If you are going to get an AI to write a TV series, then you might as well get it to make up a fictional biography of the lead actor… and get some shonky AI image site to do the photos…
The British Rail “Flying Saucer”
Fifty years ago today (March 21st, 1973), British Rail was granted the most bizarre of patents… for a “Flying Saucer”!
You can read the whole thing here: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=GB&NR=1310990&KC=&FT=E&locale=en_EP#
Cold Pursuit
I asked ChatGPT:
invent me a new uk tv cop show with a young female dci looking at old and cold cases
The Pack Horse
Back in that time when we weren’t allowed to go to the pub because of Covid-19, I build my own. In miniature.
My ZX Spectrum Raspberry Pi Build
So, I decided to build a Pi based ZX Spectrum emulator, inside a ZX Spectrum case. Celebrating 40 years of the Spectrum and all that…
AllStar Node 57080
Node 57080 is my Allstarlink Lego Box Pi3B node, built, configured and sold to me by eBay user Willywoe. It allows me to connect to Hubnet and Echolink over t’internet from a small, low power 70cm band Amateur Radio walkie-talkie (Baofeng BF-88), if I’m within 50 metres of the house.
Seen here with ace technician Alasdair “Goggles” McTavish.
When your neighbour is a nutter
I’ve lived in the same rented flat for the last 11 years. It is one flat out of three. I live at the back, so I say out of the way and avoid the others.
Over the years there have been a few people in the other flats, and I’ve never had any problems with any of them. Then a nutter moved in.
Get your kicks, on the A66
The route of legend, Route 66, runs from Chicago to Los Angeles. Some call it the Main Street of America, and some think it an American Icon, the sort of people who don’t know the meaning of the word “icon”, obviously. Anyway, it runs for nearly 2,500 miles, and is the subject of entitled peoples’ road trips.
Magical Mystery Tour
My on-going mission to listen to music I’ve not listened to before, and decide if I like it or not…
After slating Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, I was pointed towards Magical Mystery Tour, and as it will only take about 19 minutes of my life from me…
Fleetwood Street OO Model Tramway – Version 2
In the past I tried to model a street in Fleetwood as a static tramway display. I made mistakes, so I’m starting again.
This time it is a 1185x190mm shelf plank, and is being planned before I start gluing stuff down.
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