The weather’s turning cold again — time to knit a new hat!
The weather’s turning cold again — time to knit a new hat!
I’ve been back from Iceland for two weeks now, but Google Translate is still in Icelandic. Any ideas on how to fix this? Other Google services appear to have reverted to English again.
Got some little bits of work done on my site today — fixed a spam archiving issue, got leaflet-based maps working again and made note locations editable. Lots more to come soon, hopefully…
Put a new set of strings on my guitar (built in 2011!) and it sounds goood. Now I just have to learn to play it, finally.
Just bought my one-way flight out of Iceland. In just under a month I say goodbye to this beautiful island for the near future. I shall be writing more soon about my experiences here, and what I’m getting up to next!
Looking through archives, I realise the real reason I stopped doing animation was after coming up with “The Spaghetti Entanglement”, I realised that nothing I ever made would be worthy of that name.
Steaming is rapidly becoming my favourite way of cooking things.
My friend @ceciliakovacs24 had her life wrecked by domestic abuse from a criminal, and has now been failed by the police and legal system. Join me in helping her get her life together again: gofundme.com/qrs52s
Self esteem tip: rather than searching the web for “how to [do xyz basic life skill you really should know by now]”, search for “optimal [xyz basic life skill] technique”.
Making ice cream for the first time, dim sum dumplings for the second time and fried milk for the third time this evening
Availability is more valuable than time. As such it should be respected more, and dealt out/guarded more carefully.
Moderately productive Sunday — set up bitcoin, dogecoin (mined 9 DOGE!), tor and GPG, made best pizza so far and repaired headphones.
Rediscovered my lost Icelandic phone whilst packing. It doesn’t seem to be charging or turning on correctly. Mixed feelings about this, at least the SIM is still working.
Are any of my USA friends #mentalist fans? I’m not going to be able to see S6E8 until tomorrow evening, wanting to figure out if I need to avoid twitter in case of spoilers until then :)
For someone who doesn’t own a TV, I am unduly excited about next weekend. SO MUCH HYPE.
OH “That is our IT department and this is our creative department” #doingitwrong
Finally figured out how to persuade my oven to get hot enough to bake decent pizza — needs 10mins in fan+broiler mode, then fan oven at top temp until heated sufficiently.
Discovery: my enjoyment of running is directly proportional to the amount of thought which has to go into where to put my feet next.
“How do we switch it off?”
“Just press en…” BEEP BEEP BEEP
Thus concludeth John Walters’s first Facetime call. Give him a big hand, everyone!
Packing for return to Reykjavik tomorrow I realise I’ve doubled my sock count. I believe that constitutes a good trip.