Rec room

JK alerted me to this clever T-shirt slogan what's doing the rounds. Would wear.

LPO mentioned this short, slick scifi fillum from 2016 in a chat group. It's a cracker!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lahBRBliANY

I'm addicted to "Alphabear: Hardcover Edition" on Steam. You make words and collect bears. Sometimes you need to beat the clock. The bears have varying abilities (which increase as you progress), and you select a team to help with each stage.

Devoured this six-part podcast. As good as or better than his three-parter on argument. The sort of intellectual stimulation that inspires not only deeper reflection but self-improvement. Plenty of guests who are either experts or at least appropriate/interesting.

Feels funny to recommend series about ignorance and argument (brilliant as they are). Reminds me of that Charlie Brooker sketch "A History Of Corners - With Victoria Coren".

While I was taking the washing off the line, I heard repeated sounds of breaking wood. Closer inspection revealed yellow-tailed black cockatoos stripping the branch bark from trees behind our back fence. According to Wikipedia, they'd have been hunting beetles or larvae. Watched them for a while.

(Below pic from the Wiki entry. Creative Commons. Credit: David Cook Wildlife Photography.)