What’s your favourite Rose? I do like Dairy milk, but the Hazelnut ones are even better. The rest of my family don’t like the fruit flavoured ones. Someone had to eat them. Yum.
tv
TIL about Star Trek Continues
The fan mad web series, Star Trek Continues, published their first episode in 2013 according to Wikipedia. Somehow, I think I have never heard of it, despite loving Star Trek. Better late than never, and I enjoyed the first episode this morning. It’s all available on YouTube. The series continues on where the original series ended, with the 5-year mission of the Enterprise being wrapped up in the last 2 episodes. I recognised the computer voice in episode 1, and I see from Wikipedia that other guest stars make an appearance too. Definitely worth a watch if you’re a Star […]
Music
Celebrating Shane MacGowan at his funeral
This is a fantastic way to celebrate someone’s life. RIP Shane. Thanks to my wife and this Reddit thread for the links.
C64
Play C64 Games Online
If you’re in the mood for some retro gaming, head on over to this site, where you can play lots of old Commodore 64 games in your browser! Unfortunately, Firefox caused the audio to stutter, but the games play fine in Edge. I tested Flimbo’s Quest and The Great Gianna Sisters, and they were perfect. I somehow made it to level 5 in the latter game rather quickly. I normally use all my lives in level 2! There is a huge C64 games archive at archive.org, and there are loads of demos there too! Give Arkanoid 2 a spin while […]
tv
An interview with Richard Dean Anderson
I didn’t think Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver, Stargate SG-1) gave interviews any more. I knew he had some serious health issues, but he’s looking good in this interview. The interviewer is such a fanboy. I suspect anyone who grew up in the 80s on MacGyver would be the same! Here’s a screen cap from the video because, of course, the video will disappear.
Linux
A new epoch approaches!
Not long now until the Unix Timestamp flips over to 17 followed by many zeros. Watch it live here or run the following at a terminal: What is the timestamp? It’s the number of seconds since January 1st, 1970 UTC.
Funny
AI Spelling
Your kids won’t be using AI to spell any time soon. This is what Llama2 said: > where’s the letter r in the word blueberry? The letter “r” is the 18th letter of the alphabet, and it appears in the word “blueberry” after the letter “b”. The word “blueberry” spelled out is: B – L – U – E – B – E – R So, the letter “r” appears in the 7th position of the word “blueberry”. > what about the last r and y? My apologies! Here is the complete spelling of the word “blueberry”: B – L […]
Web
Bye bye Pebble!
Pebble, aka t2.social, was a short lived social network like Twitter. Last week they sent out emails to all their users to tell them that the site was shutting down on November 1st. I first came across it thanks to Topgold, but it was always a small site. In a crowded section of the Internet, another Twitter clone would have a tough time competing. I hadn’t posted much there and wasn’t going to download my data, but this post by Eugen Rochko caught my attention and reminded me to go visit. If #Pebble was part of the social web, they […]
Podcasts
I listen to podcasts
It was nice to hear an Irish voice, Sorcha, on the latest episode, Leif, of Heavyweight. Also, I totally forgot that Pocketcasts has a web player that syncs with the app. So handy! Another great episode of Cautionary Tales I listened to recently: All their episodes are great. You should subscribe. If you watched The Dig on Netflix, you’ll love listening to this episode of the Short History Of… podcast. Even though it’s a “short history”, it has a lot more detail about the dig at Sutton Hoo, the treasures found there and in nearby mounds. I started listening to […]
Ireland
Final section of Macroom Bypass opens soon
The final section of the new road bypassing Macroom and other towns in Co Cork will be opening next month, hopefully. The existing sections make that drive a pleasure now, as we can bypass the bottleneck of Macroom, and avoid the twisting roads just west of Ballyvourney. We drove to Killarney on Saturday morning to photograph the deer in Killarney National Park, and that road was lovely to drive. It’s disconcerting there’s no hard shoulder, but there are lay-bys at least. We passed through Ballyvourney around 7am, and saw a local shop was already open, but I wonder what effect […]