If it hadn’t been for King Arthur at the Battle of Badon, this would be a Saxophone world

‘I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of 2 million parts — all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.’ —John Glenn

I continue to beg people to understand that you need to consider everything in tech, not just AI, from an adversarial perspective. Yes, it is annoying and exhausting and it shouldn't be this way.

My English teacher helpfully told me that I was going to fail Higher English, so I didn't.

Comedy sketch about someone trying to order Eggs Benedict in a cafe where the waiter is also called Benedict

It’s rained constantly and heavily since late Sunday night. Looks mostly ok around the immediate area but certainly the heaviest rain we’ve had since the last heaviest rain. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Steady persistent heavy rain for the last 8 hours and we’re not even getting the worst of it

It’s not quite the same, but the phrase in Scottish slang is “to give someone an earie”

Producer: pitch me Me: I’ve got a rough draft of the opening scene

I dunno why people are surprised that there’s so many blokes using a photo of themselves with a fish as their dating profile pic. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenty_...

There was a tech startup proposal in Aotearoa/New Zealand for small crypto farms in homes to warm them with waste heat and make a profit on the electricity cost

PhD panel chair: “please proceed with your defence” Me: “In the song You’re So Vain, the use of the word “gavotte” is inconsistent as it refers to a style of European folk dance that would not be performed in a sophisticated setting. In my thesis I will show that the reason the songwriter chose

Calm Down movie marathon: Supersonic Man The Running Man The Long Walk The Bed Sitting Room The Big Sleep Dead

Doesn’t look that hard to cross

What gets me is that you could also see this look in 80s Glasgow at 2am

Can’t believe Ridley Scott missed the opportunity for “Lucius, I AM your step-father”

Producer: “ok, let’s hear your pitch for Gladiator III” Me: “well obviously it’s a swords and sandals epic..,” Producer, reading script: “there’s three characters in here called Bacchus, Craccus and Saccus…” Me: 👀 Producer: “this is a Carry On movie”

While there’s a UFC cage on the White House lawn, can someone just lock him in it?

Please fund my startup, which iterates on this concept by adding solar cells to the parasols

The Great Tyrant: Hello, pretty pretty. Barbarella: Hello

You can drive one-way for over 15hours and still be on the South Island

MOUNTAIN divided by HANDCUFFS equals INCOGNITO

Casually watching an old Escape to the Country episode on a sleepy day when up pops my former computer science lecturer Duncan Smeed. youtu.be/nal-YHwxh6k?...

Rain just kicked in

Hit 400W (5.2W/kg) for 1 min on last of 3 “recovery ride” intervals after 8 hour hard work day. 500W is within reach!

Fuck off, dipshit www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Good start to the day

Solar power is a no-brainer, but the economic slam dunk hack is not saving $1000/year, it’s rorting $1000/week www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...

Modern censorship is going too far

Put all these fuckers in jail for crimes against humanity.

As a Dad, it is now obligatory for me to observe that that wall isn't going anywhere.

Waiter: “how would you like your steak?” Me: “inside me”

“Why don’t you just resign?”

If software had to be advertised like pharmaceuticals, you’d have this massive section on side effects. “You may experience feelings of rage, anxiety or inadequacy. You may suffer significant additional operating costs. This product may contain hidden security vulnerabilities.”

A lawyer who is involved in a very short litigation regarding underpants keeps his case briefs in a brief brief case briefcase

Thanks to Queenstown Lakes planning department for their assistance with this matter

That’s my AliExpress orders

Would you rather be elegantly casual or casually elegant?

TVNZ app is turning out to be a bit of a metaphor for the nation right now.

Whitebait is not especially tasty not to mention the practice of fishing it is unsustainable

That's a little bit unusual www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2...

If you pixelate Australians, it looks a lot like the South Island

“Brought home from work”

Charges to follow soon?

If your time series data is not stationary, prediction of the future is unreliable.

*Robert Oppenheimer voice “what was the Manhattan project, if not a prototypical tech startup?”

I hadn’t realised up until now that there was a vowel affordability crisis but there it is

What…what day in May 2026?

My roadkill stall has been permanently banned from the street food festival

OCR holds at 2.25% but it was tight.