Miraz Jordan

NZ Euthanasia bill passes final vote, goes to referendum

Parliament has passed a bill legalising voluntary euthanasia in a historic vote.

It will now go to a public referendum alongside next year’s general election for a final test.

About time!

After buying a years-overdue water filter replacement for under the kitchen sink, I was able to replace it myself. Luckily I double-checked instructions after putting it in: check direction of flow. Usability trap: flow direction is inverse to text direction. 😫

mbnov 13-Nov-19: able

Full moon rising 12-Nov-19.

I also forgot to post this short video of two horses who graze nearby enjoying a little ‘it’s raining’ hijinks.

Somehow yesterday passed without my posting these two photos of our dogs on the grooming table. Luckily they were willing to stay put while I took several photos. 🐶

Sasha and Oshi will be 13 years old on 13 December.

mbnov 12-Nov-19: stay

There’s a wingsuit training wind tunnel in Stockholm. Tom Scott tried it out in this 5 minute video: I Almost Learned To Fly In The World’s Only Wingsuit Tunnel. Wingsuit flying looks very hard!

A volunteer job I do is to keep my local community in touch with what’s going on. I write posts for the Waikawa Beach Ratepayers Association’s blog and newsletter, update my own community Micro.Blog, Twitter feed and a local FB page. It’s very satisfying.

mbnov 11-Nov-19: touch

I don’t recall who recommended A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea, but I was hooked by the sample and the book is excellent. 📚

engaging, deeply perceptive, and brilliant interrogation of what it means to study a culture

My Siri Watch face reminded me that on 13 November 2005 the decommissioned navy frigate Wellington, F69, was sunk close to where I lived at the time. I took loads of photos, too many to share unless perhaps I make a video, but these 3 were dramatic.

The stories I most enjoy are adventures in space. I watched Star Trek as a kid and kept watching even to current times. I never got into Star Wars though. Saw 1 movie and was bored and confused. I did see a recent one though, starring a woman. That was OK.

mbnov 10-Nov-19: space

My teeth are far too sensitive to cold. That makes ice cream tricky — I have to bypass my teeth and get it further back in my mouth to melt. It also means that when I brush, I need to use warm water to rinse. At least the teeth are all mine though. 😀

mbnov 09-Nov-19: cold.

There are many things today that aren’t going my way. Luckily I am making progress on the automation I’m developing.

I hate when gifs are too fast, but perhaps this one is too slow.

How to find the water quality data I want thanks to the Web Inspector. I end up with an instruction I can use in Terminal.

I went to a heap of trouble to make a 10 second video showing the annoying clicking, scrolling and hovering required to get the water quality data I want, but it doesn’t show up in the Timeline.

See it at: miraz.me/2019/11/0…

Each summer Horizons Regional Council monitors water quality at various locations. They display the result as ‘green’, ‘orange' or ‘red’ for whether or not you can swim there. I want the number of E.Coli though. Getting it means scrolling, clicking, hovering and squinting.

In the last couple of days I’ve listened to some excellent Kim Hill interviews.

• Julie Morrison: how dogs can help court witnesses
• Cave Diver Jill Heinerth
• Predictions of sea level rise severely understated. Also see an interactive world map of at-risk areas

Give them a try.

It was all happening tonight. We went next door for dinner. The Google camera car drove along our lane just after we arrived. Then a 4.1 earthquake grumbled through, originating 19 Km deep and only a short distance west of us.

I was pondering today the narrow use of star as adjective. Star pupil. 👍 Star CEO, star cow, star car, star cat, star hat … hmmm. ❌

mbnov 08-Nov-19: star

I had a bit of photo fun at the beach this morning. Dogs: Sasha and Oshi. 🐶