FF 7 Rebirth disc is in and installing/updating. PS5 ran out of space so I nuked a couple of my games for her. Should have a very impressed wife this evening.
I know it's not super popular these days, but the crypto space is back in its "exciting enough to keep people awake watching charts" phase. It has been quite a while since it was going as hard as it is at the moment and my modest portfolio is doing quite well.
This means the market will likely die in the arse tomorrow or Friday because that's just how it goes. I'd love to live in fantasy land where it just keeps going like it has been and I end up buying a house in cash but the world just isn't good to me like that.
Yeh ive been watching my portfolio slowly climb over the last couple months. Lets see if i actually attempt to sell off somewhere near the top this time or if i just keep everything and watch it drop down to barely anything again :P
I hate traffic. Spent way too much time waiting to get onto the Ring Road this morning, then way too much time waiting to get off it this afternoon. It's been a long day in general with way too much driving for my tastes, so I'm glad to be home on the couch now.
This dinosaur water colour exercise is becoming a project of it's own.
I admit I love how it's making me think of what colours I should use, for example, what colour was the sky in the Permian ( it was greenish) and how to use shading. What colours are the animals , what colour the plants and the dirt.
I could also just make it all up and not go with realism!!
I keep obsessing, thinking of going to the art shop and getting brushes and inks and paints but I can't walk well yet.
I get the impression that dinosaur colours (and sounds) are something we might never know. Could be dull rinho hide could be a full bird of paradise explosion. Just the feathers bit is pretty recent news.
I'm doing reading on dino colours and paleos have found melanosomes in some fossil skin and feathers and can tell what colours and what patterns in markings.
Archeopteryx is black like a raven!! Many dinos are brown or grey for camouflage.
In some eras the sky was greenish and the sea was luminescent yellow.
Driving my old gentleman client for shopping today. He's a very pious old Greek man and prays before we set off and along the way - I notice we get a smooth run and good parks so I'm all for it!
Unfortunately I might have to wear earphones if I do that. Maybe I might put on something quiet from my phone but I am in an open plan area so I don't want to disturb others as well.
The parade board uninvited the police, who usually march in their uniforms, because it was deemed to be insensitive following the murder of a gay couple by one of their colleagues (with a police issue revolver no less). Individuals who happen to be police were still allowed to march just like anyone else. Now an agreement has been reached that police can be in the parade as a representative group, but in plain clothes.
As for the police that are maintaining law and order, that's their job, as it is for any large scale public event.
There's questions to be answered about the gun situation but I do think it's heavy handed to un-invite the police as a group in the way that they have. After all they didn't instruct or condone it. In this situation someone killed someone that just happened to be employed by Police, it wasn't a Policeman acting as Police who killed. And the guy is obviously not all there. Sounds like he would have killed anyway through some other method eventually.
Would they uninvite Qantas as a corporate sponsor if one of their employees murdered someone? What about Optus, or Coles?
Personally I don't care for virtue signalling, which is what it looks like when Police march. But then again there's virtue signalling all around. Those big corporate sponsors would drop Pride faster than you could blink if it seriously hurt their financial bottom line.
I've been asked by a previous employer to comment on that site. It's also full of comments by the worst employees with an axe to grind over stuff that is their own fault.
There's good stuff in there as well, just take it as a source of information - not a realistic or complete picture of a prospective employer. I've had much better luck stalking employees directly, introducing myself and having an email conversation back-and-forth on what it's like to work there. Not sure how easy it is to do that outside IT circles, though.