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Saturday, June 15, 2019
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We hired a company to design a website for my dad's medical practice. I got in touch with them a couple of months ago, and we went through the process of creating his logo and stuff like that.
My granddad got diagnosed with prostate cancer a couple of weeks ago, and so we were a bit busy dealing with that situation and the website took a back seat. The website guy keeps rushing me to finish off the content for the site. I don't know why he cant wait for a few more weeks, and do some other projects in the meantime. I told him that we are dealing with a family situation, but he's not understanding at all. He told me that we need to get the content in by tomorrow at the latest.
Bit annoyed that I am paying $9000 for this website, and I am being rushed. Thoughts?
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If given the opportunity I will order a Starbucks venti soy latte with raspberry syrup and 4 extra shots. I know it's shit, same way that KFC is shit, but I find it fken delicious and worth the heart palpitations.
What's a seppo bullshit thing you like that you would prefer people irl remained ignorant of?
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How do America and Australia stack up?
Both America and Australia are enormous wealthy western nations. While we may differ significantly in population we share a similar culture and heritage as former colonies of the British Empire.
Today I want to compare how life compares between the two countries and how much of each nation's massive wealth truly makes its way down to the average citizen. While initially in undertaking this task I, like you believed that it should be an easy answer... Australia obviously. We constantly hear of America's issues on loud speaker, from race relations to a shrinking middle class. While all of it is true, the American media often fails to point out how incredibly rich the nation and its citizens are. To be clear I am not calling American media fake news or accessing them of misinformation or malpractice. It is the media's job to hold the government to account and often that means highlighting the nation's problems. This has the unfortunate consequence of skewing the international public view of America as we often only hear the bad and are unable to see the positives for our own eyes.
Economics and Wages:
To begin with let us compare the GDP per capita of our two nations:
GDP per capita it a nation's gross domestic product (the total amount in dollar terms a nations produces in goods and services, basically how big a countries economy is) and divides it by the population. This takes into account the enormous population differences between Australia and America and focuses on the individual.
America ranks 8th in 2019 with a GDP per capita of $65,062 US GDP per capita, World bank
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I'm pretty sure google indexes this, so I thought it was a decent place to write some of my experiences so others might learn. These are based off two recent rides;
- Brisbane to Melbourne Rtn - ~3k km on completely stock Ninja 300 (36hrs)
- Brisbane to Wollongong Rtn ~2.5k km on CBR 500R with some "bolt on" mods (36hrs)
Both rides were pretty compressed timeframes, and not what I would recommend but sometimes it has to be done.
Bikes: Having done these on these two sport bikes, one stock and one modded, I can definitely there are some simple things for endurance and comfort that make a world of difference and are cheap. The CBR500 was already more comfortable with the softer shocks and thicker seat, but the ninja could have been improved with
- Firm blocks of rubber on the bottom of the seat assembly
- Rubber covers / tops for the foot pegs
- as many rubber washers and strips of rubber over frame contact points to reduce vibration Changing the stock headlight bulb (an osram) to a phillips "X-tremeVision Moto" bulb is definitely recommended. I don't think the bulb is brighter per se, but the change in the shape of the pattern is a big help. In future I'm going to try and rewrite the headlights to use both on low beam and re-aim them slightly just to get more light on the road
Other simple mods I used on the CBR and would recommend;
- A simple gel seat pad e.g. speedmetal gel pad for vibration and to increase the time you can sit for
- A handlebar cover e.g. barkbusters blizzard handguards, amazing increase in comfort for my poor hands just keeping the wind and rain off
- Not yet used, but heated grips would have been amazing
- Not yet used, but I would have loved a usb port to charge my phone
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