16:00.
Masters of Reality - J.B. Witchdance
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=rRc9X27NuA0
WordAll #633 completed in 36s (I did this last)
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Wordle 904 5/6* (arse)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #688 4/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #703 5/6 (arse)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #700 5/6 (arse)
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Framed #639 (blood awful film. Yesterday I did the usual and I don't really have a lot to report. It was comfortingly regular. Christmas is in full-swing, sunsets at ten to four in the afternoon, an hour of dim light either side. Relatively genteel ponds in parks take on menacing winter tones like the 1973 British public information film "Lonely Water", and everything feels like then end of something, because it is. In the Southern hemisphere, presumably, Christmas feels like the middle of something, because it is. Not long until the winter solstice, coincident to many religious holidays, when it all turns around, so I'll do my utmost to avoid witches, whom have, maybe, cursed today's Wordle scores.)
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Yard Act - Petroleum
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra5HWf4IsmM&feature=shared
WordAll #632 completed in 2m 29s (~)
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Wordle 903 4/6* (1/3 chance on 3, realistically 1/2 & I chose the least likely because I assumed it had already been done)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #687 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #702 4/6 (ok. With my limited guesscabulory 1/2 chance on 3)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #699 5/6 (arse. I mucked up on 4.)
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Framed #638 (nah. I watched Zombieland: Double Tap and MasterChef: The Professionals. Two things with colons in the titles. Zombieland: Double Tap felt as if they'd bolted a feel good ending on. It's not that the happy ending was bad it's just they had to spell it out like a chunk of the viewers have the cognitive disabilities of zombies. For the first 3/4 it was a better film than Hellboy (2019) then it lost it. MasterChef: The Professionals is the king of MasterChefs. For dinner I ate M&S Fiery Hot Chicken Tikka Masala - which is basically like Chicken Tikka Masala, which I usually strongly avoid, but with Naga chillies. I have fairly good chilli tolerance and I enjoyed it. Bought soy sauce from an Asian supermarket because supermarkets in the UK seem to be adding stuff like acesulfame as a sweetener, which is fine, ish - gut health aside, up to 250°C (i.e a properly hot wok) and given it's replacing a tiny amount of sugar with an unnecessary additive seems, at best, cheap.)
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I'm realistic about the limits of AI** but a really strict C++ compiler, making use of 'AI'*, could mitigate a lot of those problems by enforcement. Rust is good but usual caveats apply.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/07/memory_correction_five_eyes/?td=rt-3a
* Linear algebra and modern processing power.
** and we haven't gotten to the lawsuits yet.
Eels - Flyswatter
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9YoABZowNCk
WordAll #631 completed in 1m 08s
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Wordle 902 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #686 3/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #701 5/6 (arse)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #698 3/6
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Framed #637 (nah. My back is a bit better, or I have gotten more used to it, or a bit of both. I watched the end of La noche más larga and Hellboy (2019) on Amazon Video. There is a category of films that are conceptually, realistically, and stylistically absurd but at no point expect the viewer to take them seriously. As an example John Wick is in that category while The Davinci Code* isn't in that category because it wants to be taken seriously. Hellboy, 2019, isn't so ironic it doesn't expect a viewer to enter into it's world, and isn't ironic about itself, so I don't feel the irony is acting as an excuse. It's bollocks but it's unpretentious bollocks. Seems like a good rule for involvement in it which is presumably why Ian McShane, David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Sasha Lane, Daniel Dae Kim and other competent people fronted it. That and the money.)
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* I was going to list the books I think it was influenced by but that seems unfair because it's associating them with The Davinci Code.
Digits - No One
https://store.digitsmusic.com/album/stay-alive?t=8
WordAll #630 completed in 4m 39s (I questioned whether I do this at all)
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Wordle 901 3/6* (1/2 change on 3. Shrödinger's 3 until I opened the box with a guess)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #685 2/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #700 4/6 (ok)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #697 6/6 (arse)
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Framed #636 (nah. The moustache quotient looks above average. I watched more of La noche más larga. I did not have a good night's sleep because of pain. It's inconvenient and I will get through it. If I had to describe the pain specifically it's like someone has taken a kitchen blowtorch to my spine. Once I have stretched and moved around more it will improve greatly. I'm far less indolent when in pain.)
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Holy Fuck - Korg Agro Rhythm
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=auxPLKRorIw
WordAll #629 completed in 1m 04s
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Wordle 900 4/6* (ok)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #684 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #699 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #696 4/6 (ok)
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Framed #635 (nah. I watched Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em, Yes Minister, La noche más larga, and woke at 5 after dreaming of analogue synthesisers. Involving analogue synthesisers is more accurate. I was invited to some awful arts thing involving retro instruments and the person who invited me got annoyed when I played the synths. The moral of the story, if one can be summoned from the dissipating fog of a dream, is chicken madras doesn't give a person nightmares.)
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Glass Candy - The Possessed
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=gREfzArkVUU
WordAll #628 completed in 48s
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Wordle 899 4/6* (ok)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #683 1/6 (100%) (cheated a little)
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La palabra del día #698 4/6 (ok)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #695 4/6 (ok)
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Framed #634 (I watched the end of The Witches of Mayfair and it was good/I look forward to the other series. The Scottish accents were not good and sounded nothing like most Scottish variations. Although, I suspect, dialects and regional variations of language in the UK would become more unintelligible the further the clock goes forward or back. So maybe there's some license there. It was intelligible. With supernatural beings like the Butthead/Lasher character we can just assume their language skills are kept up to date in daemonic adult education classes. Or they have some kind of generative semantics, combined with some form of telepathy, plus maybe daemonic Duolingo and/or some kind of Leitner box. And a lot of practice/listening. And some kind of course. I don't think Butthead would put up with that: "first I must get he magic then I will get the chicks". I favour that explaination for Lasher TBF.)
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Butthole Surfers - Pepper
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=G8sGmSEehi4
WordAll #627 completed in 30s
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Wordle 898 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #682 2/6 (100%) (I got the population wrong)
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La palabra del día #697 5/6 (arse)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #694 3/6
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Framed #633 (no. I've been watching, on and off, the Witches of Mayfair. It's silly but I'm watching it and presumably others will as well, which is a measure of success. The actors are all good. The Lasher character is like a fantasy of Butthead (from the eponymous Beavis & ...) and I hope, at some point, in the 2024 series of Witches of Mayfair, maybe during a flashback to the late 1970s, Lasher is seen wearing an AC/DC tee-shirt. The 2023 series of Beavis & Butthead is funny and I hope the 2024 series of Beavis & Butthead has a Witches of Mayfair cross-over.)
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tUnE-yArDs - Sunlight
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=qFwovK5oYyg
WordAll #626 completed in 1m 21s
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Wordle 897 4/6* (ok. I knew it wasn't likely to be the word on 3 but I was at an impasse)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #681 2/6 (100%) (cheated from start to finish)
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La palabra del día #695 5/6 (arse)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #693 5/6 (arse. On Le Mot if a person misses a day it breaks a streak, so my maximum streak on the French one is 23, and percentage 91%, while the maximum La Palabra Del Dia streak is 80 and percentage 94%. The Spanish one, and NY Times, doesn't count skipped days as breaking a streak or towards failure. I think I'm worse at the Spanish one but a slight difference in the way it's measured implies otherwise. TL;DR How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff)
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Framed #632 (nah. Usual Saturday, but it was colder, and I am marginally older)
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Illuminati Hotties - Truck
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=aG5p6R2MRBY
Wordle 896 6/6* (in a hurry. I may do them tonight)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
It's no breakfast or do it tonight, maybe. I took far longer than normal with the Wordle, because I kept thinking of foreign words, and I like toast.
Handsome Furs - Memories of The Future
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jG_QG8BAmgc
Wordle 895 4/6* (fair enough, I had 1/2 on 3 and chose wrong. Excellent inverted Bandersnatch reference. 'You have to burn the rope')
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #679 2/6 (100%) (cheated. I cheated so much I can't readily remember which bits I cheated on)
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La palabra del día #694 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #691 4/6 (ok)
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Framed #630 (nah. I'm somewhat bored of anything dystopian. It strikes me that life can be perfectly complicated, from hellish to joyous, all by itself without -pias as a suffix. I think going forwards or backwards ordinary is less predictable than -pias, science fiction, or any imagination is just fine, I like Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. Like Bones and All. I'm also in a hurry. Revelation of the Daleks > Genesis of the Daleks, but GotD is entirely necessary. Silvester McCoy is good.)
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Platinum Blue-Black. Subjectively a (I think it's good & like it) boring ink, semipermanent and I don't have to spend too long cleaning a pen after prolonged use. Your mileage may vary because there are other significant factors like the pen itself or pattern or usage. The pen is a Pineider Avatar UR demonstrator in red.
SebastiAn - Pleasant (ft. Charlotte Gainsborough)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lp-rUnoJH3w
WordAll #623 completed in 3m 24s (blanked a little)
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Wordle 894 6/6* (The 23rd time this has happened in 384 games. I awoke at 4.30)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #678 1/6 (100%) (cheated with 4 of the neighbors for expediency)
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La palabra del día #693 5/6 (guesswork)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #690 4/6
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Framed #629 (nah. I watched Destiny of the Daleks, 4th doctor - Tom Baker. Not episodes of Doctor Who that I particularly like. When Tom Baker's Doctor did unhinged he came across as unhinged, but the dialogue between him and Romana II in the Destiny of The Daleks amounted to crap wisecracks and banter. Like a couple who find their in-jokes funny but logically speaking nobody else would. Which is great and I'm not knocking it, like a Dalek, or St Skeletor, but in theory Doctor Who isn't romantically involved with his companions. Or buddy humour. I also watched the most recent episode of Rick and Morty. After the passable first episode of the season of Rick and Morty they have been good to great. The best Doctor who episodes don't jam in banter unless it's actually funny or necessary. If I were to rank Doctors I would separate Tom Baker into early and late Tom Baker - not because it is entirely accurate but because he'd be further up the list on the basis of the earlier episodes and further down on the basis of later ones. I'm not sure a person could tell much about someone on the basis of their Doctor Who rankings other than they've watched a lot of Doctor Who.)
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There are no truly basic programmable toys. Modern ones seem to massively overcomplicate things. I want something like (Logo) Big Trak. Key in simple directions and numbers and press go. Suitable for a ~5 year old. The most accessible essence of computing intersecting with the world, plus entry level geometry and sequences. I'm sure there are Raspberry Pi or Arduino based solutions but it's overcomplicating it. Although there are no doubt good apps for pads/phones but it lacks the physicality of a Big Trak. At this rate the younger ones are going to end up with six large bottles of Diet Coke each and Mentos, which was a very successful present about ten years ago.
Soulwax - Caramel
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=xz5t-mP168o
WordAll #622 completed in 1m 17s
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Wordle 893 4/6* (1/2 chance on three. Retrospectively is should've been 3)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #677 3/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #692 5/6 (arse, but I know now. I'm trying to look on the brightside)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #689 5/6 (dark for this time of the morning. I didn't play on hard mode so I could use exclusion which left only a couple words and I had the head of the word and used a dictionary)
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Framed #628 (nah. I watched some Dr Who from the early 1970s: The Genesis of The Daleks. To state the obvious the daleks are fascists akin to those in World War II and the Time Lords and Dr Who are inherently anti fascist. The Time Lords don't seem too opposed to elitism, which is OK, because while there's an overlap with fascism it's a different and less malignant. As we get older is becomes more difficult to overlook stuff. Like the daleks, seemingly, being unable to handle rough surfaces and stairs. Of course they probably could, and can, because the BBC didn't have a very expansive special effects budget they couldn't do so on screen. So logically the daleks should be scarier with that knowledge in mind, but they're less scary than when I was a child and didn't think about it at all. I think, as adults, we are more likely to to believe propaganda we made because it's a defence mechanism to make things less scary and less complicated.)
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Apologies with that Ben Goldacre inaugural lecture - he's talking to a hall and it is fine if he raises his voice. However, the lavalier microphone he wears overloads or gets close to it every time he shouts. Plus I think if you squeezed him hard enough he'd squeak. Which is quite jarring, but I think it is worth perseverance because what they're doing there, with a little imagination, could be applied to so much more. Plus it's all very admirable.
Lunch gnome (landscape).
