Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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I know that AI has it's dark side, and it's spoiled funny cat videos forever, but there is a terrific upside.

I can now speak long rambling questions into my phone and AI will decipher it and find me an answer.

From my recent searches:

What do they call that woman who acted as a nun in the Clint Eastwwod western?

What are Prince Rupert's drops?

Why do I keep seeing clouds of gnats in the middle of winter?

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What do they call that woman who acted as a nun in the Clint Eastwwod western?

What are Prince Rupert's drops?

Why do I keep seeing clouds of gnats in the middle of winter?

Don’t keep us in suspense, or force us into matching your search history

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Both still alive 90+ which is quite an achievement given hollywood party lifestyle.

I actually knew what Prince Ruperts drops were but had forgotten, once again proving that learning something new every day isn't difficult, but remembering it is.

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What do they call that woman who acted as a nun in the Clint Eastwwod western?

What are Prince Rupert's drops?

Why do I keep seeing clouds of gnats in the middle of winter?

Don’t keep us in suspense, or force us into matching your search history

See previous page.

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https://youtu.be/vZh_XSQ5WVU?si=Yp8J7bcXt3JlD5Zm

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Wow

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I flicked thru the vid, but it didn't appear to show the magic of the drop, that if you snap the tail, it completely shatters, despite holding tons of force without difficulty.

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Take a look at this video, 'prince rupert drops youtube video' https://share.google/NOZE6GaIj0zutkh7f

[Enut]

Ooh! I always fancied doing the rally driving thing, but I have to settle for 3 points and £100 fine for doing 34 in a 30 zone. 

Do let us know how it goes.

Why Enut BTW? I'm guessing it's not because you go crackers when you take  methylenedioxymethamphetamine tablets....

The rally driving was great fun, although totally alien to me. I was taught by my father who was a class 1 police driver for many years and it was instilled in me to keep the car under control at all times, the rally driving was the opposite. The car (a rally prepped GT86) was rarely under complete control, certainly when I was driving it, and there was less grip than on the worst of public B roads, in the wet, with mud on them, and leaves, and gravel, and pot holes etc etc. Two 20 minute sessions on mud/gravel/tarmac stages with an instructor trying to get the best out of each student, the right lines (tougher to hit an apex if the car is sliding all the way through the corner), handbrake turns and learning to control understeer, oversteer, drifting and the correct application of power etc etc. Great fun but I was physically drained after 40 minutes. As a quite experienced road driver I felt way out of my depth but I was getting the hang of it by the time we finished. I might well give it a longer go when I have time, they do 1/2 day and full day courses and I'd hope that I would get the hang of it much better with a bit more time.  

Points wise I've only ever had 3 points, for 70 in a 60 at 11 pm with very little traffic about (nabbed by a police car following me). I did however get a 7 day ban for doing 61 in a 30 once. In my defence the road had always been a 30 and I was overtaking a slower car when I saw flouro jackets in the distance, I actually sped up to make sure I could complete the overtake before I got to any incident, turns out they were police officers with a speed gun! 'What speed were you doing young man?' 'About 60', 'What's the speed limit?' '60' , 'no, it's 30' ''no, the 30 starts here, where you're standing', 'No it doesn't, we moved it up to the roundabout a month ago' 'oh, s**t!' I went to court, was advised to plead not guilty by my father (a now retired traffic copper), as there was no reason to change the road from a 60 to a 30. Duty solicitor put me right and said I couldn't plead not guilty as I was guilty, I could only plead mitigating circumstances. Magistrate gave me a week ban 'treat it as a holiday' he said, I very nearly got myself in contempt for telling him what I thought of that comment but bit my lip. The usher told me afterwards that they couldn't let me off as they had done 70 people for speeding on that piece of road in the last month and if they let me off they would have to let all the others off! As you can tell, I'm still bitter

Oh and Enut? It's just my surname backwards, nothing more sinister.

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Wow! Fantastic trip report Mr Nut.

You write so well, an "experienced" writer if you will.

I won't bombard you with questions, but I will leave the door open....

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No dog walking this morning. The rain is rattling on the tin roof of my mobile home and the wind is making the whole thing shudder.

I'm just lying in bed listening to it all. It's great. If you were here with me you would love it.

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I've been trying for ages to get a picture of this buzzard but he's such a shy bugger.

This is my best effort so far.

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Need a proper camera with a long lens really, but who wants to lug one of those around?

To quote Chase Jarvis, "The best camera is the one you have with you" Meaning any photo is better than none at all.

We all have a camera with us these days.

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I'm a bit of a photography crackpot. The kids call me The Paparazzi because I take photographs of inconsequential things or at inappropriate times.

"What are you taking a photograph of THAT for?" They ask, but a few years, or sometimes only weeks later, they are interested in them. "What WAS I wearing?" or "What a bitch she was, I told you her hair used to be brown"

I have literally thousands of photos that I store on a micro sd card in my phone, and I use an app called Random Photo, which, as the name suggests, picks photos at random for you to view, much like shuffle does with your music. It causes me to look at pics I had forgotten exist, and it's kind of exciting not knowing what is coming next.

Here are 4 random photos from my random photo viewer.

PS- I'm glad Mrs Red won't see them. No point in me trying to explain that I didn't choose to post two pictures of her bent double.

PPS- Yes I could have swapped one out for a more flattering example, but that would have spoiled the experiment.

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