9am, auspost "your parcel will be delivered today"
narrators voice, "no, the parcel will not be delivered today"
5.30pm, @ajft returns from the post office, where yet again a parcel has been left with the information that we live at "no such address"
If you're in Naarm (or planning to be near us in the next few weeks) you could do worse than to go along to https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/handmade/ at the State Library of Victoria - it features (among other works) a printed (with a knitting machine) view of our galaxy (the process was unveilled at Linuxconf this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch)?v=c9O09IO1xl0 )
randomly follows another person purely on the basis that they had a tandy #coco so cannot be all bad. #retrocomputing
The joys of automated classification, youtube decides that all of Cornell Uni's youtube channel is bad content and deletes the entire channel
acab cycling melbourne
Had to happen eventually, lights go green, driver behind me plants the foot, BANG, smack into my hand and drives off. Off to local police station where they refuse to take a report as "no injury, & no damage to the bike". As for 1m the legal minimum passing distance, apparently that only matters if witnessed by a police officer
FARK
At least i've only got a sore hand
Prompted by her recent death I read the only Dervla Murphy book we own. Great insight into what helped Dervla become the person she was, even if much of her early life seems to be very grim when looked at from a late C20/early C21 perspective
(comment on "Wheels Within Wheels")
Shark tanks and mysteries of the deep: More than 160,000 fish are kept in Australia's scientific 'fish library' - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-03/csiro-fish-library-hobart/101106430
request for hardware heglp/finding a part for sale
trying to find some specific screws for my wheelchair, and the best price I’ve found is like, $80 plus an unknown shipping fee. I unsurprisingly rely on my wheelchair for mobility and I can’t use it until I can fix it.
the specific parts are called:
1/4” high collar split lock washer
1/4-28 X 1-7/16” w/ 3/4” thread shcs, black zinc
1/4-28 X 29/32” w/ 3/8” thread low head cap screw, black
places that are in australia are ideal, I’m stuck using a very painful hospital chair until I can replace these parts. but I’ll take anything that isn’t trying to charge me cripple tax honestly.
thank you for the help, whether you are a hardware expert or are boosting this in the hopes someone you know is
he/him scruffy monkeyhanger sysadmin cyclist
Not here to fuck spiders.
Melbourne, Boonwurrung land, Aus