On This Day, 19 October
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Ah. Home to no heating and no hot water because of a gas leak on the way to the flat. https://t.co/X7qJ8VKURu
@martr101 I feel Hanlon’s Razor may apply.
2021
2020
RT @ThePlanetaryGuy: Just like bullseyeing womp rats in a T-16 back home https://t.co/e8i7hfuFNY
RT @RealTomH: Can’t believe they’ve just put an area equivalent to the size of Wales under lockdown.
RT @rjstelling: (My birthday 🥳 wish) If I get 1000 likes to this Tweet I’m going to Crowdfund PHYSICAL calculators from Apple software hist…
2019
RT @rhodri: Apparently it’s International Gin and Tonic Day. Very tempting to start now, spend the day spiralling downwards and then ginger…
RT @RellyAB: Eddie is the Saturday content you need https://t.co/tPvjbY5gHI
RT @blakespot: Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system https://t.co/0ZTW1fhs38 https://t.co/aJUPeh1PhS
I feel lucky. https://t.co/TPHp44q68b
I’ve recently started to dig back into a project I’ve not properly touched for years. And by a complete accident, three days in, just came across the extremely thorough documentation past me wrote like some kind of competent programmer. Gosh. https://t.co/x2CDaGaseF
My Twitter feed is longer than Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Which just goes to show I should have been trying harder on the witty aphorisms front. https://t.co/ABD0dBeeez
2018
@RottenTomatoes Hi! I get a “too many redirections” error trying to look up Better Off Dead. Any tips? Ta! https://t.co/kfCZ8yZEf5
2017
2016
@benjohnbarnes Only thing I've used was a https://t.co/1j1P6xb6jr lens (with interchangeable-lens cameras the aperture is in the lens.)
Tastes great, and I didn’t break the Hollandaise, but it’s hard to plate a Benedict and have it look nice. https://t.co/y3om84l4U4
Thought there was a happy film on the way to help me recover from the trauma of Tyrannosaur. LoveFilm are sending me Don’t Look Now. #ouch
@benjohnbarnes Yah. Produced some quite odd results. https://t.co/Djpvl6LQFR
@benjohnbarnes The only playing with aperture I’ve been tempted to do was for bokeh: https://t.co/1reC4NOBrN …
@benjohnbarnes …presumably a pre-lens aperture wouldn’t be in the right place to simulate a sheep.
RT @hrtbps: ⚡️ “Anti-Brexit traitors outed on twitter” https://t.co/7fm0Cv9TpA
Taking a test shot: https://t.co/qmiUUJgD8K
@CharlieEsq_ *Checks room for hidden cameras*
@benjohnbarnes Someone’s definitely done this, but I haven’t found comparison round/cateye shots https://t.co/3rJ9fZEgYu
2015
@sowerbyandluff Saw this and thought of you :) http://t.co/rRaHfN3zXh
Photo: Freshly-opened Saffron of Clifton Village off to a great signage start here… http://t.co/2ibFUlYBLr
@imyke I think I may be listening to a new mashup podcast called Hypercortexical… *squints at show notes*
Learnin’ time. http://t.co/uUEW6td7l4
@benjohnbarnes That is a Really Interesting* diagram of how SQL Server stores table data. Exam next week. *May not be actually interesting
Which is turning into Tweetception here. https://t.co/2rNFedh0cz
Third edition. https://t.co/xziYKi5Pl5
@MResponsively Seems good so far, now all I need is a longer commute so I have time to read again!
Practising my product photography. https://t.co/hSByyhLvch
2014
Agent. http://t.co/rdAeTNuR0Q
Berlin Wall. http://t.co/xGNn9UfUMr
2013
@uliwitness Bad photo, but if it’s the model I’m thinking of, there’s actually a step in that crank handle.
Out for a wander. http://t.co/ROLYapnjc1
Sea Mills http://t.co/JUDzyjdviR
Waiting for a train. No, not like that. http://t.co/nerrRskbjD
I didn't think that was a seagull over Sea Mills earlier on... http://t.co/bqFa8a51V6
Old and new #bristol http://t.co/ZJMmWQgfst
A little snap from Sea Mills this afternoon. http://t.co/Tl0HfBR4kk
There is a beautiful moon rising in #Bristol right now. Go have a look if you can.
@kavey Tara is cooking French lamb stew from that book tonight.
2012
@stillawake I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE #SHOUTYFRIDAY
I adjusted Emm’s ropey gears on her bike last night. They’re now so bad she can’t change going uphill. Oops. #badmatt
@guriben Sigh. Wish I’d had time. She had to cycle off to work. Luckily she works opposite bike shop. Damnit. Another five mins…
@csoanes Might well be the prob. But not her fault; secondhand bike she bought a fortnight ago.
@csoanes I’m on intermediate maintenance course next month. Hopefully will know more about gears after that!
Oopsie. http://t.co/Y06SdOBc
Supergonzo? @ The Knights Templar (Wetherspoon) http://t.co/WeodiRoG
@meemalee Nah. Temple Quay, Bristol, just round the back of Bristol Temple Meads.
@stillawake Yeah. Forgot I wasn’t meant to be drinking.
@meemalee Yeah. Same knights. They got about a bit.
@theshinythings Well, Wetherspoons start serving at 9am…
@theshinythings No, no. Safely back for my last day in the office.
A steamy scene from my day. Oh, wait. No. It’s a steamery scene. http://t.co/TlEIAm3a
@stillawake @DelroyHibbert I ONLY HAD ONE!
@DelroyHibbert @stillawake One pint of Bath Ales’ Barnstormer :D
Waiting for National Grid emergency gas team. My Friday night is rockin’. Don’t think there’s big danger. #bettersafethansorry
RT @SkyNewsBreak: 31-year-old man arrested after 11 people, including children, were injured in a series of road traffic collisions in C ...
RT @O2: *Facepalm* http://t.co/oK3gswkR
COME ON GASMAN. #shoutyfriday
Won’t be using my shiny new hob for a few days, then. :( Gas leak confirmed.
@skeddy Since new kitchen, we reckon, but only small leak. Smell got lost in general “new kitchen” aroma. All safe now, at least.
Dammit. Still, all safe now, anyway. And leak very minor. http://t.co/eplyqckw
Also: spoke just broke on bike cycling back from the shops. What’s next!?
@johnfbraun Well, at least I have beer. *downs pint*
@Bingo_Little With cheese and HP sauce. #justme?
@talkie_tim Bah. Sorry to hear it, fa
@talkie_tim ...fella, even. Too eager on the return key :)
@Phooto He was whatever the modern equivalent of CORGI is. Gas Safe? Never met him; supplied by kitchen supplier...
2011
@stillawake @MrDLeighfield I switched to that one to find a picture :) Reading a Dalziel and Pascoe novel at the mo.
@stillawake *reads back through timeline* Gah! Hope she's okay.
@twosoups What? What happened? Was just wondering why she'd gone. :(
Souda Bay War Cemetery. http://t.co/dJWikfoo
Huddle http://t.co/aFCXsmeI
I am now being followed by Toni & Guy. I'm not quite sure how that happened. #baldy
2010
@DrHairbear Hah! You got there first :) @matthew_roach
@Pixelh8 "Please leave food in square brackets..."
RT @mrchrisaddison: I reckon we're about two weeks off a post-backlash announcement that the poor are to be socially housed on the Ark R ...
How many users actually want an email to retain its "unread" status when they move it to the trash? #stupiddesign
Being amused by the responses to @rhodri's question about neighbour problems.
RT @Trapac: Anyone out there consider themselves native Spanish, living in Bristol, UK & would let me photograph them for a visual docum ...
@jorence Ooooh, well done! #cardiffhalf
Wait. The guy leaving Microsoft was responsible for *Lotus Notes*? Slightly surprised *anyone* hired him after that...
@KellyJanner So is smoking. And it seems to generate similar levels of rationalisation and self-harm :)
RT @stuartcw: The "wrong and mostly incomplete history of programming languages" http://bit.ly/avcDdz (via @sheeshee)
My Twitter value is thruppence ha'penny and a fruit pastille with pocket fluff stuck to it.
RT @hayles: @gothick Mine is a million billion pounds and a fluffy white kitten. <-- How very James Bond!
@tyronem Gum? Gum?! You were lucky...
@davidschneider I certainly wouldn't recommend it. Even if wired perfectly could still be about 50 volts phantom power across it.
@joeloverton That's my favourite answer to the question :)
Stackoverflow question category #17: "How do I get these bullets out of my foot using only a spork? PS: Don't ask."
See that? That's the kind of label you read just after twenty years of habit have made you pierce the film. Grr. http://yfrog.com/em14egxj
@canofpopcom Have a wok. Sadly also have disappointingly weedy gas burners.
@canofpopcom Also, don't do microwave that often. Sometimes just get lazy :)
2009
Just about to watch Superstar (the Andy Warhol documentary.) Then bed beckons, I think...
Whew. Back in from run. Pizza time, I think.
Hmm. Think I'm going to have to go out for a run. Don't like doing two days in a row, but it's either that or take three days off in a row.
@ahnlak Are you being interviewed for the Today programme? :)
@chrismarquardt also, something I've noticed in other browsers - if images fail to load, you're left with dark text on black background.
@chrismarquardt Main content okay, but sidebar content appears below, not in sidebar.
@benjohnbarnes Isn't it still Sunday somewhere in the states? Now if only there was some kind of app for that...
@MitchBenn Tried Mac The Ripper?
@Narshada Yes, very happy. It's not brilliant in low light, but then I'm not sure any sub-£200 compact is. And it's certainly good outdoors!
@mikeotaylor @bexxi @hayles @PRBristolblog Thanks all! Very happy with my weekend's photography :)
@benjohnbarnes Nope, no HDR. Very minimal processing, in fact, just a small crop and some mild curves adjustment.
Cool! Apparently I made the Flickr front page! http://flic.kr/p/78pKDj
2008
2007
Just roped in to do the technical bit of three interviews with six minutes'notice. Nice.