I had so much fun reading Semicolon: How a misunderstood punctuation mark can improve your writing, enrich your reading and even change your life by Cecelia Watson. I feel newly inspired with writing and reading. If you love language or reading or writing then read this book. 📚
I had no idea! 🎬 How New Zealand's film industry boomed during the pandemic:
According to the New Zealand Ministry of Culture and Heritage, the [film] industry supports about 21,000 local jobs and contributes $NZ2.7 billion to its GDP every year.
There are worse places to be stuck in traffic than beside a vineyard.
My trip home from the supermarket today includes an hour or two wait because the only road is blocked. 😒
Link: Truncating only posts with titles on Micro.blog - The Jayeless Micro Blog
Micro.blog Help has a guide to showing truncated posts on your front page, but … the truncated text shown is stripped of HTML…. There had to be a better way!
Excellent movie: Misbehaviour. I was 15 when this happened, 50 years ago! 🎬
1970 Miss World took place in London, hosted by the US comedian Bob Hope …the newly formed women’s liberation movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast.
I’m so much enjoying the daily readings of Maria Dahvana Headley’s translation of Beowulf. Some readers are better than others, but what a story!
I really enjoyed The Complete Merry & Neal Mysteries 6 gripping crime thrillers by Janice Frost. Well-written, they held my interest through all six. Some nice character development. Interesting to unravel the who’s and why’s. Another good British author. 📚
Only $1.14‼️
Yes, you do want to watch this.
A Canadian teenager … won a major scientific competition for an electrifying YouTube video in which she brilliantly simplifies the complicated concept of quantum tunnelling.
Via: Science Alert. So this is the basis for Star Trek transporters… 🤓
Guess what! Female birds sing too. We’ve Been Ignoring Female Birdsong for Centuries: > Birdsong has historically been described as a male trait to compete for female mates, but there’s a good chance that you’ve never learned about female birdsong, and they do indeed sing!
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If nothing else, this must-listen, wonderful 32 minute interview will explain how a semicolon shut down bars in Boston, US, and led to all-night drinking binges.
Semicolons; the most misunderstood punctuation mark
Also: “Punctuation Theorist” is a job. Who knew? Marvellous!
I’m totally a fan of vaccines, but was suspicious about the speed of potential Covid-19 vaccines perhaps making them unsafe. These two items have allayed my fears:
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A Clinical Trials Expert Explains Why We Should Feel Optimistic About COVID Vaccines — long development time is mainly waiting for funding rather than safety checks.
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Inside the Lab That Invented the COVID-19 Vaccine — 12 minute video explaining how one candidate is made and how the lab’s basic ongoing research meant they had a head start.
The Maiden Statement by new Green MP Teanau Tuiono was funny and inspiring. He pointed out that the lifts in the Beehive look like the Tardis and the House needs to be like that: much bigger on the inside. (13:21 on) Hope to hear more from him over the years. (No tardis emoji ‼️)
I found this photo of me at Massey Memorial, 27 March 1989, just after I moved to Wellington. One of two times in my life I’ve had a perm.
At high tide the estuary was full. A bunch of the shags that normally hang out in the trees near the footbridge instead chose to hang out by the estuary. Perhaps it was nice and quiet in this rainy weather.
Our household water (rainwater) is now filtered to remove particles and then passed through a UV filter light to kill bacteria, thanks to the Puretec Hybrid G9 system:
Kills 99% of E. Coli, Giardia and Cryptosporidium cysts
👍💧
We’ve been concerned lately about E. Coli.
Kiwis: I only just discovered Safe Night. Let’s spread the word and help women get a safe night free of family violence in this dangerous season.
Help the victims of family violence by booking a room for someone you’ll never meet, in a place you’ll hopefully never visit.
The Tribe is a Spanish comedy. It had some adult themes but was fun. Good dancing too. The human resources director of a massive corporation fires 300 people, then is caught on video having sex with an employee. He recovers from amnesia via dance and help from his birth mother.
Sometimes people drive along the beach, which is legally a road for historical reasons, and through the usually shallow river. Sometimes it doesn’t end well. Actually the water round this vehicle is shallow: the car’s been there 24+ hours and has sunk into the sand. 🚘‼️
Absolutely magnificent: Rawiri Waititi Maiden Statement. In a very powerful speech, he insisted that Te Tiriti o Waitangi must be honoured, colonialism must end. He spoke of his ancestor who was wrongly hanged. Waititi removed his tie (noose) and replaced it with a tāonga. 🙌🏼
