Pete M

@gripecat

Personal - books, comics, music, guitars, art, astronomy, games. Booze. Professional - pensions specialist.

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Pete M@gripecat· 7d

The Lady of the Lake holds aloft the sword Excalibur - from John Boorman's 'Excalibur' (get it on 4k from Arrow Video!).

Pete M@gripecat· 22d

I assume Amazon are using AI to do the summaries of what’s on Prime - this one from Hackers (unashamedly one of my favourite films) is full of errors.

The blurb from Amazon Prime for Hackers. It says: “Teenage hackers Zero Cool (Johnny Lee Miller) [WRONG, it’s Jonny] and Acid Burns [WRONG, it’s just Acid Burn] (Angelina Jolie) may be young, but they’re already in trouble with the authorities. Both have been banned from using computers until they turn eighteen [WRONG, only Zero Cool was]. However, the situation turns from adolescent hi-jinks to deadly industrial espionage when they are frame d by nefarious hacker The Plague - soon they are fighting for their lives.”

Pete M@gripecat· 27d

Was interested in if it was common to use Grand Marnier in a margarita - saw this recipe and it looks a little painful to me…

Recipe for a margarita using Grand Marnier.

But it is the suggestion of using salt for rimming that sets this apart…

Pete M@gripecat· 27d

Google health:

Hedonism Bot from Futurama, eating grapes amidst empty beer bottles.

Pete M@gripecat· Jul 13

A very good person to know. And I’m sure he feels the same about you! First bottle of Jade Terminus I ever had, not long after it was first released, was signed by him. Still got it.

An empty bottle of Jade Terminus Absinthe with a signature of Ted Breaux on it.

Pete M@gripecat· Jul 11

Yessss. Thank you!

Boxed DVD (region 2!) of the complete Thin Man movies.

Pete M@gripecat· Jul 4

Totally thought that was Whistler's Mother from the thumbnail.

Painting known generally as Whistler's Mother.

Pete M@gripecat· May 24

Star Wars Weekly no. 73 :)

First two pages of Tales of the Watcher - Last Warning: Evacuate Earth.

Page 5 of the story’s and an advert for Pocketeers! I had at least one of those.

Pete M@gripecat· May 20

Finally! @christhebarker.bsky.social

Screenshot of Doctor Who episode guessing game showing 99 out of 99 correct.

Pete M@gripecat· May 20

Also - I got this one wrong 😕

Image from the episode ‘Turn Left’ with two answer options, both of which are ‘Turn Left’.

Pete M@gripecat· May 20

Having a lot of fun, but this is Deep Breath surely?

Screenshot showing the Tardis on a stretch of sand, with Madam Vastra and Strax.

Pete M@gripecat· May 20

Oh come on….

A screenshot from a ‘guess the Doctor Who episode’ game, but it’s just the opening titles and the answer options are both from the same Doctor and same titles (I believe).

Pete M@gripecat· May 14

HMRC sign 10 year, £175m contract to roll AI across the department. What could go wrong? www.professionaladviser.com/news/4529702...

HMRC signs £175m ten-year AI and sovereign data deal.

Quantexa selected by HMRC.

The business said the contract would modernise HMRC’s data foundation and enable “sovereign, governed AI at national scale”. It added it was one of the public sector’s largest ‘decision intelligence’ deployments intended to drive efficiency, protect public funds, and ‘enhance the customer experience” for UK taxpayers.

Pete M@gripecat· Feb 3

I put my phrase, “tis a rough Misselthwaite that don’t show nobody no toast” into Google and added “meaning” at the end, and I was pleased to see it gave it definition and claimed it was an actual line from the book. 2/3

Google’s AI claiming that the phrase “tis a rough misselthwaite that don’t show nobody no toast” is an actual line spoken by Martha in The Secret Garden.

Pete M@gripecat· Jan 15

Always nice to have a cat collapse on your foot. I believe it is illegal to remove it. By the way, this is not my cat. I don’t have a cat. #proofofcat

An orange cat, who comes into my house and spends the day here despite not living here, lying on the carpet and on the foot of a human trying to get on with work.

Pete M@gripecat· Dec 23

Arrived already! Even the paper covering is great and I’m loathe to unseal it, it’s so nice.

A copy of Tales Accursed, compiled and illustrated by Richard Wells. It is covered with paper that has a printed quote from the John Buchan story, No-Man’s Land.

Pete M@gripecat· Dec 7

Thank you! My brief foray into mechanical keyboards (with Severance style Dasher keycaps to match the drudgery of my working day 😬)

A Crush 80 mechanical keyboard and separate 8BitDo number pad.

Pete M@gripecat· Dec 7

Hooray!

A copy of ‘Possessed’ by Rosalie and Edward Syton’, part of the brilliant British Library’s Tales of the Weird series, and resurrected by Johnny Mains.

Pete M@gripecat· Nov 2

Perhaps there’s something wrong.

An image of Will Graham from the series “Hannibal”. He’s looking despondent and has just been asked to draw a clock.

The clock Will Graham drew. He believed it is fine but actually all the numbers are on the right side of the face, and some fall outside of the circle.

Pete M@gripecat· Oct 31

Dear Amazon, this is not how pre-orders work!

A screenshot from an Amazon email saying that they are cancelling my order due to lack of availability, though it had been pre-ordered three months ago.

Pete M@gripecat· Oct 25

First sazerac. First time tasting Peychaud’s. Really nice! #saturdaycocktails

Pete M@gripecat· Oct 21

Ok, 19 Crimes. I won’t be buying you again based on this literary incompetence.

A bottle of 19 Crimes red wine, with a green, Boris Karloff Frankenstein’s monster on the label.

The back of the wine label: “Frankenstein wasn’t a monster, he was just upset people didn’t want to hang out”.

Fuck off. Frankenstein, the scientist, WAS a monster. The creature was an overpowered innocent.

Pete M@gripecat· Sep 20

Ah, and the 4k anniversary edition has just arrived, with photo cards ❤️

The 4K blu ray of Hackers, including art cards of Angelina Jolie being amazing as Acid Burn.

Pete M@gripecat· Sep 16

Unfortunately you don’t get the full horror on mobile, as they truncate the images, but if you look on tablet or desktop… I especially like the multi-fingered lady, fresh from paintball, holding a lemon in a glass.

A horrifying AI image of a woman, wearing a top with paint splotches over it, holding in her hands a glass with a yellow ovoid in it. Her right hand is growing out of the wrist of her left hand.

Pete M@gripecat· Sep 11

As a cleanse, here is my #proofofcat - and again this is not my cat, but a friendly pudding from an unknown neighbour, who likes to make himself at home.

A ginger cat, who has invaded my house, gone upstairs and taken up residence on my pillow.

Pete M@gripecat· Aug 1

Followed up by a classic Vesper. #fridaynightcocktails

A martini glass, filled with a delicious looking golden drink. Bottles of gin, vodka, Sacred’s amber vermouth, and orange bitters flank it.

Pete M@gripecat· Aug 1

And to end the week, we have the Last Word. #fridaynightcocktails

A glass with mysterious green liquid in it, flanked by bottles of booze.

Pete M@gripecat· Jul 12

This is still #notmycat but he’s come in to lounge on the table, next to my aviation, while we rewatch Halt and Catch Fire. #proofofcat

A sneaky orange cat, lying on a coffee table next to an aviation cocktail.

Pete M@gripecat· Jul 9

Managed to cure a debilitating condition (not having enough money) by going on a journey (writing a book).