Andrew Holmes

Pigeons are getting more skills.

If the cyborg in The Terminator had succeeded in eliminating Sarah Connor, presumably it would have disappeared, its task completed. There would be no pieces of it for Cyberdyne Corporation to examine and develop their products (in T2). Thus no Skynet.

Since the start of our hosepipe ban on Tuesday it's rained twice. I remember in 1976 it rained when the government appointed a Drought Minister. Surely no coincidence?

@goodlawproject.org Just watched Jolyon on BBC News talking about Jason Arday. Hats off to his calling out blatant untruths and racism.

We are living in the future. 2015 Back To The Future. 2019 Blade Runner. 2022 Soylent Green. 2029 Terminator 1 origin. 2035 I Robot, Moon. 2049 Blade Runner 2. 2054 Minority Report. 2063 Star Trek: First Contact. 2067 Interstellar. 2084 Total Recall.

Zoetropes.

@britishboxers.bsky.social Just read your newsletter about kindness of strangers. And lo, Portmerion is the answer on tonight's Millionaire. Plus you have all the Prisoner stuff.

Yay, even with a lower rate, we've earned over 50 quid this month from our solar panels exporting to the grid.

Tonight's dinner. Brisket of beef à la bourginonne. One bottle of wine didn't seem enough so I added another half. Served with parsnips, carrots, brocolli, dwarf beans and boiled potatoes. A German pinot nor to accompany it.

I didn't see that coming. Great series. #SecretService

We were re-watching some episodes of Beauty and the Beast with Linda Hamilton last night. Was surprised to see it was written by George R R Martin. One episode has Miyam Biyalik as a gangster moll. From 1988.

Hailstones in Somerset!

Oh William, you were so prescient. Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

I think I'm going to call her Drill Baby now.

@veluxglobal.bsky.social to the agent who answered my query about pairing my solar roof windows. Thank you, you solved my problem. Sorry for hanging up the phone accidentally.

I've just watched the final trailer for Project Hail Mary. I've been waiting for this since I read the book.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Restore from your last backup. What do you mean, you don't have a backup?"

@uk-tank-markings.co.uk time for you to expand your skillset? goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...

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Is it me or are the recent episodes of Pointless wildly out of sequence?

We saw The Penguin Lessons tonight. I must say the more I see if Steve Coogan's work, the more impressed I am. Except Alan Partridge.

Backup? Why do that? (IT department.)

Down means on, surely? (Circuit breakers.)

@soozuk.bsky.social I'll stick with drinktober.

Nominations closed on 31st January 2025.

Is that really so? Current estimates put it more on a par with a Google search. Google hasn't published their energy stats since 2009. They now use AI in their searches too. Water usage may be more nuanced. www.zmescience.com/science/news...

I see what you did there.

@octopus.energy thank you to Rachael in my Support Team who managed to hit the virtual TV in the right spot and got my export tariff working. I hope I spelled your name correctly.

Seen on the promenade at Burnham on Sea today. These two plaques commemorate the 50 old destroyers gifted to Britain by President Roosevelt in 1940. They materially helped us defend the ships bringing essential supplies across the Atlantic. Each one was renamed, including one as HMS Burnham.

There's so much I'd not appreciated from my first watching of The Expanse. Like the Razorback ship was Julie Mao's.

Still watching The Expanse a second time. A quote from Naomi stuck me in series two. "Every shitty thing we do makes the next one a bit easier. "

Who's going to invest in this. Crochet Dalek anyone? www.amazon.co.uk/AmiguWHOmi-C...

Karawansay's latest email has this pithy comment about the TV series King and Conqueror. "The series is fun... if you are willing to completely turn your brain off."

The washing didn't dry yesterday as I'm too tight to use the tumble dryer. Hence today's socks feature a cartoon mouse on skis.

I just realised it's only 500 years until the start of the Zager and Evans song.

For no immediate reason I've started watching The Expanse again. I was immediately reminded what a great series this is. The details are myriad. Like the way bodies behave in zero G and under artificial gravity. I'm also struck by how much I'd either forgotten or failed to notice the first time.

A young #DamienLewis as a reporter in an episode of #TheDarlingBudsOfMay

#Human on BBC2 is a really good watch. Now we find that homo sapiens are the Borg of humans. We have assimilated both Neanderthals and Denisovans.

Hooray it's raining.

A game of #Eisenhower last week.

Where is Neil Young's Glastonbury set on iPlayer? I can't see it.