Lloyd Davis

This was the morning after the night before, a couple of days ago.

I’m so asynchronous!

Fresh Kentish hops, baby!

This looks great. And similar to approx 97% of my dreams.

www.youtube.com/watch

People need to be told “yes! that sounds great! we can do that!” (the thing they’ve always dreamed of but never quite managed to do [or keep doing] and that they’ve just been really brave to articulate to you)

example: dynamicland.org (not a ‘little thing’)

“These web pages are designed to be preserved. The HTML is simple and easily parsed. CSS and JavaScript are minimal and optional. All media files are visible to crawlers. There are no frameworks or external dependencies.”

(h/t Andy Matuschak)

Don’t you ever:

a) stop being dandy, showing me you’re handsome… (obvs)

but also

b) stop making little things on the open web that only a tiny number of people see, but which warm the hearts of those who do stumble across them.

Dear fellow coffee shop patron, I understand that taking your son to college for his first day can be tough. I’m not surprised you’ve called your IT chap, John, for a chat. But I could have told you that he would recommend turning your computer off and back on again. Yours, smugly x

Today is one of those days when I’m glad not to be reading LinkedIn posts.

Slow Horses S4 off to a promising start. And I’ve only got as far as as the opening titles!

Ambient presence is one of the things the algorithmic feeds have robbed us of

I enjoyed most of the first season of Sherwood, while shaking my head at some of the violence. S2E1 looks like they’ve doubled-down on the misery porn though. Like there’s no such thing as a happy working-class community in the Midlands.

A really annoying friction in interop between all these microblogging platforms is inconsistent character limits. 140 or even 280 made for a great creative tension when it T was the only show in town. I’m just having to think harder about it, and that’s not what using computers should be like.

This week, I realised that I’d been talked about, pseudonymously, in an academic paper. I’m “William” here and Tuttle is “Kettil” - I have no idea who it is that they refer to as “Linda”, but thanks Lin!

journals.aom.org/doi/abs/1…

Woman on train to her small child:

Ooh look! You can see that lady’s knickers, her skirt is so short! Look! If we’d got off here, we would have shouted “hey lady, we can see your knicky-knacky-noos”. Wouldn’t that be funny?

Narrator (me): …

A very tempting bargain. The fact that this is in a charity shop in Jeremy Hunt’s constituency is purely coincidental.

At the age of fifty-nine and two-thirds it’s time to take action on a pension provided by an employer that I left 22 years ago. I’m relieved to find that, so far, everything has been dealt with by e-mail rather than the snail alternative or /shudders/ by telephone.

My favourite kind of day. A couple of hours on trains, eight hours sitting around in a field, another couple of hours on trains home.

Escaping to the Midlands for a day at Greenbelt. Hoping to have some interesting random encounters as well as those that are pre-planned.

I have zero interest in cars but I know beauty when I see it.

I’m reading that FAFO is seen as a threatening phrase, like “just try it, and see what you get, sucker!” whereas I’ve always thought of it as an encouragement to play and experiment, stop overthinking and just give it a go. Aren’t people interesting?

I just saw the headline “Epic Games Store Launches for iPhones in the EU” and although I already knew the facts of the story, I had a little glimmer of enjoyment. And then I remembered again that the EU doesn’t include me.

I just want to register my unease with prisons being filled up with people who’ve recently shown themselves to be violent in the face of authority. I don’t know what’s going to happen, my knowledge of the penal system is based on Porridge and Shawshank. I just don’t think it’s going to end well.

For those who find Threads “a much nicer place”, may I direct your attention to the hot-takes on the sinking of the Bayesian and the (at the time of posting) six people still missing.

Teetering on the edge of a #ShrimpJesus rabbithole

Same as it ever was…