CarlBLatro

Old amateur programmer and a lethargic poster.

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2024-06-28 09:19:29

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You only need to start worrying when it's you who flies into the swallow!

2024-06-23 07:10:45

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Well what creates strong men then?

2024-03-15 22:37:42

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It's not generally known that The Queen had bellybutton shame, which is why you hardly ever saw her in a bikini.

2024-03-14 22:25:25

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F1 seeds can be a goldmine. I remember my father once putting a very expensive packet of cucumber seeds in the back seat of the car and his little dog ate them. :) They cost a dollar a seed in 1970's NZ money.

2024-03-14 22:10:40

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I used to buy from a Suttons Seeds catalogue, back in the day. Do they still have a royal stamp of approval?

2024-03-14 22:05:40

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Is your water well water, or from elsewhere?

2024-03-14 21:59:29

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And interesting approach to your shower's outlet.

2023-09-09 05:31:37

Election debate, New Zealand style...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7jIFh4cXRY
There'll eventually be a couple of leader's debates, (meaning between the PM and the Leader of the Opposition), which are probably the only ones that matter. Although there will be a third-party leaders debate (or two) too, I guess.

2023-09-07 23:59:45

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A slight error in your description there, Flick. It's 54 square miles, not acres. :))

2023-09-01 06:13:41

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How much methane do you lawn clippings produce? :))

2023-09-01 06:00:59

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I've noticed people talk about EVs (offline), but without mentioning climate change. I think for most now it's just a given, unless they're looking for any reason not to buy an EV.
What they talk about with EVs is cost and how long the batteries will last, since they'll want to sell it one day. NZ's a country where half of the cars imported are second-hand cars. Which means half of the cars we import are five to ten years old to begin with. This applies to EVs too, and so they're mostly 1st or 2nd generation Leafs. What's their range, and what will it be in five years or so?
The second-hand market are where the most polluting cars are bought and sold. Are second-hand EVs competing with them? You can check it out on TradeMe.

2023-09-01 05:20:39

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What makes a hare a potato hare?

2023-09-01 05:18:19

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What similar little ICE hatchbacks cost.

2023-09-01 05:14:24

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You'd be blue too if you were orange.

2023-08-23 05:33:12

This reminded me you can be buried in space now.
https://theconversation.com/sustainability-is-often-an-afterthought-in-space-exploration-that-needs-to-change-as-the-industry-grows-211335

2023-08-22 01:46:20

The unacceptable face in the mirror.
https://theconversation.com/a-retiring-nz-mp-has-suggested-joining-australia-we-should-at-least-think-about-it-before-saying-no-211728
Only superficially alike these days.

2023-08-20 21:58:21

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Does he work mostly from home, or not? (Assuming he's still working.) Not so bad if he's home, but otherwise, I can imagine neighbours' complaints about barking or whining, or destroyed furniture if it's locked inside.

2023-08-20 21:20:29

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We have two native mammals. We're not going to get rid of those. They fly! Well, one of them can, I think. Unlike a lot of the birds here.
Was this the purple pigeon-pheasant things?
https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/birds/birds-a-z/takahe/
I like hedgehogs too. Have always covered them up again if I discovered their nests among the weeds.

2023-08-18 21:30:38

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I would pick it up and put it somewhere where it presumably could die in peace. As you say, if you see them in the daytime they're probably sick.
That said, I think they're on our 'predictor-free NZ' list of animals we're to wipe out by 2050.

2023-08-18 11:02:18

A new take on Orwell...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018901393/anna-funder-how-george-orwell-wrote-his-wife-out-of-his-story

2023-08-16 06:53:01

NZ First may possibly get into parliament again in this year's election. They've had the balance of power in previous elections and Winston was the deputy PM in the current Labour government's first term and has been a Minister in National led governments a few times, his party being formed after he left National following a stormy relationship with them a few decades back.
https://twitter.com/winstonpeters/status/1691668017879687490

2023-08-14 11:09:47

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That was just a lucky day a few days ago. It's been wet a lot in Auckland of late by all accounts. I came here just to post the video, but I thought I'd mention the weather too for some reason. :))

2023-08-14 10:53:40

Winter in Auckland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivvD5923wnk

2023-08-13 22:26:39

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Hardly up there with a wicker man though, is it? :))

2023-08-13 06:47:19

Granting personhood to rivers and other areas in nature seems to be catching on...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-13/indigenous-leader-inspires-amazon-city-to-grant-personhood-river/102702070

2023-08-10 21:39:10

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I don't know where the funding for 'trans ideology' comes from. And neither do you, it seems. Possibly there hasn't been much? But in this case we know who funded Posie Parker's trip to Australia. It was the Australian wing of the Conservative Political Action Conference, who you can be sure invited her for political purposes since there was an Australian election coming up. Which Labour won, so wasted money there.

2023-08-10 12:04:25

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They use an Australian version of the US CPAC logo on their website and their speakers list for their last conference was full of ex-members of the Trump administration. And 'values' from their POV would mean conservative Christian values. They're a wing of the US CPAC, plain and simple. And you can't deny they funded Posy Parker's trip to Australia.

2023-08-10 02:10:48

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The Australian wing of the US's 'Conservative Political Action Conference' was responsible for funding Posie Parker's trip Downunder. You can hear their founder talking about it here...
https://www.abc.net.au/melbourne/programs/mornings/why-anti-transgender-activist-posie-parker-was-in-australia/102140892
The Australian CPAC "is a values-based nonprofit organisation that espouses the best of Howard, Reagan and Thatcher"...
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Conservative+Political+Action+Conference%2C+Australia&ia=web
American conservatives have lots of money to throw at their pet obsessions, such as returning the world to the 1980s.

2023-05-07 02:10:47

Like social media of old...
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1654971702571331584

2023-04-19 02:39:31

You tend to forget Vimeo exists, given Youtube's dominance of video online. But it does, and a few days ago I decided to see if there was much there from my current favourite musicians. Now, I'd more or less lost interest in music up to a few years ago. My interest in NZ music was piqued a while back by Lorde getting famous, so I went searching for why that might be. I didn't find the answer to that, but I did find one musician I liked. Namely, a one-woman-band called Bachelorette. (Now disbanded, Hamerkop being her latest outing.) She produced three good albums and an EP. And this video of her is unique to Vimeo, I think...
https://vimeo.com/33263339
I then started to find other NZ music I liked, Princess Chelsea being another. (5 albums so far.) And as it's her day today, here's the one unique (I think) video of her on Vimeo...
https://vimeo.com/67549652
Moving along, and we come to the Purple Pilgrims, a two sisters band with two albums to their name. And while I think I remember a blurry version of this on Youtube, this is a much better recording...
https://vimeo.com/148984256
You won't find that on either album and it's a bit atypical of their music, which you'll easily find elsewhere, or on Bandcamp.
By now you're probably noticing a bit of a trend here. Yes, they all started out a bit over a decade ago. There must've been something in the air then.
Next up is Looking For Alaska, another duo consisting of an English guy and a Maori woman. Two albums to their name too, the second being an instant classic in my opinion. This is a mini documentary with a few songs to listen to within it.
https://vimeo.com/411319383
And finally there's Wet Wings, another man and woman duo, and also with two albums to their credit. Not much to the video, but I do think it's unique to Vimeo. They're the ones I've been listening to most of late, but then they're the most recent ones I've discovered. Good songs and lovely, intricate music.
https://vimeo.com/user7313886
Now let's see what happens when I try and post all this! :)

2023-04-03 00:05:48

This guy produces interesting (or at least pretty) AI animations...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrTv_jAKsX0
#AI #animation