6th April, 2024: Eurovision.
It’s officially official: it’s Saturday!
The day after I reviewed “Red Directive”: first episode of the last ever series of Star Trek Discovery.
Going on the strength of that opening episode?
This last series will be a good one.
~≈🖖≈~
I mentioned, in yesterday’s Teaser, that I really needed to work out to install a copy of my machine’s current operating system … without having the space on my hard drive to store the installer!
I ended up phoning Apple’s support line.
It turns out the problem … was some iMovie caches — some fifty odd gigabytes of iMovie caches — buried deeply with in the system.
With the help of the young lady*, and a piece of software called OmniDiskSweeper.app, I’ve managed to free up a lot of space.
Phew!
I can take a deep breath: and take my time creating some install media.
And enjoy the space I’ve got!
Let’s move on, shall we?
Yesterday’s Teaser saw Olga† Mum‡, and Debbi§ putting in their answers: with Olga and Debbi scoring five out of five, and Mum on four.
The day also saw Trevor¶ leaving us a message.
Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we?
Q1) ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest on 6th April. 6th April of which year: 1973, 1974 or 1975?Q2) What was the song: “Waterloo”, “Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley” or “Fångad av en stormvind”?Q3) ABBA — the winners — were the first band from their nation to win the contest. Who was the most recent winning act from that country: Cornelia Jakobs, Loreen or Marcus and Martinus?Q4) All of the acts mentioned come from which European nation?Q5) Finally … ? This particular contest took part in which European city: Brighton, Hamberg or Lyon?
Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 5th April is the International Day of Conscience. According to whom: the UN, Red Cross or the International Court of Justice?Q2) It was established in which year: 2019, 2020 or 2021?A2) 2019.Q3) In the UK’s parliament, MPs can vote with their conscience in some votes. Those votes are known as what votes: free vote, freed vote or Freud votes?A3) A free vote.Q4) If you refuse to do military service, you are a conscientious what?A4) A conscientious objector.Q5) Finally … ? According to Wiktionary, a conscience means you have an awareness of right or … what?A5) Wrong.
Here’s a thought …
“The Eurovision Song Contest [ … ] was the 19th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest.”From the Wikipedia entry on the contest.
And a video …
Today’s questions will be answered in tomorrow’s Teaser.
Decisions about scores are final.
Thank you for coming: have a good day.
* The young lady was called Malenka — I think! — and, as it turned out, left handed. And? She didn’t know there’s a Left handers Day until I told her. I think we both walked away happy.
† I think it was hard to avoid the Draft, back then, Olga: although I get the impression William Gibson managed it fairly easily. By moving to Canada. Apparently, he only did it to smoke weed, and get acquainted with hippie chicks. Well, I say ‘acquainted’ …
At any rate … ? That’s not the first time I’ve heard about that phenomena: of the brain firing up, at death. I forget where I saw it last: but the speculation was that it induced some sort of hallucinations and pain relief: and was the brain’s way of making dying less painful. I seem to recall the same articles said it was the reasons people having Near Death Experiences saw heaven, or dead family members: the brain was trying to ease the trauma of dying.
‡ Hello, Mum! (An ambulance driver? Yeah: that could’ve been hairy, during the Blitz!)
§ Cheers, Debbi! I’ll try and let you know when I write another one! (Oh, Star Trek Discovery’s last season has dropped.)
¶ OK, Trevor! (Edges away into a corner).
Talking of browsers? I got chatting to a friend, yesterday: about various web-apps tha, as it turns out, will only open in MS Edge or — ha! — Google Chrome. “Embrace, extend, and extinguish”, I think Microsoft called it.
It looks like Google are trying the same thing with Chrome: and leaving anyone using Safari, Firefox, Tor or Opera, having fits!
4 comments:
1 1974
2 Waterloo
3 Loreen
4 Sweden
5 Brighton
Q1) 1974
Q2) “Waterloo”
Q3) Loreen
Q4) Sweden
Q5) Brighton
Yes, I've read the same about the brain, or similar things, although knowing why is anybody's guess. The curious thing about the article I was reading was that the woman in question had been in a deep coma for a long time and was considered brain-dead, that's why they switched her off, so they were surprised to realise that there seem to be a fair amount of activity still left in the brain, and that it increased when they turned the oxygen off, when they would have expected it to completely die off quite quickly. (In fact it activated, it seemed to slow down, and then around 4 minutes after they'd turned it off, it started firing up again, so, yes, who knows).
Good news about the help. There are always things hiding in our computers we know nothing about...
You get song stuck in your head , well this morning and early afternoon I got the first computer language I learned floating about my head. It was ICT 1301 machine code which i learnt in 1966. Most of the instructions I remember well.
Here is a link to the pageon the guys who were rebuilding one at Bletchley Park.
http://www.ict1301.co.uk/13010310.htm
Remember back the the English currency had 12 old pennies to a shilling and that there were 20 shillings in the pound. the 10d and 11d were store as a single character each. There were 2 sets of arithmatic instructions, The 60 range of codes was for purely decimal arithmatic and the 70 range of instryuctions were for the sterling instructions.
What an amazing machine the ICT 1301 was. It was the size of the floor area of your flat and had less computing power than the Casio watch on my wrist.
I noticed Trevor's comment and it reminded me of when I learned computer science back in the day. I used punch cards to run programs. He has the knowledge that my teachers did. Man, do I feel old. But even so, who cares? :)
1. 1974
2. Waterloo
3. Loreen
4. Sweden
5. Brighton
I just joined a local "social group" for lack of a better term. One of them is also an author, also self-published.
He has the most awesome "blurb" on the cover of his book!
It reads (literally):
"There should be a quote here by a famous person, but I couldn't find anyone who would do it."
And he's originally from England. Why am I not surprised? :)
Can't wait to meet him so we can talk about Doctor Who! lol
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