On This Day, 21 August
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RT @johnreppion: Alan Moore is trending on Twitter. Alan Moore is sitting in his living room drinking a cup of tea, oblivious.
@4r7hr Well done! I gave up on my last two yesterday and looked em up.
@TimmoPower @KYPBristol Great question! On Google Maps you can see that some of them are still there, but not many. https://t.co/ZQnUNcTpBe I wonder if they were prone to leaking? I understand that happened with some bay roof designs.
@ChristianSelig I'm guessing it depends more on how many cycles and how far down you regularly drain it than how you fill it back up, but I ain't no battery scientist. (Mostly MagSafe since Nov 2021.) https://t.co/SDvj5fRKzU
RT @lazerwalker: "If you rewrite something by replacing every single word with a synonym, is it the same piece of writing?" - the Ship of…
2021
2020
Dear God, but _The Tree of Life_ is a very, very boring film. Just given up.
RT @colintempleton: St Enoch Square, Glasgow https://t.co/ax2dOBCOh8
@CharlTaylorPage I find myself comforted by how much of my "emergency kit" overlaps, right down to the little glasses-repair screwdriver :D
@dangusset Must’ve felt just like George Cowley when he had it fitted. https://t.co/GDbQDdDOyQ
@saltwateritch No wonder Ocado have been out of stock...
2019
@garethlpowell @BristolCon Just signed up :D
@tweethue Do you have any problems at the moment? I can usually connect when out of my house, but today my Hue iOS app says "Unable to connect"?
RT @iucounu: O tempora! O morays! https://t.co/aED3xQw9gS
2018
RT @MakingBlakes7: MICHAEL KEATING: I must admit, I was hungover a lot of the time on Blake’s 7. It's not ideal when there are explosions g…
2017
It's important to have the right mug for DIY. https://t.co/DWit10kpdd https://t.co/KDany6fQqt
Tea flavoured by burnt sawdust, or "carpenter's Lapsang", as I think of it. https://t.co/sOlXtvvRu3 https://t.co/0oyJwYKcsY
@YesStarling @lilydoughball Guiseppes. I've always heard good things but never been, possibly because I think of Sa… https://t.co/JMX4UMzxtG
@flashboy I reckon he'd still look too healthy to play Bannon.
Okay. Battery-powered LED spotlights installed in my somewhat scary "cellar storage area*". *Damp cave. https://t.co/iwb380CCVG
RT @sethdarby: The most British news headline ever https://t.co/EgxDfvynfA
@rolandpavic It certainly doesn’t seem very happy from here. #github
@archidave I am reasonably confident that this structure holds no special interest to anyone, possibly including myself.
Very minor IKEA hacking going on. https://t.co/sHoLTtVCAU https://t.co/ICU5ZkEI9T
2016
I went to the Tobacco Factory market and lost my head. https://t.co/GkOfCpVioP
Ullo dowgs. https://t.co/6NKX5wxUBO
Have come to a pub without a book. God. Might have to contemplate the meaning of existence, or something. https://t.co/61PazUePmv
@saltwateritch Hrm... Someone told me the Rose of Denmark make their own...
@saltwateritch Should I investigate? Am just passing.
Oooh. Rose of Denmark's homemade pork scratchings. @saltwateritch https://t.co/yl99MpvaFR
@guriben @saltwateritch My thoughts exactly.
@saltwateritch Crisp, light, intensely flavoured. Deffo worth a try. Though they think you’re a bit strange if you order them to go 😬
📷 Closed for love. https://t.co/liNkz7O48W
Bunting. https://t.co/WKZqsId14t
RT @roostermustache: Me: could i have a pepsi Waiter: is pepsi ok- OMG *eyes getting watery* finally Me: *smiling through tears* yeah *…
@hayles What gives it away?
@hayles That sounds somewhat... Screwy.
*Puts on sunglasses*
@hayles *imagination runs wild*
RT @nfkadam: Just found 100s of Victorian plans + documents on Borough High St. No idea what to do. https://t.co/vl61eik0SC
@nfkadam Heh. Listers is the place where I bought a car for the first time.
@griffinkate Are you clicking on a link to the file? Try alt-click; might force the download immediately. Not 100% sure with Firefox, though
I had forgotten about Angel's occasional suboptimal superhero moments. https://t.co/jaoHOUz9zG
@JHellings @griffinkate Helpfully, the shortcut for that I was suggesting looks like it was removed ages ago. https://t.co/UfrWR9dmoK
@benjohnbarnes Technically, he was over two hundred years old at that point 😃
2015
#bristol has some odd visitors! #bristolkitefestival @ Clifton Downs. https://t.co/ACn47YhKtQ
DANGER. https://t.co/8fHcG1elLt
Odd. Home to “we left package with a neighbour” card from Amazon Logistics. Checked with next door…
…and next door neighbour had brought the letter-sized parcel back around to my house and put it through the letterbox for them. #confused.
“Mummy! That mermaid’s not wearing a bra!” #thingsIdidnotexpecttoheartoday
RT @sehnaoui: Thank you @washingtonpost for posting the @TSA's master keys :) - All lockpickers #security http://t.co/lV0eUIi58c http://t.…
@headfirstonly Maybe. Seems quite a rigamarole for a £4 item, though!
Photo: That’s one happy flipper. http://t.co/VATvEQQOqe
The mermaid is a little scary. But the fish is cute. http://t.co/SIg1T5F34G
2014
Cafe lunch. http://t.co/cQMK7r7Nbs
No, Google Maps, if I am asking for a route from Bangor to Snowdon, it is not that likely that I meant to start in Bangor, Maine.
@StiffPigeon Well, indeed. It's hard enough to walk up bloody Snowdon without swimming the Atlantic first...
@xabl It's going to be fun when the self-driving cars start doing that...
2013
@Peculiar It certainly seems like Arthur Bryant’s kind of tome… http://t.co/QixBYsBn6L
Eden. http://t.co/RD911LLfCe
Baobab smoothie. http://t.co/StfZmZV089
Looe, from above. 66 second exposure. http://t.co/HguFDwabi8
2012
RT @problogger: LEAKED Official Apple iPhone 5 Promo Video! http://t.co/TDXgLJsD Watch it before it's deleted! <-- *snigger*
@daycoder A friend recommended http://t.co/MQsNsVkV to me. His results looked great, but haven't tried them personally yet.
@siracusa Amen.
RT @BBCBristol: Cabot Circus more: There was a security alert at Cabot Circus and as a result the Police have evacuated the main Cabot C ...
To be fair, they could probably evacuate Cabot Circus for the next month and I wouldn't notice.
Oh. And good afternoon, by the way. Sorry. It's been a busy day so far.
RT @FirstBSA: Due to a security alert in Bristol a number of bus services are currently diverted, specific details are being posted to t ...
Been advised by someone I have an appointment with in Victoria Street that #bristol is basically gridlocked right now...
Switching to Plan "B". Specifically, Plan Bicycle.
@tyronem It would be my Plan A more often, if Bristol weren't quite so full of steep hills.
@liveindetail Huh?
@liveindetail Ah. That would significantly increase the cost of my appointment, I feel.
@shezza_t Yes, well, I heard it here first. Definitely bike time.
Deleting spammers from our forum. Did gmail's signup CAPTCHA get broken again, or are they just using cheap humans now, I wonder?
Whatever. Thank heavens for Akismet.
@shezza_t Oh, I'll be fine, ta. The bike'll beat the traffic, and the actual trouble's on the far side of my appointment.
@tyronem My thighs are already massive. It's my heart and lungs that have the problems...
@ahnlak You'd think the AIs would have better things to do than flogging knock-off NFL jerseys on my forum.
@ahnlak I think I'd prefer Judgement Day to this long drawn out death-by-forum-admin-frustration.
@waiyeehong Yeah, I hear even buildings can pass Twitter's CAPTCHA.
Right. Cycling off to town.
@Indiechops I have wrung myself out now.
@Nose_in_a_book It is currently saving us a lot of trouble on the Get Running forum. Well worth the commercial licence fee!
@waiyeehong @chubbybannister I first heard it in Bristol, at my last job. Local word?
@chubbybannister @waiyeehong Where's that dictionary to...
2011
@ajith_bibin Nope. I just looked at their website after seeing Ben's blog. I imagine they're just con artists of some kind or another.
Hah! Out-take from yesterday's trip to Bristol Zoo. #lemur #missed http://t.co/3oKCMT6
@jukesie Bandwagon jumpers or no, it's still worth going :)
Hah! Morning jog temporarily stymied by lock gate opening & bridge swing! #Bristol http://t.co/jCFkHSe
Pride of #Bristol @ Junction Lock http://t.co/Yy9gVPR
Control Panel, Junction Lock. @ Junction Lock http://t.co/dFTS0Gh
Afternoon, #bristol! http://t.co/p1jVDNw
Wow! Hot day for a run. Glad I went through Leigh Woods. Nice and shady, for the most part. #getrunning
@jorence 17.8 miles! Bloody hot day to go that far, dude! Niiiice.
@rabidbee To be fair, I'd prefer that to the other way around.
@MandinaM Thanks :) Yes, I rather liked it, too. Think I won't treat it as an actual "out-take", so it'll get onto Flickr at some point...
@malvernrunner That sounds like a good idea. Wish I'd had it about three hours ago...
Tired bunny.
@jacintuk You've not got the hang of this Twitter thing yet, have you? :) @KaveyF @debbiegreeneyes
@NeilCrosby Think I just saw that advert. "Get closer to the laughs with higher resolution!" Personally, think I'd prefer better scripts.
@NeilCrosby I didn't pay it enough attention to know that. #fastforward #killthebloodytrailers #justplaythefsckingfilmipaidfor
@Narshada *scans back through timeline* Ooof. Yes, there comes a time to cease being philosophical and start being at least mildly miffed.
@Narshada Is Gordano Services some kind of Bermuda Triangle for cars?
@libbymiller I suggest locking yourself in the kitchen , and drinking two cups of tea yourself while selling the last bag to highest bidder.
@jorence @StJamesPT It's still a fairly steep climb in one place, but I used to jog up it, albeit slowly.
@jorence @StJamesPT Was thinking earlier on I should blog the route. Might see if I can find a map of Leigh Woods to mark it on for folk.
@jorence @StJamesPT With my route, you head into woods at far entrance, just past little steps, then fold back and follow less steep route.
@jorence @StJamesPT Right, here we go, he said, breaking all sorts of copyright laws. Original map: http://t.co/hqSCaFw
@jorence @StJamesPT And, assuming this has worked, this should be the same map with my run marked with arrows. http://t.co/5kMbq7J
@jorence @StJamesPT If you want to extend it, you can add a loop or two of the "Purple Path" starting opposite the car park in the woods.
@jorence Hrm. Loads for me.
@jorence This is a 21-miler including that route, plus a couple of loops of purple path, plus the Downs. Was nice! http://t.co/b69nG62
@jorence Ooops! I mean 21-kilometre-er, of course.
@jorence Yeah, but on a day like today you'd want to start early on the Downs, then head for the woods to catch some shade before the heat!
@inkyhands Cruise control and a willing passenger. Problem solved.
@jorence Next time I'm going to try the (apparently quite good) trick of sleeping in my running gear so I can get out as early as possible!
@inkyhands D'oh. Well, it was worth a try.
Goodness. According to RunKeeper, I have just passed 100,000 calories burned off with my jogging. http://t.co/iTZ78iv
@hayles And Boston Tea Party cakes. And lattes. Otherwise I'd have lost some weight by now :(
@jorence @StJamesPT Just realised that if I do just 5K between now and the Bristol Half, finishing will break through 1,000km on RunKeeper!
@hayles Yes. Clearly it is All Their Fault. Maybe I should sue.
@Narshada Just wait until the AA van breaks down. You'll need a punchline, after all.
Assault on Precinct 13! Oh. It's the remake. Is that any good?
@r0bb1eh I would, were it actually on telly. Bah.
@r0bb1eh @stillawake That's two "no" votes and no "yes" votes for the _Precinct_ remake. I shall save my time. Thank you.
@stillawake Thank you! All done in a single sweep with my little Sony TX1 :)
@stillawake Yes; be nice if it were blue, but the only way that'll happen is if a dye factory has an industrial accident :)
@jorence @stillawake You can still pretty much tell it's brown! http://t.co/LQjFWqA
@Narshada Ah, you did get home. Good.
2010
@floyduk And have thereby pretty much guaranteed that nothing will go wrong with it now :)
@floyduk Did you pick up a few years' AppleCare this time? I've found it very worthwhile...
@iamdanw Tried the student union pool? Worth bearing in mind they do cheap deals for time when students are off, at least.
RT @hotdogsladies: My gut says most App Store reviewers have never shipped anything more complex than an App Store review.
Heck. Where did all the oxygen go? #humid
@Cartblanch I know what you mean. Jogging is working for me - I tend to go out in album-length chunks of time!
@BradleyLaw Same as me. Which I hope is never a fact that comes in handy!
@vaultpress Hey, does vaultpress backup my /.htaccess file?
Hmm. Is there a way of viewing the feed source XML in @nnw_Mac, I wonder?
Doing my first restore with #vaultpress. Nice.
Morning all! My half-marathon race pack has arrived. Nervous? Me? http://twitpic.com/2gqssv
@csoanes It was dead easy, and it seems to work fine for my purposes: http://labs.gothick.org.uk/geolocation/
@csoanes Well, I used this: http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity .
2009
@hannahnicklin What you can't tell is that the bag contains _nothing but nails_…
@zamon think they're both pretty bad, myself...
@rabidbee more likely to be offered GBH in the office.
Don't normally do this. Today, though, so tired and headachey am resorting to Coke.
@girlygeekreview hi! Fancy reviewing my friend @benjohnbarnes' iPhone app? http://bit.ly/1nh61M
@Phooto well, here's hoping. Appointment for results week after next…
Didn't know someone was replacing WildWalk with big aquarium and reopening the IMAX. Cool! #bristol
Just had three loads of blood drawn. Glad I don't mind needles!
2008
@Phooto If it's standard minicom, try running (as root) "minicom -s" to do the initial setup ("man minicom" should give you options, too.)
I've seen two kernel panics in about 12 months. One just after a short-lived OS update. All platforms vastly better these days, at least
@johnfbraun Front panel? Wusses. All I use is a small magnet and a good sense of timing.
@ahnlak Have a great time!
Wonder if MobileMe will display my address book before the sun becomes a cold lump of charcoal? May be quicker to walk home and use the Mac.
Address format wrong in MobileMe. So, my choices are: United States, France, Germany, or Japan. Guess most of my friends will have to move.
Don't worry, recent followers (excluding all those spammy webcocks I just blocked, anyway...) I don't whine about MobileMe _all_ the time...
@talkie_tim bearing in mind my sleep patterns recently, I don't guarantee to be in the same timezone even if I'm in the same city :-)
@Phooto erm, apart from typing "minicom"?
Owowowow. Kernel panic on the Mac. Was stressing it to the end of its tether, then a video chat request came in. Bang.
@Phooto Oh, and PS: the 1980s called, and they want their technology back.
@Phooto That would make sense -- Unix numbers from zero, so you'll probably have ttyS0, ttyS1 and ttyS2 if you have three serial ports.
@Phooto Hey, if you didn't know Windows and had to manually configure COM3 port and run an elderly terminal emulator under Vista...
Walking over Pero's bridge, saxophonist busking 'Summertime', hot air balloon hanging in the sky. Awesome.
Anyone got a good template "model release" form, for use in the UK?
@spamvictim Splendid, ta.
Playing with tonight's gorgeous clouds in Lightroom http://tinyurl.com/6gs7l8