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There’s been discussion on the pronunciation of U in French. I’m very shaky in my French pronunciation, however I’ve never thought about how u in French has no equivalent sound in English. Trying to describe it… it’s like jamming an e and a together. Difficult.

→ 12020-04-04 at 20:46 (12020?)

We should be on summer time all year. Stop this weird winter time rubbish (we’re in DLS for a majority of the year anyway)

→ 12020-04-04 at 10:16 (12020?)

If you’re signing up to Amazon Prime video in New Zealand, do it through an Apple device. It’ll become a subscription through Apple and it’s actually cheaper (NZ$4.50 a month, rather than the direct US$5.99 or ~NZ$10 a month).

→ 12020-04-03 at 20:30 (12020?)

The Quarantine Quiz for the 3rd of April 2020
Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Rāhui Day 9). There’s a meta puzzle too, from today on. See if you can piece it together from today until the 22nd of April.
1. Which planet in the Solar System has the highest density?
2. What is the lowest natural point of elevation in Australia?
3. Which came first, beer or wine?
4. Who wrote the Hunger Games book trilogy?
5. In the movie Office Space, the character Milton is obsessed with which piece of office equipment?
6. Which island was Napoleon exiled to?
7. Who succeeded King Henry the Eighth?
8. The CSI: Crime Scene Investigation series of TV shows all feature a theme song by whom?
9. The first Final Fantasy video game was release on which game console?
10. Which volcano erupted on June 15 1991, producing the second largest eruption in the 20th century?
Answers for 3 April 2020
1. The Earth
2. Lake Eyre
3. Beer ~7500 BCE (Wine ~4000 BCE in Georgia)
4. Susanne Collins
5. A red Swingline stapler
6. Saint Helena
7. Edward VI
8. The Who
9. The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1987
10. Mount Pinatubo
→ 12020-04-03 at 11:23 (12020?)

The Quarantine Quiz for the 2nd of April 2020
Every day of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s (Aotearoa Quarantine Day 8)
1. How many people have stood on the moon?
2. Who is the president of Puerto Rico?
3. The “Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy” is a series of films written and starring which two actors?
4. What is the announced date of this year’s New Zealand general election
5. What is the the hardest material on the Mohs Hardness Scale
6. Which came first, Ian Mckellen or the Nuclear Weapons?
7. Who painted the Birth of Venus?
8. In which year did the Russian Space station Mir fall back to Earth?
9. What was the name of the car in the 1980s TV show Knight Rider?
10. People known as EGOTs have all won what?
Answers for 2 April 2020
1. 12
2. Donald Trump
3. Simon Pegg & Nick Frost - World’s End, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz
4. September 19
5. Diamond
6. Ian McKellen (1938) vs Trinity 1945
7. Sandro Botticelli
8. 2001
9. KITT
10. An Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony
→ 12020-04-02 at 15:08 (12020?)

Just managed to get to the supermarket for some supplies. I’d just like to say thank you to all the supermarket staff doing the har dwork so we can all keep on keeping on. And to most (but not all) shoppers for respecting the 2 metre distancing rule.

→ 12020-04-02 at 14:22 (12020?)

The Quarantine Quiz for the 1st of April 2020
Every day for the rest of the nation-wide Aotearoa quarantine, I’m posting a quiz as something for people to look forward to. Here’s today’s.
1. Nathon Fillion, who played Richard Castle in the TV series Castle, starred in which cult science fiction series?
2. The line “Water water all around and not a drop to drink” is from which Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem?
3. What was the name of the first computer to beat a human world chess champion?
4. Which US state’s flag features the Union Jack?
5. Who chairs parliament’s Epidemic Response Committee?
6. The Queen described which year as an annus horribilis due to, among other things, a fire at Windsor Castle and Prince Charles and Diana separating?
7. Why was an Australian astrophysicist, trying to develop a device to prevent people touching their faces, recently admitted to hospital?
8. What is the collective noun for a group of unicorns?
9. What is the world’s third longest river?
10. Which chemical element has the symbol Pb?
Answers for 1 April 2020
1. Firefly
2. Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
3. Deep Blue
4. Hawaii
5. Simon Bridges
6. 1992
7. He had 4 powerful magnets stuck up his nose
8. A blessing
9. Yangtze River
10. Lead,from the Latin plumbum
→ 12020-04-01 at 22:47 (12020?)

When I’m thinking about masks, it feels like a very foreign phenomenon. And I’m not comfortable with the thought of everyone wearing masks. But I am resigned to is as an inevitability.

→ 12020-04-01 at 22:41 (12020?)

🖖🏼 There aren’t enough (any) Andorians in modern Star Trek. Like Vulcan, Andoria was a founding member system of the United Federation of Planets. There’s Culcans everywhere, and yet… hardly any Andorians. Am I missing/forgetting something?

→ 12020-04-01 at 22:25 (12020?)

I am hesitant to buy things online if Apple Pay isn’t an option. It’s so good!

→ 12020-04-01 at 08:32 (12020?)

iOS tip: if you type “live long and prosper” iOS will suggest auto-correcting to 🖖🏼

→ 12020-03-31 at 11:41 (12020?)

There’s a couple of French terms I’d like to share, which I particularly like. Both related to marriage.

La lune de miel: honeymoon, literally moon of honey.

Belle-mère: Mother in law, literally beautiful mother.

→ 12020-03-30 at 22:40 (12020?)

We're Going on an Emoji Bear Hunt

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→ 12020-03-30 at 13:20 (12020?)

Here’s a tip on doing haircuts, New Zealand. If you are going to do them, and do them poorly, do them now so you have four weeks to grow out into something socially acceptable.

→ 12020-03-30 at 10:56 (12020?)

First quarantine haircut went… poorly.

→ 12020-03-30 at 10:38 (12020?)

Pringles: Just Eat One, Don’t Be A Hungus

→ 12020-03-29 at 15:25 (12020?)

If you’re sad Star Trek Picard has finished, and you want more Star Trek, Star Trek: Voyager from season 4 on is really, really good. Get in.

→ 12020-03-29 at 15:07 (12020?)

My glorious wife just went to the supermarket. I was very apprehensive about going next week. So that’s one less thing to worry about. Unrelated side note: we sure do have a lot of sweets and biscuits in the cupboard.

→ 12020-03-29 at 14:41 (12020?)

Back in my day, we’d all go out, of our houses and cram into places called bars where we’d drink together in close proximity. We’d even touch our drinking glasses together to celebrate. Crazy times…

→ 12020-03-29 at 11:50 (12020?)

Half of my family lives in the UK. One of my two cousins lives in Paris (yes, tiny family). We’re all in lockdown, so she’s decided to help me by chatting in French. And now my other cousin has decided to start chatting in French too. We’re all native English speakers.

→ 12020-03-29 at 08:39 (12020?)

There’s also no city council who’d have the guts to do this when everyone is in lockdown, as much as I’d love to see it. “There’s no better time for cities to take space away from cars”.

→ 12020-03-28 at 16:28 (12020?)

FaceTime conference calling with friends and family during this lockdown is amazing.

→ 12020-03-28 at 15:38 (12020?)

Allow me to introduce you to The Cosmonaut. It’s a crayon-style stylus for touch devices. It’s basically a rubber finger, which I’ve been using to touch shop touch-screens, pin pads and other public, finger-centric devices for the last week or so.

→ 12020-03-28 at 13:28 (12020?)

I feel like we’re having this pandemic about a decade before AR glasses would have made tele commuting (with LiDAR scanning) truly good. And about 100 years before all our houses are holodecks.

→ 12020-03-28 at 11:09 (12020?)

Perfect quarantine weather.

→ 12020-03-28 at 10:35 (12020?)