It’s heaving down with rain right now. A few minutes ago as the dogs and I returned from our walk the first gentle drops started. It’s sheer chance, I know, but I always feel such a sense of achievement to have avoided the rain on a dog walk. Photo from yesterday. 🐶 🌧
Hey @martinfeld Your Lounge Rumination about gendered food and drink was very interesting. Back around 1980 in smalltown Aotearoa New Zealand friends and I went to the ‘fancy' restaurant. There were 2 menus: one had prices (for the men); the other didn’t (for the women). ‼️
Hmmm, I was ~19 when I couldn’t retrieve the name of the street I lived on …
Trouble retrieving words? You are not alone: > Silence. Long silence. Very long silence. Disbelief. …Horror.
We all knew the word. We had all used it many times. But none of us could retrieve it.
Hmmm, another potential Scrabble word: dyspnea
dyspnea — the feeling of having shortness of breath
I’m thrilled to see that my young Granny Smith apple tree is producing fruit this year.
The first thing that struck me about Big Sur was the awful awful awful black menu bar. Thanks to Take Control of Big Sur I learned how to fix it:
Go to System Preferences > Accessibility > Display and select “Reduce transparency.”
We flew right by the Marlborough Sounds today on our approach to Wellington Airport. Looking pretty good!
On Tiritiri Matangi island this pohutukawa tree is part of the remnants of native forest that survived vegetation clearing for farming. This tree is about 1000 years old.
Bookmark for myself: Postcards from Aotearoa: Biking into the past on Ōpōtiki’s dunes trail - Stuff.co.nz
The best was saved to last. My first ever good view of a Ruru (morepork). It’s not common to see them in the daylight.
Boarding the ferry for the 75 minute trip to Tiritiri Matangi.
Auckland Skytower last night plus fireworks. Perhaps for Diwali.
Good to see recognition for the first inhabitants: Murriyang telescope
Australia’s …Parkes radio telescope has been given a new traditional name to recognize the Wiradjuri, who own the land on which the telescope sits.
The Wiradjuri are some of Australia’s First People who have occupied the continent and its adjacent islands for over 65,000 years.
The telescope received the name Murriyang, which represents the ‘Skyworld’ where a prominent creator spirit of the Wiradjuri Dreaming, Biyaami (Baiame), lives.
Hmm. Papakura pub. Rodeo on TV, Christmas songs on the speakers.
So, 12.18GB huh? On my slow internet that’s a long download.
Darn it. An unexplained community case of Covid-19 in Auckland means this isn’t a great time to be heading up that way to visit friends and family.
Also, a handy way on MacOSX to use Terminal to get the size of a directory quickly:
- du -sh /directory/path
Heh, discovered an old archive of ReadItLater / Pocket files. Briefly looked at a few. I no longer care about that stuff. Trashed. All 1.3GB!
We have a 50 metre driveway from the gate to the house. Today finally it wasn’t rainy or windy and I was able to spray all the wretched grass and weeds that are threatening to overcome the shingle. Just made it before the bottle of concentrated weedkiller ran out.
Mistake number 1: buying frozen veges as a just-in-case back in April.
Mistake number 2: actually cooking something with the frozen veg. Yuk!
I’ll stick to frozen peas, but let the others be I think. Fresh veg all the way.