Getting ready to set up my Scribbles site and stuck on do I hang it off an existing domain, buy a new domain or repurpose the domain that points at my tumblr site. I never use tumblr anymore so that makes the most sense …. but my (bad) habit of buying new domains for niche purposes is calling me.
The news site for the Archaeological Institute of America is one of my favourite rss feeds. In case you were wondering, yak domestication occurred at least 2,500 years ago.
The micro blog iPhone app hasn’t been loading my posts lately, I just get a blank screen. @help is this a known issue?
🍿 Watched Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) ★
🍿 Watched Tank Girl (1995) ★★☆
It’s hard to sleep in on Caturday when you’re being stared at and the rumbling purr is akin to a truck engine idling by the side of the road. 🐱🐈
Sitting on my balcony because although it’s still 29°c at 7:50pm it’s only 68% humidity, which makes it the first almost pleasant summer night in about a month.
The 150 best science fiction movies list from Rolling Stone 🍿
Rolling Stone recently published a list of the 150 best science fiction movies of our time. As with any list, it’s subjective and comes from the author’s point of view. There are some movies I wouldn’t have included and others I would have.
I’ve seen a lot of these movies but not all of them and some I haven’t seen in years. I’ve decided I will work my way through the list starting at 150, the 1995 Tank Girl, and eventually reach number 1, the 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey.
No idea how long it will take me and I might skip some that I didn’t enjoy the first time round but instead of doing the flick around trying to find something to watch I’ll have a starting point.
An early morning bike ride 🚲
I haven’t gone for an early morning bike ride in years. I prefer to do my exercise at the end of the day.
I have a friend though. I’ve tried many, many times to say no to her in the nearly 37 years I’ve known her. My success rate is probably 1 in 50, she is very persuasive. I think it’s the red headed Irish girl that lurks beneath the surface ready to pounce if there’s a hint of resistance. When that girl is in full flight you get onboard or get out of the way.
We had lunch on Saturday and she said she was going for a bike ride in the morning and I should come. I can’t was my reply, I have a pre-existing plan for breakfast.
Let’s go before, you can work up an appetite she said. I’ll call you and get you moving in the morning she said. I’m good I replied, let’s do it another time.
No, we’re going and I won’t take no for answer. It was at that point I knew I was riding in the morning but hoped she would change her mind.
She did not change her mind.
At 5:45am my phone rang. Her number is one of the few that I’ve set to allow to ring at any time. I might need to review that setting. It didn’t wake me, I’m generally awake by 5:30am these days.
Hello I answered with a tired sigh. Was there a reply? Did she apologise for the early call? Not at all. Instead, all I heard was part of Mad About You by Belinda Carlisle playing.
Something about you right here beside me Touches the touched part of me like I can’t believe Pushing the night into the daytime Watching the sky’s first light While the city sleeps
Then she says, we’ve missed the first light but the city is still asleep. Let’s go riding and wake up.
We went riding.