Week commencing Monday, 11 December 2023
Quantified Self
- This week: Stand 7/7; Exercise 6/7 and Move 6/7. (90%, Sunday was a let down). Morning walks: 1/4 (days in the office don’t count). Office days 1/5. Plant diversity: 45 Total steps: 73,718
Life
- Fewer Christmas lights up on the streets immediately around us than I would have hoped. Another week, another sad-Christmas-face-emoji needed.
- I didn’t do my walk on Monday morning but I did rush around to tidy the house ahead of the electrician’s visit. The bulb that won’t turn off is safe.
- I am amused that ChatGPT is getting lazy at this time of year. I hope somebody’s bought it a Secret Santa.
- Nice message from former colleagues on Wednesday would have lead to a Thursday meet-up if it hadn’t been for the office Christmas party.
- Related, on the party food menu, octopus. Also, too many drinks and a walk from Farringdon.
- Saturday: a birthday lunch for a friend and an evening of party games with another group. Oven-glove pass-the-parcel remains one of my favourites.
- Sunday, recovering.
Media
- On one of my walks, a podcast: Emily Maitlis interviews James O’Brien on his book ‘How They Broke Britain’. Interesting discussion.
- Bradley Walsh hosts The Royal Variety Performance Cher was the big finale, the gags about Bradley not having an Honour a bit laboured and Hannah Waddingham’s song was lovely.
Archive
To save the links getting lost in the future I checked the Internet Archive to see what they had saved for the posts linked here. YouTube links don’t seem to archive well so I don’t list them. If the source above no longer works, these should.
- Ars Technica: Unproven hypothesis seeks to explain ChatGPT’s seemingly new reluctance to do hard work
- The tables have turned and James is in the hot seat: ‘How They Broke Britain’
- Bradley Walsh hosts the 2023 edition of The Royal Variety Performance