This checkin to GCB5KK7 Shakespeare Fountain reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
A morning meander around the local (mostly virtual) caches under the guise of checking the condition of the West End Live queue, while the rest of my group enjoyed a lie-in, eventually brought me to take a seat alongside this iconic bear. TFTC!
This checkin to GCBJ704 Seven Dials Sundial reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Approaching from the West I was foiled by the glare of the rising sun in my efforts to claim this fascinating monument from afar and eventually had to walk all the way past it to line up my photo!
Thanks for the detailed cache page; I love a history lesson when I’m on a morning walk! TFTC.
This checkin to GC38EQ3 Underground reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Initially thought I’d be able to find this one without the hint, but when I couldn’t get fix to closer than 8m I took a peep at it and was instantly aware of where to search. Soon the cache was in hand and I was back on my way. TFTC!
This checkin to GC240NQ West End 1 - The Beatles reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Stood around for a bit reading about David Bowie while I waited for the waitstaff -on their pre-work fag break down the alleyway – stopped their muggling and went inside. Glad I came early while it was quiet here! TFTC.
This checkin to GC5E4E Catastrophe, Calamity, Cataclysm Part 4 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
Can’t do the physical today, but scooping a pic with the virtual during a morning walk around the neighbourhood.
Strictly speaking, I’ve come out to check on behalf of my family whether the queue for day two of West End Live has started gathering yet, but I couldn’t resist tagging a couple of caches on the way! TFTC (and to the adopter for keeping this one alive!).
This checkin to GCAJJCJ Piccadilly Circus (Virtual Reward 4.0) ツ reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
After nine hours on my feet yesterday queuing for and then attending the first day of West End Live in Trafalgar Square, I somehow decided that the best thing for my poor legs would be to get up early while everybody else slept in, to come walk around and find a virtual or two. Right around the corner from my hotel, this was the first!
There’s scaffolding around the fountain right now but you can still see it and, crucially, the lights. Good morning, London! TFTC.
Star network topologies are more common, but you can still occasionally find these…
Hanging out in London’s theatreland, attracting double-takes (and a handful of thumbs-ups!) for my t-shirt…
The hours of queuing pays off! Let’s go!
Back of the queue for West End Live. It’s gonna be a long wait, but hopefully worth it!
Off to London for a couple of days of musical theatre fun! Don’t wait up!
125 days since our house flooded, and the damaged furniture fittings, floors, underfloors, and now inner walls have been torn out.
Over a third of a year since we had to move out, I’m optimistic that perhaps, at last, reconstruction work is almost ready to begin.
It’s a long, slow process. And there’s clearly a way to go. But it’s good to see progress happening.
🎶 It starts with sausage,
A hot dog in a bun.
One simple sausage,
Put some mustard on one…
Is it just me, or are (sinner) Sir Pentious‘s colours reminiscent of a hot dog?
I guess it’s sweet that the dog has decided that I’m not to leave my home office without her noticing.
But when the naps right behind my wheelie chair I worry she’s going to get her paws run over!
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Yesterday I took a short trip. I began with a ride on the local Hyperloop, which ran through a tunnel dug by Boring Company. Then I used my neural implant to summon a fully self-driving Tesla robotaxi. While enroute I read the latest news from the Mars colony.
OK, none of that actually happened, because those products don’t exist. There are no working Hyperloops. The Boring Company has not dug any commercial tunnels. Tesla has a few self-driving — though not fully self-driving — taxis in Austin and nowhere else. (Google’s Waymo driverless taxis are operational in several major hubs.) Neuralink, which is purportedly pioneering brain implants, has tested its products in a handful of patients but done no more than that. And of course there is no Mars colony: there have been no manned flights to Mars, nor the prospect of any for the foreseeable future.
Yet at various points over the past decade Elon Musk promised that each of these services would be available by 2025 if not sooner.
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With thanks to Mark Palko for sharing: yes, this seems like a spot-on observation of Musk’s career:
The vast majority of his wealth comes from investment, not from returns: people buy his stock if they buy his hype. I’m not saying he’s producing nothing of value… but yeah: the “world’s first trillionaire” is… unfortunate.
But then again, I’d be quite happy for him to be the world’s last trillionaire, too.