I’m gonna miss this show so much, and it annoys me they couldn’t let it run for a nice appropriate nine seasons. Ah well.
My hopes are still high for a spinoff. I want to see the adventures of Young Captain Holt in the 80s and 90s.
Here’s a picture I drew of Land’s End when I was there as a young child.
It’s a LIGHTHOUSE! I promise it’s a lighthouse!
I realised today that Reddit has changed their tagline to “Dive into anything.” Please, please do not dive into “anything” on Reddit. Or Twitter. Or Facebook. But, OCCASIONALLY the hellhole which is social media throws up something sweet and nice and I’ve collected a few! Like I did here!
(more…)When I was 17 I went to New York. It was one of the best experiences of my life! Unfortunately smartphones were yet to exist and all I had was a digital camera that held about 20 photos at a time. This here was one taken of me:
And obviously it’s super blurry! But here’s the thing, recently I learned of an app called Remini that tries to unblur images. So I ran this picture through that and did a bit of Photoshop and got this:
You can probably tell the app had to rebuild my eyes from scratch, right? And now whenever I look at the photo up close I get an uncanny-valley feeling because I know what my eyes look like and those aren’t my eyes. I mean, generally eyes are pretty much the same right? And yet I can tell, despite the face being okay, that the eyes came from a computer.
Though I suppose if you were a philosopher you could consider, when I look at a photo am I ever looking at my own eyes?
Hooray! Doctor Who stuff is finally here! Looks like we’re getting lots of exciting stories this season! Or one big story! Either way is good!
However my viewing pleasure was interrupted when a GIANT bee flew into my house and I had to try and save it.
Some absolutely obscene, incomprehensible, I-can’t-believe-I’m-hearing-this scenes in London today.
Get your jab. Thank your doctor. Ostracize these people. I don’t really have much else to say, I’m in that state of appalled-ness where your brain just turns off. Also noting that unlike the Sarah Everard protest, seemingly no-one got smacked around by the police here.
This time around things went much more smoothly. We were driven there by a very nice and helpful taxi driver, which is always good, and at the hospital there was barely any waiting at all.
I feel a bit nauseous and tired but that’s only to be expected. VERY glad I’m fully vaccinated, now go and get yours if you haven’t already!
A question that is frequently asked is, ‘are any of Dido Elizabeth Belle’s descendants still alive?’ The answer in short is no. Today, I thought it worth providing a somewhat lengthy, but nevertheless potted genealogy, to explain how her family line died out. Be prepared, it’s not always an easy read in parts. At the […]
The Descendants of Dido Elizabeth Belle — All Things Georgian
Belle is one of my favourite movies, and here’s a fascinating post what happened after the credits rolled (so to speak.)
I’ve made no secret of my feelings about millionaires and billionaires who hoard their wealth rather than using it to help people in need. I’ve also made no secret of my feelings about space travel in this, the 21st century, but in case you missed it, I think it is a complete and total waste […]
What A Tragic Waste!!! — Filosofa’s Word
There is a part of me that still hopes, perhaps in some very far-off future humanity as a whole may have access to space. We’ll be able to fix the planet we live on and then (peacefully) take what we learned and head off to see what’s out there.
Jeff Bezos et al have alas disqualified themselves many times over from the phrase “humanity as a whole.”
The title of this blog isn’t just for show, y’know. I archive everything. It’s… not a million miles away from hoarding, in all honesty, I just try to be careful about it. Anyone who has literal OCD will know the deal there… anyway. Today I finished scanning in every! single! picture! I know exists of my childhood, and I’ve realised that as a teenager I experienced quite a few events that turned out quite formative and nothing was ever photographed of them. My parents were big into analog cameras, but when they went obsolete and digital cameras replaced them it was a totally different story.
I remember for example that in 2005 I went to see Green Day with a friend (who’s still one of my closest friends in fact!) at the Milton Keynes Bowl. I think that was the first time I’d been to a concert without adult supervision. I did go see The Monkees when I was a very young child, that’s one of the things which triggered my lifelong Monkees fandom. But this Green Day concert, everyone in school was talking about it and I wanted to go so badly! So I managed to grab some tickets off of Ebay and hell yeah, I got to go. I can still remember it, it was a fantastic experience. To this day Billie Joe Armstrong is the most electrifying person I’ve seen on stage. And yet… I have so little evidence, for lack of a better word, that I was even there! No photos, no ticket stubs, nothing. I do have this entry in my journal:
Which is a valuable thing to have! But I do wish I had photos. We live in such a photo-heavy society now, I guess, and it’s so weird to have whole years where there just… weren’t many. That same year, in the same town, I went to a convention with the same friend and all photos of that are lost too. I know they existed once, because I actually wrote an entry about it way back then!
But as you can see, all broken links now, and I have absolutely no memory of it whatsoever except that Chris Barrie was nice. My very unreliable memory is, I think, probably the main reason I desperately wish I had more photographs of my life in 2005. It was, according to the diary referred to up there, a pretty difficult and depressing year in many ways. I once saw someone call photographs “memory receipts” and man, I’d really have liked some good receipts of all that.
Kids who have no doubt seen the faces adults make upon seeing teenagers whip out a smartphone, please take as many selfies as humanly possible and upload them to all your social medias. You’ll be grateful you did, I promise.