whereistanya

whereistanya, 7 months ago to brooklyn

Not actually ideal.

#flooding #brooklyn

whereistanya, 11 months ago to random

I need to do the things but I do not want to do the things. Please advise.

whereistanya, 8 months ago to random

If you sent me a mail and I didn't reply to it it's because my email backlog is currently so long that I'm considering faking my own death to escape it.

whereistanya, 3 months ago to random

Doing tech support for a family friend.

Login to icloud on your iphone with an appleid which is a gmail address and then into your windows account on your laptop and that's also a gmail address but ofc with a different password, and Chrome on your iPhone and Chrome on your laptop talk to each other in ways you don't expect, but anyway your iPhone opens Safari half the time and Windows will convince you to use Edge if it kills you both so good luck finding where you opened gmail GODSPEED.

whereistanya, 11 months ago to Birding

Hey, I'll be in London for #StaffPlus next week. Where should I go #birding?

Is Hampstead Heath a good choice? Is there somewhere nearer the Barbican that's just as good?

whereistanya, 9 months ago to random

Somehow we have two unrelated plumbing situations at the same time. Why even are houses?

whereistanya, 8 months ago to random

Some kind of Darmock and Jalad at Tanagra thing where you respond to messages with just the chatgpt prompt you would have used to write the response 🤔

whereistanya, 11 months ago to random

Debugging a thing for hours and I finally found someone who had written about it, the one single site on the internet that even slightly referred to the thing I was trying to do. It's a blog post from 2020 on a site absolutely festooned with ads, with a hundred comments underneath, all spam, and also the blog post is in Chinese. But goddamn I ran it through Google translate and it legit solved my problem. This future!

whereistanya, 1 month ago to random

My new #1 requirement for devices and appliances and machines and robots of every kind is “does not beep at me.”

whereistanya, 7 months ago to random

I'm trying out pixelfed for birding pictures. Does anyone else use it? It's another fediverse app, but sort of instagram-shaped instead of twitter-shaped.

I was trying to understand how people use it and how it's different from mastodon. The best comment I've found is that mastodon is a stream that's intended to just be of the moment (esp if you don't enable search) and pixelfed is more like you're building a photo album over time. Is that how other people think of it?

whereistanya, 11 months ago to random

me: I've spent A WHOLE HOUR trying to share this Nest camera
me: they moved the sharing functionality to Google Home–which only has a mobile app, not really a website
me: ahaha and it keeps telling me about something called "Works with Google" when it CLEARLY FUCKING DOES NOT
me: oh my god this UI is so hostile
me: Why would anyone make their customers trade the Nest app for this mess?

Ms 10: they had to make it worse so they could add a chat app to it
Ms 10: NESTCHAT! Coming soon!

Hahahaha

whereistanya, 9 months ago to random

I'm ready for a search engine that only indexes pages that were written by humans.

whereistanya, 8 months ago to random

I'm fascinated by the phenomenon where someone is pushing to add a formal process for something because they don't want to talk to the one person who's doing the thing wrong. Signing the whole industry up for a conflict management course.

whereistanya, 4 months ago to random

Is there an easy way to buy ebooks from local bookshops these days? I'm confused by how there's no obvious libro.fm or bookshop.org for ebooks.

Searching around I keep finding references to kobo having partnerships with indie bookshops, but it seems like that program has ended?

whereistanya, 3 months ago to random

Ms 11 invented a game where she and I insult each other using #bird names. "Go do your homework, you meadow pipit!" "I already finished it, you red winged blackbird!" "Hey, American wigeon, dinner's on the table" "Listen up, you scarlet tanager, you kinglet, you roseate spoonbill!" And so on. It's the best.

Today I caught her doing research on ebird.org 😂

whereistanya, 1 year ago to random

Swallows move fast and before today my photos of them were all blueish blurs. But I finally caught one!

I absolutely love the forked tail being only visible in the reflection. Something about that makes me unreasonably happy.

#birding

whereistanya, 2 months ago to random

Deep in the talk-writing stages of agony and despair. Why can’t I just be effortlessly smart and insightful? 😭

whereistanya, 3 months ago to unexpected

Ms 11 knows that the first thing I do every morning is make coffee and she set this up to make me laugh. It worked 😂

(Our friend here is called Slof but it also responds to Sloof.)

#unexpected #sloth #encounter

whereistanya, 8 months ago to random

A roadrunner just walked through my garden. It looked over and it was like "hey" and I was like "hey" and it went back to its walk and I went back to my meeting. Also a Cooper's hawk keeps sitting up on the trees behind the wall and screaming at things. And there are huge blue dragonflies and huge yellow butterflies and tiny green-brown lizards.

#NewMexico is delivering so far. I like it here.

whereistanya, 3 months ago to random

Duolingo is amazing to me. I'm sure real classes are more effective, but they take time I would never spend. Being able to do a few lessons on my phone every day doesn't feel like it should work, but it builds up.

I got to section 5 of the Spanish course a few weeks ago and wondered if I could read familiar books yet. So I got El Café de las Leyendas, the translation of Legends and Lattes. It works! Slow and I have to look up a lot of words, but it feels really neat to get to this milestone.

whereistanya, 2 months ago to random

An old post from @lethain, but I hadn't seen it before. This post is a rollercoaster 🤩

https://lethain.com/digg-v4/

whereistanya, 2 months ago to random

I link to this paragraph by Eva Parish at least once a week.

"One of the best writing tips I've ever gotten was to avoid using demonstrative pronouns. Instead of saying “this” or “that,” you should add a noun to spell out exactly what you’re referring to, even if you’ve just mentioned it. "

https://evaparish.com/blog/how-i-edit#repeat

whereistanya, 3 months ago to random

Waiting for a phone call, which means I'm answering unknown numbers. It's horrible.

• "hello, this is a charity you gave money to a few years ago and... " "no thank you"

• "this is your electricity company with tips about how to save m..." "no thank you"

• "hey, I'm calling with a special offer..." "no thank you"

• we're calling to confirm your kid's dentist appointment... "no th... I mean, yeah, that's fine"

Turning off the ringer again.

whereistanya, 1 month ago to random

I've learned that you can get through a lot of phone trees by just saying "Human. Human. Human. HUMAN. HUMAN." until the robot gives up and connects you. It's still not reliable but I have a higher hit rate than trying six different paths through the tree, all of which get to dead ends.

I fucking hate robot answering trees.

whereistanya, 26 days ago to random

Last day of our month of dog sitting. A smarter person would have waited until tomorrow to start digging a strawberry garden but it was a beautiful evening and I am not that kind of smarter person. Oh my god, the happiest muddiest pup.

I had to put her in the shower afterwards, which wasn’t the most fun for any of us, but she had such a good time that it was almost worth it. 😁