© 1984 - 2025 Adrian Tritschler
cheese?
I read that there’s something called “American White Cheese” and something else called “American Yellow Cheese”, and I am truly afraid
Panic!
Very strange. I’ve had my wedding ring on my left hand ring finger since around Anzac day 2013, I’ve never removed it since it was resized to fit. At some point this afternoon my right hand felt odd, I glanced down and had a momentary panic attack when I saw no ring on my right hand – thinking I’d lost it!
The birds, the birds!
After two weeks in Vietnam and Cambodia where we saw almost nothing in the towns except sparrows and a few swifts it was sheer bliss to be back at work listening to the lorikeets[1] shrieking outside the window, currawongs[2] calling from further away, and hear a kookaburra[3] on my lunch time walk [1] Rainbow lorikeet [2] Pied currawong [3] Laughing kookaburra
English language
“English is like a goblin roaming around the world with a sack, finding words it likes in other languages, bashing them on the head and mangling them a bit and stuffing them in the sack”
Finally through Cambodian passports
So little wildlife in Vietnam
Sparrows, swifts and that’s all. A single pair of kingfishers on the river and one egret in a field yesterday. No pigeons, seagulls or water birds. No ducks, only domestic ducks and chickens
Cam quote
Sometimes when I wake up my brain is confused and I get money and time mixed up and think there’s 60 cents in a dollar
Crazy wind
I stepped out from the shelter of the Menzies bld and a sudden gust hit. My hat made a bid for freedom. 4-5m up & 20m away it came down only just this side of the building site fence
Timing trouble
Such a minor annoyance, receipts & cash registers never seem to have the right time. Stands out when all the phones & online pay systems do
Lunch in a cafe, cages hanging from the ceiling
I think the cages need occupants, something whimsical like a stuffed owl, or an animatronic teddy bear. Can i fit one in our study?
A convenient fire drill
Just starting to pack up to go to lunch when barp barp barp the fire alarm starts up. Just a drill says the building warden over the PA. Off we go to lunch
Almost sunny morning
No fog today and only light broken cloud cover. A pair of magpies[1] warbled and chortled at me from a park as a butcherbird[2] called incessantly in the tree overhead. Arrived at work and the lorikeets[3] are still screaming [1] Australian magpie [2] Grey butcherbird [3] Rainbow lorikeet
Another misty grey day
It’s been grey and overcast all day, again with alight mist around. The gum trees are still flowering and the lorikeets[1] are still deafeningly loud, at odds with the overall feel of the weather [1] Rainbow lorikeet
Orgzly to micro publishing
Thinking yesterday of ways to tie together the tools I have and my website workflow. I write in org-mode, then publish via hugo… with a few too many manual steps. Can i work out a more automated way of pushing short notes?
Winter commute
Another cold and misty day, 3.5°C on the ride to work and a low fog bank off to the east filling Dandenong creek valley. A hazy mist in the air all day and a magnificent full moon rising through it on the way home
Samsung galaxy S8 camera problem
I’m not sure if it’s due to the Samsung S8’s fingerprint sensor, but almost every time I try to take a photo the camera won’t focus and hunts around until I clean the lenses. Never happened with the S6
morning commute
Chilly ride to school and work, then got here and made the lift break down – I pushed the button, the indicator said it was at 3, 2, 1, G…. Then all the lights on the board went out and I heard it shut down. Waited a few minutes, pressed a few buttons, then gave up, hoiked bike up onto my shoulder and walked up the stairs to the third floor
somewhere outside there's a butcher bird[1], calling loudly and telling me to get out of the office and rejoin the world
[1] Grey butcherbird
TIL tbray SoTD WPA
well there you go; courtesy of Tim Bray’s Song of the Day series I’ve found that Barrett’s Privateers, made famous in my ears by Weddings, Parties, Anything, is from Canadian Stan Rogers
Music – The Knack
listening to the entire album “Get the Knack” to relive a little childhood, for years I had – and probably still have – a cassette tape with a live concert and had never realised that it’s probably that album played through, I think I’d only ever heard “My Sharona” on the radio. Very cheesy, no wonder it appealed to my 14yr old self.
V/Line purple
I saw an N-class and three coaches in new purple V/Line livery, it looked very shiny and new and smart, and matched the V/Locity sets. The effect was somewhat spoilt by the two dirty old red and grey coaches making up the remainder of the train
Something different
a pleasant break from all the ravens and lorikeets, on my walk today I had a nice closeup view of a Black-faced cuckooshrike[1] on the wires overhead [1] Black-faced cuckooshrike
Somewhere near work we seem to have the world's loudest butcherbird[1], I can't believe the volume that it calls at!
[1] Grey butcherbird
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.
