SORRY, NERDS 5/4 1s DAVE BRUBECK DAY

#MusicSky #MayTheFourth

Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104 Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.

Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.

Called it!

Two screenshots from "Hard Quiz": TOP - Brendan claps his hands in delight when Tom Gleeson (out of shot) declares, "Correct! Which means you are tonight's Hard Quiz champion!" The bottom left of the screen has a score counter for Nathan (scoring 3 out of 5) and Brendan (4 out of 5). BOTTOM - Brendan holds the "Hard Quiz" Big Brass Mug, yelling in the style of the Monty Python "Gumby" characters, "THANK! YOU! FOR! PLAY! ING! HARD!" In both shots, Brendan is wearing a colourful tropical buttoned shirt, and a black-and-gold-coloured Obaku watch on his left wrist.

So this happened last week (and I think I gave @nonstoptom.bsky.social a run for his money!).

It was worth it 🙂

#HardQuiz #ThanksForPlayingHard #STUFFTHEJAMSPOON #MontyPython

It was worth the experience 🙂

Tony Slattery, 1959-2025.

Forever one of the true greats of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?".

#TonySlattery #WhoseLineIsItAnyway #WhoseLine #WLIIA #comedy #Improv

Photo of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, with various boats travelling near or under the bridge. The sky is mostly clear and blue, with some very light cloud towards the left of the photo.

A party snow machine emits foam snow over a Christmas tree in a public lobby on board the Royal Princess cruise. The tree is situated between two gold-coloured spiral staircases.

A pastry shaped like a heart; there are sugar-iced decorations including a threaded white border, coloured flowers, and writing: (Red text, top row) I LOVE iT [sic] (Blue text, centre) ROYAL PRINCESS (Blue, bottom) Princess Cruises logo

The magic of a Christmas cruise holiday.

#cruise #Christmas #RoyalPrincess

Learning from the masters.

Still here, just busy with everything in life.

Word of the day is ‘quafftide’ (16th century): the season for drinking. Also a pithy way of declaring that it’s time to relax.

Works for hydropots (water drinkers) just as well.

You can get anything you want
At Alice's restaurant.

🎶 You can get anything you want,
At Alice's restaurant. (Excepting Alice!)

#Thanksgiving (although not observed in Australia) #AlicesRestaurant #ArloGuthrie

Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (16th century): the slavish and reckless following of another person in matters of thought or opinion.

Word of the day is ‘hibernacle’ (18th century): a hibernating animal’s winter retreat.

I believe it works on a human level too.

...you sort of expect the Greek and Cypriot juries to award #DouzePoints to each other.

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.

(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

Selfie of Brendan; he is wearing dark sunglasses and a black shirt bearing a multicoloured word, "rage" (in lower-case - the logo for a music TV programme of the same name). (He is wearing shorts not seen in the picture though.) He is standing on the shore of a beach with sand in the foreground and a grassed rock formation just behind him.

When a full-on busy year warrants a week's holiday away.

Taken at Tuross Head (on New South Wales's South Coast).

#beach #selfie #rage

Name a better qualified doctor than Dr. Oz

A row of pine trees lines a hill leading to Coila Beach; the sky is at evening twilight with clouds lining most of the sky, plus a faint sunset glow towards the right of the photo.

Coila twilight.

#TurossHead #Coila #CoilaBarBeach #CoilaBeach #SouthCoast #Beach #beachphotography #night #dusk #twilight

#MyNikonLife
Body: #NikonD5600 (#D5600)
Lens: AF-P #Nikkor 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 G
Focal length: 22mm
ISO: 100
Aperture: F25
Shutter: 20s

Yes, yes you should 😊

(Satire)

Look! It’s the Australian Fast Bowler!

I'm keen 😎

Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (19th century): one who pays great attention to trivial matters as a way of avoiding the important ones.

And will Kermit reply: "What the hell was THAT all about??" (😆)

Rare chance to relax this week and brush up on my #Nikon skills.

#beachphotography #D5600 #beach

"No, I'm not hungry - I'm HUUUUUNGRYYYYY!"

🤣

"If you see this, post your favourite Pokémon."

Squirtle Sqaud forever!

Brendan (at centre wearing a multicoloured button-up shirt, jeans and Julius Marlowe shoes) poses with Sunstroke members Sergei Yalovitsky (vocalist at left, wearing a black hat, gold sparkle suit and white/gold sparkle shoes) and Sergey Stepanov (saxophonist at right, wearing dark glasses, a gold suit jacket, light cream trousers and bronze-coloured shoes; he is also holding a saxophone in his left hand).

#AchievementUnlocked - Meeting THE #EpicSaxGuy in person last night!

#Eurovision #EurovisionOnTour #SunstrokeProject