The master of all he surveys. 🐦
This series has such excellent writing — Cast the First Stone (Sister Agnes Mysteries Book 7) by Alison Joseph. 📚
For example, this sentence in the middle of an intense and difficult discussion:
How brilliant: the silence muffled the traffic noise, not vice versa.
I was trying out Nitro for photo editing and this Kuaka | Godwit shone out at me from my photo album. 🐦
Gentlemen Coders was founded in 2016 by Nik Bhatt, an 18 year veteran of Apple. His roles in the Photo Apps group included Senior Director of Engineering and Chief Technical Officer. Among other roles, he led the Aperture, iPhoto, RAW Camera and Core Image engineering teams, as well as the imaging team for the Mac version of Photos.
A rather facile movie, but I watched it through because the underlying ideas were somewhat interesting — Uglies:
In the future, the world has fallen into chaos after exhausting all natural resources. To keep humanity alive, scientists first create genetically modified orchids that are a new energy source, and second, a surgical procedure to enhance human beings in both appearance and fitness to prevent prejudice and discrimination.
Waikawa Beach rain. @JeremyWxBaker
The crew. 🐦
RNZ broadcasts first Concert for Animals on Guy Fawkes Night | RNZ News: 🐶
In a radio first, RNZ and the SPCA are hosting a special Guy Fawkes Concert for Animals, with music specially selected to calm your pets.
RNZ Concert content director Liisa McMillan said it recognised Guy Fawkes could be a stressful time for animals and their humans.
"We're excited to offer some special radio programming that we hope will provide distraction and enjoyment for both," McMillan said.
And, BTW, Claude saved me some hair tearing.
Q: I'm using the hex colour below as the background for a web page. I want the colour to be paler. Give me 5 options, in hex, for a paler yellow. The hex colour I'm using is: #FEDC91
Answer: Here are 5 progressively paler yellow hex colors …
I agreed to update a friend's (a former client) web page — a simple task. But I'd forgotten about the power of MS Word users to cause utter confusion! So glad I don't do that work any more.
And the page update? It used to be 5 lightning fast HTML & CSS pages; now it's a single page, ditto.
This is our resident blackbird who spends much of the day sitting on our deck railing, singing to me (and the world). 🐦
I think I'm done with this series: The Bea Abbot Agency Mysteries Books 11–15 by Veronica Heley. 📚
Book 12 in particular was a bit silly and repetitive. The others lacked the occasional writing sparkle that previous books had.
The stories have grown stale.
0850 and I'm as ready as I can be for an all-day power cut.
With power off we can't get water pumped from the rainwater tank so the toilet and handbasins won't work. Nor can I boil the kettle for a cup of tea, and the Internet will go off. The Yeti can run the WiFi modem, but won't support a kettle.
Devices are charged. Thermoses are full of boiling water and I've brought a bottle of emergency water into the house for handwashing (and filled the sink).
Oh, and the car's out of the garage so I can go out later. Manually opening the garage door is a huge pain …
Let the power cut begin!
Hooray, it's an excellent show: Jason Kottke:
Ooh, a preview clip from season three of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. I like this crew. Season three premieres sometime in 2025 and, huzzah!, has been renewed for a 4th season.
I always love to see a Spoonbill, and the Pied Stilt is a bonus. 🐦
On my way to Palmerston North to collect Deb from the airport. Eggs on toast with tomatoes for lunch at Levin Mall. Inexpensive but delicious. Noisy though!
Kingfisher on a flax spear by the lake. 🐦
I get the feeling I'm in trouble … 🐦
Unsuccessful comet hunting, but it was alright down at the beach after sunset.
