Duolingo app to include Te Reo Maori by end of year – ka pai!
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.
My iPhone (XR in my case) is having its battery murdered. My battery health is at 96%, but it went from 100% before I went to bed, to 40% when I got up, to 14% after I listened to an hour of audio over bluetooth. Watch is also not lasting 6 hours. Bluetooth bug?
I backed a trailer perfectly over the weekend. I had a solid year of pulling a trailer around central Queensland, so I’ve done a lot of trailer backing before. But this was the first in 6 years. One of those skills, like riding a bicycle.
I often think, if cars became unpopular and people stopped needing all that space to park them, imagine all the garages that could be refurbished to make small, affordable houses.
I witched the Witcher. The first episode was really bad. The second was a lot better, but still pretty lame. I’ll give it a few more episodes to grab me before I decide whether to ditch the witch.
Foreground: beer and BBQ. Background: aroubd a third of the debris produced from 5 hours worth of garden work. Long day.
And no, it’s not fantastic, but I watched season 1, so I’m committed. Add it to the currently static queue.
Blueberry picking today. And again I learned I can eat blueberries quicker than I can pick them.
There are surprisingly few films set in 2020.
A new episode of Doctor Who, Star Trek Picard is out in three weeks, I’ve only managed to watch one episode of the latest Expanse, and I haven’t even gotten to the new season of Rick and Morty. This excellent TV tsunami at the height of summer is a challenge to keep on top of.
“All our packaging is astrodegradable”
My Series 0 Apple Watch went from “lasts right up until the late evening” on the 30th, to “won’t last beyond lunch” yesterday and today. 4.5 years old, it’s done well… odd it’s fallen off a battety cliff, though.
It’s been twenty long years, but we finally have a year we can shorten to something that sounds reasonable in english. “Back in ‘03” sounds odd, “back in ‘23” sounds reasonable.
Want a new years resolution that doesn’t involve strapping on running shoes? Learn another language. It’s like having a superpower. It doesn’t matter which language it is.
Aotearoa! 2020. Happy new year. And welcome to the twenties.
We’re 30 minutes away from 2020 in Aotearoa. Wish us luck!