Tuesday 29 October 2024

Trolley 735


A middle sized trolley from the M&S food hall, captured at the top of the Kokoro Passage, just off Station Approach. The front entrance to the hall was shut, but I was in time to return the trolley to the chap guarding the Ashley Centre entrance, still open while they swept out the few remaining shoppers.

A curious advertisement from Network Rail on Waterloo Road, some miles from the nearest level crossing that I know of. And I don't know of any of the more informal crossings you get in places like the Isle of Wight around here. Perhaps Network Rail, as the owner of the wall, get a cheap rate from Global?

In the margins, I find that Global have some sort of a tie-up with Becky Hill, a new-to-me singer who seems to like to show a bit of leg. Although the snap offered at reference 2 is slightly more demure than the one above offered at reference 3.

PS 1: while this afternoon, more news on the cheese heist noticed at the end of reference 4 to be found at reference 5. Seemingly, the fraudsters posed as a French wholesale cheese distributor.

PS 2: more depressingly, I read the piece in the NYRB at reference 6 about the need for regulation of AI. The chances of getting such regulation in place look slim, more or less zero if Trump gets in. The impression given is that the big cheeses in AI - the bosses of Microsoft, Google, Meta and so on and so forth - are behaving in much the same way as the bosses of the big tobacco companies who came before them: a combination of denial with cash in while you can. And to think that most of the people who invented IT, back in the middle decades of the last century, probably did not give a toss for fame or fortune. They were in it for the science. And maybe just a little academic kudos.

PS 3: and by way of a new departure yesterday, I found Google's Gemini surprisingly good at telling me about the timetables of cruise liners. Not perfect, but certainly helpful. Not the sort of thing that I have asked it about before. Not so good on the timetables of airlines - but then I suppose that there a lot more flights than cruises and it is all a lot more complicated.

PS 4: not very optimistic this afternoon about hitting 800 trolleys before year end, although I suppose I can still double my bet and go for 1,000 trolleys by next year end. I am not getting the pace needed to make up for the two missing months while I wheeled my own trolley about. See reference 7.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/10/trolley-734.html.

Reference 2: https://global.com/outdoor/.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_Hill.

Reference 4: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/10/suburban-greenery.html.

Reference 5: Dairy farmer fears stolen cheese may be sold in Russia or Middle East - Barney Davis, The Independent, Microsoft Start - 2024. 

Reference 6: The coming tech autocracy - Sue Halpern, New York Review of Books - 2024.

Reference 7: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/07/trolleys.html.

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