Why are you causing me PTSD flashbacks to Eng Maths classes in 1983/84/85?
😵

Taylor Series huh!, I had to look that up

Shortly after finishing my BEng I had nightmares of going to maths exams & knowing nothing when I got there.😱
Any nightmares tonight are on You!👈

You are obviously a seer, an oracle, a clairvoyant. We bow down before your mystical powers🙇

So, what are next week's lottery numbers please?, or do you only do spaceflight prophecies?🚀

NZ Maori have a saying
"He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata," translated it's "What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people".
It's the people you worked with that make you sad about going, but when the time is right, it's right💔

Disgusting arseholes, & one a woman too!
It sickens me that this mentality exists in the 21stC.
It belongs in the 19thC or before
People show their true selves in the right political climate.
I (NZer) thought the US was a modern society, the Trump GoP has brought the scum to the surface.🤢

Bugger!
The old trick for water in a petrol tank was to chuck in some meths as the meths mixes with both the water and the petrol and will burn. That was for cars though where the tank's a lot bigger and the water a small proportion of the total volume.

"& here we see the net eng building their nest. At this time they are fiercely territorial & watchful. Any attempt to make off with nesting materials is met with a swift response, snatching back stolen materials amid a torrent of abuse. It is unwise to approach too closely unless offering somthing"

Mount Taranaki Reflection - Taranaki, New Zealand.

#photography #landscape #nz #balancedsymmetry

That's bloody well done!
Very famous tree that.

A well deserved holiday I hope!
Depending where in Aussie you're going, it could be kinda cool. SYD & MEL both max 18C
It's spring so weather is highly variable.
In NZ we've had damaging wind & heavy rain this week
Tonight heavy snow warnings down South & thunderstorms up North
☀️ by Wednesday 🤞

Saw George & The Destroyers in the Wellington Old Town Hall >30 years ago, BC=Before Children.
Really LOUD but really good.

I refuse to believe that the fearsome Dr Phibes is dead, undead possibly, but not dead.

Yeah it was me!
I did it just to get at you hee hee!😉
Ah well it's the season for spring gales I suppose

Um, That's Wellington actually. It's the corner of Elizabeth St, (yes we have one too), and Kent Terrace in Wellington. It was seriously windy yesterday and will be again tomorrow. I've been asked to work from home due to winds expected to be gusting 140kmph

Black Australian/NZ mains power plug showing that another plug can be plugged into the back of this one, allowing two appliances to share one power outlet.

What do you call this then?
has both Innie & Outie
It's an Aussie/NZ mains plug usually called a Tapon, but by the M/F nomenclature should it be called Bi?

It cuts both ways though
People died in the 2011 Chch earthquake when a building designed by an "engineer" collapsed. Guy was experienced but not qualified.
I would not want to be in a building designed by a software engineer (or me, an electrical engineer)
Quals & titles sometimes Matter ☠️

Affordability of EVs is still a big hurdle.
Even in NZ, where we can get Chinese EVs, EVs are still a premium price. The (Chinese) BYD Seal EV SUV is ~$NZ60k, Nissan Xtrail (petrol) is ~$43k, that's a hell of a premium

😂
Time to go electric?

Those Ukranian drones have a very long range, must have gone WAY off course 😉

It's close to LAX but CBS says LAX is still open.
But CBS also says the refinery "produces 276,000 barrels of crude oil every day", ah no, not unless its running backwards somehow.
Media reports = 🐂💩

I love the Australian approach to naming things
NZ Maori "Pukeko"
Au "well it's about as big as a chook, & it lives in a swamp, so, Swamp hen"
See also
Brown Snake (it's a snake & it's brown),
Death Adder (It's a snake & it'll kill ya!)
etc
Good on ya mate! 😀

A light pink Magnolia blooming the foreground. In the background more blooms and other trees & bushes.

First day of Daylight Savings today, summer is coming.
Here is a magnolia bloom in our front garden, they are taking a bit of a battering from the wind and will be gone in a few days.

@artfultakedown.bsky.social
I hate to be the one to have to break it to you...

Argh, no!
My very weak OCD says NO!
The red base goes with the red column, the green base goes with the green column. How it is, that is just wrong!
😀

The early transmissions were at HF or lower frequency & bounced off the inside of the ionosphere.
Since the invention of satellites we have had uplink dishes pointed outward at satellites, sending a narrow beam out into space, like a lighthouse, sweeping around as the Earth rotates, much "brighter"

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is
Indistinguishable from magic"

Arthur C Clarke's 3rd Law
We are now seeing it in action

A wizard
(Electrical engineer)

A scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. A witch (Connie Booth) has been identified as such by weighing her aganst a duck. They weigh the same, proving she is a witch, and she confesses with the words "Its a fair cop" Connie is obscured by cloth hanging from the weighing machine

You're a witch?
Do you weigh the same as a duck?
According to Sir Bedivere in Monty Python's Holy Grail witches weigh the same as a duck.
When caught the witch (Connie Booth) confessed with those words!

Cert expiry means a stone cold stop, my favourite, especially Friday afternoon!
Databases filling up are good for slowness, or uploading a massive file over a skinny ass link because management are too cheap to pay for a decent one. Dev sez "it works OK here" You're at HQ! with a fat network pipe!

There is strong talk from France & others, but Israel has a big dumb friend (the US) that nations don't want to upset, especially with the Lunatic in the White House.
Who knows what he or his handlers will do.
Germany won't do much against Israel because of their past
I hope for Turkey to step up

Netanyhu's regime follows the Nazis like abused children grow up to be abusers
Hunger plan
Ghettos
Camps
Now its Greater Israel (Grossdeutschland)
America (not you) enables it because of "end times" looneys & the Israel lobby
NZ is on the fence, Aussie are braver, they recognised Palestine

Mt Ruapehu, highest point in the North Island, on a sunny day, in the foreground the scrubby bush of the Central Plateau. Ruapehu is an active volcano

The almost perfect cone of Mt Ngauruhoe, snow covered volcano. To the right is part of Mt Tongariro. In the foreground the scrubby bush of the Central plateau. Ngauruhoe won the Oscar for best supporting Volcano in a feature film, playing Mt Doom in The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

My wife recently went to visit her mother, over 500km away.
She takes good pictures, here are a couple she took along the way.
Here are Mt Ruapehu & Mt Ngauruhoe, volcanoes of the Central Plateau.

The office is in the US Embassy
The Embassy is US territory, (all Embassies are the territory of that country)
Countries can do as they like on their territory
Many Embassies have more or less obvious spies (3rd secretary) on staff
The FBI have no jurisdiction outside the Embassy, inside they do