On This Day, 25 July
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RT @TPreacher711: Here it is: the BETA test version of our latest #Blakes7 Video Game #b7rebellion is now up & running for all who want to…
2021
@iamtheshunt1 Happy birthday, youngster!
@Peculiar I *still* think it’s a good deal. I suppose I must really like pudding.
RT @RachelLeishman: J. Lo and Ben Affleck have gotten together, broken up, had children with other people, got back together, and are now k…
I wonder what make of car this is? https://t.co/pJWB8scJqv
Fighting fish https://t.co/XFrhROTP4U
Alright https://t.co/Yo8nszJca0
Urban fox https://t.co/J2FBGqpWUA
Mad Ray https://t.co/pXu5x5JUk3
(Found a "before" snap from April.) https://t.co/n9a5r0RZot
Red filter to monochrome really brings out those cheekbones :D https://t.co/GTmjLbKAr7
(I'm really hoping his other boat's called Sea Airer).
@ThereSheRides Hope you remembered to like and subscribe!
RT @60sPsychJukebox: July 25th 1969 - Neil Young appeared with Crosby, Stills and Nash for the first time when they played at The Fillmore…
My strange project to walk every road within a mile continues sporadically. I have now walked 593.94km and taken more than 5,000 pictures. I mean, it gets me out of the house... https://t.co/HpUI85BvRc
Carved bone erotic "sculpture". Yes, all my sculptures came with handles, too... https://t.co/RcaJyniSrr https://t.co/85gCxNflTY
2020
RT @siracusa: I know a UDP joke, but you might not get it.
RT @Pinboard: Describe the productivity gain if you could replace one coworker of your choice with a beloved older cat that sleeps all the…
RT @BxtchesnBlunts_: My first day in San Francisco https://t.co/UU29JKwxgW
CANNOT STOP STROKING THE SOFT FLUFFY MIC MUFF. https://t.co/EAnU1NWIXB
2019
@gary_hustwit PPS: 😂
2018
RT @rahman_afzal: The best word in this tweet is the 'early' in front of the 2030 https://t.co/WzLAXcEcf0
RT @oliverburkeman: It took millions of dollars and years of research but Elon Musk has finally developed the thinnest skin the earth has e…
RT @phillipmhughes: And I thought it was a great idea to buy 5000 'bone shape' paper clips for out veterinary clinic... #WorstIdeaEver http…
RT @bphogan: I’ve had some toxic jobs. Lesson learned: When things go bad, good people leave, eventually followed by people who thought th…
@hayles That is basically my memory of how Snappy’s arrived at university. It’s possibly there’s some nostalgia filtering going on 😁
@Bingo_Little Teensy problemette, dear?
RT @MakingBlakes7: Filming on the second series of Blake’s 7 began on 31 July 1978. 40 years later, I’ll be revealing the FULL story of Ser…
“Two histories of Myst” by John Gabriel Adkins https://t.co/ny3ivjIqW9
RT @K_47: Three years ago, I married the love of my life and my sister fell over https://t.co/9jaSazmiir
2017
@GarrettZumini @cgpgrey @ismh But you can get synchronised-playback speakers in every room of your house really cheaply.
Waiting 276/365 https://t.co/6UmmbR13BK Most of commuting doesn't involve actually getting anywhere. https://t.co/uQrbUbOxLh
@salisbury_matt Yeah. I hear beard oil's only really good when it's been squeezed from an Extra Virgin.
Old favourite. https://t.co/uBMegwZ3o5 https://t.co/kL9AUNyVvq
2016
The height of excitement. https://t.co/93w89bBd0Y
If I were a vole I think I’d be quite scared at this point. https://t.co/6jWnuT0UUz
.@ahnlak Straight from the Fuji X100T; 35mm equivalent. I ducked :D
2015
Tick tock. http://t.co/6ctLhJHf6k
@C_J_Fox Good luck. I never managed to get that thing to make coffee :D
@C_J_Fox Seems reasonable. Going dual-boot? I usually keep Windows in a virtual box, but I don’t use it often.
@olebegemann I hereby dub this bug “El Yo Frankenstien”.
@C_J_Fox Yup, I used VirtualBox without problems for many years. Hear dual-boot’s better for games, but that’s not really a games machine.
@C_J_Fox Yeah, I think dedicated PC is the way to go for games. Though I am playing Elite on this one sporadically!
Right, time to debug a phpBB extension. *rolls up sleeves*
@C_J_Fox I am familiar with that hole from falling into it as a child. I'll be careful :)
Testing my reCAPTCHA 2 extension in multiple languages. JE NE SUIS PAS UN ROBOT! http://t.co/Qfw9X5ICdS
RT @Loh: Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of yourself? Software development is the career for you!
RT @BFriedmanDC: After a mistaken police raid, former counterinsurgent @AlexHortonTX has lessons for America's over-aggressive cops https:/…
@BBEdit Thanks for the “honesty box” hassle-free upgrade from the Mac App Store version!
@louisejonesetc Damn it. I knew I should have marketed that idea I had. Wonder how many I’d’ve sold in six years… http://t.co/FOb4Yykee5
@RellyAB Surely it would be even more of a fun surprise every year if you registered on a random day?
Policemen? With beards! Good lord! What a shocking thing. Never before in the history of the British police… Oh. https://t.co/2PUhbmZCjN
That thing where you hang around at home just another five minutes just in case the Amazon delivery arrives. For an hour.
Youngsters. #Bristol http://t.co/8uWUD6a3hD
Wandering around #upfest2015 #Bristol http://t.co/aS1OOqbjq5
@O2 @Tomfreeman92 Still screwed for me, too. Thought network might be overloaded by Upfest, but 3′s 4G is fine…
@adambanksdotcom @O2 @Tomfreeman92 Yeah, that’s my symptom. Says 3G, acts like no Gs at all.
RT @GingerBeardsP: We're at #upfest2015 today and tomorrow with delicious preserves sporting amazing artwork by… https://t.co/NSrbYZk9Tf
I just plugged 3 USB cables in the right way round first time. *Goes to buy lottery ticket*
Pretty busy on North Street today. #upfest2015 #bristol https://t.co/P5LUgNzA4k http://t.co/t81nkvnpyW
Hurrah! My hipster’s wooden jetpack frame* has arrived! http://t.co/71xfwyxO4w
*May actually be a guitar stand. http://t.co/vJKawXaAcn
@xabl I fell a bit guilty that it’s still on my “to read” shelf now.
@charlesarthur And a STOP SUGGESTING BLOODY MORRISSEY TO ME setting.
@charlesarthur *slow clap*
RT @iSmashFizzle: Me: It's not illegal to be rude to cops. Them: Well, if you poke a bear, what do you expect? Me: That's why we don't make…
My walk to North Street will be less pleasant for the year this bridge is out of commission :( http://t.co/IglrZNKYdQ http://t.co/gcQYSKGQVC
2014
@petapixel Your website seems down from here, folks: http://t.co/6KchTLWdVe
RT @Triggertrap: Why is the F-stop scale so weird? http://t.co/rGcJiMHyRe
@BristolEating I recognise that! Did that used to be the pub with the ultra-imaginative name of 31 Corn Street?
@BristolEating I hardly ever get to a Lounge, so that won't bother me so much. Always enjoyed drinking in Corn Street's various interiors!
@BristolEating (Probably helps that when I first came to Bristol I worked on Wine Street, then Broad Street. Lots of opportunity!)
@BristolEating Indeed. Love The Commercial Rooms, too; old enough to remember before it was a Wetherspoons and still had booths...
@BristolEating My fave is the wall “clock” in Commercial Rooms which is actually a weathervane readout.
@jukesie Screw the hipsterness if they do food that well. Now drooling and thinking about focaccia, damn you.
RT @TheOtherBBFC: Yes, it's true. We're showing SHARK ATTACK 3...ON A BOAT. This boat to be precise. http://t.co/DpzioxzIHC http://t.co/m0…
RT @Kavey: Like noodles? Buy this! MT @meemalee: Noodle! is now available on Kindle :) http://t.co/XcsankjeLe http://t.co/OxflSgcDBQ
@cabalgata Excuse me, I'm just off to invent an entire new "contents" insurance market...
@mattgemmell I've been tempted, but only because if you're going to be phished, you want to be phished better than *that*, damn it...
It is this kind of morning in my lounge. http://t.co/eqw5s5TUNC
Dear manufacturers of blue LEDs for cheap electronics: thanks, and all, but if I'm getting a tan at night, they may be a tad too bright?
@shezza_t It's very nice.
@liveindetail I imagine that being read GUIDs aloud by a robot isn't the nicest experience in the world.
@waiyeehong @stnicksmarket That looks lush. Whereabouts are they?
@guriben Happy birthday, dear.
RT @WonderfulEngr: When an engineer gets bored http://t.co/eDf4fJboDG
A truckload of experience. #bristol http://t.co/F4rjGYkg8B
Popped out for lunch. There are worse places to be. http://t.co/R6Gn2slINo
Is this an official @BristolCouncil bin or some kind of Dutch art installation? (nr Avon viewpoint, Cumberland Basin) http://t.co/NzvP7YbKfH
@hayles @jukesie Ah, I see. I mostly have stuff that they then toast, anyway, so I don't suffer from that one.
@makeitmentoring @GeorgeFergusonx Mostly by stumbling into my front room via a coffee and a shower. Which still seems to take an hour...
@makeitmentoring Much as I'd love to, most of them aren't open at 6:30, and they're all a fair way away or up a bloody steep hill...
@makeitmentoring Though I do sometimes pop out to Baristas, Ahh Toots, Woodes, Small Street, and others. That's a lunchtime treat, though!
Well done, Bristol. You passed today's spot quality check. Carry on. http://t.co/mQBSYbdNLd
@Souterain My main thought was, "Not enough experience to know they won't fit *that* into the Pump House car park, though..."
@danielpunkass Sounds like I should probably go check it out. Don't think I've seriously used a sprite since I had an Acorn Archimedes...
@MarkSkinner_ I saw a job advert earlier on, and the first question that sprang to mind was, "But does your office have aircon?"
@danielpunkass Got it. Will do, thanks!
@BristolCouncil @wood5y @bristolparks Can we contract a Belgian bin-emptying team, then? It's here, if that helps: http://t.co/VUCEGm9ODG
@BristolCouncil @wood5y @bristolparks Cool, thanks. If it's more helpful, it's pretty much central on this map: http://t.co/SpngB0GGQf
@SpikyZebra I've got one that seems to have judged "just above Matt's head height" remarkably well on the steps out of my place. Helpful.
RT @Independent: MP David Tredinnick 'convinced' astrology could reduce the strain on NHS http://t.co/hUNq1P0zeQ http://t.co/q2HWNsJIjT
What's this I see in the depths of my crystal ball? Oh, yes, it's an MP wasting fuck-tons of NHS money.
Argh! *Rushes about getting the washing in from the line* That was sudden.
@ChidgChidg Well, there you go.
@Narshada My last writing teacher said that if an idea was good enough, it'd come back. Of course, he might have a better memory than us.
2013
@MartinSketchley Ooooooh. And I'm in Devon at some point this month...
@charlie_cat_esq If I re-tweet that, can I win something?
Just got a "while you were out" card through my door from @YodelOnline. Odd, as I was in. Luckily the delivery isn't for me anyway.
Introducing my stepmum to @Lovelytart1. Normally she lives in Crete; don’t think she was expecting pavement cafe culture here, too :)
Quality interaction design from Sainsbury’s there. http://t.co/aDumTPE0Kb
RT @BTQEZ: World-first 3D pixelated sculpture of girl created by @lukejerram & unveiled at Temple Meads, Platform 3 today #btqez http://t.c…
2012
@stillawake @BoyfromBristol My Nan were a “Yorkshire lass” from birth to death, guess it’s similar…
@guriben Happy birthday, youngster.
@Thehappyfatgirl Oh! That reminds me. *Turns fan on*.
@AThriftyMrsUK Can she count? She may have been duped by three other students.
@AThriftyMrsUK Goodness, no. I did maths as part of mine, and I'm fairly sure it just made me less confident about what numbers were.
Very glad of my current freelance lifestyle today. *Sits in cool basement in shorts and a t-shirt*
RT @HighwayCodeGB: If you've started to walk across the road and traffic wants to turn into it, you have priority - traffic should give ...
(That last RT sadly only works if the car drivers who are about to kill you also know the rule, which seems rare.)
Hurrah. Coffee beans from @hasbean just arrived. Back to the Aeropress tomorrow.
Grrr. Get Running isn't posting to Facebook properly. If only Facebook's Android app would just accept text like it *claims* to...
RT @BristolBites: Vee Double Moo wins high profile ice cream pitch at Brandon Hill Park http://t.co/KLqrs9gO
Hurrah! Last year I had ice cream on Brandon Hill, and it was dreadful. But I had Vee Double Moo ice cream at weekend, and it was lush.
@swiftkey Is there a way to get a dedicated apostrophe key on UK keyboard? I'm so used to typing them I'd rather not use autocorrection.
Right. I need a walk. Might balance the exercise by going to Brandon Hill and having an ice cream :D
Pausing for a photo. Not because I need a breather halfway up. Oh no. http://t.co/yoBOkxdP
@Ninja_lynneja Just saw someone walk past looking clearly *really* “happy” to be wearing a travel ad T-shirt…
Sorted. http://t.co/Y5095lvz
@Thehappyfatgirl Pretty lovely. Got far too bloody hot getting here, though. *Melts faster than his ice cream*
Confirmed: @VeeDoubleMoo’s ice cream is lush. Now to go cool off somewhere for a while. Brandon Hill is tough walk on day like this!
@Thehappyfatgirl Nope. Only come out for lunch, so little danger of burn.
@claireellent Still worthy of respect. I just walked up Brandon Hill and I nearly died.
@claireellent Plus: Wind chill. Not sure about the uphill bits, though.
Going to do a full backup of this Mac before installing Mountain Lion. Because that gives me a reason to use the laptop in garden instead.
@jamesclay You too? I had this one: https://t.co/08PVK8vP
Though SSD will be faster, I find the whirr-and-chipmunk noises of a healthy backup drive pleasantly reassuring.
RT @ckh2oman: .@gothick If I heard my drive making chipmunk noises I'd shoot it on sight. #chipmunkinfestation #worsethanitsounds
Christ's sake, Google. *You* foisted the Jeffrey Archer novel on me. I immediately deleted it. Stop recommending more of them! #nexus7
@ollieflips GRRRR.
In amongst the bills, company stuff and Virgin Media spam there are occasionally pleasant and inoffensive missives. http://t.co/SnZmLTug
@nicepaul This is why mine retains the James the Engine sticker over the apple, from the last big group holiday I was on...
SHUP UP LOUD ALARM.
Unless, of course, someone actually *is* trying to steal Hotwells Primary School.
@LynnCherylEde I don't type so well when my head is hurting from the noise. Bah.
@waiyeehong Oooh, nice.
Just escorted a daddy long-legs from the premises. Much bigger and I'd have needed to hire a fork-lift.
They did *what* with the Korean flag? Sorry, is this the real Olympics, that parody show, or an episode of Yes, Minister?
@rabidbee Draw a nice shape on yourself with the repellent and at least you'll get a mozzie tattoo.
@rabidbee Ooopsie.
@rabidbee Well, it could have been a lot worse than his back, at least.
@mhoulden @Juggzy @AndrewJNorman @nalsa One of my regulars is Rosemary Chicken: http://t.co/R0iYaWyQ
@Bristol_Culture Hrm. "Nearly."?
@blunt_knives @Bristol_Culture In that case, I'd call Park Street "Upper Hotwells" :D
@aaronsw All my old @mac.com mail got auto-redirected to <same>@icloud.com mail, after the interlude that was MobileMe, if that helps?
@aaronsw (And I can still login to http://t.co/V6nHEPKn as <me>@mac.com...)
2011
RT @caitlinmoran: And a great, calm, un-hysterical piece on Norway from Boris Johnson, too: http://tgr.ph/pxBoAn
@vero Took about a week to get used to, and now I'm fine. More frustrated trying to live with default lack of scrollbars.
@lissa612 Glad it's not just me.
@panic Any known Transmit issues with "Upload" Automator action? Select "Favourites" & action reappears half-hidden by previous action #lion
@theagilmore Congrats!
@weirdoldhattie I have no idea, but I *love* the photo tags :D
Someone should write a virus that targets DVD producers and forces them to watch trailers for other applications every time they launch one.
@jamesclay Prefer to watch on the actual telly, and it's a pain from the Mac. Will prob. buy Apple TV when they start doing TV show rentals.
@jamesclay That's the sticking point. Mostly, I don't want to have to manage this stuff, or keep bought stuff around.
@jamesclay I have more hassle with that on digital media than I do with DVD! I just send the disc back to LoveFilm...
@jamesclay Yup. Whichever way I cut it, I'm dealing with an industry who want to make it as annoying as possible for me to give them money.
Why didn't I think of that? Using phone as a backlight for negative scanning: http://bit.ly/oGX8HT First result: http://twitpic.com/5vskj1
@Swishrelic Having some decent results with black and white. Not so sure about the colour yet!
@Swishrelic Also, add a sheet of tissue paper in front of the screen if the pixels show through!
The advice I tweeted last doesn't work so well if too many people re-tweet it and make your phone vibrate while scanning :)
@panic Hah! Just reproduced it on the iMac -- it only happens if the window is small, vertically (saw it first on the Air.) Will send mail.
@Swishrelic Yeah, it's quite sweet, isn't it? Don't think my scanner's got quite the res for it, mind. But still. http://twitpic.com/5vtn7x
2010
And this, at @kaveyf's insistence, is a from-a-more-flattering angle photo of a tweeting @kaveyf :) http://twitpic.com/28ow0x
This is a tweeting @KaveyF ;) http://twitpic.com/28ov25
@kayliemansfield Lucky guess.
#Sherlock not bad. Beautiful dialogue, looked & sounded good. Laboured points seeming to assume the viewer was quite dense let it down a bit
@hayles MOAR PONY http://tweetphoto.com/34865886
@hayles Sorry, but really, I _can't_ fit one in the back of the Mini. Not even the donkey that was with them.
@Cartblanch I use a few different cameras & things. That one was Hipstamatic on an iPhone.
What are you lookin' at? http://twitpic.com/28jydb
@rabidbee Orrest Head.
I am here :) http://twitpic.com/28jawk
2009
@tweeny4 Now, I know you shouldn't laugh at someone else's misfortune. But right now, it's taking all my self-control. Mfphfphfphf *muffle*
Num num num. Thank you, Delia. http://twitpic.com/blpkr
In the middle of my very first attempt at bread-making with live yeast. (From Stoneground in Clifton Village, if anyone local's interested!)
@Lovelybuttons Aww *blush*.
@caffeinebomb Battle between a desire for solitude and a desire to avoid boredom? I used to go for very long waks; think I might start again
@caffeinebomb No, it's not just you. :(
The label says this wallpaper sample is "Exhuberance", from the "Extravagence" collection. Think Harlequin need to work on their spelling...
@bertpalmer Gah! I must've missed a memo! Get well soon, too!
Sympathies to @MelKirk, who I think is my first swine-flu suffering followee. Get well soon!
@shezza_t The SD card? They can when someone plugs the wrong power supply into a picture frame!
Meh. I can feel myself putting off the big amorphous job of the day: making my lounge look more like a lounge and less like a boxroom.
@playleimagery Yup, 256 whole megabytes. It's from a friend's grandad; this is apparently as close to the bleeding edge as he likes to get!
http://twitpic.com/bk3sj - Yup, safe to say, that SD card is dead.
This morning, I woke from a dream where I was spreading thick marmite over many slices of toast and bread. Maybe I'm vitamin B deficient...
2008
@patricknorton Oh, I just thought you were writing a sed script.
Aha. Electrician had emergency call-out to Dorset. Looks like I'll be leaving the house late today...
Hmm. Electrician who was meant to be here doing a quote is a little late and isn't answering his phone.
Dammit. Why is it that I always get around to cleaning out the fish tank pretty much exactly three weeks after I should really have done it?
Oh, bloody hell. MobileMe seems to have broken Back To My Mac. And it took them two releases to get it working with my router in first place
Oop. Just had a few Twitter replies from 85 hours ago. Not ignoring you, folks, honest!
Just walked up the hill to Clifton Village. Damn, it's got and humid today. May need to stop for cold drink before the barber's.
Watching CodeIgniter tutorial videos and trying not to get sucked in to writing another web app for the heck of it.
2007
Thinking about writing article on superstition. Is it lucky to throw _potassium_ chloride over your shoulder?