Great joy of watching Good Omens
09/02/2019
Just finished watching Good Omens; and as much as I’ve enjoyed it I realised my greatest joy was that for all these years since I read the novel I’ve been pronouncing Aziraphale correctly π
Data Scientist by day, geek tech gamer junky by night.
09/02/2019
Just finished watching Good Omens; and as much as I’ve enjoyed it I realised my greatest joy was that for all these years since I read the novel I’ve been pronouncing Aziraphale correctly π
08/04/2019
I’ve been back to Blighty for July to see whΔnau, except for catching up with old friends for a gamer night my only digital fix has been DOTA Underlords. Then to postpone my gaming and gym training even more I injured my right trigger finger Monday Tuesday π Geek highlight of my trip was picking up a few old toys: Sony MiniDisk player original GameBoy (couldn’t find my GB Advance)…
06/04/2019
Nothing of significance, but cool Twitter numbers 3.3 Million organic impressions in 28 days My first 200 Thousand day of organic impressions in a single day and I’m stoked to now have 10 Thousand followers Thank you to each of you for suffering my stream of consciousness
06/04/2019
The latest Pratchett, and Gaiman, TV adaptation – Good Omens Good Omens, the genius of Pratchett’s with the twist of Gaiman, a collaboration made in heaven & hell. I find it hard to believe this was released in 1990, I’d been reading and collecting Pratchett novels before then, and this was my first intro to Gaiman So now 29 years later we finally have this high budget adaptation of the…
notepad plus plus for Linux I use notepad++ at work on a windows machine, I find it great for taking notes, and editing SQL scripts on the go. For a long time Geany has been my goto Linux file editor, but it might now get more limited use in the future now that notepad++ is available in Linux, via snap π Crazy too, that I think this is my first…
05/26/2018
& today @GamerGeekNews hit the 5k twitter followers π This was the glass ceiling number that expands the number of Tweeple that I can follow… kinda Sincere thank you to all who reciprocate and follow back, apologies for the stream of posts, but I find them of interest. Here’s the next 5k!
06/13/2017
Today I received an awesome long awaited new toy that I backed from Kickstarter, a shiny special launch edition Swiftpoint Award Winning mouse The Z Features: –Full RGB lighting and a small customizable OLED screen (see image) –Gyroscope/accelerometer provides for joystick-like use –Force-sensitive clicking that can be customized in the software –Button variations to suite your preference –Feet for “joystick” and “tilting” functions Extras: –Large mouse mat –Machined aluminum cable…
05/09/2017
Both Android and Ubuntu received official updates today π Made a clean install of Ubuntu 17.04, everything works well out of the box. Then there’s the compulsory: 17 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 17.04 Was surprised at the size of the Android security patch at over 300 MB to version 7.1.2! All was well until a week later my phone bricked; I pulled it out of my pocket and…
12/24/2016
Merry Xmas! Our boy is still a little young to geek out at xmas, although last night visiting friends he picked up a controller and gave Minecraft a bash… not bad for one 20 months old π I’m still finishing off FFxv have picked up Overwatch again looking to actually rank for the first time in season 3 re-installed Witcher 3 to finish off after FF currently downloading the update…
11/11/2016
I’ve been working my way through Trevor Stephens well written and informative Kaggle Titanic tutorial for R. Competition Description The sinking of the RMS Titanic is one of the most infamous shipwrecks in history. On April 15, 1912, during her maiden voyage, the Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg, killing 1502 out of 2224 passengers and crew. This sensational tragedy shocked the international community and led to better safety…