Lol--after 15 years I finally resurrected my 1978 Kawasaki KZ400 "Reloaded"! I put nearly 50 miles on it today but for some reason the battery wasn't charging so I had to park it and put it on charge. I wonder what's wrong with it? ;)
@lauren I wonder if it would work to print it, then return the whole document to the print-tray to print over it in exactly the same order.
That wouldn't work if there was a lot of fine detail or lots of colour images, but if it's mostly monochrome text then it might do the trick. You could try it with a page or two first to see if it was going to work before you ran the whole document back through...
Would appreciate any help in identifying this Chinese Pathe 78rpm recording from the late 1930s. Catalogue number is 3500 and it is not listed on Discogs. ☹️
After a week working in New Zealand, I’ve arrived back in Sydney just in time to savour a 43-degree heatwave. Back home, I’ve been out on the verandah trying to catch a breeze, and a pair of rainbow lorikeets (Trichoglossus moluccanus) have been walking right up to me and trying to tell me something. For someone who works so hard to catch birds with a DSLR and long telephoto lens, it’s a bit disheartening to catch a bird this close on an iPad camera.
My wife used to feed the lorikeets fruit, but they always seemed to be able to distinguish between us, and seemed to know there was no point in asking me for a feed. I put out a bowl of water (on the basis that everyone is a bit dehydrated today), and then a saucer of orange juice (they are nectar-eaters), but whatever they wanted, I clearly wasn’t getting the message.
Maybe Little Johnny has fallen down the well, and I am going to feel so dumb for not following the lorikeets.
It annoys me that I find it hard to totally hate George Santos because... he's more like a creature. Stealing, lying and pulling scams is so deeply ingrained in how he lives that it's almost more rational to be mad at the people who have allowed him access to levers of power, to the enablers.
It's kind of how I feel about people who get eaten by their pet tiger.
@futurebird What’s with compulsive grifters thinking it would be a good idea to win public office and get themselves some extensive scrutiny? If you were made to live under a rock and steal scraps when people aren’t watching, you really should try to stay out of the sunlight.
Just glanced at the Taiwan Ministry for Transport & Communications standard contract for domestic tourism (because I’m fun), and I enjoyed the line on the definition of “domestic tourism”:
本契約所謂國內旅遊，指在臺灣、澎湖、金門、馬祖及其他自由地區之我國疆域範圍內之旅遊。
So “domestic” is Taiwan, Penghu, Jinmen, Matsu “and other free areas with the borders of Our Nation”.
I know it doesn’t outright use the expression, but I enjoyed the lingering reference to “Free China”.
The challenges of legal precision in a world of ambiguity.
When I first tried to learn Taiwanese, sometime last century, I keenly purchased a textbook that came with a set of audio cassettes. I have no idea when they were published, but to this day one of my clearest phrases in Taiwanese is “This is the first time I have been to Free China.”
A sentence I can confirm I have never used in real life…
Saw a fascinating phenomenon on my hike this morning. I stopped to watch an ants’ nest & noticed a worker carrying a pupa. I watched her as she wandered around in circles, backtracked several times, then started wandering off to the edges of the nest where the rubbish dumps are. At that point another worker grabbed the pupa and they engaged in an extended tug-of-war over it before the new worker carried it back into the heart of the nest & down an entrance hole. (1/2)