It would appear that St Patrick is more popular than St David... 😅 🍀

So, I've fallen further to the dark side and bought an iPad. 😁 Actually, I love my AppleTV, and my first tablet was the first iPad.

Got tired of my creaky kindle HD, which I had to sideload apps to make it functional for my needs. Samsung seem to have the monopoly, and I'm less keen on Android as a tablet. MS Surface? Fuck that; been there!

Only thing missing for iPad is something like NewPipe for YouTube (yes, I know, slum it and use a browser with ad block). 😂

My uncle from my father's side is 102:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/uks-oldest-miner-wales-102-28714673

Of course my type one diabetes would choose the first day back in work to be a complete prick. It's not like I've got shit to do; emails and people to be annoyed by.

Seen divided options of new series of True Detective, and of the new showrunner; I try to avoid anything with Matthew McConaughey and Vince Vaughan, so can't speak for that, and having not watched the other ones, but I'm enjoying this Jodi Foster one.

... I am enjoying 'The Bear', but with the dynamic range compression and volume a bit lower...

On stuff I've watched:

* Bradley Cooper: outstanding in 'The Maestro'.
* 'Nepolian': good acting, but if didn't care about any of the characters...
* 'The Bear': Unlikable people shouting over each other and a nice guy who likes making desserts.
*'Halo' S02: That's better.
* I'll watch anything with Noomi Rapace.
* 'Gladiators' feels cosy, like the 90's show, with every passing week.
* How the smeg did 'What we do in the Shadows' slip under my radar for so long; it's brilliant! BAT...

Want Sora AI can do is both incredible and scary, but the first thing that came to my mind is the possibilities of fixing and upscaling old shows, like enhancing the visual FX in Babylon 5 to hi-res 16:9, since a proper redo like Paramount did with TNG is likley too costly for Warners to consider.

Well, we got through the Mission Impossible movies. They were okay; some better than others.

I picked up the Babylon 5 blu-ray set on sale (I already have it on VHS, DVD, iTunes, and Amazon Video).

I love B5, but rubbish fiddly packaging, no extras, not even a booklet. I ended up swapping 'The Gathering' and series discs with the old DVD ones with room to spare for their bonus discs.

Authors ‘excluded from Hugo awards over China concerns’

Leaked emails reveal organisers of leading science fiction and fantasy awards flagged works of a ‘sensitive political nature’

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/15/authors-excluded-from-hugo-awards-over-china-concerns

Cunningham's Law: The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

Watching a news report about UK student taking 28 A-Levels.

I have to reread a sentence if a tardigrade farts.

... and I don't know how employment works elsewhere in the world, but in most workplaces in the UK employees can self cert for five days.

I don't know what the hell is up with this bug that's going around Wales, but I've never had so many staff go off sick at one time. I'm now off sick. 🤒

People are still dragging themselves into work with lurgy. We've learned diddly fucking squat.

Started watching the Mission Impossible movies for the first time. Hopefully I won't mentally check out like I did with the Bourne films.

This post will self-destruct in ten seconds...

Tiramisu is legal tender in my world. 🤎

Been dipping in and out of BlueSky for a few months, but the inability to filter words is unappealing and will become truly insufferable around the time a country's people do that thing where they choose the lesser of two numpties.