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

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

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.

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.

First quarantine haircut went… poorly.

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

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.

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.

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…

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.

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”.

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

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.

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.

Perfect quarantine weather.

Day one complete. How are you going Aotearoa?

Weirdest thing I saw today: kids (of a single family) playing on the road without fear of being plowed down by a hoon.

If you’re familiar with Palmerston North, this was Featherston Street, a major thoroughfare, at around Noon. Normally full of cars.

Kicking myself for not bringing my bike home from my parents’ last time I was there. Now I’m here without a bike, which I think would have been really useful to have.

I’m absolutely loving using a pointing device on the iPad. It’d obviously be better with a track pad (which I don’t have a spare of), but so far, very impressed.

Another iPad OS 13.4 top tip: Using a keyboard, the macOS-style ⌘-Shift-4 shortcut will take a screenshot. There doesn’t appear to be a way of dragging a screenshot area with a mouse though (yet).

Just popped to the pharmacy to grab a prescription repeat. Queue out the door. One-in-one-out policy. Everyone standing two metres apart. Good going everyone 👍🏼

Top tip for using a trackpad or mouse on iPadOS: if you go down to the bottom, the dock will pop up. If you click on the icon of the app you’re in (e.g., Safari), it’ll pop up an exposé display of all your tabs.

I’m using a mouse on my iPad and it’s so weird.