The New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9gPLDLD52Y
Wordle 954 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #738 1/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #753 5/6 (breech)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #750 4/6 (mistake on 3)
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Framed #689 (non. I watched the end of that absurdly gory South Korean "stuck on a ship with bad things" film. Which had some overlap with The Boys but without the humour or depth. In short I'd like The Boys Series 4 to be released. I barely slept because I stayed up late looking at walking poles. Walking poles don't make much sense unless it's very dodgy terrain or a person, in this case me, is suffering from some kind of ailment. Prior to lots of websites I'd have been forced to seek out advice from outdoor types who would likely be divided into the "I carry 110kg, wearing only three layers of binbag, a fleece, sweatpants, hobnail boots and 40km is easy, you don't need a stick you knobend" and "you definitely need these Swiss ones made of admamtium steel, or these Italian ones made with the tears of Romans with tungsten grommets, or these German ones that aren't that flashy but make Johannn cry if the tolerance of any element is more than 2nm out. And this Paramo jacket for the harsh spring weather in Brittany" . It seems to veer between outdoor superpeople and people who are prepared to spend a great deal of money. I think both camps probably have a point in different situations as well as been insufferable in all situations. Obviously there's some offense intended but I there are varying degrees of obnoxiousness and most people aren't than bad and people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones and all that. So I dived into the world of walking poles. I ended up with a pole that doubles as a stick. It was a maze of price comparisons and specifications. I didn't spend much. I think at a certain point - that point being 1.30am a person should give up the online quest accept that there will always be bargains, buy the cheapest that enables a person to see if it's useful but isn't so crap it's disposable. I think I made a reasonable £25 choice of a single Craghoppers Venture T-Grip. I can hear both camps of outdoor types clicking their tongues. It looks useful and I periodically get a bad hip, but not badly for a couple of years, I think my general fitness has improved significantly, which helps a lot. Or I'll fall down a hole, in the fog, with an owl, because I bought a cheap pole or the screws are more than 2nm out. I'll re-evaluate the pole situation at Christmas.)
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Sloppy Jane - The Constable
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=mX-rohhTPZ0
Wordle 953 5/6* (this was unavoidable with the strategy I took and today's word)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #737 3/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #752 5/6 (one or two right angles, seated upon coarsely)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #749 4/6 (ok)
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Framed #688 (no. I watched a South Korean 'trapped on a ship with something bad' film. Specifically mutinous convicts, guards and something monstrous in the hold. I gave up about half way through because it was graphically violent and it is an old premise. It was well acted with reasonable direction. I may or may not watch the rest. Probably not. Usual Saturday, a good day, birthday nibbles.)
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Lily & Madeline - The Wolf Is Free
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=qTrmyoc_lAw
WordAll #681 completed in 43s
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Wordle 952 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #736 2/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #751 X/6 (rectal pocket universes.)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #748 4/6
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Framed #687 (nope. I watched Creep 2. I won't give away the plot. The characters, the 'Aaron' character in particular, are well written. Aside from being believably bad - people often seem to forget bad guys often don't think they're bad - he's a people watcher taken to the far extreme. I don't mind people watchers - I'm one myself. Benign proto-stalking. I suppose if writing such a character a person takes aspects of themselves or other people and stretches the elastic band to just before it snaps. When it snaps it becomes unbelievable. He's the evil version of Kenneth from, the excellent, and mostly family friendly, Safety Not Guaranteed. I'm more of a Kenneth* than an 'Aaron' but that is exactly what 'Aaron' would say. I hope, if Creep 3 is ever made, 'Aaron' has settled down as a married, salaried, white collar professional. That seems like the logical next step. He'd be a great, pathologically enthusiastic, team leader. I got a smidgen of exercise yesterday and the Grisport Exmoor are excellent. The Exmoors are much lighter than my previous hiking shoes, late 1990s Zamberlan, and I think they will wear faster but that seems seems OK because the other ones are indestructible bone rattlers. The Exmoors are also Vibram soled but Vibram make rubber to different specifications. I suspect the Grisport Exmoor are more country oriented and the Zamberlan I owned are for valleys and hills hewn from granite and barely troubled by people. The Exmoor are fine for Exmoor or Sainsbury's. Usual Saturday ahead.)
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Starship Trooper: a. Lifeseeker, b. Disillusion, c. Würm
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu9ykgGUm1w
WordAll #680 completed in 41s
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Wordle is down. I'll do it later, maybe.
#Worldle #735 2/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #750 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #747 3/6
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Framed #686 (no. I watched episode 2 of the new series of True Detective and it has grown on me. I have an unpleasant level of general inflammation, which is very frustrating, and I feel like I should do some exercise. It's hurting from my shoulder to my toes and throbs in time with my pulse. Now, although it sounds like I'm moaning, and I have got legitimate things to moan about, I'm also fully aware that people have it worse some or all of the time and they get on with it. I don't feel at all sorry for myself or consciously depressed about it. It's the way it is. I think acceptance is different than surrender. I ordered some new shoes yesterday. My main rambling boots are AKU and they're great but I feel silly* wearing them on anything less that mixed or more difficult terrain, it's just wearing them down for no good reason, and I want some decent walking shoes, so it was my birthday yesterday and I bought Grisport Exmoor low-rise hiking shoes which will be more generally useful because they're less of a pain in the bottom to get on and off. Part of me say that, given my back, the best option would be something like Nike Air Max but the problem there is mud and water. So I wanted something hard wearing closer to regular shoes. I'm a rubbish, irregular hiker, and they fit the bill. They're low-key rambling hiker. The next big fashion. As East Sussex's foremost grime artist/rapper/trip hop legend ComfortG, issue of the Duke of Knaresborough, said: "I'm not a fighter, I'm a low key rambling hiker".
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Blossom Puzzle, January 25
Letters: D E O L P R V
My score: 327 points
My longest word: 11 letters
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Daily Octordle #731
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily
Daily Sequence Octordle #731
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily-sequence/731
Daily Rescue Octordle #731
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The Thermals - Pillar of Salt
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=IkB4Ig0fNLg
WordAll #679 completed in 49s
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Wordle 950 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #734 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #749 6/6 (ls | grep "[wW]aste" | xargs rm -f)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #746 5/6 (cat bottom | tail -f > /dev/null)
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Framed #685 (nah. I watched The One I Love. I like the Duplass Brothers work* and I think they are very talented people. I did not like The One I Love. It wasn't their work per se. I guessed the outcome of the story a third of the way through, I deeply disliked the characters, and felt it could have been improved by all of the characters dying of pocket dimension AIDS. I watched it because I didn't know the exact details and Duplass and Moss are good actors and I watched the whole thing. IMDB gives it a good rating so clearly I'm in a minority of people who think it could have been improved by things such as murderous inbred hillbillies or pocket dimension AIDS or bits of the old testament. They're fictional characters and obviously I don't think that about actual people on account of empathy. Plus pocket dimensions AIDS doesn't exist. Hello didn't exist before the telephone**.)
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* Really. Not sarcasm. Apologies for the subsequent paragraph.
A quite easy one today, good for beginners and casual play. Has I paid closer attention it'd be closer to 400 (my current top score).
Blossom Puzzle, January 24
Letters: G M N I O R T
My score: 338 points
My longest word: 12 letters
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Daily Octordle #730
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily
Daily Sequence Octordle #730
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily-sequence/730
Daily Rescue Octordle #730
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Soulwax - E Talking
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3dYrgHnZtmU
WordAll #678 completed in 2m 22s (I don't know what happened here. I may have triggered the timer early. I think it was <2m.)
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Wordle 949 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
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La palabra del día #748 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #745 6/6 (coccyx inflammation)
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Framed #684 (nope. I watched Bargain Hunt. I was somewhat inflamed again. It started, as it often does, with feeling tired and then my collar bones started hurting and then my shoulders and then my lower back. Then all at once. It wasn't that painful but it was enough to make me absent minded and emotionally brittle because it was a permanent, 7/10 painful, distraction. I don't take pain medicine stronger than paracetamol because it's easy to become reliant, or become tolerant, on anything stronger. That's borne of experience and stopping was unpleasant but I haven't taken any stronger analgesics for 10 years and I think I only would if it was acute pain and only temporarily. I can't judge other people. They're a waste of time for chronic pain because they stop working as tolerance builds and all a person is left with is the addictive side effects, no coping mechanisms and duller thinking. I fall into the drugs should be decriminalized and regulated camp but I'm, through experience(s), not pro drugs because I think most of the time they're a waste of time and time is one of the more valuable things people have. Plus I think people self medicate boredom, anxiety, physical or mental pain, and it reduces the chances of ever being able to deal with those things. Maybe some people can do both but I'm inclined to think some things give and take away over the longer term. That's the deal. Booze included. YMMV. Anyway, I woke today up feeling pretty good, so well done autoimmune disease for the lack of predictability being true to form. I've got a feeling it may get worse as the day continues.)
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The regular Octordle and the rescue Octordle were quite difficult today. YMMV.
Via: https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/
Daily Octordle #729
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily
Daily Sequence Octordle #729
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily-sequence/729
Daily Rescue Octordle #729
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Le Butcherettes - My Mallely
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=A_3hFpiC8UI
WordAll #677 completed in 51s (I could do this much faster with Neuralink version XI)
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Wordle 948 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #732 3/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #747 5/6 (ischial callouses)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #744 4/6 (1/2 chance on 3)
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Framed #683 (nah. I watched Blue Ruin which was a revenge film that was distinct from most revenge films by being quite gory and also a kind of nihilism that has fallen out of favour in cinema. It was very good but I can see why people wouldn't like it. I won't give away too much of the plot because I try to watch films without too many expectations because otherwise I guess too much. Unless it was crap or simple in which case not much is lost. Strong cast, I enjoyed the direction and colour choices they made. The colouring was a good example of how to show off without showing off. The 'film' (it was digital, Canon EOS C300 + Canon L series lenses- not cheap, not the most expensive, and better for it, now it has caught up) was the colour equivalent of a humblebrag and I approve. As a side note I'm not as keen on R mount (Canon) and Z mount (Nikon) lenses versus their older equivalents because they couldn't exist without substantial digital distortion correction, which works fine but, and I'm being irrational, optically are quite different than traditional film lenses. It works out the same but the digital distortion corrections are, generally, wholly proprietary which limits choice. If digital correction is OK for space telescopes it should be OK for digital cameras - that's where I'm being irrational. Where I'm not being irrational is that I'd need to sign an NDA to understand, and implement, the corrections myself. That's wrong. Ideally I'd like the image from the lens hitting the recording medium, film or sensor, to have the bare minimum of distortion to begin with, but in the absence of that the maximum choice of correction software and transparency about what is been done. It is, and always will be, about knowing a lens. At least in part. I could go on a Swiss Tony tangent on that. Now that a Leica is replaceable every two years I feel quite strongly the lenses should be very good. I don't own a Leica but I admire them. It's just a shame cameras come with insufferable camera users. Not everyone. Obviously.)
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95% wholemeal wheat sourdough. Two week neglected wholemeal rye starter (accounting for the 5% of wholemeal rye flour.)
Willem Defoe, not William Hurt, I should have looked it up on IMDB. Sourdough dough smells like wet dog.
Santigold - The Keepers
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=H4prRRwAaeU
WordAll #676 completed in 1m 10s
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Wordle 947 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #731 2/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #746 5/6 (ducktail)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #743 4/6
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Framed #682 (nah. I watched Boondock Saints, on Prime Video, which is among the worst films I have seen, it's as if someone with no idea about anything but lots of ideas about everything, wrote a screenplay and made it into a film. Two rough and ready Irish American meatpackers kill two of the Russian Mob, and through a series of improbable events, end up on a mission to rid all of Boston from bad folk. It had William Hurt and proper actors. The direction was rudimentary. Not awful. Not great. It cost about £6 million dollars. Next time someone tells me some mad but technically plausible scheme I'm going think "well, they made Boondock Saints". It's an inspiration that no matter how stupid the idea, or way the idea is executed, somehow, sometimes, things work out. It's Split Second bad. It's like if someone said of a meal "well, it's edible". It's not The Room bad. It was memorable and there is a sequel.)
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Just as well somebody, from another country maybe, doesn't comes along and do it cheaper or more efficiently, even if it's not necessarily as good. Literally never happened in the history of technology, fashion and manufacturing ever... I think it is a flawed model because of the underlying assumptions. All that's left after that is protectionism. The customers and the company ends up losing.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/19/hps_ceo_spells_it_out/
Orbital - Where's It Going?
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=wBls25RunCU
WordAll #675 completed in 42s
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Wordle 946 2/6* (doesn't count)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #730 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #745 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #742 5/6 (oreillers effronté)
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Framed #681 (nope. Normal Saturday. Found a use for Google's magic eraser gimmick - a nearly five year old found it highly amusing diligently removing everything from pictures bit by bit. There are other cases where the magic eraser it is no doubt useful but I also think trying to exclude what a person doesn't want in a photo is part of what goes into taking a picture. Maybe not casual snaps. Pretty much the duality of AI there - deskilling while simultaneously highlighting the need for a skill in the first place. I suppose general AI is when the questions no longer have to be asked or judged. The problem there is that aesthetics, and biological systems, the planet itself, are not static - so at best there'd be a feedback loop between the judgement of machines and the judgement of the people using them or the shifting observable data. I have a feeling that unskilled manual labour (which is currently more expensive to replace than use) and skilled, semi repetitious, white collar work are the low hanging fruit. The latter first and the biggest cost saving.)
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