Vale #billoddie it seems. I knew him best as a Goodie of course, but I also read Gone Birding with great enjoyment.
The Goodies were part of a core memory for people of a certain age, and now only fuzzy chops is left.
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mastodon 4.7.2Now, we go save the world.
He/him/comrade.
Wests Tigers tragic, terminally Australian. I play games occasionally and sometimes write about things.
Header is a screenshot from Mirror's Edge of Faith looking over the city from a rooftop, avatar was stolen from the internet somewhere and is an animated .gif of the Doof Warrior from Fury Road. As a cat.
Current quote: "There's no hate like former love." - user victrix talking about Ultima 9.
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Mental state:
"You humans have so many emotions! You only need two: anger and confusion!”
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Current philosophy:
"Death is only the end if you think the story is about you."
Big ups to #Tuggeranong drivers today - in traffic approaching the roundabout everyone moved to the sides and created a central path for a police car to pass through, German style. Well done everyone, I hope he was on some honourable business.
This may be a bit Trek specific, but aliens will not have unique biology, they'll be slightly oddly shaped humans in different colours.
Despite their technology elsewhere, though, they seem to have made remarkably little progress on women's* clothes.
*Or the alien equivalent thereof.
#SciFiRules
#HashtagGames
One thing I will never not love about #Canberra is that this view is a ten minute walk from my door.
Seeing security guards at every entrance of shopping centres feels vaguely dystopian.
Jumping into my car (which has fully charged overnight thanks to a battery fuelled by the sun) and driving past middle class suburbia to go to work has made Gibson's quote about the future not being evenly distributed resonate like never before.
Ok, that was hilarious in an office setting.
Ok, this is provisionally cool even if it does use a LLM. As they carefully note, it evaluates how content is written, not whether it's true.
A sad day yesterday- my hat got swapped out for the beanie. #canberra
Know what I haven't done in a while?
As always, it's courtesy of Musicolet's shuffle function.
- Loading - Limnetic Villains (who I think I found here on Mastodon)
- For The West Coast Dark Ambient Bedroom Warriors - the Mountain Goats
- hoax - Taylor Swift
- The Jester - Johnny Roadkill
- Don't Stop - Hilltop Hoods
- The Little Drummer Boy - Christopher Lee
- Only Girl (In The World) - Rhianna
- Bash the Fash - Oi Polloi
- Torture - Berlin
- God In The Name of the Father - Smith St Band.
Are we still doing #mondayrandom10 ?
It's pretty mainstream for me this time:
1. Virus of the Mind - Heather Nova
2. Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
3. You and Me - Alice Cooper
4. Everything I'm Not - the Veronicas
5. How It's Done - Huntr/x
6. Jump - Van Halen
7. no body, no crime - Taylor Swift feat. HAIM
8. Cloud busting - Kate Bush
9. Come As You Are - Nirvana
10. Fearless (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift
#mondayrandom10 (a little late because I was watching Jahream Bula score tries.)
1. sunset - @SeaFury@aus.social
2. In Summary - the Compromise
3. 1979 - Hilltop Hoods
4. Sideshow - Alice Cooper
5. Threshers Fuck Off - Oi Polloi
6. Blues in Dallas - the Mountain Goats
7. Lounge Act - Nirvana
8. The Boys of Summer - the Ataris
9. My Pachelbel Song - Debs and Errol
10. The City - Echo Slightly
Replying to
@thecasualcritic @geolaw @pluralistic Having spent my youth playing Car Wars from Steve Jackson Games, I'm ready.
Not a good day for the Raider women today.
#canberra
Sorry, I was out - what was #Albos big announcement? Are we at war? He's using his thumping election victory to introduce fully automated luxury gay space communism?
Button Shy moving away from wallets to boxes makes a lot of sense for shelf presence in shops, but it feels like the end of an era. Would Sprawlopolis have the reputation it has if it was a boxed game, I wonder?
I was randomly reminded today of my father's tales of the Six O'Clock Swill, when drunken workers took advantage of different closing times for pubs between Albury and Wodonga years ago to get an extra half hours's drinking in. I Was Told the crash rate along those few miles was horrendous.
I get that there are security concerns, and thirteen years of service is ... decent by modern standards I guess, but Amazon telling owners of functional devices that they are no longer welcome to give them money still feels like wild work.
I need to check how old my Kindle is (not that it matters since apparently there's a doom coming), but it's a lot cheaper to continue to use it and load books from other sources than buy a new one, and if I do replace it it probably won't be from Amazon's ecosystem. Good job there.
Replying to
@ddiluted1@mastodon.au I went from a Nova-based phone with a ton of widgets and screens, to Niagara with six apps and a clock on one screen (and an alpha list if everything else instead of an app drawer).
I thought I would hate it but I think I get greater utility out of my phone than before. It's not exactly minimalist but compared to what I had it is.
Replying to
@sister_ratched I used to use it a bit if I was catching a bus at an unusual time, just to see if the arrival was imminent or if I had time to walk another three or four stops.
Looks like the last time I used it was January 2024.
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@luciedigitalni Huh.
They really should take down the signage so visitors don't get false expectations, or send back a generic message referring people to the app, or something.
Hey #canberra peeps - does anyone know if the NXTBUS SMS service still works, where you text the stop number to 0432131710 and they message back the next few buses that should arrive?
It's still advertised at the stops, but I haven't used it successfully since the last timetable change.
Nice to know a trillion dollar company will soon reach feature parity with a $5 stopwatch:
The now: watching the cinematic masterpiece of Rambo III and wondering why Sly Stallone wasn't in contention for Secretary of War instead of Pete Hegseth.
Replying to
@Steveg58 It's a little further afield, it's on the western side of Tuggeranong Hill uphill a bit from the emergency services centre. Tharwa Drive is somewhere behind me.
I think for that photo I was somewhere around here, looking east.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/kKUm2sEs8mWEDtxKA
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@Steveg58 This is pretty far from Capitol Hill, but you can see Black Mountain tower from the top of it (I think Black Mountain has been replaced by IKEA as the first sign you're almost home when coming back from Sydney, because you see it maybe twenty seconds earlier).
Today's Monday Random 10 is from the good folk at Musicolet's randomizer.
1. Baby Steps - Hilltop Hoods
2. It's Okay - Annika Jayne
3. Alejandro - Lady Gaga
4. See America Right - the Mountain Goats
5. The Divine Conspiracy - Epica
6. In The Warm Room - Kate Bush
7. Secret - the Veronicas
8. Cemetery Girl - Insane Clown Posse
9. Source Decay - the Mountain Goats
10. Jump - Van Halen
An eclectic mix, but it actually feels right.
Replying to
@geolaw @thecasualcritic @pluralistic Do we implant all the kangaroos/deer/elephants/whatever animal randomly runs into the road as well?
Replying to
@troberts@theblower.au The good people at the BOM (via their shiny new website) that the highest minimum temperature is 22.5 in Jan, and all time is 24.1 in March. I don't think we'll beat that (this time).
Replying to
@MsDropbear42 Typical government forecast, it's running late. I'm reminded of my FTTP #NBN install date in October 2013, which has been updated to Real Soon Now.
Replying to
@MsDropbear42 I would love to do government consultancy, but I just can't find it in me. Damn ethical upbringing.
Replying to
@Tooden It seems like a good use case for an LLM. I'm not sure this uses one though, it seems like it just uses good old fashioned heuristics.
Replying to
@grissallia@aus.social I have more Steam games than I have time to play them, but this is a hella cool thing you're doing.
I love hookers doing hooker stuff.
The hype is real (at Week 5, anyway):
I was reminded that that Wests Tigers centre Namoe Gesa is sponsored by Pro Wrestling Australia, and I'm always amazed by that.
I also think sponsoring a player must be cheaper than I thought it must be, or the money in pro rasslin' is better than I expected.
In Jahream, Jerome and Jevon we trust.
I wonder what all those people who thought Benji was out of his depth have to say now?
Humble Bundle seem to have moved on from their mission statement a bit, but I have to say this collection of Tanith Lee books is very much my jam.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/tanith-lee-collection-daw-books-books