Just finished: Gridlinked by Neal L. Asher 📚. They mentioned this on The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe podcast and I’m very happy with the recommendation. Published in 2001 before we all plugged ourselves into the internet via our smartphones and poses some interesting questions about human augmentation and the future role of AI in society.
This weeks panel edition of the podcast “The Bunker” recommended “The Long Goodbye by Riz Ahmed”. This is not an album I would probably have considered but I like to step outside of my musical comfort zone every now and again. No regrets - I’ll be listening to this again soon.
I took another look at Apple Podcasts earlier to see if the changes made in iOS 14.5 make it worth me switching from Castro. The answer is a definite no The inbox and queue system in Castro has no parallel in Apple Podcasts, and will keep me using Castro for some time to come.
It seems like there was more announced at yesterday’s Apple event than most people hoped for. I may become tempted by the new Apple TV. My son uses ours for Apple Arcade and it struggles with some of the more complex games - and I want to put off as long as possible (or maybe indefinitely) him wanting a ‘proper’ games console…
We listen to a lot of music in our house, and it is lovely to see our children really taking an interest in both playing and enjoying music. My wife has a blog to help parents instill a love of music in their children and has posted a review of a book that our little ones enjoyed exploring over the Easter holidays.
The Jumo orchestra have arrived at the concert hall to play their concert, only to find that their musical instruments have all gone missing. Lucky for the orchestra, the Why Squad are on hand to help them find their instruments. The Why Squad save the day and at the end of the book they stay to listen to the concert.
Looks like the Emacs builds from emacsformacosx.com now support Apple Silicon. Something to try this evening.
Today’s game was with my very nearly four year old. Press Here Game is great for children just getting into games which are a step up from snakes and ladders. We had a lovely twenty minutes playing this whilst my wife cut my sons hair ready for going back to school tomorrow.
🎵 The Brandenburg Project ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - fantastic.
Key To The Kingdom is a game my sister and I used to play when we were children. She found it on eBay and I’ve borrowed it to play with my son. I’d forgotten how long a game takes, and the rules feel a little like you’re playing Bamboozled. A fun blast from the past and my son didn’t want to stop playing even after I’d escaped with the key!
I’m working on a location based app this month. One of the trails has you wandering up and down the high street and prompting you to properly take notice of what you see. The shops have evocative titles such as “Cheese Rooms” and “Nanny Bev’s”. Maybe once things start getting back to normal I should visit Rochester and try out the walks.
We’ve stepped up our campaign against the clothes moths. Whilst the sticky moth traps which attracted the males were catching plenty they hadn’t sufficiently reduced their numbers. We have today pulled out all the furniture in the bedroom, thoroughly vacuumed and used a moth carpet spray to kill any eggs and remaining moths. We witnessed many bare patches of carpet. Carefully boxed/bagged up clothes were no match for the moths and much had to be thrown out. We’ll be repeating this process in a few weeks and with any luck will eventually be moth free.
