DaveO

One man, one summit, a bunch of AIs and a LOT of delegates who don't like each other - what could possibly go wrong! Clueless is available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. amzn.to/3HH1nT6

#seattle - anybody interested in an AirBed? Or an inflatable 3 seater sofa? I am clearing out things - happy to open DMs to the interested. Also have some general prepping supplies we are not moving, some tools and assorted office stuff.

Well as I suspected I tested negative today. Not sure that’s making me feel any better but it’s something.

I don’t know if anybody has read The Stainless Steel Rat for President but gosh go I have vibes from that tonight.

Day 2 with Covid - probably more than that. Apart from what is now a mild cough I’m entirely asymptomatic but it’s nice having some time off packing and work. I’ll take a light day tomorrow then retest. Suspect I’ll be good in another day.

How in the name of Hades can I still be finding these little buggers on me. I could have sworn I found them all this morning.

Started watching a recap for season 2 of a show and realized we had no memory of season 1. So I guess we’re watching Season 1 again. It looked interesting…

1. basic D&D 2. advanced D&D 3. Traveller 4. Paranoia 5. CoC I’ll not claim to have played a lot of CoC. Never grabbed me.

Well what happens in Vegas apparently doesn’t always stay there as I brought some Covid home with me. Yay :( A nighttime trip to ER for shortness of breath as a 50-something gets you through triage quickly.

Moving continents and work are playing hell with my plans for Where’s Beryl?

Hmmm. I think it was The Golden Voyage of Sinbad in around 1974… Then definitely At The Earth’s Core and The Spy Who Loved Me. There were probably others but based on release dates they’re ones I remember.

Jail. Them. All. Seize. All. Their. Assets.

For those outside the US wondering why voting here seems to take a while - my ballot had, in addition to the congressional election, 4 initiatives including an anti-trans one some bellends got onto the ballot, a dozen county positions including courts and judges, and some local council positions.

Packing almost complete. I also know where my towel is.

What grimly amuses me about this stuff, as a keen follower of ‘Bond vigilantes’ over the last 20 years that none of the factors driving this have anything to do with what I was assured was going to drive up Bond prices.

Home after that Vegas. I worked. The other half didn’t. I am knackered. We did do some fun stuff. But the 30ish singer jokingly calling me his dad landed badly :)

I think it’s very clear from the books that Sam Vimes wouldn’t trust Sam Vimes either and he fully understood that paradox.

Reading the reporting it really is clear that the proponents of this were really bought into the disinformation being shared in places like Threads. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Love me some FedEx delivery going the wrong way up our one way street. Really love it when they are delivering to us.

Not going to lie. My wife gets my taste.

So my Spanish lessons have reached SOY/ESTAR What the fuck people. I mean what the fucking fuck???

But Chocolate Hobnobs are posh aren’t they?

I am trying to work through The Magician’s Nephew revised timeline. Some suggest the Pevensies are there for COVID which makes the professor older than the book timeline but possible. I think TLtWaW should be 00s and Edmund is there on an ASBO. It would explain a lot.

This is far politer and reasoned than I could be having seen the same silly Argument made before.

Can't reply - but the video is a bit weird TBH and the pie does not look nice and liquor does basically task like water with parsley in it because it IS basically water with parsley in it :)

Ok, so 1) that pie looks crap, 2) I have never met anybody who likes liquor over a nice gravy and 3) the last person I know who liked Jellied Eels died of old age in 1977. Dude - go for a Greggs - get settled in with a nice bacon sandwich, have a curry... get something else.

4 weeks today I should be arriving in Walla Walla on the first leg of my drive to NJ. After 20 years here the end is kinda racing up. We should have the attic mostly empty tomorrow which is a milestone. My office is mostly down to basics. Next up triaging the basement.

In other news, my Spanish lesson was completely derailed by a discussion about beer but at least I know all the key things I need to know now about ordering beer in Spain.

I swear to ghods that most of the guys moaning about the casting of Hunter Shaffer in BR2099 are upset because they didn't realize who she is and are now feeling uncomfortable for some weird reason they can't explain.

I am mostly convinced that the destruction of data centers alone cannot explain what I have seen happen on Threads over the weekend. But I am now suspecting a LOT of the troll farms are relatively co-located to them for infrastructure and bandwidth purposes that there is a 2nd order effect in play.

Elon Musk is *furious* about not being able to reach all of the ‘friends’ who said they would totally come to his birthday party.

In case people here have missed it. Things have been weird in other social networks. And by ‘weird’ I mean normal. You can post about trans rights without being swarmed. Or make a Brexit comment without PatriotGB472975 telling you you’re a traitor.

Enjoying one of my last turns in the tub before it gets picked up. I have enjoyed this. Possibly the most ridiculous thing I ever bought but so so so nice.

Something for Halloween from the attic clear out.

I have almost given myself a concussion. Time to stop mucking around in the attic.

Attic triaged. Everything being moved is now ready for reboxing. There is some stuff that needs to be brought down to be tossed. Any recs on books?

I think this might be the most functionally useless book for the US that I have found that isn’t technically out of date.

A boy and his friends.