500 up. Celebrated with a 2.
Going to have a huge canvas print of this gorgeous Nico Peeters painting made to fill our sitting room wall.
Have I checked with my wife? Well, no, not yet, but she's cool.
Probably fifty years since I've been in a situation where I've been expected to join in the national anthem. Time we dropped this mindless paean to a bunch of grifters.
Asked ChatGPT how Stanley Matthews would get on in today's game. The answer depressed me.
"Maybe at lower professional levels (League Two or semi-pro), his raw talent and control might still stand out, but in the Premier League or even the Championship? Likely not."
Backasswards! Struggled.
Connections
Puzzle #761
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Two of them aren't real homophones - even in American!
Always turned my nose up at tribute band gigs until Saturday. Saw Nearly Dan at the Live Rooms. Loved it. Now I just have to find out if there's any Tom Waits or Chinese Man tribute bands.
Just moved over from a lifetime of Windows to a Mac Mini M1 (2020). Weird that Apple gives more bang for your buck. £230 well spent.
Probably safe to throw out the dictionaries and make some space on the bookshelf. Spellcheckers aren't going away. Hmm, but Scrabble...
So I wrote a book!
It's quite long and rather expensive (sorry). It's about a round the world bike ride I did in 1993/4 in the context of that time being the beginning of the digital world we now know and love.
www.amazon.co.uk/Ride-Through...
