Everything except sauropod vertebrae
For anyone who doesn’t follow football, here’s what happened. When the USA played (and beat) Bosnia and Herzegovina on 1 July, their striker Folarin Balogun was sent off for a foul on Tarik Muharemović. Players sent off are automatically suspended … Continue reading →
I bought a book on my Kindle — a thing I have done many times before. I exchanged money for goods, as one is supposed to do in a capitalist society. Then this happened. I wonder what response Jeff Bezos … Continue reading →
Well, thank heaven that’s over. Aware that I’d left it much too long since I watched the penultimate episode of Flux — at least three months — I was determined to give the finale a good go. So as a … Continue reading →
One of the interesting things about the discourse around Generative AI (just “AI” from here on) is how very polarized it is. One one side we have people like Steve Yegge writing blog-posts claiming the efficiency benefit of programming with … Continue reading →
Second Year at Malory Towers — Enid Blyton I made it some way into this sequel [see review of the original] before starting to enjoy it: I feel that the innocent charm of the original is either absent this time … Continue reading →
A quick update on my interrupted trawl through Flux. I watched episode 5 some weeks ago. I did intend to write about it, but I got distracted — and in the intervening time the episode has almost completely slipped away … Continue reading →
Having watched the first four episodes of Flux, I did watch the fifth episode and intended to write about it. But somehow I got distracted and didn’t get around to it. I probably will, but not today. But in the … Continue reading →
Over the last few weeks I have noticed a behaviour in myself. If I follow a link — say from a Mostodon post — and I get one of those “We care about your privacy” popups, I click the “Reject … Continue reading →
There’s a good Doctor Who episode somewhere inside Village of the Angels. I’d call it the best episode of the season so far, which I admit is faint praise, but it scored highly in two important respects. First, it had … Continue reading →
“What if we have Daleks and Cyberman and Weeping Angels? That would be an amazing episode!” Nope, that’s not how it works. “What if we bring the Fugutive Doctor back? That would make it great, right?” Nuh-uh. “What if we use Yaz … Continue reading →