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pelicangut

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If ye cannae see the bottom, dinnae wade.

Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia

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pelicangut, to random
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My lips are tingling because I ate a piece of cabbage off the chopping board. Upon which I had sliced the habaneros. Should be a good stir-fry I reckon.

jpm, to random
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Get you some mushrooms with actual flavour

pelicangut,
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@jpm what coffee filters are for.

pelicangut,
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@jpm have you seen what's available at a good Chinese grocer? Not just shiitake, they often have chanterelle, morel, blazei, bamboo fungus (really funky!), monkey head / lion's mane, tea tree, velvet antler, nameko. Great flavours.

Of course, also snow fungus and black fungus, but they're more for texture than flavour.

Not getting me to try the cordyceps any time soon though.

luciedigitalni, to random
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It's time for our first Thai red curry pot roast chicken of the year

https://www.recipetineats.com/thai-red-curry-pot-roast-chicken/

pelicangut,
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@luciedigitalni yum! Hard agree on Maesri for store bought ready-to-roll paste. We use a couple in our lunch noodle soups, or otherwise Penta instant Tom Yum. 🤤

jpm, to random
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I do not need a $40 MC68030 CPU and I absolutely do not need to design and build my own classic Mac around it

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33001231557.html

pelicangut,
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@jpm I loved programming that sucker back in the 1990s. But OS-9/68K not Mac. A real delight!

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There's not enough aged care workers as it is. Keeping people in the home is actually going to put more stress on workers. And it will continue to reduce efficiency of the housing market with elderly people staying in homes far too large for them.

pelicangut,
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@luciedigitalni

Home-based care is not a replacement for aged care homes. Not unless it means someone in the house 24/7 to help with toileting etc. Ask you friendly fire brigade and ambulance folks for more details.

(when someone falls, it's often the fire brigade who have to pick them up for the ambos)

@joannejacobs

luciedigitalni, (edited ) to random
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Why do some people still hyphenate "e-mail"?

WHY?

pelicangut,
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@luciedigitalni it's very en-AU / en-NZ to not hyphenate "email". And it's not the only exhyphenation we do;

https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/en-au/default/glossary/

luciedigitalni, to food
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More stories about beaches and food

I got a little taken with the dining on the beach at sunset concept when I arrived here. It is bloody special but it's also probably not where the best, and certainly not the best value, food is. Surprisingly, the prices here don't vary much/at all between on the beach and on the main road, certainly for food and massages, though they do for rooms, of course.

I was also a bit spoiled with my first sunset dinner - a fabulous red duck curry which has been the dining highlight of the trip so far.

I liked it so much I went back the next night and had fried pork belly (tiny bit dry but very yummy) and a creamy Tom Kha Gai, which needed a bit more (some!) chilli but still lovely.

The next night, having found some pedals to hire, I went on a little adventure to another beachside restaurant at the next beach for a decent (not spicy enough) pork larb, and...

1/2

blue tablecloth with a plate of rice, a plate of fried pork belly, a glass and a bottle of soda water
that blue tablecloth again, this time with a bowl of creamy Tom Kha Gai (coconut) soup and the same glass and bottle of soda water
a red tablecloth and a plate of pork larb (minced pork salad) with some styled cucumber slices

pelicangut,
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@luciedigitalni I've always thought the concept of a pork Massaman curry would be sort-of sacrilegious (Massaman = mosalman = muslim), but I accidentally ordered one at my "local" Thai (the Thai Bar in Hamilton, NSW). They said no 🙂

Glad to hear you're enjoying Thailand, horrified to think that a "middle spicy" might require remediation 🔥

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    pelicangut,
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    @decryption even better with a wee pinch of tea masala (the spice in chai masala).

    luciedigitalni, to random
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    Six shots seems a lot

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-10/nowra-shooting-in-main-street/103306152

    pelicangut,
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    @luciedigitalni "stop or I'll shoot!"

    luciedigitalni, to random
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    I love* government websites that will provide a whole page of information about how to access an online service but will either not include an actual link to the service or will make it as difficult to find as possible

    pelicangut,
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    @luciedigitalni I always have to resort to a web search when trying to navigate a govt website. Always.

    dropbear, to random
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    I’m very sick of paying for streaming services only to not be able to watch shows until months after the US. Complete bullshit in this day and age. Do they actually want us to pirate shows instead of paying for them?

    pelicangut,
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    @feather1952 @dropbear @luciedigitalni and anyway, who doesn't like another good cross-border thriller?

    Some of SBS is truly awesome and I simply can't recommend due to the strong {waves hands... everything} that will make half my family and all of my wife's family either blush or faint. Top notch viewing, can't recommend 👍 (e.g. Paris Police 1900/1905)

    pelicangut,
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    @luciedigitalni @feather1952 @dropbear yes, have only seen one episode so far, it's our Friday night English-language viewing.

    pelicangut,
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    @feather1952 thanks, have added The Doll Factory to my list. Good to have another English language program to watch, two in a row with subtitles can be a struggle.

    pelicangut,
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    @luciedigitalni @feather1952 so are we, just finished season 1 last night (it's our Wednesday night English-lang viewing). Looking forward to season 2 next week!

    pelicangut,
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    @feather1952 @luciedigitalni I think it's only On Demand.

    luciedigitalni, to random
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    At some point last year my phone just stopped working, as in wouldn't turn on. So I bought a new one.

    I just found the allegedly broken one in a drawer, plugged it in and it's working perfectly.

    As pleasing as this discovery is, I would have preferred to know it two weeks ago before I replaced the replacement which fell out of my pocket while riding my bike and smashed the screen.

    It's just as well I don't buy expensive phones

    pelicangut,
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    @luciedigitalni My 80+ Dad had a phone that wouldn't charge, and then [something something] and he bought a new phone. Fast forward a couple of years, and a home care worker found the old non-charging phone up the back of the fridge behind something awful. Dad gave it to me, "see if you can get it to work". Works fine if you plug in the charge cable perfectly, otherwise it won't charge.

    A mystery how it got into the fridge, wasn't looked for, stayed there a couple of years, WTF was in the nasty it was hiding behind, etc.

    luciedigitalni, to auspol
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    Has it occurred to the economics profession that 'hours worked' might not be the best way to measure productivity?

    pelicangut,
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    @luciedigitalni sometimes I work for hours on something I delete at the end, wondering why I bothered. Productivity! 🚀

    luciedigitalni, to random
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    One of the senior executives in my organisation has just returned from three weeks in Italy and, in an all-staff email, is telling people how wonderful Venice is to visit.

    Such a thoughtful message for those struggling with ever-increasing mortgage payments

    pelicangut,
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    @luciedigitalni "and if you all work really hard over the next 12 months, I'll be able to go again next year!"

    luciedigitalni, to random
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    US-Canada border explosion revealed as opening sequence of new noir TV series

    pelicangut,
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    @luciedigitalni yet another Bridge spin-off?

    luciedigitalni, to random
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    I'm moving to the EU

    https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-will-let-windows-11-users-in-europe-uninstall-edge-bing-and-disable-ads-in-eea-dma

    pelicangut,
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    @luciedigitalni I tried using dad's windows 11 laptop on Wednesday night to help him submit something to Centrelink. Fucksake what a palaver. Ads coming at me, Adobe constantly asking me about starting a free trial, smart trackpad switching to keypad mode at worst moment. Hospital wifi blocking download of any useful tools didn't help.

    Brought files home and sorted out in Linux, without nags. All tools I wanted available. Output file about a tenth the size as that on windows so that all required files fit within Centrelink 10mb upload limit (i.e. only 2mb altogether)

    I don't know how Windows users put up with it.

    luciedigitalni, to Canberra
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    Big news

    pelicangut,
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    @luciedigitalni much Dragon areas. "When you go out in the rai-ee-ain, you'll never have that --- time again!"

    pelicangut, to UX
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    Honestly, who does this to their website visitors? What's with the chase-the-link game? Not cute. Zero stars.

    There are five links, to some Australian states and territories, with a map of Australia image as background. The mouse cursor moves towards a link, and the link moves to the right, away from the cursor. Clicking where the link used to be does not work. The mouse cursor now must be moved to where the link has moved to. Now the link can be clicked. The visitor takes another sip from their drink (not shown).

    luciedigitalni, to random
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    "...from next year viewers of SBS On Demand will be able to choose not to see gambling advertising on the platform, as well as ads for alcohol and fast food."
    👏
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/01/seven-network-betting-ad-breach-fine-sbs-opt-out

    pelicangut,
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    @luciedigitalni …or you can steam via Kodi, and not see ads?

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    War goggles.

    My @smh cartoon.

    pelicangut,
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    @cathywilcox for which there is a Black Mirror episode

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Against_Fire

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