Interesting I thought the Horizon show had settled on a variant of Severe Turbulence Encountered Now Descending Emergency Climb or some Such based on old WW2 shorthands. Sounds like not.

Likewise. Reminiscent of the STENDEC crash.

Mitch McConnell

They can't compare to the real thing, but there are free emulators available: hackaday.com/2023/01/23/r...

Painting them was probably the cheapest part of the process of assembling one. I don't know what I'd do with one, but I'd love to have one.

I got to see a Cray-1 in person at Seattle's late, lamented Living Computers Museum in 2018, before Paul Allen's family liquidated the museum.

I visited Cray before becoming a tech partner of SGI, who then bought Cray and now both are gone.

but does it have a comfy seat like the Cray?

an 80 MHz processor and over *three hundred* megabytes of storage capacity!

You might even say its been … cray

The Cray-1 (1975). These machines were priced between $5-8 million and custom orders. You could order them in any color.

I had somehow not heard of this until today: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_At...

You do not subscribe to avoiding reading other works while writing?

I have now finished China Miéville's 'The City and the City', recommended to me by Dr Gemini as essential reading for the Work in Progress. To misquote Bart Simpson, I can't believe something in which everyone dies could suck so much

I think the only Platner deadender who has genuinely surprised me is Stephen King. All the rest is just the usual suspects.

don't buy a parrot just for his visit

I wonder if a mop would do because I assume he's afraid of them (he pissed on the floor of a friend's bathroom and didn't clean it up)

my wife spent the last 35 minutes telling me facts about the for all mankind alternate timeline without clarifying which ones she made up. David Miliband authorised torture flights to mars. john lennon alive. nicola sturgeon - peter murrell storyline about the lesbian president. dont get married!

If I was an enterprising local party in Farage’s ex-constituency I’d be calling up the BBC saying a local councillor will be shortly making a statement, and will the BBC extend the same courtesy to their party. Get your free 25+ minutes announcing your candidacy, why don’t you

I'm normally a live and let live guy but this is what Amazon came up with when I looked for Minotaur, the latest Andrei Zvyagintsev film and I'm not sure I can let this stand.

It will involve badgers and dysfunctional Lancahire stand-up comedians.

Beautiful evening for plein air in Seattle during the US vs Belgium match

The real World Cup winner: Seattle

Cooling my heels at Sydney Airport ahead of the last flight in a long trip home. Some photos here from the flight from Cape Town to Joburg; pretty spectacular country.

Genuine LOL

100% canon

IFBIT

my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up

Truly Curséd

Headington Quarry is of course one of the four places that claims an unbroken tradition of Morris dancing

Tangential, but as I've said before, I think anywhere else Headington (old and quarry) would be places people came to visit but here it's just a suburb of Oxford. Also for some reason it has extremely bad vibes, I think it is the confluence of hospitals and university(ies).

Assuming it's not his weekend to see the kids.

That you, Owen?

Then the answer must be Winston Churchill.

Richard Burton!

That much sausage..... Either Joan Collins or Elizabeth Taylor.

One again, in "all politics is parapolitics" ((c) @pmc.bsky.social ) mode - why are we noticing all this now exactly? Cui bonio? (Latin for who gets the dog biscuits)

Every single Englishman over the age of 55?

I found this in a cupboard in my mother-in-law's house a couple of weeks ago, along with a couple of dozen other board games

Finally, bluesky reaches its apotheosis: ONLY alt text

Oliver Reed?

Guess who: 'My diet was sausages then, in no particular order, sausages, chips, sausages, toast, sausages, beans, sausages, cheese, sausages, eggs, and the occasional sausage'?

Yes, half eleven on a Friday night is the OPTIMAL time to have Let My People Go-Go by The Rainmakers as an earworm.

Might be of interest to some in this bailiwick: www.tetrap.com/drwho/mel/mi...

I remember this from the Games Workshop catalogue ~1983: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/15...

Liberal England: Ian Holm as Richard III in the BBC's Wars of the Roses from 1965 This recording is of some importance to theatrical history, because Holm was struck down with stage fright in the Seventies and thereafter chose to concentrate on film and television work.

I realize i haven’t talked about why I know this stuff in a long time … obsessed with Ellen Kushner’s Swordspoint, I took up historical fencing at a given point. This is distinct from Olympic fencing and SCA style fencing. I was part of a lineage and trained as if preparing for an actual engagement.

Might be of interest to some in this bailiwick: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXB8TJSF?_bbid=347960751&tag=core_cohort_a_email_uk-21