It is the 21st Century. I’m still playing a game that was released in 1994, Transport Tycoon. Well, almost, but not exactly. Really I’m playing OpenTTD, which was first released in 2004. So, either I’m playing a 30 year old game, or a 20 year old game.
And finally, after 20, maybe 30 years, I’m releasing a scenario for it.
So it had better be good, hadn’t it?
A bit of a ramble coming on, but at least it isn’t a rant.
Ancient Greece is responsible for my car looking like it has done the Paris-Dakar Rally. Well, not exactly, as it isn’t full of bullet holes, but you’ll have to work with me on this…
A while ago, I posted about the Tait 8110 Radio, beloved (hated) by the taxi community, back in the days when we actually had taxi radios, a taxi community, and, actually taxis that weren’t fucking Ubers.
Lately, following the takeover of my company (thankfully by a bunch of lads who hate Uber as much as I do), all our radios have become surplus to requirements.
Well, I had to try it. I had to feed load of data into an AI to come up with a Spacecraft…
At the end of April we found ourselves in Southport, and due to careful planning and “getting lost”, I managed to get us to the Lakeside Miniature Railway.
And I made a video.
So, I asked ChatGPT a question about a non-existant film… then decided to follow it up:
tell me all about the film "clutching at straws" which was based on the marillion album of the same name.
Continue reading Getting an AI to make stuff up – Clutching At Straws: The Movie
If you were watching television in the early 1990s, chances are you heard Brian May’s “Driven By You” blaring from your speakers during a Ford car commercial. The song’s infectious chorus and driving rhythm made it an instant classic, but few people know the story behind how it came to be.
Continue reading Driven by You
Haven’t done one for a while, and as this is currently “on loud”, here we go.
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