Hi, and welcome to BMH Online, my little corner on/at/in Neocities [joined 16 June 2020]. I typically list on this page things in my life to share right now. Then, every so often, I add something new to the top of the list, and then eventually file the old stuff away. There are also various sections to explore. Here goes...
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[07 March 2023] I turned up to do my weekly grocery shop to find this:
Our Lidl Cat is no more... I find it incredibly moving that so many people contributed to the little shrine, like it's more happy upsetting that people did that, than upsetting upsetting the fact that the friendly little shop cat is gone. His home during the day at least was just outside the entrance where he had a bowl for food and water. I petted him a few times when I would arrive on my bike and park it nearby, and I saw other people greeting him too, and even giving him little treats when they came out of the shop/store. Sometimes he snubbed me though, which made me chuckle; I guess to him I was just another of the many shoppers coming and going and he couldn't always be bothered to come over to me - it's hard work being a shop cat! I would observe him sitting on the sacks of compost for sale or assisting people as they crossed the carpark on the zebra crossing. Sometimes people would arrive with a dog of which they'd tie up outside the shop and the cat would know whether he was safe to sit by with that dog or keep his distance. Shop cats are awesome.
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[05 March 2023] Happy March everyone! I've done another "A.I. Files dump"... I particularly like this painting by Dall-E which I shall call "The Magic of Consciousness":
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[26 February 2023] Earlier this month I signed up to both ChatGPT and Dall-E. They have been both fun and useful; I've found ChatGPT to be especially useful to query things I'm reading about, or pick its brains about topics on my mind. I've enjoyed the way the conversations tend to flow through a topic while I can keep bugging it for an hour or two, providing an immersive and thought-provoking experience. I was keeping a log of the conversations, and since I'd amassed quite a number for this month, I decided to put them on a blog (using Blogger since I had an account there sitting doing nothing), along with pictures from Dall-E. You can now find them in the "ConversAtIons" link to the left. It's a slight break from the norm since it is an external link, but it's a "current thing" that is presently being updated so it makes sense to me.
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There have been a lot of cases with people just finding ways to play with the system, to find the limitations in silly ways. While surely fun, it seems to neglect the genuine uses.
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[19 February 2023] Today was a new car day. Car #5 is blue. I've have it on my mind to create a Car section in the Shrine... I now have my old car to sell...
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[16 February 2023] I've been purchasing more cameras... First, I received 3 x mini-DVD camcorders which I'll reveal more about at a later date. Today's arrival however was one of these gems:
Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ30
It's only 8MP but I've wanted one since I was first looking for a replacement camera many years ago - there's something about its style that I particularly like; I'd spotted one on ebay way back then but opted for the Fujifilm (which I broke last year when I fell down a mountain...). Now this one came up for sale so I made an offer. When it arrived today I charged up a battery and headed out for a little walk. I got to watch squirrels feeding and managed to capture this nice shot (lots of trial and error, and some luck with the settings and manual focus):
#eartufts
#fluffytail
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[15 February 2023] I've been dabbling with A.I. (both ChatGP and DALL-E). My first round has resulted in the following blog post (click the image):
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[09 February 2023] Walking with my brother has become somewhat of a weekly occurrence. This week we walked from Ogwen to Bethesda and back; a 12-mile circuit on a nice day.
Taken with my Sony Cybershot
It took us over four hours and I was out for nine hours so I'm pretty tired now, plus I have 30 miles to cycle tomorrow, half of which will involve carry shopping...
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[30 January 2023] Keep Backups! I was in the process of moving some business files from last year into another folder which involved renaming that folder to include 2022, but my computer briefly lost connection with the USB-connected drive and when I went back in the filename hadn't been set and had reverted back to "2021"... and the contents had vanished... like all my business accounts files dating back to the year dot. My heart sank but I immediately calculated that I had a few options; one included a complete data recovery process since I knew the files were technically still there on the drive, just the mess-up with the renaming had rendered them invisible (somewhat of a headache procedure, but do-able), the other, more simple, involved restoring the files from a backup, which thankfully turned out to be up-to-date. So yeah, moral of the story: keep backups; you never know what or when something might go wonky or fail.
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[29 January 2023] Last week involved another walk with my brother.
In addition to the Sony Cybershot camera that I acquired (see the Gallery section) which I used to take the above picture, I also picked up a couple of free cassettes from a thrift store.
I was a bit worried about this Enya cassette when I got it home and saw the mould on the tape (photographed with the Cybershot in macro mode), but after fast-forwarding and rewinding it a few times first, it played fine, and the album is a classic (the other cassette less so) - side two begins with Orinoco Flow (or if you like things a bit more trance...).
I also picked up a copy of this book (right) for 50p; I keep meaning to plan my reading pile for this year... Back on ebay I picked up a motherboard with quad core CPU, 8GB (and Windows 10) licence for £25 - the only weird thing so far is that one of the CPU cores was disabled in the BIOS and I'm not sure why; I've activated all four and it installed Windows fine.
I now need to get my arse in gear and sell some things...
Also this past week I was guineapigsitting (and cat, and fishsitting) which was quite nice.
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[18 January 2023] Yesterday involved a nice wintry walk:
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[04 January 2023] Someone jokingly referred to my recent vlog as The King's Speech. This gave me the following idea:
I literally spent a whole day on this!
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[02 January 2023] I woke early and began by recording a Vlog since I had a couple of things to talk about, namely the night's sleep and the dream I recalled.
I would like to do more vlogs this year. I've considered adding a section to this website for them as I have a collection of previous ones I can link to. Plus, the ability to list the topics in each would be advantageous.