Force 10/11 in the night (no name as it’s only the NW Highlands). Coffee and damage check time before settling down to do some actual work

I see the QRF is out in the Western Approaches

There’s an intern somewhere who has just watched that speech looking at boxes of impeachment evidence and going “er Chief, we gonna need a big set of boxes”

Erm anyone spotted anyone buying Brent or WTI put options before the “excursion” who forced their exercise about 45 mins ago or who shorted crude in the same time frame? Asking for an ethics advisor….

An utterly brilliant article on a revolting spectacle. Do Read. @questingvole.bsky.social spectator.com/article/trum...

www.keatingchambers.com/resources/ar... first article of weekend’s output released

That's a morning recalibrating the fuel sensors again. Unfortunately I sound more like Chief O'Brien (puzzled and slightly peeved) than Scotty

Time for an episode or 2 of Tinker, Tailor

Article had been written (force majeure and energy and you know what). I then opened the FT and saw that another oil major had declared FM.

One article written (about bonds and letters of credit) next one up - force majeure

Tonight’s reading involved a 9th C Burgundian Count called Hairy Paws. Nah. Those were Hairy Paws… Any excuse for a dog pic I know

He also decapitated the candidates for the changed regime

I see there’s some commentary going round that unlike some, Putin didn’t bomb schools. Without validating the bombing of schools, that’s missing the word “just”. He bombed hospitals, roads, power plants and homes to name a few. Then the troops went in and massacred civilians.

Today is the day beloved by tech adapters trying to be green. It’s the day when you check and recharge all those batteries

Now if I had said “drill baby drill” last week, Brent Crude heading north of USD80 per barrel and the Straits of Hormuz looking a tad iffy would make that short term economically interesting wouldn’t it….

Putin to Xi earlier “he was only meant to blow the bloody doors off”

Having spent the morning on spring chores of varying degrees of unpleasant, time to put the tea on and to get down to some proper KC behaviour: analysing the other side’s pleading (which TBH is not a model of pellucidity or goodness or being close to correct).

Old off the grid proverb - man who stirs compost has garden, clothes and self that smell bad (you never see anyone at the River Cottage stir compost!)

Jobs you want to avoid. Mixing up the contents of the hot composter as winter comes to an end 🤮

A word to all those heads of house out there, if the JCR is having an 80's vid fest, LLM's are not welcome... www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

COMBAR wants to know if AI (LLMs in reality) is safe for Court. The Pentagon on the other hand, things they are good to game nuclear war www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

If we can’t trust an LLM to do someone’s homework, nuclear war must be ok, surely?

Come with me if you want to live…

Having warmed up on measles and mumps, the Trump administration is really going to get cracking on long term conditions in the population with polio

Last night the power inverter had one of its “turns” - spring being on the way - by putting a power surge and then drop through the system. This causes the lighting to turn on and off after one’s bedtime in a random fashion. On the one hand, the curse of early adapting. 1/2

#WutheringHeights Sweepcliff.

Dear Hivemind. NB-IoT. The tank sensor is having a fit over the house wifi and it is likely the manufacturer will recommend NB-IoT. Looks like I need a transmitter to connect to the sensor and to the house Wifi. Any thoughts? Cheers

Just had to explain to someone that you cannot easily run a mains charger in an off the grid house… they seemed somewhat boggled. Reminded me of asking for a Virgin Mary in an airport lounge about 2 weeks ago “Certainly what vodka do you want with that?” “Errrrrm none?” “It comes with it” 1/2

Watching the Big Air, seeing people back slap and hip smear and wanting to run out and go “think about your late 50’s when you will be using a walking stick”

That’s some ice on the free ski big air

One difficulty with a smart house - it’s not so much a reboot as Moonbase Alpha when some dodgy alien has had a go at the computer. <flips switches <does best Victor Bergman impersonation

Okay, Grandma, that's enough Winter Olympics for you! 😆

Not for a moment do I think the DOJ has released anything like the Epstein document population but as someone who deals with voluminous disclosure at 2 removes, 15TB is large but as a figure takes no account of the data wrappers. A word document can be say 75KB 1/3

As Babylon 5 is being launched on YouTube I am using my knowledge acquired over 30 years ago and a remastered set to play some old favourites. First up - Severed Dreams

Sat am snow. -3 outside

Nothing like a detailed examination of the early Middle Ages in Lombardy, Francia, Britain and Ireland to divert from a knackered back. Why was everyone called something -hild for example

Clerk earlier today “ah, got you an excellent high profile brief. The Trump mediation” “excellent acting for the BBC” “no you’re the mediator”…

I didn’t realise that the judge in Trump v BBC has ordered mediation. That has to be the best “in” legal joke this year so far.

Does this include Noem’s cosplay outfitter?

For those taking the long weekend - Gong Hei Fat Choi!

It’s the full on knackered back routine: yoga; heat; possibly lying on sofa to see if the pain goes away. The main issue with the last is - assuming it works, there is an immediate tendency to nap

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Waiting list for spine and hip MRI - 12 - 16 months. Better invest in more walking sticks, then…

Collateral is always useful

I see our local hotel has just got a Michelin star….

I see the politics of resentment are back in the media - this time apparently the support for Reform et al are older people wanting the younger generations to suffer as they did a) I am old enough to remember my grandparents' saying that the key point of being old was to ensure that 1/2

“We salute the rank not the melania”