Feelin judgy

Someone asked about wireless earphones that could be used in a 15 minute sauna. A sharp intake of breath from all the Finns, and this startling response: We really should be wiped off this planet. The other thing that had me feeling really judgy was this article in the Guardian: ‘I was asked to find […]

Mighty wind

Last night there was a mighty storm, an andhi that blew dust and tree branches every where and brought the temperature down by several degrees. Something crashed mightily, bringing three of the four people in the dashing out into the cold wind, but it was too dark and windy to see. I suspected, we all […]

Pill bugs

Also known, according to Wikipedia, as roly polies, woodlice, slater bugs, cheesy bugs, sowbugs, doodlebugs, butcher boys, cellar bugs, carpenters, bed pissers, closed pork, parson’s pigs, bench biters, chiggy pigs, chuckie pigs, little pigs, potato bugs and gramersows, a list which one might reasonably be sceptical about, but in any event the scientific name for […]

As usual, late to the game

Finally tried out ChatGPT about six months after all the rest of the world. Even knowing what it’s capable of, it was startling to begin with, but interesting how quickly one started to recognise the non-style of the ChatGPT style, the written equivalent of a composite portrait. I can definitely see that will be useful […]

Childhood dream

The kitchen tiling was completed, and the entire flat was covered in a thick layer of white plaster, even though the tiler had been careful to keep the door closed. He told me today he is a gynaecologist from Turkmenistan, with three children back home. What could I say but spread my hands hoping to […]

Dodgy

Last night the GF went to a party, which I backed out of, though I rather regret it. It seems to have been something of a metaphorical and literal underworld scene, the sort where you see, though doubled vision, both immense wealth and the dodginess that clusters around it. There were also a lot of […]

Despair

The new IPCC report has been released, and the desire to just roll over and close my eyes and pretend to be asleep till I die is very great. The one cheerful thing today was listening to a podcast about Emmy Noether and while I can’t say I really understood her breakthroughs it was a […]