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Kris Howard — Longtime blogger and tech professional in Sydney
Personal blog going back 25+ years from an American-Australian woman living in Sydney. Posts about food, travel, knitting and sewing, tech, entertainment, and FIRE/early retirement.
web-goddess.orgKris Howard has been blogging since 2000 — a quarter century of sewing projects, gallery visits, cooking experiments, and life in Sydney. web-goddess is a true personal blog in the classic sense: unapologetically eclectic, richly documented with photos, and written in a warm, funny voice that makes you feel like you're catching up with a friend. No AI, no algorithms, just a person sharing what they're making and thinking about.
Written by Kris Howard since 2000.
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Sydney Bookshops Part 2
Vanessa Berry has published her the second part of her blog series covering some of Sydney’s past and present bookshops. Kinokuniya and Dymocks are definitely the ones I know the best from that list. I remember that Borders though! I definitely bought some graphic novels and knitting books there twenty years ago. I also seem to remember visiting Galaxy a couple times. Rodd also reminded me that we saw Vanessa speak at the State Library last year (one year ago today, in fact!) about her han...
It me.
“The People Who Shun Super-Popular Pop Culture” – Yes, this resonates strongly. Hype aversion could be an attempt to balance the need for belonging with the need for differentiation. “People look to foster enough in-group behaviors that they feel a sense of social cohesion and belonging, but they also want to express a distinction from others, to avoid a loss of identity or anonymity.” Rodd and I both do this, even to the extent that it’s sometimes difficult f...
Audiophile
Last weekend we carted back to Sydney a big box of the Snook family vinyl collection, along with Bev’s old record player. Rodd is excited to kick off his Old Man Audiophile Era. (Previously he only had the Young Einstein soundtrack in the house.)
Mirror mirror on the wall
The very last renovation To Do was to get a mirror for the front hallway, which we did early this week at BoConcept. Now you can check your appearance before you leave the house! And with that, after two long years the renovation is COMPLETE! Full blog post with photos will follow…
Colour perception
Just spent several amusing minutes testing my ability to perceive colour differences. What’s My JND? 0.0025 Can you beat it? https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=APYiKP__78u7 I cruised through the beginning but then eventually hit a wall where it got hard. I had to make it full-screen, get my face close, and sweep from side to side. (Not sure if my extra-wide monitor helped or hindered!) I felt like I was messing up my rods and cones a bit too. On some of them, the difference woul...
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