On this day Thursday, 05 February 2026
This is where we went, what we listened to, tweeted, coded, blogged and spent on this day
Insurance
Supermarket
2 Hargreaves Street, Auckland, New Zealand
Hargreaves Street, Auckland, New Zealand
At some point very early in my life I understood a few meant 2 and that worked completely fine, nothing ever called my definition into doubt.
Then, well into my 50s, I found out that a few actually means 3 or 3 - 6 which was quite a shock for me that I had such a basic word so wrong.
Still now I have to do the mental conversion that when I say things like "that'll be a few hours" as an estimate that I might have just told someone it could be 6 when in my head I as thinking 2.
Words...
@spudooli@mastodon.nz252 Forrest Hill Rd, Forrest Hill, New Zealand
U2 - 18 Singles
The 1975 -
Adamski - 101 Number 1 Hits [CD-1]
Björk - Debut
Björk -
Breaks Co-Op - The Sound Inside
Yothu Yindi - Tribal Voice
Aphex Twin - Digeridoo
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
This martini is so good that first I had to check the Wikipedia page for martini's to see if its portrait wasn't already there as the definition of the cocktail. But then was slightly worried that the British Museum was about to come down our driveway to claim it as the best of the best of its genre. I am firmly pressing down on the glass just in case.
@spudooli@mastodon.nz Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
Lemon Jelly - lemonjelly.ky
Lemon Jelly - lemonjelly.ky
Lemon Jelly - lemonjelly.ky
Lemon Jelly - lemonjelly.ky
Icehouse - Man of Colours
Icehouse - Man of Colours
Bryan Ferry - Boys and Girls
Thompson Twins - Quick Step and Side Kick
Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
I have this weird relationship with some music that I haven't played for a very long time. Back when I mostly listened to music on the tape deck in my car or on my Sanyo ghetto blaster in Khandallah Park when I was trying to escape everything.
Now I listen to a Nik Kershaw or The Cars or Thompson Twins or Frankie Goes album, for example, and wonder what the hell am I hearing, only to realise that all those years ago I only ever listened to only one side of the cassette ever because that was the side that had the one track I obsessed over. Now I have the FLACs and get to experience the other side.
@spudooli@mastodon.nzWhat's that called? New Old Stock!
@spudooli@mastodon.nzSimply Red - Home
Simply Red - Life
Stereophonics - Just Enough Education to Perform
Stereophonics - You Gotta Go There to Come Back
Stereophonics - Language.Sex.Violence.Other?
Stereophonics - Just Enough Education to Perform
The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
The Waterboys - This Is The Sea
Youssou N'Dour - The Guide (Wommat)
Roxy Music - Avalon
Our youngest daughter lives at home with us, we love having her here.
Just now I was listening to The Waterboys song Fisherman's Blues that has the lyric "I wish I was the brakeman".
So I shout at her, "Alice, what is a brakeman" and about 7 seconds later I get a nice concise answer and with no ads. Not only do I get answers on demand, she pays us board.
Suck a bag of dicks US tech bros. My speech to speech intelligence has built in ad filtering and love that you will never understand
@spudooli@mastodon.nzRikki Morris - Nobody Else
INXS - INXS Remastered
Robert Miles - Children
ABC - The Lexicon of Love
Annie Lennox - Medusa
Duran Duran - Thank You
ABC - Alphabet City
New Kids on the Block - Step by Step
Ronan Keating - Ronan
Paul McCartney - Pure McCartney (Disc 2)
INXS - Kick
INXS - Listen Like Thieves
INXS - INXS Remastered
INXS - The Very Best
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