Random thing you love right now that doesn't deserve its own thread

This was really cool.

That was really good. I want to play in one of Deborah's campaigns.

Every Frame a Painting is putting out new videos again:

I just put rocky 4 on because I flicked past it and whilst objectively a bad film I f*cking love it. This is a film that stares you in the eye and says did you enjoy that montage?? You know what you need? Another montage!

I attended the wedding of a friend’s son yesterday. The service was in a picture perfect English village. I wasn’t there for the meal but drove out to attend the continuing festivities in the evening.

Driving in the dark I followed my sat nav’s directions up an extremely narrow country lane to a secluded mansion that had cars parked haphazardly all over the drive and the grass surrounding a small, circular pond. Inside the place was in the latter stages of being renovated but had been beautifully decked out with flowers and lights. I really knew no one except for the immediate family so, as everyone danced to a live band playing music I didn’t recognise, I walked through the bar at the back to a pair of doors that opened onto a large garden extending out into the darkness.

Standing at the top of a set of stairs was a smart looking man in a suit with a near empty glass. We started chatting and discussed the manor house, he lived nearby, work and family. He had three daughters. We described our most recent holidays then got onto the subject of walking and wildlife. Whilst on a morning stroll recently he’d stopped at a small bridge. Leaning over to look at the stream he’d spotted a kingfisher and stood watching it fish in the shallow water for fifteen or twenty minutes.

It turned out we had both been into bird spotting in our younger years. We described birds we’d seen or wanted to see he said he’d always fancied seeing a hoopoe. “The one with the…” I used a hand to represent the hoopoe’s distinctive mohawk of feathers. He did the same, “Yes, that’s the one.”

Shortly after the family found us and we all had a good chat standing in the cool evening air.

It was lovely. What’s the green light a reference to?

Aaah thanks! Definitely an appropriate reference.

Been looking at the photos from the day. This is the place as I arrived. The space behind the pink lit windows is one huge two story room where the dancing was getting underway.

That's something, Higgledy. That's money right there.

This kid, and the drum machine he created.

IN MINECRAFT.

Kurtwood Smith is an American Treasure. I just thought I'd mention that.

Just give him his f*cking phone call.

Bobby, you're a dumbass.

"You're going to Harvard, and you're going to be a doctor."

I’ve been using the Perplexity app for iPhone for a couple of months now and it’s become my go to app for web search. It seems to be the best AI currently for doing contemporaneous web searches, which is all I’m using it for. I just type or speak plain language searches and it returns either the answer, or a list based on what I ask, and it provides footnotes and direct links to sites that I often follow to verify the info.

I do admit that I feel a little gross using it because I’ve read the devs haven’t been very good about crawling sites. But it’s really just another search engine compared to the other LLMs, and since Meta and Google have wrecked the web I’ll never use any of their AI systems, nor do I trust OpenAI (which is also Microsoft) given their track record.

Yeah, I used to work in Romsey, which is very much real ale, ninepins and ploughman's territory, and found it required very different technique from ten pin bowling, even though my ball was actually spherical and not shaped like a lego spaceman's head