Experimenting with some of the stitch patterns on my sewing machine. I think the larger stipple is the way to go.
Author: Kris
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Beautiful Canberra
4 Canberra buildings that prove new developments can be beautiful.
We actually stayed in the Nishi building in New Acton last week on our trip. It’s definitely stunning, and we enjoyed being able to walk to so many amenities (concert at Llewellyn Hall, drinks at High Jinks, breakfast at Mocan & Green Grout, movie at the Palace Electric).
We also saw the buildings mentioned in Braddon while walking through there. I don’t understand what Canberra architects have against windows that are rectangular though. 😂
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Disenfranchisement
I am a Hoosier born and raised; I’m a tax-paying American citizen; and the Republicans are trying to stop me from voting. The proposed anti-voter SAVE Act would hinder millions of eligible Americans from registering to vote by requiring citizens to present a birth certificate or passport in person to register. All of us overseas – including the military – would be affected. It also means if your documentation doesn’t match your legal name – like if you changed your name when you got married, or you’re trans – you also can’t vote. I’ve just called my Representative and both Senators to leave messages demanding that they oppose this legislation. You should too.
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Gulf of Snook
Okay, this is hilarious, and honestly the best possible advertisement for MapQuest. Maybe I should be using MapQuest for directions on my phone?! (Link courtesy of Daring Fireball.)
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A better mute button
Remember how I used an Automator Quick Action to set a custom “mute” shortcut on my keyboard? My new friend Ville Walveranta got in touch recently with an even better way to do it. Ville’s way preserves the pre-mute input level, so if you were previously at 50%, it’ll go back to 50% when you un-mute. Nice!
Ville’s solution uses a really great little command-line utility called switchaudio-osx. Once I had that installed, I modified my Quick Action to Run Shell Script rather than AppleScript, and I put in the command:
/opt/homebrew/bin/SwitchAudioSource -t input -m toggle
The utility gives a nice human readable output (“Setting device Logitech StreamCam to muted,” for example) so I decided to pump that straight into my notification. Works great! Thanks Ville. 😄
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Download & Transfer your books
As of Feb. 26, Amazon is removing the ability to download and transfer your purchased Kindle ebooks. This sucks. This means you lose the ability to back them up, or to move them to your devices over wired connections. If also means Amazon can one day decide to remove the books entirely, because you never really owned them to begin with.
I suggest you log into your account NOW and download each of your purchased ebooks. Of course they make it as difficult as possible, so you have to click on each one individually and download it to your computer. (I had 77 of them. I’m sure there are people with loads more.)
And then if you were so inclined, you might also install something like Calibre, an open source ebook collection manager. And if you were further inclined, you could also install some useful plugins that would give you further flexibility in how you read your purchased content.
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Nope.
Guardian Media Group today announced a strategic partnership with Open AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and deployment, that will bring the Guardian’s high quality journalism to ChatGPT’s global users…
Yeah, no. Subscription cancelled, and I told them why.
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Questacon!
We got our science on, at Questacon.
Rodd built a Martian landing strip at the Lego Curiosity exhibit.
We also contributed sections to the mosaic.
There was only one school group visiting, so once they passed through, we mostly had the place to ourselves.
This is going to be the cover of our first album. (Can you tell which one of us always runs 5 degrees hotter than the other?)
And oh yeah, I got up the courage to do the 6m free fall that I chickened out on when we visited fifteen years ago.
I’m so proud of myself! Even though I look like a flattened Oompa-Loompa at the end. 😂
I definitely earned some beer at Bentspoke!
