John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8hSomebody has had bad experiences with umpires! That said, a few are awful. Most are reasonable and there are some good ones out there too. I do think there should be “feedback” forms for teams to complete after tournaments so the organizers can collect data and decide who not to hire in future. 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9hThis is crazy, and if it was isolated I would say it was just a bad touch screen (notice when it selected what he wanted he tapped a little lower on the screen). Problem is there are a lot of people claiming it takes them several attempts to get the candidate […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9hWell, that's classic. Send out an email telling people to just reply if they have questions, and then, when they do, send an auto-response back saying the email address is unmonitored. 200 2
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026Pressed the OnStar button in the truck last night to ask whether there was an outage with the Supercruise backend since it was telling me it had no road information (on roads I have used it on previously). They claimed not, but it came back later on its own […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026IReassuring that AI is no better at getting left & right correct 😂 It would not move it to the other hand either - no matter how many times I asked, each in different ways. In the end, I used Openart and Nano Banana 2.1 to move it to the correct hand. 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026I really thought we were past the phase where SaaS sites failed completely... 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026Marked down from $5.99 to $7.19. Not sure that’s a deal I’m going for. #Safeway 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026Well, that's not very useful. #ai #anthropic #claude #fail #outage 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026"I was writing it in my head " - output from Gemma4 which I have noticed, at least in the version I am running locally, had a tendency to over-think everything to the point that it sometimes gets stuck in a loop flip-flopping between two opposing thoughts. 100 1
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026Quite happy with that efficiency. Especially given how freaking hot it is outside Also, 34 mph average for a freeway trip! Actually better than most days I do this trip too. 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026"Wait, actually, I'm an AI. I don't "run" in the background. " Huh? 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026Somebody or something is conspiring against me today... 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026Well, that’s one less thing to deal with right now. 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026Really? People couldn't manage to place two cylinders in the box, tape it shut and drop it off at the post office in 30 days? That's a whole month. 100 1
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026Saw this coming home last night from my daughter's practice. Made us both laugh. (Not a great image - was taken from the dash cam video and this was the clearest view we had of it). 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026RE: c.im/@BBC/117357757210345926 The ones that use his stupid nomenclature need to be on s short list for thorough investigation. He might be able to order government departments to use it, but private companies are not obligated to follow his lame […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026Made me laugh even though I had a pretty good idea what was going to be in the advice section! 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026Was peeling off the annoying dealer sticker on the back of my wife’s new car when it occurred to me I could have some fun with it… 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026Somebody had a very bad night... 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026Looks like the scam flash drive sellers have found a home on eBay... no way that is a 2TB flash drive for that money. More than likely a much smaller, probably unreliable flash drive with the info block hacked to report 2TB to the OS. These will almost […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 001 1
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026Took my wife to the Audi dealer today and parked next to an e-tron GT. Don’t see as many of them on the roads here as I do Taycans. 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026I love it when these companies send me messages confirming they don’t have a clue what I like! Also, when I click that link to see the car they sent me, it is already being bought by somebody. Probably one of the 7707 customers who were actually looking at buying one of these. 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026People are oddly trusting. I would not let any AI, and especially not one from Meta / Facebook, have the credentials to accounts at other sites. Definitely not sites with the ability to place charges on my credit card. Is shopping on Amazon really so hard […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026Thank you Google Maps! While in Denver it routed me on to a road without telling me it was a toll road, and it was only when we reached the end that I saw the toll reader. 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026Two teenage boys from Discovery Bay were killed over the weekend in a car accident. Seemingly not their fault. The comments in the FB post about it are mostly peoole sending condolences. There are a few who didn’t read fhe update and just blamed the boys for […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026At this point, the units might not matter much... it is in milliseconds apparently, which makes that about 30 minutes for a ping to where ever speediest pings... I'd have expected it to time out long, long before that! 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026My weekend ended, after 7 games over two days, with my daughter’s team winning the championship game after a battle. Hit her first out of the park home run (over a high fence at 200 feet and into the street beyond). Pitched 13 innings. Threw 230 pitches. 12 […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026Or had one of these in your wallet perhaps... 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026Google really is desperate to get my home address - they keep asking every time I end up on one of their pages. Maybe I should give them 1600 Pennsylvania Ave 🤣 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026No Google, you don't need to know my home address. #infosec #dataprivacy 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026Something very appealing about living out of something like this monster (I'd just need to convert it to electric power 😃) 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026Mid-week in Stockton is hitting triple digits. Luckily it will be back down into the 80s (still plenty hot enough) for my daughter’s softball tournament this coming weekend. #softball #weather #heatadvisory 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026First time seeing a Rivian R2 in the metal. It’s a box, like it’s older siblings, but not bad looking. I like the opening rear window - been one of my favourite things in the Hummer EV too. #electricvehicles #rivian #RivianR2 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026I don’t dispute the skill, but honestly can darts really be called a sport? 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026Normally when you buy more you get a better per-unit price. In this case, the more you buy, the more expensive each unit is. #AliExpress 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026Saw this on another platform. Nothing more to say. 001 1
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026Um, the car and the phone seem to agree that the island I live on is over 100 feet below sea level. 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026And some off-brand Maltesers. Which surprised me by being individually wrapped. They’re too small, and the chocolate is not as good as genuine ones, but they’re not terrible. 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026Picked up a sack of potato crisps/chips at a nearby Chinese supermarket too. Only $8 for this one. 100 1
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026Something here seems a little out of place. (Checking out a very cool Indian supermarket in Concord) 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026Gave some of the dealer’s photos that I saved to an image to 3D generator. They’ve come a long way since I first tried one. This one also attempted to segment the model for printing (that wasn’t great yet, but did work well on a simpler model and even […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026Do they extract the brains from these people when they sign up to be members of “the party?” This has to be up there with the biggest self-owns ever. “We don’t want proper healthcare because my parents didn’t have it and they both died when I was young.” Not […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026Whoa, that's a win for sure... #electricvehicles #ev #evcharging #evgo 110 1
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026Back in her happy place this weekend. #softball #catcher #photography #sportsphotography #canonPhotography #CanonR7 #softballPhotography 021 2
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026Hmmm. So, ingredients are $5 per month (actually that was the highest estimate I found). That's $60/year. This supposedly good value plan costs almost $1000/year ($200 to join + $59-$69/month). That is 1666% markup on the $5/month cost. *More* than the 1000% […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026That is quite the rate of pay... 000 0
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026Hmm, just walked around the showroom here at #Porsche in Walnut Creek and saw this. The other angles of the Cayenne EV look like any other Porsche SUV, but this rear end is … #electricvehicles #ev #PorscheCayenne #PorscheCayenneEV 011 1
John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026AI image generators are amazing, but they can also make the most ridiculous mistakes... like this, which was the output of a simple prompt asking the AI to generate me a rear view of this painted skull... 000 0