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Sorry, these are in English:

• Khe Sanh by Cold Chisel
• Great Southern Land by Icehouse
• Sounds of Then (This is Australia) by Gangajang

Seriously, I do this too! Then after my shower I’ll come back and take a photo with my phone so I don’t lose it.

Hard boiled eggs, sliced thin like salami.

Having a reason to give up gave me willpower.

My wife at the time was pregnant with our first child. I decided that if the kid wanted to smoke, he could make that choice when he was old enough, but I didn’t want him to grow up seeing that smoking was normal and usual. So I quit cold turkey, Easter Sunday, 1996.

I was thinking about this the other day. Why does the beep have to be louder than the speech, why does everyone use the same sound, why is there a beep at all? It seems very intrusive and distracting, I think white noise or even just silence would be better for the purpose of censoring.

There will be a big battery bank in each telephone exchange that supplies power until the generators start up. I always hated the battery room, it smelled and there was always the danger of hydrogen buildup. The telephone exchange can keep running on generators until mains power comes back on, or the fuel runs out. (The longest outage I’ve experienced personally on generators was 3 days). The expectation is always that mains power will be restored “soon”.

I like River Port Olde Style Lime, and sometimes Raspberry, but they’re hard to find, as most places just carry drinks from the big two brands.

None of his business, tell him to fuck off.

Whoop de fucken doo.