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I am so emotional at that. Not only Joni Mitchell in her best Blue period - but Dylan and Lightfoot accompanying. Oh man.

That octopus did not just do it once. Each morning there was an aquarium power outage and the 2,000W spot was blown. After a number of days, they staked out the tank at night and caught Otto blowing the lamp with a squirt of water. He also juggled with hermit crabs and rearranged his tank to suit his taste. A very strange lifeform with a distributed brain - 2/3 of which are in the arms. It has as many neurons as a dog. Hence the creature's smartness. I really don't have a problem with beef, pork, lamb or chicken. It is my view that these animals have done very well in terms of population by the fact we eat them. But I'm now unhappy about eating octopus, delicious though it may be - in raw intelligence it is similar to eating a dog. Deliciousness was the reason the dodo became extinct. The flightless and friendly bird was just too darned superb to eat. So sailors just ate all of them.

RIP Gordon Lightfoot at age 84. Much of his music defined the 70's, certainly for me.

And we cheerfully eat these clearly sentient creatures? Discuss.

Just finished watching all three series of Happy Valley on catchup. Stunning script and stunning acting. Award winning. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3428912/

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Happy birthday Kevin - have a truly spectacular one!

And this is the story of Abraham Wald and survivorship bias https://medium.com/@penguinpress/an-excerpt-from-how-not-to-be-wrong-by-jordan-ellenberg-664e708cfc3d

Or maybe she is just getting old. If Mercury had lived, he would now be 77!

The woman friend that Freddy Mercury left his Kensington home and all contents to in his will, is selling everything at auction. She said in an interview on R4: "it is time to put my affairs in order" which kind of implies that she has some serious health condition. She wants to sell things now rather than someone else (probably an executor) sell everything later. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/26/freddie-mercury-collection-of-splendid-things-up-for-auction

RIP Harry Belafonte. What a legend! But not too shabby an innings at 96.

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My software expertise terminated with BASIC, FORTRAN77 and ALGOL68. When software became object oriented my remaining brain cell went into overload. Java, Javascript, Python blah blah - just words to me. An old friend became an expert in APL, because it was used where he worked. Cryptic, powerful, with statements resembling transmission line noise Life ← {⊃1 ⍵ ∨.∧ 3 4 = +/ +⌿ ¯1 0 1 ∘.⊖ ¯1 0 1 ⌽¨ ⊂⍵}

That vise mechanism is a thing of extreme beauty.

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Were the jaws on a separate order to the vice? If it was on a credit card, you can just cancel the order and get the money back from your credit card company.

Provided you aren't peeping through the knotholes...

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Mad even got across the pond. I'm astonished that the responsible cartoonist was still alive and drawing at 99! 102 is not a bad age.

Wow. A speed icon passes. RIP Mr Breedlove.

Freddy Starr in his heyday And how he ended his life, broke, on the Costa del Sol, with a quadruple bypass and eventually died aged 76

Can't believe anything you read in the Sun. Tabloid rag, with "Shock! Horror! Probe!" journalism. Some classic Sun headlines. Topping it "Freddy Starr ate my hamster" Starr was a stand up comedian. https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/sun-readers-pick-freddie-starr-ate-my-hamster-as-tabloids-best-splash-as-charity-giveaway-marks-50-years/