Stephen Brooks 🦆 @[email protected]

Update: I have now eaten the geometry error

This liquorice allsort has a geometry error

Ian Hislop on Have I Got News For You has just pointed out it's an anagram of "moronic"

I was just wondering this after accidentally going down a dead end
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-car-speedometers-not-show-negative-speeds-when-reversing

"One omicron case was discovered on Long Island" It's here! Should I put out a welcome sign?
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/02/new-york-omicron-covid-variant.html

Q&A about the new 1-day testing requirement for entering the US: (it's any time the previous day, not 24 hours)
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/testing-international-air-travelers.html

@SplitShockVirus Last night I dreamt someone had installed a linux distribution on my laptop where the text during bootup was entirely memes. I suspected you were to blame

I mean Weds and Thurs...

The moderna booster I had on Tuesday made me tired on Wednesday so I went to bed at 8pm, of course now I'm awake at 3am...

FTC not so happy with NVIDIA buying Arm :]
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17101/united-states-ftc-files-lawsuit-to-block-nvidiaarm-acquisition

It's not all bad news in browser land, Konquerer managed to render Google Docs correctly just now

Scientists are starting to understand the AstraZenica vaccine blood clots problem: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59418123

I guess it's OK to dump every sort of waste except plastic into the ocean

Now this is just getting silly https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/11/microsoft-plans-to-integrate-a-buy-now-pay-later-app-into-edge/

NFT stands for....

RT https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1466475272522326021

Bored Ape NFTs are intellectual property distilled to its purest form

Microsoft seems to be back to its tricks from the 90s
RT https://twitter.com/slembcke/status/1466428550265950209

First thing I saw this morning was a small squirrel gnawing at the lights (they don't last many years)

Put a few Christmas lights on the tree in the garden