@david@theblower.au
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david

@david@theblower.au

IT geek of many trades, hobby Blacksmith, cook and photographer hailing from the southern end of Queensland (Australia)
Beware, I am a fully qualified Dad Joke practitioner.

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david, to random
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Science type field researchers, I’m after a good quality wildlife/trail camera with excellent night video/photo abilities and reasonable battery life. Ideally suited to Australian conditions.

It will be situated in a high rainfall area, with ambient temperature ranges of 5ºC to 45ºC depending on time of year.

My current cheapy ali-express one often decides it isn’t going to record anything.

Given how crap web searching is these days, I figured I’d get better recommendations from people who actually use these things professionally.

Boosts welcome :)

timrichards, to Korean
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Note: it's "yea or nay?", not "yay or nay?" (Though the pronunciation is the same.)

david,
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@timrichards that does depend on what the circumstances are though. Like do you just want a yes or no, or is it more that the yes option is exciting and involves a party, in which case Yay! is acceptable ;-)

timrichards, to random
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Stopped at Barcaldine aboard the Spirit of the Outback train, had time to walk around and see the Tree of Knowledge again. Beautifully showcased in front of the station.

david,
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@timrichards shame you weren’t there at night. The upper structure is lit green so it looks like leaves from a distance.

nixCraft, to random
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the guy is losing it slowly and wants to make a remake of 1984

david,
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@nixCraft maybe... and hear me out here, maybe he should go outside and get some actual friends. You know, like talk to people, except not about AI or funding.

david, to baking
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Ooh, the hand kneaded loaf came out beautifully.

david,
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Excellent crumb.

david, to food
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Approx two trays of hand made potato gnocchi. One will be dinner with an osso bucco ragù. The other, I’ll freeze for later use.

david,
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The slow cooked osso bucco ragù was delicious, and went very well with the gnocchi which was boiled then fried on one side in butter.

david,
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@GustavinoBevilacqua dammit, I actually wrote it with one c and thought, "no, that doesn't look right" and changed it.

david, to random
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I present, the star of tonight’s dinner. Guanciale!

Dinner will be Pasta All’Amatriciana.

david,
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Pasta All'Amatriciana.

A very traditional dish from Amatrice in Italy. It has only a few ingredients: Pasta, Guanciale (cured pork cheek), tomatoes, a splash of wine and Pecorino Romano cheese.

david, to random
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Damp weekend here, so I fired up the forge and attempted to make 4 identical small hooks.

Not quite, was the result, but good enough for the intended purpose.

That purpose being a small hook rack to hang bungee tie-down cables from at work, so they don't end up lost somewhere in our workroom.

#metalwork #blacksmith

Four small metal hooks on a pine backing. They are slightly shiny, having been partially sanded.

david, to cooking
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Making Mushroom Ketchup, an 18th century recipe, as seen on Townsends.

I've spiced and cooked the mix and am awaiting it to cool to wring it out, but initial tastes are, "damn it's salty!"

I guess this may end up somewhat like Soy Sauce, but mushroomy.

david,
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One bottle of Mushroom Ketchup. It’s less salty after cooking and straining, and more mushroomy.

Very thin sauce like Worcestershire or Soy.

david,
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And now the “leftover” mushroom solids have been dehydrated and ground up to use as a seasoning sprinkle in its own right.

It really is a no-waste recipe.

david, to random
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I'm really not sure when I might have need of this phrase.

#duolingo #greenOwl

david, to food
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Cooler temps this week so it’s time for Shepherd’s Pie!

david, to random
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I had to take the group head off the La Pavoni(1) this morning to check the seal and do a little cleaning, so I was /forced/ to make a 2nd coffee before 9am to test it.

[1] La Pavoni Europiccola espresso machine.

david, to baking
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Three more small chocolate pastieri, since i had leftover pastry and still way too much panna cotta.

david,
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@valhalla @GustavinoBevilacqua there is the English slang about licking carpet, but that's going somewhere entirely different.

david, to random
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Well that was an interesting, but ultimately fruitless investigation.
One of our librarians at work had a video file in .MOV format they could not open. I tried the usual suspects (VLC, Handbrake, ffmpeg, etc) before trying various esoteric codecs, all to no avail.
Figuring it might have needed older codecs, I fired up first the 2010 MacBook Air running 10.12.6 I had lying around.
No luck there.

Then I went for the oldest working Mac I have - a Powerbook G4, of probably 2005 vintage. Alas, it too didn't recognise the format. Finally I dug up a copy of Final Cut Express (v4), but that was another dead end.

We're left hoping the accession records might have a few more clues (of course, it's also possible the file is corrupt).

david,
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Well dear readers, we have closure on the mystery Quicktime file.

It turns out, one of our sysadmins had a copy of the original files stashed on a server in a very logical place for the last 11 years, and so we can now properly archive that and export useable file formats from it.

Be this a lesson to all hoarders, you’re doing ok.

david, to potatochipwatch
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@potatochipwatch tried both of these today.

Chipotle & Honey are interesting, now particularly spicy, hint of honey. Smokiness level is so low as to be barely discernible.

The BBQ duck does indeed taste like hoisin bbq duck.

A bag of Red Rock Deli kettle chips in the flavour of Chinese BBQ duck with hoisin sauce.

timrichards, to random
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"Despite the incidents, Fraser Coast Tourism manager Martin Simons doesn't think tourists will stay away."

Really? Doesn't make me feel like going there. 11 dingo attacks in recent months is a lot.

Nine-year-old girl bitten by dingo on K'gari (Fraser Island) in first week of school holidays - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-04/girl-9-bitten-dingo-on-kgari-fraser-island-school-holidays/103666428

david,
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@timrichards the problem is the tourists more than the dingoes really.

david, to random
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I needed a short 7mm spanner at work. We don’t have any at work and I don’t seem to have any at home, so I made one.

It’s s bit rough, but I think it’ll do the job (undoing 7mm nuts deep inside a robotic book scanner).

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