This set of decals is now on the wardrobe door by my bed. From Top left, clockwise: Me and Sasha, Sasha and Oshi, Olive, Harriette. Centre: Aphra and Ares. 🐈 🐶
I pondered including my original Blue Burmese cats Arakhan (died young), Amrico, and Minhla but for various reasons didn’t.
Our neighbours are taking down some pine trees that are about 30 years old. They’re a bit unstable apparently.
I guess all the birds that use those trees are now looking for new homes…
10 hours of sleep! It’s a miracle!
A thoughtful and interesting essay: Don’t fret about students using ChatGPT to cheat – AI is a bigger threat to educational equality:
AI tools also perpetuate the global dominance of English at the expense of other languages, especially oral and Indigenous languages.
And much more…
That was a fun movie: Desconectados:
Victoria is addicted to the internet and work, and has bad relationships with her teenage kids … Her life changes when her kids visit for a few days and a solar storm causes a global internet blackout.
Aha, plane mystery solved: Classic Fighters Omaka Airshow 2023.
Wow, I’m not any kind of vehicle nerd, but there’s an impressive lineup at the show.
That’s a worry — while I was posting my previous item another 9 planes went past in formation! Photo shows 4 of them. Has our whole airforce gone south? 😆
I was way too slow going out to check on the unusual aircraft noise. It turned out to be 7 planes in formation! Since NZ has 11 T–6C Texan II craft, but only 4 of the other candidate I’m guessing they were Texans. They usually fly way faster though.
I remember the day back in 2002 when Ares and Aphra first discovered there was World beyond the front door. 🐈
Had my flu shot. Asked for the Covid booster too but they only do them on Fridays… Booked that one for 28 April.
This was simple to make and very tasty: Black Beans and Brown Rice. Will cook it again.
I can't exactly pinpoint where this tree felling is taking place. It may be about 700 metres to the southeast of our house. The bottom of the slope has been cleared already. I'm curious to know what vista will open up for us once all the trees are gone.
Airing out the cobweb.
I was briefly awake at 1130 pm last night. Through the open window I could hear not only the sea, but also a Ruru | Morepork. That’s the first time I’ve heard one here. I’m thrilled to know we have a Ruru in these parts.
Great explanation — The core of karakia:
Karakia is karakia. You’ve got ka - it ignites - ra - connectivity and kia is the essence of your voice, the tone of your voice, your sincerity, the words you are saying. … a karakia’s about intention, it’s about setting goodwill, it’s about setting a good direction.
Guess the problem (watch the video). I'm torn between good coverage and wrecking the night sky. Mobile coverage across the country with SpaceX:
We're very proud to announce a new collaboration with SpaceX to provide 100 percent mobile coverage across the New Zealand.
Our local Council livestream meetings then make the recordings available. After sitting through a few hours that didn’t interest me I emailed and asked for chapters or timestamps, even if just in the Description.
Heard back today that they like that idea and plan to implement it by next meeting. 👍
Over on the Micro.Blog Help site @manton has provided a list of 20 allowed file extensions for Micro.Blog file uploads. File type upload was a problem for me recently.
Bit of an ethical dilemma today, in a post on another blog. I linked to an 8 minute radio interview. Their copyright says I can link but not publish the audio file. Fair enough.
I had the AI Aiko.app generate a transcript. Transcripts aren’t mentioned in their copyright. Include it or not? I did.