Today marks the first day of my official retirement!!! I've completed the main mission of the RPG called work, maxed my levels and dealt with quite a few side missions that came my way. Thank you everyone who has made this part of the journey of life such a blast!

Awesome album just arrived. Brian Setzer Orchestra vol 2. A live Tokyo concert with Setzer’s wonderful rockabilly guitar and crooning voice with some classic band tunes and lots of stray cats too. Including my all time favourite song Stray Cat Strut. It works as big band as much as a 3 piece.

Jewel - Pieces of you 30th anniversary edition ! Such a fantastic singer. We saw her in Southampton 30 years ago. Vinyl just released and arrived (now playing)

My copy of the last book has arrived. Wonderful piece of literature and art. Post card top left describes it 🙂

Sunday morning vinyl record listening. The genius of blues master Robert Johnson

Well prof Richard A. Bartle reworking of Designing Vrtual Worlds (volume 1 second edition) has arrived 🙂 obviously I have not read it all yet it’s clearly got everything in it and loaded with a personal touch in writing style that’s chuckle inducing. I.e Here have some optimism.

Tiny maker 3d printer has arrived ! Originally funded in Nov 22 :)

Enjoyed generating virtual world on the fly ! www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/2025/08...

Watched #KpopDemomHunters last night on Netflix. It is a really entertaining and good film. The music is fantastic too. It is not taking itself too seriously, but equally doesn’t mock current culture either.

I posted about my 35th year of work :) www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/2025/08...

Well done to the IBM Wimbledon team. The court view on the app pulling in the live trajectory of the point and the placement of the players. Our 2006 second life version was a bit slower 🙂 had to be after the point was played when we got the data. Love the app view though 🙂

I can has a Ferrari face with new specs

Hoisin and honey garlic chicken, steam air fried garlic potato cubes and samphire boiled and buttered. Yum !

Busy day potting on 25+ plants (chilli and tomato) for the green house, planting some herbs and buying a new bucket. Aragorn returned my double edge sword. Had a nice pre fathers’s day meal at the 300 year old pub The Leather Bottle

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Not entirely sure these two things are equal :)

I popped to the greenhouse with my Rabbit R1 in hand as a helper. It was great to ask some questions to the walkie talkie AI with a camera on it :) Easier to press a talk button than mess with the phone. Also took some “magic camera” pictures asking it to make a few style changes.

Job done - 2 day greenhouse build but fun

Lithuaniohead. #Eurovision

All day build of base and then frame and walls for greenhouse, tomorrow roof time :)

Bob up in arms at his upgrade

Happy 30th wedding anniversary to my wife Jan xxx

#Minecraft #irl

Be amusing in a year’s time if #gtavi ends up being a 1970’s text editor

It seems bete noire episode of black mirror has certain similarities to my Reconfigure 🙂 I did mine in 2015 so a decade to catch up 🙂 reconfigurebook.co.uk

It’s Star Wars Day, you say? Then it’s time once more for one of my favourite things ever. Written by @quantick.bsky.social

Nvidia’s new tool can turn 3D scenes into AI images - https://www.theverge.com/news/658613/nvidia-ai-blueprint-blender-3d-image-references

I look at one suitcase ad on Facebook and Facebook turns into the bloody Suitcase Shop, like nothing else is going on.

The chilli plants were thriving but needed their own home, so got a mini green house and repotted. Kept 4 in a window box inside and used other to plant coriander and oregano

Great online talk tonight from BCS animation and games on the use of #GenAI to recreate Jane Austen’s character Lizzy Bennett - free to all 5:30pm uk www.bcs.org/events-calen...

Seems an ideal one to wear skwiggles.co.uk

Here comes Pete Tong video avatar streamed in alongside Jaguar #bbcravelounge bbc.s5.live

Made Cannelloni for the first time tonight, which is odd given all the things I try to cook. What a faff filling them :)

Wondering if someone Vibe coded this simulation we all live in?

It’s so obvious Trump is such a dangerous idiot, yet there he is! This simulation is borked!

Virtual Worlds Museum™ www.kickstarter.com/projects/147..., via Kickstarter definitely needs your support it’s important we don’t lose these formative digital years

Love my new Jimllpaintit T-shirt of Indiana Jones punching yet another nazi

@epredator.bsky.social All we need now is a Yautja whose name is pronounced like "Gahston" and we can have a Predator movie where they break into a song about how no one hunts like Guh'stonn.

Randomly folded towel this morning bore a similarity to a yautja (predator) don’t you think ?

I remember when social media was about sharing things others might be interested in. Now there are lots of these pseudo alphas (you all know the muppets I mean) stating they are correct and we should bow to their wisdom. Of course this comment could be taken as that too. Meh!

McDaids Law; as soon as you hand your phone over to show someone something cool, the phone will go dark/lock/otherwise obscure the cool thing you're trying to show.

#genai user interface definition on #rabbitr1 #startrek - ponder the fact that any UI to be adjusted based on an AI prompt!

Like the Rabbitr1 GenAI for its own user interface. All my results are now in a Star Trek LCARS style theme using a prompt to define that style.

34 years since Mrs epred and I had our first date :)

My rather far reaching BCS presentation on "almost everything" is now available. "From IoT, 5g, AI/GenAI, Cloud streaming, Edge computing, metaverse, Spatial computing, AR, VR, XR, quantum computing, industry 4.0/5.0, Brain computer interfaces (BCI), CRISPR… www.feedingedge.co.uk/blog/2024/08...

My first ever published code, a c64 lunar lander published in CvG in the 80s is now running on my #steamdeck in an emulator

a marble frieze depicting people concerned their WiFi has stopped working #midjourney

Very much enjoying playing through #Cyberpunk2077 again with this 2.1 patched version. I enjoyed it originally warts n all as it’s very much my genre but it is stunningly good now.

Joined in a rock emote waiting, saw early Eminem/slim shady, then giant new Eminem and finished on a map overview of the new “worlds” #FortniteBigBang (Lego and rocket league racing preview) It was short but now think that’s GenZ attention span and a deliberate peak load test :)