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Finally replaced the broken seat on the AWOL – with the original seat from Jo's new Giant, looks a bit slippery though
Wildlife on our walk to Chatauqa peak; jacky lizard, pardalote, big fat pinecone lizard
Removed the dead pigeon from the roof, all afternoon ravens[1] & kookaburras[2] had been thumping and banging and eating the carcase – had to chase off a dozen Euro. wasps[3]
[1] Little raven [2] Laughing kookaburra [3] European wasp
Amazing sight watching a pair of falcons swoop back and forth trying to catch the neighbour's pigeons, while the pigeons spiralled around higher than I'd ever seen them before
A screeching yowling cat fight outside kept us awake for an hour or more
I keep hearing the word melanographer, and I keep thinking melon-ographer – someone who writes on melons
I love ip-geolocation; at work in Clayton, Okta thinks I'm in Windsor, at home in Hughesdale they say Thornbury
From a cycling podcast, Feb 2020.. "It's a 20yr old steel frame from the 1980s." Um, how old?
bizarrely angry ute driver at a roundabout
Guy in a ute pulled up at roundabout in front of me on my left just before I got there, he stopped, I kept going and rode through, as I passed in front of him he blasted on the horn the entire time – 2-3s or so – then started up and drove across behind me
listening to Toyah, feeling old, it was so very very long ago
Two older Greek gents talking at the shops, I overhear and Aha, its not just me. "All the tomato plants, pff, they flower, then the flowers fall off, no fruit"
Aargh, both misuses in one day. pedal vs peddle
First it was https://www.monash.edu/people/transport-parking/cycling You can take your bike on all metropolitan trains, making it possible to peddle around Melbourne… Then in an “Orbital Transmission” email from https://arstechnica.com/ we get: A celebrity pedaling bad health science has…
50mm of rain, two weeks away, warm weather, the lawn was half way up to our knees so I finally mowed it!
PUT THIS UNDER YOUR TONGUE FOR 1 MINUTE AND FUNGUS WILL VANISH
call me old and grumpy, but I cringe whenever I see an email that starts "Hi team…"
lorikeets[1] in the plum tree screeched at us to go away, we were interrupting their feasting
[1] Rainbow lorikeet
bushfires all over the east of Victoria for weeks and not a peep out of the Alpine Classic, no updates on their website, no emails, nothing. Will they cancel?
2019 lunchtime walks; 186 of 253 possible days – Mondays to Fridays, without leave days
oodk – Out of Disk Killer
# rpm -qi oodk Name : oodk Version : 0.1.2 Release : 6.e23_5 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Wed Sep 31 01:23:45 2019 Group : System Environment/Kernel Size : 2266176773 License : CDDL Source RPM : oodk-0.1.2-1.src.rpm Relocations : (not relocatable) URL : http://localhost/ Summary : Disk equivalent of Out of Memory Killer Description : This package contains the Out Of Disk Killer. At system defined levels randomly chosen directories are securely deleted from the file sysetm.
breakfast discussions on cow reaching escape velocity, use of the moon for gravity slingshot, and cow re-entry
The plums are ripening, and as fast as they do, the blackbirds[1] peck holes in them and they fall off and rot
[1] Common blackbird
misty rain, dead legs, sore arse. Feeling like a post audax lump of lead
Cool and grey ride, feeling flat and sore and mentally exhausted, magpies[1] warbled in the trees
[1] Australian magpie
My Spotify artist of the decade – Tinariwen
My Spotify top artists, 2-5 – Tinariwen / The Stranglers / Lee Hazlewood / Killing Joke
Spotify suggests that I let Leonard Cohen (rip) know that I listened to him most of all artists this year
that horrible lurching adrenalin feeling as I thought I'd lost my journal – dropped on a walk – no, left it in the car
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.
