Yass Queen 2 Electric Boogaloo

As my last post confirmed, we do indeed get a bank holiday out of this. Though not for King Chucks coronation. We have a massive shut down while the country reboots, and Chazza is installed.

Think of it as a Royal equivalent of windows updates. There is even a big fuck off queue going down from Southwark to Westminster abbey. I'm not joking it's 18 hours of your life you're not getting back. So what do I do. I decide to go down and have a look at the said queue, not pay my respects mind, but just have a look and see what its all about.

Got off at Westminster and walked along the river, I did see them on the bridge, queueing, so at least I can say I saw them, but there was so much more out there that was interesting.

For one there was a big Socialist Wanker Party presence there. Tried real hard to get a pic of someone holding a Hoes sign (it should've said homes but the angle cut the M out of it). But had to content myself with a nice shot of the London Eye. 

What you don't see up there is the amount of police and security detail out there. This is one place you

do not want to fuck around and find out. We had a look in Whitehall gardens with their statues and walked down to Trafalgar Square, which is closed off. 

Finally got down to Soho and had a look around at the record shops as the arcade was closed for a function. We got to see the owners dog at Sounds of The Universe, which was rather empty. Finally on the tube back to the suburbs we saw a golden retriever on the floor with two ladies. It's their first tube trip, and they are 2. Thoroughly nice dog.  

Yass Queen

You can't have failed to notice that the queen is no more.  We are now into the shit playlist era of radio, all the slow, kill yourself tracks, not even some decent dance like when Diana pegged it. If your idea of hell is Coldplay on a loop then this is it.

As you may infer from the above, I'm not much of a royalist, I'm not a republican by any means, its just that now her Maj has gone, there really isn't anyone left among the royals I can give much of a damn for. We are now, very much in the King Chuck timeline. Talking to plants and royal carbuncles and the like.

After he goes its either Wills and Kate, or Harry and Megan as king and queen, maybe Harry could be crowned in his Nazi uniform, though he has to at least outlast all of Williams sprogs to stand a chance. 

The downside of this not caring, is actually caring when the weirdo left and the IRAtards moaning on about colonization and shit pile in to piss on her still warm corpse, when her reign was basically one long resignation letter from the Commonweatlh by most of Africa and the Caribbean. Still when has facts ever gotten in the way of feelings, eh, leftoids.

Will she be missed, yeah without a doubt, 70 fucking years on the throne does that, she was an institution after all, and will leave a long shadow. I guess they could put a corgi on the throne until King Chazzer gets his coronation, which, I hear we'll get a bank holiday for. So every cloud, huh.

A walk.

 There's another bait article up in todays Mail about women watching pron and the so called harm, and I can't be bothered to respond.

Instead I went for a walk down by the river, instead. To tell the truth, its been about 4 months or so since I've been down there, It's a small stretch of the Thames from Firepower down towards Thamesmead, with options to walk past Crossness power station down towards Erith for the adventurous. 

There is quite a lot to watch along the way, if the tide is out you can see a variety of gulls such as Black Headed gulls, Herring Bull (aka Chip thief or Bully Gull) and the occasional Black backed gull. You may get some Mallards in the wooded bit as well as Shelduck and Teal. Today we saw some Mute Swans but I've also seen Cormorant, especially along by the Jetty at Erith.

There's quite a bit of cover even though a grass fire had ripped through a swathe of the river front, it still has quite a stand of Hawthorn and other small trees. There is some Sea Aster in flower as its getting on for autumn now, and we managed to disturb a Ring Neck Parakeet from the bush.

For once we managed to pick the right exit so we came out near the bus stop by the baths for the bus home.

brushfire damage.

 

BBC Prons

There is a credible news story that did the rounds on Monday that was basically a thinly disguised trail for BBC Panorama (and not it not that *BBC sadly.) It boils down to people posting nude pics of their wives / girlfriends on notable spaz aggregator. Reddit. Obviously without consent.  

As an actual porn fan of this sort of shit, I knew it was a bullshit programme long before I knew it was from a subreddit. As a noted tight fist, I wouldn't share anything, but it got me thinking. If this sort of thing is outlawed and trust me it will, what actually, will become of it. I guess some sort of Onlyfans style site where women post nudes themselves would do... but I see a ton of A.I generated content, mainly on Twitter and thinking how Chriddof uses a computer generated woman as an avatar.

What if we were to cut out the middle woman entirely, and just get A.I to generate nudes.

Just train it at Pornhub or some other large dataset of images and such and just get them to create all the porn you need, risk free, with no comebacks. 

It would eliminate consent entirely, if your model isn't real and entirely of age, then there should be no comebacks. I don't know if anyone is doing that now, but lets face it, porn is the innovator, online, so it wouldn't surprise me if they were.

Oh and about that reddit, you know some other subreddit is going to pop up later and all. I know the BBC are slapping their backs and such, but we all know its not going to stop them.

* Gee, I should have just linked to blacked dot com, let's face it, it's what you all thing BBC means outside the UK.

Chormebork

 We finally found one of these low powered PC's, in a fly tip of all places, and while predictably it was fucked (didn't turn on) it had a nice aesthetic about it.

I guess I just love low powered form factor PC's. I've written before about a weird TV PC we've found and this is going to be no exception. I guess I did the only logical thing one does with busted hardware. Tear it down.

Chromebork guts.

It's from 2014 so its long passed its use by date, but looking at that, what you don't see is a good half of that is battery, like a laptop battery. The rest seems to be a tablet motherboard style, with ram built in (2GB) a NAND chip working as your storage, and a few connectors for expansion, SD Card, HDMI and a two USB ports one USB 3.0. 

If I was designing it I would either put in a low capacity SSD or use a Micro SD card that you could upgrade as its main HD. RAM would be double that maybe even 8GB, and dropping the SD reader and upping the USB port counts to 4, all USB3.  My idiot brain wants a SATA port at the back for HD integration and no I've no idea if that is feasible, I just liked the callback to old computers such as the Amiga. Also, a laptop battery seems fine for this but yet again my idiot mind wants to run this from a iPhone battery.

I hate mostly online stuff and Chromebork seems to be all online with I think a few sops to running android. I know there are a few android as main OS, such as Android Remix and apart from one incredibly busted laptop never got it working on anything else. So this or inevitable linux port or  Raspberry pi desktop OS. 

 

Hampstead

For the first time in absolutely ages, we decided to go to Dog town or Hampstead as it's better known. And yeah, hot as fuck out and people still walking their doggos about. See a couple of Labs being walked, and one had his little lipstick poking out. Obviously enjoying the sun.

Anyway we decided to get off a few stops earlier and walk up from Swiss Cottage, as I knew there would be a few shops there, got a Clan of Xymox CD which isn't bad at all from the Hate Foundation (Heart Foundation) and then got a drink from the Turkish grocers to carry on. Tip always see if there is a Turkish grocers whenever you are in London, they're wild, lots of obscure snacks and drinks.

Almost made it reckoning by bus stop maps but turns out that where I was going right I thought I was going wrong. I ended up outside the Tavistock Clinic minus my balls and looking at the map on my phone, to see where I went wrong. 

Retracing my steps we finally made it Hampstead and had a look round there is a nice Oxfam there and a few other places. Picked up a white label house track and Sir Mix-A-Lot One Time's Got No Case as we have Baby's Got Back ages ago.

After quite a few bottles of water we decided to go home, mission accomplished.

Break my soul a review of sorts.

 So it's out, a new Beyonce album and a decent single from said album. No its not the one that is a retread of Anti Vax knob jockeys, Right Said Fred's I'm too sexy. (Seriously America what the fuck is wrong with you, most Brits in the 90's though they were cringe) But it's the one that is part shitty rap (Bounce) and part Robin S Show Me Love retread (Stonebridge remix.)

If people had any balls this is the Image they'd use.

It helps that Beyonce has a golden voice, and that only a ill guided rap part in the middle lets it down, otherwise the Acapella and original mix are the ones to go for, where Bounce and not Robin S are the glue that holds together that wonderful voice. Cull it and you get the mess that is the Instrumental. The bounce bits do not work on their own and the interpretation of Stonebridges Show Me Love rework are few and far between.

There is a bunch of mixes to go with it as well. Including what I thought was a mash up or a joke but is 100% official. The Queens Mix with Akhenaton faced whore, Madonna.  I got 1 min in before switching it off. 

There is a Will.I.Am mix which is adequate to a point but there is one sound that puts me off.

The Honey Dijon remix isn't half bad, quite a big drum build up and still haven't heard it all the way through to see if they'll do anything with it.

Nita Aviance does a good job with a stripped down house version that still has the rap sadly.

Full props must go to Terry Hunter for creating something that sounds like it should've been released on Strictly Rhythm back in 1994. It really feels like that area of Garage house, like Morels Groove. 

Still has the rap line in it.

Me I've been playing an edited acapella over DHS House of God Jack Dangers mix.

EDIT.

As a postscript to this, a few things stood out for me. First of all no one does anything like this any more. And by this I mean totally fuck with the vocal track. Check out Ron Hardy's Ghost, or Car Crash both chew up Let No Man Put Asunder and spits it out in strange ways.  No one rips up tracks any more.

Second, I've seen a number of shill writers wibble on about Black and Queer  Gay culture, when what you really mean to write is that era from the mid 80's when House was being threshed out of Italo and Disco in Gay clubs in NYC and Chicago. It still doesn't matter, that Korg piano house era was ten years later, in 92 -95, and Stonebridge's mix, on which this is based off of, is a Swede.

If you had any balls you'd base your track on this.