Executive Chimp

“Sadly” is a massive understatement. There will be devastating knock-on effects.

Lars and the Real Girl. Seems like a dumb boner comedy. Actually a weirdly wholesome film.

Ratta-tat-tat

Amstrad PCW 9512+. Green screen thing with a daisy wheel printer that sounded like a machine gun.

Got a PC with a Celeron 333MHz a few years later. My memories of that are much fonder.

😏

S’all good

Channel 4, not BBC

Lovely chap. Would definitely let him look after my small children.

Don’t take drugs to be happy. Get happy then, maybe, take drugs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four_(British_TV_programme)

…it’s all guns and fame

At least you want the kid and are self aware. That’s more than some people get.

BBC’s You’re Dead To Me is good if you want something a bit light. There’s a regular host who’s joined by a comedian and a historian. Covers a different topic each time.

Pasta and custard

The red scare? The war on terror? It’s a new type of crazy in government, I can’t deny that. But spreading fear of Them isn’t new.

How did we get here? We’ve always been here. There have always been people warning about “they”. Some portion of them have always been otherwise intelligent.Some portion of them have even been correct. This isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s easier for conspiracy theories to spread now, with the internet, and that’s led to them being less fun and more dangerous, but it’s mostly just the same shit.

Interesting. From some googling it looks like America is a mix of both but leaning towards day-ta, whereas the other countries are more consistently as I said.

I have a British friend who now lives in Canada and works in tech and has changed the way he says it (from day-ta to dah-ta, or really more like dah-da) for convenience. I had thought that it was an Atlantic divide but seems like there’s more to it.

That is incorrect

Brits pronounce it day-ta, Americans, Canadians and Australians pronounce it dah-ta. Data pronounces it Day-ta.

Everyone keeps recommending Revolt but I tried it last week and it’s janky as hell and the voice chat just straight up didn’t work. This wasn’t just me, too. Our whole group tried it and gave up.