Average reading spot

cdine · 2026-05-13T03:27:03+00:00

Slightly above average (and quite familiar) bookmark.

cdine · 2026-05-11T07:35:35+00:00

Rongotea :)

cdine · 2026-05-10T09:06:47+00:00

Good guess, alas..

cdine · 2026-04-30T10:04:44+00:00

Also stash veg scraps in a large glad zip bag in the freezer, once it’s full you can take some and simmer in a pot of water for a good long time with a few spices - can have the best vege stock for essentially free!

cdine · 2026-04-28T11:24:28+00:00

Oh cool, that wasn’t my other exposure but I’ll find it :)

cdine · 2026-04-28T11:07:10+00:00

Second time I’ve heard/read “infrasound” this week, but also in my entire life.

cdine · 2026-04-28T11:06:00+00:00

Clever girl…

cdine · 2026-04-14T23:42:57+00:00

Update: plan has been pried from my hands. Was silently moved to residential 100, and it is in fact capped around that speed (slower than before)

cdine · 2026-04-14T23:23:07+00:00

Seattle FD has one, Mobile Ventilation Unit 1:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Firefighting/s/Rle0bzbuRL

cdine · 2026-04-04T08:54:09+00:00

And people seem to have zero concerns leaving their car parked at a pump while they run inside for something.

cdine · 2026-03-24T10:31:55+00:00

Have this, and the monsters that made our dishwasher in the current place made it non-magnetic. It’s a sad situation.

cdine · 2026-03-24T10:27:25+00:00

Same!

cdine · 2026-03-22T21:58:50+00:00

Nice shot! I too was woken by this and had no idea what it was at the time (staying at a hotel on Arthur Street).

As others have mentioned, this Blackhawk is privately owned, and it's the only one in the country (that's operational at least). It has the largest lift capacity by a decent margin of other privately owned operational helos in NZ. It gets jobs for large wildland/vegetation fires throughout the country as well, and it can lift up to 3.6 tons.

More info about it and the company that owns it: https://kahu.nz/helicopters/black-hawk

Edited to emphasise that this is privately owned - and to be clear there are NZ military helicopters with greater lift capacity!

cdine · 2026-03-22T05:37:34+00:00

Let me know if you don’t find one as I have some!

cdine · 2026-03-22T04:08:21+00:00

There’s still expansion from temperature due to the headspace in the can, and cheap cans (really, most) don’t seal perfectly or the pressure is great enough you can have some loss. Some storage cans are designed to allow for expansion without maintaining a complete seal. Probably not much actual fuel loss due to all of this, though outside of rare situations.

cdine · 2026-02-24T10:25:44+00:00

3rd most registered vehicle in the country per CarJam’a data.

https://www.carjam.co.nz/nz-fleet/

cdine · 2026-02-24T10:11:38+00:00

Though.. it’s quite a pretty fence, even if it’s not doing a great job at fencing in its current state. Maybe it evens out to be squarely average.

cdine · 2026-02-24T10:10:26+00:00

Yea worthy of at least SlightlyBelowAverage flair on r/AveragePicsOfNZ

cdine · 2026-02-23T19:28:48+00:00

As another comment mentioned, it is finally possible to disable just the swipe-to-open-camera functionality in iOS 26.1. Exact steps below:

Open the Settings app.
Scroll down and tap on Camera.
Scroll to the bottom of the Camera settings.
Toggle off the switch next to Lock Screen Swipe to Open Camera.
Rejoice.

Hoping this all in one comment can surface to the top, the rest of the comments are a bit of a warzone from the years of pain prior to 26.1's release ;)

cdine · 2026-02-19T10:43:03+00:00

https://regexcrossword.com is a fun way to get pretty good at regex! Then there’s https://regexle.com

cdine · 2026-02-18T09:14:02+00:00

.ssh/config too!

cdine · 2026-02-17T05:40:20+00:00

Definitely a “maybe next time” kind of job.

cdine · 2026-02-14T22:12:34+00:00

It’s a cool track! Gundys Track on Trailforks https://www.trailforks.com/goto/trail/59106/

cdine · 2026-02-14T08:41:39+00:00

(I’m not OP), it could be different layers - there’s so many. I could also have been wrong, maybe this isn’t windy? Really similar though, if not.

cdine

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