Read: The Korean Way of Tea
My experience and appreciation for tea and the art and etiquette of tea truly blossomed after that experience.
Rain today as at 7 am: 0.9mm. Rain forecast for most days this week: 0.
I’m a very linear person: A to B to C. When I run training sessions that’s the kind of approach I take. Maybe it drives some people crazy? I find trainers who go: C, by the way A, 5, W, 57, kind of frustrating…
Lingthusiasm Episode 32 (33 minute audio) reveals how some languages require you to say how you know something… 🤯
languages, like Syuba, [where] indicating how you’ve come to know something is baked right into the grammar.
Beach find: this large feather, probably from a black-backed gull. Photo shows the feather resting on a 15” MacBook Pro for size.
It was Quail moving day today. I like to move them to a fresh patch every few weeks. The two runs are now near the tunnelhouse again. There’s evidence of a bit of head-pecking but everyone seems OK. Can you see all seven birds?
I haven’t had time to read any of this site yet, but anticipate much to enjoy: Rejected Princesses
this site imagines what if we made animated musicals about the women of history and myth who refused to behave.
Interesting article from Don Norman, 83-year-old author of the industry bible Design of Everyday Things and a former Apple VP:
The world is designed against the elderly … thoughtless, inappropriate designs. … inclusive design … helps everyone.
Via TidBITS.
The outdoor module of my Netatmo weather station appeared to have come back to life. After 3 hours outdoors though it just stopped again. The new one was moved from one indoor location to another and then replaced the old one outside. It’s working fine (as it should).
For the last week the Netatmo outdoor module sat at the recommended distance failing to connect to the base station. Today the new weather station arrived. As I moved items around on the shelf the connection finally ‘took’. Now I have a redundant station. 🤖 $$
This 30 minute video had a lot of interesting stuff in it: Cybersecurity and a hacker called Alien | SciShow Talk Show
Jeremy Smith and Sherri Davidoff talk hacking, cyber security, and the end of the world, and Jessi stops by with Rook the Raven.
Uh oh. Open my online banking to find a pending transaction for a service I no longer need. When I moved my Love Waikawa Beach website from WordPress to Micro.Blog I forgot to cancel the Jetpack subscription. I should keep better records! Jetpack Help contacted…
Well done, The Big Bang Theory — nicely brought to a close. 👏🏼👏🏼
I was suspicious about my wind gauge as it seemed to be at odds with various other sources. Teetered atop a step ladder and fence post and determined it was rotated 180° . It’s not screwed in tight and can rotate. I suspect the birds who perch on it jiggle it on take-off.
Oshi and I had the place to ourselves last night. I washed nearly all the dog beds. Today he didn’t even wait for me to zip this one up before jumping on. He’d missed his favourite bed. Sasha’s back from the vet in better spirits too. She has to eat bland food for a few days. 🐶
Caster Semenya and the myth of testosterone: An extremely fascinating 50 minute discussion about sex, gender, identity, chromosomes, testosterone, race, ethnicity, geography, sports. Kim Hill interviews anthropologist and bioethicist Katrina Karkazis.
Today I learned the woman who wrote Mary Poppins was born and raised in Australia: P.L Travers — the girl who dreamt up Mary Poppins.
She also stood up to Walt Disney about how the movie would be done and what the character would be like. 👍 17 minute audio story.
Excellent video series by nativlang: Thoth’s Pill - History of Writing Systems
In this series, we’ll see the birth and evolution of writing, from early pictographs and logographs all the way to advanced alphabets.
6 minute video: The First 3D Colour X-Rays
University of Canterbury team …are using detector equipment originally developed for the Large Hadron Collider, and putting it to a very different use: medical imaging that allows 3D, false-colour images inside the human body.
Too Fast, Too Black, Too African: On Caster Semenya
she ran smack into the global matrices of power … for being too fast, too quick … how does it become permissible to forcibly strip an 18 year old girl in front of “experts” who will determine, for her, her own gender?