ALAN LAVENDER @lavenderlens@qoto.org

@ianRobinson ah video. Great resource-hogger. I do video on my MBP but not for work, which is coding so only small files there. Getting a new MBP M1. Really looking forward to that.

@ianRobinson I I’m sure if you already have an M1 you wouldn’t be in much of a rush to upgrade.

@AlisonFisk what did the Romans ever give us, eh? 🤣

Funny trees around here.

Ok so it’s my lunchtime. In true work-from-home spirit I’m in for a quick forty winks. Mrs L and I have a conversation about my upcoming flights for work. The phone pings. Then this. #crossDeviceTracking gets me every time, it really does. You can’t prove it, but it’s mighty fishy sometimes.

You know, I’m just putting this out there to those of you on #Irish Mastodon ☘️, the Dunnes pizzas are incredible. And we are using the home delivery device now: it’s so easy. Here, Cujo has his eye on the last piece. He just ain’t getting it.

@ianRobinson the MBP M1s are available now from third parties at fairly hefty discounts since this week’s upgrade to M2 only chips (pro and max)

Also road testing timely Christmas pressie from the Missus: steel toe cap no fuss deep treaded workman’s wellies and super thick socks. So I’m triple socking it today and I’m toasty warm 😊

Ah to get out the HOUSE! Here in Donegal we have bad road conditions on high ground, more to come this week apparently. We live halfway up a mountain so this affects us! Plus work is busy, two higher level courses this week: advanced JS Web Development and React. Only in the jump seat for React, not training it myself this run as it overlapped with my other one, but here’s the qoto bit: pair programming, equal ownership of code to learn from each other.

Time to resurrect a startup? My erstwhile investor-to-be's mission statement:

A quick cursory search for Pokhara *International* Airport reveals that it opened for business on New Year’s Day and is too new to have a IATA code yet. (Anyone want to fact check me on this?) Stalling on finals, VFR approach on a fine day? I’m going to speculate, which I know I shouldn’t hence the CW. The pilots weren’t practiced enough in the approach. We’ll see in time if my amateur opinion is right. For all their sakes’ I hope not. 🙏

Fascinating article about made-up languages, often but not always from movies like Avatar: The Way of Water, trigger similar MRI scans to real ones, from a #cognitive and computational #neuroscience point of view.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/avatar-2-movie-navi-constructed-language/672616/