For no special reason, a photo from August 2012, at Ha’atafu resort in Tonga. Reading.
How do these adjacencies happen so often? Is this really just a coincidence? No one talks about ravens then suddenly @cheri and @hollyhoneychurch both mention them, one after the other!? What’s going on? 🤨 🕵🏼♀️
Well, well, well: Kobayashi Maru
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Misremembering Something May Be Evidence That Your Memory Is Actually Working 🤔:
people tend to remember the general gist of an item … while forgetting its fine details.
…people tend to mentally “fill in” missing details with the most frequent or commonplace properties.
The Grey warbler, Riroriro has a very distinctive song that I’ve often heard. I’d never seen the bird though until today. Very excited to report my first sighting, near our gate, and photos! This bird is even smaller than the tiny waxeyes!
Ahhhh, mystery solved. I wondered why my author friend @cheri kept leaving out words in her blog posts. Now I know to blame Reader mode on Safari, which I use because I hate reading pale text on a dark background.
Blood moon November 2021 notes
I caught some glimpses of the eclipse last night, between cloud. Just after 10 pm, it looked just like this, in binoculars. My couple of photos were garbage. so, just to remember this:
The longest partial lunar eclipse visible in New Zealand in more than 800 years … has not been seen in our skies since Kupe landed in Aotearoa 800 years ago. … While lunar eclipses happen every couple of years, the next one as long as tonight’s will not occur for another 648 years’ … in 2669
Source: Rare micro Moon eclipse expected to be visible across Aotearoa
I managed to see the almost total lunar eclipse in spite of loads of cloud. Pretty darned special, particularly with good binoculars. Took two bad photos. I wanted to focus on binocular views instead of camera fiddling tonight. 😀 Off to bed now.
Absent-mindedly opened Camera app on my phone instead of the Covid–19 Tracer app to record a visit. Camera kindly offered to open the correct app for me.
My Granny Smith apple tree should produce a good crop this year.
LOL juxtapositions. On Netflix: The Flash with Dash and Lily.
I’ve really enjoyed this series. Just finished 3rd Tango: (Schock Sisters Mystery Series) by Misty Evans and Adrienne Giordano. 📚 Looks like the authors have written other books, but in genres that aren’t really my thing. With any luck, there are more of this series yet to come.
Hmmm, hope this URL works. I keep a diary / journal /TODO thing in a file on my Mac using OmniOutliner (OO). I’ve created a calendar document for 2022 that you’re welcome to grab and use. List items under the date. Use OO to Expand or Collapse All, Focus on day or month etc.
These maps are really interesting: Ancient Earth globe.
For example, 240 million years ago Aotearoa New Zealand was situated close to the South Pole.
By 66 million years ago it was roughly where it is today.
I really enjoyed this 45 minute doco:
No one had ever asked the journalist and broadcaster why he drank, but when he stopped everyone asked him why he didn’t.
This is handy:
Apple has quietly added a new tool in macOS Monterey for measuring your device’s Internet connectivity quality. You can simply call the executable networkQuality
Source: The secret of the macOS Monterey network quality tool | DanPetrov
From a neighbour’s place, a view across to the Tararuas. Our house is the pale building on the right, our garage the pale building on the left.
New shoes day: Merrell Siren Traveller 3. Great shoes! designed for women’s feet.
I found 2nd Strike: Book 2 of 3: Schock Sisters Mystery Series by Misty Evans and Adrienne Giordano as compelling as Book 1. 📚 Now on to Book 3.
Fifteen years ago, a newborn … was kidnapped … Then-FBI Agent Charlie Schock solved the crime … But it wasn’t the Haver’s child.
