Disappointed that this seems to be only in the RSS feed and not the web version — Strong winds, heavy rain causing havoc in Wellington:
Three portaloos have also come loose in the wind and are blowing [away].
Crews are on their way to provide some relief.
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This Spanish movie was on thin ice with its premise, but it was very funny. Everyone was odd. 🎬 Lo nunca visto. The village of Fuentejuela de Arriba needs 3 more people to avoid being annexed by their rivals. 4 people turn up, but their cultures are at odds. A surprise ending!
Covid bust one of our major News media companies. The new owner writes: Our Truth, Tā Mātou Pono: Stuff’s day of reckoning:
…we haven’t always been trustworthy …we’ve been outright racist. At other times … we’ve looked through a single, Pākehā, lens. [We will] do better.
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So Holiday Rush wasn’t great. The highlight was Sonequa Martin-Green. The children of the family were obnoxious. Better script and editing would have improved things. Not horrible though. 🎬
DJ Rashon “Rush” Williams loses his job at the radio station days before Christmas…
Spanish? Basque? Swiss? A fictional Castillian village located in Basque Country tries to become part of Switzerland in this rather funny movie The Little Switzerland. 🎬 Differences between English soundtrack and English subtitles were hilarious in their own right.
Now this is a Miss [placename] pageant I could support: > the Miss Navajo Nation pageant, in which contestants must butcher a sheep and cook over an open fire
The Deadly Loss of Navajo Women
Otherwise, a compelling read about Covid-19 and the Diné people.
The genius of genomics: The revolution that helped NZ quash Covid-19: > scientists worked late into the night to match the genetic signature of the latest case to another one.
genomics [gave] authorities the [data] to not confine more than a million people to their homes.
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My Mac Control Centre showed me this photo I took in Niue on 25 August 2016. It really seemed shareworthy. Taken with my Olympus Stylus TG-870.
This was a fun Spanish movie — Netflix ☛ Holy Goalie 🎬. Their monastery is to be turned into a luxury hotel, but a few football matches could save their home. Manages to include car theft, illegal bank transfers, romance, a mob-run nightclub, and breaking a vow of silence. 😀
Excellent! I really really enjoyed this Spanish movie. 🎬 Thi Mai, rumbo a Vietnam
Along with her two friends, a determined woman travels to Vietnam to bring home the young girl her recently deceased daughter had planned to adopt.
Vietnam: so beautiful! Great story, and funny.
I enjoyed the Christmas movie Santa Girl:
When Santa’s daughter, Cassie, gets a chance to experience the real world by attending college, will she ever want to return to her North Pole destiny?
One thing I noticed: did only white folks audition?
Yay: New Zealand Government to declare a climate emergency
The Government will declare a climate emergency … Climate Change Minister James Shaw said.
We are in the midst of a climate crisis that will impact on every aspect of our lives…
Not just ‘change' but ‘emergency’!
I’ve updated my post Countries of follow on Micro.Blog. I think I follow folks from 25 different countries on Micro.Blog.
A reminder for future me: to get a list of who I’m following on Micro.Blog, given my site is hosted by MB:
- log in on the web
- visit micro.blog/Miraz/fol…
Interesting: some names on that list are very familiar; others I never see posting.
Fascinating — why vaccine trials don’t need to take years. A Clinical Trials Expert Explains Why We Should Feel Optimistic About COVID Vaccines: > as a clinical trials doctor, I am going to tell you what I do for most of those ten years – and it is not very much.
☛ Funding. 🦠
While watching Rene Ritchie: 8GB vs 16GB for M1 Mac — The TRUTH About RAM! I suddenly flashed back to those days of using Ram Doubler. Remember that?
Oshi, my little shining light this morning. 🐶
The sappy holiday movie My Christmas Inn was pretty anodyne. 🎬
It reminded me a lot of the much better Christmas Under Wraps where a doctor visits a charming remote Alaskan town then stays.
Still, there are worse ways to spend 90 minutes. Cheerful, happy.
You know, I really enjoyed reading an advance copy of The Case of the Lady in the Luggage by @Cheri. And it turns out I loved reading the published book all over again. 📚
I’m just loving the Crash Course Linguistics series.
It’s superbly presented, clear and includes signed languages as well as spoken languages.
In the screenshot: metathesis where sounds (or signs) are switched — ‘thrid’ became ‘third’, but ‘three’ remained.
I love language!
