Bought a new TV… Yay!
Feeling too poorly to set it up… Boo hoo hoo.
Going from a 15 year old LCD panel with backlighting issues to an OLED with 10” more real estate, I really wanted to watch an epic movie today.
Jitendar Canth
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This morning on the mp3 alarm clock, I woke up to…
Renegade Master (Fatboy Slim Old Skool Mix) - Wildchild
I’ve only memorised the first four lines of the magpie poem. Never thought I’d have to do a web search, but I saw eight of the feathered buggers this morning. Apparently I get a wish.
“Is the enamel animal watching you?”
A synapse fired and I just remembered this Colgate Crusaders board game I played as a kid.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/100494/colgate-crusaders
I miss the days when companies used to give away cool stuff to promote themselves.
Colgate Crusaders
Colgate Crusaders is a children's roll and move game published by the company Colgate Palmolive Ltd. in 1983. It was not available for general purchase in stores but rather was obtainable by sending off for it to the company. The game is a promotional piece designed to advertise the benefits of Colgate toothpaste and encourage good dental hygiene amongst children. It encourages regular brushing and general use of Colgate products and warns against the dangers of too much sugar, fizzy drinks, etc. The game is set in the fictional Molar System where the players (each playing as one of the game's heroes; Captain Colgate, Blue Minty Kid, Flick Flouride and Mike Molar) are trying to protect the system by keeping it clear of evil villains. They are constantly on patrol battling against the forces of darkness - Sugary Sam, Sweetie Pie, the Gumboot Boys and the Enamel Animal with his servants the Plaque Monsters. The aim of the game is to be the first to capture 3 Plaque Monsters and return them to your space ship.
Been watching retro tech videos, and looking at the pile of Win 98 games I never completed, and the Win 11 machine that can’t run ‘em. So I tried booting my Win 98 machine after 15 odd years. Needs a new CMOS battery. Processor fan doesn’t spin, graphics alternate between corrupted and not, and it didn’t detect the hard disk until 3rd boot, got to the desktop then the hard drive crashed with a can’t write error. Didn’t get to try the sound card, floppy or CD. Packed PC away for 15 years more.
People should start getting Grok to redress Darth Musk in a mankini. That little feature will be fixed in hours.
Had an hour of ‘skin cancer’ panic today, before I realised that resting an iPad on the inside first knuckle of my left little finger will cause a callus.
I think it’s some kind of record! Just over a week to break my new PC. I don’t like Windows 11; it’s so user unfriendly. I’ve been trying to make it more like Windows 10, de-AI-ifying it. I put the old Notepad back, and broke the boot process trying to get it back into the All Apps list. I’ve had to use system restore already.
Challenge: Hum the theme tune to The Six Million Dollar Man, without it turning into the theme from Emmerdale…
Today’s stupidest news…
The saying goes, give a monkey a typewriter and an infinite amount of time, and you’ll get the works of Shakespeare.
A scientist discovered that this can’t be done in a finite amount of time. This is news?
