Found on the Flickr stream of Eva S. – please click on the photo to visit her Flickr collection:
Thanks Eva! Made my day… 🙂
And God created Cat
Our neighbours’ cats…
… still come visiting from time to time. Mostly they’ll get something to eat and drink, and then they sometimes rest a while. Like Cookie:
Or like Wilma and Crunchy:
It’s not always that peaceful, so I took the chance to get some snapshots. Like always, thanks for viewing.
Backstreet Rookie – a webtoon series with awesome music
In case you have Netflix, this is a good tip (see Wikipedia and/or IMDB). I hadn’t heard the term ‘webtoon‘ before, but this seems to be the current big thing coming from Korea, and with this series based upon such a webtoon, that might explain its charm – it’s adorable. I totally agree with IMDB reviewer kgolmei who wrote that this is a “Must watch: A stress reliever!!!”. Even the music is awesome – here’s the 6-head girl group April with “Crazy”, one of the main themes of the show (together with a few pictures of it):
In case you prefer the lyrics, there’s another video with these.
Oh, and I always suggest watching shows like these in their original versions, with subtitles of your choice (I take English most of the time). That way, you get many more of the original expressions and feelings of the actors/actresses, most of which would be lost in translations.
Again, kgolmei is right: What a relief to see something this nice. And as always, thanks for reading/viewing/listening.
Wilma, hiding
Here’s a photo I took yesterday, when I saw Wilma in one of her favourite hiding spots:
They are all hunters and huntresses…
Like always, thanks for viewing.
This is interesting…
This…
Could it be that not everyone sees it as an improvement if new CPUs run at 95°C and draw over 200 Watts out of your wall sockets? With ever shrinking dies and conducting paths, energy saving could have been the goal, not beating Intel in frames per second in computer games. Who wants to draw 500 or more Watts just for gaming? Don’t these CEOs learn and think? Just look at Apple, their M2 chips are the ones to beat, not Intel’s…
My 5700G is perfect, and idling at less than 20 Watts while I’m writing this… and AMD’s 7000 series could have been so much better than that, it’s a shame to see what they did instead.
I was awake early enough, but…
… this small guy came and laid down right on my legs, where he felt safe & warm as it seems…
This is a collage of photos taken with my Google Pixel 4a phone, and in some cases, using its internal processing.
Like always, thanks for viewing.
Looking at / listening to Ardour 7.1 on Windows
Today I’ve been looking at & listening to the new Ardour 7.1 free and open source software DAW on Windows 11. Looks and sounds awesome:
The music you see within that program is from Dan and Chris, you can listen to that one on Wikiloops if you’d like to. The program seems to work fine, so next step is to also install it on Linux 🙂
And like always, thanks for viewing, listening, and reading.
Some phone shots from today – and some screenshots
At the moment, all three neighbours’ cats are here, and all are sleeping. Two (Wilma and Crunchy) on my bed, and one (Cookie) on the sofa. Earlier, I caught Wilma on my lap with the phone in my hands:
I had been trying different versions of LineageOS on an older Google Nexus 10 tablet device which we had laying around unused, and after trying some unofficial ones I decided to try the latest official build which you can get from Lineageosroms.com, which is LineageOS 13.0 – [ Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow) ] as you can see here:
That is some years old already as well (the tablet is about 10, this image more than 4 years old), but it is still a nice compromise between speed, stability, and features. Being the equivalent of Android 6 under its hood, I could even install the Zapp app from the F-Droid store, and so now we can watch Live and/or streamed TV on it, like so:
I had to interrupt my activities to send Mitchie to work with the car, and when we came down to the garage I saw that some neighbour had parked a nice new Honda motorcycle right in front of their partly covered Fiat 500 and beside our car. After coming back, I took a quick pic of that as well:
Oh, and when looking into my blog software today I saw that I’ve got a new version of that as well:
So I’ll have to see what’s new, and whether any of the also new templates (2022 and 2023) are looking good…
So all photos in this article came from my Pixel 4a phone, and the screenshots from my computer. As always, thanks for reading and for viewing.
What’s New in Ardour 7.0
I had downloaded the new Ardour 7.0 for both Linux and Windows as soon as it was released, but haven’t tried it yet (except that on Windows I installed it parallel to the 6.9 version I already had).
In case you’re interested, here’s what’s new, in about 4 minutes:
Maybe I’ll try it with the next song & project I’ll be “working” on 🙂
As always, thanks for watching. And thanks and congrats to the Ardour team of course.
Edit, from later the same day: as soon as I show this, there’s a new version again. See here…
Sad news indeed…
Terrible to read about the passing of Don T., one of the bluesiest guys I’ve ever heard on Wikiloops… he was a good friend and once even wrote a song for me. I had the honour and pleasure to play on his latest song in the ‘loops and asked him with a PM whether he would also consider to sing on it, no answers so I was thinking of him. So here you have it with a lead guitar from Carlo instead of Don singing:
This track is embedded with the friendly permission by the creatives on wikiloops.com.
Condolences to Don’s family, he truly was a wonderful guy! Rest in peace my friend…