[Smile] What's something small that really makes you smile?

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#2889865 22-Mar-2022 08:19

3 open source mycroft voice assistant units (h/w compatible to Google AIY Voice v1 with reused Raspberry Pi3+) successfully integrated into Home Assistant today. The magic mirror is next.

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#2890039 22-Mar-2022 13:35

Handle9: Miss 10 cleaned up in her netball prize giving. She got player of the year for her club team and won player of the year in the overall competition prize giving. She can battle for recognition at times so this was really nice.

I used to strive to avoid that sort of recognition (and still do) because I find it excruciatingly difficult being singled out in public like that. I even went as far as not attending events in case it happened!

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#2890319 22-Mar-2022 20:34

Starting today: Teslas made in Germany. Much easier to prevent complaints about MICs.

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#2890335 22-Mar-2022 21:44

Have just stumbled across Taboo on Netflix. IMO it’s a brilliant 2017 series that, when I search back in GZ, I see has been favourably commented upon at times in the TV Series thread.

It has a starry cast headed by Tom Hardy and including Oona Chaplin - the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin. The thing that makes me smile is how strongly some genes work down the generations. Oona was about 30 when the series was made and she is the spitting image of Charlie at the same age when he was reaching stardom 100 years earlier around 1920. The resemblance is staggering.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3647998/

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#2890533 23-Mar-2022 11:41

The Tip Shop in our area requiring a vaccine pass when it’s mostly outside except for a draughty bit in the middle.

To enforce this ruling there was a man placed at an official desk at the gate with sanitiser and a clipboard...which everyone walked past and ignored as he kept eyes on his phone. I got the feeling he wasn’t interested in the flak he would likely receive.

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#2890538 23-Mar-2022 11:44

eracode:

Have just stumbled across Taboo on Netflix. IMO it’s a brilliant 2017 series that, when I search back in GZ, I see has been favourably commented upon at times in the TV Series thread.

It has a starry cast headed by Tom Hardy and including Oona Chaplin - the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin. The thing that makes me smile is how strongly some genes work down the generations. Oona was about 30 when the series was made and she is the spitting image of Charlie at the same age when he was reaching stardom 100 years earlier around 1920. The resemblance is staggering.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3647998/

Heh, it turned up last night as my primary recommendation. I think Netflix might be tracking me.

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#2891273 24-Mar-2022 11:10

Eating my first home grown Feijoa of the season.

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#2891279 24-Mar-2022 11:16

msukiwi:

Eating my first home grown Feijoa of the season.

God, I love Feijoas.

Sadly my wife can't stand them and the smell of them in the house even is beyond her. It's a constant struggle :)

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#2891674 24-Mar-2022 20:45

msukiwi:

Eating my first home grown Feijoa of the season.

I did that today too! Except I don't really like them, but felt obliged. Mostly I just let them fall to the ground and rot. :D

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#2891737 24-Mar-2022 21:36

bazzer:

msukiwi:

Eating my first home grown Feijoa of the season.

I did that today too! Except I don't really like them, but felt obliged. Mostly I just let them fall to the ground and rot. :D

Same here today. This year's crop looks to be pretty sparse though. Shame that covid means I could barely taste them...

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#2893303 28-Mar-2022 23:29

Mother Neb asked whether I could come up and help glue a terracotta pot that had fallen over and cracked. She was going to use superglue but I wasn't optimistic about cyanoacrylate doing a terribly good job on porous ceramic, unless it was maybe a small chip somewhere. My guess was exterior construction adhesive would be the best bet.

So when I get there I find this:

And those were just the larger parts.

Kintsugi perhaps?

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#2893308 28-Mar-2022 23:58

Check the price of a replacement 1st, it could be less than the cost of adhesive.

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#2893313 29-Mar-2022 00:22

Bung: Check the price of a replacement 1st, it could be less than the cost of adhesive.

I wouldn't put much faith in any attempt to repair that, without internal bracing I can't imagine any adhesive would hold it together long or well. The style is known as a long tom pot but it's quite large and not easy to find in that size, so we'll replace it with a blue glazed one we've got back home.

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#2893320 29-Mar-2022 05:44

I have seen houses for sale where people have a cheap pot like that outside with it being held together with wire around it to pull it together. If they are so cheap that they fix a $8 plant pot like that, how bad is all the other work on the house you have to think.

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#2893507 29-Mar-2022 14:06

I was just behind a couple of polite kids in line at the dairy. The dairy owner gave them a 25% discount because they didn't have enough money between them.

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