I did it this last week on something that was breaking me. Reminded me. Oh the workflow… perfectly good tool: “Do you want AI ?”, “Sure, can it tell me how to close my account and use a tool that won’t make everything I do mediocre and illiterate?”. It’s done wonders for my use of scrap paper.

It’s my sometimes motivational “at least I didn’t come up with that rubbish” machine

Great use for ChatGPT and its brethren though… Work on a brief. Get frustrated. Think you’ve totally run out of ideas. Take a break. Come back. Still nothing decent. Panic. Ask ChatGPT. Realise your stuff was actually pretty strong, crack your knuckles and just get it sorted. Have snack.

If you want a 'private members club' and can afford the fee, you can just get the same experience without the hassle and for a fraction of the cost by just going to a decent family restaurant repeatedly.

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But where will the helicopter be waiting with the trophy?

Yes. Love that.

It was a great few days. Actually I've just remembered I pottered around Cornwall on 4 or 5 trains on the third day then got the sleeper back. Now I'm based in Glasgow I should really be procrastinating while rushing through the Highlands more often rather than in my kitchen...

In a time before kids I used to do exactly this from time to time (railcards made it fairly reasonable). Oh the things that got achieved on the way to and from Newark, Grantham et al. Last hurrah was a 3 day London - Aberdeen - Penzance (direct) - London a month before my first was born. Bliss.

Unfortunately they're neither magic, nor that cheap, but there are a surprising number of "Ranger and Rover" options from National Rail (not a couple of cartoon dogs, but tickets for unlimited travel in certain areas/times). All line rover is £540 for 7 days.

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I’ve just had two people fail to locate a dead rat hidden somewhere in our basement, but learning people call prompts ‘spells’ is definitely worse.

Obviously the sensible solution is keeping the butter out. But, if circumstances mean you need to spread it from the fridge the cheese grater is your friend…

Okay so imagine this, you have no opinions, you have no skills, you have no wants or desires, you are a smooth orb of nothing and our subscription service helps make sure you still cast a shadow that resembles a human being. Sounds sick right?

To wrap it back to the original point. The anticipation is still there to be monetised (If Team X can win this, they might have a chance to compete in a competition where something might happen in 18 months time), and the ongoing nature is of course baked in. But it feels like a feature, not a bug.

A school athletics meeting can be more exciting than the Olympics. Following the journey of some amateur enthusiasts to compete at the Commonwealth games can be it's own multi-series thriller. And the various structures of sporting endeavour mean there's always a new 'thing' to get into.

And as for the commercialisation of sport and the many related ills, I can just watch the sport being played in its purer form elsewhere. Do I watch the Premier League? Sure. Do I prefer the Australian A-League. I do. Would I watch a game live from Gambia? I have.

Sport just... happens. If it's shit, well, there you go. That's just another of the infinite ways things can pan out when people play by certain rules. Tune in next time and it might just blow your mind. A bad match exists to enhance the experience over a lifetime, not as something to grade on IMDB.

I love my TV, theatre, film, books and all the rest of it. But I became enamoured with sport as a kid as an extension of the emotional engagement I got from those things. And for the many, many times "you have to stick with it" has been levelled at TV et al, sport just doesn't have that option.

You get the backstory (rivalries, redemption stories, historic highs and lows), the immediate context (must-win encounter, a hero returns, statistical milestone), and the specifics of the game/match/race. Nothing in unbelievable because if it happened, it happened. And when it ends, that's it.