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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • lol as a piano player I feel like my hands get quite a bit of exercise

    And in general piano players are known for having quite large hands (although that’s by no means universal) it really makes some things quite a lot easier. I think it also trains you to stretch your handspan more than non-piano-players can with equivalently sized hands, although I’m sure that won’t help you open a beer ofc.






  • I was about to say this same fact on another comment above, but then I read the wikipedia article again

    apparently it isn’t like an ‘official’ national dish, I guess it comes from Foreign Secretary Robin Cook referring to it as “a true british national dish” in a speech

    Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences. Chicken Tikka is an Indian dish. The Massala sauce was added to satisfy the desire of British people to have their meat served in gravy. (full speech) (wikipedia)






  • will cost probably a lot more but if you find a good deal on a superzoom camera those are neat because at the max zoom range you can get some shots that not many other cameras can take (and certainly not phones)

    I got a used sx60 hs for like $200 a couple years ago, compared to my phone (oneplus 12) it’s decent at macro, great at high zoom, but worse at basically anything else. of course if you want that look then it’s good for that too lol.

    Also keep in mind that those all have pretty small sensor sizes (actually apparently the sx60 hs has exactly the same sensor size as this camera) so you need the area to be pretty bright for max zoom to be usable, and fast subjects are pretty hard.

    curated photo dump:

    TV

    captive birds

    wild birds (i really don’t know why that hawk let us get so close to it…)

    full zoom

    macro (it can actually focus on the lens, if you ever want to do that)

    top of the london eye

    random helicopter

    can get some nice bokeh

    full zoom range across the thames