The pain I’ve felt in the last few days because of a tiny little stone inside in my body is worse than anything I’ve ever experienced. Absolutely excruciating and uncomfortable. It’s weird drinking lots of water only for my mouth to be dry moments later.
I’m feeling ok right now, at this moment, but I doubt that it’s over yet. I’ve been to the doctor and following his advice. Yet again, feeling so lucky to be married to a wonderful woman who takes such good care of sick ol’ me.
Schools are back this morning, but temperatures are staying around 2ºC (feels like -3ºC) which would be manageable except it rained around 4am this morning. Local roads are lethal, with vehicles already skidding and crashing.
A double-decker bus skidded on black ice at one end of the village and blocked the road completely.
Twenty minutes later, two delivery trucks jackknifed after coming down the hill coming from the opposite side of the village.
I live on a hill, and watched cars come down it very, very slowly. Thankfully, no incidents there yet.
Pictures come from the Blarney Blog on Facebook.
Extra bits:
Damien Boylan was on RTÉ Radio 1 talking about the freeze with Claire Byrne.
Barry Hoare is internet famous for capturing a video of the bus crashing just outside his garage. Part of his wall was demolished by the bus!
PS. I forgot to say, happy birthday Matt!
What’s your favourite Rose? I do like Dairy milk, but the Hazelnut ones are even better. The rest of my family don’t like the fruit flavoured ones. Someone had to eat them. Yum.
The fan mad web series, Star Trek Continues, published their first episode in 2013 according to Wikipedia. Somehow, I think I have never heard of it, despite loving Star Trek. Better late than never, and I enjoyed the first episode this morning. It’s all available on YouTube.
The series continues on where the original series ended, with the 5-year mission of the Enterprise being wrapped up in the last 2 episodes. I recognised the computer voice in episode 1, and I see from Wikipedia that other guest stars make an appearance too. Definitely worth a watch if you’re a Star Trek fan. 🙂
This is a fantastic way to celebrate someone’s life. RIP Shane.
Thanks to my wife and this Reddit thread for the links.
If you’re in the mood for some retro gaming, head on over to this site, where you can play lots of old Commodore 64 games in your browser! Unfortunately, Firefox caused the audio to stutter, but the games play fine in Edge. I tested Flimbo’s Quest and The Great Gianna Sisters, and they were perfect. I somehow made it to level 5 in the latter game rather quickly. I normally use all my lives in level 2!
There is a huge C64 games archive at archive.org, and there are loads of demos there too! Give Arkanoid 2 a spin while you’re over there. It’s even trained, and you can play with infinite lives! The keyboard controls are the two shift keys and space to fire. 🙂
I didn’t think Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver, Stargate SG-1) gave interviews any more. I knew he had some serious health issues, but he’s looking good in this interview. The interviewer is such a fanboy. I suspect anyone who grew up in the 80s on MacGyver would be the same!
Here’s a screen cap from the video because, of course, the video will disappear.
Not long now until the Unix Timestamp flips over to 17 followed by many zeros. Watch it live here or run the following at a terminal:
watch -n1 date +%s
What is the timestamp? It’s the number of seconds since January 1st, 1970 UTC.
Your kids won’t be using AI to spell any time soon. This is what Llama2 said:
> where’s the letter r in the word blueberry?
The letter “r” is the 18th letter of the alphabet, and it appears in the word “blueberry” after the letter “b”. The word “blueberry” spelled out is:
B – L – U – E – B – E – R
So, the letter “r” appears in the 7th position of the word “blueberry”.
> what about the last r and y?
My apologies! Here is the complete spelling of the word “blueberry”:
B – L – U – E – B – E – R – Y
So, the letter “r” appears twice in the word “blueberry”, and the letter “y” appears at the end.
Thanks to Cesar for posting those screenshots on Facebook!
Pebble, aka t2.social, was a short lived social network like Twitter. Last week they sent out emails to all their users to tell them that the site was shutting down on November 1st. I first came across it thanks to Topgold, but it was always a small site. In a crowded section of the Internet, another Twitter clone would have a tough time competing.
I hadn’t posted much there and wasn’t going to download my data, but this post by Eugen Rochko caught my attention and reminded me to go visit.
If #Pebble was part of the social web, they would have had a network of 1.8M active users, not 1,000, and perhaps wouldn’t have had to shut down.
Eugen Rochko
Maybe it would have survived, but it would have had to be extra special and offer some compelling features to compete with all the “free” Fediverse servers out there. The Activity Pub plugin for WordPress recently hit version 1.0 and was launched on WordPress.com too, so potentially millions of new Fediverse sites are coming online, all of which are on more mature software.