Today I'm doing my mandatory training courses. They are designed with adobe captivate. they don't display correctly on my macbook. some have audio but no video. Nothing in console suggests errors. I think i'm just missing out on some occasionally relevant clip art so I'm going to persevere!
Dipping my toe into the vast expansive pool of youtube... Broadcast Cart Machines... How Did They Work? https://youtu.be/HwtcrDo0Mpc?si=BP7LymNTlRyDbYAH
AI generated t-shirt from a review headline of a comedy show, the caption reads "shockingly competent"
No one cares about comedy reviews apart from the reviewers themselves. How can you even review comedy when it's subjective? Everyone has different humour, that's how life works.
One review headline caught my eye and I'm determined to make t-shirts out of it, to be distributed amongst the crew! 😂😝
The engineering team behind Saturday Night Live UK, pictured on the tv show's stage.
About last night.... the culmination of weeks of planning and hard work, but most importantly - fun! Here's the engineering team that bought you the first Saturday Night Live UK 🙂
The AI summary feature on my phone just abbreviated "reminder" to "remi". I'm sorry, what? And again. What?!!!
I was a customer once, never again. Unfortunately I always seem to get asked to support family members just after they've locked themselves into another contract. 🤦♂️
I couldn't agree more. My regular PSA to just never, ever, use virgin media unless it's your absolute last resort.
I’m probably preaching to the converted, but after dealing with a yet another unnecessary family broadband issue, here is my regular reminder that anything involving Virgin Media is abysmal.If only I could invoice them for the time wasted trying to make a basic process work as intended.
Tiny Model of Television centre
In Television Centre reception, we have a tiny model of our building. I hope that in the tiny model's reception there's an even smaller model of the building. And inside that model there's an even smaller etc etc you get the idea!
I’ve a legitimate need to run a generator this weekend, so I filled two cans of petrol and topped up the car. The side-eye from the queue spilling onto the road to fill their own cars suggests cognitive dissonance is thriving.
Thanks, that was the search i was trying to find earlier but didn't seem to be available on the app. Now to agonise whether to keep it for the memories, or keep my wife happy by reducing clutter!
Boxed Handheld Plane And Tank Electronic Game from the 80s.
Apparently these are worth "silly money" these days? I can see lots of auctions with ambitious prices but do they actually sell for £100? #RadioShack #PlaneAndTank #RetroGames
Fascinating video if you enjoy a certain fizzy beverage! https://youtu.be/TDkH3EbWTYc?si=g-xeCQmSs7bQ8-Xq
Well that was a plot twist i wasn't prepared for!https://youtu.be/2OtMenQgIJ0
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An AI imagined rugged smartphone case with excessive protection and added features and comedically the flimsiest keyring attachment that wouldn't last 5 minutes against the weight of such a case!
My old phone cracked after an unexpected leap down the stairs. Reluctantly, I had to get a new one but this one is larger and more slippery than the old one and I fear a reprise of the previous events. I need a mega case immediately.
Reluctantly I was placed in a position where an IOS refresh was needed. So far the only casualty from this was the old Tooot app which has vanished from the app store (and history). So here i am now trying the ice cubes app as my daily mastodon client....
"There's a few choccies left, help yourself"...me: oh
It's time for the annual christmas tradition of "clear enough useless crap off my phone so i have room to take a video of my daughter's nativity".
A flurry of snow down south, not even enough to be worth a picture. However it was clearly enough for the two year old to get a bit giddy racing round the house shouting "it's christmas". 😐
Infra red camera showing radiator with inlet pipe reading 44.7c
It's my day off and i'm vibe plumbing using the heat sensitive camera! I swing violently between"this is cool" and "what is my life now anyway?"
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facebook timeline post saying "Something went wrong. This may be because of a technical error that we're working to fix. Please try reloading this page."
I broked the Al Gore Rhythm 🤪 (i've been clicking the x on all facebook adverts and non-followed content for a while and it's clearly given up on me!)
Signal is down possibly because AWS is down. Dunno why, but i thought it was server agnostic and worked on peer to peer. Guess not!
Now it's been on the telly i'm allowed to talk about my crazy day at work yesterday when taylor swift came round, but the harsh reality is I was far more interested in whether lewis capaldi's hilarious c-bomb would make it through the edit unscathed. And it did 😝🎉👍
I understand the demand for something like duck duck go, but who is funding their uk tv ad campaign, and why? Genuine question - helps me understand the direction a service might go in the future.
Spectrum Analyser with CPU board on hinges for easy repair
I do appreciate kit that has been designed with repair in mind... flappy sections that open up for easy access without complete disassembly! Re-capping a noisy power supply board on this vintage Avcom Spectrum Analyser.
As I trundled down Uxbridge Road (W12) I spotted a man in a Rod Stewart mask, wearing a Rod Stewart T-shirt, and holding a Rod Stewart poster out in front of him? I desperately need to know what that poster said. Was he promoting Rod? Or protesting Rod? If you can enlighten me, please do!
I get the benefits but I just fear this is portraying cell-broadcast emergency alerts to be an infallible method, when it isn't, and should be used alongside more traditional methods of dissemination. After all this may end up being a life or death situation!
The government claim that "tens of millions of phones successfully sounded" in the news...Except cell broadcast doesn’t actually report back who got the message and who didn’t. So if it did, or didn't come through on your phone, there’s no way for them to tell!