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A photo of a bowl of laksa in a white takeaway container. It consists of thin noodles with a chilli coconut soup all over it, there are pieces of barbecue pork scattered throughout, and two big pieces of tofu on top.

Nothing major today, I even left work on time, but we did go to our favourite laksa place for lunch (Laksa King on Erskine St) and I'm happy to confirm that it's still excellent. 😎

I always forget just how slow the week passes when you're in the office every day though, I can't believe it's only Wednesday today.

Posted on 12 November 2025, 19:23

A photo of the Sydney Opera House, behind it and partly obscured by the Opera House is the distinctive coathanger shape of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. There's some blue sky at the right but most of the sky is cloudy, though in a somewhat dramatic way rather than a bland and boring and flat way.

A photo of gulab jamun, an Indian dessert. It's a single brown round ball sitting in a little silver dish.

For day two, we went for a lovely (if rather windy) afternoon walk up to Circular Quay and around to Mrs Macquarie's Chair, then went for dinner at an Indian restaurant called The Grand Palace. 👌🏻

In related news, I am very full.

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Posted on 11 November 2025, 20:23

A photo in portrait orientation taken from the fourth floor of our building, looking down Carrington St in Sydney. There are tall buildings on on the left, and a bunch of trees and greenery on the right, with more tall buildings rising up in the distance past the greenery. It's completely sunny and the sky is totally blue except for a single fluffy cloud.

I'm in the office today, and for this entire week which is going to be a hell of a shock. We've got a team event where we've flown in the whole department from all over the place, so I'm going to be non-stop peopling and am going to be so drained come the end of the week, heh.

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Posted on 10 November 2025, 12:46

A photo of a shallow bowl with chunks of beef in them in a rich-looking dark brown sauce. There's also mashed potato, green beans, and peas.

In the office today for an after-work music jam, the hot lunch was beef bourguignon and it was gooooood. :chefkiss:

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Posted on 28 August 2025, 14:21

A wide-angle photo of a brightly-lit open-place office, with people standing around and a seating area with lounges and a big TV and people playing Super Smash Bros. on it.

A photo taken standing directly behind one of the rows of desks, there are three ultra-widescreen curved displays all with Nintendo Switches plugged in and Super Smash Bros. being played on them, all 1 versus 1 games.

A photo of Oliver! He's a small fluffy white dog, he has a brown moustache and is sitting down with his mouth open so looks like he's smiling. I think he's half Maltese and half poodle.

In the office today, it was meant to be for an after work music jam but one person bailed because they were feeling like they were coming down with something and the other entirely forgot and scheduled something else for this evening. 😑

There happened to also be a Super Smash Bros. tournament going on in the office tonight so instead of jamming I had some free pizza and met a dog named Oliver!

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Posted on 14 August 2025, 18:42

A wide-angle photo taking looking west over Sydney from our 30th floor office. There are a couple of buildings that are taller over to the right of frame but it's otherwise a straight view out west, with shorter but still tall office buildings close to ours then tapering down the further out you get. The sky is mostly blue but with fluffy clouds out in the distance towards the horizon. The sun is just in frame at the top-right.

In the office today for an after work team dinner, and while it looks very #GloriousSydney out there, holy shit is it windy. I'm sitting on the 30th floor and can hear the wind periodically blowing a gale out there.

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Posted on 10 July 2025, 15:02

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The board looks like the metal of the inside of an ancient steampunk starship, and the terrain is a bunch of walls all connected together in the same steampunk style to form number of interconnecting rooms. Left of frame are the six hulking and putrid Plague Marines in large sci-fi-looking dull green amour with all sorts of tentacles and demon faces coming out of the armour. At the right are the extremely ramshackle-looking green Orks of the Wrecka Krew, all with mismatched armour plating on various parts of their bodies and holding all sorts of ridiculously oversized weapons.

In the office for Kill Team tonight, my Plague Marines versus the Ork Wrecka Krew, and despite a decent start it ended up completely falling over in a heap and we called it at the start of turn 3 when the score was 7-3 to the Orks and I was going to be completely unable to score anything more. 😞 I think I need to go back to my Angels of Death, I just cannot for the life of me keep everything they can do in my head and I'm constantly forgetting their rules. The Angels of Death are more self-contained, where each individual operative doesn't need to interact too much with the others.

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Posted on 7 July 2025, 17:53

A selfie taken of me and three other work friends in our music room in the office. There's me, a white man with a short red beard and short red hair at the very left of the frame grinning and leaning in so I'm actually in the frame, sitting behind an electronic drum kit. Next around is Harry, a white man with shoulder-length curly brown hair standing holding a bass guitar. After that is Andy, a white man with a short black beard, black hair, and glasses, also standing and holding an electric guitar. And lastly is Nidhi, a South Asian woman with glasses and dark hair, leaning in from the right of the frame over a keyboard and grinning cheesily.

Another Thursday, another jam session! And we had a team event today and so had a paid-for-by-work lunch at a Japanese restaurant in Barangaroo and it was delicious. 👌🏻

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Posted on 8 May 2025, 19:43

A photo of a sheep standing behind a waist-high chain link fence nomming on some grass.

In the office today for after-work Kill Team! On the way to the train station this morning the sheep were out having a good nom and I said hello and they all stared blankly at me haha.

The Kill Team game itself was Plague Marines versus Angels of Death, I've really struggled to figure out how the Plague Marines were meant to be played and had a REALLY frustrating game week before last where I conceded before the end of turn 2. This game was the complete opposite of that, the final score was 11-3 and I wiped out every single enemy operative and lost none in return!

I can't claim too much credit though because my friend who was playing against me had read the Plague Marines rules and gotten a sense of how they worked, and kept reminding me of stuff and making suggestions. He's generally played a lot more Kill Team than I have so has the concepts and tricks down a lot better too, and plus he deliberately took a fairly melee-focused roster which meant that with my Contagion strategic ploy he was always at -1 to hit, which it turns out is surprisingly powerful. He also had a couple of terrible rolls, like rolling five dice for one of his nasty melee warriors and four of them being failures. 😬

Still, I'm feeling a bit better about them, I just need to play them more, though I also need to figure out some method of organising myself so I don't keep doing things like forgetting strategic ploys that I've paid command points for.

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Posted on 5 May 2025, 20:20

A selfie of me, a white man with an increasingly-scruffy-looking red beard and receding hairline, sitting at an electronic drum kit. There's also Hob, a white man with glasses and shoulder-length curly hair, sitting down with a semi-hollow Gretsch electric guitar in his lap, and Daniel, an Asian man with sort of mid-length (?) black hair standing up and smiling and he's looking down at a dark green Ibanez bass guitar.

A photo looking out west from the 30th floor of our office. In the foreground are tall buildings, though lower than where I'm standing, tapering down to residential houses and units further back, and the sky has clouds scattered across that are lit up yellow from the sunset. The sun itself is behind a cloud bank in the distance.

I was in the office again for another after-work jam session, and this time we did almost zero playing along to real songs and spent most of the time improvising! I started on bass which was a bit dicier because I required that I actually figured out what the hell notes I was playing (though I DID actually correctly remember the typical progression for a 12-bar blues which I was quite pleased with, as well as which notes it should be!), but we got over that hump and got some pretty cool grooves, and then I switched to drums and we got a particularly awesome minor key thing going with me playing the eighth notes on the low tom.

The sunset before I headed over to our music room was decent too!

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Posted on 10 April 2025, 20:18