Just played the opening hours of CoD Infinite Warfare. Sadly the man babies insisted ejecting from a fighter jet onto the hull of a massive space ship, bouncing around in zero-G, blowing out the front window, charging through the ship, and jumping out the hanger at the back wasn’t realistic enough so we’ll probably never get another of these again.
Still using this in my lecture on color theory, though the undergrads never get it. (Most of the grads don't either, now, to be fair.)
My kettle died the other day so I’ve been making tea in a saucepan on the hob. It’s induction so it doesn’t really take any long than boiling a kettle, and you get a fantastic brew if you throw the tea bag in at the start. I may just not bother replacing the kettle.
Every now and then I remember that the UK tech startup scene is actually about 25 people who all know each other. If you hit the right pub on the right night you could cripple the UK economy.
Oh no, Moriarty just phished Picard and got the command codes for the Enterprise! Starfleet really should require 2FA for things like transferring command of their flagship.
Sat down on my bed with my phone. Never. Ever. Do that. It’s now an hour later and I’ve done nothing but aimlessly read the internet rather than going to bed.
I have reached DS9 in my rewatch of the Star Trek I grew up with, Next Generation, DS9, Voyager. I’d forgotten how hard it goes from the outset, and how well they used season 6 of TNG to lay the groundwork.
(Sorry Original Series fans, I tried watching that as well but I’m afraid it’s aged like a pint of milk on a summer’s day, especially the “HD” version where it’s incredibly obvious everything is made of polystyrene)
This is on account of the fact that if you drink enough of it your heartbeat will be so fucking regular you can’t escape it.
https://halo.nu/users/theguardian_us_news/statuses/115524859471160044
browser extension that automatically blocks the opening third of every informational article where they tell you, who are looking for specific information about a named grain of wood, what a tree is
Jesus Christ. I ordered some takeaway from Uber Eats because it’s the only app that store is on and their website is awful.
As I was plating: “Did the food get delivered? Tell us when, help us train our model.”
20 minutes later: “Rate your meal”
Just now: “Pweeeease will you rate your meal?”
STOP BEING SO NEEDY COMPANIES.
Tried to climb this evening having not registered the 12km I’ve walked today because it wasn’t recreational walking. To the surprise of nobody but me it was unimpressive, gave up after 40 minutes of barely dragging myself up the simplest boulders.
This morning I have cleared a drain pipe of a minging fatberg, and replaced a plug socket. Pretty sure this entitles me to 1 (one) week off being an adult.
Achievement Unlocked: Planted into the mat from near the top of a boulder because while I’d got up, I had insufficient energy left to get back down again.
I’ve decided I’m dubbing VR headsets “funny metaverse hats”. Sorry, Zuck, you brought that one on yourself.
Me, 90 minutes ago: I’ll see how far I get on this in half an hour.
On the plus side, I completed not one but two climbs I’ve been struggling with for some time today. On the negative side, good God, my entire body aches now.
I’m very much enjoying having A Project but it’s not doing my sleep cycle any good at all. Or more accurately my sleep deficit, because unfortunately just because I’m going to bed an hour or so late most nights doesn’t mean I can get up an hour or so late the next day.
I always find the build up to remembrance day difficult - because the mainstream way to remember is not the way I remember
Because many who say "lest we forget" - remember only what they choose to
Because we have forgotten to fight nazis
Because the UK forgot that the EU was the way we ensured "never again"
Because they gave everything and went through hell to save our world - now we argue about giving up plastic straws to save it for our kids.
I left my ISP a less than perfect Trustpilot review yesterday, broadly summarised as “good internet, wish they’d stop begging for a good review”. Their response was to call me, and then when I didn’t pick up email, to see if might be persuaded to make the review better.
I’m tempted to go drop it a star in response. Regardless, this is now going to be my response to all NPS score emails where it’s clear the answer won’t result in a callcentre worker getting bollocked.
News site developers who push your site’s home page into the history stack over the top of wherever I came from: there’s a special place in hell for you.
It’s not terrible or anything. Just an eternity of mild annoyances getting in the way of going where you want to be.
Please enjoy this photo of Tolly, a cat who can do the very best impression of the idealistic anime cat face.
