Leon Bambrick

^ this is a versatile joke format because you can use it for basically any old actor. Try it and see!

For example:

Harrison Ford is so old now he could change his name to Harrison Wrinkler.

Henry Winkler so old now he could change his name to Henry Wrinkler.

Mixing those different ideas together:

What if early
Hominid discovery of tea drinking is the origin of consciousness, the fundamental spark of civilization?

Did we evolve increasing sophistication to enjoy more tea? Or did tea evolve us?

Some people say that the rise of the coffee house in France led to the French Revolution — middle and upper middle class talking long hours germinating ideas etc.

A separate and unrelated fringe theory called “the stoned ape hypothesis” (McKenna et al.) says that humans became humans because of […]

I learned:

1. That caffeine evolved separately in plants many many times.

2. Why caffeine evolves in plants.

3. That separate cultures developed tea into drinks - entirely independent.

I knew about caffeine as an adenosine inhibitor - but didn’t know that caffeine is so similar to parts of […]

My brother sent me this intriguing short video essay about caffeine — I learned interesting things from it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Dy2pcdBSU&t=434s&pp=2AGyA5ACAdIHCQkbAaO1ajebQw%3D%3D

A circle is just an over inflated triangle

just got an email that said “it’s cyber security awareness month. Click here to learn more.“ Ha Ha! I’m not falling for that one. Nice try Kevin Mitnick!

I just got an email that said “it’s cyber security awareness month. Click here to learn more.“ They’ll have to do better than that, I’m not falling for it.

There’s a drama just released on “Stan” called “The Hack” about the News of the World phone hacking scandal. It really sinks the boot in to the fetid tabloid industry. What it doesn’t mention is that “Stan” who PRODUCED the show is owned by Nine Entertainment Co Holdings. Meanwhile: “News of the […]

Does Visual Studio Rot The Mind?

*An essay from a simpler time.*

Charles Petzold's talk is soon to be 20 years old. It's momentarily unavailable from the internet, so I've republished it on my wiki here:

https://wiki.secretgeek.net/does-visual-studio-rot-the-mind

"WebSocket closed without opened."

The asylum is running the asylum.

“English” is named after a region in which modern nation?

Surf guitar music was a way for African american blues and latin american rhythms to be appropriated and marketed to a white audience as something wholly new.

Love that sweet reverb though.

Just now I over heard one line from a song and thought -

“oh I haven’t heard this… i guess it must be… the Rolling Stones? Doing a very pointed satire of Dylan. Ouch! Those are some very deep cuts!”

A moment later, after one more line of the song, I realised it was The Animals covering Dylan’s […]

The Dylan Paradox is this:

Every lyric to every Bob Dylan song is indistinguishable from a biting parody of any lyric from any Bob Dylan song.

Note to self.

Rather than "Enshittification" I occasionally prefer the newer, more elegant, gentrified form of the term:

"Enshitrification"

cc @pluralistic

It's hard to summarize any of its points without sounding like a "gender essentialist" (but read the book, because Cat is very clear that trans women are women, etc.)

I keep thinking about a book I read (twice) a few months back:

"Eve:
How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution"

by Cat Bohannon

45 years - John Bonham - bonzo

I could listen to opera, a guy like me. Why not a guy like me?

Yesterday I received an expensive product with an engraved QR code, which was only readable under ideal conditions. This led to an in depth analysis during which I learnt more than I wanted to about generating and debugging QR codes. The product details involved confidentiality so I can’t really […]

I just re-read “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”.

Like Gatsby it’s a short read but, even more-so than Gatsby, an absolute whirlwind tour-de-force in creating an amazing and compelling character. Just wow. Boom! Whoosh! 💥 ‼️

Vergulde Draeck - Wikipedia

The Dutch invented windmill powered sawmills which:

“…greatly reduced the cost of construction of ships and helped make them the leading shipbuilders in northern Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergulde_Draeck

Noel Redding — who quit as bass player for the Jimi Hendrix Experience — complained that playing with Jimi was just “endless interminable jamming in E minor” ….

And hot damn! I’ve never felt so close to Jimi Hendrix in my life!

What’s one or more *specific* things you were taught at school, that turned out not to be correct?

(For brevity let’s leave all religious instruction out of this)

No one thanks God for Thursday.

Additional A daily maths game.

Starting a petition to ban Monday mornings. Meanwhile, arithmetic.

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All of this with out mentioning

Crimson Permanent Insurance
Or
The Princess bride

What a time to be alive!