I love Hannah Fry's weekly slot on Radio 6. Currently hearing about Donald Knuth creating Latex on national radio.
Attempted to play Star Citizen, spent 15 minutes trying to escape my room, and then had the camera go absolutely mad on trying to interact with a lift control. Never found my spaceship.
I guess I'll be reattempting this at some future date when I have energy.
@gsuberland I wish I could remember where I read an article on this phenomenon. Its apparently much harder to pull off given the way audio for games is managed than you'd imagine.
I am once again asking for project planning software with error bars on the timelines.
@troublewithwords my favourite one of these was in the local hospital's Accident & Emergency department. "Would you recommend [hospital] to friends & family?".
No. No I would not. Do all you can to avoid it.
The core premise is broadly “people enjoyed that drama with Martin Compton on a submarine, how can we make a series that traps Martin Compton in a contained space at sea”.
I’m watching The Rig, a passable super natural thriller series on Prime. Really enjoying that 60% of the set appears to be made out of shipping containers. The other 40% is fluorescent light bulbs.
Did someone change the UK’s timezone without telling me? Just had last orders called at 9pm, and then when we got to the other nearby pub it was also closed. Now in the bar attached to a Beefeater/Premier Inn because it’s the only place open.
Went out to get barbecue stuff, so of course by the time I walked out of the supermarket it was raining.
@PapaBear Big fan of both the red button and your well stocked bathroom bookshelf.
I've just been reminded of my occasional fear that I'll be convicted of a crime I didn't commit because I'm so bad at remembering what I've done. If the police were to ask me what I was doing on the evening of 12th February this year I wouldn't have the faintest idea.
Once again I have responded to having had a proper night’s sleep and so having energy by staying up too late. Thus continues the boom/bust cycle which is my mood.
Keeping my tradition of painting octopuses on the bottoms of tables in hotel rooms alive 😀
Taking my son to school this morning I said how it felt spring had arrived. Sorry everyone.
@thomasfuchs @yatil Having said that, I wonder if I could hack something together which pulls in content from other instance’s timelines and highlights ones that might be of interest.
@yatil @thomasfuchs I’m on a single user instance, and because of that following hashtags doesn’t really work, because the only people on the federated timeline here are also people I follow anyway. I’d love a way to follow a topic globally, but that’s not even slightly how ActivityPub works.
Been seeing trucks here and there from a company called Gamer Logistics and I want to believe they deliver freight via glitch-assisted speed runs. Like, maybe if you reverse into a bridge pillar on I-10 as soon as you cross into El Paso and hold it for precisely 39 minutes and 7 seconds, if you then shift into neutral you warp to Beaumont and can skip the entire state of Texas
I’ve just been reminded of The Queue. That glorious few days in which the country was obsessed by a bunch of people lining up to look at a box that may or may not have contained a dead monarch.
@isaacfreeman That has to be watched in conjunction with the TNG episode in which he gets pulled out of a transporter to tell Geordie he should be padding his estimates.
@solderandchaos I keep nearly watching it, it’s such a beautifully shot film, but I just don’t know that I could handle it.
The year is 2187 and nobody is sure why people greet each other by saying “Can you hear me?”, with the expected reply “Yes, can you hear me?”
@codinghorror I mean mine took five days to be born (not even joking, I think I’m the only person I know who had to ask whether paternity leave starts at time of birth or onset of labour), but otherwise a solid take.
I have no memory of doing so, and yet there it was, waiting for me to hit play. For the curious, it’s Ganglion by Saltillo. Pretty sure I’d never heard of it before today.