Coombe Barton

... from author Joanna Maciejewska. You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/18/covid-up-again-and-flu-down-a-wish-for-ai/

... if students devoted as much creativity to the task of producing assessments as they seem to do producing excuses they wouldn’t generate the problems for themselves that they do ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/who-drives-the-vindictive-more-vivas-local-history/

... Small and select group turned up today. I still have never seen five students (of 70) in this cohort. We’re in week 11 of 12. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/16/age-related-covid-susceptibility-a-possible-explanation-chris-whitty-on-tobacco-and-vapes-bill-absence-of-students/

Quorn, in common with other fake meats, is incontestably ultra-processed. Evidently, this is not an issue for the animal welfare, vegetarian and vegan groups that hail such confections as a potential end to animal slaughter and the misery of factory farming Source https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/12/quorn-revolution-rise-ultra-processed-fake-meat#:~:text=Quorn%2C in common with other,the misery of factory farming.

Knock, knock. Who's there? Donald Donald who? Good, you're on the jury.

... marking ... quite what relevance to Hotel performance the citation which refers to “Prolonged presence of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in faecal samples” I long to find out ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/vaccinations-more-summons-to-vivas-and-getting-cross-eyed/

Sandy took her mother and her aunt on holiday many times, and once did Millook south to north in a little Suzuki three cylinder jobbie. She said her mum was having kittens all the way up. Her aunt (who will be 94 on Thursday) loved it. (Memo to self - get a birthday card and pressie.) (that Suzuki was a great little car.)

... “The outlook for academia with regards to A.I would seem challenging; with students using A.I, quoting faked A.I research, itself citing faked authors and studies … and we base economies, health and defence systems upon such input?!” ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/14/eat-out-to-help-out-more-potential-student-falsification-non-flying-eggs/

Did Hardknott a couple of times in 1979 in a 1300 Ford Fiesta

Have you contacted the Guinness Book of Records?

I try to design all AI out of my assessments

... AI: If we allow people to cheat then the people who don’t cheat see their work devalued ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/13/gp-visits-hs2-long-process-to-check-students-work/

I;m on my own, and bought a cooker with a dual oven. Apart from casseroles and roasts I use the smaller oven. I understand the energy saving, but I'd need to do a helluva lot of cooking before out paid for itself, I think. Then as @Smiffy2 has said there's the cleaning

Little Chefs: What happened to roadside diner chain https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68796980

I have a microwave - haven't used it for about three years. Air fryer? What for? Is there anything that cooks better than in a conventional oven/hob? 'Cos that's what I use.