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I'm a bit of an eclectic mess 🙂 I've been a programmer, journalist, editor, TV producer, and a few other things.

I'm currently working on my second novel which is complete, but is in the edit stage. I wrote my first novel over 20 years ago but then didn't write much till now.

I post about #Coding, #Flutter, #Writing, #Movies and #TV. I'll also talk about #Technology, #Gadgets, #MachineLearning, #DeepLearning and a few other things as the fancy strikes ...

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Laurie Ashton Farook

Pine on a Ridge

2023-03-02 day 258 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

This is complete experimentation on my part. I see things I would change if I were to do it again, and yet, I still like it.

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/pine-on-a-ridge/

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Laurie Ashton Farook

Edited 2 years ago
Northern Lights

2023-02-28 to 2023-03-01 day 256/257 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

I’m not entirely happy with this, but I wasn’t making it any better, so I said enough and I’m calling it done. No doubt I’ll try this again. Later. Sometime.

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/northern-lights/

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Laurie Ashton Farook

Mountain Mist

2023-02-26/27 day 254/255 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

This is another tutorial by Joel Create.

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/mountain-mist/

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@greysemanticist Interesting, and thank you again 🙂 Will try this out and let you know if I manage to make it work for me.

I’ve been wearing glasses since I was like 12 or 13 but recently it’s become more of an issue since I can’t now read without glasses either (originally I was near sighted). So am looking for solutions that don’t involve lasik since I am not quite comfortable with the idea of eye surgery …
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@greysemanticist Ah, thank you 🙂 I got an e-mail sometime back which said that it can help you figure out how to restore your vision to 20/20 (the e-mail was in the spam folder, incidentally …) and that led me down several YouTube searches which led me to some videos but none of them were particularly useful.

So when I saw your post, I was intrigued. Will watch the video and give it a try and see how it goes …
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@greysemanticist I’m curious, is this something you learnt online (where there might be a link perhaps?) Or, something that you discovered on your own?
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From 1974 to 2003, the head of the Catholic Church in the Philippines was Cardinal Sin. When he had visitors, he greeted them with the words ‘Welcome to the house of sin’.

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Hopped off the shuttle at Yaki point for sunset.

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sometimes I come home with leaves and petals in my hair. maybe spiders. I like spring.

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Judge Wyndham's Oak is well documented to be 1000 years old and it's still putting out new leaves and buds

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We have a couple of daffodils in our yard. I'm not sure how they got here. So pretty. @plants

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Laurie Ashton Farook

Cave Sunset

2023-02-24/25 day 252/253 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). 

I followed a Joel Create tutorial.

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/cave-sunset/

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Laurie Ashton Farook

Pink Tree

2023-02-22/23 day 250/251 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). 

This was a Joel Create tutorial. If you watch the timelapse, you will see that I change my mind a fair bit and redo things. I change the leaves entirely at least three times until I was happy. I’m sure there are faster, more efficient ways to get things done, but I am not there yet. 😀

For more info, follow this link: https://lmashton.com/pink-tree/

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A striking visualisation of : the date of Kyoto cherry blossoms' reaching full bloom, plotted over the past 1000 years.

Thanks to the cultural significance of cherry blossoms in Japan, we have data on the specific day of the year when a very particular species of cherry blossom (P. jamasakura) reached "full-flowering" (満開) in a specific area on the outskirts of Kyoto (Arashiyama), all the way back to 800 AD.

The trend of the past 50 years is hard to miss…

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Happy to share the early online version of our new study (): https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acc81a

We use to detect the emergence of distinguishable climate patterns in a new model experiment simulating stratospheric aerosol injection relative to a moderate future emissions scenario.

I have a summary of the paper at https://zacklabe.com/climate-signals-and-explainable-ai/. More on this all soon!

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Various Cladonia lichen and moss landscape among rocks

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Google employees are known as ‘Googlers’. New employees are ‘Nooglers’ and dogs that come to work with their owners are ‘Dooglers.

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@AngelaPreston The wife and I both loved, “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” on the Switch 🙂 The great thing about the Switch for us was that we could take the game with us anywhere and play anywhere. But as we get older and eye-sight becomes weaker, the handhelds just don’t work for us 😛

Similarly, we loved the Xbox back in the day when the Kinect was there because we could do active gaming without controllers — like play tennis or bowling. But sadly, they discontinued the Kinect and so it isn’t as compelling to us now.

The other thing that we love about the PlayStation, that I forgot to mention, is that it seems to have more couch co-op games. Sure, couch co-op doesn’t seem to be that popular generally, but we love it since that allows us to play together with two controllers and on the same TV screen and that’s a huge draw for us 🙂
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