Names of Manly

@bigyahu @startmate Some good demos. I tended toward Tendl.

⁦@startmate⁩ Winter 24 Demo Day starting now at the beautiful State Theatre. Packed theatre, big happy nervous vibes. Good luck teams!

@bigyahu Just take it one steppe at a time 😉 BTW, Kazakhstan was the Worldle answer today.

Damn international borders make the hike to Kashkar a little further than it needs to be. Would be a very interesting long way around though!

@NoNotChris @Rainmaker1973 Concur. So good.

In the last 30 mins, @Rainmaker1973 has posted 10 videos. This frequency is absurd, but the account keeps it up with constant, consistently good content. There is no slow down or dip in quality. One of the most impressive accounts on X.

Hey RK from the @smh cryptic crossword: monopoly is an American game, not English. Otherwise great work, thanks.

@bigyahu Wow. Justin had a small production company in Neutral Bay when I was writing TVCs at Clemenger. I think they quoted on a low-budget one.

@NamesOfManly I auditioned for a presenter role on Beyond 2000 and was screen-tested by a then-TV-producer Justin Milne, more recently former chairperson of the now-very-different ABC.

My first oped in a national newspaper, Nov 1987. Complaining about grocery prices - that’s aged well 😆 #pluscachange

@caseyjohnellis @bigyahu My favourite mode.

@bigyahu mixolydian 👌

TIL about Nick Cannon’s 12 kids. This guy should serve a 12 year prison sentence for crimes against naming humanity

Today’s Wordle solution will be brought to you by Donald Trump.

@bigyahu Surfed.at - I remember meeting those guys.

There was once a London subway-style map that included many of the organisations and startups that made up the Sydney startup community. It was called StartRail, and the first version was created by an intern as a little project at BlueChilli. There were two updates, and a Melbourne map, eventually. Like many things in the startup industry, it started small, created by optimistic, enthusiastic, pay-it-forward people who didn’t let the risk of scaling issues stop them having a go. Like many things in the startup industry it grew so quickly that it eventually became a victim of its own scale. StartRail, and BlueChilli, are just memories now. Like many things in the startup industry, nobody kept a detailed diary, saved backups, or took many photos. While details blur over time, the relationships between startup people, and the songlines connecting their ideas and their common purpose, are the most important legacy of most of our startups. Those shared memories between the people who were there, who passionately agreed and disagreed, who grabbed another coffee and a whiteboard marker, who stayed back a bit later to do just a little bit more. That still lives, while we do.

@bigyahu They’re off doing something full-arsed.

Where are all the long-order cooks?

@bigyahu @OAusTrailwalker @tonyburrett Well done to you both.

Such a good day with Tony Burrett yesterday. When @OAusTrailwalker announced this would be the last Trailwalker in Australia his kids persuaded him they wanted to do it with him. In the end, it was just him and I. We did our first in 2004 and our last 20 years later!

@bigyahu Touché. And, if it were to exist, as it surely should, toushbee.

In order for there to be an Ultimo should there not also be a Penultimo?

On Saturday 7th October, I will be walking 28km in the shoes of a person living on our streets in the Long Walk Home. Please sponsor my challenge to support the most vulnerable people in our community here longwalkhome.com.au/s/1532/6677/t

@bigyahu I’m still wheying my options on this.

OK people, I think we've all spent WHEY too much time on this. Back to work.

Do you ever want to do a startup just because you've thought of a funny name for it? I want to do a protein powder business called The Only Whey. Our product line will include: Yes, Whey Whey Out There Whey Home (and of course, Whey To Go) Whey Too Strong

@bigyahu Thank you for your submission, Alan. We’re not currently investing in jokes outside of the US right now. Best wishes.

I have a venture capital joke for you. It’s funny on paper but you’ll have to wait 10 years to hear how it ends.

See this? Only cost me ten bucks.

Wordle answer was way cool today.

@bigyahu @djinoz Nice tee.

@djinoz Thx m8 🙏

Passion and passing on the baton @bigyahu and new CEO Martin #fishburners

@AlboMP @PMalinauskasMP I was in Renmark on Tuesday. Seems like a nice town. But that river is very swollen right now. I saw riverside parks etc in many towns around there half-submerged.

Headed to Renmark SA in the Riverland this morning with @PMalinauskasMP and local MP Tony Pasin to meet with community leaders as the Murray River continues to rise

@bigyahu Today I learned that the Yamba in NSW and the St Kikda in VIC are not uniquely named, because South Australia has one of each. Sad.

There are a lot of Guineas. Guinea (aka just plain vanilla Guinea), Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau in West Africa. And way over in Melanesia, there’s Papua New Guinea and Western New Guinea. Why? “Guinea” is derived from Portuguese for “black folks live here”.