On This Day, 18 September
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2022
Sneakers WarGames Star Wars Die Hard Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory https://t.co/RhOiLZuPj0
2021
@beardedjourno 4 Dec 2020, for comparison purposes :) https://t.co/rqVv6FF5yq
2020
@waynedixon @danielpunkass That's the reason I'm still on the UK equivalent. Streaming only seem to be there for about 50% of things I want to see; with DVD it's more like 99%...
RT @soapachu: There's always that one friend in the group pic... https://t.co/XFuobgA6bg
Mmmm. Brie and mango chutney sandwich.
RT @yumhoneyblood: Incredibly honoured to say that my 3rd record ‘In Plain Sight’ has been nominated for Scottish Album Of The Year @sayawa…
I am spending my lunchtime reclining on a couch reading a Regency romance be Georgette Heyer. About the only thing spoiling my period image is the can of Irn Bru 😂
RT @janinegibson: HUGE SCOOP TikTok to be banned from US app stores from Sunday cc @MalcolmMoore https://t.co/UCqdouM75Z
RT @BobbyF1scher: @chinbeard I give you the world’s cutest & coolest Nazi hunter. https://t.co/pO7BlcuvHe
@shezza_t Sadly no sign. (I don’t particularly mind it being a day or two late, but it’s lovely weather at the moment and I’d quite like to go outside again at some point without fear of it arriving the second I do...)
@shezza_t Well, first world problems and all. And I wouldn’t fancy being a delivery person right now.
Before/after. An teensy upgrade to the work-from-home monitor. (With thanks to my parents for their generous contribution to the upgrade fund!) #wfh https://t.co/PmrDtsZ5rP
RT @catandgirlcomic: Scroll, scroll https://t.co/5m6HiHae6c https://t.co/cbDkEm5ZG4
2019
@Argos_Online Since your site came back up, it’s been impossible to reach as just “https://t.co/kcNhSPkDjx”—needs “https://t.co/DTm4KeJgph” with the “www”. Used to work fine as either…
2018
2017
RT @JosephScrimshaw: Ikea's display toilets reminding us the importance of an educated populace to the survival of democracy https://t.co/Z…
RT @JElvisWeinstein: This photo looks like a lost Pink Floyd album cover. https://t.co/z8UmrtFdAA
RT @paul_arnold: This is terrific. Warren Buffett wins $1M bet made a decade ago that the S&P 500 index would outperform hedge funds https…
2016
Christ. They weren't kidding on the "full" bit. https://t.co/jjTSXcxZR0
@Bristolvor Stones, WSM. https://t.co/jFdL29EDQr
@ahnlak Am not sure, actually. Reset & jailbroken, it still seems to have the default books on it & are readable. Haven't looked further.
@shezza_t Why did they stop? *saves a few, just in case*
Causeway. @ Marine Lake https://t.co/ZIHJWhYPoM
RT @hatsandbikes: When a balloon crash lands in Redland #Bristol https://t.co/nKW9mXSg2l
@hatsandbikes !?
@csoanes Maybe a couple of others, too.
@hatsandbikes Gosh. Everyone okay?
@hatsandbikes Jesus.
Another cunningly-hidden Amazon delivery. https://t.co/tWiXwOrfql
Weston, last night. https://t.co/ONcwHEVYyQ
@OpinionatedGeek Some may consider that the ultimate Windows Update.
@chubbybannister @DavidAllenGreen Assuming we still have schools.
@OpinionatedGeek This is why I just bought a cheap laptop for when I need Windows. Less cross-contamination!
Waxing gibbous. https://t.co/sBUl31iVXR
@porthjess Have you *seen* my back? They'd charge double.
@emmachampion6 @porthjess This could have been avoided if I'd actually read the weather display right. Tonight's moon is *waning* gibbous.
@emmachampion6 @porthjess (Or is it raining gibbons?)
Still enjoying the random domestic scenes of my “have I got a card in?” test shots. https://t.co/hMGWJw0LRC
New amusements. https://t.co/gtKMqvyf2v
@chubbybannister It has its uses. :D https://t.co/A7GnjMhgvF
@Bristolvor @chubbybannister I’m glad it exists because of seaside childhood memories. As an adult, Bangor or Clevedon piers appeal more
2015
RT @ggreeneva: Wow, @VW—writing code to specifically detect & circumvent emissions testing. Just wow. http://t.co/Iw7d16uV9U http://t.co/eY…
Nice work, Apple. http://t.co/uxoiZ1jPmx
Also: gee thanks, Apple. I wonder what I’ll spend my *enormous* savings on… #functionalhighground http://t.co/qB9wRUQ8Z5
@Harkaway Someone who just gave LinkedIn permission to spam everyone in their address book, I’d wager.
@PollyVVore @linguatical That news story seems to have mysteriously disappeared now! Very odd.
RT @marcoarment: I’ve pulled Peace from the App Store. Why: http://t.co/ir8FMr1qEO
@stroughtonsmith Can you use an IR remote to control the Apple TV? I’d be sad not to be able to use my Logitech Harmony for the new one…
2014
@mr_mookie I might turn it back on at some later point, when I'm ready to see if I can learn to like it. But this is not that week.
@JohnPhilipCole It's difficult to raise the energy for that when you've got a cold. I just bought some from the newsagent instead.
Entirely up to you, of course, my Scottish friends. Vote early, vote often. Xxx
@liveindetail Won't this bias the results towards people whose parcels actually turned up?
@talkie_tim @Lillput Yes, dear. But at the moment it's a great solution to no problems that I have.
@secboffin @a2 Nah. Somewhere on Clydeside there's a shipyard tooling up to make a *really* big outboard motor.
Working on an iOS 8 keyboard that won't type anything but U2 lyrics.
@guriben Had a friend who said they were amazing, but that was once she'd actually managed to have some appointments, of course.
Clifton. http://t.co/B7PdzdXCRQ
@JamesSLock It was yesterday.
RT @PlayableCity: If you work in the centre of Bristol, #shadowing streetlights 6+7 just added to the map may be on your route home http://…
@KellySibson Do I have to pick a side?
What the rumbling badgercocks was *that*? #bristol
RT @ASPBrisCentre: Recovered cameras. Man in custody. #Bristol Are they yours? Call 101 if you can help. http://t.co/04xi4oBSE6
@SpikyZebra I do not know. But it was very low. And very jet.
@Cerebz @esteluk @blondewordsUK Nope, but I'm in a basement :) All I saw was the windows rattling.
@Cerebz @blondewordsUK @esteluk That was lower and closer than anything I've ever heard in Hotwells, and I've been here since 1999...
@Cerebz @blondewordsUK @esteluk Certainly sounded more military than commercial.
@hayles I love the fact is the most recent version and the first place I have no clue who I want you in my room for a long way.
@hayles There's pretty much no need for me to be here any more. The phone can handle all this on its own now. For a long way.
RT @hayles: Open a new tweet in iOS and keep pressing the word on the right side: "a man with my family and friends of a few years and year…
@philsballoons @jeffsaul10 I was just going to ask @ToM_BaL what that was. From my Hotwells basement, I could only tell "low" and "military"
@ThatChrisGore “Vote early, vote often.” :)
Sorry, thunder, I would be impressed but that low fighter jet passing over Bristol earlier reset my "surprisingly loud noise outside" scale.
Maybe I *should* nip out with the camera. #famouslastwords
Last time I nipped out with the camera when it sounded like this, I snapped this from Observatory Hill: https://t.co/7dKohB5lZu
RT @liveindetail: Ka-BLAM!!!!!!!!! http://t.co/nIHB9BTBSt
.@fergieweather Yeah, bit exciting out there. This is from Brandon Hill (Colston Tower between the trees.) http://t.co/5wZYY4WG0u
Been up on Brandon Hill, doing a bit of flash photography. #bristol https://t.co/IId4xL7CD2 http://t.co/iSQbT1cBN5
2013
@framingfairy Hi! No, I didn't do it, sadly just didn't have the time or energy for training this year :(
@martinjoiner *Belatedly waves back via Twitter* http://t.co/nWRXooZ7AT
Someone appears to have parked a cafe on my route to work... #berudenottotryacoffee http://t.co/zW8Wj2Opxp
@Nose_in_a_book Watch _Hudson Hawk_. Bruce Willis will remind you.
A tiny planet of the Hotwell Road. #bristol http://t.co/yWsjTCgfpH
@ef060372 That was Photo Sphere; comes with the Nexus 4.
Google+. Because I'd much rather be known as 111822899171376012884 than "gothick".
(Those of you on desktops can probably view the full Photo Sphere of that Hotwell Road shot by clicking the pic: https://t.co/ccZsHLppUu)
@davidwalshblog Or possibly the best demo I won't see all day. What browser does it work in? Ta! http://t.co/rFiQtAZFh8
RT @amateuradam: Apple Maps no better on iOS7 http://t.co/EOFdZVOTfx
Going by picture 4, I'd say the current residents are a teensy bit partial to tigers. http://t.co/NCIuhKVoDc
2012
Mmmmm. Aldi's ersatz Shreddies for breakfast. Win.
Also: Good morning, all. I had a bit of a lie-in this morning. Bad Matt. Rewarded by my Facebook action finally being approved. Hurrah!
@floyduk Google Grief? Is that the new digital funeral service?
@BlackDogDays @MsMottram I should be able to make Friday :)
Hrm. @evernote Google integration asks me to sign in. Click the link, goes to my already-signed-in EN. Back to Google, asks for signin.
@MsMottram @BlackDogDays If it's shut, we can go to the Mardyke, down eight pints, and see if someone will give us a ride on their bike.
@MsMottram @BlackDogDays Cool. You're in the calendar.
So, #bristol music-goers, when do things normally start at the Louisiana of a Sunday evening these days? 8pm-ish?
Wow. Hitting "return" in the search box on http://t.co/WMxdqSg0 immediately quits Safari 6. Harsh.
Today, an electrician came and put something groovy in my kitchen. http://t.co/ft4jzkFz
Some of the Bearpit crowd we met on Saturday's photo walk :) http://t.co/uLGuUCqn
The wine merchant's house. http://t.co/yu5gs41U
@BlackDogDays Yup.
Woof! Don't remember seeing that one before... #flickr http://t.co/yEJArnnb
2011
@StJamesPT Good luck!
@mjh53 Probably not! Just reverting to something known and comfortable for the last stressy couple of job-weeks...
@thomasvenables I still find each series has a couple of gems. That and the nostalgia value keep me watching.
Roight. Finish coffee, jump in shower, spend morning pottering, then take new camera out on Flickr photo walk.
@jacrats Morning! Avoid skiing, and you should be fine. #bendzeknees
@jorence It's not too late! Flickr walk starts at noon... New camera seems awesome so far, though have only tried indoors.
@jorence Though *every damn control* apart from shutter button seems to have been moved compared with old camera.
@jorence Run faster! :D
@jorence I've moved from 400D to 60D.
@Phooto I went for 60D in the end. Enjoying the low-light performance, auto-ISO and solid *clunk* of snapping a lot so far :)
@Phooto Yes, not sure how much I'll use it, but video was yet another of my temptations for the upgrade.
@jorence Wait until spring :) Unless you're spending loads of money, long lenses aren't so useful during the darker days!
Up. Showered. Listening to @theindelicates. Bring on the day.
@iphonefool Eees ver' niiiice.
Photo: Scary things to find bearing down on you while dusting the mantelpiece #482. http://t.co/uLwQAhzp
@Aleksandr_Orlov Arrrrr.
RT @mattleys: Right, hivemind. Good, basic sourdough bread recipe online somewhere - anyone?
@chrisphin Would more people geotag if there was a "don't tag if I'm in my home" option?
@mediaben Put a cuff-link through your nose and you'll be fine.
@chrisphin Me too; any relatively clueful person would be able to find me. Just thinking the option might reassure people into geotagging.
Lazy Sunday morning moment. http://t.co/cy8v4HbJ
Crenelations. http://t.co/Pm9JYDP0
Gothick :) http://t.co/VbcmrtwP
On the Flickr photo walk. Waiting at Blaise estate cafe to see if the torrential downpour lightens up. Ah well.
Just posted a photo http://t.co/09C4Bx0q
@kshack22 Yes, it only took about a half hour before it was safe to emerge from our shelter!
@penelopeelse Hmmm. I might well try. But if there's too much annoying technobabble I might turn off in disgust.
RT @badbanana: I'm participating in a 0.25K run to raise awareness for people with attention deficit disorder.
@Nose_in_a_book I thought Wotsits and Lucozade _was_ voodoo.
I think it's probably bedtime. After all, I've got an important day of doing not very much tomorrow :) #dayoff
2010
Hah! Translation WIN. http://yfrog.com/ehyl2sj
Late step-grandad's old camera. http://yfrog.com/n12ktvj
2009
@Narshada Cool; they look like pretty serious boots :) Will get back to you if I don't find anything today/tomorrow -- shopping last-minute!
@Narshada Aha! Just seen programme for tonight. The Scottish Falsetto Sockpuppet Theatre are playing. Think I will have to go now.
@hayles http://www.thebristolfestival.org/ They're using a piece or two of my video for some of the AV stuff.
Wondering whether to go to Bristol Festival tonight. Am on guest list, but not sure if it's my kind of thing.
@hayles Diagnosis: there are loose electrical cables under your desk.
...or maybe I just needed to get plenty of wasted days under my belt so I could de-stress properly.
@Nose_in_a_book Just how I'm feeling. Think I may have now officially wasted too many days in this week off.
@rhodri Neighbour of mine renamed his WiFi access point to "GetOffMyLAN" for similar reasons; could you drop a hint that way?
@jorence Ah, yes, got my snowboarding boots at snow & rock. Forgot about them.
Catching up with @sowerbyandluff show. What better way to do sod all?
@geekpop Well, it works in running shops; went to Nomad because their site says they're experts… ho hum.
Anyone know a walking shoe store in Bristol who'll know what "over-pronation" means? Nomad don't.
@hayles Tried shoe-shop.com? Often have odd things, and are reliable.
Wow. The students-to-be look so, so young. Am old, decrepit man.
Ah. It's Bristol Uni open day, isn't it?
Off to Park Street to buy walking shoes. Just possible I may end up in Boston Tea Party again…
@archidave It's not just me, then? Just back from the doc myself.
@hannahnicklin Parallels? Considered VirtualBox? Won't cost you anything.
Back from Bristol Festival. Pleasant and chilled, with some very interesting technology on display here and there. Recommended.
@benjohnbarnes Yay! Congrats, dude!
Watching Scottish Falsetto Sockpuppet Theatre ;)
Walking down to the festival. Travelling faster than most of the cars.
@hayles *grin* Well, don't worry; you haven't gained a psychic stalker :)
@hayles Heh! Nope, just perk up at the mention of boots. As opposed to Boots, which I'm guessing is where you are?
@hayles Mmmm. Boots.
@hannahnicklin Ahhh.
@KaveyF Yup!
@joannadelilah I am one of the many modern people who are happy to use food, without understanding how it works :)
@joannadelilah Haven't a clue. Tasted nice, though!
@tsunimee I very rarely eat *that* well. Bell's Diner really was fantastic.
Blast from the past. http://twitpic.com/i68cu
@benjohnbarnes Whoohoo! Keep us as informed as you can :)
Those of you who were wondering about my 2-hour poached egg, @KaveyF has a picture of it in her Bell's Diner review: http://bit.ly/3JT7U2
@bccore Have you read the book? It's really good if you've been listening for years. Lots of behind-scenes stuff.
2008
Failing to get the hang of the new Facebook.
@Ihnatko I'm mostly worried about someone climbing out of my house window with my highly-redundant data while I'm not there...
Hmm. A blog site has copied my copyright work without permission. Have left a polite comment on their blog.
@bobbyllew If you die in debt, you've won.
Gah! Late for work.