Marty P

Catching a train behind some tourists today who are really enjoying the different suburbs we pass through, and it has reminded me

a) how much I enjoy watching the world go by when I catch trains overseas, and

b) how refreshing it is to see my city through someone else's eyes.

@rouleur.app Just wanted to say you guys have created a genuinely fun game. The most enjoyable things in life are easy to pick up, but hard to master, and I think you've struck the right balance 👍

As an aside, Luke was awesome in the SBS comm box too. A natural.

Not that far off to be fair.

I wish they could bottle the feeling of satisfaction you get when turning on your out-of-office for an extended period. Pump it into my veins.

The other options must’ve stunk.

Photo of a car and truck rental company called ANIS.

I cannot stop imagining the discussions that took place when they named this business.

Screenshot from the official Sydney Marathon video showing runners over the Harbour Bridge.

This was a fun event to be part of last weekend. I only did the 'mini-marathon' but got to jog down the middle of the Harbour Bridge (and might just tackle the 10km next year).

If the Sydney Swans finish the job this year & bookend the Buddy Franklin era with a premiership either side, I'm sure there's a great lesson in there somewhere about building a champion team & not a team of champions, but until then I'm just going to enjoy wins like that. #GoSwans

The word "slow" is painted on the road twice, and thanks to some rework, the letter "W" appears in three different fonts.

I have given a lot of thought to the process our local council must've gone through to end up with three different W fonts on the road.

The one simple trick top chefs don't want you to know!

Years ago I bought a really good kitchen knife and honestly couldn't believe what a massive difference it made. Today I've had the same experience with a vacuum cleaner.

There's been an incredible emergency landing at Sydney’s Bankstown Airport. The 7NEWS helicopter captured the pilot's heart-stopping approach, skimming rooft... A light plane's heart stopping crash landing | 7 News Australia

This video gets more heart-stopping the longer it goes. Amazing footage.

Any story that combines F1 and my love/hate relationship with Excel is going to get my attention.

After nearly 20 years living in apartments, I'm now back on the ground floor in a townhouse and was not expecting the ecosystem of ants, spiders, lizards, and other bugs that now surrounds me. Our dog also quite enjoys this.

The app that tells you when the international space station is visible overhead is yet to lose its novelty.

It has been a good day.

My only new year's resolution was to embrace the cheap shitty beer that I actually enjoy instead of always looking past it for craft beer, and my life is better for it.

I didn't realise there was such a long history of people throwing stuff at the Mona Lisa.

Picture of a train line that kinks sharply one way, then the other.

Waiting for the train to perform a Scandinavian flick.

It felt symbolic to move the leftover Christmas wrapping off my home office desk this morning so I could log into work for the first time this year.

Had our first BBQ in our new place tonight. Really feels like we've moved in now.

A gorilla lost in thought

Favourite photo from the zoo today.

Using an unexpected Paramount+ trial to binge watch Nathan For You and am not regretting it.

Moving from one side of Sydney to the other has provided an unexpected opportunity to rediscover the city from a slightly new perspective, and it is currently one of life's little joys.

The relationship between toddler and dog is so much more complex and nuanced than I could ever have imagined.