Hot-spotted to someone else's connection for this, so must log off & not get distracted, but I have photos of SEAL PUPS to share when I get back to broadband. They are SO CUTE!
Nice little nerdy computer with sensible-looking spec & low price https://tulip.computer
@JennyList big internet hugs
If any Twitch streamers want something silly & Olympics-related: play Janey Thomson's Marathon & spend a couple of hours running a whole marathon https://mattround.com/flash/
This is hilariously bad peak bubble bullshit marketing. The value proposition of this product is apparently you don't have any human friends so you want inane LLM babble at the press of a button to convey the impression of a "friend" interacting with you.
It's like a Furby without the fur.
It's FRIIIIIIDAAAAAAY! As ever have a good weekend, if you possibly can. Whoop whoop!
RIP John Mayall
For those of over 60 John Mayall was one of the ways we discovered the blues (and its interaction with Jazz) in the 1960s/70s.... a fabulous advocate for the blues whose (often) mixed-race bands were a lesson in recognising your influences.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/23/john-mayall-blues-dies
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.