Mac Horn
@macinthecorner.bsky.social
Retired librarian, enthusiastically incompetent golfer.
Not just regulatory ambiguity. Australia Post also states that the USPS and US Customs have not published data interchange standards, so there is no automated method to communicate value, status or even recipient.
September 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Not just regulatory ambiguity. Australia Post also states that the USPS and US Customs have not published data interchange standards, so there is no automated method to communicate value, status or even recipient.
Rational, no. Relatable, very.
September 6, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Rational, no. Relatable, very.
She is currently snoring quietly beside me on the sofa. Approximately 10 minutes to go before the daily ritual of Barking at the School Bus.
September 4, 2025 at 5:23 AM
She is currently snoring quietly beside me on the sofa. Approximately 10 minutes to go before the daily ritual of Barking at the School Bus.
Our darling beagle Piper loved her squeaky toys. Used them in a surprisingly passive aggressive way. “Look, I’m a good girl, playing with my toys.”
“No, I don’t care that it is 1:36 am.”
“No, I don’t care that it is 1:36 am.”
September 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Our darling beagle Piper loved her squeaky toys. Used them in a surprisingly passive aggressive way. “Look, I’m a good girl, playing with my toys.”
“No, I don’t care that it is 1:36 am.”
“No, I don’t care that it is 1:36 am.”
Ideas above his station, so to speak.
September 4, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Ideas above his station, so to speak.
I marvel how currawongs and magpies and the like can make “hey, wanna fuck?” sound so lovely.
September 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I marvel how currawongs and magpies and the like can make “hey, wanna fuck?” sound so lovely.
Damn. Image now firmly stuck in my mind. Anyone got a lettuce?
May 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Damn. Image now firmly stuck in my mind. Anyone got a lettuce?
Geelong Cats. A great community club. No pokies. And in a town small enough that no indiscretion goes unobserved. Also quite good at football over a long period.
February 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Geelong Cats. A great community club. No pokies. And in a town small enough that no indiscretion goes unobserved. Also quite good at football over a long period.
I strongly believe that decency matters. My (Australian Rules) club has a clearly expressed “no dickheads” policy, and it makes following them a true joy.
February 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I strongly believe that decency matters. My (Australian Rules) club has a clearly expressed “no dickheads” policy, and it makes following them a true joy.
Dear Dmitry, your friends and admirers worry that this analogy came to your mind. R U Ok?
February 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Dear Dmitry, your friends and admirers worry that this analogy came to your mind. R U Ok?
As someone living a long way away, and with no particular concern for this or that Premier League team, I think that any changeroom would be improved by having Rashford in it. His work for school meals alone makes him a model to be followed.
February 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
As someone living a long way away, and with no particular concern for this or that Premier League team, I think that any changeroom would be improved by having Rashford in it. His work for school meals alone makes him a model to be followed.
Fair enough. When I worked with some Americans in the 80’s and 90’s, many of them knew the Oils too. On the other hand, I had to tell them who Acca Dacca were. They called them Acey Deucy.
January 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Fair enough. When I worked with some Americans in the 80’s and 90’s, many of them knew the Oils too. On the other hand, I had to tell them who Acca Dacca were. They called them Acey Deucy.
Oils?? Lesser known?? Where have you been hiding?
January 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Oils?? Lesser known?? Where have you been hiding?
I remember all the licence plates from my parents’ cars, and most of my own. Since they have no ongoing recorded link to me, they make useful password frames.
January 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I remember all the licence plates from my parents’ cars, and most of my own. Since they have no ongoing recorded link to me, they make useful password frames.
Phone numbers I know
- mine
- my previous mobile phone
- my spouse
- the house I grew up in from age 6 to 22
- my mother’s last home number
- my office number from the 1980’s
- only one of my home phones from the 1980’s
Anything else is stored in my contacts and thus forgettable.
- mine
- my previous mobile phone
- my spouse
- the house I grew up in from age 6 to 22
- my mother’s last home number
- my office number from the 1980’s
- only one of my home phones from the 1980’s
Anything else is stored in my contacts and thus forgettable.
January 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Phone numbers I know
- mine
- my previous mobile phone
- my spouse
- the house I grew up in from age 6 to 22
- my mother’s last home number
- my office number from the 1980’s
- only one of my home phones from the 1980’s
Anything else is stored in my contacts and thus forgettable.
- mine
- my previous mobile phone
- my spouse
- the house I grew up in from age 6 to 22
- my mother’s last home number
- my office number from the 1980’s
- only one of my home phones from the 1980’s
Anything else is stored in my contacts and thus forgettable.
Aah, my dear profession of librarianship. The glorious intersection between mindless hoarding and rigorous organization.
January 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Aah, my dear profession of librarianship. The glorious intersection between mindless hoarding and rigorous organization.
Having driven both places, might I also mention Iowa.
December 28, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Having driven both places, might I also mention Iowa.
In retrospect, the second order partial differential equations one is unconsciously doing to calculate whether you can get to the kid before they can get to the trouble are quite amazing.
December 28, 2024 at 10:15 AM
In retrospect, the second order partial differential equations one is unconsciously doing to calculate whether you can get to the kid before they can get to the trouble are quite amazing.
Having moved away from Melbourne, I miss the vibe of getting off the train at Richmond and ambling up to the ‘G in the company of a few thousand like-minded souls. And the return journey, in joy or sadness late in the day.
December 27, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Having moved away from Melbourne, I miss the vibe of getting off the train at Richmond and ambling up to the ‘G in the company of a few thousand like-minded souls. And the return journey, in joy or sadness late in the day.
Then revived and killed again a few times.
December 27, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Then revived and killed again a few times.
Bare minimum, I’d have thought.
December 27, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Bare minimum, I’d have thought.
Isn’t that the line from Oliver?
December 16, 2024 at 8:27 AM
Isn’t that the line from Oliver?
Chuck in my strabismus and I’m really stuffed.
December 13, 2024 at 6:37 AM
Chuck in my strabismus and I’m really stuffed.