January 2023 gallery

Here are January 2023’s images—aides-mémoires, photos of interest, and miscellaneous items. I append to this gallery through the month.     Notes Rosa Clará image, added as I was archiving files from the third quarter of 2021. The Claudia Schiffer Rolling Stone cover came to mind recently—I believe it was commended in 1991 by the […]

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Tesla to a typeface designer, and a big missed target

Now that the quartet has been launched, it’s evident that Tesla’s naming strategy is all wrong. This is what they should be called.     On a related note:     Since I haven’t seen the March 15 video now circulating on OnlyKlans, I mean, Twitter, I can’t use the DIA reporting form. But those […]

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Far more important news

Among all the royal hoop-la, it’s nice to come across this vital 2014 article while on Mastodon.     To the scientists who analysed 1,893 poos, and other waste, thank you for your mahi.   All right, a couple of remarks about the royal coverage. First, I’ve heard from a legitimate news source, words to […]

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A tribute to Boris Johnson

What a perfect tribute to Boris Johnson. (Note: coarse language.) I guess he wasn’t the last UK PM after all. Boris Johnson: A tribute. pic.twitter.com/tvuaXdTbwd —Jonathan Pie (@JonathanPieNews) September 6, 2022   On a happier note, Liz Trussell, who has the Twitter handle of liztruss, has been replying to messages tagging her, including from the […]

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Half an hour is a long time in politics

Hat tip to Johnnie Moore for this one, on Twitter earlier today. Half an hour is a long time in politics pic.twitter.com/AAIgPFhdw8 — The Secret Barrister (@BarristerSecret) July 20, 2022 You may also like A tribute to Boris Johnson What’s all this Johnny Foreigner type? History of the 2010s: a look back at the decade […]

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Life in the capital

Amazing what sort of press releases come in. I had no idea that Auckland is our capital, and I was surprised to find that Toronto and Antwerp are as well in the same release. Essential Living is a British firm, from the looks of it, and no, we won’t be publishing this in Lucire.   […]

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The Google analogy of today

Of course a Reddit post like this appeals to me.    The one quote a few Redditers have picked out: ‘As I’ve often lamented, Google has reduced the Web to a brothel of whores competing to give a robot the best blow job.’    One awful thing the poster notes is (link removed, but you […]

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台山阿伯返鄉下講英文

This is one of those things I have to note down otherwise it’ll get lost to time. And you won’t see this mentioned during ‘Chinese Language Week’ here.    In the old country (台山, or Taishan, China), when my father was a boy in the 1930s and 1940s, there were some whānau in the village […]

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John’s on first

  Bill Owen posted the above, and I replied in this thread on Twitter.   ‘John’s on first, John John’s on second, John’s on third.’   ‘Who’s on first?’   ‘John.’   ‘The guy on first.’   ‘John.’   ‘But that’s the guy on third.’   ‘One base at a time!’   ‘I’m only asking […]

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Why the British people still prefer Boris Johnson

When you see the utter dog’s dinner the British government has made of COVID-19, namely turning their country into a petri dish for mutations while they plunder the place with impunity, you have to wonder why many there still prefer these current Tories, when even Max Hastings and Sir Nicholas Soames don’t. Is it because […]

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