Subscription service that sends you a new wicker man every harvest season.

I refuse to accept LLMs are any good until one of them can answer "what is the cure for lawn skinheads" with "take them bowling".

My partner bought me a very nice DAC/headphone amplifier thing which with my personality is probably the most antisocial item I could be given, in the sense I will resume contact with the outside world in (checks Foobar2000) 5 weeks, 2 days and 17 hours. At least I'm using the closed-backs with it.

Not to say the cognitive decline is real but I just expressed a concept as, "made a new cow using some existing other cows".

Pork pie hats should have more pork pie storage.

I attempted to shut down my work laptop and came back to it to find it still running with a "do you want to stop debugging?" dialog open in Visual Studio which at this point on a Friday I think technically means we should arrest Windows for treason.

Enjoy those videos where someone takes four times as long as any reasonable being should to make a point? Live for when someone says "without further ado" and yet there is, in fact, further ado? Here, have FIFTY ONE MINUTES of "I respect Black & White. I'm not sure I like it." youtu.be/h_XsmUwgCCo

"we're going to have an adult party, you can stay up as late as you want playing on the computer as long as you stay upstairs and don't disturb us"

Partner claimed there was nothing good in the 7" collection. I would defend, but instead I'll just post the 5 things at the front of Singles Box B and let you judge.

Not to say my brain is a stew of massive filesystem corruption after getting back home at 3am last night, but I just tried to remember the seven deadly sins and they came back as, WRATH LUST BOTH CLANG TROUSERS SPINNING GLUTTONY

'80s child challenge: hear "Take My Breath Away" in the background at the supermarket without getting the strange feeling that you ought to own a Peugeot 405.

One big advantage the current generation of kids has over mine is the ability to answer the classic parent and/or teacher "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING???" with "general performance and stability improvements".

We did some clearing out at the weekend and I have located what feels like the world's scungiest iPod. Whoever owned it before me applied every type of protector they could find to it, all of which have attempted to regress back to primordial sludge in the decades since.

I'm so used to my original 2004 "uncleared samples" copy of Thunder, Lighting, Strike that listening to it on streaming (which naturally will be the "actually legal" 2005 version) feels unsettling every time I notice something missing or different.

When I was young I saw a Center Parcs advert and assumed the entire thing, forest and all, was underneath the dome and I was well into my 20s before I found out the dome is just the swimming pool complex and so anyway that's the origin story of one of my longest-held irrational grudges.

My musical taste this evening appears to be white noise and Television Personalities.

I'd like some garden exercise equipment but I tried a trampoline and kinda bounced off it.

Why does MrBeast, the largest channel, not simply eat the other YouTubers?

There's a version of YouTube that's still full of quirky, interesting things, that doesn't fixate on one topic or serve you nothing but clickbait. You can access it here: www.youtube.com/feed/subscri... (Quality of advice may vary. As with everything these days, multiple subscriptions required.)

Listening to "Mingus Ah Um" and I have to stop my train of thought every few minutes as I discover another thing that something else I know ripped off.

Reading the "NO MAYO" tag on a prepackaged sandwich of a type that would not normally contain mayonnaise like, "this is not reassuring me, this is making me question your understanding of sandwiches".

Everyone hates AI slop, midroll ads, clickbait topics etc. but as someone who deliberately does none of these I'm seeing about 10% of the organic reach and <1% of the engagement for "I just did a random thing that interested me" compared to 1-2 years ago.

The audience size of my "historically accurate niche reference" puns is shrinking to the point I am fairly confident I will be able to reliably create puns that even I don't understand by the time I'm 50.

Looking at YouTube statistics... "I just need to make... er... 21,000 videos of that quality and audience and I've got a nice passive income set up"

All the new achievements in the expansion set me back for a while, but once more I have the true Factorio perfect game.

You know how some people take extended breaks from social media for healthy, soul-enriching purposes, often involving the touching of grass and the refreshing feeling of not being exposed to negativity and anger? Oops.

First Pulp record I bought, and latest. I have not spoiled myself by listening to anything other than the advance singles on streaming so it's going to be a proper first listen all the way through on physical media. (Well. One break to flip sides.)

If there's something strange In the neighbourhood Who ya gonna call? 61016

The first rule of No Film References Club is... ah, yeah, this charter has got kind of awkward to write hasn't it?

hashtag promo. Marvel at my slick publicity engine.

"Media same age as playback device" challenge (if you ignore the era-inappropriate amplification chain)

After a structural investigation of the foundations we built this city on, we conclude that the rock is contributing much more to the overall stability than the rolls. Perhaps cheese and ham was a mistake.

My GitHub contributions chart is more or less a calendar of UK bank holidays.

My weekend productivity has mostly gone towards adding a variety of drawbar trailers for early 20th century trucks in Timberwolf's UK Road Vehicles. (This might have swallowed less of the weekend had I not forgotten how to avoid consuming all available Action2s when adding trailers)

When you've said "whatever you're doing, don't" to your dog so often you can't help yourself following it up with "from 12nd January 1973 it will be no longer legal".

I have found my jazz persona, and it is Hard Bop.

Yeah, sure, you've seen the infinite majesty of the stars but you've not come back from there with a chicken and mushroom slice and a bag of fizzy sour cola bottles, have you?

Apparently SOME people can get to space and back in less time than it takes me to walk down the shop and buy energy drinks.

This week I am being annoyed by the main plot of Thunderbirds "Sun Probe" being to get up there and fire the retro rockets. Y'know, the thing that reduces the altitude of an orbit. A sort of, "fuck you, you're not falling into the Sun fast enough".

My allotted social media time was all going fine until I saw a "20 Years of Pretty In Black" post. Blimey, it really has been that long, hasn't it? youtu.be/iqS5EGlvkhs

Startup product idea: a small roof-mounted bread maker for cars, marketed with the tagline "turn your sunroof into a bunroof"

My evil billionaire persona would be to run what seem like normal businesses who treat their employees, customers and the environment well... except the words "fewer" and "less" are consistently used the wrong way round on all products and media issued by the company.

In today's news both dogs have failed to solve a "Level 1" dog puzzle, which was fine until I stepped in to help and realised I couldn't solve it either.

YOU CANNOT STOP ME. (Said with the confidence of a man who knows his geographically closest follower lives at least 15 minutes' walk away)

Oh thanks Duolingo, now I have that Miko Mission track in my head.

Today my dog has embarked upon a career of music criticism or, at the least, attempted to pull both discs of "Music of the Millennium 2" off the overflow CD shelf.

Well, so much for cleaning out the second singles box so there would be plenty of room for further expansion.

I'm reaching that state of senility where I can spend a worryingly long amount of time going, "oh bloody hell, what *is* my second-favourite track of all time?"

I am going to the pub with the conviction of a man who has listened to nearly 200 records and written over 14,000 words about the pop music of 1984.

"Why is it taking an age to get through 1984 Matt? Why?" (Also possibly not helped by me having to drop what I was doing and *immediately* order an original 7" copy of "Come Back" by The Mighty Wah!)