Another snap from my morning walk.
My happy tree stump and I hope you have a good Friday.
'3 Days Later' by Danny Boyle. A carpenter who works at IKEA is killed. 3 days later, however, he comes back from the dead to wreak havoc, triggering 2000 years of war, persecution, crusades & genocide. His devotees are at once recognised by the carpenter's symbol which they adopt as their talisman: a BILLY bookcase...
Happy Ramadan to my Muslim friends 🌙
Happy Passover to my Jewish friends ✡️
Happy Easter to my Christian friends 🐣
Happy Vaisakhi to my Sikh friends ❤️
Happy Hanuman Jayanti to my Hindu friends 🌝
Happy Mahavir Jayanti to my Jain friends ☮️
Happy Days to my secular friends 😊
Much love to my friends of all of all faiths and no faith. Pass it on!
For those in the UK, I've now got the UK Train Departure boards available from the console like you can with wttr.in for the weather.
You can now query a station using curl or wget (or a browser if you must)
curl https://uktra.in/mde
I've tested it with Firefox, Chrome, Chromium and Safari as well and it works*
Hit https://uktra.in/ to get further instructions and how to search
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UK 2023: "About 500 adult male migrants to be housed on barge off Dorset coast." (BBC News)
Scarfolk 1970s: The deportation raft off Scarfolk coast beyond the "Natural barrier against foreigners." (Scarfolk & Environs Map Pack, 2020)
#scarfolk
Wrote a long post attempting to explain myself in some way, then deleted it. Only one line needed really.
Been drawing on trees again.
Ryuichi Sakamoto: the avant gardist who became a groundbreaking pop star
"With Yellow Magic Orchestra, he paved the way for electropop and hip-hop but was far happier as a backroom boffin than an electronic pinup"
Alexis Petridis is getting far too many opportunities to display his considerable talent at writing on artists that have sadly left us recently.
A bit aimless at the moment, so thought I'd find out a peaceful photo for a Sunday evening.
Sunset over the islands of Kerrera and Mull, taken from the mainland a couple of years back.
It was a bit lovely.
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.