Happy Severance Day. Let’s hope it is better than the Silo soap opera 😞
Balloon face from here.
Happy Severance Day. Let’s hope it is better than the Silo soap opera 😞
Balloon face from here.
My RSS feed informed me of an interesting discussion. Apparently it initiated on micro.blog.
My micro.blog subscription is due for renewal. ? 🤷♂️ ?
I guess some of us are sensible all in one box modular people and some of us may need to rethink our decisions. 🤦♂️
Martine’s annual listing of books read has really upset one anonymous commentator 🤷♂️
Looks genuine 🧐
Somewhat belatedly happened upon The Way, Way Back so am now on a mission to find more characters called Duncan.
🤦♂️
Expanding on a theme by @ldstephens and @jtr the 2024 Mac’s menu bar contents/clutter.
The AutumnalCam from the end of August to the end of November in just over a minute:
To do today:
1: Do not buy anything. But being an old man I may have to spend a penny or two.
2: Search “Black Friday” in Mail and delete several hundred unread emails.
3: Enjoy
The ever fascinating Cultural Offering provided some advice on writing one of which was Check you quotations 😂😂😂
A sales poster for one of the new towers going up in Manchester promises a Content Creation area - because sometimes the kitchen table is not enough.
…on the bright side: at least there will not be anymore devastating hurricanes now that the Democrats can no longer control the weather.
The excavations of the desk has revealed a stash of old hard drives
from which I retrieved pictures of our home flooding in 2007.
Well said Matthew Graybosch:
...as far as I'm concerned, the personal and non-commercial web is the web; the various names it's been given — indie web, small web, personal web, etc. — are bad framing. It's the commercial and corporate web and social media — including the Fediverse — that we should be othering, instead of permitting ourselves to be othered.
Damn it! After the repairs I put the desktop on the wrong way which means the top drawers do not slide as they should. This has become sufficiently irritating that everything will have to come off and the top rotated.
😔
So farewell KnotWords. You have shared my morning coffee for 900 days but I feel we now need a break. At least I now know what an Alb is - so not a complete waste of time.
A view from Alderley Edge across the Cheshire Plain towards the hills of the Peak District.
You Too can make up your own joke!
A whole month’s worth of Autumnal Cam in under two minutes. Exclusively available in glorious Low-Res-O-Vision.
With delightful synchronicity Open Culture discusses the Wikipedia - first link - philosophy thing just after I mentioned it.
A trip to Chester (for the first time in thirty years) and a wander around the city walls and their potted history of England (even if Apple’s weather app insists it is in Wales). From Roman origins to medieval enhancements to a civil war siege and battle to Victorian ornateness to current repairs.
According to The Verge Apple’s AI feature set will expand to include localized English in the UK. 🤷♂️🙄
Now @xxxx has piqued my interest in Wikipedia again. I am always fascinated by the first link in successive articles will eventually/usually get you back to philosophy thing…. Here we start at a dmoRan baseball team…
A lovely day for a cricket match in Manchester today 😂🏏
With all the youthful excitement about AI the old man smiles and thinks ‘haven’t we heard all this before?’ This is from 1967
“Machines should do the work. People should think.”