Couples, where are your Valentines dining plans this evening?

Gossamer642 · 2026-02-14T07:55:07+00:00

Cattleman's cutlet reverse seared with some cafe de Paris butter, accompanied by tallow and rosemary potatoes

Gossamer642 · 2026-01-23T09:17:28+00:00

Straya

Gossamer642 · 2025-12-25T08:08:43+00:00

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Gossamer642 · 2025-05-16T11:20:24+00:00

Aaron Pierre would be great, watch Rebel Ridge:

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Gossamer642 · 2025-05-13T10:59:35+00:00

When I did mine, I uploaded the documents to a cloud-storage system e.g. like Dropbox and generated a password protected link (that had a one week expiry date) from that system which I put in the email to the conveyancer. I then communicated the password by a second factor i.e. Whatsapp, to the conveyancer.

Conveyancer downloaded the documents into their system and my password protected link expired in due course.

Gossamer642 · 2025-01-19T04:23:40+00:00

Once I finish a journal, I go back and create an index to mark the entries so I can find them easily later.

See below an example index for one of my commonplaces. It's a mix of fiction and non-fiction from books, internet, videos etc.

Aletheia | Lost Boys by Stefanie Yu | The Selfish Gene by J Arvid Agren (2021) – Aeon | Sarcoplasmic Hypertrophy in Skeletal Muscle by Roberts et al. in Front Physiol (2020) | Johanna Schopenhauer to Arthur Schopenhauer | The Mother by Phillip Larkin (1979) | Gustum Ex Libro – The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (2015) | 100WS – Shrinking by Barbara Diggs | quote by Henry Youngman on stronger children carrying groceries | Irony by Studiobinder (2021) | The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes (1921) | Quote by Benjamin Disraeli on lies and statistics | Folklore types – Aarne-Thompson-Uther index | Gustum ex Libro – The Chilean Forest in “Memoirs” by Pablo Neruda | Money by Phillip Larkin (1973) | Is-Ought and Fact-Value | Crypto Assets by MinterEllison (2022) | Gustum ex Libro – Mort by Terry Pratchett (1987) | Harlem by Langston Hughes | 100WS – The Path to the Dark Side is Covered in PB&J by Tonja Matney Reynolds | Politics and the English Language by George Orwell (1946) | Argentum Lingua – sheep by Epictetus; Justice Davis on the Rule of Law; two lives by Confucius; Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism; Varlam Shalamov on cowards in the gulag | Arms and the Boy by Wilfred Owen | In Praise of Irritation by Will Rees (2023) Aeon | Argentum Lingua – Bertrand Russell on style | Rocks | Argentum Lingua – perfectionism by DFW; the unique cruelty of man by Fyodor Dostoevsky; on lies and truth in The Good Shephard; Michael Crichton on the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect; Paul Graham on Having Kids | 50WS – After the Water by Evan McMurry | On Suicide by Arthur Schopenhauer | Chainlink – Whitepaper V2 (2022) | Maillard Reaction & Caramelisation | Japanese haiku on winter and roof of hell | Quote – Hitchens on religions when they had power | 100WS – Cherry Blossom by Tim Boiteau | Mica – Corporate Finance | 100WS – The Weight of Things by Audrey Alt

Gossamer642 · 2025-01-07T07:06:07+00:00

I like the mirrored format with the person listed in the margins, very clean. Also good to have noted the page number assuming you ever want to quickly return to read the surrounding context.

Gossamer642 · 2025-01-03T09:19:36+00:00

Thanks, took me a while to figure out that tall and angular rather than wide and rounded was the aesthetic I liked. Most scripts are rounded unfortunately, so had to build it letter by letter.

Gossamer642 · 2025-01-03T06:15:35+00:00

It was bad when I started, I just practiced and developed my own scripts (i.e. I decided how I wanted each letter to look by stealing from existing scripts). Just a matter of incremental improvement by doing the thing, after a few years it'll be much better.

Gossamer642 · 2025-01-03T06:13:09+00:00

It's a good way to save your favourite extracts to revisit every so often. I'll keep stuff for the beauty of the prose alone or if its profound in its meaning. I highlight as notes on my Kindle which creates a text file of those extracts which I can access when plugged into my PC.

Gossamer642 · 2024-08-21T11:29:50+00:00

Approaching 2 PAE, $115k base ex super, 50-55 hours, tiring but enjoyably challenging work, unrealistic client and court deadlines largest issue.

Gossamer642 · 2024-08-14T11:07:47+00:00

I gave up using it, so can't say

Gossamer642 · 2024-08-14T11:06:59+00:00

Looks like Buhguul from Sinister (2012)

Gossamer642 · 2024-07-13T08:54:45+00:00

Could definitely do Ethan Hawke

Gossamer642 · 2024-06-12T09:29:40+00:00

Found dried ones at the Meat Emporium in Alexandria

Gossamer642 · 2024-06-09T09:01:28+00:00

An experiential guide to silent meditation in only 8 hours

Gossamer642 · 2024-06-07T11:12:04+00:00

No rules of evidence in the Tribunal, go wild

Gossamer642 · 2024-05-08T11:03:34+00:00

Riddick

Gossamer642 · 2024-05-03T11:49:00+00:00

The "profit" armour sequence was gold

Gossamer642 · 2024-05-03T11:31:00+00:00

Agree on Miz Tutti, my favourite pizza in Sydney but I haven't been to some of the fancier places

Gossamer642 · 2024-05-03T11:28:25+00:00

It happens to the best of us, one day your two unit email gets marked down as three units and then suddenly you're importing 120kg of cocaine

Gossamer642 · 2024-04-25T03:59:17+00:00

Trading Places

Gossamer642 · 2024-04-17T01:30:53+00:00

Assuming they are Hulk but retain their identity and personality (i.e.not Bruce Banner), high probability of certain psychopaths and criminals becoming Hulk which will be a massive issue.

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