Robert Ewing

@MattCowgill Not in my brick yard? 😛

spending my public holiday getting angry at how car-dominated the mini Melbourne at LEGO Land is. Needs more bikes and trams

@nascom1 @NASA Helicopter PIs - can’t they let their children out of their site for just a week or two… :)

For the next few days the @NASA Osiris APEX spacecraft is hidden behind our very noisy Sun during solar conjunction. Although predicted well in advance, it's always a concern for missions who have no way of checking the health of their spacecraft or intervening if things go wrong

@joshgans Josh - I think your CoreEconomics site is compromised, just got a very odd post about selective schools on the RSS…

Looks like a screening of “The Last Jedi” to me…

@ChrisEconomist To the extent I’m a good writer it’s from Blair’s guidance. With a healthy dose of influence from your own beautiful writing in the Budget Outlook documents from Access as well!

Loved this! afr.com/policy/health-… In my day the public service seemingly demanded terrible writing So bad that, after I left, I tried to instil the rule that any work we did not only had to be right, it also HAD TO BE UNDERSTOOD If you're not understood, you've failed

It’s like @ArtButSports and @CSMFHT had the most adorable baby…

OK, that’s enough internet for today then….

Cruise ships leaving port Miami on a regular Sunday. twitter.com/i/status/17613…

I went down to Macquarie Island on holiday over Christmas, and I can safely say it’s one of the most special places in Australia. Go there, and support MICF so it’s there when you can go.

@BenPhillips_ANU Agreed! And if anyone wants a kickstart, Treasury published its microsimulation model on GitHub: github.com/CAPITAmodel/CA… (Not updated in a while, so you’d need to update baseline policy a bit).

Good day to be a tax and transfer modeller in Australia. More folks should get into the ‘industry’.

“The rise in spending was driven by spending on essential goods and services," Robert Ewing, ABS head of business statistics Visit nuvi.me/s0g2gv

"Black Friday sales were again a big hit this year, with retailers starting promotional periods earlier and running them for longer, compared to previous years," Robert Ewing, ABS head of business statistics Visit nuvi.me/429fz6

Is NASA 100% certain it isn’t orange netting?

@joshgans Same people complaining about the Frasier reboot even though they haven’t watched it yet?

I don’t know what people were complaining about. The latest Indiana Jones movie was great.

@MattCowgill And my axe!!

@helvetica It’s a great update. But I wish there was a bit more information on how the score is calculated (ditto for other games except Spelltower).

Today we launched a major revamp of Wordbind on Puzzmo. I’m really proud of where we landed. It’s an anagram game without the bit where you have to excavate every single word, and with a variety of solution sets. Play here with a puzzmo subscription — puzzmo.com/play/wordbind/

@itgrrl Amen! It’s the number one use case I have for smart glasses…

The advantage of having #aphantasia is that I never have to say that “I can’t unsee” something. I literally unsee things the second I stop looking at them. 💁‍♀️ The downside is that it makes remembering faces and the names that go along with them next to impossible. 🙃

New favourite TV show…

I knew who #1 would be, but I was still not prepared. Get the whole box of tissues before you watch.

@SnarkyPlatypus Glad I’m not the only one with that brain bug. Really feels like they could have taken the pattern one more step…