#eqnz First time I've actually felt an earthquake in this house. Then I came here to confirm that it was one, before anyone else including the bot started posting about it, and was weirded out for a few minutes "if that wasn't an earthquake wtf was it?" And then everyone else finally said […]

This morning's 3am bright idea: home hydro! We have options for residential solar and wind power already, so why not also hydro? Rain falls from the sky onto your roof, then flows into the gutters, then down a drainpipe to the ground and on into the stormwater system. What if we put a bunch of […]

Tried to get a covid shot today and the pharmacy nurse wouldn't do it because of the new annual guidance... where can I point to something that says we can still request a 6-monthly?

It's becoming more often that I walk into a shop in Nelson and the entire staff pretend I don't exist. And clearly don't want to be stuck helping me with anything if they can help it. I did not miss this at all about the southeastern U.S. and wish it hadn't followed me here.

#dinnertonight was vegetarian moussaka. No picture, we kind of ate most of it before I thought of taking any. It was this recipe: https://www.recipetineats.com/moussaka-greek-eggplant-beef-bake/ with the vegetarian filling from this recipe […]

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@fionaorkneynews/116339246045226400 Progress on the electric plane front. Maybe at some point here soon?

Roofers here to fixthe leak that I reported two months ago. They didn't bring their own electricity and have tools plugged into the house. This is reasonable grounds to pay $10 less rent when it's next due, right?

Yesterday I spent nearly $4k on two midweight portable generators and solar panels. Today my plan was to set it all up in the sun and take a triumphant picture ("up yours, gentailers!"). Today the weather's plan seems to be about rain instead of sun. :(

What's good to do on #kingsbirthdayweekend on Monday in #wellington? We'll be up there for #wellycon but it was cheaper to fly out on Tues morning. Will anything worth visiting be open on Monday evening?

#tusky when I scroll, the screen sometimes now jumps. It looks exactly like what happens while scrolling on Facebook etc when the app suddenly loads up a new picture (ad :p) above where you're looking. Please make it stop.

I find myself in possession of a solar panel. It has a plug outlet that is round with two round holes in it. Does anyone have any idea whether this connector has a name, and/or what I could plug this into (other than the out-of-production system it originally belonged to)? #solar #solarpanels […]

Just tried to make some phone calls and got dead silence. I guess they've turned off 3G. Hopefully I won't have any emergencies while away from wifi anytime soon. >.>

Yesterday the power company sent notice that electricity will become more expensive in April. Is there such a thing as a class action lawsuit here? I would like to accuse the gentailers of extortion. How would I do that?

Eggplant are down to 99 cents each! OMGWTFBaBaGanoush!

RE: https://mastodon.nz/@zkarj/116077858996346512 I actually have the opposite problem to this. I am considering buying a car, after not having one since I sold my last one right before leaving the U.S. The main reason I need a car is to get a full driver's license, which requires a car to […]

Every several months I try the slow bus to work, because on paper it looks like a good option. Then, as I get crammed into my seat by the jam packed full aisle of standing students, I remember why it isn't.

Yesterday's #boardgames was Dinosaur Island. We have the lucky special fan-made dino meeples for extra fun. I won - spouse had too many hooligans and deaths.

Just added my name to Gun Control NZ's submission on the Arms Bill (closing tomorrow!). I didn't have the right mindset to write my own so just went with theirs. The bill: https://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2025/0233/21.0/LMS1533356.html Gun Control NZ's submission […]

#DinnerTonight was a foray into Korean #food. We'd been watching a lot of Korean #cooking shows, which often features perilla, so when I saw some fresh perilla leaves for sale at the local Asian supermarket, I had to get some (and then find something to do with […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@LaChasseuse/115941198098862825 Applies to #nzpol too.

How do people rinse tiny grains like millet and quinoa? I can't seem to find any mesh strainers with fine enough mesh, except for a small one at Briscoes for $50. Half tempted to figure out how to adapt a spatter screen... #nz

#dinnertonight was a tale of two pasta salads. Recipe links and more details coming soon... #food #cooking

Today started with the super simple task to make a simple bar chart. Then I noticed that my dataset only went to mid-September because the original report deadline was assumed back in November. Then when I tried to add the more recent data, the datetime converter choked on all the midnights […]

Spent all day going around in circles trying to troubleshoot data discrepancies, only to find that the proprietary software we use to store all our data is prone to give out different numbers depending on how you ask. Well I guess shortcutting the data analysis by getting the software to […]

Major design flaw of the new bus hub in Nelson: the signs on all the buses for where they're going all face away from the passenger waiting area. You have to go all the way to the sidewalk by the street if you want to see all of them at once. (Of course, then it turns out half of them say "Not […]

#food today was quinoa salad and millet cake. Recipes links to be edited in momentarily... #cooking

Quinoa is overrated. Especially if you don't have a fine mesh strainer. :(

Lunch today: leftover Mexican tomato rice with leftover yogurt lemon sauce and leftover whitebait caviar. A combination for champions!

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115796068342655261 That's me in the lower left.

#dinnertonight was falafel with tabbouleh, garlic yogurt sauce, and tahini sauce, in wraps. Recipes edited in in a moment... #food #cooking

Today I removed dust from the bottom third of our gigantic two-story-tall front room. It took four hours to move and clean every single item and piece of furniture in the place, as well as the walls and floors. Spouse hid in a back room for most of that time, but did emerge to reassemble […]

#DinnerTonight #Food #cooking Foray into beans continues. And also I'm using this space to save recipe links. >.> I tried another New Orleans red beans and rice recipe, this time using dried beans. It was all right - I suspect that the tabasco sauce I omitted […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

Hoping something like this comes our way at some point in the near future... https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/small-plug-in-solar-panels-gain-traction-as-an-affordable-way-to-cut-electricity-bills

Foray into beans parts 6 and 7. White bean garden salad and cowboy rice salad. We ate most of 6 before I remembered to take a picture. Links and stories coming soon...

Foray into "beans" part 5 was a grain. A barley salad that turned out fantastically as good as advertised in the recipe. I used barley instead of farro, and perilla oil instead of olive oil. The combination of sour from the vinegar with toasted cumin and […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115623923248341844 "Uruguay is a small yet prosperous nation. With a population of 3.5 million, it has a gross domestic product of around $80 billion, and the highest per capita income in Latin America. Its economy relies on agriculture, livestock, forestry, and a […]

99% beep rate in support of today's health worker strike at the hospital. Woot! Bonus: it was right next to the bus stop, and I arrived and left in under an hour, so bus was a free "transfer." Double woot. :) #nzpol

Foray into beans part 4: black bean jackfruit enchiladas. (Recipes coming soon in an edit)

Having recently gotten our latest covid boosters and measles shots, I went to look up the situation for shingles. Recommended for people 50+, but only free in NZ if you are exactly 65. If you're 66 and miss getting the first of the two shots while 65, it's not free anymore. And full cost is […]

Optodes do not consume DO during measurements and don't require stirring or a minimum water velocity. -- NEMS Dissolved Oxygen: Measuring, Processing, and Archiving of Dissolved Oxygen Data, Version 2.0, July 2016 #page42

It turns out that Google AI Overview is absurdly, insanely useful when it comes to coding questions. I can type in "how to do something extremely specific to my situation with actual example numbers and references in [language]", and it will give me a correct answer, with my example bits […]

Looking for summer-appropriate vegan recipes involving beans. Any beans. All kinds of beans. Show me the wonders of the world of beans. #food #cooking

I'm #crowdfunding for a film via my website as I'm excluded from major platforms (I'm based on the wrong continent) I've developed it since 2018 and will shoot next year, but I have to figure out the vfx needed to envision this futuristic world with no capitalism, where direct democracy thrives […]

Dear Everyone who submitted on the Fast Track Bill last year, Now's your chance to say it all again, once more with feeling! By the 17th! https://www3.parliament.nz/en/ECommitteeSubmission/54SCENV_SCF_B59B6261-1DB3-47A5-7DC9-08DE1A89278C/CreateSubmission Signed, A disgruntled concerned […]

1.5 days worth of banging my head against the Power BI wall to figure out how to get it to subtract numbers from a previous table row (correctly!), when I finally noticed, off to the right in the power query header ribbon beyond the little arrow to scroll right, a button that says "Run R script […]

Found a couple deep dents in my bike lock yesterday. Looks a lot like someone tried to cut it. My bike has only been parked in two places in the past year - in front of my house, or at work in the bike park behind the "staff only" gate. While it's not impossible that someone at work is trying to […]

I've been hemhawing about leaving Facebook for a while now, since I have lots of friends and family on there that I wouldn't otherwise have contact with. Yesterday Microsoft wouldn't let me look at an open public website without logging in. So I cleared all cookies, closed the browser, and […]

Just saw a job in New Mexico I would be perfect for. Unfortunately, New Mexico is in the United States. :(

Dear Carmakers of the World, Some of us outside of Japan would also like to buy EV kei cars. Just putting that out there. Signed, .... someone outside of Japan who would like to buy an EV kei car. >.>

The new Jay's Dumplings in Richmond is open! Hooray for new lunch options!