Fitheach @fitheach@mstdn.io
Nature, technology, food, movies, music, politics, photography and life in the Highlands.
@simon_brooke @Valium iain@mastodon.xyz
Thanks for the feedback about the alternative #Mastodon apps/interfaces.
In the end, I'm still using the standard web interface, but I have adjusted the columns to 25%. Works for me.
Description of how I did it:
https://fitheach.co.uk/life/mastodon-web-client/
When you do a lot of work outside, in a place with changeable conditions, the weather forecast is important.
However, we have had weeks of dry, sunny weather and, consequently, I hardly bother looking at the forecast.
Is this, what it is like to live in California?
I watched The Gunfighter (1960), last night. It used a similar premise to High Noon & 3:10 to Yuma: where the protagonist must achieve something before a set time. The tension worked better in those other films.
Also, never convinced with Gregory Peck playing a hard man. He was better playing lawyers and psychiatrists.
I still enjoyed the film.
With bulk vending machines, you take your own container to the machine and fill it (much as you do when you're filling a can with petrol for your lawnmower at a garage). Examples here:
https://themilkstationcompany.co.uk/
http://www.risto-vending.com/en/index.php
http://www.brunimat.ch/en/products.html
The benefit is the consumer fills their container, takes it home, uses the milk (or other product), washes it out, takes it back and fills it again potentially very many times, saving hundreds of single-use plastic bottles.
To round-off the day, the evening #dog walk. Still warm at 26.5°C but with a cooling breeze (therefore no midgies).
@Bernd_Broccoli @Rhymling @Djedje @inAktion
You guys are all at the same table, right?
Using the Mastodon web app you can right-click and view image (still not that big).
However, when I view your avatar in my timeline, it looks like a cat with a white muzzle, looking right and wearing an orange hat. I see (sometimes miss-see) & memorise everything in pictures.
My other half doesn't have a mind's eye at all (Aphantasia); I only discovered this after I wrote a blog article:
https://fitheach.co.uk/life/memories/
Geeqie
An image viewer, tagger & organiser.
If you are using a *nix platform, you should check out Geeqie:
* fast image viewing
* tagging (Exif/IPTC/XMP)
* search facility
* handles profiles
* basic editing plus...
* configurable external editors
* file grouping (e.g. RAW + JPEG)
* many more...
The other flower (photo 4) is:
Wild Thyme - Lus an Righ - Thymus serpyllum
It had a lovely scent with a hint of lemon (sorry, sounds like a wine snob 😃 ).
This morning's #dog walk. In the glen, behind my house.
Nice to see the first thistle flower this year (a wee bit earlier than normal).
Spear Thistle - Cluaran Deilgneach - Cirsium vulgare
#Edinburgh #Book #Festival, part of the August madness has a few #music related events.
There's a whole "Music Matters" strand: "In this series of events we welcome musicians who have put down their instrument and picked up a pen to record the pleasure and pain of their experiences." https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/themes/music-matters-221
Of particular interest, Matthew Herbert has written a novel which, " evokes startling, shifting sonic landscapes such as the sound of insects hitting number plates followed by a drill striking oil beneath the earth’s surface. The result is surprising and unforgettable"
https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/matthew-herbert-11997
There's also Viv Albertine of the Slits and hip hop originators The Last Poets (possibly the least Book fest-y people to be appearing this year).
https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/the-last-poets-11884
https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/viv-albertine-1-11658
Tickets for the Book Festival went on sale on Tuesday and always sell out fast (I am not a salesman for them, this is a fact and also a #humblebrag that this year I got my act together in time.)
@inAktion A little over a year ago I went to the vets to book an appointment to take one of my cats in to be euthanised. When I got back I found he had chosen his own place, curled up in a patch of sunlight in the wood, and died. He's buried there.
Is anyone creating videos and uploading them to #PeerTube?
I ask because I'd love to have something to watch on here. 😛
Please... stop making smartphones thinner... I just want longer battery life... I beg of you please...
Ach, only 8g of #coffee left for to-morrow, not even enough for one mug.
Breakfast without a brew is unthinkable.
Nothing for it, got to get roasting.
#elsalvador
I've only just realised that you cannot view other people's favourites in #Mastodon .
Eh?
Nova Scotia is pretty.
