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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] https://social.chinwag.org/@mike
Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I was a Unix #sysadmin for 25 years and I'm slowly recovering.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine
So proud to have contributed.

Four years ago today, I found a phone box at Arkaroola that still had Telecom branding. It was still in service. Even more, it was allowing calls to be made for free. A few weeks later it was announced that all remaining public phones would be set to allow free calling, so I may have stumbled across a phone that was simultaneously in the past and also in the future.
If you're ever passing by, perhaps you should call someone and make enquiries about lottery numbers.

Four years ago today, I paused by the side of a long, straight, deserted road to photograph the remains of the Parachilna Fettlers' Cottages. I didn't realise at the time that this was going to become one of my favourite desktop background images. I wish I'd spent more time in person soaking this place up.

Anyways screw you Melbourne, I'm spending the last week of August somewhere warm.
I have booked tickets for an aeroplane all by myself for the first time ever.