Thomas Rigby
Thomas Rigby
Thomas Rigby
A Gen-X/Millennial cusp (Xennial), I'm old enough to remember life before the internet but not (quite) old enough to have seen Nirvana live. Or, as my wife puts it, I adapt to technology like a Millennial but get angry about it like a Boomer.
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With the greatest respect to Hollie from whom I have nicked adapted this rating system. Ranking Meaning 🎄🎄🎄🎄🌟 •chef's kiss• 11/10 no notes 🎄🎄🎄🎄 Hits all notes of the formula but in an enjoyable way 🎄🎄🎄 Perfectly serviceable...
Full of the magic of Christmas, this musical tale of family reunion, betrayal, and toymaking feels like Disney made Dinsdale's The Toymakers. Gentle steampunk magical toys include a narcissistic matador and a wooden robot that is not...
17th November - 23rd November This time last year, my garden was under 6 inches of snow. This year the "cold snap" has barely resulted in ground frost. I remembered an old laptop in a box so I tried setting up a local shared server. Now...
“A feisty princess locked in a tower must save the kingdom from an evil sociopath” is right up my street! The entire film is basically a lengthy, well-choreographed fight scene that showcases the princesses prowess as well as witty...
While summarising a book I was intending purchasing as a gift for a friend, Anthropic's Claude LLM provided me with sources for its summations. Unfortunately, those citations are for the articles it read on the way to help it bypass...
Thanks to the little energy-related facts I get in communications from my electricity supplier, I learned the Kentucky Coal Mining museum has been solar powered since 2017 in what seems like the Scooby Doo double-take of the century. "It...
I set out on the first of November with noble intentions to share a learning every day. I'd been doing well, my statistics for November were looking like a nice solid block of colour! But then life happened. Work got busy, home got busy....
One thing I always tell people at work (apart from "it depends") is “the closer you get to launch, the less you know”. This is becoming very apparent at work this week as we start to spec a new product for a client. Unpicking everything...
Courtesy of Katherine via Nic Chan's "People & Blogs" interview, I learned about intentionally blank pages. Having read a book or two in my time, I've seen these blank pages; usually a quirk of the way books are bound in bundles of...
10th November - 16th November I went for a walk this week; took the dog out early doors, pre-dawn. I thought it was a bit blowy. When I got home my wife informed me there's a yellow weather warning for a named storm coming in. Storm...
I was skimming through a children's book on demolition today (kids love construction vehicles) and read about the crew hosing the site down to make it less dusty. So, what's all that about then? Many of the materials buildings are made...
I am currently working on a project that requires localisation for providing native language content to various diaspora and migrant communities. As a curiosity, I wondered just how many distinct languages there. According to Ethnologue,...
Ad Infinitum drop another single, "Regicide", with their new "electronica" tinge. Big fan of Melissa Bonny and her numerous projects; concerned the electronic direction might overlap Ad Infinitum with Rage of Light. A solid offering...
Back in September when I was watching "Under The Bridge", little did I know lead actress Riley Keough is American Royalty — granddaughter of the King himself, Elvis Presley! Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts...
Brian DePalma's 1983 gangster movie, "Scarface" is a polarising classic. Al Pacino's delivery of Oliver Stone's eminently quotable script garnered him a nomination for Best Actor at the Golden Globes. Giorgio Moroder's score was also...