Miraz Jordan

A Takfox Phone Holster for my iPhone 11 arrived. At NZ$20 + shipping the price was acceptable. It has a ‘flange’ that makes it seem big, but the phone fits well. Noisy velcro, and the belt clip doesn’t seem utterly secure. I’ll try the belt loop. Nice to have a holster again.

St John’s Ambulance was doing free blood pressure checks. Mine was 140/80. But they need ageism training: “How many years young are you?”, “You look good for your age”. Like every living thing I’m getting older. I’m fine with that. I look like one 64 year old looks.

Really interesting 26 minute interview with Geena Davis:

A report by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, 15 years in the making, has just revealed that gender parity in children’s television has been achieved. But that doesn’t mean her work is done.

What makes dogs so special and successful? Love.

Dogs fall in love much more easily than people …evidence indicates dogs can form new loving relationships … and don’t seem to have the same level of trauma from being taken away from preexisting loving relationships.

👉🏼 @pratik

Oshi and Sasha were just gone! 🐶 I’d stopped to take a photo of a snow-topped Tararua peak, picked up a discarded plastic bottle, turned around, and the dogs were gone. Tl;dr: I got them back after prolonged searching and enlisting help from passersby. 🐶🐶 were unrepentant!

Whew!: How to switch between list view and honeycomb app grid on Apple Watch

From your watch face, press the home button once to open the app screen. Then, press firmly on the display….

Press the List View icon to switch…. The app screen transforms into a plain list

Slomo video is fun. The audio on such videos is excruciating though. It was stupid hard to remove the audio: I eventually imported to iMovie, muted the audio and re-exported. So: new iPhone 11 and I’m playing with camera stuff. Slomo of dogs running on the beach. 🐶

When a day becomes ’gritty’ a trip to localish cafe Salt and Pepper for lunch can give it a lift. Mushroom and bacon pasta, with green tea.

I’ve used the Spark email app for the last year or more — very happily. The last while though it’s been using ridiculous resources on my Mac so I’ve started with Apple Mail for the first time ever. Mail won’t let me paste or use TextExpander in header fields such as Subject! 🤯

This 11 minute video is so interesting: Money Is A Technological Fiction (The Invention of $$$)

the history of money, from physical barter to bitcoin, … money isn’t just a lie we all agree to share, it’s been built on the back of technology and invention for millennia.