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Day in the Life: 29th March
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Easter 2016: Easter Sunday
Apologies that the weekend video has gone up late in the week yet again, a combination of no time to sit down and edit and a major issue with the sound. Next weekend onwards we’re going to be back to our regular Monday evening schedule.
You can see more glimpses of our lives over on the blog http://www.verymuchsoblog.co.uk
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Lyra loves to draw
Kurt Cobain’s body was discovered April 8th 1994, but the coroner surmised that he’d likely committed suicide on April 5th.
Nirvana – Come As You Are (Live at Reading 1992)
Teens React to Nirvana
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Tim Minchin’s beat poem Storm, centres on an argument with a “hippie” who believes in various New Age alternatives in lieu of actual medicine, he states: “Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed. Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved.”
It is 2 years old at this point, but I only just discovered it today and it is bloody fantastic.
Written and performed by Tim Minchin (@timminchin). Directed by DC Turner (@dcturner). Produced by Tracy King (@tkingdoll). See more at www.stormmovie.net.
Via Slate
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Xbox One thoughts
So Microsoft revealed their forthcoming replacement for the Xbox 360 last night and I sat down and watched it with my wife as we are both gamers and were excited about this event.
I’m still excited about the Xbox One even if the presentation didn’t go down particularly well with a lot of people. Hardcore gamers are annoyed that there was very little about games last night, but that wasn’t what last night was really about. E3 will be the big reveal for the games.
My favourite comment by Amy was when she talked about how cheap she thought the suits were. Can’t Microsoft employees afford better suits!
The Xbox One was being heavily promoted as the entertainment hub of the living room which is fine with me. We’re pretty much using our 360 as the entertainment hub already, we used to watch DVDs on it until we finally got a Bluray player about 6 months ago and still watch BBC iPlayer and 4OD on it. I have no complaints in that regard and I’m sure given that the Xbox One is designed with that in mind from the start it will be better at these kind of things.
I don’t give a fuck about the partnership with the NFL, they never even explained what the fuck that entailed anyway. Halo television show was a cool bit of news but not really relevant.
The most interesting thing for me last night was this line from Marc Whitten.
The soul of the new system is the Xbox One architecture. Three operating systems in one.
Three operating systems in one and the instant switching between gaming and other Xbox features made me think straightaway that they are using virtualisation. I’ve since seen that this has been confirmed.
So it will be running a hypervisor, and then two virtual operating systems a cut down version of Windows 8 and then the Xbox gaming OS. This is a very sensible thing to do in my opinion and the instant switching if it works exactly as it did in the demo will be great.
Amy wasn’t as fascinated as I was with the underlying technologies of the system but she did like the design of the controllers a lot and the responsiveness of Kinect to voice and hand gestures. In addition she was excited by the idea of full screen Skype on it using the Kinect’s 1080p camera.
Overall even despite not seeing much in the way of gaming this household will be purchasing One on release.
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Jingle Bells
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Tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut
Best news coverage of the event comes from The Onion Fuck Everything, Nation Reports
“Well, I suppose we have to try to pick up the pieces and make some sort of sense of this tragedy and—you know what? Fuck it, I can’t do this,” said Connecticut resident Michael Zaleski, his remarks understandable given the circumstances, because, holy shit, what else can one say? “I’m sorry, but I can’t fucking do this. Can you? Can anyone?”
Witnesses said the gunman fired at least 100 rounds during his deadly rampage, which, according to children in the school—goddamnit, how? How? Twenty children. Dead. In a fucking school.
Also Charlie Brooker’s commentary on the news coverage of similar previous tragedies seems quite apropos.