It was around 10 years ago that I got my first exposure to Guthrie Govan on Steven Wilson’s Raven album and in the touring band that IMHO was the definitive Wilson band.
Nice to see 📼 Rick Beato wax lyrical on the man in 10 short minutes that includes some great YouTube footage.
🎵 Bonus - Guthrie running his magic on Wonderful Slippery Thing
2023 | 06 | 01
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Are we live?
📽️ Beef
Anyone tried it?
Half way through first episode … already not feeling good about it and after the last two EPIC fails I am seeking to preempt a hat trick.
VERY Clever.
I just watched 📼 this and had to try it out on 🔗 Micro Blog.
The link works for any browser, but in Arc you can see and navigate the whole site with the ‘new look’.
To be clear, the ‘design’ is ‘designed’ to look nothing like what my real site looks like.
Clever is all.
🔗 UK should play leading role on global AI guidelines, Sunak to tell Biden
.. then do it Rishi. Stop talking and telling and speaking and Do It.
Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.
💬 Navy Seals
Australia is in the news this morning for all the wrong reasons.
🔗 US warned it might suspend ties with Australian special forces over war crime allegations. - of course the US has never been accused of war crimes.
Two totally different stories that are connected.
🔗 Purdue can shield wealthy Sackler family from opioid lawsuits. - they get to pay 6 billion and keep the rest of their ill gotten gains.
🔗 Indian official fined after draining reservoir in search of mobile phone. - the total fines added up to less than a thousand bucks after flusjing over 4 million litres of water from a reservoir!
The woman who accused the last guy of sexual assault took him to court and won.
The woman who accused the current guy of sexual assault couldn’t make it stick and has 🔗 now moved to Russia.
It’s important to recognize that things aren’t always the same … even when they seem to be.
2023 | 05 | 31
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🎥 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.
Shout out to @kottkrig for his Photos plugin. Been starting to drop a few more photos into my stream, but didn’t want to clutter the page with just ‘images’, so I created a category and the plug in allows me to filter out the dross and make the gallery a little more interesting.
An Unconference is a real thing and not a name you give to some thing you go to that failed to organize in advance.
In fact - I’ll go further … there are even events that have the hall marks of an ‘Unconference’ - and still don’t qualify.
Making sure we all stay honest here.
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 do remember this security guy saying something nice about Corden until I grimaced, said I’d met him once at a work thing and within half a second wished I hadn’t. Boom. All professional politeness was gone and the guard vented about that man. ()I think I saved him a therapy session.)
💬 William Gallagher
I have no idea if there is any truth in what I read about ‘our James’ and how his soft cuddly exterior does not reflect his true self. But I read it more and more - and Gallagher is not in the ‘rumour mill’ business.
Shame really. There I was thinking you can be nice and ‘make 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 ….