That Other Guy

We're safe from Skynet today.

I tried to embrace AI earlier, as I told @darkbluemonkey.bsky.social, to get a list of CPUs that would fit a Poweredge R570(?). I'm an hour down now, and I don't have reliable data.

I told my boss, who proudly presented a list he'd had Copilot produce in two minutes. It was the same dogshit...

Agreed, but on the other hand, stay the fuck out of Scotland!!

Although my work laptop these days is a Dell XPS, and I rather like it, despite the need to plug in a USB dock to do anything!

An old boss was very unhappy if he didn't have the shiniest laptop in any meeting, until I got him an IBM T42. Face like thunder.

About 4 months later, he finally admitted it was the best laptop he'd had. I think that fits all your criteria.

Mate of mine used to always get excited about NASA announcements. He'd tune in religiously, and watch them all.

It'll be life. It'll be water.

I kept telling him it'll be a rock. I was always right!

🪨

My dad is one for moaning about arts degrees and such. I asked him what his 3 favourite films were, and pointed out that without people doing arts, these things don't get made.

I think that made something move in his head.

It's a fantastic achievement. Well done.

I've said again and again that society has a short memory. Once the people who "were there" have died off, any lessons learned become diluted.

Kinda worth the outage then. I saw a handful between her and Blackpool, but not many.

Weirdly, my neighbour has one up. Yeah...

I had a dream last night where I was using liquid egg in a 3D printer. I could create wonderful shapes in egg, and the print element would cook it.

Off to the patent office with this one!!

From Skye - very nice! Been a while since I had a Talisker.

Sunam was awesome. Well worth waiting the extra hour!

Curious what the dram is. It's quite pale.

(I was looking at 25yo Rosebank yesterday, and it's remarkably pale, so there are old, pale single malts out there.)

No such thing as a single single malt!

Not bloody staying at the Norbreck!!

I'll be just down the road.

Norbreck? Pretty sure I saw something like that there before...

You realise they just clone the applicants, right? Then they use the clones until they're spent. That kicks off the second round of interviews.

Hamish the Spaniel looking suspiciously clean.

Hamish has had a bath, and I'm not sure he's very happy about it. But he was stinky.

I had a play with this, back in the day. It was a bit of a novelty, but the PS2 didn't really have enough RAM to make a decent desktop, and you didn't get access to the GPU. 😐

A mailbox with a sign that says "Nelson's Post Only"

I'm pretty confident it's a whole column.

Such a fantastic remake of a fantastic game!

There's Doctor Who that's new to you? Well I never...

Hamish is now standing on the chair, with his front paws on the back of the chair.

Apparently, something is happening!!

Hamish, the Springer Spaniel sitting on a chair, looking patiently over the back of the chair, through a window.

We're away for the weekend, and Hamish wants something to happen. He's been there for several minutes.

I have finally played all the way through Exile after, what, 37 years?

I dunno if the image I was playing works correctly, because I couldn't save (emulator state saves FTW), but I still have my 5.25" original.

It's breathtaking just how much is in Exile, even before the sampled sound in SW RAM!

The Play It Again Sam sets were usually really good games, and 4 in a set was a bargain!

Remarkably, it looks like I have more compassion for the victim than Trump, despite the fact that I think they're both terrible.

Regardless of his views, or how abhorrent i felt they were, Kirk did not deserve to be murdered. Trump brushing this off for a ballroom is disgusting.

What a technology evolution in just one year!
Amstrad PPC640 (1987)
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Amstrad ALT-386SX (1988)

Please change your coffee.