"Real-time images filmed from the terminal building at Haneda – one of two international airports serving the capital – show the plane in flames as it careered down the runway, suggesting claims of a miracle escape are far from hyperbolic."

🚀 Miracle at Haneda: how cabin crew pulled off great escape from Japan plane fire | Japan | The Guardian
 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/03/japan-plane-crash-haneda-airport-japan-airlines-what-happened-cabin-crew-safety-survivors?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other


🚗 Joining my father on a visit to the mechanic. Both our cars need a look.


📅 Good morning. Have calendar.


🔫 Watching ヘルドッグス 地獄の犬たち. Will probably take two days, as it’s long, and I’m tired.


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🐰 Testing bunny.net upload with shortcut.

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🧑🍳 Time to cook!


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🎧 It’s a Violent Femmes kind of day.


🥺 As we expected, this first day of school is not going to be easy. We should be well on our way to kindergarten, and the little one is still in bed. Great mood, playful, laughing, but not really interested in leaving.


🇩🇰 Can’t sleep, so… random photo.

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📅 One way to make things a little better: HEY Calendar could be released tomorrow! A good reason to procrastinate!


⚠ Life resumes in a few hours. tinyMovieStar will go back to kindergarten, I’ll have to edit photos again, bigger movieStar back to her office hours.

Can’t say I’m thrilled about the whole thing.


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"It’s finally happened: after nearly a century, Mickey Mouse has slipped off Disney’s copyright leash."

🚀 Welcome to the public domain, Mickey Mouse - The Verge
 https://www.theverge.com/24006670/mickey-mouse-steamboat-willie-enters-copyright-public-domain-2024


🥰 Past noon, girls still asleep. Love it.


🛠 First job for 2024: get up to speed on weblog.lol stuff. I need to figure out if that could be my main blog, and what would I miss by moving there.


😳 I was about to say 2024 felt a lot like 2023 so far, but then news about the earthquake/tsunami in Japan started pouring in. That’s a sad way to start a new year.


🤬 2AM, tinyMovieStar just fell asleep, fireworks, again. What. The. Fuck?


🛒 Quick trip to the supermarket, needed to get the drinks for tonight. It was PACKED!

Anyway, bag full of IPA, and Amarguinha for movieStar.


💖 2024… Unlocking…

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🫥 Hello, final day of 2023. Bye, final day of 2023.


📆 Watched the walkthrough for the upcoming HEY Calendar. Looking forward to launch day, it has some neat ideas that I’ll love to try.


💡 I’m going to set one of those text replacement things.

“WTF” will expand into “Why didn’t we pay for YouTube Premium years ago?!?”.

I will then use it daily, possibly multiple times a day.


🚨 Site went down for a little while. First to notice? Feed Canary.
 https://feedcanary.com


Ricky Gervais: Armageddon, 2023 - ★ https://maique.eu/2023/12/30/ricky-gervais-armageddon.html


☕ Good morning, y’all.

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Barbie, 2023 - ★★★★½ https://maique.eu/2023/12/30/barbie.html


✈ For some crazy reason I always assumed Flighty would not work without the expensive subscription. Seems like it does, minus a few features, but with enough to keep me interested. Paid a week’s worth, to be able to input some older flights, but free should be good going forward.


Happy Birthday 🥳

"On the surface, it’s a simple app, especially with the new layout, but you can tweak it to your needs if you start to dig into the settings.

It’s free for you to download on the App Store, and you should definitely join us on the fediverse."

🚀 A year of Ice Cubes. A retrospective on my full-featured… | by Thomas Ricouard | Dec, 2023 | Medium
 https://dimillian.medium.com/a-year-of-ice-cubes-a199ee296cff


📺 Finished Stonehouse.


🇹🇷 We praised our country to a friend of a friend in Istanbul, while we were there, sharing a meal with her.

We did a good job too, it seems. She’s coming tomorrow, with sons!


🥳 Don’t have a post with this year’s balance, or one with goals for 2024. Happy with the situation.


💊 Not the perfect way to start this Friday: paracetamol with my first espresso.


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thingsThisWeek #81 https://maique.eu/2023/12/29/thingsthisweek.html


"ranging from nine to 11 minutes in length, the lists combine popular music genres in italy with spaghetti, linguini, fusilli and penne rigate."

🚀 these barilla X spotify playlists tell you how long you should cook your pasta
 https://www.designboom.com/design/barilla-spotify-playlist-timer-01-20-2021/


The Grinch, 2018 - ★★★½ https://maique.eu/2023/12/28/the-grinch.html


📊 Wondering why Gumroad’s “inject script” isn’t playing nice with Tinylytics. Also wondering how many days will I wait for their reply, as it’s been a few already.


✈ Approach

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😕 tinyMovieStar asking, repeatedly, if the movie is ending soon. Can’t say I blame her, Wish kinda sucks.


🍿 We’re going to the movies! movieStar has zoom meeting, the rest of us (two) will be watching Wish!


😳 Almost noon, little one still sleeping. That’s what you get from staying up SOOOOO late for days on a row.


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🤪 Thursday?? Already?


🎠 Now I’m also waiting for the next season of Slow Horses. Brilliant season 3 just ended for me.


👯♀ Friends

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🎥 A friend just gifted us another movie streaming subscription, one we didn’t have yet, and are happy we do now: FILMIN. Independent, art, alternative, and tons of Japanese cinema! Yes!
 https://www.filmin.pt/


🤓 Came across prose.sh, of course I had to try it.

Will probably never post again (THE HASSLE!!), but it’s there…

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🇪🇸 Late Christmas present: we’re going to Menorca in July. Yay.


🍦 After lunch, doing the supermarkets round. We’re looking for Frozen themed ice-cream, what else?


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🎅🏼 Christmas is in the past now, but #indieAppSanta keeps going. Today’s app is a nice one…

If you need countdown (or up) widgets, that also work on your Apple Watch, and come in a few cool designs, you might like this. Lifetime unlock free today.

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🍜 tinyMovieStar went to the movies with her uncles, we joined later for ramen and ice-cream. Everyone is happy.


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👷🏻♂ Rebuilding my YT subscription list. From scratch. Some of you are getting a new subscriber!


📺 That’s it, we’re getting a YouTube premium family thing going. Everyone got tired of the long ads. You win, Google.


💣 tinyMovieStar woke up at said she’d like to see the crazy bits from last night’s movie again. Watching that part from Home Alone 2 right now. Over breakfast.


📺 Finished watching “Blue Eye Samurai”. When is the new season coming?


🌟 Let’s go home.

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"A near-total ban on abortion has come into effect, anti-LGBTQ+ pogroms are afoot, and the state is governed by blatantly corrupt wackos."

🚀 Report: tech companies losing interest in Texas - Boing Boing
 https://boingboing.net/2023/12/11/report-tech-companies-losing-interest-in-texas.html


😬 Can’t wait to get back to “regular programming”.


🍿 Another movie watched (Home Alone 2) and it’s finally time to break the bad news to the little one: it really is time to sleep.


11:20PM, dealing with a three year old that has had way too much excitement for two days now. Add chocolate, lack of sleep, and she’s dangerously close to losing the tinyMovieStar nickname, and be known as tinySatan going forward.


🐶 Still going.

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Candy Cane Lane, 2023 - ★★ https://maique.eu/2023/12/25/candy-cane-lane.html


😵💫 Uff


🥜 Standing Tall

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🇯🇵 Christmas morning for the girls.

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🫠 11AM. Everyone still in bed. How’s your day going?


Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, 2016 - ★★ https://maique.eu/2023/12/25/neighbors-sorority-rising.html


🎄 Merry Christmas

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📱 Change of pace.

iPod Wallpaper Pack.
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🎄 Back in town for a couple of hours, just enough time to have dinner with my parents. Then it’s off to the countryside again.


🪛 Connecting the wires, all over again.


🌐 Got maique.lol again. Merry Christmas, me.


😅 I had to!

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This!

"I get to set the rules in my space so that other people can feel safe to be there. Different people have different values, so their living rooms might have different rules. But I get to set mine."

🚀 Leaving the Nazi bar
 https://werd.io/2023/leaving-the-nazi-bar


🚑 This is what I’ll be looking for after two days of non-stop eating and drinking.

Happy Holidays!

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🏖 It’s Christmas Time!

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🎅🏼 Christmas by the Sea

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👶🏻 What. A. Saturday!

We’re going to be uncles. Twice. Both brothers-in-law are having kids!


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🍕 Plans have been updated. We’re now looking at delicious pizza for lunch, with a side of yummy ocean view. Topped with brother in law, his wife, and a couple other friends.


📦 Vinted year (a few months, in fact) review: 12 items sold. A dozen! Not bad.


🎄 We’ve got Sunday dinner, and Monday lunch, planned. Other than that, no idea what we’re doing yet.

Not our usual weekend routine.


🥗 Friends (more like family) over for dinner. Good times.


☯ Yin? Or Yang?

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🚪 The Doors

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🪑 #beSeated X2

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🛍  Last minute shopping. Classic.


🍺 Waiting for a friend, we’re having lunch. Beer while I wait.


🥨 I now have pretzels available too close to home. Not sure how I should feel about that.


🧦 Welcome, Winter.


thingsThisWeek #80 https://maique.eu/2023/12/22/thingsthisweek.html


Catching up, after a few hectic days.

"we were going to do what we do best: stroll around aimlessly and explore the city."

🚀 Cool Itaewon
 https://mutelife.com/2023/12/cool-itaewon/


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SpringBoard https://maique.eu/2023/12/21/springboard.html


💬 Lots of chatter going back and forth, Lisbon and London, regarding very specific details about Bluey toys.

Still no luck on the grannies front, I’m afraid.


👘 Back to Blue Eye Samurai.


🅿 Shitty valet service.

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📦 Not a new thought, or revolutionary, but DPD sucks!


😭 Surprise, surprise… tinyMovieStar went to bed after midnight, she’s having trouble dealing with the world today at 9AM.


🧸 I’m not doing this again today. Giving up on The Grannies, after visiting another dozen shops yesterday.

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I’m SO happy with my 1998 car.

"Wheels falling off cars at speed. Suspensions collapsing on brand-new vehicles. Axles breaking under acceleration. Tens of thousands of customers told Tesla about a host of part failures on low-mileage cars."

🚀 Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective
 https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/


⚙ While I’m still working on my version of Otávio’s SpringBoard post, I went ahead and took care of the image for the post.

Ice Cubes is now on the Dock, Orion back on the test spot.

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😫 Drama!! We’re picking up the little one, and she’s telling us she does not miss the city. At all!


⛄ Still shopping.

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🎠 Slow. Horses.


🌸 A very tiny black and white garden.

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🖼 Adding a photo a day to the new shop. I’ll be ready to open when summer comes.


🎁 Why do we do this, year after year? A lot of presents still need to be sourced, and also still on a mission to find The Grannies!


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💊 Paracetamol before coffee. That’s how bad my headache feels. Good morning.


🫥 I just dropped tinyMovieStar with her grandparents. We’re home alone. Not sure if we can watch The Crown in one go!


🧩 Related

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🦖 The Girl With the Hand Tattoo

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🎅🏼 TextSniper is free today, thanks to IndieAppSanta.

Code, in case it doesn’t get applied automatically is FREEFOR24H.

Thank you, Marco, for the tip.
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🦄 I very rarely see my Home timeline in Mastodon. It’s Local & my heavily curated Unicorn list.

Add Micro.blog to that, and now Threads, and this is a full-time job.


👘 Episode 3 of Blue Eye Samurai. Still in bed with tinyMovieStar (she’s sleeping), while her mom is working in the living room.

I suppose we’re skipping school today, it’s close to 10:30AM already. Birthday parties are taking a toll.


☕ It’s that time again.

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🤯 I am SUPER impressed with the Alt Text generator in Mimi, @samgrover! It’s incredible!
 https://micro.blog/samgrover


🎉 Birthday Party number 3 since Saturday? Sure, on our way!

Fair warning: we’ll be exhausted by the time Baby Jesus' event comes up.


🪵 Ready for Winter

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⏱ I’m now getting 40 seconds of ads on YouTube. I don’t know why I insist on watching it on the TV, without the usual protection.


🤷🏻♂ Couple of things done already. Again a slow/busy day: not a lot to do, but somehow feels like I’m rushing through it.


🛍 A couple of things are up on the new shop already. I particularly like the Pick-Your-Own offer.
 https://shop.maique.eu/ https://shop.maique.eu/l/pickYourOwn


😖 Up since 4.30AM, about to give up any hope of getting back to sleep. Getting close to 6AM.


⚙ WIP

Far from ready, but figuring things out is fun. And it’s starting to look good too.

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👁 Busted!

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💸 Subscriptions (2023 Edition) https://maique.eu/2023/12/17/subscriptions-edition.html


😮💨 One birthday was cancelled! Yes! We have one tomorrow, but today we get some rest.

(Using that time to figure out Gumroad).


🚋 Let’s get moving…

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🛍 Gumroad? Check. Why? Do not know yet. Wallpapers? Maybe.


The Family Plan, 2023 - ★★★ https://maique.eu/2023/12/17/the-family-plan.html


😅 Another day, another birthday party. After yesterday’s extravaganza, we have an epic afternoon planned for today. Tired already, and I’m still in bed!


🐆 ROAR!

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🎂 Birthday party that will not end. We’re now in the dinner part, but have been here since lunch.


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🧿 How did I miss this emoji before? Just found out, by chance, that the Nazar emoji has been around since 2018!

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🏊♀ The little one missed three swimming classes in a row already. First time she was sick. Second one, abroad. Third, too tired from trip. She does not want to go anymore. She does not enjoy  submerging her head. We tell her she doesn’t have to, but… I don’t think she’s going today.


🥥 Musedocia Café

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thingsThisWeek #79 https://maique.eu/2023/12/15/thingsthisweek.html


🇹🇷 It is a beautiful city, with a lot of nice details all over.

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🤪 Home alone with tinyMovieStar, while mom has dinner with her work buddies.

I have no work buddies, so no Christmas dinner for me.


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🇹🇷 Kids these days…

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👀 Also today…

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"After a three-year hiatus, I am back with another round of ugly Christmas sweater wallpapers."

🚀 UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER WALLPAPERS
 https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/ugly-christmas-sweater-wallpapers


🎅🏼 Our kindergarten has THE best Santa. Period. And also a very nice older gentleman dressed in red.

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🎅🏼 First order of business: coffee. Next: kindergarten Christmas party.


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🎄 Vs. 🎄

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😝 Not a total letdown, but the three-hour long play could have been an email. Or, at least, two hours shorter.


🍜 Favorite spot in the city for dinner, right before the play starts. Boa Bao still rules.


🎄 ‘Tis The Season

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🎭 We’re going to the theater later today. It’s been years!


💨 I do work pretty fast when I’m happy with the assignment. Not three hours after getting home, 88 photos have been edited, lunch has been eaten, and now exporting…


🎈 Now that I’m back at Threads, I suppose the first day will be spent saying Hi to my EU neighbours. Welcome!


🏢 At the assignment’s location. A place I can’t remember ever being on foot, even though we drive by here every week.

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📷 No matter how shitty the assignment, these for the paper are still my favorite ones.


😎 Good morning, let’s Rock’n’Roll.

But first, coffee!

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The Audition, 2015 - ★★★ https://maique.eu/2023/12/14/the-audition.html


🎅🏼 Yesterday I witnessed a photo shoot for my friend’s brewery, and couldn’t help it. I had to get a shot myself.

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🎱 I was just about to sleep, then the message came: last minute assignment, tomorrow morning, 9AM. I’ll do it.


🧵 Wondering if the Threads switch/toggle/button in the EU will happen at midnight, or sometime during the day…


"Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Threads is now testing integration with the fediverse, thanks to support for the ActivityPub protocol. In this current integration of the integration, Zuckerberg says this means posts Threads accounts will now be available on Mastodon, Pixelfed, and other services that use ActivityPub."

🚀 Threads starts testing ActivityPub support for integration with Mastodon and more - 9to5Mac
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🫥 It’s one of those toggles that one sets and forgets. No idea how/why that was turned off without warning. Only way I figured it out is because people were oddly quiet on Mastodon.


😫 So, somehow my Mastodon crosspost setting was turned off, and none of today’s posts made it there. Annoying.


Want to see this one as well. A24, and a great theme, must be cool.
(Trailer in the link).

"Yeah, I’m in for this one."

🚀 Add CIVIL WAR to my most hyped movies of 2024 list
 https://www.blast-o-rama.com/2023/12/13/add-civil-war-to-my-most-hyped-movies-of-2024-list/


👀 Hundreds of photos in there, only a few are visible at the moment… The turkeyTour album is coming along.
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👁 Gotta keep those evil spirits away…

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🖼 It was quite nice to see larger prints on the wall. I should remember this, and print stuff more often. Also a thrill to have it next to so many great photographers.

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🐴 Turns out Wednesday is not a great day to edit photos. That’s when new episodes of Slow Horses show up.


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🍺 Time for a beer, and it’s off to the show.

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🚌 Woop Woop

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🖼 Later today, another show opening. Feel free to show up, if you’re in town. 5PM, Chiado.


👵🏼 Spending all morning, and I mean ALL OF IT, looking for a very specific grumpy old lady from Bluey. No shop carries these. None.


🚶🏻♂ Running Errands

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📤 Shipping a couple more items on Vinted today.


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⌚ PSA: If anyone is looking for the “swipe to change watch faces” toggle in watchOS 10.2, you’ll find it in Settings > Clock. Of course. Where else?


🐠 Upstream

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"2023 was an exciting year for apps. Read-later apps continued to be hot, but nothing was quite as big as interactive widgets, which brought new experiences to our Home and Lock Screens and shook up how many of us set up our devices."

🚀 MacStories Selects 2023: Recognizing the Best Apps of the Year
 https://www.macstories.net/stories/macstories-selects-2023-recognizing-the-best-apps-of-the-year/


📱 Update time.


🍦 No ice-cream for you!

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🩰 Ballet teacher called in sick today. tinyMovieStar will be sad, but we get to spend an extra hour with her!

I knew I’d miss her terribly today!


🫥 Meanwhile, back in town, trying his best to blend it..

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🎂 Celebrating a century.

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If I could pick one, and only one, this would be it. Also, first edition in 1971.

"Today representing the most collectible military dive watch in history, the MilSub has its own dedicated following of ardent enthusiasts keen to argue over the finer points of servicing history or dial modifications made by the MOD itself or shadowy collectors looking to capitalize on the MilSub’s incredible secondary market prices."

🚀 A Brief History Of The Dive Watch - How The Military Helped To Shape History’s Greatest Tool Watch (Part Two)
 https://www.watchesofespionage.com/blogs/woe-dispatch/a-brief-history-of-the-dive-watch-how-the-military-helped-to-shape-history-s-greatest-tool-watch-part-two?mc_cid=40fb1988d7


Another city that has been on our list for a while…

"And this is where our expectations of South Korea began to unravel in the most beautiful way possible. We were anticipating a strict society like in Japan, where the group prevails over the individual in most situations."

"What we found was a city that, among its many imperfections, had a soul. It really surprised me how real and alive the city felt – Seoul felt like a place built by people for people."

🚀 Soulful Seoul - mutelife
 https://mutelife.com/2023/11/soulful-seoul/


📃 Writing a CV. A CV! First one in decades, and there’s not a lot to say. I’ve had two jobs since 1995, three if I include freelancing.


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😤 Annoying that one cannot edit and test the changes immediately. Since it’s dependent on a new feed item, I have to post a new one, and wait for as long as it takes to figure out it’s there. Repeat until fixed.


🎉 Yay, finally got social.lol to toot via IFTTT. Unfortunately the available “ingredients” might be unsuitable, the image URL is wrapped in glightbox code… Hmmmm…


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🪵 Very different view today. Not thrilled that it’s Monday.

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😴 Third night since we came back, still sleepy at 10PM. Something needs to change.


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"There’s no better way to catch up with friends that also photograph than going on a walk with our cameras, if you happen to take nice shots then that’s an extra bonus!"

🚀 :: t3mujin
 https://t3mujin.micro.blog/2023/12/10/winter-afternoon-photowalk.html


🫏 Can’t get this RSS > Mastodon thing to work. Must try again tomorrow.


🙈 Time to head back to the city, and real life. Not ready for this.


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👨🌾 Done, subscribed to the 269 blogs that took part of the App Defaults fun. Hang in there, Feedbin!
 https://defaults.rknight.me/


One of the last apps I’ll let go…

"Am I happy about paying for yet another subscription? No. Am I happy because a core part of my day now works flawlessly? Yes haha."

🚀 From Reeder’s iCloud Feeds to Feedbin: Finding the perfect RSS service
 https://www.josemunozmatos.com/blog/from-reeder-s-icloud-feeds-to-feedbin-finding-the-perfect-rss-service


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🐱 What’s wrong, Gaspar? Feeling down on #Caturday?

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😤 Excuse the sticker spotter spam today.

Getting new posts to show up on sticker spotter’s Mastodon account, via its RSS feed, is proving trickier than expected.
 https://stickerspotter.com https://social.lol/@stickerspotter


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🇹🇷 Don’t know why they bother with these, the whole country is a designated smoking area.

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🧞♀ Wish we didn’t have to come home so soon. I was having a great time with the movieStars, we could have kept going for a few more… weeks?


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🦄 Getting ready for this week. It’s been 21 weeks since we have been kicked out…

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🤪 Unhappy to say I’m still in TRT (Turkish Time). Woke up two hours before I had to, so I guess I’m moving in the right direction.
 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Turkey


💖 Finding photos on tourist traps.

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♻ In the meantime we’re back at Mom&Dad Tour, we’re spending the weekend with the in-laws, after lunch with my side of the family. You know, the usual…


Beautiful one, for sure. Love the colors too.

"There’s just something so incredibly appealing about them with their retro looks and quiet dignity — standing, as they still do, despite destined to never dispense again."

🚀 The details and broken beer vending machine of an old Japanese liquor store — Tokyo Times
 https://www.tokyotimes.org/the-details-and-broken-beer-vending-machine-of-an-old-japanese-liquor-store/


👨🏼🚀 At Istanbul Airport

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🌊 Let the bSiding begin…

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(turkish)thingsThisWeek #78 https://maique.eu/2023/12/09/turkishthingsthisweek.html


📯 About to hit publish on the Turkey post. This one will be a WIP for a while, I’ll tweak and edit, I’m sure.


✏ My (turkish)thingsThisWeek is coming along. Close to 17000 characters so far, still a bit to go.


🥸 Having fun with the smallest of jet lags…


🥰 It is exhausting at times, but I wouldn’t even dream about not taking her along. Anywhere we go, she goes.

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🙌🏼 Come Dec 14th, we’ll finally be able to use Threads again over here.


Bullet Train, 2022 - ★★★½ https://maique.eu/2023/12/08/bullet-train.html


👀 Leaving/Arriving

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🏡 Landed. Home.


🍿 Flight Entertainment: Editing.

Oh! I might also watch Bullet Train. Finally!
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🚨 And then we saw “Last Call” on the board! We ran like hell!!


🌧 Hello, Istanbul. Glad we don’t have to leave the airport.

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☀ Here we go. Spamming, I know, but you’re all asleep anyway…

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✈ We have airplane.

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✈ Here we go, first flight of the day. Bye, Kayseri.

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🚨 Warning: images include gruesome photo of Rapunzel’s carriage accident.


🐌 Preparing a dozen bSeries! Uploading is taking FOREVER.


😴 Getting ready to sleep (it’s 8:30PM). Final night in Turkey. Tomorrow we wake up well before sunrise, drive one hour to the airport. A couple of flights later, we’re home. Yay.


🥣 My incredible daughter got up from the table at the restaurant where we’re having dinner, walked all the way to the counter (we couldn’t see her by then), and asked for a soup. In English. To a Turkish waiter. Successfully.


🇹🇷 One more, before the outtakes begin.

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🇹🇷 Still Around Goreme

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🇹🇷 Around Goreme

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👀 I’ll start posting a few photos soon. No particular order, there are too many.


🪑 One can find a bSeated anywhere. But some are nicer than others…

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🇹🇷 It’s a long day for everyone, sir. I get it.

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🇹🇷 Mornings here look nice, even when seen from a distance.

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🚐 It’s Red Tour day, and of course I woke up well before the alarm is set to go off. A bit of timeline scrolling, and a few more pages of the book I can’t put down. Soon: coffee!


🚐 Day tour tomorrow. Not something we usually go for, but we have no strength to go rent a car and do it on our own. We’re exhausted.


🇹🇷 Goreme is an odd place. Fun, but definitely very strange.

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🇹🇷 Otopark

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🇹🇷 Goreme Open Air Museum https://maique.eu/2023/12/06/goreme-open-air.html


🔮 Sometimes I wish Mimi had Ice Cubes AI-powered Alt Text suggestions. Time saver.


🇹🇷 Hold Your Horses

A lot more photos later.
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🇹🇷 Breakfast Time

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🔖 I cannot spend another night awake, reading. I cannot.


Started reading: Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman 📚

Got this yesterday evening, and couldn’t put it down until well past 1AM. Looking forward to a few more pages today.
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🇹🇷 Kayseri Approach

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🇹🇷 Flight Day https://maique.eu/2023/12/05/flight-day.html


✈ Early at the airport. Time for coffee, food, and a new plush toy for tinyMovieStar.

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🇹🇷 See you soon, Istanbul.

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☕ Final breakfast in Istanbul.


☕ I might have had a double shot espresso a bit too late in the day…


Yay to new toys!

"We’re getting closer to the point where life can be breathed into Neatnik Accounts!"

🚀 25 Days of omg.lol · 2023, Day 3
 https://advent.weblog.lol/2023/day-3


🚐 Tomorrow morning we’re on the move again. Cappadocia, here we come. May the weather gods by with us.

Istanbul, it was a pleasure to meet you.


🇹🇷 Mosques by Night

Had to go out again, picking up dinner for the little one, and get some more cash from the machine. Opportunity for one last look at the neighborhood’s mosques.

This is the beta neighborhood for mosques, by the way.

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🚕 The Taxi Situation https://maique.eu/2023/12/04/the-taxi-situation.html


🇹🇷 Mosque Day

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🐌 Istanbul: the place where Google Maps ALWAYS tells you the estimate for walking is lower than driving. No matter the distance.


✅ Hotel in Cappadocia is booked. Picked on one of the apps, and then talked to them directly on WhatsApp. Skip the middle man!


🍺 A very nice IPA, made by a huge corporation.

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🤪 I can tell the little one will get used to the time difference, and start waking up on time, on our last day here!

We’ll move back, and she will have to wake up three hours earlier, poor thing.


🎨 🇹🇷 Cool street art, on top of a vibrant sticker life, can be found here as well.

We got to see some nice ones on the side streets of Beyoğlu, so far the nicest part of town.

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"Technology has done miracles to transform how people can stay in touch through conflict and economic duress, but blackouts like those in Gaza remind us how tenuous these connections can be"

🚀 On Conflict and Connection – The Markup
 https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/12/02/on-conflict-and-connection


There’s no other way…

"Before this trip Lena and I promised each other that we’d have regular chill days for the kids’ sake. And by “promised each other” I mostly mean Lena made me promise to her that I would be more relaxed than usual."

🚀 Aquarium and chill – mutelife
 https://mutelife.com/2023/11/aquarium-and-chill/


✌ Enjoying this country. Quite a bit.


🇹🇷 Oops, forgot to add movieStar’s favorite of the day!

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🇹🇷 Bear with me, these might probably almost surely in all likelihood be the last ones today… Hopefully.

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🇹🇷 Tomorrow it will rain a lot, so I’m posting extra today. We did have a wonderful day.

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🇹🇷 The little one felt better, that means more photos. First batch of the day:

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🚶🏻♂ Spent all afternoon walking around town with the movieStars, and met a friend. She showed us a part of town we wouldn’t go on our own, and a very cool one at that.

Photos (many) later.


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Test


🤪 tinyMovieStar waking up, looking out the window: “We don’t need to go for a walk, we can see everything from here”.


🇹🇷 6:34, prayer time. Being so close to the Blue Mosque has this perk, we can hear the muezzin as if he was standing in the room with us.

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🤯 Up since 5AM. I don’t think that’s how it should work though, as that’s 2AM back home. Time to have that “How time zones work” talk with my body, I guess…


🧸 Things I never thought I’d do: run through the streets of Istanbul in the night, looking for Chouriço, the plush dog tinyMovieStar adores since she was born.

RIP Chouriço.


🇹🇷 It’s still #caturday, and Istanbul is a city of cats too!

So many of them all over, and all are super friendly.
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🍕 And, as we’re in Istanbul, I picked up a couple of pizza pies from a restaurant next door, and we ate them in the empty terrace (only breakfast is served there, but they were nice).


🍺 Everything is fine. Just found out there’s an Efes Xtra (7.5%)! ₺60 at the convenience store! Yay.


☕ I’ve got the photo for my next coffee-a-thon!

Or maybe I should have waited until I had one from Turkish coffee… Hmmmm…
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⏰ Fever + three hour difference = well past noon, and we’re still waiting for tinyMovieStar to wake up.


🦄 As usual, photos are shared as Instagram stories. More, faster, but temporary only. Same username over there…


He’s back!

"Woah, 25 Days of omg.lol is back! Of course, it’s already December 2 in many parts of the world as I write this, and I’m just now getting around to writing this post for December 1. Not off to a great start, but better late than never?"

🚀 25 Days of omg.lol · 2023, Day 1
 https://advent.weblog.lol/2023/day-1


🇹🇷 Late arrival. Just enough time to run out, grab a bite, and back to the hotel.

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😢 RIP Elliott Erwitt. If there is a master, he is it.


🃏 We Made It

🇹🇷 👧🏻
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🇹🇷 Boarding…

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📚 I was missing something, woke up a few minutes earlier to take care of it.

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👋🏼 Ready to Go https://maique.eu/2023/12/01/ready-to-go.html


🧸 Holafly eSIM has been bought. Backpacks are almost ready. Now stuffing iPad full of Bluey episodes.


🏨 Istanbul hotel reservation: check. Airport transfer confirmation: check.

movieStar took care of both of these, while I drove home with a sleeping toddler, and HemisphericViews playing. Still raining.


🌧 Mercury Weather’s trip feature is great. Also has a handy widget.

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⌚ Seriously considering taking the Apple Watch along on the trip. That would be a first, not having a mechanical one tagging along…


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✊🏼 RIP Shane MacGowan.


thingsThisWeek #77 https://maique.eu/2023/11/30/thingsthisweek.html


🅱 The bSides page has grown into something unplanned when I started it, and I’ll need to tweak the text a bit soon.

Still, it still works, and a link to Turkey’s bSides has been added, even before we actually have “A sides”!
 https://maique.eu/bsides/


☀ In 24 hours, fingers crossed.

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Adding this to my read list. Probably one of these will work for me 😅

"My philosophy in general has been “throw enough shit at the wall and some of it is bound to stick."

🚀 Marketing methods from photographers in my salary survey – A Photo Editor
 https://aphotoeditor.com/2023/11/29/marketing-methods-from-photographers-in-my-salary-survey/


"Home, I almost certainly said thank you (I don’t remember precisely) but it was from respectful gratitude, not from monitored, gamified fear."

🚀 On having recently had Covid and other modern freedoms (Interconnected)
 https://interconnected.org/home/2023/11/30/freedom


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😶 Tomorrow It Is https://maique.eu/2023/11/30/tomorrow-it-is.html


🎧 … and 2022, 2021, 2020, 201… You get it.

I’m predictable, and boring, and vintage. Love Portishead, though. Still. Thank you.
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🥰 Doctor appointment turned out to be so late in the day that we decided against traveling back to the city. movieStar is home, and the two of us will sleep at my in-laws! We’re having a father/daughter night!


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Same. And same.

"Personally, I’m sad to see TinyLetter go. While I haven’t written a TinyLetter email in years, I enjoyed how it made the act of writing and publishing a clean newsletter really easy. RIP TinyLetter."

🚀 Mailchimp is shutting down TinyLetter - The Verge
 https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23981363/mailchimp-shutting-down-tinyletter


🦠 Back from the doctor’s office, really nice pediatrician. No antibiotics needed, tinyMovieStar should be able to travel in a couple of days. Yay.


👩🏻⚕ Super busy day at the doctor’s office, our appointment keeps getting bumped. Now back home, waiting for a call letting us know she’s ready to see us. What. A. Ducking. Day!


👀 Walking to the doctor’s office…

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( 😅 No, I’m not writing posts with titles just because I like to look at the new font… )


🦄 Added emoji to my defaults post, and tweaked the email client/server entry, to reflect the change that happened since I first posted the list.

You can check what others (212 and counting) are using at Robb’s site.
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📺 Of course the first scene, of the first episode, of the new season of Slow Horses, is set in Istanbul. Of course.


👩🏻⚕ Doctor appointment in two hours. Good.


😻 A Love Story in Three Acts

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🤒 Cough, Cough https://maique.eu/2023/11/29/cough-cough.html


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🎲 First coffee, then grab the thermometer.


🇹🇷 Getting Too Close https://maique.eu/2023/11/28/getting-too-close.html


🙌🏼 Goddess

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This, and how incredibly light the whole browser feels. Snappy. Lots to love.

"Although you can’t adjust the number of columns in the tab grid, you can still pick a smaller size for the thumbnails if you want to see more tabs at once."

🚀 Quiche Browser Is a Beautiful and Modular Web Browser for iOS
 https://www.macstories.net/reviews/quiche-browser-is-a-beautiful-and-modular-web-browser-for-ios/


🐴 Slow Horses. New season tomorrow. This is a PSA announcement.


Can easily see a movie here…

"The Camino as we knew it, is gone. It’s been replaced with a Santiago Super Highway of people who all know best, paved by Camino Agencies that benefit greatly from isolating their customers from the local service industry and other pilgrims, lined with albergues and bars that don’t see the pilgrim but their wallet, and a Catholic Disneyland at the end."

🚀 The Ages of the Caminos - mikka in markdown
 https://mikka.is/trips/ages-of-the-caminos/


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🦺 No Limits!

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194! One hundred and ninety four! So far.

If you haven’t done it yet, just go and be a part of this cool thing. Listen to the episode, write your own post, add it to the list.

We want to know about your defaults.
 https://defaults.rknight.me/


👀 While running errands…

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🌡 37 during the night (no medication taken), and feeling a lot better after 12 hours of sleep. tinyMovieStar is almost as good as new.

Plans for today, according to her? Stay in bed all day.


Trying Arq.

Yes, officer, @vincent and @manton made me do it…
 https://arqbackup.com/ https://micro.blog/vincent https://micro.blog/manton


🚀 Yesterday I posted a link to a travel blog from a family I love. Here’s another blog, from the other half of that couple: infinite dreams, by the awesome Akane Kinomoto.
 https://akanekinomoto.com


Disgusting!

"The Saudi government is like a drug dealer trying to get Africa hooked on its harmful product.

“The rest of the world is weaning itself off dirty and polluting fossil fuels and Saudi Arabia is getting desperate for more customers and is turning its sights on Africa. It’s repulsive."

🚀 Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s grand plan to ‘hook’ poor countries on oil | Oil | The Guardian
 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/27/revealed-saudi-arabia-plan-poor-countries-oil?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other


🤒 39.1!


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I’ve been a fan of this family for a LONG time, and their travel journals never disappoint. Awesome photography too.

"So we booked the cheapest flights we could find. This time we flew with Finnair and our flight included a long layover in Helsinki. Almost 24 hours long. That meant we had a warm-up day to explore the city before heading to Korea and Japan, and we couldn’t be more excited!"

🚀 Layover in Helsinki - mutelife
 https://mutelife.com/2023/11/layover-in-helsinki/


🌟 Dark

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🛒 It’s a Sultans of Swing errands kind of morning…


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🚪 There’s a “knock knock” joke in there, somewhere…

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😷 Little one still coughing, and a little feverish. Lots of cuddling going on.


🕊 90 photos are on their way… I can go to bed now.


🍜 A friend just sent a photo from Chiang Mai, a yummy bowl of Khao Soi. I love him, but hate him a little as well.


💊 Ok, Micro.blog, hope you feel better soon. Take care, I’ll come check on you in the morning.


🥖 Editing, but had a bit of this one before starting…

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🤒 Getting ready for the trip back home. tinyMovieStar a little feverish.


👨🏻💻 Just got home, editing with start in… 10 mins! Sunday night, I know, but I want to send this one today. Got plenty to keep me busy during the week.


🥰 We have some really good ones over here…
 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sdK60Iq-5fE


😳 Send help, my father-in-law is making us sit through another of André Rieu’s endless Christmas extravaganzas!


🧂 What took us there was, in my opinion, the least interesting part. Turns out salt is not a great material for sculpting.

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🏴☠ This is still going on, almost every day.

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👀 It was one of those days! Eating and drinking, non-stop.

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🧂 We moved to the in-laws last night, as my assignment for today involves something local, and odd: nativity scenes made with salt. Yes, you have read that right. Salt.


thingsThisWeek #76 https://maique.eu/2023/11/25/thingsthisweek.html


🍕 Following this haute cuisine movie, it’s pizza for dinner. tinyMovieStar requested that from her personal butler.


Ratatouille, 2007 - ★★★★½ https://maique.eu/2023/11/24/ratatouille.html


🐭 Father&daughter evening starts with Ratatouille.


🇹🇷 Istanbul has 41 entries on Atlas Obscura. Impressive.
 https://www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do/istanbul-turkey/places https://www.atlasobscura.com/


Spy, 2015 - ★★★ https://maique.eu/2023/11/24/spy.html


🏓 Still editing…

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🤩 Editing photos, watching “Spy”, thinking about lunch, prepping stuff for tomorrow’s assignment. All at once. Yay for espresso X3!


🎒 Kindergarten Commute

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☕ Maybe coffee will help. It almost always does…

Have a good morning, y’all.
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😫 Up since 5AM, still have a cold, and installed Tik Tok to see what that thing is all about. What else could go wrong?


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🖍 Wine Naming

Should be editing these, but can’t find the strength to do it.

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"As a manager I have an ethos of never asking somebody to do something that I wouldn’t do myself (if I have the requisite skill and capability)."

🚀 The Mop Will Always Be Your Friend | Canion dot Blog
 https://canion.blog/2023/11/21/the-mop-will.html


😪 Since I have a cold, no new photos so far.

Here’s to the old ones, dark and horizontal! Have a pot-pourri…

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🏴☠ Feeling like a pirate! Also, I have a cold.


"As humans, we’re surrounded by objects. We pay very little attention to the vast majority of them but they’re there, they’re all around us."

"I’m aware it’s probably silly, but I want more beautiful objects in this world. Objects made with love, with care."

🚀 On creating beautiful things
 https://manuelmoreale.com/on-creating-beautiful-things


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🚶🏻♂ Package drop + packages pickup + tinyMovieStar drop off + tinyMovieStar pick up + walk to passport office and back. I feel those 8 floors are way under what it should be. This is Lisbon, after all. I did those in the building alone.

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🧳 movieStar needed a new passport, we took care of that today. In and out of the passport office in 15 mins, no appointment, just walked in. Super nice lady too. When things work, it’s great.


🎄 Window shopping on our way to the passport office.

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💺 Istanbul - Cappadocia flights have been purchased. Next: book hotels, and pack our bags. We’re in “T- a week and a couple of days” territory around here.


👏🏼 Quick email to Dropshare support, and they sent a link to an earlier release, one that works with my old Catalina. Brilliant.


👀 Picking up a couple of packages, and two photos on the way.

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"It shields your computer’s IP address from other websites while passing all your web traffic through a server owned by Google. This gives Google a God’s-eye view of every website you visit at all times while using Chrome, whether you are logged in to your Google Account or not. There is zero privacy benefit to IP Protection in its current form, and we strongly recommend people do not enable it."

🚀 Google Chrome’s IP Protection is privacy washing
 https://protonvpn.com/blog/google-ip-protection/


🧼 Ongoing cleanup. They’ve been at it for over a month now…

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🗞 About page updated with font information. It was missing, unbelievably, and that is now fixed.
 https://maique.eu/about/


Another awesome deal, thanks Vincent.

"40% off on the yearly (usually $20) using OMGWHATAREYOUDOING. Use it, share it, print it on T-Shirts 😋"

🚀 If you’re on the edge of subscribing to shoutouts, I have so… // Vincent Ritter
 https://vincentritter.com/2023/11/22/01-06-33


"Users who have ad blockers installed may experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."

🚀 YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users
 https://www.404media.co/youtube-says-new-5-second-video-load-delay-is-supposed-to-punish-ad-blockers-not-firefox-users/


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💾 Over 2000 photos on this trip, bringing the number of photos in my Photos.app to over 200000. Gosh!


💖 Back in the city, a #loveProject on the corner.

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🍷 Rock’n’Roll

Final photo of this report. Thousands more to look at and edit.

Heading back to the city, time to pick up tinyMovieStar!
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🌳 Countryside maique. Picnicking.

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🧸 Just your regular Portuguese rest area on the highway…

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🗡 They take the whole Knights Templar thing very seriously in Tomar. It’s everywhere!

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💴 Got Ships Wreck, but I don’t think this will be the only one I get. And editing CSS files on the iPhone at breakfast is FUN!


🏨 Good morning. Strange, waking up at an hotel without the girls. At least there’s coffee in the room!


🖍 Pick a font, one font…

Which one should I pair with Atkinson Hyperlegible, font experts?

SimpleBits.

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🇦🇺 Pink Blunnies are dead, long live the new Blunnies.

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🪑 After lunch. On to the next stop…

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🍇 First stop.

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🎒 Here we go…

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Instant follow, thank you.

"you should follow the (unofficial) @merlinwisdom@botsin.space. It’s an account that spits out a random entry from Merlin Mann’s Wisdom Project (…) every six hours."

🚀 7 Things This Week [#119] - HeyDingus
 https://botsin.space/@merlinwisdom http://wisdom.limo/ https://heydingus.net/blog/2023/11/7-things-this-week-119


☕ Awake since 4AM, thinking if I would get back to sleep. Seems like I won’t. It’s close to 6AM now. Maybe I should just get up, have an espresso, and start getting ready for a day on the road, visiting more vineyards.


We need a movie made out of this one…

"These particular Kit Kats would become the key players in an ultimately frustrating saga of shell email accounts, phantom truckers, supply-chain fraud and one seriously bewildered cargo freight broker."

🚀 How to Hijack a Quarter of a Million Dollars in Rare Japanese Kit Kats - The New York Times
 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/dining/kit-kats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9Ew.Efyw.Z-rjOfH_cQz9&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email


🎨 That 5AM street art post. I wonder if I’ll get back to sleep…

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Saving, sharing, testing later…

"I like to keep my photo library organised, which includes location information to all photos I take with my big camera."

🚀 Record GPS tracks and Geo-tag Photos on iPhone
 https://florian.ec/blog/iphone-gps-geo-tag-photos/


😻 It’s been a while, but here he is again: Gaspar, almost in time for #caturday.

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🧳 Spending two days on the road, Monday and Tuesday. Can’t say I’m totally happy with it… I’ll miss ballet, meals, sleep time, laughs, hugs, kisses,… too much!


🌐 Decided to publish this week’s thingsThisWeek on HEY’s World as well. As a test, nothing more than that…
 https://world.hey.com/maique/thingsthisweek-75-8ce12dd1


🧸 Rompecabezas!

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🎁 It’s that time of the year again, when watches are showing up everywhere, even old school printed press. Tudor looks nice paired with Nazaré and Nic Von Rupp.

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🔥 First order of business for today: fireplace.


🌟 We needed a star for our Christmas tree, so grandpa made one with tinyMovieStar.

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🐘 Back in Santa’s Workshop

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🔭 After yesterday’s crying fit, we had to ask our friend to drive by on her way to work. tinyMovieStar missed her TOO MUCH!

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🏊♀ Watching how further along tinyMovieStar gets with each passing week on the swimming pool is awesome. Particularly proud today, but it’s a pleasure to watch every time.


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☔ Dark and rainy. Swimming class in under an hour, and we’re walking there. Would rather stay home.


🍊 Parked Orange

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👀 Our afternoons are now nights. Light is gone by the time we get home.

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Awesome work, great client!

"It’s a delightful web app to view your timeline, make posts and keep up with conversations."

🚀 Hey Loura! -
 https://heyloura.com/2023/11/17/want-to-try.html


🧑🏻🍳 Replies to write, photos to edit, things to read, stuff to buy… but have to cook dinner!

See you later.


☢ Throat soreness, muscle pain, someone’s getting tested again… It’s movieStar!

Negative, in the end.
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🇹🇷 We’re adding Capadoccia to the plan, now that Petra is definitely out.


🤓 WIP… Kagi is working on an email service, and HEY is launching a calendar…


A cool use of AI, with dutchcyclinglifestyle.com.

"reimagine what any street on Google Street View would look like as a bike- and pedestrian-friendly street."

This Dutch webapp uses AI to reimagine what any street… - kottke.org
 https://dutchcyclinglifestyle.com/ https://kottke.org/23/11/0043459-this-dutch-webapp-uses-ai


💨 The day started with a little mishap, so I had to wash a tiny pair of leggings, and blow dry them, in time for school. And I did.

Regular programming will resume shortly.


🇹🇷 Two weeks to go, we’re deep in the research part of the trip.


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💸 Sometimes it sucks to be a freelancer! I had an assignment tomorrow. It was postponed, now happening on Monday. But I have previous arrangements for Monday/Tuesday, so I’m missing this one…


💡 Warm

Late afternoon, after the mandatory stop at the playground.

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👩🏻🎤 Picking up the little one next, I’m sure she’s out of her Monster Mood. Leaving you with our national colours. Enjoy.

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Link includes 1:21 minutes of bliss. Can’t wait for full album.

"Philip Glass is coming out with a new album early next year called Philip Glass Solo. It was recorded during the early days of the pandemic at Glass’s home on his piano."

🚀 Philip Glass Solo - kottke.org
 https://philipglass.com/glassnotes/philip-glass-solo/ https://kottke.org/23/11/philip-glass-solo


🇯🇵 Candidate

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💰 OH! Looks like we got a refund on our “non-refundable” tickets!


🤬 Someone woke up in an AWFUL mood. Can’t remember the last time this happened.

Crying all the way to the car, and then good mood on our way to school. After a very noisy hour, crying with some kicking thrown in.


🌹 SOLVED! An engineer named Rose, from the security team, managed to remove the limits on the HEY account. Thank you, Rose, wherever you may be.


💶 Since I was up way too early today, I managed to finish “The Billionaire, The Butler, and the Boyfriend”.


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😩 First disappointment with HEY. Seems like new accounts are limited, for the first two months. I get that spam needs controlling, but who would spent $99 on an account for spam? Anyway, I have 144 parents waiting for an email, and I can’t send it.


💛 Yellow!

I’ve been a fan of yellow for a while, and now it’s a game as well. One I play with tinyMovieStar. Whenever a yellow vehicle drives by, she can gently slap me.

Yeah, I know. But I love it.

(I managed to turn white cars into hugs though, so I come out on top…)
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🇹🇭 A friend just sent a photo from a beach in Thailand, where he’s spending a few weeks. Since I can’t go there at the moment, I went to the next best place: the archive.

From when I shot horizontal, and darker, photos.

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📝 Found myself using HEY’s stickies feature. Handy.


I guess I’m spending part of today going down this list…

"Below, you’ll find a list of over 140 (🤯) Indie Apps that are offering discounts for Black Friday 2023! Each of these apps is developed by an Indie App Developer"

🚀 Indie App Sales - Black Friday Edition
 https://app.indieappsales.com/


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I don’t get as excited about this as I did back in the day, but still worth a look, I suppose.

"Today’s finalists include nearly 40 apps and games that span a wide variety of categories and range from creations by solo developers to big companies. It’s an eclectic mix that captures the breadth of the App Store well."

🚀 Apple Announces Close to 40 App Store Awards Finalists - MacStories
 https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-announces-close-to-40-app-store-awards-finalists/


🇯🇴 Small screwup, seems like we’re not going to Jordan after all, and are spending the week in Turkey. We do have tickets, mind you, just not great ones…


🌇 Cityscape at sunset, a postcard.

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"Stand for life. Stand for peace. Stand for not killing children, for fuck’s sake."

🚀 In the face of human rights abuses - Were I/O
 https://werd.io/2023/in-the-face-of-human-rights-abuses


🐈 Cats were shipped, just in case anyone was wondering…


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🥰 Having fun!

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Never heard about this one before, so cool.

"The Film Compax is distinguished from other UG chronographs by its purpose-built outer scales. These red and black scales are designed to indicate the amount of film used in feet per second: red for 16mm film and black for 35mm film, calibrated to the old industry standard of 24 frames per second. The three o’clock subdial has additional markers to keep measuring the amount of film used in feet per minute."

🚀 Hands-On With One Of The Rarest Universal Geneve Chronographs, Ever - HODINKEE
 https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/hands-on-with-one-of-the-rarest-universal-geneve-chronographs-ever


😶🌫 Foggy morning on the way to kindergarten.

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🥱 We’re having a Monday kind of Tuesday. 45 minutes after wake up time, all of us are still in bed. We should be leaving in 15 minutes.

How is your morning coming along?


"Parenting is a delicate balance of convincing your child they can do anything in life while simultaneously screaming “DON’T DO THAT!” every three minutes."

🚀 The Mum Crew - Instagram
 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyy4X6pv0h7/


👀 She went to ballet class, we went around the block again.

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😪 Let’s go get tinyMovieStar, and check her Snot Level. Ballet class is dependent on that.


😈 Not much accomplished on this here Monday, so far. Little things, mostly, but not a lot else.


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👀 Still Walking

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I know someone (cough… @vincent… cough…) you will be very happy.

"Otherwise known as sideloading, the change coming sometime in the first half of 2024 will allow customers to download apps without needing to use the App Store, which will mean developers won’t need to pay Apple’s 15 to 30 percent fees."

🚀 iPhone App Sideloading Coming to Users in the EU in First Half of 2024
 https://micro.blog/vincent https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/13/eu-iphone-app-sideloading-coming-2024/


👀 Done with Part I of the errands.

Back home to edit some photos.
tinyMovieStar sound asleep. Still.
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😴 The little one coughed a bit during the night, so we’re letting her sleep in. She’ll go to school when she wakes up. I’m running errands in the meantime.


🤓 Homescreen Update

It’s like the image on the left 99% of the time, and I never see it like the screenshot on the right. I just swipe to check, and swipe back to hide.

Orion and HEY are the new things, and still with Mona, Ivory hidden for now.
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🇲🇴 Another trip down Macau lane, while looking for something else…

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🤯 tinyMovieStar is 3 1/2. She just found out about Nutella.