WordAll #734 completed in 49s
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Tecla - You Suck
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=GewVAdrNhR8
Wordle 1,005 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #789 1/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #804 4/6 (dick-tionary for about ten minutes)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #801 5/6 (culle cinq)
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Framed #740 (no. I watched two episodes of Great British Menu finals week and I am in a hurry. The song is aimed at me. I feel like my word and music bags are running a little low and I need to eat something zinc heavy* to improve their quality. Or get some fresh air and exercise. I'm not as awful as the people in the song.)
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* Coincidentally, I have venison. I like pie. There is a Venn diagram there.
WordAll #733 completed in 34s
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Liz Lawrence - Health & Safety
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=wplVPr0v7lQ
Wordle 1,004 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #788 3/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #803 5/6 (penta-culo)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #800 6/6 (hexa-cul)
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Framed #739 (nope. I watched Episode 2 of The Cleaner, which is a silly but good show about an undocumented worker, working as a cleaner in Las Vegas who witnesses a murder, begs for her life, a somewhat rational gangster has her clean up the scene, and she ends up working for him. It's a very sympathetic portrayal of undocumented workers because most of the undocumented workers speak good English and are convivial. I don't mean that I'm unsympathetic to people who don't speak good English and are less convivial - I've been in countries where I don't speak the language or feel like I always 'fit in' in this country let alone others. But it's a sympathetic glimpse at people at the bottom of the food chain, with little legal protection, in a permanently precarious legal position. I have an ignorance of what's going on with regards to the technicalities of immigration enforcement in the US but I rather suspect it's about catching immigrants rather than the companies employing subcontractors who are cheap for a reason, in a kind of pyramid of exploitation. And it gives me sympathy for Americans who had unskilled jobs taken away from them by companies subcontracting their jobs to people paid far less, with less overheads, distorting the market further in favour of the employers. Looking at the figures it, in part, explains the appeal of anti-immigramt rhetoric although I don't hear much directed at the companies employing undocumented workers indirectly through subcontracting, just stuff appealing to people who don't see the bigger picture. Plus criminal cases - I'm yet to be convinced immigration disproportionately produces criminals versus naturalized citizens. I'm not wedded to a particular point of view. South Park: series 8 episode 7 - Goobacks was nuanced. Anyway, The Cleaner, I'm only up to episode 2 is so far quite good. I'll do Wordall at lunch. Maybe.)
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Toughest ones for a while (or I've been up since early and a little mentally fatigued.)
Daily Octordle #784
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily
Daily Sequence Octordle #784
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily-sequence/784
Daily Rescue Octordle #784
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How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes
Distracted.
WordAll #732 completed in 2m 27s
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808 State - 1 in 10
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=sljh6hIPIbU
Wordle 1,003 6/6* (fair enough. I varied my starter word for fun although I'm not sure it would have made much difference. 1/2 on 4. Could have been one less.)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #787 1/6 (100%)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #799 4/6
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La palabra del día #802 4/6
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Framed #738 (nope. I watched episode 3 of Absentia which is a very grim TV show. There is a British TV show called Casualty, about an Accident and Emergency, or ER, of a fictional hospital in a fictional town called Holby and, I haven't watched it for at least two decades, it opens up with an accident which becomes the central drama of the episode. Like House. Often the setup for the accidents was very obvious and it felt like "Oh, he's up a tree, is he going to be distracted or something, and have an accident" but like House they varied it and the person could have had a seizure, twisted around and knackered his groundskeeper whom was having an argumentative call, on a 1990s mobile phone, under the tree, with his wife about his gay son wanting to become a hip-hop sommelier. Absentia is a bit like that, totally different, but a bit like that - there was more pervasive homophobia and racism in the 1990s and the groundskeeper regarded knowledge about wines to be contradictory to hard graft and managing the pheasant population unrelated to Ghanaian hip-hop. They reconciled when the groundskeeper recovered. With Absentia: "Oh they're going go karting, I wonder how that's going to end" - in a sarcastic thought bubble. A less boring Sunday. I played Scrabble in a four way, quite casual, game. The word that nudged me ahead was azine. Just took a look a Wordall and my stomach is rumbling so, like checking for typos, maybe later.)
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WordAll #731 completed in 39s
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Future of The Left - The Contrarian
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=voILz3geVfs&feature=shared
Wordle 1,002 2/6* (doesn't count - luck, and I switched starting word out of boredom)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #786 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #801 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #798 4/6 (1/2 choice on 3)
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Framed #737 (nope. I watched episode 2 of Absentia on Prime Video. I don't know why because I'm not really enjoying it that much. It's watching nearly one hour chunks of grim awkwardness and pretend. I went to a park, Dunorlan Park in Tunbridge Wells, yesterday and it's wildfowl breeding season and saw a wonderful scene of a somewhat rare duck waddling along with six or seven ducklings. Just earlier I saw three or four ducks trying to do each other serious physical harm over the lady they were attempting to mount and another duck killing either their own or another duckling by standing it up underwater. The world of ducks: fightin', sex, infanticide and attempted murder. In Tunbridge Wells, by the old Tunbridge Wells West Railway - now a heritage steam railway, is Sainsbury's and on the other side of the carpark Lidl and Homebase. Lidl is a discount supermarket that is good. Not universally good but better than pretty much every other discount supermarket and their food, being an obsessive ingredients reader and keen on seasoning, is better than most UK supermarkets which are often under flavoured UPF ridden veneers. Yesterday I witnessed the great Tunbridge Wells Sainsbury's to Lidl migration, when Sainsbury's went cash only. I arrived at Sainsbury's (they have substantially broader range than Lidl) to get dried pappardelle and other bits I can't get in Lidl and the cash points were covered with signs and a member of staff was standing outside shouting, in the style of a medieval town crier, "no cards cash only". So I looped back around, across the carpark, to Lidl and was followed by most of the people who'd turned up for Sainsbury's. When I got to Lidl all of the tills (they open up tills on demand) were open, there was one bottle of the wine I wanted to buy left, and lots of people wandering around like they'd entered a strange German supermarket that does discount in the correct and most efficient way. Mostly buying the deluxe Lidl stuff. I'm now just hoping I'm not competing with ten times the amount of people for bargains which I won't list for fear of tipping people off leading to inflation. There was no fightin', sex, infanticide and attempted murder during the great Tunbridge Wells Lidl migration, we're not ducks.)
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WordAll #730 completed in 1m 34s
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Rubberbandits - Dad's Best Friend
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9AYsTWSvE7M
Wordle 1,001 4/6* (hardest one for a while)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #785 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #800 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #797 3/6
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Framed #736 (I did watch it. I watched some detective thing on Amazon Prime which seemed quite good but I'm not sure if I'll continue watching it. I find everything interesting so I try to limit myself. There is such an abundance of stuff out there. I watched a BBC documentary from 1979 called Living Legends about Burke and Hare. It was a good documentary about corpse snatchers who ran out of fresh corpses to snatch and for financial reasons, in 1828, decided to make fresh corpses. Like Daft Jamie*. The financial incentive was that Burke and Hare would be paid by Robert Knox, who was a pretty good anatomist at Edinburgh University, who was simultaneously not asking too many questions about where the bodies came from and exploiting two violent men, latterly Irish 'navvies'**, whose relative poverty made the sums of money involved attractive. It was a half an hour long documentary and also very interesting to see Edinburgh in 1979. Not quite as dramatic a difference as Southwark in London in the late eighties through to the late 1990s, which is like the aliens have landed, but Edinburgh seemed quite a lot grubbier. Usual Saturday.)
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* https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/4136
** Navigators - primarily Irish immigrants - who dug from point A to point B before mechanical diggers, contributing greatly to the Industrial Revolution in the Great Britain. Currently about 10% of the UK population has one Irish grandparent. In 1960 it was something like 25%. I have an Irish great grandparent on my mother's side but they were somewhat moneyed judging by the 1900s Swiss skiing tickets in their photo book and historically inconvenient judging by the British uniform. I suspect they ended up here for other reasons. Anyway, I suppose the point I'm making, is most British people are at least a bit of Irish because of shagging somewhere in the past. Not that it's any solace or justification for things like the great famine or other major historical injustices; I suppose it's an argument for the awareness of those things and wariness of attributing blame to the literal descendants of those who emigrated (apart from mine, who were also proper Irish, but probably inconvenient Irish - I haven't looked into it a great deal).
An observation, I acknowledge a far from scientific one: if I make a loaf of 100% wholemeal loaf with 500gms of wholemeal flour, water and salt and use yeast as a leavening agent it 'fills me up' (stops hunger) less than exactly the same ingredients using a sourdough starter. The sourdough keeps me full for longer*. I've checked a few times now - obviously it's not a controlled experiment, just observation and I'm unwilling to commit to it.
Increased fibre is known to moderate blood sugar released from eating carbs - one of the reasons wholegrains are generally better (along with increased nutrients). In theory the fibre content is identical between loaves. It's roughly the same water in the dough prior to baking. So all that has changed is the starter. It's just a curious observation and it'd be fascinating to do a trial with blood glucose monitoring because it seems counterintuitive - if anything the fibre content should be reduced with a longer fermentation dictated by the sourdough process.
It's homemade 100% wholemeal sourdough with 4 ingredients. Not sure it's be the same without wholemeal or more ingredients.
* I'm willing to accept that could be a placebo effect or maybe some other unobserved confounder. I don't think so though.
Daily Octordle #781
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily
Daily Sequence Octordle #781
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily-sequence/781
Daily Rescue Octordle #781
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WordAll #729 completed in 27s
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Architecture in Helsinki - That Beep
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lAiXIWj2r-E
Wordle 1,000 🎉 4/6*
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#Worldle #784 2/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #799 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #796 5/6 (connard)
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Framed #735 (nah. Every film I have seen Leonardo DiCaprio in has been a good film and he's a good actor. I think I have seen about three of the films he's in. Romeo and Juliet, Gangs of New York, Wolf of Wall Street. Tell an inadvertent lie: The Aviator. I'm not proud of not having seen his films and taking pride in cultural ignorance strikes me as wrong as taking pride in any other form of ignorance. It's not so much that ignorance by itself is a problem because everyone is ignorant about different things to various degrees. I watched Great British Menu yesterday and I am proud I have never seen Titanic because it looks like the kind of film someone would have to lure me with cake or some other form of favour to see. It seems exploitative. I'm not a piece of meat.)
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Gosh I'm tired. I keep drifting asleep and forgetting forgetting to renew my HGV licence. I could have gotten up to 350 but missed a couple of obvious ones. It's still a "Blossom Boss" score but off my high of 400.
Blossom Puzzle, March 14
Letters: D E M A N P S
My score: 302 points
My longest word: 10 letters
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Kaweco piston filler. Should be good. £135 seems steep. TWSBI Eco piston fillers are great and have similarly reasonable nibs. LAMY AL Stars have a similarly reasonable nib and it's trivial/cheap to fit a converter. Both substantially cheaper. So it's really whether a person wants an aluminium compact piston filler. I want one but I think at that price not so much. If you shop around it's close to LAMY 2000 prices (although a good pen I think it's not necessarily smoother or more functional than a LAMY Safari or AL Star or TWSBI).
Could have been faster.
WordAll #728 completed in 1m 07s
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The Joy Formidable - The Ever Changing Spectrum of a Lie
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=mVnzwD3uyfI
Wordle 999 3/6*
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#Worldle #783 3/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #798 6/6 (diurnal flatulance)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #795 💀/6 (cutl-ass)
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Framed #734 (nah. I'll do Wordall later. It's nearly 5am and I woke up an hour ago in pain. I watched A Bay of Blood, a giallo film from the early 1970s, with a functional but not great English dub. Giallo films are a mixture of a soap opera, detective drama, titillation, and often fairly over the top but unrealistic slasher horror. I suspect the giallo films of the late 1960s and early 1970s were a major influences on American and British horror B-movies, although influence and inevitably are maybe difficult to disentangle, short of neologisms or new formats, and to avoid essays on the influence of Euripides on the film translation of Howard the Duck. An Italian version with subtitles would probably improve it. The basic plot was a murder of a countess to secure the land rights to a bay* to create a tourist trap and a whodunit with lots of soap opera twists, special effects which were like an advanced version of Hammer Horror, I'm not into shocks or gore that's too realistic, and I'm not that keen on the movie because I think I would have been better off reading a book.)
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* More Romney Marsh than Portofino https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=42o4jh-2qUo