DrLachie

Bought an IKEA sit/stand desk for my home office to help look after my lower back. You know what doesn't look after my lower back? Assembling an IKEA sit/stand desk.

Hilltop hoods at rod laver arena in Melbourne

Quiet night out.

So I now require glasses for reading, but not distance (or computer screen). This has probably cut down my multi-screen use and increased my attention span for movies/TV.

However given I can't stand fingerpints on my monitors, I think I'm going to become a compulsive glasses polisher.

I'm a long term planner (when it suits me)

Have spent a day and a half on something that will save me around 2 hours every month. Worth it. xkcd.com/1205/

I guess I should watch the replay huh? Maybe just the last quarter. #Superbowl

17 squares packed into a larger square. It looks dumb. But it's not.

I remade an old render with a more exact version. The most efficient packing possible of 17 squares into a larger square. I use it as an inspiring example: just because something looks stupid doesn't mean it's not the best that you can do.

Damn it. Just realised I'd agreed to give a presentation at midday on Monday. The middle of the superbowl! Can powerpoint do picture-in-picture streaming?

Wait. Am I literally Papa Bear?

Bought a new mattress. Extra firm. It's like sleeping on a slightly padded wooden board. I love it.

A temperature map of the Earth. Australia is hot.

This is fine.

Two little penguins spotted from St Kilda pier

Once again, everything is awful. But the Seahawks are in the Superbowl and today I saw some penguins in the wild. So maybe not everything.

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

A steak and a glass of red wine by the window looking out at St Kilda beach

Every time I've opened this app to post this year I've ended up closing it because everything is awful and we're all going to hell together.

But I've decided to return to my meaningless posting to either bring a bit of entertainment to anyone who sees it, or just for myself.

I've had worse days.

Most researchers miss out on innovation grants while medical fund sits on $25b Nine in 10 Australian researchers had their “ideas grant” applications rejected last year, even as Australia’s medical investment fund sits on $5 billion more than it was designed to hold.

The government can’t claim that medical research is a priority while failing to treat it as one. Nine in 10 leading researchers in Australia are missing out on government support for world‑class proposals, leaving exceptional talent uncertain about their future.

Oh.

I was going to go today but had been told that there probably wasn't walk up spots available. Then got new info (too late) that I would have been able to get in. Resigned to attend day 3, but was not to be

Hear me out. Surprise third innings. Just for fun, has no impact on the records

Was thinking of going to day 2 of the boxing day test. Looks like I might be going to the final day.

My inflatable Christmas Dragon, lying on his back in my front garden

Me after two days of Christmas lunches

I bought the meta quest 2 for work (the one I've borrowed) about a fortnight before the quest 3 came out. So I'm used to jumping just that little bit too early 😄

We actually have syglass, that's where I borrowed the headset from 😂

I need to play with it (syglass) more - I know there's something to it but we haven't had much take up

Have borrowed a VR headset for the holidays, I think I may need to buy one...

Anyone want to talk me out of / in to it?

Well that makes my plan of going to the boxing day test somewhat less exciting

I'm glad I tried to clean up my local git repo the day before my last day for the year. It gave me enough time to request ITS to recover it from the nightly backups after I lost months worth of code.

Lesson learned for next year.

Narrator: He had, in fact, not learned

Screenshot from outlook. Snoozing all emails until 2026

Love to see it. I think I've solved a lot of my problems on my last day at work this year.

The longer I spend debugging a script, the harder I hit the enter key when running

Deck the hall with boughs of holly, Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! "Tis the season to be jolly: a, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! Fill the meadcup, drain the barrel, Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! Troll the ancient Christmas carol. Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la!

TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit

So it's your fault!

The Free Shepherd - Official Announcement Trailer | The Game Awards 2025 YouTube video by IGN

Look I do not really play video games, but I could get completely addicted to a sheepdog simulator.