July Part 2
Summer Tradition News
Rain rain go away
It's too hot. Glorious weather. Sunny days requiring the use of polarised prescription sunglasses and hats. Of course, it is now August and in a few days holiday destinations call, so it's now probably going to chuck it down for a few weeks. As is tradition.
It is an ancient way and it will be just so.
However, as predicted, because the chaps in work do their thing efficiently and some people pay their television licence, public service broadcast reception hasn't been as flakey as it could have been as the metal boxes in the metal boxes up on the hill tops haven't completely melted into a smouldering pool of plastic, metal and solder.
Yet.
The hot weather took me by surprise though and most of the plants in the garden are now crispy and brown - but of course its never going to be the weeds is it?
Articles of Note News
Daventry
Despite it being a fairly active month I have difficulty these days remembering not to close open text windows without saving thus notes and writing prompts are lost forever. Likewise, open browser tabs with articles of note seemingly vanish thanks to updated browsers and carelessness.
However from what does remain, I'm not sure why, but I found this article in the Northampton Chronicle "amusing". Perhaps its the massive leaps of logic that the journalist or the person reporting the disturbance makes. How do they know the people causing the disturbance are sex workers?
As always, I get the zips whenever Daventry - the unassuming boring central UK town of no-note in which I reside - is mentioned in the news. Recently our town celebrities have included a "Banksie style graffiti artist" slightly miffed at the state of the roads and a sadface event organiser who got their wrists slapped for advertising on public property - note: it's public property not a notice board. But the best, as always, is our three legged cat Salem - Daventry Cat
Also - take heed - not locally specific but Fart Walking is the new thing.
Steamy Nonsense News
I took young Tom - the current DM at my Monday night D&D thing - to the local steam fair. Every year that I go to Hollowell I feel sadness as each time it seems smaller and less interesting. Not sure if that's because the steam traction scene is dying along with the engineers and owners or if it's just that Hollwell isn't as popular as it was pre-COVID. The show at Bloxham the week previous seemed a lot more active and spreadout comparitively.
I took lots of video but I just havent had the spoons to stitch them into anything coherent so here's a few pictures of Classic cars instead. who would have thought a Renault 5 would ever be considered as a "classic car".
Magic Lantern Media News
After an amusing comment failed to gain traction with Mrs Gv2.0 it became apparent that she had no idea about the 1970's classic TV serial Kolchak: The Night Stalker. So £13 later I managed to download the entire series to watch at our leisure. And so far - two episodes in - the poundshop (dollarstore?) X Files seems to be having the expected result.
We have also been watching the reimagining for Television/modern day audiences of the 1980's classic Time Bandits on AppleTV. Two episodes in - because stretching it out - and its rather entertaining. Some mildly irritating minor plot changes but hey - its a reimagining not a photocopy. And in June and July we also enjoyed Dark Matter. I'm hoping for more promising content from Apple TV over the next few years especially with Silo and For All Mankind being renewed.
PewPew News
Skyrim has taken over my evenings once more along with promising new kid on the block - Shadows of Doubt, a procedurally generated crime solving puzzle game with elements of "wow promising". I'm just waiting for the new gameplay announcement from Frontier to see if it's worth me going back to Elite Dangerous when the evenings get cooler.
Podcast and Youtubery News
Having read an interesting Xeet and article by journalist? and commentator? Ed Zitron - How Does OpenAI Survive? - which questions the sustainability of OpenAI - it now seems, much like Cory Doctorow before him - Ed is popping up everywhere. This morning he graced the bonus episode of Trashfuture with his presence talking about his article in more detail.
Also - if you have not done so already - I strongly suggest that you teach yourself about the power of eating 40 rotissarie chickens by listening to exciting new podcast 16th Minute of Fame
Meanwhile over on Youtube good old Geowizard Tom has been up to his old shennanigans crossing England in a straight line - albeit doing some questionablely dodgy trespassing on MOD land.
The good old algorthim - which doesn't listen to the office conversations about Co-Worker Steve and IT Mark's extreme 24hour walk thing at all - chucked up a new-to-me content provider Wildbeare - a young lady who goes on walks and bivvy camps - who just so happened to walk from IT Marks area, visit Co-worker Steve's local chipshop and then cross the road I drive down on my way to D&D on a Monday.
Finally - check out Spotted on Rightmove subreddit on Reddit which has sucked most of my internet attention these past few weeks. Finds include such great spots as a horrible old house, a horrible new house and a house with two graves in the garden .
Off on holibobs - below is a picture from our holiday already
Rain rain go away
It's too hot. Glorious weather. Sunny days requiring the use of polarised prescription sunglasses and hats. Of course, it is now August and in a few days holiday destinations call, so it's now probably going to chuck it down for a few weeks. As is tradition.
It is an ancient way and it will be just so.
However, as predicted, because the chaps in work do their thing efficiently and some people pay their television licence, public service broadcast reception hasn't been as flakey as it could have been as the metal boxes in the metal boxes up on the hill tops haven't completely melted into a smouldering pool of plastic, metal and solder.
Yet.
The hot weather took me by surprise though and most of the plants in the garden are now crispy and brown - but of course its never going to be the weeds is it?
Articles of Note News
Daventry
Despite it being a fairly active month I have difficulty these days remembering not to close open text windows without saving thus notes and writing prompts are lost forever. Likewise, open browser tabs with articles of note seemingly vanish thanks to updated browsers and carelessness.
However from what does remain, I'm not sure why, but I found this article in the Northampton Chronicle "amusing". Perhaps its the massive leaps of logic that the journalist or the person reporting the disturbance makes. How do they know the people causing the disturbance are sex workers?
As always, I get the zips whenever Daventry - the unassuming boring central UK town of no-note in which I reside - is mentioned in the news. Recently our town celebrities have included a "Banksie style graffiti artist" slightly miffed at the state of the roads and a sadface event organiser who got their wrists slapped for advertising on public property - note: it's public property not a notice board. But the best, as always, is our three legged cat Salem - Daventry Cat
Also - take heed - not locally specific but Fart Walking is the new thing.
Steamy Nonsense News
I took young Tom - the current DM at my Monday night D&D thing - to the local steam fair. Every year that I go to Hollowell I feel sadness as each time it seems smaller and less interesting. Not sure if that's because the steam traction scene is dying along with the engineers and owners or if it's just that Hollwell isn't as popular as it was pre-COVID. The show at Bloxham the week previous seemed a lot more active and spreadout comparitively.
I took lots of video but I just havent had the spoons to stitch them into anything coherent so here's a few pictures of Classic cars instead. who would have thought a Renault 5 would ever be considered as a "classic car".
Magic Lantern Media News
After an amusing comment failed to gain traction with Mrs Gv2.0 it became apparent that she had no idea about the 1970's classic TV serial Kolchak: The Night Stalker. So £13 later I managed to download the entire series to watch at our leisure. And so far - two episodes in - the poundshop (dollarstore?) X Files seems to be having the expected result.
We have also been watching the reimagining for Television/modern day audiences of the 1980's classic Time Bandits on AppleTV. Two episodes in - because stretching it out - and its rather entertaining. Some mildly irritating minor plot changes but hey - its a reimagining not a photocopy. And in June and July we also enjoyed Dark Matter. I'm hoping for more promising content from Apple TV over the next few years especially with Silo and For All Mankind being renewed.
PewPew News
Skyrim has taken over my evenings once more along with promising new kid on the block - Shadows of Doubt, a procedurally generated crime solving puzzle game with elements of "wow promising". I'm just waiting for the new gameplay announcement from Frontier to see if it's worth me going back to Elite Dangerous when the evenings get cooler.
Podcast and Youtubery News
Having read an interesting Xeet and article by journalist? and commentator? Ed Zitron - How Does OpenAI Survive? - which questions the sustainability of OpenAI - it now seems, much like Cory Doctorow before him - Ed is popping up everywhere. This morning he graced the bonus episode of Trashfuture with his presence talking about his article in more detail.
Also - if you have not done so already - I strongly suggest that you teach yourself about the power of eating 40 rotissarie chickens by listening to exciting new podcast 16th Minute of Fame
Meanwhile over on Youtube good old Geowizard Tom has been up to his old shennanigans crossing England in a straight line - albeit doing some questionablely dodgy trespassing on MOD land.
Click to viewThe good old algorthim - which doesn't listen to the office conversations about Co-Worker Steve and IT Mark's extreme 24hour walk thing at all - chucked up a new-to-me content provider Wildbeare - a young lady who goes on walks and bivvy camps - who just so happened to walk from IT Marks area, visit Co-worker Steve's local chipshop and then cross the road I drive down on my way to D&D on a Monday.
Finally - check out Spotted on Rightmove subreddit on Reddit which has sucked most of my internet attention these past few weeks. Finds include such great spots as a horrible old house, a horrible new house and a house with two graves in the garden .
Off on holibobs - below is a picture from our holiday already