Kāpiti Island rises from the dawn mist.
This Karoro, Black-backed gull was keeping a close eye on me this morning. 🐦
I did a heap of things today that I wanted to do. Some are unfinished, and that’s fine. The sky was blue, the sun warm, the day was still. The air is clean and I listened to birds. How fabulous to be alive! 🤩
Police urge potential new pet owners to be wary following an influx of scams involving fake puppies and cryptocurrency. … potential red flags…
[the scammers] will often use colourful text, Emojis and exhibit poor grammar.
… payment via cryptocurrency
This post by @gregmoore reminded me of this day back in 2003 when Aphra 🐈, on top of the shower, was wondering if there was a yet higher place to reach.
Aotearoa New Zealand is right in the middle of a giant high today, giving us cold clear nights and warm blue sky days. And no wind! 🤩
earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions
Things fell into place today for Deb and me to eat dinner out. We visited for the first time Nanyang Flavours in Shannon, a 35 minute drive from home, where I had Nasi Goreng. It was a very large meal and extremely delicious. I have leftovers for tomorrow. 🥳
Nothing special: just a photo from when I was walking Sasha 🐶 back along the lane to home, on a perfect morning. Blue skies, warm sun, not a breath of wind, silence apart from birds.
This was such an interesting episode of Lingthusiasm: What it means for a language to be official. It’s way more complicated than I’d ever thought.
Hah! Scifi writers note:
to write a character who is… expert… Give them a deep, intense hatred of some oddly specific wow-I-did-not-even-know-that-was-a-thing-and-it-would-have-never-occurred-to-me-that-it’s-a-bad-thing thing they’ll gladly rant about.
Deb did a clean out and found an old iPhone 5. It’s so tiny! Look at it next to my iPhone 13 Pro Max.
A neighbour and I drove to Foxton today to visit the Ans Westra photo exhibition. I specially loved her photo of this young Māori girl (not named) who is clearly a warrior in the making.
Our dog groomer has come down with Shingles. Ouch! That means we need to find an alternative groomer for Sasha 🐶 who’s about due for a trim. 😒
Something I’d like is more information in the list of Micro.Bloggers I’m following (micro.blog/[name]/following) @help. Useful would be: date they last posted &/or how many posts they’ve made. I follow ~600. I recognise 50—100 names because they actually post.
Amazon have made a change I really dislike. When I look at a page of listings my eye now sees first in giant red letters a (supposed) discount amount to the left of the actual price in smaller black type. My eye sees the red, reads it as a price, I gasp (and remember costly). 😵💫
On a day where I seem to be feeling a bit off-colour I’ve really enjoyed eating some Celery soup. Really easy and quick to make, once you’ve chopped up a load of celery and potatoes. Just right today.
Tonight I made Roast cod on spiced Puy lentils — delicious. There was no cod available so I cooked a fish I’d never heard of before: Elephant Fish. Now I’m horrified to find it’s in the list of fish to avoid because of ecological concerns (set netting and bottom trawling). 😒
This month I am finally doing a chore I really have trouble getting to: selling stuff I no longer require. So far this month I’ve sold an Apple Watch, a Fujifilm zoom lens, a broken version of that same zoom lens. Today I’ve listed a 27mm lens I never use. 💪🏼
This is interesting: The streets have eyes, including the bit that says:
One of the problems is the [facial recognition] software doesn’t perform well across all ethnicities. … the software has been designed with lighter skin as the default.