Summer! It's warm, everything is full of life and flowers are in full bloom.

A native I’iwi. This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Wild Animal or Bird of the Month.’ See more responses here. Pu’u O’o Trail is a few miles east of the saddle between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, on the south side of the main cross-island highway. It’s all above 5,000 feet and can be cold, wet, and windy, but I’ve had good luck picking warm, sunny days. These photos are from a couple of recent hikes I took up there. Captions on the photos. The trail enters a kīpuka. There are open,…

from spiritual community in portugal to 9-5 office life in berlin.

Happy Father’s Day! I got woken up this morning with a tea after a delicious lay-in. I then got brought smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on muffins, honey yoghurt with granola and strawberries, fresh orange juice and a coffee…in bed, with a lovely collection of cards and chocolate-based gifts. After that perfect start to the day, I showered in peace, got dressed into summer gear and headed to the park with all 3 children for some time on the swings. My eldest boy cycled ahead of us and was…

No injuries at basketball this week. Instead, my frustrations centred around my own inability to get the ball in the basket. I had Thursday and Friday off work. I didn't have concrete plans for the time off, but I'm glad I took it. I'm not sure how I would have coped this week otherwise. Finally got to the source of two different problems around the house. They weren't the easiest to trace but one has already been fixed and the other mitigated. Becka and I took a trip into Brighton to watch Toy…

📚 Finished: In a Narrow Grave by Larry McMurtry. If you’ve ever lived in Texas, even more so if you’re from Texas, this is a great read. It’s not quite Texas as I remember it, as the author was writing a decade or two before my time. But it captures the spirit and backstory of 20th century Texas. Contains great explainers on the rivalries between Austin, Dallas, and Houston. And, that Texas is at least two different things: east Texas, west Texas, and probably south Texas. The nostalgia was…

What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing cheap shorts and an old T-shirt. He has just changed out of khakis, a white button-up shirt, pink socks, and tan dress shoes. How does Dave feel today? Dave is happy and stuffed. What are the factors affecting Dave's mood? Dave enjoyed a gastronomically delicious and astronomically enormous brunch at an upscale restaurant this morning—hence the aforementioned attire—and is now relaxing in a carb-based stupor. What did Dave have for brunch? Dave had…

I lived a relatively standard life for a long time. Then I went independent, had a taste of success, then failed and moved home into my dad's. My mental health had been bad for sometime, had been declining for some time. But then I opted out of work & most productivity for a few years. Then in 2018 I became politically aware (Aljazeer had a piece about refugees & the U.S.'s refusal to take very many), and I became angry, and I became extremely motivated. This was the beginning of years of…

A test post to see if will echo to Pixelfed correctly, if it doesn't, it ain't Echofeed's fault.

As with most Apple apps, Reminders is all I really need, except when it isn’t. One of the default “dates” is “Next Week” which is fine, but I’d love it to be Project aware as right now I have 13 Reminders for today, 8 of which I can’t do until Thursday. Yeah yeah, select the […]

**Content Warning: **I hate you and I love you. you asshole why is everything the way that it is why can't I be in a room with you without the silence stretching for miles I miss you. I miss you. you've hurt me and made me cry so many times, even now, especially today but I miss you. Thoughts? Leave a comment in my guestbook or shoot me an email.\

A while ago I watched this talk from Lucas Meijer on how he develops with Pi. Although I haven't really used Pi for anything, something I did take away from this video was the terminal emulator he was using. It's called [Supacode](https://supacode.sh). I really was intrigued by it's operating paradigm. Supacode (gosh, I really don't like the name though. So cheesy!) Is built around worktrees. Worktrees have become all the rage with coding agents, but I'd already been using them for managing…

I did not make this recipe. I’m simply putting it here so that if Bobrov happens to see this page, he too will learn of this culinary masterpiece. It’s savory, it’s flavorful, it’s easy, the juice is so goddamn good you can slurp it out of a straw. https://www.africanbites.com/slow-cooker-jamaican-brown-stew-chicken

Happy Solstice. Happy Midsummer. Happy Longest Day....

I love refreshing meat salads. Tuna salad is my sole exception, as I like it savory for a tuna melt. But chicken salad? It must have crunch. It must have moist crunch. Only the firmest green grapes. No purple, black or red either! Green. Grapes. It’s the shit. This goes great on bread, crackers, a […]

(about the holiday, and masculinity, and enough man-on-man sex to make this posting out of bounds for kids and the sexually modest) First take: the long pan. From my 6/16/19 posting “On this day in 2019”: (US) Fathers Day. For some of us, this is a day to remember our fathers with affection. I’m one of the lucky ones; I’ve written about mine several times, most extensively in my 1/30/11 posting “It Gets Better / Wonderful dad”. It’s also an American commercial holiday that might better be…

08:19 An early Sunday morning spent lazing around in bed is bliss. Reading a book. Or even doing nothing. A privilege not everyone has. 10:32 I have been cooking fresh toast for a few weeks now—I make it only once a week. I haven’t gotten the recipe right yet. I was trying my own personal recipe, but I guess that ain’t working out. So time to look up to prefessionals. 12:10 People on the online forums are rude. Or the rude ones stand out, drowning the sane voices. Learning from my recent stay…

It’s often assumed, on either side of the aisle, billionaires wield too much influence on society, or seek to subvert democratic systems if their power or ambitions are left unchecked. There is a fear that billionaires aim to reshape society to reflect their values. In actuality, their plans for social control tend to range from underwhelming to unimaginative. Peter Thiel has billions and is among the most influential people in tech. What has he invested his time and money in the past 10 years…

I’ll add an image of the finished product when I actually make it again. The title’s just a reminder to me. Recipe below. It’s just your standard potato salad, but I love dill and added a few other minor twists. No raisins, it’s okay. Ingredients Cooking Steps

You'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise, given the corpus of games that I generally play, but I am very much NOT an anime person. A lot of stuff inspired by anime, yes, but broadly speaking, my position has always been that if I'm going to experience this kind of stuff, I would rather play it than watch it. However, youtube decided to throw me a curveball this year: Three months of Crunchyroll for $2 a piece. Even if YT doesn't host their entire catalog, surely I can extract $6 of…

Being publicly witnessable is something that's been tragically hard in the past weeks, if not months (that's why I ended up blogging about Sudoku), but I went out to the mountains yesterday. I admit it sounds like I did some kind of ascetic training and sat under a waterfall to meditate about mortal sorrows. Actually, I've been wanting to go for a while. I grew up on an island, but my family used to travel to the Alps every summer and spend a week hiking: even before I was able to walk on my…

It’s happened again, and it won’t be the last time. There’s a thing I like, something that brings me joy, and yet I can’t find a way to talk about it without feeling a need to roll out a list of defensive caveats first. Whether it’s Homestuck or Steven Universe or Undertale or My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (ok I only saw like three episodes of that last one but they seemed decent), there seems to always be some new flavor-of-the-week that is embarrassing to talk about in public. Something…

I’ll add an image of the finished product when I actually make it again. The title’s just a reminder to me. Recipe below. An attempt to have a ‘healthier’ white sauce for pasta. It works well enough, but I still need to figure out how to fix the bits of grain from the yogurt (I […]

I’ll add an image of the finished product when I actually make it again. The title’s just a reminder to me. Recipe below. It’s my favorite kind of dressing for salads, but they didn’t sell it so I found a recipe online (I forget where) and tweaked it to my tastes. It’s a bit thinner […]

It’s been over a week since my trip to Okanagia, and I still can’t get it off of my mind. Okanagia is the kind of place that gets you excited to write about it. Previously, I had only driven through it on my way to somewhere else. This time however, it was the destination. While I had planned only to go there to do a bike ride, I ended up falling in love with that country! Okanagia, the richest country you probably never heard of, showcases some stunningly beautiful landscapes which offer…

In 2018, while working for the government of Finland, I developed a model of network literacies. Today our Prime Minister says that Canadians need to develop AI literacy and he even has a Minister of AI to implement it. Let’s look back at network literacies — They could be described as individuals and communities understanding and being part of global networks that influence various aspects of our lives. For individuals, the core skill is critical thinking, or questioning all assumptions,…

I’ll add an image of the finished product when I actually make it again. The title’s just a reminder to me. Recipe below. I’m fairly certain I came up with this recipe. It’s in a .txt file all lowercase with no credit attributed, which I’m usually good about. However, I don’t remember ever making them […]

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… and I don’t mean Declan Rice, of Arsenal and England. I don’t forget him because I have a football sticker of him on my phone case. No, I mean risotto rice. My longest-serving friend and I are on our annual camping trip and we forgot the essential ingredient in our much-loved camping dish. It felt like a stumble when we realised this yesterday, deep in our camping valley, not a risotto rice shop in sight for miles.The thing is, as we’re already discovering, we’re both adaptable and lenient.…