M’lady woke up in a panic last night saying a giant spider had just bitten her. I thought she’d dreamed it, but turns out it was a weta crawling on her face (they’re huge, but harmless)
M’lady woke up in a panic last night saying a giant spider had just bitten her. I thought she’d dreamed it, but turns out it was a weta crawling on her face (they’re huge, but harmless)
I like learning French with Duolingo, but something that’s infuriating is the listening:
“Ils regardent la télé” (they are watching the TV) and “Il regarde la télé” (he is watching the TV)
Are pronounced exactly the same, but write the incorrect one and you’re marked wrong.
🖖🏼 I’m watching a lot of Voyager before Picard comes out. A question I have RE the Borg is why they walk around their ships pushing buttons if they’re all linked up and integrated with their technology. Seems utterly redundant, save for drones boarding other vessels/planets.
I am 100% buying one of these CO₂ tank Sodastream adaptors when they become available, because getting refills at the supermarket is extremely expensive.
🖖🏼 There is the premier of a brand new series of Star Trek this week. It’s only ever happened 7 times:
I’m rewatching Star Trek Voyager. Turns out I’ve never seen the last two seasons(!) One thing that strikes me, though, is why is the damn chef in the executive? Neelix is such a terrible character. And so is Kes. And Harry Kim. And Tom Paris.
Given the iPhone limits computing a guess for a password every 80 milliseconds, brute forcing my iPhone password would take more than a googol (10¹⁰⁰) years.
🖖🏼 I love how quaint the replicator orders for coffee are in Star Trek. Picard specifies the tea he wants, “Tea, Earl Grey, Hot”, but all coffee orders are “Coffee, black”. No “Arabica aged in a pinot barrel soy flat white, drinkably warm in a thermos” for space coffee.
Both of these passports have expired. I’m only renewing one. Can you guess which?
I’d say 128 GB is enough.
I wish the low power mode colour on iOS was blue rather than that lemon yellow.
I’m making this public now: if I am fortunate enough to grow old, I’m going full, white santa beard.
I wonder if writers write TV scripts now with the assumption that most people are on their phones while watching.
How to sing any song like Eddie Vedder: jam your tongue into the roof of your mouth and don’t move it. Drop your chest and shoulders. Now sing.
Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide
The article notes Gorbachev saying of Chernobyl that it was the beginning of the collapse of the USSR, and asks if “the immense, still-unfolding tragedy of the Australian fires may yet prove to be the Chernobyl of climate crisis?”
Duolingo app to include Te Reo Maori by end of year – ka pai!
I’ve had a short sci-fi story knocking around in my head for years and I know how it’ll start and how it’ll end, but I’ve been struggling with the basics of the middle. The only way to find out is to write it.
If you use Duolingo, I have some sage advice. Ignore the leagues. They’re pointless and ruin the otherwise fun act of learning a language.
Did pre-industrial people used to get sunburnt? It seems like an evolutionary hiccup to be so easily harmed by the sun when you predominantly live outside, under it all day. My Kiwi bias knows the sun as a giant ball of cancer in the sky.
What happened to mambos numbered 1–4?
Children of Mars (the Star Trek short trek) is some crazy post-TNG pre-Picard cannon. Holy smokes.
I made an effort to not watch the six o’clock news a couple of months ago. And I don’t miss it at all.
Star Trek Picard, Star Trek Discovery, Dr Who, The Manadalorian and The Expanse all feel like dessert. The Witcher, Titans, The Good Place all feel like the gristly under-seasoned main course you have to work through before you can eat the bits you actually want.
At 27/4, I’m going to say it’s unlikely NZ will win this test match.
I may have over committed on the liquids.
