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Life's too short to not just dive in and work. Aligning all the pencils, arranging a few tasteful nicknacks and all that organizing is just a waste of precious time.
exactly what the title says
too much work
too many things going wrong
too much of stuff
not enough sleep
in need of a day where everything goes right
blah i feel shitty and heres another shitty photo to add to my collection
beginning to give up
I seriously need a solution for this:
Amount of my life wasted = (3 times per day) x (45 sec to unravel) x (5 days per week) x (52 weeks per year) x (40 years of my life where I could be using these types of earphones)
= 1,404,000 seconds
= 390 hours
= 16.25 days
= 2+ weeks
Life's too short to not just dive in and work. Aligning all the pencils, arranging a few tasteful nicknacks and all that organizing is just a waste of precious time.
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Stop for one moment and think of all the roles you have played for those whom have crossed your path. This is my "artistic" attempt at showing the roles I have counted in the last day or so.
The idea was to create an image that took the eye to the point of singularity, where the laws of physics break down.
The occupy Central site (In Admiralty)... a place I have taken many car shots from, no closed for two months....
Why this sign is here I have no idea, If its the protesters... I don't understand why, if its the press that use the press I'm even more confused as they are the last ones to ask for respect.
All I want is the road to open again!!!
It's election day, and once again I've wasted my time by going to vote.
It's two ballot papers for us, as we get to elect a Mayor. I didn't want an elected Mayor, but nobody bothered to ask me, or any other voter in the City.
Personally, I think it's critically important that an elected Mayor is independent of party, but in Liverpool that's just not going to happen.
C'est la vie.
Oh, and sorry for the wonkiness of this photo, but it seems that no single object in the frame is perpendicular to any other one. So there.
I drive past this every night on my way home from work, and I've been really curious to find out what it is. It's a pretty big constuction on a massive site at the corner of Beech Street and Prescot Road in Kensington.
It turns out that it's the rather laughably titled "Kensington Neighbourhood Centre" and it started construction about six weeks ago.
Why is the title laughable? Well, like most Liverpool projects it started out as something potentially useful. This was to be a combination of shops and flats with a housing association headquarters, some PCT (health service) facilities, a council 'one stop shop' and a Fire Station.
Again as with seemingly all things related to Kensington Regeneration it hit delays, then more delays, then more delays, then turned from something useful into something not useful. The PCT went elsewhere because of the delays. The housing association went elsewhere because of the delays. The Council probably vired funding elsewhere. And something that showed promise now doesn't. The huge site opposite this one could have been something amazing - we got a McDonalds and a Lidl. This site could have been something amazing. It's going to be an Iceland and some flats.
Just like everything else that comes out of the self serving White Elephant of the 'Job Bank' on Tunnel Road, it's failed to deliver for the people of Kensington. Call me cynical, but I'm acutely aware that these regeneration companies can only work themselves out of a job if they succeed. That's not much of an incentive to do well.
Maybe I'm wrong and it will be lovely. I'm not holding my breath.
What a tremendously colossal waste of time, but for bragging rights and a bit of greed. If I find five words in the scramble, then I am awarded 50 points.
Moments after this achievement I scored 186. seen here.
Points can be redeemed at kostrewards.kost1035.com/asp2/games3.aspx towards sweepstakes entries or small gifts. It's not just playing the game that is a waste of time and intellect. I applied my programming skills to developing a python script (program) which matches all the permutations of the eight tiles and sorts the dictionary matches in scrabble tile value order, as well as maintaining a log of the racks in order of greatest rack value - the SSH shell from the Raspberry Pi can be seen in black at the right. I could make the script swifter by running the input of a rack and results output inside a loop, and not have to wait for the 700,000 word dictionary to load at each execution, just once at the beginning, then loop for each rack. However, I think I'm done with this time vampire - both the game play and the improving the cheat software (er… facilitating agent or some such - because, like shaking a pinball machine without tilting, it's not a cheat if the game lets you take every advantage!)
I redeemed points for preview movie tickets and sweepstakes entries - one of which I won, HULU Pop-Up - but I couldn't convince ANYONE to be my plus-one and accompany me to either of the week early film previews of Sisters, Concussion or the front of the line passes to HULU Seinfeld Pop-up — and so that's what loosers do, sit at home and program game solutions when that very same poor pauper could be out earning cash, friends and smiles driving for Uber gofundme.com/8wizard — PLEASE HELP! A hand up, not a handout! Keep me from becoming homeless, on welfare and a burden to society!
Three disappointed little bears.
One of their choices made third place but they backed him to win.
Back to the drawing board, boys!
Ted: "Mum, will you replace the £10 I spent on the geegees, please?"
The local farmer told me that these were the caves at Tora Bora and that Osama was hiding there. I camped out with my camera, phone and a rock handy as a missile. I waited several hours for Osama to show his damn face. I didn't get too close, which in retrospect, was a mistake, as when I crept a bit closer, I realised these caves were rabbit burrows.
Well I tried my bit for the Axis of goodness, but sadly nothing came of it.
What amuses the sarcastic side of me is, this is getting plenty of hits a day from search engines. I can only imagine how annoyed people are when they open it up and find a ropey scene from the Lammermuirs! I'm tickled by that in a small way
7 May 2025
President Donald J. Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
re: Secretary Bessent and the Two Dolls Issue
Dear President Trump:
Treasury Secretary Bessent recently appeared on a FOX News telecast. When asked about the “two dolls” comment and the tariff situation with China, Secretary Bessent responded (transcribed from an online source):
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a message for a hypothetical little girl worried that she won’t have more than two dolls because of Donald Trump’s disastrous tariff policy.
“I would tell that young girl that you will have a better life than your parents,” Bessent said, during an appearance on Fox News Tuesday night. “That you and your family, thanks to President Trump, can now be confident again that you will have a better life than your parents, which, working-class Americans had abandoned that idea.”
“Your family will own a home, you will be able to advance. You will have a good education, you will have economic freedom,” Bessent continued.
Source:
www.yahoo.com/news/trump-treasury-secretary-says-doll-140...
Respectfully, sir: Secretary Bessent is SO out of touch! He’s all like, Blah blah blah, and all the time that "hypothetical little girl” would be thinking: "But my mom had SIXTY MONSTER HIGH DOLLS when she was little, and I only get TWO? How is that a 'better life?'"
And Mom is thinking, "Economic freedom? What 'economic freedom?' When I was a kid, my parents bought me SIXTY MONSTER HIGH DOLLS, not to mention all the My Little Pony stuff, and you're telling me I have 'economic freedom' when I can't afford to give my daughter TWO dolls?"
In general, and in principle, I understand and agree that the international tariff situation needs to be adjusted. For the most part I support your Administration’s approach to doing so.
But, c'mon, New Administration! You are making a serious public relations blunder here by taxing toys until they are out of reach while making concessions on the big ticket items the rich people think are important, like iPhones.
As a regular American consumer, I honestly don't give a rip about iPhones (which have been exempted from China tariffs). I don't need a new iPhone every year, or even every three or five years. But what your Administration thinks of as "plastic junk," what your Administration tells us we "don't need" or “can live without" is the stuff those of us in the real world buy and use EVERY DAY!
Yeah, it sucks that greedy American companies produce everything in China. Barbie and Hot Wheels used to be made in Hawthorne, California, not in China.
But today, EVERYTHING comes from China. That’s not the fault of the consumer. That’s a conscious decision on the part of the Boards of Directors of America’s corporations.
Do something to Mattel to force them to bring production back. Hit Hasbro with some legislation. Incentivize domestic production of everything. Stop punishing the consumers. WE HAVE NO SAY in where things are made. Call your pals who sit on the Boards of Directors of Corporate America in to a room and read ‘em the riot act! Stop kicking the little guy… or the little girls.
Sticking it to the American consumer, and then gloating over it, and telling us “it’s for your own good,” as Secretary Bessent seems to be doing, is NOT the right approach.
Y'all are gonna make everybody hate you. You understand that, right? You understand that it's not just about affluent Silicon Valley hipsters and their phones, right?
No... no, apparently your Administration does NOT understand that.
And unless toy prices come DOWN, not go UP — along with the prices of toothbrushes and soap dishes and artificial flowers and bath mats and extension cords and shampoo — you guys are gonna be out on your backsides faster than you can blink.
You're turning the country over to the other party with this doll thing. Do you not understand that? The doll thing is like that squirrel thing was to the other party. Do NOT underestimate the doll thing. Do not make light of the doll thing. The doll thing is a symbol for all the stuff we buy and use in our daily lives. The doll thing impacts everybody, not just suburban moms buying dolls for their little girls.
Your Administration is absolutely losing the battle for hearts and minds with your ignorant, callous attitudes.
Why couldn’t Secretary Bessent have said, instead, something like: “We are aware of the Quality of Life issues affecting the American consumer, and rest assured the Administration is working around the clock to negotiate fair and equitable trade deals that will benefit everyone and ensure an affordable selection of dolls and every other item the American consumer uses and enjoys.”
Make Dolls Great Again…. please!
Thank you for your consideration,
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7 May - A Doll A Day 2025
Having marked a bunch of videos to watch in Vimeo, I come to download them and am told:
"Permission denied
You cannot download any more videos today."
Not only is Vimeo using a harsh tone and failing to provide a reason for this, but the way in which this message is delivered is pretty vile too. Here's what you have to do to even find this message:
1) You click a link that says "Download this video"
2) The file downloads (suspiciously quickly)
3) It turns out to be an HTML file
4) You load it into a browser
5) Search for the term "download"
6) You're confronted by the message pictured here
What a waste of time, and what a horrible way to treat people that show an interest in your site's content.
I wonder if Vimeo is really the place to be putting my video in future. I doubt that Google/Youtube would impose such a download limit.
...isn't worth the fun of the ball.
71/365
Ugh.
For TOTW's "Time." Uploading late...because time is in short supply these days. Or maybe i'm thinking of motivation.
I used to think I couldn't breathe without you, but now I've realized, I can't breathe with you either
You were all I wanted, but I'm done now
Faslane Peace Camp - protesting against the actual thing that prevents war on a intercontinental scale; not seen since the 40’s
...that the farm animals decided to go and see the bright lights.
I'm hoping this might win a prize as most stupid photo of the day but I neither wanted to undress the christmas tree and put it way for another year or have to herd all these animals into the conservatory to see the decorations.
The classic 2 inch cube. Look at those bags of dollar store elastics. I obviously wasn't taking the project seriously back then.
Took this photo about 30 minutes before one of the security guards falsely told me I wasn't allowed to take photos inside of the public cruise terminal. Mind you, they make folks walk through a metal detector, before reuniting the passengers with hundreds of pounds of unscreened luggage on the boat. And visitors are prohibited from boarding the boat unless they ask permission 4 days - 2 weeks ahead of time (the answer changes depending on who you ask). This security theater is worse than useless, as I am now fairly sure that the people in charge of designing Crystal Cruises' security system have designed it with only the illusion of security, no doubt sacrificing actual security. Waste of money, waste of resources, waste of time.
FAIL