Halide is a superb iOS app for taking photos. Except for random times when I’m ‘clicking' away and it fails to save my photos. Like today, after a visit to the neighbour to see the enormous earthworks another neighbour is doing. Suggestions for an alternative? I’m beyond fed up.
In the 70s and 80s I spent a decade teaching teenagers at Ashburton College. It was an S68 plan school. With an opening roll of ~1600 each year it was one of NZ’s 5 biggest schools at the time. 1 photo shows A block where I spent most of my time. #2: aerial view, May 1981.
There’s a colony of pied shags by the river. Photo from last year. Today I recorded them screeching. In the video see the tiny white dots in the trees in the middle — that’s them. It was a shame the sun was right behind them.
I spotted this Southern Bell frog on a tire in the garden this morning. Always happy to find frogs in the garden.
emoji in our digital messages is similar to the way we use gestures when we talk. … celebrate that emoji are creating a richer form of online communication that returns the features of gesture to language.
Related — this 2.5 minute video: Victor Borge - Phonetic Punctuation
Good to see local Councils asking the Government to ban private fireworks:
Local government leaders are calling for a ban on the sale of fireworks for private use. … private fireworks caused significant harm and distress - including damage to properties and worry for animals.
Ares is such a good boy. 🐈
And in other dog photos, my girl Sasha joined me in my morning selfie today. 🐶
Look, I don’t know the original source for this photo, but I found it from a link to Dana Schwartz. Since I saw it this morning though, I can’t get it out of my head. It may be one of my all-time favourite photos. 🐶 I just want to share the joy.
From the setting up of the Waikawa Beach Ratepayers Association in 1974, before women were people too 😳:
Present: 27 Ratepaying residents, whose names are attached herewith, some of whom were accompanied by their wives or friends.
I have two new daily tasks that are working well so far: delete a physical item and delete a digital item. I usually delete more than 1. 😀 So far I’ve tossed out some old papers (eg receipts, study notes) and am working my way through old old Dropbox folders. Feels good. 🐌
It’s not easy to get a photo when my boy Ares is on my lap. Persistence paid off today though. 🐈 One of his eyes is dark, but at least you can see it glinting here.
Interesting about quiet fireworks:
quiet fireworks can actually be more colourful. All fireworks are a balance between “colour-producing material in the shell versus the kaboom-producing material,” … quiet fireworks don’t need as much kaboom, they have more room for colours.
Why was I surprised to learn that schools for deaf or blind people were originally set up by religious folks to ‘save souls’? I also never knew about systems other than Braille for blind folks. Heaps of fascinating discussion in this 30 minute audio: Touch This Page @dancohen
I watched the movie Full Out. It’s simple and positive, and based on a true story of Ariana Berlin, a top-level athlete injured in a car crash who then makes a comeback. It has good music and great moves. An enjoyable, feel-good 90 minutes.
Hmmm, things that are a bad idea: letting WordPress create a URL that includes an emoji. I realised just after I’d pressed Publish. Thank goodness for a .htaccess redirect.
I'm annoyed with Siri and the approach to Timers
I use Timers all the time, especially in the kitchen. I mostly trigger a timer with Siri on my watch. Yesterday I set a timer so the meal I was making could cook for 40 minutes before I added more ingredients.
Forgetting that, and after doing some cleanup, I then made a cup of tea and set a timer for 3 minutes for the tea to steep.
That second timer simply obliterated the first, with no warning. Annoying!
The behaviour I'd expect would be some feedback pointing out I already have a timer with x-minutes to run, should this new timer replace that?
Best of all, of course, would be to be able to run multiple timers on the same device concurrently.
If I ever thought about a gong it’d be to picture someone hitting a huge metal disc very hard. The Otherworldly Sounds of a Giant Gong shows a very different reality. Watch the 3 short videos and hear the amazing sounds a gong produces.
Fabulous to see local company Omeo Technology has received funding for development. If I needed a wheelchair (and had the eye-watering $$$) I’d use one of them for sure. Why oh why did Radio NZ use an old-fashioned hospital wheelchair picture on their story?
