DaveO

DaveO

@daveon.bsky.social

Tech, SF, APIs, coffee and beer and the chocolate biscuits. Caution may contain opinions. Quality of opinions varies. I write SF, buy my books :) Trunk Line - the series - https://amzn.to/4lAURez

729 Followers 719 Following 10,107 Posts Joined May 2023
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I have started a new side project.

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2 hours ago
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I saw a post in the wild about going back to the times when we didn't have violent political agreements with each other and I am wondering when that was?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxoe...

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8 hours ago

I think it's more British ones would be called Monarch Serials or Royal :)

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10 hours ago
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DISCOVER--the Republic serials, 1935--1955 Before television, a trip to the cinema might include a cartoon, a newsreel, and a serial along with the main feature/s. The serials--nicknamed cliffhangers, for their tendency to leave the hero in di...

They were American :) - Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, King of the Rocket Men... there's loads of them - they usually ran 30 episodes and were shown to kids at Saturday morning movies as a pre-feature.

www.imdb.com/list/ls05591...

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10 hours ago

UK summer hols TV was a little odd - they showed the 30s republic serials in Black&White which amused my mum because she'd watched them on Saturday mornings at the movies as a little kid pre-WW2. She thought it funny I was watching them. I suspect you couldn't show a modern audience those things :)

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10 hours ago

Comments limited there. My maternal grandfather was a truck driver in the 20s, my paternal grandfather one in a long line of dairy farmers in very rural Ireland. Nobody of my generation works in farming or manual work.

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10 hours ago

My wife lived in a country where they didn't get TV until '76 - she finds my childhood kid's TV nostalgia weird because she grew up without it.

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10 hours ago

Possibly. I can't really see Whiskey Pete putting the hours in to Civ.

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10 hours ago

It’s a little odd given this shit doesn’t even work in Civ.

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10 hours ago

My granddad, born '05 loved the 60s and 70s - especially colour TVs.

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My grandfather was a truck driver 90 years ago, no syncromesh on the gearbox, no power steering, no automation for loading and unloading the crates and barrels. He was up around 3:30am to start the warm up & load process and often didn't get home until 7/8pm and he thought that beat farming...

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1 day ago

Sadly not how or why I'd have to do them :)

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1 day ago

Oh no! LOTS of people are saying it, it's just the media aren't.

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1 day ago

If I wrote this in a novel my editor would give me a stern talking to.

Anyway, onwards to Cuba - I can't wait to see how that turns out.

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1 day ago

..., and then the guy who got the job is the son of the guy we killed who's wife and kid were also (checks notes again) killed by us? All while fucking up the stability of the entire fucking region?

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so, to be clear, we started a war without clear objectives to remove (checks notes) a guy who was dying of cancer, and replace him with somebody we wanted but while doing so (checks notes again) killed all the people we wanted...

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1 day ago

I do not miss CES nor GSM World Congress.

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1 day ago
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I do think my father would have been shocked to see the Limerick of 2019 (last time I was there) compared to when he was at school there in the 30s.

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The Ireland I'd spend time in as a kid, especially where my family are from is a lot more like The Quiet Man than it was by the 90s and certainly is now. But that was 50 years ago and the film was only set 50 years before that and that part of the Limerick/Tipp border moved at a different rate...

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1 day ago

Just finished s02 e02 of Ted.

Jesus fucking Christ McFarlane what the hell happened to you as a kid?

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2 days ago

He can invent everything he likes but he still can’t do it. What happens when he tries is the real question.

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2 days ago

I was once fingerprinted by the head of Scotland Yard’s finger print unit.

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Modern business is having a conference call from Seattle with a guy in Scotland who’s from Pune who spends the first 20 minutes talking about the cricket because only he and my coworker were watching.

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2 days ago

Hey siri, is hot metal raining from the sky safe?

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2 days ago

I have been getting everything my doctor mentions while they’re still FDA approved here.

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2 days ago

Their beer is overrated too.

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2 days ago

I completely blame you for what I ended up doing over Christmas you know :)

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2 days ago

Beats me why the NHS hasn’t dropped that to 50.

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3 days ago

This game is insane.

#ITAENG

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