Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Finally, Instagram will allow you to download an archive of your account. We’ll have to wait to see how useful it is (ex: can you easily find the caption from a photo, or do you have to search a giant HTML file with everything in it?)
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/17226186/instagram-download-data-facebook
Brush fire reported at the marsh preserve where I took the last photo I posted here. It’s not a very big preserve – basically a large city block, in the middle of suburbia. (There’s literally a Target across the street.)
Here’s hoping they manage to stomp it down quickly, before it does too much damage.
Got a follow-up alert that the fire’s been put out. The word “small” was included, which is a good sign. Next time I hike there, I’ll have to ask about it.
The problem with “move fast and break things” is that you’re likely to break things without regard for how important they are, or how hard it might be to fix or replace them.
@noelle Further complicated by the “so-and-so liked…” notices in the news feed on FB/birdsite making them a low-key boost as well, making the waters even muddier.
@bridgebury I have a few books that I return to over & over. ATM I can only think of Les Mis (since I’m reading it now) & the Earthsea series, but there are a few others. I’m amazed at all the stuff I missed or forgot in Les Mis, especially since I blogged the entire previous read through 5 years ago.
One of many things that gets lost in adaptation is the extended courtship between Marius & Cosette (usually condensed to love at first sight). They pass each other in the park on a daily basis w/o paying much attention to each other, until she hits puberty & they start stealing glances at each other, trying to keep Valjean from noticing. She’s a lot better at that part than he is, though, which gets funny at times.
It does get creepy later on when Marius starts, well, creeping around her garden at night.
But at this point, it’s funny watching Marius hide behind trees so he & Cosette can make eyes at each other w/o Valjean seeing, make a fool over himself with the handkerchief he thinks she dropped (it was actually Valjean’s, so she can’t understand why he’s so fascinated by it), etc.
And when Valjean gets suspicious, and sets traps? Marius blunders into every single one.
TODO: Check to see how much it retreads Stealth Courtship and Rue Plumet from the first read-through, and overlap with the Twitter version.
Some sort of flowering scrub brush in the dry part of Madrona Marsh preserve. Some parts of the preserve have ponds year-round, some collect rain in winter and spring, and some are always dry land with grass or chaparral.
Marius’ grandfather, after reading the morning news, rants about kids these days, their sloppy dressing, entitlement, disrespect for political systems that were good enough back in his day, disparages their masculinity, makes racist comparisons, & declares all news media a scourge.
It’s presented as ridiculous. And it is.
But it’s also depressing in how familiar it is. >150 years later, it’s exactly what you’d expect from an old man shouting at the news today. #lesmiserables
On a similar note, my wife spotted someone dressed as a cosplay mashup of Tamatoa with Ziggy Stardust at WonderCon last week: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/41140053401/
I’ve been using the same headshot across multiple social sites for ages. Now that I’m juggling multiple Mastodon accounts, it’s gotten confusing, so now I’m going for themed avatars.
It got even more confusing since I signed up with the same username across all of them!
@unwary No worries – I think my run-on sentences will outweigh any extra sentence fragments… 😃
@Nezchan The worst part of it is that they almost can’t do the small stakes stories anymore because they won’t be seen as “important,” so everything has to be a world-ending threat — and then where do you go from there. Save the solar system? Galaxy? Universe? Oops, better reboot….
@unwary That got a lot bleaker than I was expecting… 😲
But yeah, it really is about finding your own…I don’t want to say meaning, but goal works — for what the game’s appeal is to you. I get bored in creative mode and would rather explore a survival world, but my son is all about building things and experimenting in creative. Which works out great except when we try to do multiplayer…
Caught up on some Marvel/DC #comics this week:
#JessicaJones got a nice send-off. Need to find time to watch season 2 of the show, looking forward to the comic returning after break.
#TheFlash still feels like they’re shaking things up every few issues just to shake things up, but it’s beginning to look like they might be going somewhere with it.
Dropping Titans. It had potential, but the team depends on character dynamics, and they’ve run those into the ground.
Flashback to last summer: a red panda (sometimes called a fire fox) at the San Diego Zoo. I made a point to look for them and the penguins on that trip. For reasons. 😉
#photography #photos #redpanda #firefox
Sadly I didn’t get to see them doing much. There were several in the enclosure, maybe three or four, but the rest were either hiding in the tree or sleeping. This one was just sort of perched up there, looking around.
@Einahpets Yeah, it’s an impressive exploration of the many consequences of the tech & how people would use it. Both the threeps and the Agora, which I find myself seeing as a counterpoint to the Oasis.
I’m going to have to get out to the Festival of Books one of these days – I keep meaning to, but haven’t quite managed yet!
@salmon_cannon Thank you on both counts!
And yeah, I’ve been really impressed with the Pixel 2 camera. Not just the daylight photos, but it does surprisingly well with night shots too. And it’s fast enough that the burst & motion modes don’t seem to sacrifice much.
I keep meaning to look for an alternate camera app that will let me do long exposures.
@kemonine I remember doing a bunch of experimenting when the camera was new & settled on some best-for-most-cases settings. White balance is only available in some modes – it usually does a decent job on that, but I think it must have just detected the wrong type of light in this case.
Thanks for the tip on turning digital zoom off completely. I don’t use it very much, but figured it wouldn’t hurt to have available for when I do. Maybe it is?
I guess I should do a new round of experiments with this camera & see what I can convince it to do!
Yeah, I rarely have reason to use the digital zoom with that lens!
I used to figure if I needed to zoom past what the optics can do, I’d just crop it smaller. In most cases it’s still better than screen resolution anyway. But I’ve found that digital zoom has one advantage over cropping after the fact: the camera bases any automatic settings like exposure on the actual image you intend to take, not the wider view.
But yeah, might as well turn it off the rest of the time.
Interesting article on ways Los Angeles can source more of its water locally in the future.
Stormwater capture is a big one. In the early 20th century, the area built a flood control system to deal with the massive deluges that hit every decade or so, but during off years (and especially during drought years) it only serves to flush water out to sea that we’d be better off using to replenish reservoirs or ground water.
How Los Angeles Could Source its Water Locally
A new report challenges the city to think bigger about its plans to source more water locally.
note: combine with third 1000-year-storm when importing.
Spotted on Birdsite: Rey cosplayers recreate snapping scene
All the Reys snapping 😍 #WonderCon #ReysForDays
— Keri Bean (@PlanetaryKeri) March 25, 2018
