My favourite of the Beaujolais Crus - I think it’s the cote thing (more altitude, drainage, diurnal variation etc), but there’s just more going on in these than any of the others.

What????

Looks like a great event - gutted to have missed it.

Always been very impressed with Pacific NorthWest - like Cali but more interesting bc coolerl climate.

It’s automating away low-end tasks.

Same as the abacus, calculators, word processors.

Monks didn’t suddenly lose their jobs writing out the bible with quills and ink on vellum when the printing press was invented, we just found new ways to use the technology.

Saying you earn forgiveness through deeds, not words.

I suspect the book WOWS is his own, highly-partisan telling of the story (the guy’s a salesman and convicted liar, right). And the film really just focuses on the entertainment side of the story.

I went to a talk by Frank Abagnale Jr, expecting him to regale us with CMIYC-style stories.

Instead, he disowned the film and said he’d not been involved with it at all and didn’t recognise any of it.

He then talked about his work combatting fraud and said he’d declined 3 Presidential pardons 1/

We use it at work for OCR (optical character recognition, ie automated data entry).

I use it personally for desk research.

My wife uses co-pilot for Teams meeting minutes and actions.

Basically, it automates away low-level tasks that no-one wants to do.

Oh and @donalde.bsky.social may be able to help with a venue in Chiswick.

For London venues VdP, try Douglas Blyde or Effi Tsournava.

Not sure if on here, but can intro you.

Great question Kate. And I’m not sure I have a worthy answer.

Re-watched Wolf of Wall Street recently and enjoyed it hugely. Much more so than first time as I had recently read the book and felt the film didn’t stand up properly.

Out of the shadow of the book, it’s great entertainment.

Not sure I have a Top 5 of genres, but as a languages graduate, for me it tends to be theatre over cinema, ie plot, character and drama (early Nolan) over Big Budget set piece SFX (later Nolan) or shallow vibes (Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola).

Well, whatever you do, however terrible, however hurtful, it all makes sense, doesn't it? In your head. You never meet anybody that thinks they're a bad person.

- Tom Ripley

There’s a great story about how Bailey’s came into existence (a way of shifting excess diary produce by adding a bit of whisky), but yes, the origin story is about the only good thing here.

Lebanese and not Musar - well played sir.

We went Old World, cool-climate and mature here:

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On the Chinon here too 👍

Voice of my generation.

Between Ian Curtis and Stephen Morrissey, the rest of the world has a lot of catching up to do.

Nice - 10 years' bottle age is my absolute minimum for opening vintage, so this is just entering its drinking window.

How was it?

Sounds like my kind of gig. Pixies are one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen.