Kind: Notes

short content: a post or status update with just plain content and typically without a title

I have a Christmas playlist playing on my tablet in the next room. So that when I leave my desk, and my focus headphones, I remember it’s Christmas 🎄#adhdhack

Posted on
by

My children are currently 10 and 13. In the not distant future, I fully expect to be asked to account for my repeated assertions that I believe in Father Christmas. I hope, when that time comes, my explanations will make sense to them.

I’ll talk a bit about card tricks and WWE; how some things shouldn’t be diminished by not being “the truth”. But, most importantly, I’ll talk about anthropomorphic personification and, therefore, the Christmas spirit, as a reminder of the importance of sharing and kindness, and being together.

And, since they’re rational and logical, I hope that having freed their minds of the mechanics of chimneys and sleigh velocities, they’ll think my version is actually a bit better.

Today I learned a depressing new phrase: “the tyranny of the majority”. Apparently, this is how the privileged view the plebs…

How do YOU recommend films to people when what makes them worth a watch is an amazing plot twist (that you don’t want to spoil/telegraph)?

Rather than imagine the implications if it were, simply accept that is the greatest “pump and dump” scam in history and adjust accordingly.

In 2023, a woman named Nicola Bulley went missing in the UK.

While this was unfolding, an old friend from university, who emmigrated to the US (MANY years ago), visited the UK. He was amazed at how much CCTV footage was available to track this woman’s movements. He firmly believed that US citizens would go NUTS if they were under that much surveillance.

Now I hear that there is a company called that not only provides video surveillance, but automated [number] plate recognition ([ANPR]) and “gunfire locator systems”, and “supporting software to integrate the data gathered by these technologies”.

I’m just speechless. If law enforcement use ANPR in the UK, they often have to warn people in advance, and yet this is an always-on service?! Incredible.

Maybe the British Legion should reconsider their Poppy Appeal slogan based on the prevailing public mood. Something like: “Wear your poppy or else…”