On This Day, 10 October
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@chubbybannister A not dissimilar experience… Wordle 478 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
RT @JohnGeeMcCarthy: This week. I hit my lowest culinary point after a couple of cans. In Glasgow, there's a pizza vending machine, in th…
2021
@4r7hr Yes. Yes it was. Had to reset my brain overnight to finish it off.
RT @mshedbristol: Docks Heritage Weekend continues today with plenty to explore at M Shed, @theunderfall @SSGreatBritain ⚓ Donations very w…
Chain reaction. @theunderfall #Bristol #DocksHeritageWeekend https://t.co/HVEvlkaxsc
2020
Bristol. Where I have no idea if that person is simply doing a cosplay I don’t recognise, or if they’re genuinely an off-duty steam train conductress.
Hotwells Hideout https://t.co/tzvnxIGVna #cafesigns
Morning row. #bristol https://t.co/34pZ6OHl25
SEND BEER #bristol https://t.co/BtSPqX5NxX
Rust Never Sleeps #underfallyard #bristol https://t.co/rMTOPrw7j1
RT @for_every_helen: Okay, look, this is why I am so upset by #TheWatch adaptation. I think I read my first #Discworld book a couple of dec…
RT @Scott1Gray: Okay, so Caitlin Blackwood who played Amelia Pond is now the same age that adult Amy Pond was in The Eleventh Hour. (Look,…
@christianrt Thanks!
RT @Unexplained: Ghost crabs can move 100 body-lengths per second! Fastest crustacean in the world https://t.co/qc3623c2hF
Strewth but the Times puzzle is hard today. Still a couple to go... #cruciverbalist
RT @Avon_Stories: Avon, evening https://t.co/f7GL99UFpm
Emergency spider. At the start of this evening's wander with @Avon_Stories. https://t.co/wpyXOqYBcQ
Yo flatlay. https://t.co/ueI68ZJnqi
Through. https://t.co/Ev2fp5pSo2
Sundowner. https://t.co/L7XFLZ05Mo
Ouchie. Sore feet. https://t.co/XosRIZudF0
2019
What? Oh, just taking some photos of NFC stickers. It’s for a blog post. I’m going to use them for time-tracking my studying. What? Goodness. No, I didn’t even know there *was* a Nobel Prize for procrastination… Well, yes, I’d be hon— *Wakes from reverie* *Blinks* *Looks sad* https://t.co/gDSoYmDsC0
@Tim_Bullock Heh. I remember back in 1991 using a Mac for the very first time, thinking "what? Why would you drag the floppy icon to the trash to eject the disk? That's just silly!"
RT @NoTalentAC: Tip: When making a sex tape, play Disney music in the background. That way, if it gets leaked online, Disney attorneys will…
@UrsulaWJ True, but my bank balance rather wishes I'd only taken up one of them.
There's an update to Adobe Flash Player. Wait. I *have* Adobe Flash Player? https://t.co/hp2PmQB8ru
2018
RT @Avon_Stories: On Friday, @gothick drove @Bingo_Little & me to Brean, for a daytrip on the beach, on Brean Down, a long rocky outcrop in…
RT @BillGates: The modern toilet was invented in 1775 and we promptly stopped innovating…until today.
@Kavey It is not. You can see a one-page site with all the sentences at https://t.co/SR1R5yCclY though.
@Kavey @stevemarvell Works fine here. What does it do for you?
RT @MakingBlakes7: GARETH THOMAS: I would have said “Morning Doctor”, and he would have said, “Morning Blake” and that would have been it.…
@JannerTM @corylus @chrisdc77 Also, post-Brexit, you can use it in the oil lamps. Don't get the extra-virgin and the normal confused, though; it'd be a waste to burn the good stuff.
2017
I don’t think they’re talking to me. https://t.co/nRFkX4zHig https://t.co/ptMTEjHKW6
@edacuk @paulwaugh Why, are you hoping for someone to out-obscure the vocabulary in Damian’s answer?
@marcoarment Boom. Happens with just plain copy, too.
@marcoarment So it’s dying when Apple’s copying out the RTF content to save to the clipboard?
@marcoarment You’re a bad, bad man.
@chubbybannister I inherited the set from my late Nan some time in the 1990s. I think they must have done fairly well!
2016
2015
@stroughtonsmith They probably shouldn’t unify it while Mail is identifying mail *from Apple* as junk, which happened to me last week!
RT @susie_dent: In the 1500s, a morning greeting was 'what cheer?' ('what mood?', i.e. how are you?). Over the centuries it was shortened. …
My first print :) #Bristol #filmphotography @ The Folk House Cafe & Bar https://t.co/KxtumO2QWY
@antimitch Amen.
@antimitch And, in my personal experience, fucking terrible.
Yay! My prints made it back home unscathed. Note to self: when going to a darkroom course, take a sturdy envelope. http://t.co/I3eWdVx2Xf
RT @hotdogsladies: I wish you could double-click the headphone button to skip forward thirty seconds on a phone call.
2014
@lethalbristol @Bristol52 Aaaaaaaaaaargh! *cries*
RT @C4Utopia: So sad to confirm there won’t be a 3rd series of #utopia. Huge thanks to our fans. Here’s that spoon one last time: http://t.…
RT @MatCro: Weird that everyone called Mike is actually called Micycle.
Lloyds windows. http://t.co/lUrYzhO5R5
Ward & Williams #Bristol http://t.co/mXjnz7H75u
Birdcage. http://t.co/VNzMR1kXSq
@shezza_t @CoppiTruck Most Citroen H vans seem to be coffee machines now :)
Looking down. http://t.co/yJocbVU274
Mirrorball. #Bristol http://t.co/8FCfIygqnH
2013
Sigh. Accounts. Might go for a walk in the woods to clear my head.
High tide. http://t.co/OzzUMoRfYJ
Taking something of a long way around between Hotwells and Clifton Village. http://t.co/Yuesr10JGK
Nearly at the end if my lunchtime amble. http://t.co/6DTPGmwKHz
Back home, suitably chilled by forest walk and suitably reassured by my accountant.
RT @Gary_Bainbridge: Doctor Who people. Heed my warning before it's too late. COLUMN: http://t.co/8Fa9oMwooK
@Gary_Bainbridge You sum up my feelings of re-watching MacGyver. *sniff*. Still love Blake's 7, though...
@davidcaolo Really? Sounds pretty easy to me. Maybe consider setting both feet on fire while stabbing yourself with a fondue fork.
@hatsandbikes Now can't stop singing "...and eleven long-haired friends of Jesus in a chartreuse micro-bus." #yourfault
@hatsandbikes That's all right. I'm about to drive somewhere, and _Convoy_ is definitely somewhere in my collection. WIll roll with it...
2012
@Thehappyfatgirl Bluh.
@Thehappyfatgirl Only just had coffee. And Neurofen :( Still, off to Warren's Gourmet Burger place today...
RT @BrewDogBristol: For all those asking, we open on the 27th October!
Lunch out today ;) http://t.co/UuD1qlvF
Neil went for a double. Bloody hell. @ Warren's Gourmet Burger Company http://t.co/NWpwiLlS
Yes. It's as big as it looks. Though not their biggest burger. They also serve The Beast, though I’ve not seen one IRL. http://t.co/MfdRZqjx
@claireellent Not by a long way. Their largest burger is four times bigger. I will not be trying that.
@stillawake The food is good. The atmosphere is lacking a bit. Maybe that’s just lunchtimes. Also: Rod Stewart. Again.
@shezza_t Just two. But large.
@KellySibson Neil cycles up mountains for fun in his spare time, so he can handle the calories, luckily…
RT @RellyAB: Mr. Prospective Client, you can ask for my answer to change all you like but it won't. I have a 3 year old. I am pro at say ...
*sings* Ome-let-te, gentille ome-let-te/ Ome-let-te, je vais te manger...
@jorence Define “decent”. For “awesome”, try the Rode Podcaster.
@jorence Worth getting the shock mount in the long run. Good at absorbing noise that might otherwise be transmitted from stand.
@jorence Also, Maplin are a decent source of cheapish desk stands for mics.
RT @CAFR: ... I refuse to believe this is an accident. http://t.co/G3LOkP4g
2011
@Mouse_House Yeah, because it's well known that "Crackberry" users don't hammer on the damn things all the time. Right? Oh.
@soba_girl What, you need a licence now? I can see it for wasabi, but surely garlic doesn't actually count as a munition?
@hayles Yes, oddly. Think it's because I listen to a lot of podcasts presented by people who go to lots of camps/cons/whatever.
RT @csoanes: Is this how fscking paranoid we have become? BBC News - Row over photo in shopping centre - http://t.co/7k2RylUd
@jbirdiebird #treefilms The Ax Files
I have just booked my very first Easyjet flight. I am not sure if this is a good thing.
@BenPark Off to see my dad in Crete :)
@bertyc That was my main thought, actually: "At least it's not Ryanair". Not that I've ever used them, either, mind.
@bertyc ...but I'm happy to judge a book by its uniformly damning reviews.
@stillawake Are you *that* scared I won't make it back alive? :D
@bertyc I'm off to Crete, so yes, that's about right.
@stillawake But yes, coffee sounds good. Free much of the week.
@stillawake Sounds good to me. Somewhere Clifton/Clifton Villagey? Lots of places I've not tried yet!
@stillawake Sounds good to me! Elevenish? @lahlootea
@stillawake Kewl. You're in my calendar.
@BenPark Freecycle?
RT @BrisBeerFactory: Beeramisu... what's that all about? http://t.co/e8usEHKr <-- Sounds like a good recipe for @ahnlak :D
@BenPark I had much better luck after I started choosing based on "most literate" response rather than "quickest". #freecyclesnob
Well, let's face it, "Qwikster" was a godawful name for anything, anyway. #netflix
RT @julesmattsson: http://t.co/YYTN0zzl - Scottish police praised after foiling Al Qaeda toddler ice-cream photo plot #phnat via @/nujphoto
@Mouse_House As long as you're not sending pictures with every tweet. A tweet is Really Very Small.
@Mouse_House Conservatively, a tweet is around 200 bytes, so 750MB would be good for around 3.75 million tweets.
@Mouse_House Yeah. It's pictures and video that ramp it up. If it helps, I've averaged about 600MB in the last four months.
@Mouse_House ...and I've been a fairly heavy user, including bits of video here and there.
@soba_girl Ouch. Much damage?
@Mouse_House I'd say start at 500MB and see how you go. And see if the contract lets you bump up the data if you need it...
@Mouse_House ...most do at least monthly bolt-ons for if you're going over occasionally.
@soba_girl Buh? *feels hurt for guitar*
@pilky Mail.app? The email address associated with an account can be a comma-separated list.
RT @WildlifePhotog: Anyone in Bristol know of somewhere cheapish but ok to stay near Bristol Children's hospital? My mate's just had his ...
@jorence Did the presentation really go *that* badly?
@matt_fwyalchen I thought you were just sticking your tongue out at us.
@ahnlak @tsunimee This is a hammer: http://t.co/ascHq86e This is Sledge Hammer: http://t.co/zLa6z8ko
@jorence Arseburgers. Well, keep looking for ways out. I left it *far* too long myself.
2010
Hmm. Not entirely impressed with littleniggle.com's newsletter unsubscription page. http://bit.ly/9pWoGu
@rabidbee Yes, but that doesn't stop it annoying me. My annoyance is as arbitrary as spelling.
"SuperSede", people. With an "s". Not a "c". #bugbear #sorryihadtogetitoutofmysystem
I have tidied significant portions of the flat. (Sorry I didn't hear you call, @KaveyF -- vacuuming!)
@callumchapman @narshada I feel the results may be slightly skewed by the number of people deliberately avoiding Twitter while it's on.
I just cleaned my hob. I now have enough leftovers to make bubble & squeak. #bacherlorhood
I like poetry, but I don't like _Poetry Please_. I wonder if this is similar to the way I like money, but dislike _Moneybox_ #radio4
Just watched last week's #apprentice. Goodness. Were previous first episodes quite as full of such fuckmuppetry? I can't quite remember.
@hayles Unfortunately, it's also usually very difficult to find that person. :(
@hayles All companies are dumb. Very occasionally, they'll include the odd smart person who knows how to drive them.
2009
@scottejames I'm still using Mozy. I know @ahnlak was looking through the alternatives recently, though. Scott, do you remember Ganders?
@talkie_tim My oldest IZ copy has advert for forthcoming book called Consider Phlebas on the back cover, which rather dates me :)
And I thought *I* had problems with GCSE geometry. http://twitpic.com/kyczo
@jorence That's pretty random. Then again, I wouldn't recognise Robert Plant, so for all I know he's always hanging out in Saint Nick's.
@jorence PS: Now go to Bakery Agnes, buy something lovely, and say hi to Emmeline for me :)
@jorence Cool. Emmeline used to work in Baristas, so she makes good coffee, too :)
http://bestc.am/gRa2F Experimenting with Pano + Best Camera.
@jorence Glad you liked it :)
Just nipped up to Clifton Village for a coffee. Took the long way round: http://bit.ly/2EZhER
@jorence :)
Hmm. Thought it used to be easy to get a non-bit.ly link to a public activity. Did something change, @runkeeper ?
"There is an annoying desktop wizard on your desktop. Would you like Windows to use a time machine to kill the idiot who invented it?"
..."Sorry; assassin time machine feature is only available in Windows 7E Extreme Ultimate Time Lord Edition."
@talkie_tim Interzone is well worth a sub; still some of the highest quality SF around. This and Escape Pod podcast fill most of my SF needs
@chrismarquardt HEY! YOUR LAST TWEET DIDN'T IMPROVE MY PHOTOGRAPHY ANY!
Time for dinner, I reckon.
@Squonk Yes. If you go to bed now.
@hayles Our work party last night was partly X Factor themed. That's the closest I've come to watching it, and I don't want to get closer.
Just watched the first True Blood. Liked it a lot.
Hmm. Slept surprisingly well last night. Have energy, but new .net mag dropped through letterbox just as bath was ready. This is a sign.
*Boing* Right. Up. and. at. them.
@shezza_t Good point!
@missmcq Tell it can have a treat if it eats up its greens.
Definitely lost one of my Apple remotes. Hope it's not down the back of the sofa. Because I Freecycled the sofa three months ago.
Sitting in the sunshine reading Interzone and eating munchy lunch from Stoneground.
2008
@JockotheRocks just solid traffic on its way somewhere unknown. Mostly big cars with one passenger, or I'd suspect football...
@talkie_tim looks like we'll get it back in the end. Not much news so far anyway, or not any you can do anything about.
What the hell's going on in Bristol tonight?!
2007
@ floyduk Good luck!