am excited to watch He Man.

I think you should absolutely watch it.

I think it was great. It was fun.

It was it was a He-Man movie.

Like what do you w want?

I want I want skeletor,

I want Castle Grace, Skull.

Is it Skeletor? It is Skeletor,

isn't it? Yeah, Skeletor.

For sure. Yeah. Go watch it.

Go watch it for sure. I want Man at Arms or whatever that Bring the family around,

watch some He-Man movie,

it's great. Uh the second one,

also old school throwback,

is X-Men ninety seven.

So this is the second season now,

and it's so there was the X-Men cartoon X-Men cartoon from the nineties.

Right. Hang on,

we're not talking television.

We're talking books,

are we? No, no,

this is TV. The TV show from the 90s.

The obviously that's over because the 90s are gone.

Then they now have reboot the show X-Men 97,

and it's effectively like the 90s never ended,

and it's the same art style,

same character.

Like everything feels like it's still 1997.

It's very weird and very cool,

but I think it's amazing how they were able to copy and paste nineteen nineties TV to now and it's bang on.

Like it's absolutely totally X Men from the nineties.

I mean, so we're on season two.

I'd I'm not you know you could watch this and you'd think that this was just like replayed from the nineties.

A hundred percent.

Yeah.

And that's uh that's X-Men ninety seven.

Nice. Well I can pack on one more media corner real quick.

Last night I ha I had a beautiful,

delightful night all to myself.

Nobody was in the house.

House to myself. I turned off all the lights.

I had a bottle of wine and I put on at very loud volume.

F won the movie.

F one the movie. Yeah, I'd seen it.

That's driving. Hadn't seen it before.

Look, it was uh That's the one with Matt Damon?

Brad Pitt. You being serious?

We were yeah, are they interchangeable?

Look, it's they're all you know it was Edward Norton I got to the end of it and I described it as Top Gun Maverick on wheels.

Everybody's probably everybody's seen this movie by now.

I think I'm the last person on earth to actually watch it.

No, I haven't seen it. It was really long.

It was like two and a half hours.

It didn't need to be that long.

But I maintained interest throughout.

It was and it was kind of dumb.

Like you could see it coming.

You could see all the the things happening before they happen.

But as a as a movie to watch alone as a man in a quiet house with all the lights off.

If I absolutely so here I go,

you know, ruining my internet credibility again.

If I absolutely do not care about F1 in the slightest.

Does this is this movie got anything for me?

Do I care about this movie?

I don't care about F one in the slightest.

Oh, okay. And it was still enjoyable.

Okay. Look the yeah,

the it like I said,

in top gun, it's airplanes.

In this it's cars.

Doesn't really matter.

You know, it's it's your typical story.

Old haggard guy comes back,

teaches the young pup some tricks.

Yeah. That sounds right.

Okay. You've seen this movie before.

I never watched that other Ford movie either.

Or the what was it called?

Ford no not Ford.

Uh uh Ford.

Tom Cruise one with the like the the Indy five hundred one.

It was like Ford vs Ferrari or something or something like that.

Don't worry about it. I think so.

I think it was the guy from was the guy that played Batman.

The Batman guy.

Michael Caden? Uh no,

no, later Batman.

The gr the grumbly Batman.

Oh. God.

No, it I'm not talking about the Matrix though,

so he'd probably wouldn't know. Sure.

He'd be like, uh,

Keanu Reeves.

Oh well, it doesn't matter.

Next topic.

There's gonna be no one left in the internet that wants to talk to me after this.

Sure.

I I also realized that I didn't even have a time machine backup because I used to use the network time machine and it failed every like it just didn't all the time.

I wonder I remember that I had some spare drives lying around.

So I have now got a Western digital Did you sell 'em?

Did you sell 'em for for thousands of dollars?

Uh no, so I found I found in my drawer a six terabyte Western digital uh green Nash drive.

Oh wow, okay.

I have a little adapter.

You know those adapter you can just plug the dri the raw drive into like a little it's like a little deck.

You just plug it in the colo like a little toaster.

Like a toaster.

Exactly. So right now looking just just on my desk next to me,

I have the most ghetto time machine drive running.

It is. You're backing up to a toaster Western digital green drive from nineteen ninety seven.

And it's working beautifully.

Every every hour I've been hearing Oh man.

As it backs up.

So it's more reliable than the network one ever was.

So uh that's true.

Yeah. Oh,

I just heard it.

Perfect timing.

That's crazy. It sounded like a like a Yamaha motorbike.

Interesting. Those drives are louder than I remember them to be.

Ooh.

There we are.

That was that that was a scam,

right? The whole like red drive,

black drive, green drive.

That had to be a scam.

Come on. There's no way you had different lines for each of those.

That was the same drive coming off that line.

Different sticker machine slapping on there.

Like we need revenue to go up.

All right, switch the red label out for the black label.

Get those up. Let's go.

We're still we're still not we just numbers more.

Okay, release a platinum edition.

Platinum gold Anodized Edition.

Alright, new label, slap,

slap, slap. Those are now $280.

I don't know about all that.

I've I have I've used blue,

green, red,

black all across everything I'm happy with green green's my favorite color,

so I'm okay with it.

Well I mean you're the one that has to look at it on your desktop.

I really do. Yeah,

like pfft right there.

Generally you're not looking at the back of a bare metal drive,

but this is the life you've chosen.

So look that we're over time.

I'll gotta cut some of this out,

man. Alright.

No, Martin's editing.

Oh yeah, it's on him.

Good luck Martin.

Yeah. So he's it good luck Martin.

Thanks. We miss you. We hope you come back at some point uh from your your goo bucket.

Yeah, yeah. That you're in right now watching football while in a goo bucket.

I can't believe he let he ditched out on the show to go watch football.

That is crazy.

I never thought I'd see that. It's very off-brand.

I don't know what's happened to him.

I always let him off for all the other things,

but for this, I just don't know.

anymore We'll see.

Maybe we'll talk about it.

So anyway, when we hang up on the show,

I'm gonna go watch the football.

Uh my second team my second team are playing.

Say hello to Martin for me.

Alright then. You guys sit on the couch together.

Alright, that's it.

170 170?

What is this? 170.

Alright, that's it.

Two.