Monophona - Boy
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=kMBLzx6hMPw
WordAll #611 completed in 2m 40s (I found this one difficult)
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Wordle 882 4/6* (1/2 on 3)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #666 2/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #681 5/6 (arse)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #678 6/6 (logic/exhausted possibilities)
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Framed #617 (nah. Watched more Suburra. Caught some TV news. I have pent up rant about the statistical biases introduced by vox-pops but it's a bit grim for this time of the morning and to a greater extent obvious: If a person or organisation interviews people they think should be interviewed that doesn't necessarily align with a statistically useful sample of who should be interviewed. The extent to which such things influence public opinion by defining the boundaries of perceived reality is very much debateable. Because mostly we just watch stuff we agree with. This is a quite good, very short, documentary on "Britain in Palestine 1917-1948" by the Balfour Project:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?f&v=hOJqLTc6RkU
I had/have at least two British relatives who were there for bits of all that. I don't think that documentary takes sides. I don't wholly agree with bits of it because I'm an awkward person like that.)
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Seasonally affected gnome (ISO equivalent 200, Nikon D90, Nikkor f/1.8D @ f/1.8).
Jim Noir - Key of C
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=nuC3Jn2mTO0
WordAll #610 completed in 1m 05s
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Wordle 881 4/6* (1/2 chance on 3)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #665 1/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #680 4/6 (ok)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #677 💀/6 (arse)
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Framed #616
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D90 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D @ f/2. Aperture priority mode. ISO 560. Developed with ART*. My phone does a better job at above ISO equivalents of 400. Rudimentary, bit crap, composition and light because I've yet to re-adjust to telling a camera what to do. The bread is probably underproofed because it just wasn't that warm today. Should have put it somewhere warmer.
* Also works well with most phones or cameras that can do raw formats. I used a color profile similar to Fuji Astia - there older, worse at higher ISOs, camera combined with the good value lens looks a great deal like a scan from film. I prefer it to the more expensive equivalents because I don't want to dick around too much. It's free:
Drummer with ersatz percussion outside The Forum, Tunbridge Wells, summer 2017.
The Lovable Tulips - My Heart
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=zKFbb8RF2QU
WordAll #609 completed in 42s
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Wordle 880 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #664 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #679 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #676 5/6 (arse)
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Framed #615 (no. I watched a couple of episodes more of Suburra, which is very good but I think Gomorrah was better. Read. Emptied out an camera SD Card from 2017 and had intense feelings of nostalgia. Followed by the realisation that I feel better now and at some point I'll look back at now and probably feel exacty the same way because pictures are vignettes; emotional punctuation free of paragraphs. It'd be horrible to only remember the good bits. I charged an old-ish DSLR - a Nikon D90. It was under a pile of books. The principal differences are that it is worse in bad light than my phone, has a 75mm equivalent (iirc 1.5x DX sensor) lens (Nikon 50mm f1.8 a good cheap lens), and in terms of it's ability to resolve detail it beats my phone because of the lens. I like film - the colours are good - but it's a pain too - cost, often no control over development, and then it's often converted to digital anyway. There is a resource heavy middle man. Plus, some, by no means all, but quite a few, camera shops are full of, or run by, dickheads. I don't buy into analogue versus digital because they're free of context.)
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I wonder if there is a point with listening to music, or observing culture, where a person thinks 'that sounds a bit like … ' an awful lot. And it's erroneous, it isn't the 'same as …' because it's different people with a different contextual meaning even in the extreme case of it being essentially the same thing. It's just a person isn't necessarily aware of the context in which something was created and disseminated. Like alien memes. Navigation in a sea of similarities becomes difficult and as much down to chance or recommendation. It's hard to fight that. One minute you're discovering interesting things and the next minute you're a reactionary on a show with, and for, mad sweaty uncles. I'm not going to be on a show for mad sweaty uncles - I've always thought most culture is bollocks which is a kind of vaccine.
Never Lonely Alone - Yacht
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z1VlEB196E
WordAll #608 completed in 1m 06s
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Wordle 879 4/6* (ok)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #663 1/6 (100%) (lucky guess followed by intermittent cheating)
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La palabra del día #678 6/6 (arse)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #675 3/6
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Framed #614 (in a hurry and I don't want to repeat yesterday's getting stuck into typing something, complete with typos, I watched some Italian, good, crime drama. A good chunk of TV is a 'soap opera with'. So far Gomorrah, the Italian TV show, a soap opera with organized crime in Napoli set the bar for how well it can be done. Series 1 & 2 of that are very good and the actors involved are excellent. I read some more. I don't find that many books engaging at the moment so it's clearly time for a change.)
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Daily Octordle #659
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Score: 73
https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily
Daily Sequence Octordle #659
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily-sequence
Daily Rescue Octordle #659
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Forgot that before putting that bread in the over allow it to rise a bit if the bubbles have been knocked out by shaping it. Not quite a foolproof recipe because it excluded the person typing the recipe quickly on their phone.
TL;DR let it rise again before putting it in the oven.
WordAll #607 completed in 8m 25s (distracted, plus I think this was harder one. It was fun though)
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Cocknbullkid - Distractions (I'll do WordAll later because I'm in a hurry)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=-FAD69jSTDc
Wordle 878 5/6* (I think this was a difficult one, but, ultimately, arse)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #662 1/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #677 4/6 ('ok')
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #674 5/6 (logic. Arse. Should have been 4)
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Framed #613 (nah.
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Basic foolproof white bread recipe (although it takes time. But handy while working from or otherwise engaged with childcare):
500gm strong white flour (the most basic strong white - avoid any with improvers or added amylase)
350gm water
7.5gm salt (about a teaspoon)
3.5gm quick start yeast (half a sachet)
Put it all in a bowl and mix it with a spoon (the handle of a teaspoon is good because it's easy to clean) until it it's all wet but no more mixing than that. A mixed mess, doesn't matter much.
Cover it. A plate will do. Place it somewhere warm for 1 hour.
Take the bowl back to the kitchen. Wet your hand and stretch and fold five times.
Cover it. Place it somewhere warm for 1hr.
Take the bowl back to the kitchen. Wet your hand and stretch and fold five times.
Cover it. Place it somewhere warm for 1hr.
Take the bowl back to the kitchen. Wet your hand and stretch and fold five times.
Tip it onto a floured surface. Gently, and quickly shape it however you like. Place in whatever container you want to bake it in (oil/grease as appropriate). I used a thick aluminum tray with a sheet of lightly oiled backing paper.
Back for 45 minutes at 210C. Or longer at a lower temperature or however you normally cook bread. I normally do 10 minutes at absurdly hot (250C or more) then 35 minutes at 190C.
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I watched the final episodes of Quarry and I can see why it got cancelled. It wasn't because it was a bad TV show - it was very good - but it was unrelentingly grim and the likeable characters were few and far between. I'm in a hurry and just typed up a bread recipe out of boredom.
The Highway Rat is an excellent book for small children. Although there was a remark that they preferred it when he was the Highway Rat. No spoilers.)
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Lágbájá - Knock Knock Knock!
WordAll #606 completed in 57s
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Wordle 877 5/6* ('great' - arse more like it)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #661 4/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #676 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #673 5/6 (tacit)
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Framed #612 (nah. Watched a Nigerian film called The Black Book. Think old man John Wick meets the A-Team. It was not the film for me but it was as good as a large chunk of Hollywood from the 1980s and 1990s before, during, and after they discovered cyberpunk. I made chicken soup, a biga (for later) and other not notable things. I tell you what is notable: the shot of east London in the film Split Second from 1992. Right at the start. The Black Book is better than that film. Zwartboek is a good film.)
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From my phone. It's a picture that deserves to have been developed from raw, the tips of the tree on the far right properly cropped out, but today is not that day. Dunorlan Park, Tunbridge Wells, just before dusk, 11/11/2023.
Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love For Planet Earth
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=HJRL-85fRK0
WordAll #605 completed in 39s (two in head first with sufficient distance between them. Probably a minute including pre-thinking.)
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Wordle 876 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #660 4/6 (100%) (cheated on the flag and capital)
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La palabra del día #675 4/6 (logic)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #672 💀/6 (infinite arse)
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Framed #611 (I did the usual Saturday and took my nephew to a local park to feed ducks, munch out at a cafe, go for a walk and feed ducks. It's a quite spectacular park. I'll post a picture I took as I left - I don't fancy developing it from raw so it's straight from the phobe. Yesterday I also barely slept the night before and had something of migraine. Which is why I didn't post my scores yesterday. I had a nice time yesterday but less than ideal personally. In order to stay awake I watched the first two episodes of Quarry, which seemed kind of good in a pastichey early sixties way. It does suffer from not going the whole way on being unbelievable - Banshee went the whole way and it was therefore easier to suspend disbelief. Quarry, so far pretty violent/gory, moderately explicit sex, well defined, if not spelt out, characters, is a late 1960s series about a veteran becoming a hit man. Bloody hell my head. Song related, picture follows.)
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Apashe & Geoffrey - Lost in Mumbai (not my choice. I was listening to an algorithmically generated list of songs and this one came on. I don't especially like it but I got a flashback to sitting in my parents car, by myself, out of boredom, listening to the radio, in a carpark adjacent to my aunt's house in Orpington, 1993, as a younger teenager, sweeping through newer & pirate radio stations playing rave music and the beginnings of London garage. Probably Kiss FM - BBC Radio 1 was mostly desperately uncool. On a, cold, dark winter's night thinking of the musical mysteries & excitement 10 miles up the hill in London. A mixture of teenage feeling lost and yonder wicket gate on the horizon. Totally illusory but that's what this otherwise 'not for me' song reminded me of feeling. The song chose me. Like nostalgia I kind of hate it too.)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lW3T_UXFt6M
WordAll #603 completed in 1m 03s
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Wordle 874 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #658 1/6 (100%) (cheated on the capital city & flag)
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La palabra del día #673 4/6 (ok)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #670 3/6
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Framed #609 (watched MasterChef: The Professionals and read a bit more. I got a better night's sleep.)
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AIM - The Girl Who Fell Through The Ice (their album - Flight 602 - before this song's album is the darkest Trip Hop album I know and this song is pretty dark and wintery)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Un6RQAGA-QI
WordAll #602 completed in 40s (I did think really hard for a minute before starting because I'm not very wake and I did this one last.)
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Wordle 873 6/6* (22nd time this happened in 313 games. Gosh I'm tired. I used to find it weird when YouTubers younger relatives watch said 'gosh' a lot but now I have younger relatives I understand why. Realistically just substitute gosh for the expanded form of FFS.)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #657 3/6 (100%) (cheated a lot, and I'm tired enough I did this one first.)
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La palabra del día #672 5/6 (arse but I'm forcing myself to do this. Used a dictionary. I prefer their way of spelling it.)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #669 6/6 (30th time in 306 games.)
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Framed #608 (nah. I didn't really watch anything because I was reading a book about bread called Bread Matters: Why and How to Make Your Own by Andrew Whitley. Some of the more speculative stuff I don't agree with - ’Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?’ by Chris van Tulleken does a better job with the availabile evidence - because people who have conditions will seek out any form of potential relief so responsibly speculation should be stressed (to be fair to Whitely he does but people can be desperate). Whitely knows a great deal about a bread and he's not such a foodie he has forgotten practicality and not so snobby he judges things like electric breadmakers. My parents were heavily into whole and fresh foods when I was a kid so maybe it was drilled into me then. Although I still eat some processed food - I just try to avoid ingredients I think could be bad or very bad. Good bread is often expensive. Making my own is cheaper and among my hobbies. I think I could navigate the 22nd century. I haven't slept well because I was reading.)
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Leftfield - Open Up (substitute Windows for Hollywood)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ygsLpOwufoM
WordAll #601 completed in 55s (I did this one last)
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Wordle 872 5/6* (took me ages to get this)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #656 2/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #671 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #668 💀/6 (an easy one too - I would like to measure how many times assuming it's not the easy one works.)
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Framed #607 (yesterday I acted as technical support with a Windows PC that tried to "Start Up Repair" but couldn't. I tried everything to fix it and people who know Windows kept referring me to everything I'd already tried because I was working from the same Microsoft Insider list as them - they didn't know more than a list. So I tried to find what an error code means and if led me back to the non working list of things to do. The error codes and reasoning behind them and what it does is not public knowledge because it is all proprietary. I could have fixed a Linux or Unix-ish system (I don't know about MacOS because they may 'beware of the leopard' their technical details too) much more easily. So I booted from a Linux USB key and backed up their important files and reinstalled opaque Windows. Had the drive been encrypted too I couldn't have done that. Which is good/bad. Always, always, back-up etc. and thankfully a lot was stored remotely (which is a whole other issue). I watched MasterChef The Professionals, the best of all UK MasterChefs, and read the first two chapters of a book about bread. I really, really, hate computers.)
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Tastes pretty good. It takes 2 goes on the 5 setting to toast because unlike most readymade it has no added sugar. Plus loads of fibre/nutrients.
Shari Vari - Dance Alone
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=UwiMdNiPpjo
WordAll #600 completed in 3m 16s (first 3 <1min last one I blanked. I didn't get a good night's sleep)
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Wordle 871 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #655 2/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #670 5/6 (arse/logic)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #667 4/6
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Framed #606 (nah. I watched 2 episodes of 3 Pines. It was OK. I preferred Deadloch because I felt like it could make up its mind about being funny. While 3 Pines is a whimsical take about very dark things. I wouldn't argue all dark subjects need to be tackled with the utmost seriousness or solemnity, they weren't badly handled or belittled, but because they were (main plot arc aside) resolved quickly it felt terse disproportionate to the weight of the issues. Given a choice between Deadloch and 3 Pines watch Deadloch first. Alfred Molina is still a good actor though.)
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About 7.5cm (3inches) thick and about 20cm (8inch wide). It knocks hollow but I won't know if it's slightly under until tomorrow (in which case it will be toast only bread - I have been bitten before by wholemeal flour). It's not burnt - it's 100% the Maillard reaction. Yeast, flour, water, salt + time and energy. I won't say skill because it could still be a bunch of arse. Total labour 25 minutes including washing up/wiping down. The 5 minutes over is annoying.
