Nice day for a walk on the Yarra. I always love the undersides of bridges.
Verdigriis
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Stuff I'm into: hiking, writing, gardening, crafts, art. I'm a cranky devops weirdo (or whatever we are now). Will I post about any of that? Who knows.
I'm really not sure what I think of this movie, so in no particular order:
- One third Hamlet, one third The Green Knight, one third Conan The Barbarian. Add violence. Add more violence. No, more. More than that. Maybe even more violence.
- Gosh that's a lot of historically accurate fibercraft. Tablet weaving, bottom weighted spindles and warp weighted looms, oh my!
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- relentlessly grim (see above, Hamlet)
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Magpies in Yarra Bend Park. They were right on the edge of the path and completely ignored the numerous passers by.
I got rid of my old HP printer years ago because it was unsupported, always trying to force me to buy expensive ink, I didn't have room, I hardly ever needed to print, and I could just use a printer at work. But now I'm not going to an office any more and we have more space. I still really only need it to print out return forms for online shopping failures. Hopefully the ink survives until the next time we need it.
@DamienWise found an unopened printer amongst his things which he bought _8 years ago_. I just set it up and somehow it all works. The print cartridges it shipped with are fine and Epson still makes drivers for it for current operating systems and it connects to the wifi and all that. It _did_ want one of those old square usb A cables which it didn't ship with and it only works on 2.4GHz wifi, but it works? I guess the printer curse is waiting to manifest when it's more urgently needed.
The ironbarks are flowering, and they're so very beautiful. One of my favourite trees.
I need one of these so bad https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSNAXw5FM/
I am increasingly boggled by how much of the behavioural sciences replication crisis isn't just the publication bias, or even p-hacking, but outright fraud. You can't replicate those results because the famous author just made them up out of nothing. 
"...but the broader credibility of the behavioral sciences had been compromised by a perpetual-motion machine of one-weird-trick gimmickry."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/they-studied-dishonesty-was-their-work-a-lie
RIP the pretty daffodils planted in the garden bed opposite our driveway by my partner - they were all picked by some arsehole who lives around here. This garden bed is driving me nuts tbh - I want it to be nice but it was a huge battle just to get people to stop using it as a dog toilet (the solution was filling it with plants and trellises etc - still some dog crap but it's reduced). Then just when we get some happy flowers they get nicked by some selfish idiot. :-(
I have a newfound respect for people who plant out massive community flower beds, it must be a constant battle to keep them even remotely nice.
One of our neighbours has put a huge effort into the street we live on, planting flowering bushes everywhere. People sometimes walk on them or let their dogs leave huge piles of crap everywhere or, it turns out, steal all the flowers. Yet she persists? I don't know how to cultivate this attitude and not give up and leave it to the weeds and dog turds.