Me at the beach: this glare is terrible. I wonder if it's possible to get sunglasses that go over my prescription specs?
After a search: TIL there's a whole category of sunglasses called fitovers
that do just that. Wow.
Note: If I'm taking photos I find sunglasses make everything too hard.
The Spinoff once again demonstrates brilliance! 🤣 Plucky Foodstuffs takes bold stand against children on bikes:
The new route would allow thousands of Wellingtonians to safely cycle to their store, and the retailer simply will not stand for it.
It’s a hard life being a small independent food retailer. Climate change, cost of living, and supply chain failures have wreaked havoc on the industry.
And worst of all: sometimes people ride past your shop on bicycles.
I really enjoyed the first episode of the Korean TV show Extraordinary Attorney Woo. Fortunately I could listen in English, rather than reading subtitles. It was delightful, funny (not at the expense of the lead character) and interesting. 📺
Being different from neurotypical peers, [Woo's] manner of communication is initially seen as odd and awkward, and her strong emotional intelligence remains unrecognized.
I liked Blood and Money (McBride & Tanner Book 1) by Rachel McLean pretty well. It seemed fairly straightforward. Apparently the author has written a couple of other previous series that might have been useful to read first. 📚
It was 2 minutes after sunrise when I arrived on the beach and spotted this end of a rainbow.
Wow! Rarely Glimpsed Shark That Lives For Centuries Unexpectedly Surfaces in Caribbean:
Greenland sharks are the longest-living vertebrates on Earth, with an astonishing lifespan of 250 — 500 years … The sharks live thousands of feet underwater in pitch darkness … they grow, move, and age slowly. Their energy-conserving, slow-paced lifestyle is an essential adaptation to the nutrient-scarce deep sea.
Looked out this morning to see three cows in the neighbour's property. They were supposed to be where the white one is, on the other side of the fence between them. A bit of yelling and encouragement and they crashed through the fence back to the correct side.
Country life.
Hard to believe it's 8 years since we visited Spain, Portugal, Morocco. Fátima was so memorable — a pilgrimage destination with narrow streets, enormous tour buses, gift shops stuffed to the rafters with religious statues, knickknacks and images. The hotel had this enormous poster in the lift.
Even though it's only 10 weeks since I first read the Dana Stabenow book Midnight Come Again (A Kate Shugak Investigation Book 10) I had not fully remembered it. 📚
This time round (and with the book in context) I recognised the central role of Kate's emotional journey. Such an excellent author!
First time I've seen the word overtourism
. A very useful concept indeed.
tourism agencies have spoken out against the proposed … airport at Tarras, concerned about "overtourism" it would create.
Crepuscular rays, this morning at 15 minutes before sunrise.
It's Warou | Welcome swallow time of year. We have to be careful about leaving the garage door open or they start building nests of mud in there. 🐦
Here they are on the roof of the zendo. Such bright orange and shiny black!
Kāhu | Hawk in flight. 🐦
I have a folder of .mp3 files and want to be able to just play a random track.
I spent ages finding out how to make an AppleScript to count files in a folder, get a random number between 1 and the number of files. I was banging my head on how to then play that file. Then I discovered you can just ask for a random file in the folder. Then play it. Piece of cake! 🎶
-- 02 September 2023
-- Miraz Jordan, https://miraz.me
-- AppleScript picks a random .mp3 file from the Korolova folder
-- plays it with Quicktime Player
tell application "Finder"
set random_file to some file of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:miraz:Korolova"
end tell
tell application "QuickTime Player"
open random_file
activate
tell document 1
play
end tell
end tell'Library rooficer': Dog captures hearts of many library goers 🐶:
at Northcote Library, there is a dog who has captured the hearts of many. … [Koko the dog] kind of calms everything down, people come in and they look around, it gives that kind of peacefulness in the library as well.
These days I watch the tide charts. There's a dramatic difference at Waikawa Beach between mid-lunar month (low variation) and full (super) moon (high variation).
Willow didn't really want to do a selfie with me today. 🐶 😒
(No spoilers) The NYT crossword for 30 August 2023 was a particular delight — all the Across clues tell a story.
This beauty used to graze near us, now she’s further away and we don’t see her so often. 🐴
The sunrise this morning was OK down by the Strathnaver lakes, Waimarie and Te Puna a te Ora (Tranquil Waters and The Wellspring of Good Health).
