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CTD, 5 months ago to random

Circular Slide Rule of the Day
#Retro

CTD, 3 months ago to random

Fiddling around with throwing virtual cards into a heap with mostly unsatisfactory results. Looking for inspiration from @zimpenfish

CTD, 8 days ago to VideoGames

There's a moment when all old things
Become new again
But that moment might have been here and gone
All I have and all I know
Is this dream of you
Which keeps me living on

#RandomSongLyrics
#VideoGames
#DeltaEmulator

CTD, 10 months ago to random

While messing around with a script to extract useful things from my Twitter archive I discovered that some tweets referenced twitpic.com which appears to still be active. I slurped down the relevant images, for posterity and uncovered this from 2010 when my iPad bookshelf appeared on the cover of a real magazine. Fleeting fame.

cc: @craiggrannell @chrisphin @mattgemmell

CTD, 3 months ago to random

Tell me Granddad, what were music players like in the olden days?

Actually my grandson has a fabulous music player by Yoto that he adores. It’s really robust and easy to add your own tracks to. Would have been total science fiction when I was 2 years old!

CTD, 3 months ago to AppleMusic

An album I like disappeared from Apple Music for some reason so I’ve had to resort to getting the physical copy and importing it manually. Like a monster. Interestingly the default encoder now is Apple Lossless which is slow but should be good quality. Does make me wonder if I should be re-encoding the boxes of CDs in the attic though.
#AppleMusic
#Vangelis

CTD, 1 year ago to random

We broke out our own copy of Rolling Heights, only to discover that I had misread one rule initially, to do with placement of plan tiles that aren’t adjacent to your own tiles. With that rule enforced, placement became much more strategic. Doh.
#BoardGames

CTD, 10 months ago to random

@craiggrannell Hi, I am restoring my iPad from a bad beta experience and the Marvin ebook reader hasn’t made it (on account of not being on the app store anymore). I thought it was still possible to back these up and restore them.

Why am I talking to you about it? I have a vague idea you wrote something about this a while ago.

Could be hallucinating of course!

I do have the app on the iPhone still and it has survived several restores as far as I can remember.

CTD, 4 months ago to random

Tried #baldursgate3 on MB Pro (M3 Max). Performance was fine on 14” screen. But after about an hour or so the escape key and main menu became disabled and I had to somehow trigger an auto save to be able to quit safely.

Is this a Mac specific glitch? Any ideas?

CTD, 3 months ago to apple

Indie Apple Watch app idea. Sneeze-It. Every time you sneeze this is detected by the watch accelerometers and other sensors and it automatically posts an “Ahhh-Chooo" post to the social media platform(s) of your choice.

Bound to get at least 1 million downloads.

#Apple

CTD, 1 month ago to random

Cursing past me for providing truly enigmatic password hint on old encrypted disk copy.

WTF did I mean by “Pb”?

Is it a reference to the periodic table?

Paddington Bear?

Who knows, the disk is a paperweight.

Sigh.

CTD, 4 months ago to random

New Profile Pic Klaxon.

courtesy of the excellent @andycarolan

CTD, 4 months ago to boardgames

After 3 failed attempts we finally successfully landed at Heathrow in fog yesterday. Mid approach the intern put the plane in a wild corkscrew but we levelled out in time.

#BoardGames

CTD, 28 days ago to boardgames

A bit of old school Starship Catan. The “oldies” are still the best.
#boardGames

CTD, 3 months ago to Fonts

If fonts were food, which one(s) would you eat?

#fonts
#typography

CTD, 8 months ago to random

Anyone got any experience of PicRights? They are pursuing a charity we operate for using one of their images without permission. Yes, I should have linked to the image instead of placing it in the newsletter (sent to 200 people) but WTF, this is a charity making scrubs during the pandemic and the image showed our scrubs being used when the mayor received his first vaccination. This is hardly massive image theft and the image was credited in the newsletter.

CTD, 8 months ago to apple

So #apple #ShortCuts experts. Is this really how you have to do this. If I try and optimise the actions they no longer link together and/or the updated values are lost.

Trying to do 2 search and replaces in a URL…

I know this is entry level Shortcut Fu but it seems very cumbersome.

CTD, 4 months ago to boardgames

One silly Christmas game we tried was Rhino Hero. Along with Stomp the plank (underwhelming), Love Letter (reliable), Silver & Gold.
#boardgames

CTD, 7 months ago to random

@eerko @Suzan any recommendations for Amsterdam board game shops/venues near(ish) Central Station. Trying to dodge work events with creative use of board games! Perfectly fine if you have no ideas…

CTD, 4 months ago to random

Asked @IceCubesApp to generate alt text for an image of me holding my grandson. It said “Elderly man holding a sleeping baby, sitting on a couch with books and a blue vase in the background.” Which is more or less correct but I take issue with “elderly”.

CTD, 8 months ago to boardgames

The iOS implementation of Carcassonne by CodingMonkeys, carefully preserved, is still brilliant for a quick F2F with zero setup.
#BoardGames

CTD, 9 months ago to random

I object to the term “savescumming”. Reloads cover lots of accidental interface hiccups, rules misunderstandings, D&D knowledge shortcomings as well as just bad luck. The ability to reload almost anything respects players time. And is optional. You aren’t forced to do it.
#BaldursGate3

CTD, 5 months ago to random

Roll your own advent calendar gift

3d6 required or Dice by PCALC

1. Tiny

2. Ceramic

3. Self-reciprocating

4. Papier-mâché

5. Effervescent

6. Adhesive

7. Moon

8. Plush

9. Water resistant

10. Lesser spotted

11. Non fungible

12. Shiny

13. Gonk

14. Capsule

15. Pants

16. Robot vacuum

17. Goat

18. Wig

CTD, 1 month ago to random

This is a worry, the Serif apps are an inexpensive and well featured suite of software covering a good subset of the Adobe offering, without the subscription model. Everyone sees that changing, if not now, but eventually. https://toot.cafe/@baldur/112161182378536128

CTD, 1 month ago to random

Saving files on your desktop is dangerous and can damage your screen.

#feditips