RT @JamesBlunt: If @spotify doesn’t immediately remove @joerogan, I will release new music onto the platform. #youwerebeautiful

Waiting to cross the road this morning…cars jamming on their brakes to let me across

Not

#HighwayCode

When I am appointed as Political Irritations Tzar, I will ban politicians telling us what everyone is telling them on the doorstep, unless it’s been independently verified

It nearly always sounds like they’re making it up

#today @BBCr4today

This is a good list

insights.dice.com/2022/01/2…

“Wading into Downing Street parties row” by means of a letter to the Maidenhead Advertizer is the most Theresa May thing ever

www.theguardian.com/politics/…

#TodayILearned that Galaga was the 1981 sequel to 1979’s Galaxian

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gala…

RT @GeoffNorcott: Met Police have also requested the new Lord of the Rings series avoids reference to Hobbits, or rings.

My word of the day today is ‘ceramic’.

Enjoyed this @ScottRowley4 i/view with The Queen of Rock & Roll

“With Link Wray it’s about the chords and the drama. It sounds dangerous to me, it sounds spooky.”

www.guitarworld.com/features/…

Could everyone please STOP telling me to unmute myself and just learn to lipread?

….but it’s the guts of a #Powershell cmdlet I created a while ago with the alias ‘dirtop’, to list the top level folders on a given computer

There’s probs a better way to do this

$Drives = Get-WMIObject Win32_LogicalDisk -filter “DriveType=3” -computer $ComputerName

foreach ($D in $Drives) { [string]$Drive = $D.DeviceID $Drive = $Drive.replace(":", “$") dir \$ComputerName$Drive | select fullname }

#TodayILearned that ‘chivvy’ is probably derived from a battle between Scots and English people

….and that Chevy Chase was a ballad and a battle as well as an actor

Via www.etymonline.com/word/chiv…

My word of the day today is ‘wrinkle’.

Much sympathy with Neil Young’s stance, but the Boney M version of Heart of Gold is better

#Today @BBCr4today

open.spotify.com/track/79E…

Couldn’t help noticing the banner headline about @TheRealAC3 on this paper, featured in the Blair and Brown doc

Great days

I shall be tutting out loud….OUT LOUD, I tell you!….at anyone on here giving cryptic, or not so cryptic, clues as to what the Wordle word of the day is.

“I have noticed a correlation between the length of time that people keep you waiting at the start of a meeting & how good a person they are

1 minute late? Maybe they’re having technical difficulties. 5 minutes? Bit cheeky. 10? Worse than Satan himself.”

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-ra…

My word of the day today is ‘swarthy’.

Tonight some Conservative MP I hadn’t heard of was defending Johnson by saying the poor chap “was ambushed with a cake”

It’s like they are shovelling anyone they can find to spout any old rubbish at the TV cameras….and desperately hoping some of it sticks