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
Birds at the beach. 🐦
- Godwits and Gull.
- Black Swans and ducks.
- Pied Shag.
- A flock of Black-backed Gulls and perhaps other birds.
Just a bit of photo fun.
I had a bit of photo fun at the beach this morning. Dogs: Sasha and Oshi. 🐶
Ahhh, a very handy tip: TipBITS: Quickly Access App Updates in iOS 13
on the Home screen, tap and hold the App Store icon and choose Updates from the contextual menu
Now this is clever. A subset of the population isn’t online, and some of them are older people, a group that advocacy organisation Grey Power serves. GP are now placing a monthly 2-page ad in the local free paper instead of printing a magazine. Bigger audience, lower costs. 👍
Key lime pie! Hey Mark! Do you fancy some? What do you mean, you can’t get it round here? That cafe down the street has the best pie I’ve ever tasted. Stick the address in your phone so you remember it. It’s frightening really how easy it is to forget such things.
mbnov Week 1.
A good start:
… optimistic a day would come soon when Māori were no longer pulled over in a car simply because police were suspicious they had done something wrong.
just because you’re Māori sitting in a Porsche or a Maserati doesn’t mean they have the right to pull you over.
One of the local pheasants was posing beautifully. I took a photo through the window to avoid frightening it. Then I tried opening the door for a clearer shot, and sure enough…
mbnov 07-Nov-19: frightening
You have to be careful where you stick your hands while weeding at this time of year — the manuka are in bloom and the bees love them. Also in bloom and good fodder for the bees are the cabbage trees with their sweet, sweet scent.
mbnov 06-Nov-19: stick
Feedback to Apple today re Siri obliterating an in-progress timer:
This keeps catching me out: I use Siri to set perhaps a 30 minute timer on my watch. A short time later I’m maybe making a cup of tea so I ask Siri to set a 3 minute timer. Siri obligingly creates the new timer but obliterates the timer that was already in progress. PLEASE don’t let that happen. Either overtly fail the new timer or have Siri explain the problem and ask me what to do.