Cail Young

@cail.bsky.social

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Still trying to collect all the blue pages.

Screenshot that claims I am a Canadian TV actor
A fairy-light and disco-ball hall; at the far end a stage with the four hosts of Boonta Vista, mid-riff. (As in a joke, not their torsos.) There is a packed audience sitting down, listening attentively
A screenshot of Safari at tix.miff.com.au with a blank page that just says “test”
Screenshot of an email received with the subject Critical Security Incident and message containing only “i feel like miles cyrus sometimes”. The footer has the MIFF and Ferve Tickets logos as normal
Meme of Shakespeare with speech bubble at the bottom, implying he is saying the quoted post
Wide shot of The Mountain Goats on stage at the Forum, Melbourne. A dense crowd is backlit in front of the stage, making a sea of heads. There are shoulders and a couple of backs of heads in the foreground, framing the stage. The lighting is very rock and roll. The band is a little overexposed.
A photo of the outside of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Cail standing on stage behind a lectern with “Observability Day Europe” on a sign. The screen behind has a quote - “I must not egress. Egress is the budget-killer. – Paul Atreides, SRE”
A screenshot from the original Monkey Island game where a pirate is talking to Guybrush, saying “Go out and buy Loom™️ today!”
A dimly lit nightclub with rows of seats. Red theme lighting and a bright window behind the stage. Most seats are empty. Nobody is on stage yet. The unmistakable Funktion One speakers join a range of novelty lights on the ceiling.
Wide angle photo of the inside of a large hall. Dramatic lighting is on the floor, and a large “DDD” neon sign is on the stage. A projection screen with some pre-show information is hung in front of a huge pipe organ behind the main stage.
A fuzzy green cloud showing “American Progrssive Democrats” as a somewhat-distinct entity from “Progressive American Democrats”
Cropped photo of a pathology order slip, with handwritten “39M with ? malignancy”
Screenshot of a basic 403 Forbidden page from openresty
Photo of a dirty XPT, bearing a strong resemblance to the Intercity 125, departing Melbourne towards Sydney
A screenshot from an interview with David Lynch, subtitled: -Believe it or not, Eraserhead is my most spiritual film. -Elaborate on that. -No.
A screenshot from The Producers, specifically the “Springtime For Hitler” show-within-a-show
BONUS EPISODE: The Tweens And Teens Pheasant Blasting Jamboree
A very red sunset with silhouettes of trees in the foreground
A long exposure of the night sky with green aurora, framed by trees on the sides and bottom. Some streetlight and houses dot the background towards the horizon.
A museum case with seven Enigma encryption machines at Bletchley Park
A full body shot of the character Feathers McGraw, from the Wallace and Gromit movies. Feathers is a claymation penguin with a red rubber glove on his head as a disguise.
A marketing image of a toaster showing twin sensors checking the toast’s colour. The caption reads: Eye Q™ Optic Sensor Technology Powered by Sensability ™ Technology, optic sensors see colour change 10 times a second, tracking the browning in real time and stopping the toasting the moment it reaches your desired shade. That means consistent results, every time, without the watching.
The sun setting behind some silhouetted trees.
A GIF from Back To The Future where Doc Brown is saying “please excuse the crudity of this model” while showing Marty an incredibly detailed model
A signboard with safety information at a construction site with the footer THIS SITE WILL OPERATE INCIDENT & INJURY FREE
A strikingly-lit wing shot of a plane mid-flight, as the sun is setting.
A screenshot of the OP, with words crossed out so that it now says “Friends don’t let friends run servers”
A tall gum tree frames a stormy sky with a rainbow arcing down to the horizon in the background.
A 50-port USB charging hub in an industrial enclosure.
Night time in a busy street. A blue and purple lit-from-within Lyrebird lantern, carried on the shoulders of a person. The lantern is about a meter long, and the carrier is operating the mouth of the bird with a stick
A backlit photo of the Yoorrook “Walk For Truth” banner in front of the King George V monument in the Kings Domain park in Melbourne, at sunrise.
Screenshot of Cail giving a presentation at Observability Day Europe 2025. The slide has the heading “Three Kinds Of Lies”. The bullets are: Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics. There is also a text box says “SLOs?” with arrows pointing to all three bullets.
Screenshot of an Apple Intelligence summary of an email from Cygnett. The summary says “Received marketing email; unsubscribe link provided” and nothing else.
A photo of Cail presenting at Observability Day Europe 2025, gesturing behind himself at the projected image of a sink full of dirty mugs
Screenshot of an email where the AI summary says that the recipient has been named CEO of a frequent flyer program.
A camera with a very large set of bellows and a lens. The whole setup is over a meter long.
A photo of two Tawny Frogmouths (birds) in a tree. The juvenile seems to be peering over the shoulder of the older one