Lamb roast is already done for kebabs tonight 🤤
So when is dinner?
Save me some. 🙂
You got it 👍
Yum. Lamb is my spirit animal.
After another session I think there’s a real need to help old people with better photo storage. They all have photos on external hard drives and use Windows explorer to sort through them.
It’s really apparent how terrible Windows explorer is when you see less computer literate people use it. So many UI elements are small or hidden, and commonly used functions, like going back or up a folder in the directory, aren’t clearly telegraphed.
A NAS would be perfect for these people, but it can’t be too complicated. A set up once black box would be perfect. I did some looking and the Synology Beelink may be exactly what these people need. I may need to get one to check it out
Probably not just old people, my photos are a mess. It hasn’t helped that when I first started trying to set up an organisation system the technology kept changing, so the systems had to keep being redone. After a few repeats of that I pretty much gave up. And these days the majority of photos I have are junk, stuff like things I was listing to sell or 497 duplicate photos of Miss Meow that didn’t really work.
That’s where I’m thinking there has to be better software out there for managing photos that isn’t Windows explorer. I use Bynder at work and it’s great for tagging and grouping assets in a collection.
Then you stick everything on the Beestation so you can actually show it to people instead of just letting them sit on the hard drive
Migraine + cat purr = relief
hope you feel better when you wake up
❤️
smoothing out those errant alpha waves with cat purrs or classical music really works
Garden
The cooler weather is kinder on the plants. Less drying out. I’m secretly hoping it means fewer people about as well. Keep the disruptive ones away from me 😏
The snow peas are starting to sprout already which is good. I’m not going to be emptying the pots when the tomatoes finish and the zucchini fully die, I’m just sticking legume seedlings in there afterwards. handwave Crop rotation.
I planted 20 (2 seeds to each secondhand or improvised pot) thinking they were expired and the number that sprout do vary a lot for me… so if too many grow I might just shove some in among the pumpkins. I don’t know if the pots will be large enough but eh… handwave Companion planting.
Maybe a friend would like to take any extras for her kid’s garden.
Edit: If anyone was curious the eBay rotary tool did struggle a little with the thicker parts of the plastic bin but got through. I just had to go carefully. The drill bits are quite thin so I may have to enlarge the holes with the abrasive tips intended for grinding or beveling. When I get more energy.
I got some dill seedlings to try and attract more ladybugs because the leaves and buds are being eaten alive by aphids. I have eco oil but applications may not last long. Maybe two approaches together would work when one alone can’t
An early good morning to all. Just want to let you know I really appreciate this place. The banter, support, friendly advice, cute animal pics, all of it. It really is a wholesome corner of the internet. May you all have a superb weekend.
It’s a lovely day to be outside today. I’ve just been out taking some cuttings from my rosemary, hopefully I will have somewhere decent to plant them when I move. I have blue, pink and white flowering varieties. The blue flowering one I originally planted over 20 years and three houses ago, mostly moving in a pot, but now growing in the garden along with a child plant grown from a cutting.
I’ve also pegged down a bit of thyme into a pot for it to hopefully root so I can take that too, but I only grew it from a seed last year so I’m not too concerned with that one. My mint tends to grow rampant in the garden so I’ll probably grab a few rooted pieces of that to take with me too.
Tonight is Phantom Menace. It seems that lots of people don’t like Jar Jar Binks too much, including the characters themselves.
MEOW
Pspspsps
Extended complaining
I’m feeling so frustrated at how disability and other environmental barriers make hobbies so difficult, especially outdoorsy ones. Before things got like this and before I lived here I used to enjoy forest walks, gardening, tai chi (on top of the solitary indoor stuff which is now getting worn thin). You get the picture.
It leads to being terminally online which wouldn’t be so bad in the circumstances… but there seems to be a massive generational divide and culture shifts that make it the opposite of good.
And yeah, the internet always had a shittiness to it but there were at least some norms around managing it then (like ‘don’t feed the trolls’ ‘not your personal army’ and ‘do not announce that you’re a child’) and I’m finding the behaviour to be ruder and more maladaptive now. The users are inappropriately young and somehow more obnoxious than they used to be. More invasive.
(And yes, this is an expected function of getting older, but I have never liked kids and teens. I’ve been a cranky old person since I was 8 years old. This crop just have managed to worsen or invent new bad behaviours. Social media is getting very toxic.)
The people I actually talk to are drifting away.
I really feel like all of the online platforms except this one are just a bad fit for me, and I feel like the area I live in is also pretty incompatible for me.
Plus I’m in pain all the damn time. -_- Quality of life is pretty low right now.
I have things I’d do but I’m not up to it. Not really workable until I get my health managed and possibly move out of my current shithole. Which may never happen.
Sorry Melba :(
Do you have any updates on your living situation? Any news on when you can get out of there?
In the mean time, it’s different to real life gardening, but Stardew Valley has always been there for me in times of need. I spent ages getting immersed in it - it’s like a mindfulness exercise, because it kind of forces you into the present. I’m sure there are similar games that are low cost / free if you’re interested. Although I’m sure gaming communities are full of youth, you’ll have the game to talk about.
Ahhh… ahaha… I actually stopped gaming because of the kids and the other players got a little bit much in general.
Don’t worry about it, I’m just a bit salty right now. I don’t think I’m getting out of here to be honest.
I’ll find something I’m able to do, I’m just mad at being curtailed.
Oh Stardew Valley is singleplayer! No multiplayer or anything!
You might like it!
Maybe! I used to have Animal Crossing when I had a DS but kinda got bored with it.
Now it’s Minecraft single player from time to time but I’m not enjoying it as much as I used to.
I second Low.
A move might be what you need. Find some where quiet, friendly and easy.
If only! I would love that and possibly give a kidney to get it.
However at my income level the options are rough.
altona is nice, full of retired people sitting in cafes and the beach
That would be nice.
Give me your most overrated actor that somehow is critically acclaimed.
Mine is Sean Penn. Apart from being an arrogant douche that beats women, his acting is pretty shit.
Dude just mumbles his lines and acts surprised at random shit.
I don’t know what the deal with George Clooney is. Apart from Ocean’s Eleven I can’t think of another good movie he’s been in.
Yo what?
Syriana
The Descendants
Out of sight
Burn after Reading
Monuments men (I loved it)
Hard disagree. His acting is boring. His characters are boring. His movies are boring. The dude is overrated.
I respect your opinion but disagree.
Gotta love freedom of speech 😁
I respect the fact that you can see something that I can not. 👍
Artistic opinions are 100% subjective.
Disagreeing and respect are an amazing part of being human.
Let us all enjoy what we enjoy.
Very true.
George is very popular because he’s handsome and a really nice guy.
I liked him in Solaris.
From Dusk Till Dawn.
I didn’t care for it but ER catapulted him into fame.
Anthony Hopkins.
he did one really good role where he actually seemed to do some acting, Dr Kellog, and he was passable in Elephant man. Everything else he was very ordinary.
Al Pacino. I just don’t understand the hype.
Wow.
That’s controversial as hell, and probably justified.
His Hannibal lector was great, and honestly he was great as Odin in the Marvel flicks.
World’s fastest Indian was a treat too
Apart form that I can’t remember seeing him in many flicks, but his performances have always been memorable.
Great pick for this silly question.
Anthony was real good in The Two Popes as well!
His Hannibal lector was great,
ordinary
it’s easy to play a killer but he did not play a psychopath, he didn’t give the creeps at all
it was a movie with great stills and a few good lines
memorable lines just means a good writer
ok, he was ok in 22 Charing Cross Road.
Dwayne the rock.
j. Statham to an extent
Julia Roberts to an extent (probably won’t win that argument though).
Could lump in Vin Diesel with them too lol!
oooooh I have a soft spot for Pitch Black (2000). Probs the only one he’s in though heh. Filmed mainly in aus too!
I love Pitch Black! And I have a big soft spot for Chronicles as well haha
I mean… Rock and Statham play the same roles each time. And neither are really acclaimed as actors.
Roberts is interesting. I think she’s great but hasn’t done anything significant since the late 90s, acting wise.
However, she’s a solid performer.
neither are really acclaimed
Heh that is true.
Gal Gadot - she can’t act, every line is said without feeling, and she has no emotion. It always feels like I’m watching Gal, and not the character she’s portraying.
If it has to be a male actor though, then Brad Pitt. He says his lines with emotion, but I can never see the character he’s meant to be - just Brad Pitt being Brad Pitt
Gadot is a god dam plank of wood. Treated pine at best.
Fkn ey!
No arguments about Gadot. If she wasn’t a knockout, she’d be nothing.
Brad Pitt is interesting actually. Perhaps his fame has overshadowed his acting, cause he’s got some chops.
I think he’s great, but not Oscar calibre. I do enjoy his movies though.
And he can take the piss too (Deadpool 2)
No lie, Brad Pitt has been in heaps of my fav movies (Interview with a Vampire, 12 Monkeys, Fight Club, Ocean’s 11, World War Z, etc), but I always just see Brad Pitt - it’s hard for me to see past the actor.
He’s good at what he does (even if he is a piece of shit human), but he doesn’t melt into a role the way, say, Gary Oldman does.
Sky yellow.
For the third time a so called friend has scheduled a belated birthday do on my actual birthday. That will be a Regrets, none at all.
Fuckers.
“Sorry can’t come, doing stuff for my birthday” is a valid reason not to go.
Heeeeeeeeyo
It feels like I only woke up 2 hours ago.
The birds won’t stop kick flipping their water bowl to the ground. At least it’s no longer humans doing it? -_-
These fucking tree suckers are now coming up in my backyard.
Yesterday I used the rotary tool to drill holes in the bin but I really don’t know if I have the energy to start raking leaves and putting stuff in there.
