I’ve just released Catfood Earth for Android 1.10. You can control the center of the screen manually (the most requested new feature) and also tweak the transparency of each layer and the width of the terminator between day and night. It also starts a lot faster and has fewer update glitches. Grab it from Google Play if this looks like your sort of live wallpaper.
Inexplicably .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 are not installed by default in Windows 8 and can’t be installed using the redistributables that worked with previous versions of Windows. You have to go digging in Windows Features to get anything older than 4.0.
Like the Internet, The Wave Organ is a series of tubes. Unlike the Internet it groans at you in different ways as the tide comes in and out. It's also a nice walk on a blustery day with great views around the bay and back over to the Marina.
(Google Earth KML, Google Maps)
Hike starts at: 37.806707, -122.446921.
2/5
Good yarn, poorly spun.
Two raccoons in my back yard in Bernal Heights.
The Golden Gate Bridge from the Marin Headlands with San Francisco in the background.
Photo of the view from Magic Mountain in Cazadero, Sonoma.
I'd love to not care what the Church of England thinks about allowing women to become Bishops. But sadly it's the established church of England and we allow Bishops to sit in the House of Lords (which needs a complete overhaul, that that's a different blog post).
The Government's position on the vote is to be "disappointed":
A Downing Street spokesman said the prime minister thought there should be women bishops and was disappointed at the result of the vote, but that it was "a matter for the Church to decide".
Nick Clegg is disappointing. Which Book of Prayer to use is a matter for the Church to decide. Excluding women from the upper management of the official state religion when those managers also play a role in Government is a travesty.
Unless we're going to allow Jedi in the legislature it's time to kick the Bishops out of the Lords. It's also past time to disestablish the Church of England and have proper separation of Church and State in the UK.
A chair sits mysteriously on Bernal Hill. It later disappeared. Like the owls.
Following yesterday's post on the California 2012 Propositions here's a shorter post on how I'm planning to vote on the San Francisco ballot initiatives:
A: City College Parcel Tax
Yes, happy to pay another $79 a year to support City College.
B: Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks Bond
Yes, park improvements for a littler over $50 a year.
C: Housing Trust Fund
Yes, a modest amount of money to include affordable housing in a city that desperately needs it.
D: Consolidating Odd-Year Municipal Elections
Yes, because there are too many elections already.
E: Gross Receipts Tax
Yes, makes more sense than taxing payroll and doesn't tax businesses until you're over $1M in revenue (whereas the payroll tax hits pre-revenue startups).
F: Water and Environment Plan
No, this is a study on draining the Hetch Hetchy reservoir. Which is just crazy. I might not support building it today but it makes no sense to look at getting rid of it now. Plus that water is really nice.
G: Policy Opposing Corporate Personhood
Yes, because a San Francisco policy will totally reverse hundreds of years of legal precedent. More seriously, corporations are not people and while a policy won't reverse the malign influence of unlimited corporate spending on elections it doesn't hurt to whine about it a little.
Robert Ellison's blog, I Thought He Came With You, on the Fediverse via fed.brid.gy. Photography, time lapse, programming, politics, hikes and more.
