It was a rather hot night but I slept better than I have recently.
Not disturbing Bailey helps a lot in getting a good night; once she's woken she
licks my head (like a baby sucks on a dummy) until she falls asleep
again, and it is rather distracting.
I made toast, turned on the telly to watch an episode of "Shameless"
and was faced with disaster - Netflix dropped the show yesterday, and Sky-Q
doesn't have the All-4 app. So instead I watched the first episode of something
which has been on my "to be watched" list for some time. "God's Favourite
Idiot" was billed as a comedy. I was glad it was billed as such;
if I hadn't been told I would never have realised. I'm told the show improves,
but so far it is off to a rather lame start.
I then had a look at the internet where I saw a rather silly,
childish and purile joke which had me giggling pretty much all day.
As I drove to work the pundits on the radio told us they had
changed their minds. Last week artificial intelligence was poised to take over
the world. Now it seems AI won't enslave humanity according to AI 'godfather'
Professor Yan LeCun.
Mind you bearing in mind Professor Yan LeCun is the leading expert of the parent company of
Facebook, and also bearing in mind the core business of Facebook I can't help
but think (to
paraphrase Mandy Rice Davies) "he would say that, wouldn't he?"
Meanwhile our old friend science has made synthetic
human embryos from stem cells without needing sperm or egg cells.
I'll just make the observation that in this brave new world I doubt
very much if the cloned slaves or the robot overlords will laugh at knob jokes,
and the world will be a much sadder place...
With work worked I came
home, and together with “er indoors TM” went to Folkstone to
visit “Daddy’s Little Angel TM”, “Stormageddon – Bringer
of Destruction TM” and “Darcie Waa Waa TM”. We
went for a McFlurry and a little walk along the Lees, then watched all sorts of
You-Tube and then “Stormageddon –
Bringer of Destruction TM” demonstrated avoiding lava in
Minecraft.
After an hour or so we
came home. “er indoors TM” boiled up pizza and as we scoffed
it we watched the “Blackadder” documentary and the previously unaired “Blackadder”
pilot episode. With UK Gold having had pretty much nothing else on all week
except adverts for these shows they were something of a disappointment. Bearing
in mind how many famous actors were in four seasons of the show it was a shame
that (other than Sir Tony Robinson) not one was wheeled on. And the
unaired pilot was… probably best left unaired.
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