Gary :party_porg:

Had another nap, which was also nice.

PHOTOGRAPH THE ALPHABET AS IT APPEARS NATURALLY IN THE SHAPE OF OBJECTS OR PEOPLE - OR BOTH. You can often find things in the shape of letters - animals, plants, architectural details, street clutter. As in Scrabble, some letters appear more often than others: A, C, H and L are easier to find than Q, R and S. Be on the lookout for all kinds of letters - upper and lower case, with or without accents. But avoid letters already written in signs or graffiti. Try to be more creative with less expected sources, the more surprising the better. You might collect a whole alphabet, or even spell words. You can also apply the idea to numbers. TIP: Read the street - letters are everywhere.

This was my assignment, by the way, and I’m really struggling with it. Literal Brain is Literal, and I don’t tend to see things in other things, if you know what I mean. Like shapes in clouds, or rocks that look like elephants. They very rarely occur to me […]

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I’m absolutely knackered (and a little hungover) and really fancy napping away the rest of the afternoon.

But my new camera lenses have arrived and I barely have any pics for my photography club assignment next week. Time to head to the Outwoods, get some fresh air, and hopefully find inspiration.

@wanye3000.bsky.social I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house when Mike held up that photo of Tim 🥲

i was really struggling to get the energy together for a solo drive up to manc and back for this, but i'm SO GLAD i did! what a fucking gig!

#cardiacs

A much younger Mike Vennart and Kavus Torabi (w/Denzel on drums, and you can just the back of Gambler’s head), playing Big Ship in 2015

Mike and Kavus on stage at the Albert Hall in Manchester. Someone in the audience is waving flowers.

A wider shot of the whole band with some atmospheric lighting and smoke.

Another wide shot of the band on stage.

Eleven years ago I watched these two glorious gentlemen do a couple of #Cardiacs covers at the end of their show in a little pub in Wakefield.

Last night they did it “for real” at the Albert Hall in Manchester. I don’t think Vennart ever could have […]

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Manchester, I am in you!

And I’ve just been handed this by young Mr Hayes outside the venue 😎

#cardiacs

RE: https://flipboard.com/@essentialpixels/photography-videography-gear-software-svafkn29z/-/a-IhOBQbisTi2kNvdqDwiwTQ%3Aa%3A106521056-%2F0

This is impressive, but I can’t help but think Apple seem to have made the iPad Pro something of a niche product now 🤔

@2legged @purplepadma but what about the Wee Donkey? 😀

Baseball post about the Israeli baseball team getting eliminated from the World Baseball classic. However, there’s a HUGE graphic that just reads “ISRAEL ELIMINATED” with the flag, so I instantly thought it was about something else entirely as all the baseball logos on the post are really small.

Did not think MLB on FOX quite intended this effect when they posted about the Israeli team getting knocked out of the World Baseball Classic. I did a spit-take when I saw this.

@aburtch @jalefkowit wow 😮

Had a nap, which was nice…

RE: https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/116216319695652726

Oh, FFS, seriously? Is this what it’s come to now?

We’re fully into the “making shit up to scare the public so we can justify the war” territory 🙄

I’ve been watching “Common Side Effects” recently, and really enjoying it.

I love how Adult Swim are producing proper grown-up dramas as animation, like Scavengers Reign. More of this stuff, please!

I have dipped into the T-Shirt Vault for tonight’s #Cardiacs show!

(Old band t-shirts get put in an airtight bag in the loft when they start to get frayed and tatty)

Tonight I shall be sporting a 2004 vintage Little Man And A House long-sleeve from the Wildhearts winter tour, where I attended […]

A photograph of the sculpture Het Ding, a large tensegrity icosahedron built from telephone poles and steel cables. Photograph in the public domain, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Universiteit_Twente_Het_Ding_20050628.jpg

TIL. In April 1974, in the middle of the night, a small group of conspirators secretly installed a large tensegrity icosahedron made from discarded telephone poles on the campus of Twente University in the Netherlands.

It’s still there. People call it Het […]

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Managed to find diesel for £154.9 (Morrisons)

Everywhere else is 155-165 now

The new govt Petrol Finder app is coming in handy, but their API is getting hammered and it’s proper slow 😬

The wind on the walk into work this morning was decidedly trying to blow me backwards towards the bed I'd just got out of.

Sometimes Mother Nature gives you hints how the day will go...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fistfulofdave/116212923727772426

The words of a madman, not to be trusted around children 🤣

This sounds like an interesting development of how some of the cheat systems for online shooters work 🤔

The system basically looks directly into the memory areas the game is using and builds maps and stats from that. Except this will be looking into the emulator's memory where it's game is […]

Obsidian's marketing team were smoking the Good Stuff the day they came up with the "Free without limits" tagline, and the $4 per user per month syncing fee.

Not being able to sync seems like a limit, to me, and $4pcm to enable it isn't free

Mini Multi-Arcade Game Cabinets with an ESP32 and Galagino Most people love arcade games, but putting a full-sized arcade cabinet in the living room can lead to certain unpleasant complications. Ergo the market for fun-sized cabinets has exploded alongside …read more

Teeny Tiny arcade cabinets on esp32

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/11/mini-multi-arcade-game-cabinets-with-an-esp32-and-galagino/

"invalid tar header" when pulling HA 2026.03.00 Docker image · Issue #165012 · home-assistant/core The problem When I try to pull ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable on an aarch64 machine, it gives me an error: $ docker pull ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable stable: Pulling f...

Having to upgrade my #debian server from bookworm to trixie, because #homeAssistant have started using zstd to compress their images, and the version of #docker in bookworm is an old one that doesn't use zstd 🙄

https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/165012

Dammit, I hated The Phantom Menace but he’s right

The current lineup of them Cardiacs. Left to right: Rhodri Marsden Mike Vennart Sharon Fortnam (Unknown) Jim Smith Bob Leith Chlöe Herrington Kavus Torabi

Just look at this lovely lot 😍

#cardiacs

(BTW, who's the woman in that pic that isn't Sharon or Chöe?)

March 11th - London - Doors 7pm / DJ / Showtime 8:30pm March 12th - Manchester - Doors 7pm / DJ / Showtime 8:30pm March 13th - Glasgow - Doors 7pm / DJ / Showtime 8:15pm

For any of you heading out to the #Cardiacs gigs this week: show times

I know: First World problems 🤷‍♂️

Just another unforeseen side-effect of Donnie and Benny's Games Without Frontiers

Heard this morning that holidays across Europe have gone up by 40% in the last week as no one's going to the Gulf/Middle East this year.

We were gonna book our summer holiday soon, too 😳

Running Ocarina of Time on the Apple Watch At this point in time it can be safely stated that the question ‘Does it run Doom?’ defaults to a resounding ‘Yes’. This raises the question of what next games should …read more

Running Ocarina of Time on an Apple Watch is neat, but it’s got me thinking how awesome it would be to run Basilisk or SheepShaver on one, and have an emulated SE30 on your wrist 😎

#retrocomputing #macintosh

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/10/running-ocarina-of-time-on-the-apple-watch/

FFS, electrical contractor emails at 18:55, asking for confirmation that someone will be onsite at 06:30 the following day to provide access to a secure location.

Er, no 🙄