off to Willie to check out some shops for books
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Williamstown was both interesting and disappointing.
Interesting as a historic area built around the 1840s'50s, I grew up in an old town like that and felt at home. The historic aspect is really wonderful. Boring as all the shops are chain shops. I may as well go elsewhere.
So great place for tourism, not shopping.
Williamstown is good for hot chips, ice cream, coffee, souvlaki on the beach. Of the hundreds of times I've been there I've never shopped.
agree about the food options
for me I was wondering if it could be a local shopping centre since there are no shops in my suburb
Yeah I'm not sure about that.
Williamstown botanical Gardens is nice if you haven't already been.
There are a couple of good local clothing and knack shops around douglas parade and down Ferguson St. The rents along there are atrocious which makes it hard but a few good local options that have survived for years and years. Down around Nelsons Place is a bit underwhelming at the moment though :-/
Last night I came across The Dark Mod, a community project to make Thief style levels in the Doom 3 engine. I found it because the team made their own level editor and it was available in a Linux package manager.
The dedication some people have to these sorts of things amazes me. People have been working for over 15 years in an engine that's about 20 years old to make levels inspired by a game whose most significant entry was over 25 years ago.
But you know I downloaded it. Thief with Doom 3's lighting engine sounds like a banger idea
Rad. I like FPS PvP games and we just don't have the population in Oceania to support the servers of the obscure developments. It's probably one of my biggest draw cards for moving to EU/USA/Asia. I really miss Warsow. I wish I got into single player games more. Thief was rad but as a broke kid I was mostly watching other people play it on consoles they didn't want to share.
That's why I'm going to try get my kids into weird projects like this and whatever other free stuff is out there. It will teach them how to use computers better and introduce them to much healthier communities on the internet
The entire world built around gzdoom is unbelievable.
Interview went well I think.
Recruiter will come back with feedback this week.
Landed yet another one so now itβs one tomorrow and 2 on Friday.
Something will come through soon π€
Looks like thereβs three small new kittens
You've heard the stories of the cat ladies who push out a big shopping basket on wheels with cat food for the locals every day or so, this is how it starts.
Yesterday I played AC/DC. Today I'm playing Fairouz. Algorithm that Spotify.
birfday sew on patches arrived, noise cancelling ear phones ordered because why get all anxious about noise when I can do something immediate about it, some art books attained, and a biography of Hemingway by Anthony Burgess, which I thought looked interesting.
I don't mind train noise, I do mind the noise from the bridge construction, it echoes and vibrates, I also think there's some 60Hz electric hum.
Item: Burgess is actually a bloody good writer. Item: Hemingway was an arsehole. Put the two together and you have a challenging read .... if you are at all politically correct. Watch out for Burgess' masterly command of the artform of sarcasm. It's illuminating.
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Observation about Op Shops.
for 5 decades Aussies were buying singles and vinyl LPs by the tens of millions a year, millions of the things should be floating around and they should be dirt cheap for an ordinary condition copy.
There are no pop music LPs in Op Shops, record shops have sprung up every where selling old stuff for over $20 at least. Bat out of Hell is not a collectors item. π
Vinyl collectors and resellers are next level though. You'll see them go straight to the vinyl, check everything quickly and leave.
Then there's the op shops themselves starting to list things closer to the resale values than the 'opportunity' value.
It's insane when the shops ask prices as if the item they have is rare or pristine
Or that that weren't just donated it for $ZERO, or that the fucking shop is called an OPPORTUNITY shop. I gotta go meditate, it gets me going.
Op shops often don't have the foggiest idea what they are dealing with. it's supposedly too time consuming to look up everything, however I assure you that that ratty looking 1st Ed [whatever] will sell for more than the 18 perfect copies of Twilight that will never move
Like the artist signed ewer I bought for $6 last week? or the italian and silver and gemstone chain I bought for $5
unless it has obvious marking they have no clue
Yeah. And the total opposite also, your bible from 1930 is neither old nor valuable
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I donβt even bother looking at record collections at op shops, anyone with money on their mind will take their collections to record stores who pay good $$ and sell for even higher. Or sell on eBay etc
With the vinyl revival, pop music collectable LPs are more valuable than ever.
how is a common record that sold by the million and is in average condition valuable?
Well if thereβs lots of copies floating around and no demand then yes, should be cheap. But thereβs a caliber of record that will never sell at a steep discount at an op shop. Records in high demand that for a million copies in existence, a million people want to own them and they hold their value. Thereβs also pressings that come into it; a pressing from the 1980s will always be more valuable than a modern pressing because of scarcity and older vinyls have that nostalgia factor.
I agree with you though that records are very overvalued.
I see huge bags of vintage pop LPs in the donation bins π€¨
I'm a little bit drunk (checks watch) ON A WEDNESDAY! AMA.
I just had a cheeky swig of baileys ...π€
Have another. You earned it.
Today I had the day off and by lunchtime had only done 1,440 steps. I thought, oh it's going to be a day when I don't hit my target π And then I thought, "Why? Why should the day be that way? Change the day! Make it the day you want!" So I did a Strong Steps with Kenta workout and did 10 minutes on the exercise bike (people in my street were throwing out an exercise bike that was in great working order, just the electronic bit was broken. So we took that bit off and brought it in and it works fine!). Then my oldest wanted to practise skateboarding so we went to the local park and he practised while I walked laps of the netball courts. I looked silly but I couldn't care less! I noticed different people on their different exercise journeys, from a superfit young guy practising his soccer moves to an obese man doing slow and difficult but determined walking laps of the oval. I ended up doing 12,025 steps and am pretty happy with myself and how I changed my outcome. Now I've got work tomorrow and need to get to bed but I'm all hyped up like a 5 year old ππΌββοΈ
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garden pics, the weeding is going slowly but surely, nearly done
and I found a bird's nest in one of the small trees
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I think it's from an eastern yellow robin π
I see you had a supervisor π
Edit: ok 2 supervisors, I didn't see the one laying down at first.
always ...lol
the little guys love it out there so much πΈπΈ
Alright. Interview in an hour. Itβs a one stage which is different.
Fingers crossed. I smashed a bunch of cold and flu tablets in advance lol
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