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• Post #4393446

  I know people say they want a home robot to fold clothes and do cleaning but that's just a lack of imagination. Here are some better ideas: - the weeping angel - the robot only moves when you're not looking - the cato bot - attacks you randomly to keep your martial arts skills fresh - the butler - writes out your notifications on little cards and delivers them to you on a silver platter - the ceremonial guard - stands in the kitchen, salutes you when you walk past ...

• Post #1674933

  Youngest came round yesterday. He's been playing Wishbringer all week using my site https://planedrift.app . I am beyond delighted that he likes these games. However, he told me I needed to add a cyan theme because the 'unc colors hurt my eyes, bro'.

• Post #804301

  One of the programs that came with my BBC micro was a CPU simulator called Peeko Computer.Think Human Resource Machine for an era where we had attention spans but no graphics. I remember learning a lot about machine code from it. So, forty years later I've found a manual for it and I've remade it in the browser. Mostly for nostalgic interest only: https://peeko.whitebeard.blog/ But, enjoy!

• Post #671926

  Most people don't know that between 1968 and 1976, the uk converted 40 million appliances in 14 million homes away from 'town gas' to methane. It was a huge undertaking that was state-led, centrally planned and free. Thousands of engineers were trained at a dozen ad hoc dedicated training schools. All in the age before computers were common. A way bigger deal than the Y2K work that gets cited a lot. I had relatives that became plumbers because of this transition. We could...

• Post #651416

  If I was a green (which I am) and my surname was Denyer, it would be very hard not to name one of my children 'Climate Change'.