#PuzzledPint#NotASpoilerhttps://www.ukpuzzles.org/ - good fun, as ever, but one of the shorter sets. Our pub plays music, but doesn't have a jukebox. Nevertheless, it played The Divine Comedy's […]

I went to see the Blue Man Group tonight! A shortish blog and pictures of a delightful and unusual souvenir: https://chris.dreamwidth.org/38302.html

One of the coolest things to happen in a library that I've ever read about: https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2024-08-07/bureau-of-nooks-and-crannies-los-angeles-public-library <3

Just watching the Geoguessr World Cup and one of the locations in round one of semi-final one was Yarm, literally where I went to school. Very recognisable viaduct, Would've been 5000 for me for sure. (Happily, one of the earlier locations was Tyneside, barely forty miles away.) What a treat!

In my case, last boosted post checks well and truly out.

[A list of "most important video games ever" (or most influential, etc.) that didn't include _Street Fighter II_ would be seen as either unduly short or deliberately... heterodox. Without prompting, what do you know about the composer of (almost all of) its music?] TIL, over thirty years after […]

Very sweary but maybe the funniest thing I've seen so far this month, and all the knowledge you need to know should be clear from context: https://www.tiktok.com/@tomcardy/video/7281007648487623937?lang=en

I’d quite like to see freestyle football at the Olympics. It would fit in very well with the rest of the rhythmic gymnastics events.

Some people update printed wall charts for the World Cup; I've printed one of the Olympic schedule and can say I've watched at least 10 minutes, usually 15+, of each of the Olympic sports this time. (Neither ceremony, though.) Not every event, not every discipline, and the divisions between […]

Credit where it's due: the shot clock in the full-court basketball gets it right, even if the shot clock in the 3x3 basketball does not.