Clearly the shutter speed was too slow when I took photos of these horses being ridden along the beach this morning. I rather like the blurry leg (and even blurry rider) effect though.
The minute quantities along with the enormous prices are mind-boggling in this 10 minute video: Milking the Thorium Cow - Periodic Table of Videos
A dog walk in the trees across the river got us a view of the shag colony, where there are baby shags. I think this is a juvenile Little Shag. Look at those knuckles gripping the tree branch! 🐦
As time has passed there are 2 things that frustrate me enormously in the Micro.Blog Mac app: I can’t zoom images and when I choose to Reply I can’t see the original post. Just saying… Otherwise, it’s my main way of reading and writing posts.
4 years of daily selfies, and counting…
Somewhere around 01 January 2015 I realised that of the thousands of photos in my albums only a handful had me in them. I decided to take a selfie every day — not for publication, just for reference. And that's what I've done. Sometimes I even take more than one, just for fun.
I've missed only a couple of days through forgetfulness, and a couple where an uncooperative camera app has failed to save without my realising.
Because the photos are only for me I don't pay a lot of attention to quality or composition.
A lot has changed over the years: the iPhone front camera got better, because I recall taking early selfies with the rear camera and just hoping I was in picture. The camera software has got better. My technique has improved heaps. My hair's even shorter now and there are extra wrinkles and sags. I also changed my glasses and now wear either sunglasses or clear glass.
Here are my 01 January photos from 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
It's all good fun.
Bad error messages can kill companies:
An Amazon suspension message lists an item along with a tangentially related category of infraction, like “used sold as new.” … Actually it’s usually nothing to do with the item being used, but something like a peeling label on the box.
Susan Bennett was the original voice for Apple’s Siri, the first AI assistant on a cell phone.
It was 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, of reading pages and pages of these nonsensical things … These sentences had to be read very, very consistently.… It was so tedious…
When men won't even let women relieve themselves…
People without a safe place to go to the bathroom can die because of unsanitary conditions.
A 2016 study in India found that women who defecate in the open are twice as likely to be sexually assaulted by a stranger as those who have a toilet in their house.
An Indian woman told USAID/India, that men block the way to her community toilet, taunting and harassing women.
“They dress up as women, they get in line with us, they might touch us,” Dalal recalled Veer telling her. “Every few days someone is raped. On one side of the toilet is where we live and on the other side it’s jungle. They can pull us there.”
Via These Genius ‘Worm Toilets’ Backed by Bill Gates Are Changing People’s Lives in India
So sad women have to endure this:
18 year old refugee woman Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun renounced Islam, which is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia. Under the male guardianship system, a Saudi woman is required to obtain a male relative’s approval to [do pretty much anything].
We had a delicious and reasonably priced meal at Prah Ta Pang in Waikanae last night. I chose E4. Guireau Chha (Stir Fry Rice Noodle) Chicken, pork or beef with, rice noodle, bean sprout, peanuts, chilli, cabbage with egg on top. No photo as it didn’t save. 😒
We went to see Bohemian Rhapsody tonight. Initially a bit reluctant, I really enjoyed it. And, of course, the music was excellent.
A new word I learned today: enchiridion — a book containing essential information on a subject. Thanks to Micro.wiki.
What a good thing: On the websites of many New Zealand companies women can now access information about the services offered by Women’s Refuge via a web page which will leave no trace in the browser history.
I seem to be answering a lot of these challenges lately: all the squares with cars or roads or whatever. I just want to say: damn it, I don’t want to do your thing anyway. Seems to me a robot would be the only one happy with these.
Screenshot: all the squares with cars challenge.
Something I learned yesterday when asked to publish a community notice about a missing cat: not only can cats get asthma, but sometimes they use inhalers. 🐈
Screenshot: excerpts from a text message sequence about an asthmatic cat.
6 conventional blogging tips that may make sense for personal blogs:
certain time-honoured tips apply to every blog, including personal bloggers. …Write for yourself first; Stay true to your voice; Be patient; Write catchy headlines; Engage with others; Just get started.
Because women are overlooked & unsupported, & because her work is excellent, I’ve set up my first Patreon sub. BrainCraft science videos are superb.
understand more about your brain, body and behaviour and how we can all navigate this weird world a little bit better.
Women are routinely erased from history, but occasionally they resurface:
more evidence female monastics were not only literate, but also prolific producers and consumers of books during the Middle Ages. … a female scribe in 12th-century Bavaria … produced more than 40 books.
When I was a kid, back in the 60s, you could drive a long way and scarcely see another car. We had one short stretch like that yesterday on our drive from Whangārei to Waikawa Beach.
NZ’s population could hit 5 million by end of [2019]. … The population hit 3 million in 1973.
Hard to believe that just over 12 hours ago we were in Whangārei. The drive home was smooth, in spite of diverting via Rotorua. We were lucky that we were just leaving lunch when a fatal accident closed the road ahead of us at Putaruru.
Photo: Mt Ruapehu behind a tank at Waiouru.
