MrBiffo

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

Added 2025-08-05 10:04:58 +0000 UTC

Thanks for the birthday messages.

So far, I have worked all morning. I didn’t mean to, but because we’re away Thursday/Friday, and because I am behind on EVERYTHING, I had no choice alas.

I thought I was done, then I got an email reminding me that there was something I’d completely forgotten to deliver. Nice to be busy, but still… also nice to have a life sometimes.

I did get some lovely gifts though. Some "slides", because Sanja is sick of my feet being dirty (she said there were feathers on them the other day), and lots of books, as is my way.

Among them is one we’ll probably discuss on the next BYAMPOD: A Playground of Brokenhearts – The Progressive Rock Revival 1984 – 1989. Takes me right back to my misspent youth. I also got a book on the history of Britain and Ireland, and one called Thing Explainer - which is excellent.

The real treat is The Book: The Ultimate Guide To Rebuilding Civilisation. It’s a big, thick, tome that acts as a sort of a multiversal guide to… well… everything you might need to restart the world. It’s full of gorgeous, Victorian-style illustrations of weird machines. Exactly the kind of book I’d have been obsessed with as a kid.

Such is the way of things now… I saw a comment on Reddit decrying its use of AI (in fact, it’s all hand-drawn – beautifully so; see below). See also the graphics I’ve been doing for our videos…

Right. Bunking off the rest of the day. Going to watch the new Jurassic Park finally, if I can, and have a bloody takeaway.