Greetings from Australia, gophernauts! With the obvious exception of the terrible reason that I'm here in the first place, I have to say that being back Down Under and seeing family again is quite pleasant. My inexplicable desire to exhaustively document the namespace of suburban Australian chicken shops[1] is flaring up again (I had lunch at Chicken Bar yesterday). Some quick comments on recent occurrences in gopherspace: * Snowdusk has returned to the phlogosphere[2], which makes me very happy - he is one of my favourite SDFers. * Greetings to new circumlunar.space resident sel20[3]! The Zaibatsu's latest sundog will be exploring the classic cyberpunk anime series "Serial Experiments: Lain". I'm looking forward to it, as the show is very nostalgic for me. I discovered it shortly after I started university and met other anime nerds for the first time. I am long overdue for a rewatch. * tfurrows comments that using his reel mower draws unwanted attention from onlookers[4]. If Missouri doesn't work out, he may consider moving to New Zealand! Reel mowers are actually relatively common there - one of the many ways in which NZ feels oddly stuck in the past. * Congratulations to Cat on the launch of the *brilliantly* named baud.baby[5]! I am also right behind Tomasino[6] in applauding the wonderful geekery of Cat's collection of old Australian touchfones. I grew up with the phones he's talking about, although as a "filthy casual", never gaving a second thought to the various models and their capabilties. * Not something which has happened recently, but rather which I have only recently noticed - christyotwisty has listed[7] one thing she loves for every year she has lived. I like this idea a lot, and will have a go at my own list sometime soon. [1] gopher://circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/chicken-noun.txt [2] gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/snowdusk/phlog/201807010419.txt [3] gopher://circumlunar.space:70/1/~sel20/ [4] gopher://circumlunar.space:70/0/~tfurrows/phlog/ahx_reelAttention.txt [5] gopher://baud.baby:70/0/phlog/fs20180628.txt [6] gopher://gopher.black:70/1/phlog/20180703-the-essence-of-gopher [7] gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/christyotwisty/ThingsILoveInLife.txt