wolf cafe firebombed this week in Millers Junction Altona.

I remember that cafe was a Covid hot spot, back when contact tracing was a thing.

Ardeer one looks like its going to be in a good spot. Near the Interchange between Western Ring Road and Ballarat Road.

It's similar to how V/Line allocates emergency replacement buses.

They have a big list, and start calling the first one. If they can't do it, they get bumped down the list and they call the next bus operator on the list, until they have a hit.

It's much easier than having to track the availabilities of every operator.

Thoughts on the rumour that Costco Docklands is closing?

I kind of think it's a good riddance. The inner city is ill suited for an automotive dependant single story superstore. It's fun when a V/Line replacement coach gets stuck in the queue of drivers wanting to turn into Costco.

In Japan you have to head well out of the way to visit Costco. The only one in Tokyo is in Hachioji. Otherwise you have to visit Yokohama, Saitama or Chiba prefecture.

Meanwhile they are claiming to the ATSB that a flap issue in the 737-800 is non-safety critical, therefore a change in procedures is not needed.

It's also going to be interesting seeing the root cause. Tool control is pretty strict in Aviation, and they will be able to identify the exact torque wrench that was meant to tighten up those bolts.

Boeing did have a few crashes in the 1990's, due to a faulty servo motor in the rudder.

Yay, pick up the keys to the new unit today.

Fuck yeah, Carcass / TBDM tour just announced.

Fridge is mine, but it is alright.

Yeah, he keeps gaslighting me.

I called out that the landlord isn't going to be happy, and then he goes, I've offered to pay. Stop being a fucking manchild.

I want him out. He's the fucking man child who cannot look after the house at all whenever I'm away.

Ugh, came home from my Japan trip to find my roomate has thrashed the stove. He claims that he "burnt hand and dropped a pot on it"...

He didn't even bother to clean up as well, saying that I'm a recovering alcoholic, who's too sick. Well hire a cleaner then. It's pretty poor form not cleaning, after I clean the place up before I go away.

I'm closer to the Wakayama side of Osaka, which is a more car dependent than other areas of Osaka though.

Fuel price in Osaka is 174 yen per a liter. Given the the AUD to Yen is almost at parity, I think we're being ripped off at the pump.

The hotel I'm in has a Hitachi prefab bathroom.

Magic Wands, Bathrooms and Shinkansens. The trifecta.

Currently in Japan, and I wonder what the site inspection guy would think of the fact that nearly everything waterproofing related here is pre-fab.

It would send him out of business, but you do lose customizability.

It's also changed a lot since I have last visited in 2019. Family Mart now has Self Serve, and 7/11 here has a lot more migrant workers.

As an engineer in the Aussie Telco industry, I know a lot of people that work for Telstra, or companies under the TPG group.

However I don't know anyone that works for Optus.

I'm currently in Korea, however their drivers make Melbourne drivers look completely sane.

Red light running is common (however they have right turn on red), and no one stays in their lanes when turning.

Rule 1) It's always DNS. Rule 2) If it's not DNS, it's a new DNS failure mode you're not yet familiar with.

If a router or switch doesn't detect an outage properly, or is misconfigured, you are still gonna have a bad day regardless of redundancy.

Damn, got a bag of shonky award winning PGR weed today. It doesn't even smell.