He's a fucking idiot if that's real.
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He's a fucking idiot if that's real.
I have fixed it. The album by So Pitted had been merged with Travis and Fripp. I edited the album metadata switched it to file data from Roon, removed all mention of Travis and Fripp and then tidied up the Various folder copying all that to the Various Artists. And now it seems sane.
and the credits are So Pitted, Robert Fripp, Theo Travis and Genesis I have to fix this.
Out of a desire for randomness I started playing random artists from the list I have in Roon. And I realise an awful lot, like masses, have been attached to Travis and Fripp. Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats started playing (which is the transition music in Lamb Lies Down On Broadway after the Lamia),
From memories of a Bombay hotel, back when it was called Bombay, I would agree. Though I thought Bill was cosplaying. Sometimes I think too well of people.
I briefly thought that was disinterest.
Chicken Tikka Masala was invented in Britain, very possibly in Scotland. A bit like Chop Suey in the USA.
British is a kind of citizenship and that's about it, like being Roman up till the 4th century or so. It gets larded over with all sorts of stuff that's more about a part than a whole. Other kinds of citizenship are available.
But then again it wouldn't get the same kind of budget, imagine it as Shakespeare and Hathaway, no shade on that but probably not the return that Osman might expect. A lot less than a pre-tea-time game show, I imagine.
If they want to make it competitive reduce it to five wickets a side with a full fielding side and then call it something reasonable like Tip and Run. Or just play fucking baseball. It ain't cricket.
I know it's popular but the One Hundred is tainted, a glorification of who hits the most sixes. It lets batsmen hit the most egregious terrible strokes it is marvellous fielding practice (which was always some fat guy hitting balls in the sky) and it destroys bowlers.
A saw.
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
I grant you that. I have the media, well the VHS went a few years ago, but there is the laziness of modern life. Still, I can't stream Alphaville, but I have the DVD. I should probably rip it.
On the other hand Only Murders In The Building works as TV and wouldn't work in any other format, it's a serial. I'd argue that the TMC would be better as a serial, probably 30 minutes an Episode. Then there'd be no excuse for the casting or the acting.
I think it's trying too hard to be close to the book. What mostly works in the book is the humour both in the (this is all hackneyed looking fun) bits and the natural humour that emerges. That, some miscasting, and full throttle on the over acting for effect at times.
+1 3D films at home are for at most two people sitting immediately in front of the screen no more than 7' away and at the right height. I can get 5.1 'surround' sound in the shed but then streamers won't give me 4k or UHD or HDR for reasons. Rant...rant
The water lily has put out a new flower, we are now trapped in a Brian Aldis ecology and climate.
Truth
I am wearing a pullover. Summer is dead.
He was always a cunt, he's doubling down on that.
Sad to hear that Chris Bidmead has died. Although most people will know him from his work on Doctor Who, I remember him from his occasional calls pitching MacUser – always starting with a voice booming "Hello Ian, Bidmead here." He'll be missed.
He was a lovely man, though I hadn't seen him since the late 80's in the height of the ancient PC industry when we had one.
Today we're having the first pears from our tree this year in a crumble.
I think the clue is in the post.
We went to see The Roses yesterday evening and it's better than the original film. You don't stop liking either of them no matter how truly awful and destructive they are to each other. Perhaps because it's just a lot funnier and more comfortable. A US audience may not get the joke.
This morning's indulgence. Bacon, eggs, mushrooms on a toasted split soda farl and splashes of tomato sauce.
Now you're just shamelessly teasing. Which is fine.
In the 80's NALGO was an extremely strong union across the Midlands, that had it's complications as well, officials of the union in one council, councillors in another.
It was extremely depressing. And then it began to rain.
We went out to a Garden Centre earlier on and on the road out of town each lamppost had an England flag cable tied at around half mast. I think the height was just the height they could reach not some sophisticated symbolic reference (that may be my prejudice about their relative intelligence).
They've produced a new flavour of LickeeLix which has Catnip added. J brought a couple home from the new BM store. So Titus is going to have a hard core habit, he already does about 4 sachets a day.
Feed you a line and you run with it
Unvaccinated citizens in the 50s
Painful way to trim the bush, and in public as well.
She's got Mona Lisa eyes...
Ah and he did his warm oleaginous act on the Today Programme but it wasn't about this.
As I have to reconcile eating ice cream and getting fat I think perhaps this is enough self indulgence for now.
I can see solipsism over the horizon, the ageing of the critical facilities and it's extremely fashionable right now. But backing away from that I end up in Cartesian certainty, that what I can think can be real. Which is similarly seductive.
I might be an existentialist, that was possible in the 70's on odd days. Carving out our own meaning of Liff in an individual response to the heartless Universe. There's something quite Zen about existentialism but intrinsically self centred.
There's also my other instinctive response which is why would I replace a God I don't see the need of with a Human centered reality. From our own perceptual neighbourhood we're the bee's knees but I doubt from any others'. Except maybe some friendly cohabiting species, lice, bacteria, etc.
If you're a long term atheist there's a bit of an assumption that must mean you're also a humanist. As I tend to follow the Marxist precept that there's no way I'd join a club that wanted me as a member, I'm unlikely to just be absorbed. #Philosophy
I think it was Sky TV in social housing.
A nice refresh of my loathing for Kelvin MacKenzie.
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The track I used to use when I needed a complete change of mood and put a smile on my face is Misirlou by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones.
I'll be using 0Patch.
I see MSNBC is going down the 'everything is about your gut bacteria', which is just another leap on a thing. Sure your gut matters, so does your bile duct, your kidneys, your liver, the autonomic, sononomic, central, peripheral nervous systems along with their various sub-network and the rest.
I get dry eyes sometimes and that gives me double vision in one eye.
Product Requirements Documents died in the late 90's and for good reason. Some value was lost because a fire document answered all the questions or pointed the way that came up doing development. The last full one I did was in 94 on a POP module, it produced a full fat product which was too much.
Everyone is susceptible to one scene or another in North by Northwest. Mine is usually Mt Rushmore.
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The time on the player is out by an hour on BBC Sounds, is this the signal for the revolution or has the TZ fallen off? #BBCSnafu
A diplomatic wave of COVID going through the Royals is required.
Conversely, the Padrones have turned into Carolina Reapers. I am eyeing the Dorset Nagas nervously.
I find it inescapable that the USA's essential structure is one of gangs and gangsters, regardless of their purpose. It is as if it has never escaped the structures of Medieval Europe.
I guess I'm niche then. Even though I'm like 20 years older than the kids in the novel the experience of childhood let loose like nomads was much the same as the 60's. That it switches surreally into a kind of Farscape is a reward for the tone perfect nostalgia. It's fantasy made concrete for us.
That's the usual outcome, if not one for one but part of the Community Service Order. For that they need to be identified, charged and put before a magistrate. The Justice System from top to bottom has been underfunded and stripped since at least 2008.
"There was gunpowder on my neck." A 10 yo who said the bullets went right past him. MEDIA- PAY ATTENTION. YOU DO NOT PUT A CHILD WHO HAS "Gunpowder on his neck." On TV to win a rating. NO. NO. NO. SHAME ON YOU. There is no excuse for putting a traumatized CHILD on TV.
I don't get leaders hiding in dugouts whilst their players have to get through on their own. I guess the man will come back with that it's a blessing because they'll be able to work on training instead of a tiddly little cup.
As the 69 year old, a lot misses whether it's because I'm 69 or I'm not getting references, I think often it's the latter.
I see Reform want to wind the legal clock back to 1997 and revoke all regulatory laws, including AML, etc. I guess they know that means no reputable country will allow dealings with us.
I can't remember. One is a large trade size and the other has an additional excerpt from Consider Phlebas, which is the first Culture novel and I've no idea why doing that had some purpose.
Epic, Fortnite, these Spiders are tedious, even in purple. Nuff said.
I discovered today, perhaps not for the first time, that I have two copies of "Matter", by Iain M. Banks. I'd best not point that out in case I have to choose which one to keep.
That's part of the myth. Use a continuous megaphone with the same insidious message about 'Them'.
You were still around in News at the BBC, was the steer in Editorial not apparent? That after the Referendum any critical questions were down played or not even allowed. The imbalance in giving Farage space and time existed well before the Referendum.
It's in the Omen Deck.
Did the Today Programme finish with playing an entire track of music? That's a lot of needle time to gift a billionaire. The average age of listener is over 60 now? The walls are tumbling down.
UK Govt signed a 10 year deal with Moderna in 2021 and they opened the lab in Harwell this year.
Trump in Year 1, Reign 2, openly says People are saying they want a Dictator. Trump in Year 3, Reign 2, is lying in state because reasons. And Vance, the Substitute, Year 2, IOC runs him out of town.
+1
A silver lining in all this is we can talk about refoulment again, and giggle.
Throughout the World at One Reform Broadcast the 1951 Convention was studiously ignored by its spokesperson, they verbally waved their hands about internal laws. I have a feeling they've figured out it's hard to leave/disavow the Convention.
They were sent to the Isle of Man. I'm not sure if that's punishment or early Butlins. There was a Radio Play.
That's now called "Referee's Mic Syndrome".
From life experience, if you said it, you meant it.
Coincidentally Poundland was briefly saved from Administration.
Good save.
And they're still waiting for the mains and sewage lines to be connected.
Errr, what now? How was it watered down? The only watering down was done by the Tory Govt not enforcing import checks. How has the EU punished us with refugees? After leaving we were no longer in the position of having recovery to a first country. We still take the lowest % of refugees in Europe.
In the Top Photo archive site the image is reversed, I don't know which is the right way, it might have been the Life Picture Editor which decided the most common orientation. Deciding the original intention of a photographer is hard unless they're in Magnum. In Topham's case he was a freelance.
Amazon Prime Video came out of Love Film, a mail order rental business, just like Netflix. Netflix is exactly the same. If the distribution licence ends for Netflix then the the downloads you have are just inert bits.
Exactly the same with Kindle, and the service to your Kindle, both are licences. Although I'm surprised people are surprised, the online rental model came out of the Rent Physical media like Videos, DVDs and Blu-ray.
This isn't an act of revulsion at the gross behaviour of the current head of state of the USA, it's a practical pause as there's no certainty about the operation of tariffs by the USA. Other than the $150 limit for personal 'gifts'.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
This has probably been true since the 19th Century, and nickel and diming since the beginning of Trade.
The greatest achievement of The Godfather Part Two is the quality of the colour, especially the 'outdoor' shots.
You can't fire at a hospital by accident. And then fire again at the same place to kill the rest of them. Journalists, film makers clearly marked as were the healthcare workers. So it's another war crime on Netanyahu's head.
This sounds like the female persuasion is away.
The interview that Doris Lessing gave to the Nobel Committee after receiving the Nobel is interesting; that her breadth of writing must have been hard to judge and the interviewer says "that you’ve adopted styles that are perhaps non-traditional." She replies that they didn't like Science Fiction.
Just don't go.
Oh it's a graphic novel, that's ok then. :-}
Generally criminal trespass and criminal damage. Though now a proscribed organisation they can't be charged with terrorism post hoc. Those that demonstrate in support are also enjoined in terrorism. However that support is in general protest against the proscription not the actions of the group.
And these demonstrations are examples of civil disobedience a traditional form of resistance to bad laws and tyrannous government.
It reminds me of men's rugby in the 70's, which is a Good Thing, I also have nostalgia driven memory.
One went to wave, wave a flag in protest, One man, two men, three men and a dog, went to have a protest.
On a tiny sample of 2, we had taxi rides which did not have a commentary of the easy identity of X and Y but we did have the informed judgement on Euston and the traffic planning was by idiots who'd never driven to or from it. Which was pleasant.
A deal of righteous angst on headlines about water consumption and 'AI'. I doubt they've considered that we don't need LLM chat bots and they may even be more harmful than we think.