Miraz Jordan

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!

These black clouds are looking pretty darned threatening.

Note to future me: this Kungfood Teriyaki Chicken was delicious. Also: no onion. 😀

This Japanese-inspired meal has a generous portion of flavourful, sweet & salty Teriyaki Chicken … Served with a side of Jasmine rice and sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds.

The small victories in life are important — Thankfulness for Tiny Triumphs:

We’d be helpless in so many ways if we weren’t victorious in regularly finding doable ways to manage our changing capacities and overcome the hurdles we face daily.

🏆

Still with Christmas movies, I watched A New York Christmas Wedding. Makes a change to see lesbians finding love in a sappy seasonal movie.

a lesbian wedding, officiated over by a priest …filmed in a real NY Catholic Church. … Even the priest declares that love is love.

Jupiter and Saturn in the evening sky around Christmas: We’re About to Witness a Super-Rare Planetary Alignment Not Seen in 800 Years.

…alignment hasn’t occurred since the Middle Ages will happen again in March 2080. After that, Jupiter and Saturn won’t get as close until 2400.

I hope this Radio NZ interview video is available beyond NZ. Take 30 minutes to watch: Dolly Parton: ‘I’m proud to be an example for a strong woman’

“They had a sign saying ‘Dolly for president’ and I said ‘no thank you’. We’ve had enough boobs in the White House.

What a woman!

I spent an hour today weedeating a metre wide strip on either side of the first leg of our private lane. Hard work.

Kiwis: Tradespeople:

Trading stereotypes for a job well done: A directory of women and gender diverse people working in the trades in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Heh, why we don’t blow stuff up with marshmallows, even though they have more energy than TNT: Dangerous Marshmallows?!:

Burning a marshmallow can release more energy than detonating an equal mass of TNT…

Thanks MinuteEarth.

The movie Netflix ☛ Joyful Noise starring Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton had plenty of great music. We enjoyed it.

In the film, two strong-minded women are forced to cooperate when budget cuts threaten to shut down a small-town choir.

Lingthusiasm Episode 50: Climbing the sonority mountain from A to P was particularly interesting, introducing linguistic concepts and terms I’d never heard before, such as sonority and mirroring.

“Bnick” contains English sounds, but doesn’t feel very likely as an English word.

Many thanks to @manton whose change to the Mac Micro.Blog app to ensure the New Post window doesn’t slip behind other windows now allows me to use a Keyboard Maestro macro to get selected text from a @NetNewsWire item and post it to Micro.Blog with title and URL.

I like this:

What if instead of trying to be some unassailable force of moral good in the world, each of us just tried to be a little bit better whenever we saw an opportunity? What kind of cumulative difference would that end up making?

I wish Mac Safari had a kind of ‘workspace’ concept. I have a window with a bunch of tabs re things I’m still working on. I opened a new window at the front to look at my daily checks stuff, opened by a mix of bookmarks and Keyboard Maestro. Why did some open in the other window?

I just watched Netflix ☛ Star Trek Next Generation S07E15 Lower Decks, on the recommendation of @macgenie . It’s interesting when shows take minor (unknown) characters and check out what their story might involve. See also Babylon 5 S05E04 A View from the Gallery. 📺

It was lovely at the beach this morning. The remnant lake in the estuary was calm and clear.