Posts by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
(DIR) Post #ASHWe7UtEVWjeWvSjo by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
2023-02-02T21:37:24Z
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@lowqualityfacts my father, a dairy farmer, brought our milk in time for breakfast after he'd milked all the cows. That was good milk too. Years later, when I moved to town it was delivered and tasted watered down. Supermarket milk still does, except in the last year or so some brands are doing it right.
(DIR) Post #AT27XfoC21kFkBn9BA by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
2023-02-25T09:07:31Z
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@brewster a few years back I followed a feed of his cartoons and enjoyed them. But after a couple of 'global warming doesn't exist' ones I turned off the feed. I gather he has got worse.
(DIR) Post #AagORPWvBLjEo3NcTg by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
2023-10-12T04:30:06Z
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@vik @nickofnz maybe not such a big issue, if they mean city centre. I'm rural Auckland and I can drive to a car park in Warkworth and catch a bus (okay 2 buses) that get me right into Auckland CBD. It takes a while but I'm a long way out. I can make it faster if I drive to Silverdale and catch just 1 bus. Public transport isn't this good everywhere, especially out west Auckland. But it could be.
(DIR) Post #AiHNrLJ2s7xK01OUmO by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
2024-05-26T09:39:42Z
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@vik built my own using an ESP32 and a JSN-SR04T ultrasonic thingy. Works well.
(DIR) Post #AiHlFyXewapFaAwcim by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
2024-05-26T14:13:56Z
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@vik yes, I run mine at 5V. The signal to the ESP32 did not need a level shift. My ESP32 is on a dev board with a USB port so that’s how I power it. I take power for the ultrasonic off the 5V pins on the board.
(DIR) Post #Amm0T3ASJi3NtO0p5U by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
2024-10-07T19:49:34Z
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@zebratale @stephen agreed! Now do private schools...
(DIR) Post #AncLnSecvVWDI0BX7Y by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
2024-11-02T01:58:08Z
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@strypey this will lead to a kind of generation of badly built houses, as with the leaky buildings. There will be a set of years eg 2025-2028 and if you're buying a house you skip those ones unless they're really, really cheap, and expect to spend lots fixing them.
(DIR) Post #Aqtujq72BE1iS710N6 by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
2025-02-08T06:11:01Z
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@strypey there are places in the world where fluoride occurs naturally & (surprise) everyone growing up there has awesome teeth.
(DIR) Post #ArZY9GFLDrEvhL1ziy by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
2025-02-28T09:01:01Z
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@strypey we just flew from Christchurch to Auckland, on landing there was an announcement for people making a connecting flight to... Blenheim. So it seems that's what people do. As Mrs remarked: if only there was a train.
(DIR) Post #AtKUqUHTBjOcGZsXUu by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
2025-04-21T22:27:56Z
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@strypey "unsilenced" Yes, they never shut up.
(DIR) Post #AtTOOliHvjAOvDSg2C by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
2025-04-26T05:28:12Z
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@futurebird here in Aotearoa New Zealand we've been voting for "Bird of the Year" for a while now. It's a fun way to promote awareness for our native birds. Recently they added a new thing: "Bug of the year"https://bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/
(DIR) Post #AtlYszBXQBcTzsf25A by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
2025-05-04T03:02:29Z
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@Daojoan while I rejoice in these victories I would be happier if they were a bit more resounding. The Australians did very well, a lot of Canadians voted for the other guy. There's work to be done there. Germany is more a "could have been worse" situation. Meanwhile, here in New Zealand, we're stuck with our right-wing government until next year when, please God, we kick them out.
(DIR) Post #AvT5BU65Srqn8ixhPU by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
2025-06-23T22:17:08Z
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We think we have a small tragedy here. There's a female putangitangi (paradise shell duck) standing alone on our grapevine post. She's been there since early morning calling. They always have a mate nearby, but there's no sign of him.She sounds pretty sad.
(DIR) Post #AvT5BVOYdgDfAIbxq4 by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
2025-06-24T21:05:13Z
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She's back again this morning. Still calling but a bit less vocal. She flew off mid morning yesterday.
(DIR) Post #AxkbPhPhIbIg17aPj6 by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
2025-09-01T04:12:34Z
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@lightweight @va2lam @pezmico we would have to send it somewhere like France to be processed in their breeder reactors. Two problems with that: it's too dangerous to ship that far and they probably don't want ig or can't actually process it. Most reactors seem to have a lot of hot waste in tanks right next to them. Fukushima had those. Bad idea.
(DIR) Post #B1qysbRlb57l0N86tc by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
2026-01-01T21:32:09Z
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@futurebird just an aside about the earliest 'dating app' I've seen. Late 70s, pre internet, but we did have a corporate link between branch offices around our small country. This allowed a chat app. It was in the days of terminals that had no screens, they had dot matrix printers and lineflo paper. One of the lads based at head office in the south of the country began finding excuses to travel to a particular branch office because he'd had some encouraging chats with a lady there. Not the same as today, but the idea of meeting/matching online goes back a long way.
(DIR) Post #B1vMvjM9oy7Lw9N0JE by rogerparkinson@mastodon.nz
2026-01-03T23:48:10Z
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@drgeraint @ScottishGreens free has the added advantage that you don't have to work out ticket transfer mechanisms. If you have a mix of bus, rail and ferry the challenge is to enable one ticket that covers a journey that might involve all three. It's a nightmare...except if all the services are free the problem vanishes cos no ticket required. Yay!