technonaturalist

Didn’t get much done on this since last time as there has been too much stuff to do. Entertainment was finding out just how little I know about how shoes go together.

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Another whoops forgot to check where the black and yellow letters were.

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A couple of plants started flowering (the bulbs were here when we got here) and I accidentally bought a new one when we went to get painting supplies x_x

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I was tired and accidentally repeated black letters 💀

snapped first as I chose to log in on my phone rather than the big rig so I can do it first thing in the morning like I did today or when I’m chilling.

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Came for replacement heat lamps and an elkhorn fern. Not pictured is the house paint we also needed and several seed packets which we didn’t really. Bunnings (and by extension nurseries) is getting as dangerous as Officeworks.

It began unexpectedly with the paint I’ve been needing (we have some unexpected asbestos walls which need to remain painted and the current coat is peeling and we didn’t get the renos done that I wanted so I told J it had to be done before summer ended, and I’m running out of summer). He was doing a Bunnings run for some stuff to repair leaky taps and asked if I needed anything, I told him to get Cottage or Federation Green paint and pretty much any white that looked like it would go with it (I don’t much care as Cottage Green and white is not my favourite but I’d never gotten around to redoing it in Cottage Red and we’re planning on repainting the inside in greens).

I love worn out well-loved/used notebooks as much as crisp new ones. Transcribing stuff for my students into their reference/data collection book with “help” from my playful assistant who keeps trying to bat the pens and lie on the books. I love these pens, they’re nice to write with and the bright colours are really bright.

Finally got around to writing a couple of bash scripts to chain the image modifying and deployment stuff together so I can do all of that with one command instead of 2-3. Named without extensions to make my life easier and located in /.local/bin/ because it was already on the path and seemed like a good idea at the time.

blogify (usage: blogify image01 image02 etc or blogify *.ext)

#!/bin/bash

# "apply" orientation flags by actually rotating the image, resize to 1000px on the longest side with a quality of 90 to everything matching whatever was entered
mogrify -auto-orient -resize 1000x1000 -quality 90 $@

# remove all exif data and don't make a backup (if you want backups remove -overwrite_original, alternately make sure you're working on a copy)
exiftool -all= -overwrite_original $@

^{I’m pretty sure I tested it with the wildcard but am currently second-guessing myself and will find out the hard way when I next need to do it}

Hatching started yesterday or so! Spotted these two, saw a third later, J says there’s more. At least 3/24. Not our best hatch rate but the two broodies went off brooding for a day after receiving the eggs and then apparently only half of them got sat on x_x

I loved the cover of the new notebook I had bought for coaching purposes so much that I got J to get me the A5 version for my bag while he was in the vicinity of Officeworks.

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