Received a spam text in Messages on my Mac and had to search for how to block it. Found Block messages in Messages on Mac - Apple Support: select the conversation, choose Delete and then you can Delete and Report Spam.
Back in 2019 my two cats, Aphra and Ares, passed away.
Their sister Sophie, who lives with our friend, is still going strong at the age of 21 and a half. Her food is on the kitchen bench so the rascally Samoyeds don't eat it. She has her own 'ladder' to get up there. 🐈
The friend we visited in Wellington overnight has a 6 year old and a 7 year old — Samoyeds. They’re big. They’re cheerful. They fill up a small house. 🐶
It was weird today, driving to Waikanae to catch the train — the road was very busy in both directions, but it was all cars and small vehicles. I didn't see a big truck until the Ōtaki Expressway on-ramp.
Normally there's at least one big truck for every 4 or 5 cars. Had me a bit worried …
👍 Government launches measures to protect native biodiversity:
The Government is launching … measures to protect native wildlife and at-risk habitats, to help halt the decline of nature due to human activity …
“Aotearoa is home to natural taonga found nowhere else on earth. While some native species’ populations are improving, many are in decline. Reversing this decline and making sure our native plants and animals are healthy and resilient is a priority for our Government,” …
“63% of our native ecosystems are now threatened, and a third of our native species are threatened or at risk of extinction. It’s time we find new ways to incentivise conservation, protect our precious wildlife, and provide clearer guidance on how to identify, manage and protect biodiversity.”
Train time.
I needed to rummage round in the shed looking for something and nearly froze my hands off! Zero degrees C and a hefty frost. Luckily I found what I was looking for: the charger that came with my Apple Watch. I'd left it in the packaging and put the box in storage. I need it now for travel.
Thanks to the Sky Guide app on my iPhone, my watch now alerts me to passes of the ISS. Here the ISS came up from the southeast and passed by Crux Australis before eventually disappearing in the northeast. This is a mere 10 seconds of an approx 5 minute pass. ✨
These two used to often be in the property across our lane. These days we only see them from afar. 🐴
The stretches I started doing daily a week ago are really starting to pay off. It's much easier to get out of bed and I feel a bit 'looser' in my body. On Day 1 I could barely even get into position, now I'm starting to look at form and really feeling the stretch. 👍
I really enjoyed The Complete Blue Ridge Mountains Mysteries 1–5 by Cathy Pickens. 📚
I very much liked the main character, Avery, and the author seemed very grounded in the setting — specially interesting as it was totally unfamiliar to me. Make sense:
set in small-town South Carolina, where Cathy grew up and where her family has lived for 300 years.
At 8.06am [NZ time] on Friday, July 7, Earth reaches aphelion …the furthest point from the Sun in its elliptical orbit…
At aphelion, Earth is about 152 million Km away from the Sun … about 5 million Km farther than at perihelion
I liked this notion in a book I'm currently reading (has local relevance):
Opinions became more subtle and more difficult when mixed with knowledge and friendship rather than mere speculation.
Source: Location 22166 of 23750 in The Complete Blue Ridge Mountains Mysteries 1–5 by Cathy Pickens.
My little buddy Willow is visiting for a bit today. 🐶
So cool: NASA Seals Volunteers Into Isolated Habitat For Year-Long Experiment:
four volunteers entered a simulated Martian habitat … to learn more about the logistics – and the human psychology – of living long-term on another planet
Inside 160 m2 — 1,700 square feet for a year!
After bookmarking a page in Micro.Blog I was stumped about how to Highlight a section. I tried for a while then gave up. Today I tried again, searched fruitlessly for instructions.
Finally I tried unchecking Enabled
in the Stop The Madness extension. Success: a Highlight 'button' appeared.
Nuttin' — just hanging around…
WOAH!
More bias exposed — Women Hunt in Most Foraging Societies:
narratives of 'man the hunter' and 'woman the gatherer' are crumbling in the face of new evidence.
…ancient sites around the world strongly suggest that women have been fishing, hunting big game, and going to war … for many millennia.
Another excellent NativLang video (17 minutes): Why is this the most popular word order across languages? – SOV — Miraz the blog post wrote
, for example.
If you're interested in words, language, languages, do watch.
I really enjoyed Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season One, but Season Two is just “out of this world”. Loving this season so much. Such fantastic stories. 👏🏼👏🏼 🖖🏼