Does anybody have recommendations for reasonably priced (< 200$) desk speakers with stands? Ideally active ones with two inputs (Macbook and Mac Studio). Mainly used to listen to podcasts and sometimes also music.
⤑ Celine Dion Challenge - All By Myself (Original Key).
I found a new artist. Hammer voice and cover.
Bark
That is a good episode: cooking and linguistics in one video. Count me in. And the food also looks fantastic.
Our fire is nearly ready to cook our dinner. But it is still a bit early.
Our home for the next few days.
The new normal when driving.
I just started reading Waiting for the Sun: Waiting for the Sun, Part One by Robin Hill.📚
I cooked dinner last night and was especially happy with the result. Ebbly with vegetables and ground meat.
⤑ It Must Have Been Love - Roxette (‘60s “Wall of Sound” style cover) feat. Effie Passero.
Effie Passero is an amazing singer and I love this song (the original as well as this cover).
This probably contributed to some people commenting that it looks likes The Luggage from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. (But I promise this similarity is purely coincidental and that a Carpentopod table is far less dangerous.)
The luggage was the first thought upon seeing the table as well :-)
We had a an action rich morning today. I mixed up the dates for when the handyman comes to install something and it was today. And we needed to remove all our furniture in a hurry Oo.
It is nice to feel alive (a normal again) after three weeks of having no energy. Still not idea what it was that exhausted my so much (I suspect too much work).
Spacy relaxing on a chair.
I just finished reading The Writer’s Study Guide: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by Savannah Gilbo.📚
I joined my teammates at the conference booth yesterday. Wow, was this exhausting. It is cool that we had so much traffic but it takes a lot of energy talking so much. I’m glad I had the opportunity to see this part of our business as well.
⤑ DIY Expanding Table Redesigned - Can Your Table Do This?.
I love the look and function of this table. There is so much going on mechanically when it transforms.
Such a beautiful song and powerful delivery of it.
⤑ “Listen” from Broadway Backwards 2024 featuring Jordan Fisher and John McGinty.
What can we do for the discover timeline on Micro.blog? One of the biggest issues I had with it was that it was not updated on the weekends and not when I was awake. But now it is not updated at all. I wonder if a system with voting could work in timezone groups.
The movie starts slow, but I think it is worth it. At times it reminded me of a vampire film minus the (sparkling) vampires.
Adopted together after a tough childhood in an orphanage, Nica and Rigel realize that unexpected but irresistible feelings pull them together.
The frog king and his minions.
I really liked these tips. It is nothing new but it is good to read about them again in one place.
Our toilets got a makeover this week. The whole mechanism for the water release from the tank was exchanged, and the water path was descaled by removing the bowl from the wall. We should have let this be done earlier. It is so nice to have toilets again that actually flush. And after more than 20 years of no maintenance, it was high time for it.
I might watch this movie for the sake of good old times.
TIL: You can play Hockey under water.
⤑ It’s Hockey, But Underwater (via Manuel Moreale: P&B: Ploum).
Another Fail with coding with ChatGTP
Here is another example of using ChatGTP for a simple problem, and it returns compiling code that is totally wrong. I needed to get all the neighbors in a spiral pattern from a given starting point. I initially forgot to specify that it needed to be a spiral and that I wanted the code in Swift (the first time it generated Python, which I have omitted1). I have a grid with a given amount of columns and rows.But you don’t need to wait long for another bad episode. Every time they get an external helping person they are the ones who did it in the end.
The investigation of a famous dead astronaut found in Battery Park has hit a dead end, causing Stabler to ask for assistance from his old mentor, Dick Finley, a former colleague of the victim and an astronaut himself.
⤑ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 10 Episode 4 (Lunacy).
Ok, I needed to watch many episodes of this series but every now and then they managed to make a good episode. I liked the story and the acting of the daughter and grandmother.
Stabler is shocked when his daughter, Kathleen, becomes the suspect in an investigation to catch a trespasser. He seeks his estranged mother's help in dealing with his daughter's case.
⤑ Law And Order Special Victims Season 10 Episode 3 (Swing).
How to make a classroom escape room using Google Forms step-by-step guide. Create your own digital escape room with this easy to follow guide!
⤑ How to Make an Escape Room on Google Forms - Teach with Holly Rachel (via Tom Scott (newsletter from 2024/08/12)).
I’m with Tom here I love when users find creative ways to (an)use a tool.