How I Transformed My Flat into a Smart Home with #HomeAssistant
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Up close, the aging visages of the moai are riddled with signs of erosion and staining.
They are gradually wearing away to dust.
Tuki, who works in Rapa Nui's tourism industry, is essentially watching these stunning figures slowly disappear.
"My father told me that the moai would go back into the ocean one day," she says.
Tuki's father, who died in 2020, was a famed contemporary moai sculptor.
The original statues, mostly carved between 110…
This is husband's and my first fathers day without any of our father figures still living.
Husband's father died last September. My grandfather, who with my grandmother raised me, died years ago. As did my father.
So, my father in law became my "Dad" too and for many decades he was only one we could call on fathers day.
It will be sad and strange not making the video call to him today. He was a darling man, and although his last few years were somewhat blu…
So fun things with this camper conversion. The day after I dropped it off he tells me a medical crisis is gonna stop him being able to do the work.
Later find out that now he's over 50 he decided to go on a health kick, and only drink distilled water.
🤦♂️
So he ended up flushing all the electrolytes out of his system and having a nervous system crisis the week he was supposed to be working on my van.
😆
Consult your doctors about your health-kicks people!
He managed to fit a kit thing, rather than do the custom job. Seems possible that will be enough and it won't be rescheduled, but live in it a bit first to find out.
Managed to sleep in it okay, even poorly parked on a slope and with a fractured wrist.
Jim Croce wrote:
Movin' me down the highway,
Rollin' me down the highway,
Movin' ahead so life won't pass me by...I got a name...and I carry it with me like my daddy did, but I'm livin' the dream that he kept hid.
He had a song. Now we have it.
#MusicIsTheBest #Music
Spend management startup Alaan raised a $48M Series A led by Peak XV, one of the Middle East's largest Series A rounds for a fintech, after a $2.5M seed in 2021 (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/ai-p