I saw this being heavily advertised on my home Netflix screen and accurately thought, “What the fuck?” I then added it to my list to watch at a later date. I had been reading about Dan Harmon (when I wrote about Community) and he had featured on a podcast by a guy called Duncan Trussell….
I have mentioned before that I have started to write on Medium and a couple of articles in, I got one curated. My plan was to be one of those annoying bastards that write an article a day, is hugely successful and gets xxx number of followers and cash in their first couple of months…
In case you missed this production of Frankenstein, here is a recap on the background and what is going to happen. In 2011, the legendary Danny Boyle directed a theatre version of Frankenstein starring Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch. Apart from being a brilliant adaptation of the book, it had a further twist –…
I don’t know if it was meant to be ironic, what with everyone being stuck inside and not seeing anyone else, but the comedy show Community is now on Netflix (and elsewhere). I had seen the odd episode over the years and it was funny but if you don’t really know the characters, you are…
Since the start of the lockdown, I have noticed that I am coping a lot better than those around me. By ‘around me’ I mean Mrs Word of Ward (in person) and the rest of the world (through the interweb). There are a couple of things I really, really miss such as going to the…
I mentioned before that I am going to start writing for Medium. Why not? I have a staggering amount of time on my hands. Now I should preface this by saying that I have been somewhat of a lazy bastard since I wrote that post originally. The first thing I wrote on Medium and the…
I was a huge fan of Wunderlist and was sad when I learned they were shutting down to be replaced by Microsoft To-Do. Panicked even. So I did a ton of research, read a few dozen ‘Top 10 to do lists’ and discovered Tick Tick. I pretty much ran my life with the aid of…
Unless you are a wanker, you are probably self-isolating right now. Well, Sir Patrick Stewart is here to help the boredom by reading a Shakespearean sonnet every day. As someone who writes for a living and then spends his downtime writing more, reading, gaming and watching films / TV, self-isolation is pretty much something I…
I am not trying to be controversial or complacent about AI here as I am talking purely from a personal perspective. I have written before about the race for AI supremacy and even how they might be of benefit, but the concern for most people is simply that an Artificial Intelligence will steal their jobs….
Recently, while all the NASA types were on holiday, the Mars Curiosity Rover got bored and took a panorama. You can’t really blame it, it went to Mars on a two year mission to see if there was the possibility that the red planet (which is mostly brown) was capable of ever harboring life. One…
I wrote about the coronavirus and masks a month ago when it was just beginning to scare people / be talked about by the media all the time. The two things are obviously closely related. Thanks media. My stance then was that people need a better grasp of mathematics, statistics, and how the media and…
I started playing the PS4 exclusive Dreams last night and absolutely loved it. I had read quite a few reviews and it seemed interesting. One common theme running through any article talking about it was that it was hard to explain what Dreams actually is. It is kind of like Minecraft crossed with YouTube crossed…
In case you are some kind of ghastly Luddite, a deepfake is essentially when you add someone’s face to someone else and make them say fake stuff. Think digital ‘Face/Off‘. It can also be, for example, when you make someone like Obama says some things he never said (see video below of top ten deepfakes)….
A brief sojourn in Baan Krood, Thailand. As I mentioned last week, I have been travelling a lot recently but only locally. I live in Thailand, so local travel is what a lot of people travel around the planet to see (I don’t mean to gloat, we also have the coronavirus and pollution at the…
I was blissfully mask and worry free for two weeks, the coronavirus and pollution a distant dream. I have just spent almost two weeks down the coast of Thailand in a place called Baan Krood, followed by a town called Prachuap Kiri Khan, and then a more touristy city called Hua Hin. All of which…
The sun, or Sol as it prefers to be called, it a pretty damned amazing ball exploding stuff. Now, thanks to a new telescope that goes by the catchy moniker of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (or even catchier DKIST), we can now see Sol in ever more impressive detail. The image at the…
I have decided to write for Medium. It can’t hurt. I was a member anyway and decided to give it a bash after realising that The Word of Ward has been going since April 2009. Which is a bugger of a long time. This website has always been a combination of attention seeking and a…
Foldable technology is almost here. Well, technically all laptops are foldable but that is verging on the pedantic. What I am talking about are foldable screens and while a lot of people may not see the point, I am very excited. I mean, when the iPad first came out people complained that it was essentially…
Over the last few years I have striven to care less about stuff in a quest for contentment. Not giving a shit about what other people think has been pretty easy as I generally have a low opinion of my fellow humans. When I see friends on Facebook claiming that climate change is a hoax,…
I recently read an article in New Scientist that said statistically, if you make new year resolutions, you are more likely to keep them than merely vaguely wanting to do something. I had read in Professor Richard Wiseman’s 59 seconds that said if you publicly let people know your resolutions, then you will try harder…