Nice to see something new turn up in the garden - this year it's cookooflower. Several large clumps.

"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection" - install a VM!

SURVIVORS (1975): Terry 'Daleks' Nation's classic drama about a plague that wipes out most of humanity, and the lengths the rest must go to to restore civilisation. The first series is dark and bleak, but after Nation leaves it's a bit like The Good Life with added starvation, death, and rabies.

'the band confuses inches with feet'

I wouldn't put that on your application for an air rifle licence!

Friends had the house at the bottom of the track up to the Earthquake House in The Ross.

I'm glad Logan International Airport is promoting subatomic particles, but their typography team really needs to improve this kerning.

Assorted Haiku Haiku #2511   Tourists wait in line to enter Machu Picchu. Oh, look! A high queue. Haiku #564127   how dare you suggest I have a short attention spanish omelette   Limeraiku   There once was a young limerick from Kew who turned into a haiku. The Constraints of Haiku   Tied up all night with a haiku dominatrix and her three-line whip.   Shakespearean Haiku   Shall I compare thee To a summer’s day? Alright – Thou art pretty hot.   How to Write a Haiku   The last line should flow seamlessly from the first two – hippopotamus.    Brian Bilston  

It’s International Haiku Day apparently and so for today’s poetry offering, here are a few assorted haiku.

Maybe this wouldn't happen if the @bsky.app devs didn't vibe code everything... just a thought

Customers revolt as GitHub Copilot 'fixes' rate limits : Repair of bug that undercounted token usage leads to rapid exhaustion of subscription allowance

“AI” Vendors: We’re cramming it into everything, use it, USE IT!! iIt’s the future, it’ll do everything for you, EVERYTHING! USE IT!!!

Also “AI” Vendors. Please stop using it, it’s costing us too much.

* One of our group must have been randomly selected as guinea pig!

It was a bit of a faff at Innsbruck last month - they didn't scan most of us* on the way in. Then seemed a bit overwhelmed on the way out, luckily for us opening up a seemingly cobbled-together side room with 'passport man' with fingerprint scanner at his desk but photo machine alongside.

Did you know @ukhsa.bsky.social have a national Tick Surveillance Scheme in the UK you can take part in?

It has been tracking ticks since 2005.

Learn more here - gov.uk/guidance/tic...

A female polar bear feeds on a sperm whale carcass in the polar pack ice north of the Norwegian archipelago, Svalbard. © Roie Galitz The 69th annual World Press Photo Contest

Metal as ffff

So glad that I am retired and will never have to deal with this shite.

Had anybody considered that the Dorset Echo merely has a better grasp of logistics than those currently in charge of the US military?

"We need a photo of a Spitfire."
"What's a Spitfire?"
"What's a Spi- It's the most important aircraft of WW2!"
"Ah. Right you are."

And using the limiter is the only way to stay sane - otherwise you are excessively distracted from looking out for pedestrians etc by worrying too much about exceeding 20.

We suffered here from the council just dumping a load of them in during Covid. Clearly a desk exercise, as nobody who'd done a site visit would have put the limits where they ended up. And forgot to remove them when the temporary orders expired (I complained to roads). They are now a bit better.

Once had a great afternoon/evening walk on the South Shiel ridge ending with us hoofing it back up the road to the Cluanie Inn for last orders.

Must be spring...

The Power of a Homophone   “Sometimes the power of a homophone
will just come out of nowhere and hit you – like being struck by a ten ton truck,”
articulated Laurie. Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘The Power of a Homophone’.

Recreate your own Artemis splashdown with three Tunnocks teacakes and a Nespresso pod

SAVE money on expensive bicycle bells by simply shouting "Get out of my way, I haven't got a bell!" ' at anyone who gets in your way while cycling. Mrs G. Jpeg, Herts

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Beinn Dearg. Do it. Splendid viewpoints.

We're calling Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz the Ayatollbooth, tell your friends

It was a bit good.

Photo of a moon crater taken by NASA in 2015.

If you've been glued to the images coming from the Artemis II crew on their historic lunar flyby, you might want to delve a little deeper and explore some of OpenLearn's free resources on the moon:
👉https://ow.ly/CnlS50YEWtL

Peak 1987!

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?