Paul

Too late for Animal Crossing New Horizons?

Just literally saw one.

Feel like I never see Nintendo Switch in public any more.

I met a mother last week who asked "oh, like the film?" And she reflected that it was very visually interesting or something along those lines. So yeah we will definitely give it a spin. We'd always known it was perhaps not one to say we'd "named her after"!

As someone who named his now 17 month old daughter Marnie, I do feel rather neglectful that I've still not watched it! In our defence the name sort of floated in via a few other soundalike names and the novel/Ghibli adaptation of When Marnie Was There. But we must watch it soon!

& the moon (1 night from full) climbs out & into cloudbank, autumn skies do slow dusk drama (shotguns are rapping, all knuckle on bartop) & rubbery engines of pheasants: there is a thrush decaying to pixels & a heron you mistake for a kite; guns pause, tawny owls open up

“If you keep confusing the web with the internet I am going to kill and kill again”

Tiny ghost child staring at me from the wrong side of the tube thanks to a Peaky Blinders poster 😱

A section of an OS map showing Hartwell House with the surrounding fields and waterways. A line marked ‘rifle range’ runs diagonally across the image with the length of different sections given in yards.

Here's a curiosity on a first edition Ordnance Survey map of Hartwell: a rifle range going out 800 yards through fields!

A screenshot of typepad.com with a headline reading "Typepad is closed for business!Thank you for being a valued customer." There are two placeholders for missing images above that.

TypePad has not only closed but already has broken images on its "Bye!" page

Emailed nominet to see how far back their archives go. 🥺

Oh I know! We have recently had a much better track record on this front... Without wishing to jinx it...

Much love to the baby, who - somehow - knew that I'd misaligned my phone on the wireless charging pad last night, which meant it had died, meaning my alarm would not sound, and who woke us by screaming precisely one minute before said alarm was due to sound. Incredible.

You beat us by about three months!

Oh shit I just remembered FIP which I haven't actually listened to in ages but is so good as a background, stick it on whenever you like station. French announcers but an incredibly eclectic playlist.

I've found so many great shows on NTS - I started with one or two specific shows (early breakfast is usually great for ambient quiet moods) and you can search the website for an artist you like and see who plays them and go from there.

A fine thing indeed

Picked a good new music release day to take off work and do decorating prep: big brooding pulsating synthy Nine Inch Nails Tron soundtrack pairs nicely with palm sander drone.

This is a brilliant article about how the Rik Mayall Nintendo ads came about. www.timeextension.com/features/how...

I kind of love how there's a direct through-line from Gerling's Hot Computer to Ninajirachi's Fuck My Computer 🇦🇺♥️🖥️

I have only just discovered Ninajirachi and I fucking love her. The only problem is I can't seem to turn it up loud enough???

Robert Redford obituary One of Hollywood’s greats who starred in All the President’s Men, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and The Sting

All journalists should bend the knee to the work of the obituarist, the one discipline which enables the practitioner to get a byline from beyond the grave. Ronald Bergen predeceased his subject Robert Redford by 5 years, but left behind a truly masterful obit.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

I know it's already a meme, but last two days I've had my own example of AI answering a call from an AI

I dragged this iMac G3, kicking and screaming, 25 years into the present by swapping its innards for a brand new Mac Mini M4. Matt Gray | http://mattg.co.uk | @MattGrayYes This video is sponsored by PCBWay: https://www.pcbway.com/ 📋 Credits 📋 Editor - Alex Bate @alexjrassic 📱 Follow Matt elsewhere on the internet 📱 All my social links are at https://mattg.co.uk https://chaos.social/@MattGrayYes (Mastodon) https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes https://instagram.com/MattGrayYes https://www.tiktok.com/@MattGrayYes https://twitch.tv/MattGrayYes 🛠️ Parts Used 🛠️ iMac G3 Mac Mini M4 - https://amzn.to/46lOIgE USB C to VGA adapter - https://amzn.to/42pwgm3 Rocky Hill's PCBs - https://github.com/qbancoffee/imac_g3_ivad_board_init BetterDisplay - https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay Used while developing USB Tiny ISP Programmer - https://amzn.to/4n2KXnv Mini Logic Analyser - https://amzn.to/4pmiKcZ VGA Breakout - https://amzn.to/4gl6Uvr D-SUB 15 Breakout - https://amzn.to/3K07H9c 🎸 Music 🎸 The Fly Guy Five - Another Pineapple Please 💷 Advert 💷 This video is sponsored by PCBWay: https://www.pcbway.com/ Want to contribute towards my videos? Sign up to my Patreon: https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes Want to sponsor a video? More detail here: https://mattg.co.uk/contact/ 💸 Full Disclosure 💸 💷 PCBWay provided their services for free and paid me for the advert in the middle of the video. 💷 My Patreon supporters' help meant I could work on this instead of other paid work 💷 All Amazon links are affiliate links which give me a small percentage of what you pay them as a tip for sending you their way. It doesn't cost you more. Hi, I'm Matt Gray. You may know me from my work with Tom Scott, The Technical Difficulties, Matt Gray is Trying, or even as a broadcast engineer working in radio and TV. This 25-Year-Old iMac is Faster Than My Gaming PC

The iMac G3 from 2001 is my favourite-looking computer of all time, but it's completely unusable these days because of its age.

So I tore out its insides (leaving the CRT screen intact of course) and replaced them with a brand new Mac Mini M4.

Hadnt heard of it and am delighted about Hastings inspiring some of its art! The video looks cool, looking forward to watching in full ❤️

Sorry if you've already answered this but is all this just a bit extra curricular or are you readying a new Even Dirtier Feed of blue movie reviews? Either way I'm loving it and, um, keep it up (so to speak)!

My musings in Sept 2025's The Spectrum Monitor: "Chrissy logged more than two thousand miles behind the wheel of her colorful camping van to discover more radio programs as amazingly diverse as the scenery that appeared along the way."
thespectrummonitor.com/sept2025tsm....

60% of the novelty of the OIRT band is imagining the station jingles singing the rather lumpy-sounding frequency in the style of 80s and 90s pop music station.

I finally wrote up a little post that mentions my first OIRT band reception I was lucky enough to get while visiting Cyprus this summer, amongst other things

paulcapewell.com/blog/250911_...

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