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?
Sasha update: she’s staying at the vet’s overnight for observation with a saline drip for dehydration, and blood work. Bloods have already come back OK. Between cats & dogs, routine and special, that’s 6 vet visits in 5 weeks. The cost of older pets. 🐈 🐶 💲
It’s been a bit miserable today, what with the lack of sleep and also being a bit unwell. It’s been a worse day for Sasha though who produced messy poop while I was at a workshop all morning and then huge amounts of vomit while I was at the doctor this afternoon.
It’s nearly 4 am. I should be asleep. Instead I’ve been woken every hour or so by Sasha the dog needing to go out. I’ve cleaned up two lots of dog poop from where I haven’t got up. Given in and made a cup of tea.
With a swell of up to 2.5 metres, high tide and sunset coinciding, I biked down to the beach with my camera. These photos straight from the camera.
Recommended reading: the extremely interesting and superbly written This is our story: A qualitative research report on living with dementia.
tells the story of diverse lives and experiences of New Zealanders living with dementia, explores what it means to them to live well.
Last night we watched and enjoyed Wine Country:
When a group of longtime girlfriends goes to Napa for the weekend to celebrate their friend’s 50th birthday, tensions from the past boil over.
My Netatmo outdoor module is on the fritz. Because I’m in New Zealand I can’t buy a replacement module but have to buy a new station. Tonight, in the pouring rain, the rain gauge shows zero rainfall! What next?