Will

That sounds brilliant, enjoy! I’ve spent today making a huge amount of stuffing, pigs in blankets and prepping a Turkey for tomorrow’s dinner. We still have a load of wrapping to do but I’d say we’re far more ready than we usually are at this point. We’ve got some oven snacks for dinner tonight so hopefully fairly easy way to finish up the day. My parents are already here until Friday and my sister and her boyfriend come tomorrow for the day. Thank god I’ve got two weeks of work to recover from it all.

Oh, it has yellow seatbelts too which I absolutely adore.

It’s great, in a bit of a weird way. The performance is incredible, unbelievably quick, I have the dual motor performance model which does 0-60 in under 4 seconds and you can really feel it. But outside of that its just a bit… meh. As with everything else I tested, electric cars just completely lack any “passion” or feel of the drive. But then, it’s mega comfy, super luxurious, huge boot space, great tech things. I love it. But in a way I never thought I would.

As well as my smart glasses I also recently upgraded my car due to the Subaru being way too small for a family of four. Now I have a Polestar:

I did consider those too, functionally I reckon those are the right mix of stuff you’d use with a pretty decent form factor. There were a few things that put me off them, I don’t think the style is that great, they’re a bit google glass in that other people can see the screens and you looking at them and then the biggest one was the cost. I do think something like those will be what I end up upgrading to in the future though.

They do look great but I would only use them occasionally I think. I decided to get the Ray-bans. Went in to the store and had a go on them and was impressed, I can actually see myself using them quite a bit for their AI and headphone bits and the cameras will be great for chasing kids around. Unfortunately I don't, but I think these would be a great way of avoiding any interaction with it while there.

I’d be super interested to see how you get on with them over the next few weeks @Happenstance. I've been toying with getting myself a pair of the Rayban Meta glasses for Christmas but not sure whether to just go all in on something like this. Like you say I think those are a bit too much for using around town but I feel like I may find the Raybans a bit lacking.

I love these keyboards. I've had the K7 for a few years and hate using anything else now.

Scarily close, right? I can totally see Trump winning this.

So I’m once again having my thoughts on building a PC, and actually might follow through with it this time. Basically I have two targets: Be able to play retro games including Tekno Parrot Be my main gaming machine instead of a PS6 Point one is a now thing and two is something for the future. I’m basically thinking to build something cheap now with a Ryzen 5000 integrated graphics chip and then fully upgrade it in a few years time to cover the more modern games. Is this a sensible thing to do? Will I get much mileage from more recent stuff with something like that or will I be stuck on retro only (which is fine) until I do the big upgrade? Is there anything else I should think about before I go ahead with this?

The store looks like the best thing about this - I'm sure I'll spend a fortune when we go. I can get stuff for people. Finally I can put the kids to good use!

That 30th anniversary hardware looks so good. I really wanted the PS4 they did but couldn’t get one and even though none of this stuff would be on my to-buy list I really want all of it. I’ll probably log in when it all goes available and just see if I can get something then.

Yeah that’s definitely what I’ve noticed too, it would be great if they did a specific holiday course - I think I’d pay money for that. Nice streak! I'd totally forgotten about Memrise - another one I've not used in years. Will give it another go and see how I get on with it.

My wife has been joking about how bad my Japanese has gotten recently so I decided I needed to do something about it. I’ve started Duolingo for the first time in years and have to say it’s come on loads since I last used it. I don’t know if I could use it to learn in the first place but it’s definitely a good way of keeping things fresh. I skipped level 1 and then it quickly put me up to level 3 but it clearly needs to bump me up a load of levels as everything at the moment is way too basic. It’s enjoyable though and I can see myself keeping at it. Anyone else still keeping up with it for something?

For reasons I can’t go into I left my last job in the middle of July. I absolutely hated it so when I got the offer to part ways I jumped at the chance. I was a little worried with how things are in the industry right now but figured it was worth the risk to try and find something better. I decided to take the summer off and just enjoy things then September would be the time to start looking for something. One of the guys who used to work with me introduced me to a team looking for someone to help them out and I had a few chats with them over the summer before going down to see them last week. Loved the team, great project and all the right things to go with it. Had a call earlier today saying I’ll have the formal offer in the next few days!