Alien: Earth is the most interesting thing they’ve done with the franchise in literal decades. I didn’t realise it was by the guy behind Legion or I’d have paid a lot more attention.
Finally had a real-world opportunity to use the “it’s because of the interesting word usements I structure” quote from classic Steve-Martin-starring Enya-delivery-vehicle ‘L.A. Story’.
It has sadly, thus far, remained entirely uncommented upon.
Just had a weird ‘wait, where’s my fence, don’t I have a fence?’ dissociative moment in the garden. In just a year it has been completely (and delightfully) obscured by climbing greenery.
I’d somehow been mentally filing it as ’the neighbour’s hedge’.
Now sitting at 4144 pixels, the threshold of what can be shown on a single 4K monitor has been breached. Containment has been lost. Save yourselves.
It’s been an ‘interesting’ visual experience running the macOS Tahoe beta…
Last text message sent: “It’s like someone cosplaying the end times while dressed up as the OTT satire of the first Robocop film.”
I assumed going thirty years between games consoles would leave me in choice paralysis hell in terms of what to play, but it turns out the best game of all time definitively does exist.
Of course we row with less intensity near the Commerce Bots, we wanna see those lil guys!
I definitely read too much sci-fi.
Exercising on a rowing machine at lunch today I was surprised and delighted when the instructor randomly started talking about Commerce Bots.
Ohh, thinks I, little robot buddies out bartering on the river!?
Dear reader, “calmer spots.”
It’s taken me a long time to realise that one of the reasons I dread summer is that the constant low level of chaotic background noise from Humans Doing Things seems to put my body into something close to fight-or-flight. Just invested in some premium headphones with first-class ANC and the immediate and total relief is profound.
It’s nice to have an entirely non-critical little dev project to play with again. This was a bit of fun to potter about with on a sunny Saturday in the garden–pulling my image posts from Mastodon into a single small gallery and badging them according to how they were tagged. No JS required, all static.
I assume every other GenX-era ‘introvert’ is also now looking at the free-exchange of autistic life experience on These Modern Internets and having a very Awkward Look Monkey Puppet meme moment?
I’ve seen a few different people recently re-start personal blogs and it made me want to tinker with static site tools again… I’ve also been wondering how many little painting projects I’ve started and just left half-done here on Mastodon (11. The answer is currently 11).
So… still very much a WIP (another, add it to the count), but technically this works, syncing up Mastodon toots and stats as purely static content:
It will be incredibly interesting, when all episodes are available, to rewatch and recontextualise Andor → Rogue One → OT as ‘The Mon Mothma Saga’.
Frantically googling ‘the song from that bit in andor you know the one’.
“[…] your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; […] Your hands are full of blood! […] Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong.
Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.”
Abbreviated for the sake of space. A subtoot for the modern age.
A little bit of a clean-up on the blade, and a first attempt at the dreaded eye lenses. At the most, absolute maximum, only 80% cross-eyed?
It has been weeks since I did any actual painting. I’m really not sure this effect on the pointy bit’s working, or even in keeping with the rest of the model, but it is ultimately more acrylic-on-plastic so I’m calling it a win!
I’ve binged so much of Adam from North of the Border’s YouTube over the last week that I somehow find myself in the possession of both a pack of Super Sculpey and a spool of armature wire.
Twice today I’ve seen the cover poster for a film called Holland and wondered why they gave Nicole Kidman such a crazy fake beard.