Good sirs, if you are going to have the balls to charge 25 dollars for a Calabrese salad then, for the love of god, the tomatoes better not be CRUNCHY. And the cheap arse everyday toms from the supermarket. 😡 It’s only three ingredients FFS.
This is what I get for thinking I am going to have a little early treat because I have been disciplined this year so far. Back to home cooked.
The view from client office
That’s a view and a half.
Weird story. Went to St. patricks cathedral with an ex and her aunt (who was a devout catholic). She was bangin’ on about how god was everywhere ‘like the internet’. ‘In walls, in the air’. A few hours earlier she asked me to set up her wifi / chuck in the router password on her phone to use ex’s internet at ex’s home… so I asked her if god forgets his password too.
Didn’t go down too well.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Absolute gold!
I went to St Patrick’s in November, visiting from Adelaide. An amazing building, very beautiful interior
Are they hiring
If they were id be working here lol
FINALLY!
My car is back from the mechanics who was doing the roadworthy check.
It’s officially legal to drive lol
what did it need in the end?
New windscreen and an engine bracket needed to be changed.
New windscreen is always nice anyway. It’s like new sunnies for your car.
trying out the new telephoney up close on chillo:
I’m actually impressed.
That’s a nice picture.
Okay I’m going to officeworks. What pens do you want?
Edit: ok I’m back from the shop. I have pastel highlighters, 72 pack of Derwents, erasable ink pens some with double eraser, 4 colour pens enough for everyone, a Windsor and Newton purple, fancy green fountain pen, pack of pilot pens, and an mega multicolour pen. Also box of Bics because they are an icon, and everyone gets a multi pack of coloured post-its because they were near the cashier and who can resist them.
Is there any other choice?
I always wanted Derwents in a big wooden box!
Faber Castell all the way for me.
One of those old pens where you can pick from like a bajillion colours
Edit: this one will do for now
Erasable ink pens?
Pastel highlighter and colour pencils please
That is an excellent haul 👌🏻
Lamy green fountain pen ink?
The erasable pens please. Make sure the eraser is on both ends please.
Have recently discovered Pilot Juice pens and I looooove them!
A bottle of purple Windsor & Newton please
Happy Lunar New Year 🧧
It’s the year of the ssssnake 🐍
ooh that’s me! I’m a snek 🐍
Me too! It’s gonna be a lucky year for us! 🐍
Um, you might want to check out question 9 of this quiz.
O-oh. Luckily I was born with the initials RED.
Nice. Luck I wear a lot of red!
Might try and plan a last minute long weekend in Antarctica.
I tried to get a gig there. Alas, they did not need my skills.😕
4 days straight of air-conditioning 💸
I’m suddenly working from home Monday and Tuesday.
Don’t forget your permit.
Good night everyone, love you all, sweet dreams 😘
I’m growing some orchids from cuttings and some mushies grew from the orchid mix , cute
Eat em and see what happens 👀
You first…
uuum, no
phone up and running. Oppo A18. Pretty painless. Not bad for $180.
First piccy:
Nothing to write home about but it works.
I adore that sundial
The garden looks like it’s starting to settle in. 🌞
I think it’ll be ok :) a few losses but most seem to be making it out alive.
do they still have that god awful over the top UI with all the colours? or have they finally toned that down a bit?
It seems pretty toned down. I was expecting far worse heh. Keeps on automatically installing shit though. Deleted candy crush 4 times now lol :(
I get the whole pokemon thing now.
I’ve watched a handful of episodes. Can definitely see how it became so popular.
Season 1 episode 17: The Pokemon are stranded on an island and they all talk to each other lol
I’m running a local version of the new Deepseek “Ai” and I’m really fucking impressed.
This is a bigger deal than I thought.
What makes it good?
It’s free and open source mainly.
Is it actually deepseek or something else?
It’s actual deepseek. Well, a part of it anyway.
Got something interesting for you to look at. I saw it on the news yesterday I think.
Warning:
This might be a little sensitive to some people.
That doesn’t surprise me. Mind you, a few billion dollars were wiped off the share market in the last 2 days so I’m not surprised there’s pushback against this.
Don’t get me wrong, the censorship is fucking awful. But I’d still rather use this than chatgpt because I have complete control over the info I enter into it.
I’m fairly certain you can tweak locally run models to remove the censorship, not that I’d know how. It’s the models running on servers in China (like from the App) which have to follow Chinese laws around this censorship.
Bingo. That’s what I’m working on now. Plus I get to mess around with the ins and outs of the model. Which I’ve never done before.
It’s exciting!
I haven’t played around with these AI chat much or read into them though the censorship does concern me wondering if there’s any misleading information.
I only have access to Gemini because of my work account and only played around with it with nonsense stuff.
What caused the billion dollar wipeout of the market? I haven’t been keeping up too much on it.
That’s cool! The fact they’ve released it open source, you can run it locally, and see what/how it’s thinking has made it much more interesting I think than any of the other models. I’ve avoided using any generative AI for a lot of different reasons, but this one I might play with…
I love that it shows you how it thinks. It’s so fascinating.
And I’m the same about generative ai. Have used it for work stuff but just text.
New phone probably arriving today. As a kid would’ve been excited but not these days so got an el’ cheapo crappy one (oppo something or rather).
Old iphone refuses to charge I think because of bringing into the ocean so many times and the charging port has corroded lol. Worth it though. Had to be replaced anyway but I’m glad it kicked the bucket doing what it loved.
I know that you mean. The excitement has pretty much evaporated for me as well.
this is the leading argument in my mind to jump ship every so often. Samsung to iphone? Huge. Samsung to Samsung or iphone to iphone? meh. Running my poor 13 into the ground till theres something worth upgrading, like the 120hz display on the new pros.
love new phone days! But yeah a cheap oppo is probably a bit hard to get excited about. Wont you not have a backup if your moving to a non-iphone?
Yea the backup is gonna be an issue. Don’t mind a clean slate though, sort of liberating.
except the photos and contacts, sure. i’ve got my photos tripled backed up.
30-60 minutes with a new phone, and it looks identical to my old phone. If I took a screenshot of my phone from 10 years ago, it’d be close enough to my present phone as to be indistinguishable.
Where they differ is the quality of the photos I take. I still took my DSLR around most of the time 10 years ago. I rarely bother these days. It still takes better photos, but the difference is not worth the effort unless I’m specifically going some place to take photos.
Yay, I have clearance to “piss off” early today. Just have to make a site visit quickly, spend a little time there and go home from there.
Should be home before 2:30 today.
Just in time for the cricket and a late lunch!
I made a bowl of jelly again.
Wonder if I should save it for the warmer weekend coming up.
Also got no idea how to start and finish this penatonne I was given a few weeks ago.
have the panetone for breakfast
🤔
put a big slice in a panini press
You need to douse the panetone in custard so it’s unrecognisable then it’s edible.
Sprinkle it with a liqueur and add jelly and custard for a trifle?
Make a tiramisu of it. One of my bosses makes tiramisu out of panettone and it’s delectable.
Panettone is a sweetened bread - very like brioche, but it takes much much longer to go stale. Soak a 3 cm thick slice of panettone in milk, or a mix of 1 beaten egg and milk, let it sit for half an hour to absorb the liquid. Then fry in butter until golden brown. Enjoy with jam and icecream on top or even bacon & egg. Or cut a 2 cm thick slice and just have it plain with coffee. Maybe a bit of butter on top if you are feeling fancy. Or just toast slices for breakfast. All this applies to the ‘normal’ panettone with fruit in it. If you’ve been given the chocolate sauced sort or the lemon sauced sort - then just cut slices and eat with coffee or a glass of something. I prefer the ordinary sort as more flexible. Intended (and ideal) for providing a quick snackette when unexpected guests come over - just cut up and put on a plate.
The one I have is chocolate chip.
Lemon sauce or something like that sounds fantastic and might go well to offset the sweetness.
Some things should NEVER have chocolate chips inflicted upon them. HCBs and panettone are top of my list here. The lemon sauced ones are so damn sweet as to be inedible imo. Just lop off the top dome horizontally and eat as toast, then pull off the giant paper muffin wrap bit by bit as you eat the remainder.
True but I look on the bright side its dark chocolate so that’s a plus but it was a gift so I had no choice.
I will make do!
Having it slightly warm sounds really nice though.
You got the best one but still drown that thing in custard.
I will think about it. No rush to dig into it yet.
Trust me ya gonna need custard or cream.
It’s deceiving. It looks like it has a lot of flavour but it doesn’t. 😔
Puffy cream appeals to me!
It’s not a thing I usually eat so I have none of that stuff.
Hahaha. Puffy cream.
If you like stale bread you’ll be fine but I’ll tell ya it’s as dry as a teetotaller’s weekend holiday. Personally I’d make a trifle out of it but a small carton of custard should do it.
