Be Excellent To Each Other

It's the last day of May (how etc?) and I think I've worn jeans and socks more than shorts/bare foot (I've even worn jeans out!) this month.

I usually transition to shorts in late March early April, I also still have the thick duvet on. I hope the onset of June signifies that I can put the Jeans away until October!

I'd have thought that the BBC would know that the Commodore PET wasn't available until 1977. IIRC, this was the first personal computer I ever used.

An interesting read :

https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-mis ... the-ibm-pc

This just makes the auction scene from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom even stupider. If a skeleton is worth $6m, surely a living dinosaur is worth a lot more than $10m!

If I were a multimillionaire I’d definitely be buying a stegosaurus for £9m

I’d give it to the NHM, but it’d 100% be the kind of nonsense of be spending my riches on.

$22,000,000 according to an inflation calculator

Supply and demand kicks in to lower prices, when your dinosaurs are self replicating and more plentiful.

Yeah, but you'd very selectively breed them and kill the crap ones and feed them to their siblings.

Probably worth more if you put them in a big crusher and turned them into oil.

I reckon if you bought a load of dinosaurs and then set up a rival theme park where the dinosaurs didn't keep on escaping and eating people you could make a few quid.

They would... uh... find a way

Weirdly, while I was away one of the fields in my BeeX profile said "I buy and sell Crypto" so I think maybe I was minorly hacked.

Although it was sort of true in that I bought a bit a few years ago, it plummeted, then a couple of years later it came back and I got rid for a minor profit (but mainly just so that I could get rid of that bullshit).

I like the way that google maps was you of toll roads and a change of time zone, but not the Russian army

A friend of mine just put this post up.



Am I just massively behind the times or is £140 an insane amount to pay for a concert ticket, let along one where you can’t see? I know it’s been a while since I went to a concert but OMG is this normal?

Its a lot, but I bet you could resell any tickets for Taylor Swift for waaaaaay more than 140 quid each right now.

Although I've no idea how the resell protecton etc works nowadays, I'm sure they don't just post you a couple of bits of paper anymore.

I know that some people pay ridiculous amounts for tickets (I’m sure I saw someone mention they’d spent £300 for tickets, which I assumed was for two, but maybe it was each?) but definitely thought they were outliers. I thought those were cases where someone loves an artist so much that they’ll pay hugely over the odds to see them, not an actual ‘normal’ ticket price. A ticket price where you can’t even see!

This view was £110.


Tents are the grey ones either side. Most of the show is on that diamond island.

Taylor worth every penny.


Anything with 'Arena in the venue name seems.to be about three figures, then it'll scale from a band like Dry Cleaning at £22 through £40 for Travis etc at smaller venues.

Tour T shorts are £40 and hoodies £70

Christ... Travis are still a thing?

Note the people sitting in the stands BEHIND THE STAGE

She waved at them, though. She's so kind and thoughtful.

The eras show is almost three and a half hours long, which worked out at £2.40 a song.

3.5 hours? Yikes.

That does make the cost slightly better, but I can’t imagine paying that much to see anybody.

Pool's out for summer.

Were you doing a back-flip when you took that?

You'd have thought he'd have woken up, wouldn't you?

Mr and Mrs Assange advised to get a room.

Girls aloud were fantastic


The Sarah bits hit hard.

I am apparently 18,000 days old today!

And you don't look a day over 17,000

Did another day of airsoft today, at the same site I went to last month. Didn't get too many bruises this time, but I took one right on the end of my trigger finger which is now looking very sore, one on my right cheek, one on my forehead, and about 10 in my dick. It was like I had a fucking target painted on my crotch today.

All the more amusing then, that I had to drive on a road called "Bell End" to get to the venue.

Getting shot in the finger is the fucking worst.

Did you go all the way to mincing lane?

Good local knowledge! I did indeed drive along Mincing Lane.

My wife, who has been asleep, (and is asleep again now)just said to me "it's unfair, because men have all the chairs".

Japan declares victory in 'war' on floppy disks

"It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks.

Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices, with more than 1,000 regulations requiring its use."

I'm sure I've still got a 3.5" USB plug-in drive somewhere.

I keep a USB floppy. Just in case

Is it in a drawer with all those old phone chargers?

And 5 VGA cables, 20 micro usb, 17 kettle lead etc...

You're my kinda guy.

No idea why the image is a half black landscape mess, but I'll assume it's Grim's... fault.

I think you owe yourself a new case, bud

Needs more stickers

I'm saving them for the new case.

The second light on the other side makes me think that might be an LS drive which was something like a Zip disk that gave you about 100mb on a disk (insead of 1.44) or that might just be dirt.

I think that's just dirt.

I used to have a case exactly like that! Without the stickers, though. Which presumably add at least 5 bhp each.

It's just dirt. It's the last surviving remnant of the PC I bought, er, 26 years ago *cries*
The case probably isn't that much newer.

This has reminded me of when I was at work about 20 years ago, and we had desktop cases that had a floppy disk slot built into the case (so a slot to insert a disk, with the drive mounted behind it), and someone put a disk in the slot which just fell into the case as there wasn't actually a drive in there.

At least it was impossible to put more than one disk in the drive at a time. A couple of people I used to work with managed to get more than on 5.25" floppies jammed in a drive slot.