Char From The Internet

I think this is true but I think you also get the opposite too, a sort of Patrick-Bateman-of-the-kitchen approach to methodically cultivating whatever skills and knowledge are coded as elite by culinary taste makers (as filtered through Reddity internet opinions)

Weird timeline

Watching WoW clip compilation and suddenly Tony Hawk pops up, making fun of a very specific player who died at level 58 to fall damage. I Googled it and the only results are AI generated nonsense assuring me that while often injured, Tony Hawk did not die to fall damage. Feel like I'm going insane.

thesis: ✊
antithesis: 🤚
synthesis: 🖕

Folks I have enormous news

I think I finally get dialectics

Hang on this is what goodreads is for

The author of the book does acknowledge the political disparity in the text, that's not my analysis, but there's less cloak-and-dagger cat and mouse than I remember, and a lot more "I called Bob Stevenson at the FTBQ to ask for help and he said nobody cares about nerd shit" over and over

Rereading The Cuckoo's Egg after a decade or so. Second time around it strikes me that the first 30% of the book is fun hacker tracking stuff, and the last 70% is the west coast lefty author complaining that US Federal agencies take ages to file paperwork, but the CIA and Air Force keep people safe

*searching for the meaning behind a plant symptom*
"Well that's a sign of overwatering"
"Okay"
"But it could also be under-watering"
"Got it"
"It could also be a nutrient deficiency"
"Ah"
"Or a nutrient overload"
"I see"

Made Nandos at home the other day, I set the proper ambience by playing Spanish guitar music at ear-splitting volumes in the downstairs loo

Every time I open the oven and get blasted with hot air from sticking my mug in there too soon I think "Oh no, backdraft!"

Max Miller lays claim to historical foodstuffs from ancient times all the way up to World War 2, but beyond there is the territory of Jamie the Anti-Chef. The two sides fight bitterly for control of the 1960s, while fending off guerrilla raids from Weird History Food

<3 what a legend

You won't believe what my wife got my for my birthday

HOT UK CYCLING TIP: I just found out that the place I used to lease a bike from went bust recently, so there's a bunch of new or lightly used commuter bikes on eBay, and they're worth way more than a comparable new bike at the same price imho. They're on eBay etc as "BuzzBike". Solid bargain

Landlord needs to be dragged across hot coals

Just seen a bumblebee the size of a golf ball

Just found out the compost I ordered is being delivered by Hermes, which will save me having to chuck it over the fence into the garden

Nine times out of ten the reason I stop scrolling on this app is because I accidentally hit this button and got launched to the top of the TL. I hate this button so much? Why can't I turn it off? Who put it there, right in my thumb's way? Fuck yooou

This is gaming

Really quite excited by this, the possibilities unlocked by a PC with a wireless controller plugged into the TV are pretty big. Need to get some errr Linux isos for the Mega Drive downloaded

I got an old office PC tarted up to be a gaming PC and plugged it into the TV like it's a dodgy console, now I can play all the stuff I've wanted to play for ages but can't because it's not on the switch. I'm gaming unplugged, baby

Damien and Char looking less than pleased with a PS3 copy of Sonic 2006

Damien and char with SingStar mics

The streaming computer with various windows open

Char stood on the sofa

Today marks 12 entire years since the very first #TalkingReal charity stream where @superstarchar.bsky.social and I played a whole load of different games for 24 hours for Comic Relief!

Jesus Walk

When we all heard the full length version of ‘Spaceman’ by Babylon Zoo

[Apprentice 2056]
Lord Sugar would like to meet you on the moon. Your rocket will arrive in 20 minutes.

[The moon, 6am]
Lord Sugar: "Dean Martin compared the moon hitting your eye like a big pizza pie. I want you to make and sell pizzas"

#theapprentice

Metal Gear Solid ally NPC