Greg Hills

@winterknell
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Sometime traveller, misanthropic hermit, cat person, and hubby. Living in Bunurong country on the western edge of Naarm, Australia.
Web Sitehttps://winterknell.net/
Avatar"We are the river and the river is us" by Hayley Walsh, on a wall in Wanganui, NZ
BannerLeft to right: the volcanoes Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro, NZ
Bunurong countryMap: https://www.bunuronglc.org/rap-map.html

All right, I'll snuggle.

BUT IM STILL MAD AT YOO

#cat #cats #catsofMastodon

1. Damned door's busted again.

2. HEY HOOMAN

3. DOES I HAS YOOR ATTENTION

4. DOOR'S BROKEN

#cat #cats #catsofMastodon Mastodon

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/116350319853126129

Now accepting "crew donations" to warm the pipes sounds like a pickup line ๐Ÿซฃ

Geolocating offers useful opportunities to correct errors in my photo database. Today while preparing to work on 2007, I realised that one picture I took on the Trans-Siberian, showing a train passage with a young boy playing with a green balloon -

"The passageway. Vova playing with balloon."

- actually featured Vova's son, Pasha. A photo of Vova (ะ’ะพะฒะฐ) himself playing with a balloon would have been notable indeed.

ETA: meant to attach photos. Fixed. No geolocation.

2006 complete. GeoLocation 59.53% complete.

My biggest travel photo year is 2007, the first 9 months of my 10-month career break journey around Asia and Europe - north from China, west to Italy, south to Aqaba, east through Iran, finish in India. I took 1/6 of all my photos in this one year.

I geolocated 10% of them while writing Strange Roads, Part I (https://winterknell.net/travel/_trav_2007/_trav_2007_cow.html). Still leaves over 12,000 to do. Gonna take me a while.

[Rolls up sleeves]

The true meaning of Easter, by Stephen Collins (who writes his own amazing #AltText)

"PAGAN GODDESS: Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!

BECKY: You mean โ€ฆ Jesus โ€ฆ?

PAGAN GODDESS: I mean shagging, Vicky."

estate agents will walk into the world's tiniest bathroom and photograph it like this

@mike Seems to be the season for dying teevs. Our dumb 32" TV, bought for $50 (no remote) in the early teens, recently began randomly turning itself on in the middle of the night. Scary. I went to buy a $90 40" (no remote) from Cash Converters, ended up with a $99 32" (no remote) instead due to a brain fart. On the bright side, our universal remote, which only turned volume up or down for the old device, works perfectly for the new one. So yay.

It's an Android TV, but we'll never connect it.

I spent my copious free time in March writing a trip report for our Cascade Saddle tramp in February. It sure is scenic. #NZ #tramping #SouthernAlps

https://patricklam.ca/post/20260331-trip-report-cascade-saddle/

59%. Finished with Egypt, now geolocating my 2006 Great Ocean Walk. This is really challenging, as there is no Street View and I have to rely on cross-linking clues in my photos with how long I've walked since the last good location (or how long to the next good location). My walking pace is very slow as it's all up and down and I'm carrying 20+ kg of stuff on my back. Plus, I'm often lost.

Full story here: https://winterknell.net/travel/_trav_2006/_trav_2006_gow.html

#Victoria #Bushwalk #GreatOceanWalk