September 2021
The Nimble Gimble
So I have finally decided to go for a phone refresh. Well it’s almost been a year already with this one. But as ever when I’m shopping for a new fruit factory device I get sucked into the accessories ecosystem. Well this time around I went totally cray cray and bought everything apart from the kitchen sink. One of the many additions was a gimble for making smoother videos. It’s pretty slick and I’ll attempt to post something I’ve made with it before the end of the year. The app is quite feature rich and allows you to take pretty wide angle photos. Check out this one of the garden office.
Bojo is at it again..
The man is a walking quote generator built by ebolians on the planet wiffle-waffle.
On the 2021 gas shortage crisis
- “It’s like everybody going back to put the kettle on at the end of a TV programme, you’re seeing huge stresses on the world supply systems.”
and another cracker again on the energy crisis
- “The guy ropes are pinging off Gulliver and it’s standing up, and it’s going to take a while, as it were, for the circulation to adjust.”
He may be a snake of a politician but he’s also one very entertaining clown.
What’s the T?
I love my Mr Grumpy mug. It suits me to a T. Whenever I’m having an angry stomp around the office it calls out to me and I settle down with a nice cup of Earl Grey. Perfect for calming those nerves.
The problem with BA
I bet the last concern on the ill-fated titanic passengers mind in the weeks leading up to the sailing was that they might receive a telegram announcing that their sailing had been cancelled. But for the modern day traveller it’s a regular occurrence. So much so that I actually get anxious the closer I get to any journey. Sailings on the Irish Sea are notoriously bad, especially when it comes to winter storms but at least that’s an act of god in a way.
British Airways on the other hand routinely book people onto flights they know will never depart. So every time I make a booking I’m on edge that I’ll receive a seat change email (which means new flight). And that’s exactly what happened this week for not one but two flights.
Mother (insert expletive here)
Fucking facebook
So I have not been using Facebook for almost a year now and in that time I expected that I was totally removed from the tentacles of the evil overlord. Well today in preparation for getting rid of my old android phone I logged on to change some settings. Whilst navigating around the settings I came across something called off-Facebook activity
Now to be clear I do not use my Facebook account details to log into ANY sites. I always register with my personal email and the email addresses I use are new and have never been associated with Facebook. I was shocked to see that almost every website I had recently visited was sending information to Facebook. Let that sink in for a moment, every website that was never associated to my Facebook account sharing my info with Facebook even when the login address I used is different to my Facebook gmail. That’s something that I personally find very very concerning. I immediately cleared all historical data and turned off the off-Facebook setting. I suggest that you do the same.
Tim talks!
Okay so let’s talk about the fruit machines CEO Tim Cooke. Why is it that every time I see him I am waiting for him to pull of the mask and reveal that he is actually Owen Wilson, only to pull off another mask revealing that he is one of the alien lizard overlords that secretly control the world…. It’s not just me, is it??
Confessions of a shopaholic
Honest to gawd I need an intervention. I’m shopping at a horrendous rate at the moment. Managed once again to double book an event. Old me is back again with a vengeance. I need to rein things in or I’ll have to get a new house to store all this crap.
Has Justin Bieber…
…been smoking the crack pipe again? Jesus christ on his bicycle of love. I’ve just watched the video for ‘Don’t go’ with Skillrex, Don Toliver & JB and he looks proper wretched. Like giving hand-jobs under waterloo bridge wretched. Come on bro …. clean up your act innit!!
My new obsession
Aussie Gold Hunters on Discovery+. It’s fascinating watching the amount of time and effort that these people put into making absolutely fuck-all! There are broken limbs, hearts, and some of the worst haircuts on modern broadcast media – but they stick at it through thick and thin, and a lot… I mean A LOT… of dust. It’s totally addictive!!!!