🖋️ LongForm
Want to reduce the noice and just focus on things with a little more meat - the this category is for you. Like so much on this site we have a ‘WIP’ as i take some out - and put some in - but safe for at least starting in 2026.
Money
That ain’t workin', that’s the way you do it
Money for nothin' and your chicks for free
The best things in life are free
But you can keep them for the birds and bees
Now give me money, (That’s what I want)
That’s what I want
Money
Get away
You get a good job with more pay and you’re okay
Money
It’s a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
For the love of money
People can’t even walk the street
Because they never know who in the world they’re gonna beat
For that lean, mean, mean green
Almighty dollar, money
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man’s world
Search versus Search
For the longest time I have had the wonderful plugin 🔗 ’Search Space’ by @sod running on my site. It is truly fantastic - use it all the time to find post I know I have written in the past - that I want to link to - like here .. imagine how long that would have taken to build without a powerful search.
I also use Hitchens by @pimoore for my site, and Pete rather conveniently included ‘Search’ as part of his template. Not sure what he is doing behind the scenes to make that work - but like all of Hitchens - it just worked out of the box.
But … BUT … ever since installing @sod ’s plugin, having two searches has annoyed me, but I lived with it. Although I knew how to hide the built in search in CSS, I did NOT know how to identify the element that needed hiding, Until NOW.
Thanks to Jason I can now find and identify the elements I need to drop into the CSS. (Again, I new all about ‘Inspect’, but for whatever reason I had a mental block when it came to finding the specifics.)
No longer - and as a result, I now have only 1 🖇️ Search on my site.
No idea if @sod is reading this - maybe I will ping him separately - and find out if he is working on an update - because I do have a few ideas.
An Experiment
Just trying out a little something after reading a thread in help that @MitchW started - let’s see ….
Of course - for it to really work, I do need some extra text - so in the spirit of exploration - tip-o-the-hat to lorem ipsum …
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse varius sollicitudin consequat. Etiam cursus blandit nisl accumsan fermentum. Phasellus faucibus velit non porttitor tincidunt. Ut quis erat ac nibh auctor tempus. Sed a metus sed dui pulvinar dapibus pulvinar et nisl.
Sed consectetur, magna sit amet vestibulum dapibus, augue orci dignissim nulla, nec interdum ligula nibh at dui. In in dolor sit amet urna tempor pulvinar. In ut odio et ligula faucibus placerat. Proin pulvinar ex et sagittis molestie. Vestibulum dignissim faucibus diam, quis lacinia lacus mollis et. In fermentum ex quis consectetur semper. Nullam ut metus quam. Suspendisse potenti.
🎥 Dirty Grandpa, 2016 - ★★½
It's got Robert DeNiro in the main role ... slam dunk - right? Sadly - no.
🎥 Cloverfield, 2008 - ★★★
Three stars is generous, because I didn't get through it. Just spotted it on AppleTV as a promo - so thought I would try it out, since I never saw it the first time round. (I know I know). Maybe it just hit me wrong?
🎥 Big Night, 1996 - ★★★★
I watched it in the theater when it came out. Love Tucci and this did not disappoint. (Just thought it was time to post a positive review - because I have been sharing some clangers recently.)
🎥 Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom, 2023 - ★★½
I used to love the Asterix comic books. But have never really enjoyed the films. So not sure why I thought this time it would be different.
🎥 Mother’s Day, 2023 - ★½
Not to be confused with other films called Mother’s Day … I’ve not seen all of them, but none can be as bad as this one.
Where’s Waldo
It all started somewhere - and eventually @Jean did one - and then added a list of other ‘Where’s Waldo’ pages here. So I thought hell, why not … and then it got complicated, because like others, to me - passing through isn’t sufficient, so I added a few caveats. —
- Passing through does NOT do it. To be on the list, I have to have spent at least two nights in that place (so removing those pesky ’en route’ stop overs’.
- I decided that I wanted to separate where I have lived from visited - so I start with a much shorter list before listing all the places.
- As it turns out, a lot of places I have been to has seen me there for longer than a week, and some of the places I have been to more than once …
- Each list is alphabetical
- I’m English - so yes - the UK is four countries. —
Places I Have Lived
Germany
Kenya
New Zealand
Singapore
UK - England
UK - Wales
USA - CA
USA - CT
USA - HI
USA - NY
USA - VA
Places I Have Visited
USA
(Been to in Bold, ’Struck out’ - I do need to visit. (Or do I?) )
Washington DC
AlabamaAlaska- Arizona
Arkansas- California (Lived)
- Colorado
- Connecticut (Lived)
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii (Lived)
Idaho- Illinois
- Indiana
Iowa- Kansas
Kentucky- Louisiana
Maine- Maryland
- Massachusetts
Michigan- Minnesota
Mississippi- Missouri
MontanaNebraska- Nevada
New Hampshire- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York (Lived)
North CarolinaNorth Dakota- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania*
- Rhode Island
South CarolinaSouth Dakota- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
Vermont- Virginia (Lived)
- Washington
West VirginiaWisconsinWyoming
Rest Of World
(The) African Continent
Egypt
Kenya
Mauritius
South Africa
Tunisia
(The) Americas
Bahamas
Bermuda
Canada
Mexico
U.S.A. (see detailed list above)
Asia
China
Hong Kong
India
Malaysia
Singapore
Thailand
‘Australasia’
New Zealand
Europe
Andora
Austria
Belgium
(The) Czech Republic (Strictly speaking - Czechoslovakia and I didn’t get to Slovakia)
Denmark
Eire / Ireland
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
Nederlands
Poland
Portugal
Slovenia and Croatia (Strictly speaking - Yugoslavia and I didn’t get to Bosnia, Serbia or Macedonia)
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey (Or should this be under Asia?)
U.K. - England
U.K. - Wales
U.K. - Scotland
U.K. - Northern Ireland
Yugoslavia
(The) Middle East
U.A.E.
I think that’s it.
I Have - So You Don't Have To.
A few links with no ‘search or surf’ needed. All you need to do is click.
You are welcome.
🔗 Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes turns herself in for 11-year prison term. - I didn’t get the popcorn because my guess is that she will be out for ‘good behavior’ before I could finish the box.
🔗 Lawyer ‘Greatly Regrets’ Using ChatGPT in Briefing That Included Fake Citations. … and on a related note 🔗 I cannot believe the shit that morons are getting up to with ChatGPT - because in 2023 it is obligatory for all lists (even micro lists like this) to have at least one link be about ChatGPT, so I went for two - and related as well!
🔗 Tom Evslin: Is AI Dangerous? - turns out yes … and no … because it depends.
🔗 A New Uber Clone With Armed Drivers Is the App for a Violent and Paranoid America (Apple News) - if you follow me, you might know that Uber is not (shall we say) high on my list of innovative and ethical companies - so in that respect they are absolutely an Uber clone.
🔗 The QAnon Shaman Is Out of Prison and Selling Yoga Leggings Now (Apple News) - because of course he is. Beats me why he didn’t start it in prison. Oh wait ….
🎵 Malcolm McLaren ... Talentless Hack or Talented Svengali?
🔗 Malcolm McLaren’s Duck Rock at 40: the album that foretold today’s anything-goes pop.
For all of his total lack of skill as a musician / singer .. his ability to constantly break new ground and open listeners ears to new possibilities was quite extraordinary.
Duck Rock never made it to ‘personal favorite’ status, but still extraordinary.
My most favorite McLaren is surely ’Fans’ - 40 years old NEXT year