Sunday. I found myself watching an old VHS rip of TISWAS, and immediately after it there was an episode of The Innes Book Of Records, containing this surreal Scottish take on the Bonzo’s Humanoid Boogie. The whole episode is some of the most bizarre TV I’ve ever seen, and out-weirds my few memories of the […]| Old Fart's Almanac
Despite having been quite miserable for the majority of the last few months, I thought it probably better to record something positive rather than try to let out a long, anguished, scream in blog form. Everyone already knows about the global march backwards through the Enlightenment and into a new era of Feudal-Fascism so, instead […]| Old Fart's Almanac
If someone talks to you earnestly about Web-3 in any positive way, they’re either a con-artist or a cunt.| Old Fart's Almanac
https://heretechal.hashnode.dev/10-unpopular-assertions-about-programming| Old Fart's Almanac
https://heretechal.hashnode.dev/were-doing-tech-wrong-part-1| Old Fart's Almanac
It’s almost a year since I last posted. A great deal has happened since that last post, most notably the death of my father. Trying to put the experience into words is beyond me, which is probably why there has been no posts. There are four draft posts in the dashboard, but I couldn’t finish […]| Old Fart's Almanac
Recent events have been messy. The general thrust is that I’ve resigned from a rather awesome company to rejoin another company that feels like a strange kind of home. Some other thonks from this week: When you walk a cute dog, people tend to be much nicer to you; it’s much easier to get a […]| Old Fart's Almanac
The 40 minute cutoff for Zoom meetings should be the feature you pay for. The human concentration limit in a meeting/lecture scenario is around 40 minutes, so when you get booted out, it really is for everyone’s benefit. Another feature I’d like to see is a time limit based on how much of a twat […]| Old Fart's Almanac
Posted on Medium:https://medium.com/@heretechal/profligacy-covid-tests-and-the-global-chip-shortage-92da41d51a2d| Old Fart's Almanac