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Before the Sunrise
Aug 11 - I usually sleep very well, till these amazing sunrises keep waking me up through our bedroom window.
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Aug 29:
Public Forum w/Eddie Chu
Aug 25:
Creating Something From Nothing
A few new experiments, starting
with the same grey-noise-only
image. Creating something out of
(almost) nothing, with a little
help from Google's AI
algorithms:
 
Here's the photo I started with,
just a mistake from my camera.
All the other images have been
created from this original.
 
 
More of my Deep Dreams...
Aug 20:
Lightning Storm
 
Impressive light and sound
effects this early morning, some
of them directly overhead,
waking us up, instead of our
usual colourful sunrises. And
the frogs going all night! Can't
we get a decent night of sleep
on Lamma! Too much nature! ;~}
All of this commotion made me
rush to my home office PC to
check it out online, after
unplugging our broadband
Internet line first, a must on
Lamma if you value your
broadband modem. Thanks to our
4G mobile phone hotspots, we can
surf pretty fast and wireless
even during a thunderstorm.
I found an additional sound
effect:
a wailing alarm siren
going off on the HK Observatory
web page above, if lightning is
detected within a specified
distance from your location,
like the 3 cloud-to-ground
lightning strikes shown above
right, pretty close to our
bedroom!
Aug 18:
Dora the Explorer, Pilgrim w/a Tent
My neighbour
Dora the
Explorer is crossing a street in
Rome, Italy, inspired by The Beatles
album "Abbey Road".
This marks the end of her
amazing pilgrimage along the
famous
Via Francigena trek from France, Switzerland to Italy, famous since
Roman times.
She writes:
"I can't think of words to
describe the gratitude inside me
for you who have generously
blessed my walk on Via
Francigena.
I don't want to
name you here one after another
because I will miss out someone
and because I hold you all
closely to my heart. Thank you.
Merci beaucoup. Grazie Mille.
I apologise if this simple note
here cannot, and will never,
measure up to the love,
hospitality, acceptance, joy,
understanding, even sorrow and
difficulties you have shared
with me. Nothing can measure up
to that. But at least I want you
to know I am very thankful for
you, you, and you.
The walk
has come to an end.
If you ever wonder what I am up
to after the walk, feel free to
click to the link below. Every
now and then when I feel the
ripples of VF washing through my
face, I will put some words
there.
For now, take care. God bless.
I wish you a safe journey
onward, bonne route and buon
cammino."
Here's one of the many Dora
Drawings she created along the
way. Plus the certificates that
she completed the pilgrimage.
 
P.S.
My message to Dora
at journey's end:
"You've just been mentioned on
RTHK Radio 3
a few minutes ago, by HK pilgrim
Steve you walked up to in Rome.
He's been reporting from the
same pilgrimage almost every day
live on the radio (returned to
HK now). I messaged you about
his radio reports before, so you
approached him in Rome!"
Aug 17:
'Fool Me Twice'
Exciting excerpt from Lammaite
Jules Hannaford's
upcoming book, to be launched
this month in Bookazine Prince's
Bldg.! Also on Amazon.
Read an excerpt, "The Failed
Escape"...
Jules has just been interviewed
by RTHK's Phil Whelan this
morning about her upcoming book
Fool Me Twice
(direct link to program, go to
35 minutes in).
This book is inspiring me to
maybe do a few Lamma-zine
stories about my own "Fool Me
Thrice"
online dating experiences
in the 1980s, pre-Internet,
causing me to move to HK 31
years ago and marry my online
sweetheart Lamma-Por.
I doubt that anybody would
care much today when it's become
so commonplace. But back then
our online-cum-real dating was
an exceedingly rare experience,
worthy of newspaper stories and
RTHK radio interviews. Oh, wait,
online dating is still worthy of
books and interviews, it seems!
Aug 11:
Before the Sunrise
I usually sleep very well, till
these amazing sunrises keep
waking me up through our bedroom
window, urging me to rush to the
rooftop and set up my camera,
zoom & tripod quickly!
Quite frequently I'm not fast
enough, pre-morning coffee, and
the fleeting colours have faded
away already within just a few
minutes.
My latest creative distraction,
trying to improve my photo above
artistically, using the Deep
Dream AI generator (I should
have been deep-dreaming in bed
instead of on my rooftop at such
an early hour!):
A few
attempts:
 
 
 
P.S. A few more of my
recent Deep Dreams...
Aug 7:
Milestone at Lamma Power Station
Officiating guests perform the
traditional roasted-pig carving
ceremony to celebrate the smooth
completion of L10 construction."
Free company lunch today,
celebrating the completion of
the installation of all major
components of a new gas-fired
generation unit. So it was a
well-deserved lunch indeed and
my favourite photo from HK
Electric's news release today.
Short-term target: More than
50% of power generated from much
cleaner gas. Long term target:
70% gas-fired by 2023!
Including
L10, three gas-fired units of HK
Electric will be commissioned
successively within the next
five years.
Milestone
at Lamma Power Station to Usher
in A New Era of Gas Generation
(7 Aug 2018)
Lamma Island Uncensored FB group
discussion (joining
required), mostly about
"Whatever happened to the
Govt.'s former renewable energy
plans?"
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