Notices by Harshad Sharma (harshad@mastodon.sharma.io), page 2

Protip for people with absurd number of cats who share your bed: drop some kibble in the bowl just before you go to bed. Usually makes enough space to get under the blanket. If that fails, brush the cats still on bed and they're more amenable to being gently lifted and moved like tetris pieces to defragment the space.

The sky is looming with dark clouds again.

Want to write some code that's been brewing in my head, but also want to harvest dried banana leaves before heavy rains drench them again (for attempting to grow oyster mushrooms later).

Okay, guess I'll have some coffee first 😂

@msbellows glad you're okay!

had to rush my father to ER ~15 years ago because of similar symptoms, he was speaking and looking okay, but turned out he was having a heart attack and only survived because we reached the ER in time. It's good to take this seriously first and then laugh how it was nothing than the alternative.

Whatchoodoing? - Cosmo

#pets #cats

Kenji has a vantage point for naps.

#pets #cats

The colorful Poombarai village

#motorcycle #motorcycles #Kodaikanal

Faxing a program to C compiler

https://youtu.be/pJ-25-pRhpY

(Many moons ago, I had a python interpreter hooked into my mailbox on a *nix server - was fun to send an SMS from a dumb phone, which would be forwarded via an email gateway and receive the output back as SMS in seconds)

I love #FreeBSD, have used it since early 2000s and see myself relying on its Power to Serve for the next two decades.

However, I've been itching to have a mobile/web GUI to manage my several FreeBSD servers as running servers is no longer my day job.

I also want to showcase and share all the good things, with anyone curious about this OS, that make me choose it over alternatives. Especially beginners who have no prior exposure to the Unix environment and cli.

Hence: https://brew.bsd.cafe/hiway/freedive/

Moments like this, I miss being able to comfortably type with one hand on mobile devices: cats cuddled between torso and arms, can't get hands close enough to type. This is beyond even first world problems 😂

Tangent: these large screen devices with glass keyboards, no bezel and slippery backs seem like they're designed to fall and break often. Would not be surprised if that was the actual design brief coming down from representatives of shareholders.

When you're not sure what you're experiencing is mid life crisis or midwife crisis 😬 New baby cow didn't have milk for several hours, finally fed her mum's milk with a bottle.

She loves to cuddle already, and dozed off on my lap. Now indoors because it's getting cold with the evening.

#pets #cows

#Caturday done, need to charge up my catteries!

Guess I'm sleeping somewhere else…

#pets #cats #caturday

Too close to equator, at least I got to see some lightning and stuff 😆

A fiery March morning, 2021.

#Kodaikanal

Why's there so much smoke?

The darkness of night makes is easier to spot:

As the wind dies down, the smoke from smoldering logs around the hill settles into the valley, forming a thick cloud. This is the 4th day we'll be breathing smoke all night. It clears up when wind picks up again in the day.

All because slash and burn agriculture is still a thing and humans are #&%§∆.

😂😭

Chimkin's first egg 🥺

Others started laying as days got longer, this one is still getting a hang of things.

Weather app has no idea (this is low clouds layer) but, the forests are still alive and doing their thing ✨

Clouds are coming in, along with smoke from more trees burning on the other side of the hill.

Brownie is happy about the clouds, so am I

Temperature is 30°C indoors in an airy room today. All animals (including me) are feeling sluggish and just want to lie down. I'm ensuring everyone has cool water to drink nearby.

This is not normal in the hills, 26°C is about as hot as it used to get only a few years ago.

I shudder when I recall being passed out in a pool of sweat whole day when temps in plains rose to 45+°C in summer. It is getting worse there.

#Kodaikanal #Weather