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A photo of two round golden brown loaves of bread dusted with flour sitting on a cooling rack. They both have excellent-looking splits on top and look amazing.

And done. 👌🏻

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Posted on 10 October 2025, 12:03

A photo of the corner of one of our spare bedrooms with five guitars hanging on the wall. At the very left two are one above the other, my black Epiphone SG at the bottom and my white Fender Stratocaster at the top, then right of that and down a bit on the wall (to save a little space I staggered the wall mounts a little) is the new red Fender Telecaster, then my Ibanez JIVA10, and finally my Yamaha BB434 bass guitar.

The guitar strap and wall mount for my new guitar arrived today, so that's all put up now too!

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Posted on 7 October 2025, 18:39

A photo of a dining room table with the game board and cards around it. On the very outer section of the board are a bunch of people who have invented something or made scientific discoveries, then directly inside of that is (not in order) their inventions. Then inside THAT is a hexagonal ring that you move around, inside which there is a THIRD section that involves three concentric circles, and the inner two are raised higher on a plastic circular ring that sits inside the middle of the game board. The cards that are sitting next to the board have the inventors on it, then there are smaller cards, some of which you can trade to other players, and the whole thing is just bizarre from a gameplay perspective.

Tonight we went over to a friend's place and played Beyond 2000: The Boardgame! (For the non-Australians, there was a TV show called Beyond 2000 that was a staple of our elder Millennial childhoods, it was basically an educational science and technology show about new technologies and scientific discoveries.)

Apparently at some point someone decided to make a board game out of it, but it was weird. It was part Trivial Pursuit but had all these extra elements as you get further in like being able to steal cards from other players or join forces with them, and they all felt really disconnected from each other, like they'd come up with three different ideas for games but decided they should mush them all together. The facts were interesting but man, we're not going to be playing that again. 😅

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Posted on 5 October 2025, 23:04

A photo taken from our patio looking out into our rather modest backyard. The grass is looking rather overgrown and very weedy, and there is grass coming up from between the bricks of the patio, and the small slightly raised section that's directly in front of the back fence is also completely overgrown with weeds.

The exact same view as the first photo, except the grass is short and neat, the edges are all neat and tidy, and I've gotten rid of all of the grass that was in between the bricks of the patio too. Looks MUCH nicer.

Finally got around to mowing the lawns and doing the whippersnippering, and now I am dead. I was going to do the edging along the driveway too but ran out of steam.

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Posted on 5 October 2025, 13:38

A photo of a lightly forested area with a bunch of plants covering the forest floor. Through the trees you can see the sky is completely blue and sunny.

A photo of an open field with a lightly mottled white horse with a black mane leaning down nomming on grass. Right behind it and partially obscured is a smaller white horse sitting down on the ground.

A photo of what I'm fairly sure is a white deer standing in a lightly-forested area nomming on some plants.

A photo looking off the side of the walking track, there are a bunch of long grasses then trees behind that. Everything is very lush and intensely green, and the sky is clear and blue except for some fluffy white clouds.

Despite having lived in the area for well over twelve years now, we'd never actually walked through any of the Western Sydney Parklands tracks, so we did that this morning! Two and a quarter hours, and 9.2km. We met some horses, a deer (!), and while there was a nice breeze that picked up at various points, it definitely could have had more shade. Even though it was only 25˚C, the sun was warm enough that I think that was probably our last walk until autumn arrives given it's meant to be getting into the 30s starting tomorrow.

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Posted on 4 October 2025, 12:52

A photo of a bright red electric guitar with a black pickguard and maple fretboard sitting on a stand.

New guitar day! 😍

It's a Fender "Made In Japan Hybrid II Telecaster" (how's that for a mouthful) and damn does it look good in red. I'd been considering getting a Telecaster for a bit though never really thought about a red guitar, but the lead guitarist in We Are Lady Parts had a red SG and I was like "Oh, yes."

The Hybrid series in particular is neat because it has a fourth pickup switch position that runs both pickups in series and so you get a really meaty sound out of it.

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Posted on 3 October 2025, 13:09

A photo of the Anker charger, it's a white cube probably roughly 5cm a side. It has an angled "lid" that comes up from the top of the cube that my iPhone is attached to, a little pop-out shelf at the right where the Apple Watch lives, and behind the lid is a spot for my AirPods Pro case to charge.

I got some more referral bonuses from the union for getting people to join, and have spent this batch on an Anker 3-in-1 Qi2 charger, so I'm now living in the future with wireless charging!

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Posted on 29 September 2025, 12:49

A screenshot of the overview of Deep Space Nine as shown in the media software Jellyfin. The artwork at the left has the head and shoulders of the character Benjamin Sisko, a handsome Black man with a bald head and neatly trimmed goatee, in front of a starry background. In front of him is Deep Space Nine itself, a space station that looks like a ring with another smaller ring in the middle, connected together with three equidistant arms, and three curved fang-like structures coming out above and below the outer ring which give the station a bit of a predatory look. In front of that is the U.S.S. Defiant, a compact warship that looks basically like a chonky circle with glowing red engines on the side and a section poking out in front. The text summary of the show says "When the Cardassian occupation of Bajor ended in 2369, the mining space-station Terok Nor was left abandoned, its systems ripped out. By invitation of the provisional Bajoran government, Starfleet stepped in to oversee the rebuilding and day-to-day operations of the newly christened Deep Space Nine. DS9 soon became a center of travel and commerce thanks to a newly found stable wormhole leading to the largely unexplored Gamma Quadrant."

And now nearly 122GB later, we have the entirety of Deep Space Nine encoded to H.264! 🥳 I played around a bit with H.265 but it only saved about 100MB or so an episode and took a fair bit longer to encode so I decided it wasn't worth it. I'm surprised at how good the resulting quality is given the source material is just standard definition, even when viewed on our 55" TV.

Speaking of encoding times, I'm also converting the special features as well and I don't know what it is about them compared to the actual episodes but they're taking an eternity. One of the features for Season 1 is 18 minutes long and it took 26 minutes to encode, versus an average of probably 8-10 minutes for an entire 45-minute episode of the show! The file size isn't even abnormally large, it's just taking ages. Having skipped through to see what was in it, there are a number of interviews from like 1992 that look like they were being played back through VHS so I wonder if it's just all the artifacts in those segments that's causing Handbrake to have to work a lot harder...

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Posted on 23 September 2025, 18:50

A photo taken in our lounge room showing Megalodon Rising on the TV. The poster art has a submarine with an explosion behind it, and underneath it there is the mouth of a GIANT shark whose mouth-width is nearly as wide as the submarine is long. This was very deceptive because there was no military submarine at any point in the movie!

Tonight we did a bad movie night for @[email protected]'s birthday (it was meant to be last month but sickness got in the way), and we watched MEGALODON RISING.

It's got a 2.1 on IMDB and deserves every bit of it, there weren't remotely enough scenes of things or people being eaten by badly CGI-ed giant sharks and way too much talking. @[email protected] figured out that the naval ship they filmed the movie on was a museum piece at some maritime museum in California, which explained why all the shots of the bridge had exactly one person in the shot at once because they couldn't physically fit more people in the space. 😛 And there were clearly shots that were gotten by just walking alongside the ship in the dock and aiming upwards at the deck, haha. At least the woman who was playing the main character, the captain of the ship, could actually act though!

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Posted on 20 September 2025, 22:10

A photo of the Kill Team: Tomb World box. There's nothing for scale but it's QUITE hefty. The artwork on the front has four Space Marines in their standard huge armour inside some sort of indistinct structure that's lit with a sickly green/blue glow, with a couple of robot/scarab looking things scuttling around.

Who has two thumbs and approximately three metric tons of new plastic that he really shouldn't start on until he's done with the Hivestorm terrain? THIS GUY!

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Posted on 19 September 2025, 11:21