At the beach by the Waikawa river mouth, just before high tide. The river itself is in the last few frames of the shot.
Sometimes you just want to curl up into a little ball and let the others watch over you for a while.
If you enjoy looking at photos you should read this: Interview: Photographer Spends 10 Years Capturing the Visual Symphony of Waves The photos are absolutely astonishing. I can’t begin to imagine how he made them.
That WWDC keynote was so chock full of info and stuff I can’t even remember most of it. Very happy to see what’s coming up in the new operating systems though, and that perhaps iPad will become more powerful to work with. #WWDC19
Fabulous to see in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2019 most or all are for real service to the community: women, Māori, Pacific Islands, sports and hobbies — genuine community stuff, rather than the business-focus under the National governments.
Why I love living here — not one but two videos. One shows Kāpiti Island and the South Island; the other shows the snowy-peaked Tararuas behind the beach. The recent storm really cleared the air.
This morning with the storm gone we can see more tops of the Tararua range. Now we have a day or two of fine days then I believe it’s back to storms.
Now the weather’s cleared a bit we can see the southerly storm brought a bit of snow to the higher tops of the Tararuas.
Be smart with MarsEdit
Arrange windows —
I'm making a lot of posts on another Micro.Blog blog just now. Of course I'm using MarsEdit, because I'm smart. 😀
I'm a fussy writer: I like my workspace just so. In the case of MarsEdit that means I want the editing window on the left, filling half the screen, and the preview on the right, filling the other half. I never think to use Fullscreen for anything except movies though, so the Menu Bar is still visible.
Just recently I've found these Applescripts handy to get things just how I like them.
1] get the bounds of the screen so I know where to put the windows.
tell application "Finder" get bounds of window of desktop end tell
That got me this result: {0, 0, 1680, 1050}
. Then I did some division and addition.
2] I made the Applescript to set my MarsEdit windows where I want them. Index 1 refers to the editor and index 2 to the preview. I make sure to click on the editor window so that it'll be index 1.
tell application "MarsEdit"
set bounds of window index 1 to {4, 23, 840, 1046}
set bounds of window index 2 to {841, 23, 1680, 1046}
end tell
Ahhhh.
If you're an Applescript person, feel free to help me improve on my index
use. I just don't see how to address the two windows more specifically. Perhaps something's possible with the name?
And, by the way, I trigger this with Keyboard Maestro, because I'm smart in that way too.
Doesn't MarsEdit just do the right thing and remember where windows were? Well, of course, but sometimes 'stuff' happens…
Hooray for Dana Stabenow! A reasonably priced Kindle book in a favourite series AND I’m allowed to order it, even though I’m in New Zealand. So often these days the Kindle books are over $15 and I’m excluded by where I live.
Even the dogs don’t really want to be on the beach when it’s a roaring southerly off the Antarctic and only 7C. Because they’re small dogs their faces are too close to the sandstorm.
Our first winter storm didn’t waste a second, even starting on the last day of autumn. Tonight it’s a bit grim out there: cold, blustery gales, rain. Last night included thunderstorms and hail. Wind map source
At least once a week I have reason to be glad of A Better Finder Rename. Bulk rename files, in part or in whole.
3 minute video: Spoken word poem about racism in New Zealand
‘Yesterday I was African, today I am lost’, New Zealand student Takunda Muzondiwa tells the Auckland audience.
I’ve started working on a new writing project of my own devising and have been throwing myself into it with enthusiasm. I doubt it’ll earn me any income, but I’m having so much fun doing something I love. It’s been a while…
First day of Winter; first winter fire. Oshi has the prime spot by the woodburner. Ares is on a chair by me. Sasha prefers things a little cooler. 🐈 🐶
Those who don’t live in a monarchy might find this calendar of upcoming 21-gun salutes in Wellington amusing. Locals might find them interesting too. @herself : do you hear these across the harbour in Eastbourne?
Back in the early oughts I wrote articles on stuff. I just rediscovered a link to one on my old blog. The WiseWomen mailing list and website was a great place for women web folk, managed and paid for by @dori . Unfortunately the domain has new owners and is now junk. 😒
If you enjoy a big laugh, are even faintly interested in language, spelling, writing, then treat yourself to The very logical reasons why we should make English spelling less logical. 15 minute video.