Bob Taylor

middle-aged things which happened to me today include a) trying to teach myself knitting but somehow an HDMI cable ended up in the yarn, and b) put Voltarol on my toothbrush #winning

Worried staircase

The staircase *really* isn’t very enthusiastic about anyone stepping on it…

having said that I recently splashed out on a watch from www.paulinwatches.com . They have some nice designs (more graphic design stylee than traditional) with quartz and automatics at 35mm. Was a lot of money for me (esp considering it was quartz) but I love it (and it fits!)

agreed, anything larger than 36mm diameter and it looks like I have a stock pot lashed to my arm. I’ve been getting into vintage watches for that reason, they seemed to have more size restraint in the past 😆

just set up a dummy x/twitter account purely to follow #scotrail (because it’s the only place they tell you anything about your borked train) and the default feed for a new user was:

* Elon Musk
* Alex Jones
* Kanye West
* Donald Trump
* Nigel Farage
* three pro DOGE meme accounts

Cool cool cool.

screenshot depicting a mangled recipe including “seegas” for “sugar” and somehow “golined” for “salt”

excellent AI interpretation of my handwritten biscotti recipe. Such a shame – I’m all out of seegas!

I use it as singular (ie “this data”) and point out to anyone who complains that they wouldn’t say “this datum” or “this agendum”, because we don’t speak Latin. At that point I’m usually frothing at the mouth and raving though so people don’t tend to take notice 🤣

today I am mostly wondering who would win in a fight between Tom Nook and the Duolingo owl. Tom Nook would fight dirty I think.

a woman in a gold dress is laying on a red couch and the word megalopolis is on the wall behind her ALT: a woman in a gold dress is laying on a red couch and the word megalopolis is on the wall behind her

me, having just seen #Megalopolis

YouTube video by Malcolm Surgenor Commonwealth Games Mascot Clyde

Now the Commonwealth Games are coming back to #Glasgow I can’t wait to see more of the totally not horrifying mascot, Clyde. youtu.be/QjxpOZJJcsg

bright blue old Police Box, repurposed to sell fancy cheese on toast.

I approve of this #glasgow TARDIS / police box reuse. More tiny raclette cheese toastie emporiums plz.

why did no one tell me there’s a programming language called Brainfuck? I look forward to advocating for its use in the public health sphere.

brainfuck.org

I always internally vocalised ζ as “seahorse” and ξ as “fancy seahorse” 🙃

how am I supposed to cheat my way through crosswords using this nonsense?!

yes Apple Music Replay feels like it was assembled in Microsoft Forms but that’s all part of the *charm*

this afternoon I will be mostly debugging the docker container that runs the virtual bridge which controls my twigs

wibble