A big and very welcome update to MarsEdit today with 5.2, including:
The “Search” field in the main window now features a filter selection to toggle between searching everything or searching just the current selection. …
A new menu item for duplicating posts …
Alt Text field in Upload Utility and Media Manager now grows vertically to accommodate longer descriptions
Today’s random beach find: a large blue piece of tin.
Bah, last night I realised that on 22 May 2024 I wrote about a book I'd read, but somehow managed to use the wrong title and link and book cover. I'd tangled up books 1 and 2 in the series. Sigh.
Now corrected: Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman faces many challenges in Come to Harm… 📚.
Ugh, woke just after midnight and still awake in these wee hours where the world is adrift.
Stress always turns up the volume on the tinnitus too. Ugh.
An enjoyable read, but not riveting. A complicated case …Baskets and Beignets by Jana DeLeon 📚:
Fortune has solved cold cases before, but never one with so little evidence and so many suspects with not only strong motive but opportunity. Can she solve a decade-old murder
Something I love about Waikawa Beach …
… is the wide open space, and lack of other people.
I went down to the beach before sunrise today. I love walking through the avenue of toetoe / pampas (I think it's pampas, but I can't tell the difference).
There was just enough light to shine on the water.
And the river wound golden across the sand.
I bought this M1 MacBook Pro in January 2021. This morning after 3 hours of use, including a couple of videos at full brightness and high volume, there's still 75% battery left!
I still can't get over the battery life on these machines.
Pleased to report that last night's Emergency Alert Test Message was received very loud and clear.
Hah! Trivial pursuits? – language: a feminist guide:
In crosswords the influence of patriarchal, racist and heteronormative values is most apparent in judgments on the “puzzleworthiness” of words. … [that] reflects the vocabulary and the cultural preoccupations of the straight white middle-aged men who edit most crosswords. That means, for instance, that arcane baseball terms are deemed puzzleworthy, but words referencing the interests of women, minority ethnic groups or LGBTQ people are not.
We went to our nearest town this morning for some errands. Here's the main road through Levin on a sunny Sunday morning.
Nicely said: Manton Reece - Audio narration in Micro.blog
We want to see the personal side of someone, not just the polished brand. We want to see the imperfect, the creative, the emotion. We want authenticity.
This 45 minute documentary was so interesting. This Civil War Submarine Vanished for 136 Years:
A Civil War submarine powered by hand cranks and lit by candlelight. What could possibly go wrong? Meet the HL Hunley.
I had no idea submarines were so old.
What a delight to start my day with Himalayan Moon Drops oolong tea from Nepal:
Harvested in June 2023, … is crafted using hand-harvested leaves from Japanese and Taiwanese tea plant cultivars grown at an elevation of 1850m. The steeped infusion is smooth and creamy with notes of flowers, sweet malt, raw sugar and sweetened whipped cream.
Yesterday morning I spotted a shag that was a bit different from our usual white-chested shags. The Bird ID Facebook group helped me learn that this is a native Kawaupaka | Little shag:
A small shag with a short yellow bill, black feet, a relatively long tail and multiple plumage variations.
My day went awry in the best possible way. I cut short my bike ride to collect my Fuji X-T5 and take photos of a rare visitor to Waikawa Beach: a Kōtuku | White heron. 🐦
Such amazing birds!
Today's beach photo is toetoe reflected in a pool of water left behind by the tide.
Check out this gorgeous late afternoon sun.
Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman faces many challenges in Come to Harm (Detective Fran Harman Mysteries Book 1) by Judith Cutler. Menopause symptoms create problems, her elderly and very demanding parents are a long drive away, and the cold case she's assigned seems to have no clues.
It was a good read and sets us up for more character development in subsequent books. 📚
Correction, 29 May 2024: somehow I originally linked to Book 2, Do No Harm, but the book I actually read was Book 1, Come to Harm.
