On This Day, 4 April
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2022
@tsunimee Yup.
@tsunimee I started doing this after losing my keys somewhere, and having to pay a locksmith £60 to get me back into my flat.
2021
RT @everywhereist: I want to divorce someone I'm not married to, help.
First time ever—and it's happened on the *pavement* side? *Looks baffled* https://t.co/Xf3I16b7pW
On the plus side, saw this ten minutes later :) #bristol https://t.co/aHzG5ftE8v
Blaise Bokeh https://t.co/GzlDwrAZN2
@benjohnbarnes I've googled and apparently they are hands-down the easiest part to replace on a Mini, so hopefully the secondhand one I just ordered on eBay won't make a fool of me...
Lambo. https://t.co/lcdhpRkzHj
Ah, yes, the "fur coat and no knickers" architectural school. https://t.co/HdBOXVXBDm
@caldersidecook Well, it lasted fine all day with my 5 minute repair gaffer tape repair, so it's not causing me any actual problems yet, at least!
@stabiloFFC It's just part of the general cost of car ownership, innit? The most annoying thing is that I've only done about 30 miles this year because there's nowhere to go!
RT @ememess: There’s some cutting edge tech involved in autocorrect, the way it can tell you’re already grumpy, frustrated or in a hurry, a…
@HelloPalendrome No, I’m my street in the BS8 end of Hotwells. Been parking one car or another out there for twenty years and only had a few problems in all that time.
2020
Okay, my top match was Raj Koothrappali. I have no idea if that's accurate as I don't watch _Big Bang Theory_. My second match was Georgiana Darcy, so apparently I also need to get around to reading _Pride and Prejudice_... https://t.co/lG78VyyGj0
On the plus side, the highest match I know well is Willow Rosenberg, and I'm perfectly happy with that comparison :D
RT @CarolynTweeting: This is quite the rebuttal statement from Glasgow City Council to a @glasgow_times story about stationery expenditure.…
RT @stephanieboland: Hearing my partner laugh happily with colleagues on a work call, and am confronting the hideous possibility he's actua…
RT @crawley_mick: This is the very best time of year for studying the "bottom of the wall" plant community. It occupies 5-20 cm of pavement…
@holly Am I meant to have had one of those?
RT @stauffermatt: This is your regular reminder that macOS has built-in bulk file renaming and it's insanely simple to use. 🙌🍎 https://t.co…
@holly Ah. I did get post today, but knowing what the bloke who used to live upstairs' gym is doing about the coronavirus didn't turn out to be terribly useful.
If someone could spread a rumour that all home WiFi routers have secretly been 5G for the last decade, I wonder if we could get the bottom half of the internet to turn itself off?
@KBowBristol I’m favouring Diesel’s Only the Brave at the moment. I’ve not been in the same room as another human being for three weeks now.
RT @Canocola: It often seems that the golden age of naval idiocy has disappeared forever. I'm therefore pleased to note that the Venezuel…
RT @petedoherty: 'All At Sea', a 30-minute film by Roger Sargent documenting the making of 'Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres' during the sum…
2019
PS: I would normally be relaxed about autocorrect mistakes, but I can't bloody believe I ended up with "it's" swapped for "its" in a tweet about libraries. Damn it.
New trap! 😀 (Note to self: Dust carnivorous plant. Carefully.) https://t.co/IW9cSqEC6P
@floatingstarfis @davidallengreen @Nigel_Farage I reckon a thousand of them are likes from people who're just impressed to see anyone on the planet actually spell "supersede" correctly. I'm strenuously having to resist doing it myself...
@beccarothwell As someone who sees a therapist every Wednesday, and panics every Tuesday evening that he hasn't done anything at all about the last session, you have my sympathy.
Well, it does *seem* like the winter of our discontent… https://t.co/Ccg4hvcQ4f
RT @rstevens: Tonight's comic has a strong opinion about popular culture. https://t.co/R3WDsLM04w https://t.co/3TQcbwYgfQ
RT @FelicityMorse: A coach I once dated is running an event called 'how to have the best sex ever' with a giant picture of his face as the…
@beccarothwell The talking therapy is helping. Not least because I can hear my therapist saying, “it’s not homework, you know” and telling me to go easier on myself 🙂
@OnboardG1 @LawrenceConnol2 @estwebber Exactly so. 👏
This is so apposite I’d call it a metaphive. https://t.co/P8nq5Vknnk
RT @jimwaterson: Bill Heine, the man who in 1986 stuck a giant shark on the roof of his terraced house in Oxford, has died. He fought plann…
Saw the matinee of Richard III at @BristolOldVic today and it was bloody brilliant. Pop along if you can.
@OpinionatedGeek The reason there are so many frameworks is to give you all the opportunities you need to reach the end of your tether, burn it all down and start again with something totally different. And repeat.
@talithahg @BristolOldVic I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
@Dru_Marland You think you had problems. I took my Christmas turkey with me last year and they insisted on a cavity search.
@beccarothwell Hope it goes well.
2018
2017
@saltwateritch I didn't know you were meant to.
Bonus. Just did that thing where you take something apart to see if you can fix it, and the act of taking it apart fixes it.
@ahnlak I actually haven’t. Somewhat scared to, in case it stops working.
@ahnlak My steering wheel “volume up” button for the car stereo stopped working...
@ahnlak …I got as far as unscrewing the Torx that held in the buttons, and it started working again.
@ahnlak Being built by BMW, the whole thing seems entirely solid even without the screw.
@ahnlak I’ve never actually owned one, but I have been in one where the driver started to wind the window down…
@ahnlak …and it then dropped suddenly all the way inside the door and smashed.
I only went to B&Q for a hinge, but now I have new hooks in the bedroom. This is not a bad thing. https://t.co/ePaazagGIE
@LeadHyperion I do quite often wander past things I didn’t even know they sold and end up buying one.
I’m also getting better at DIY. Remembered to put the earplugs in before drilling, too—hammer drilling into walls from 1763 is LOUD.
@mhoulden I have, thank goodness, never needed to drill into a ceiling.
@Redveee *Sad trombone*
@mhoulden I can only dream of double-glazing.
@CharlieEsq_ Oh noes. What went wrong?
@CharlieEsq_ SAD FACE. I enjoyed doing my own sandwiches, though—when I remembered to put them in my bag!
Hurrah! My acer is springing back after its first winter. https://t.co/MvgY3wsoZ0 https://t.co/eKVd23eCEK
RT @gruber: Apple opened up about the future of the Mac Pro. It’s good news. No joke. https://t.co/Oyq81VNRut
2016
Just back from steak at @theoxbristol Clifton. Excellent from start (beef dripping popcorn!?) to finish.
2015
2014
@goodshoeday I thought there was another week, too. Hrm...
@goodshoeday I should get a bit of a clue later on, as I live opposite a school...
Nice little syntax reference in the RubyMine install image there... #geek http://t.co/YYVg0nt4Ts
@unearthedSimon First Great Western buffet car cheese sandwich would be my guess.
RT @LittleLostLad: Remember when Robert got tricked into thinking he had signed up for 'Cat Facts'... http://t.co/NOw1PskRov
RT @BristolBites: The Chocolate Festival: Brunel’s Old Station, April 5-6 http://t.co/6hb9qAxh0w
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@EastBrisBakery Ooopsie. Mine's currently the longest it's ever been. Definitely needs a trim. Delicate operation, then?
@EastBrisBakery I'm going to start at the sides and work inwards. If I cock it up, I'll pretend I was going for the Water White goatee look.
Hrm. Think the battery in my Kindle may be finally giving up the ghost.
Me? Watching too much _Breaking Bad_? Why do you ask? http://t.co/RwAoelWZeB
@MResponsively I was imagining that Jesse had done something dumb yet again. Glad it worked :D
2013
@MickDickinson Luckily I eventually dragged myself off YouTube and back to work...
RT @lucethoughts: 'I' before 'E' except when there's a feisty heist on weird beige foreign neighbours reinventing protein at their leisure.
RT @rone: WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK GEORGIA WHAT YEAR IS IT http://t.co/DaSPv1qfmU
(I’m still hoping that one’s a late April fool, or something.)
@BenPark PARDON?
Rajmoni pokes out in its little vintage building. They also have a little vintage website. Aw! http://t.co/6baFEsxsGH http://t.co/9fFZAIhOPg
@shezza_t It was good. With nice fresh veg. And a lot cheaper than lunch in the art gallery I’d been in :)
Walking to town for my daily exercise/lunch outing. Will try to think of story for Bristol Short Story Prize on way. http://t.co/w5BpFqAtfT
Nice to see the Ferry company getting some new signs up. http://t.co/665KpAKDDK
Typical #Bristol skateboard jump http://t.co/JnLyYc6bOC
.@Bristol52 mentioned the trams earlier. This section of tramline still stands in St Mary Redcliffe’s grounds… http://t.co/JcAJRa4cYP
Baristas are taking their tea-steeping time seriously! http://t.co/jCjfyk93hv
@hayles What's a Reuben sandwich? Is it made of oil paint?
Quaking. #bristol http://t.co/nx7BAAfxC1
RT @Beathhigh: E-mail from Iain Banks this morning. Enjoying life to the max with partner Adele in Italy, and aware of everyone's good w ...
@bexxi I’ve got a real surprise for you about Superman and Clark Kent, too.
RT @JonnieMarbLes: Remember when Harold Shipman killed several hundred people on purpose and we debated whether that means all middle cl ...
@Bristol52 @guriben @JannerTM It was called "China Black", and from what I recall, it wasn't exactly great.
@jakepjohnson @waiyeehong @stillawake @hatsandbikes What? What form? #confused
RT @HexstreamSoft: "Hello, I just shat on your carpet but if you don't like it, don't worry, you can just 'opt-out' and I won't shit on ...
So, with friend in need of light, cheery rom-com, we settle down and watch The Cider House Rules. Well, *I* enjoyed it…
2012
Good morning, Twitter.
@Mouse_House Good luck! (With the headache and the interview. But I would suggest taking pills, too. At least for the headache.)
One shiny new outside tap, courtesy Sam and Alex from @JimCombiline. Ta! http://t.co/ZIHJHR9J
@chocolateguide Morning! That reminded me I was going to find out about the chocolate festival that's meant to be here this weekend, too...
@BlackDogDays Sorry. This clearly coincides with me getting this outside tap fitted. It will now rain until winter.
@BlackDogDays And I've got a wedding to go to in Bristol tomorrow. :( Hope it gets nicer. But it's not looking likely, is it?
@KaveyF Incidentally, I'm using that Cafe Rouge you gave me every time I cook now. Ta!
@BlackDogDays *crosses fingers*
Well, that counts as one of the more obscure ads Facebook have ever served up to me. http://t.co/0dQE3a20
*Turns heating back on* *Sighs wistfully*
My favourite sentence of the day so far: "A hole in the wrong place is sealed using a Goof Plug." (from http://t.co/ZKA3G91G )
Checking out @zubhium for managing Android beta testing. Seems pretty good so far.
Guess they're having to widen the sign to accommodate extra digits. http://t.co/g32tRZaP
RT @AndyCarolan: @gothick as we will soon end up paying in body parts it needs to be wide enough to accommodate "Spleen", "Kidney", "Liv ...
Lunch with @missemmeline, then bumped into @bertpalmer on Park Street. Wonder who else I'll see today... #bristolvillage
Sterling service in TM Lewin. Now have tie for wedding. Next: card. #lastminute
Cancelling my Spotify sub. The Mac app never works how my brain thinks it should, and it lacks last.fm's "play stuff I might like" goodness.
(Not that last.fm's app is anything to write home about, but Spotify fools me by *looking* really nice but working oddly...)
@codepo8 You don't need the driver to have it work on the Air. Should "Just Work".
@Active8hnf Actually, that was just a test tweet that got out by accident. I'm developing the Android version of Get Running!
@Active8hnf Just getting ready for beta testing right now, so... not sure, but hopefully not too long!
@Active8hnf Thanks! And I will be going for an actual run myself later, honest :)
@oxfamcothambook A true Chandler fan would leave with a book in his pocket and steel in his eyes, without a backwards glance at the dame.
@Zubhium Will do :) Quick question: do I need to add Zubhium to every Activity to catch all crashes?
RT @SteveUmstead: Best. Photo. Ever. RT @realnichelle: Taken 2/29/12 in the Oval Office - Live Long & Prosper! http://t.co/yfUAESjC
Hrm. I may have left it too late to go for a rain-free run, mightn't I? *goes out anyway*
@stillawake It wasn't that bad. Well, okay, maybe the first kilometre was. #frozenmatt
@stillawake Hot cross buns! #weeps
@Zubhium Fab, thanks :D
Ah. I wondered what that burning smell was. Turns out those Tesco "SECURITY PROTECTED" stickers don't microwave very well.
@thomasvenables Chicken breasts, apparently. I was just defrosting them. Came home from run and realised I'd forgotten to buy dinner today!
@MrDLeighfield True. I am in no way amazed that they did that.
@Mouse_House Goodnight, lovely Mouse. Things will be better now you've only got a month. They were for me when I quit, anyway.
@Mouse_House Good.
RT @MGBS4: #Bristol #photowalk anybody? http://t.co/OIXJnXSx
@MandinaM Yup. Everyone welcome. It is basically a walk. Where you take photos. Everything else is optional :)
@MandinaM It varies. There's a core group, but there's usually new people, too.
@MandinaM Cool. Might see you there, then. @MGBS4 usually manages to magic up good weather for the spring walk, too :)
2011
@matthew_roach @xabl Oooommmmm. Allmymoneypadmeohmmmm....
@xabl @matthew_roach That's just Uncle Steve's way of telling you you need a bigger hard drive.
@xabl @matthew_roach (Seriously though; I feel your pain. iTunes is annoying as hell even on a Mac; on Windows it's intolerably awkward.)
And this time, a link to that GIF of the Victoria Statue on College Green that works properly: http://bit.ly/hQhquo
@xabl I can't believe a company that can produce something as good as Lightroom can also produce the Photoshop Elements helps system. Weird.
@matthew_roach @xabl So all your help comes up upside down? *ducks* *runs*
@matthew_roach @xabl They're a very, very odd company.
@matthew_roach @xabl See also: charging *more* for the download edition of a product than for shipping a big box to you.
@rabidbee @matthew_roach @xabl It's to stop me getting so familiar with what's broken in the current version that I can work around it.
@xabl @rabidbee @matthew_roach ...then it probably ain't iTunes.
Right. Night all. Sweet dreams!
@Dan_Christensen I hope you said that straight to camera.
So what _is_ a "police cab"? #telephony http://twitpic.com/4gsqaw
#commutergraphy @ Floating Harbour http://instagr.am/p/C0xsj/
@MitchBenn @jennycolgan I say it should become a running gag. "Oh my God! They killed Rory!"
@benjohnbarnes Two frames is all there is! That kind of two-frame shot is a Tumblr meta-meme...
@benjohnbarnes Was thinking: is it plausible to do an automatic dolly zoom shot using the accelerometer?
@ahnlak With the Saab, I had to put it in reverse...
@ahnlak Is it designed for a certain country where people use the handbrake so rarely that they call it the "emergency brake", I wonder?
@benjohnbarnes I thought you might like that one :)
RT: @robmanuel: Even the sex toy companies are using the royal wedding to sell tat: http://t.co/zXCCiGn <-- has @hayles seen this?
Sadly, I can't see it because of @O2's bloody age verification thingy.
@meemalee Not really, but thanks for asking :). Have annoying cough and head feels bunged up :(
@meemalee Sadly, my best option at the mo is to hide under my desk.
Bloody @O2. Apparently I've exceeded the maximum no. of attempts to use a credit card for age verification. I TRIED *ONCE*. Grrr. #notachild
@hayles If *I'm* under eighteen, I believe that makes *you* an embryo.
@hayles I wish I was. I still had hair back then, for starters.
@codinghorror Based on my reading of many QoS router *manuals*, nobody actually understands how *humans* work.
I would take advice on my problem from @O2, but I'm assuming they're a 5-year-old until they DM me their credit card details. :)
What *is* wrong with me? It's not a cold. I don't think it's flu. Maybe I've got consumption. #grump #whinge
@jorence Should I ask why?
@jorence Why Al-Fayed has unveiled a statue of Michael Jackson in Fulham. I don't even know enough to connect any of these three things...
@jorence My instinct was correct. I shouldn't have asked. How odd.
On the plus side, when I'm well enough to run again, my shiny new Mizuno Wave Inspire 7's have arrived :)
@Mouse_House Amen.
@IreneB9 @jorence Even though we're only in April, I'm not sure anyone will beat that for "Understatement of the Year".
@ahnlak It's a major annoyance as well as being general crap.
I have put two chilies into this stir-fry. This may be kill-or-cure, lurgy-wise.
@jacrats Huh?
@GettingShirty My nearest place is both, so I can decide when I get there :) #fusionrestaurantonthecheap
@Caremur Sadly, no. But I think the chilies have helped my sinuses some.
@iamdanw Oooh, yes, there's a Kindle Twitter thingy. Hang on, I'll have to find my Kindle to tell you where it is :)
@iamdanw http://www.kintweet.com is the one I've tried. Works as well as anything does with that bloody keyboard.
@rbrwr Sadly, the way this whatever-the-hell-I've-got is going, I'm likely to be tucked up in bed with a Lemsip.
2010
Muchos nachos. #nomnomnom http://twitpic.com/1d60hb
@campbellclaret Was that an order?
@mattgemmell Whereas my fundamental buying decision will depend enormously on whether we get the fucking books.
@benjohnbarnes It's a shame we missed April 1st :)
@mattgemmell I would want to take either, leaving the MiFi in my bag to make sure I didn't forget it, and only have one account to deal with
@MitchBenn That is because greeny-brown is the colour of wistful longing for opportunities missed, and not a continuity error at all.
*sings* But for nowww-owww-owwww-wwww.../It's just another Chelsea monday...
@tweeny4 Bleurgh.
@jorence Think that's probably what I did in the end. Can't remember. Hopefully will be much thinner by then!
@jorence I have no idea either. I searched for expected first finish times when they asked me. Then got scared by the fit people's answers!
Mmm. Managed to avoid buying anything at chocolate festival. Had too many nachos. Took boats. Took photos. Now back at home. Quite full.
@thomasvenables where did this bee come from? And I know it's Easter, but... a bonnet?!
What the hell _is_ this that's cycled round in my "Unplayed" playlist now? Oh: Emerson, Lake and Palmer. That explains it.
At @wshed, awaiting nachos. Just bought copy of Asterix the Gladiator from secondhand book-stall outside :)
RT @antonvowl: Gay B&B owner: "Let me ban Tories" http://bit.ly/bYHwvZ (via @jbrownridge)
Floating along to the chocolate festival :)
@BristolBites you convinced me. On my way. ;)
Oh, _yes_: Bird House In Your Soul. *sings*
If you want to hear what's melting me, go here http://bit.ly/cyPjma scroll to album "In the Time Before Llamas" and click on Blue Moon...
Ahhh. The Cowboy Junkies' _Blue Moon Revisited_. Margo's voice makes me melt a little.
So far, my "unplayed" playlist has thrown up a Bontempi-style backing track to "Wonderful Tonight" and a three-second track of me, coughing.
Ahhh. _That's_ what a sleep graph should look like. *stretches* http://twitpic.com/1d4a78
@getrunningapp you'd need quite a big armband, though.
See, this is why I decided to upgrade my websites over a bank holiday weekend. Hopefully nobody but my dad will notice they're all down.
Anyway. I'd best be off to bed. Before the dawn of the sentimental mercenary.
@csoanes ...but the man in the mirror has sad eyes.
@csoanes Listen to the blade!
Horlicks and bank reconciliation. Who needs sleeping pills?
Okay, turns out I like Florence and the Machine. Forgotten I'd bought that.
@csoanes Stop staring at me!
@KaveyF I love blogging clients. Save me so much time. But I probably do more with media.
@KaveyF I think it was after the website ate a post you'd been working on, just after I'd tried it and been surprisingly impressed.
@KaveyF DIdn't I recommend that to you about a year ago? Hmph.
Hmm. Should go to bed soon, to make my way back into the "being at work" timezone, which is GMT-3 (3 hours ahead of General Matt Time.)
@csoanes Night. Don't let the assassings bite :)
@tsunimee @KaveyF I don't think I took it. But it must be here somewhere... http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=pete%20Favelle&w=all
Ah, except it's the other way round, isn't it? _Post-Modern Sleaze_, from _Becoming X_. *sings* "She must be a Thelma or Louise..."
Oooooh. Sneaker Pimps' _Becoming X_, from Post-Modern Sleaze. Now you see, _this_ is why I put my "unplayed" playlist on shuffle sometimes.
Ooooh. New Jonathan Creek imminent.
@hayles Sometimes, you have to give yourself permission to do normal human things like sleep and laze around and recover :)
@hayles Ugh, necessary.
@Narshada There's a cheery film to watch on a sunny holiday! (Bloody brilliant, mind...)
@mattgemmell I'd like to think not, but it presumably depends on publishers and lawyers, neither of whom are know for their speed...
2009
@chrismarquardt Don't think I'm not considering it (TWITTER USER IN MONETISATION MIRACLE!) But my life is busy enough!
Okay, that's the end of Tabloid Headline Saturday. Thank you for the encouragement, all! (Next: MAN HEADBUTTS PILLOW.)
FOREIGN FOOD CAUSES SUDDEN UNCONSCIOUSNESS IN TEST SUBJECT (I had to nap after I mis-judged the quantities trying out my new rice cooker.)
MAN AMBUSHED BY CULT VIGILANTE IN LIVING ROOM (how *did* I end up watching The Equaliser again, anyway?)
MAN BITES CRUNCH IN SHOCK CONSUMER REVERSAL (I bought a DVD player.)
e.g. BRISTOL MAN IN BREAKFAST ARSON ATTACK.
In related news, I need a Twitter service that will turn my tweets into a tabloid headline, for added drama.
For those of you who can smell burning croissants in West Bristol: sorry.
2008
@floyduk would love invite, please! Just trying to figure out what to buy to go with new 400D right now :)
2007
Ow. My wisdom teeth hurt.