On This Day, 13 June
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@iamtheshunt1 I am glad to hear that my discernment of about twenty minutes ago was correct. Guessing evening may be a better time...
@iamtheshunt1 As in "I wish I hadn't left the house, because now my clements are all sweaty."
A. E. Waite: Victorian poet, magician, Horlicks manager and imposter-syndrome-sufferer... https://t.co/yVGH3lmrrW
2020
"I wonder if I can find out much about making music with solenoids," I wonder idly. Humanity, you do not disappoint. https://t.co/sQ37MnS5Nt
RT @cstross: Sitting in my office on a rainy Saturday afternoon, despairing that it feels like my imagination is broken because I can no lo…
@Dempster2000 I really wish they weren't. As an aging tubby white bald guy I find it quite disturbing, what with coincidentally not being a massively racist moronic cockwomble.
Highly scientific test of the effect of voltage level on solenoid force. https://t.co/An9UCLj5Fl
2019
@rem Make the window wider? They're only at the bottom when there's not enough room for them in the sidebar.
@Dru_Marland You should try. As everyone who wears a beret knows, we're all going to dye.
RT @Unwise_Trousers: When you just want to clutch your head in a field in peace, and people keep slapping you on book covers: https://t.co/…
RT @bercut2000: It is sometime useful to have a senior developers in the team.. https://t.co/ijAq5xly5a
RT @robotnik: Consented to near-constant surveillance by multinational megacorps in exchange for convenience and news about my friends? htt…
2018
2017
RT @OfficialUoM: #OnThisDay 60 years ago our @jodrellbank's Lovell Telescope was first put into powered operation. Happy Birthday! https://…
RT @dayoneapp: Day One is launching iOS and Mac v2.2 on Monday with End-to-end encryption. 🔑 FAQ: https://t.co/QgKihg1om8 https://t.co/jAYJ…
@dayoneapp Bug in 2.2 on macOS: drag file to journal, type, hit "Done": stuff I typed disappears. Any hints? Ta! https://t.co/THFkB5M1bq
RT @indiespiritbath: Top trolling here. Bet its just a crayon picture of a duck saying the bus is almost here. https://t.co/7CtI7wSWj9
Sometimes, one needs a little more tea than seems quite proper. https://t.co/y8yaBFCc4l
@Sirius7dk I've seen the cars with the green lights (mostly in London, I think), but I've never actually seen them being used.
@Kavey I'm sorry? I can't hear you over MY DELICIOUS AND ENTIRELY NECESSARY LAKE OF TEA.
Second delivery guy today who believes the first floor is likely to be found by going *down* the steps from the street. *Nonplussed face*
@RevRichardColes There's only one course of action: challenge them to a duel in the neutral ground of buffet car.
@lucyleid Are you getting Facebook mail with completely inappropriate job offers from recruitment agents?
@CharlieEsq_ @RealDramRob I wonder if @Saralimback might be able to help?
@dayoneapp Done, thanks.
*CEREMONIOUSLY CROSSING REOPENED-AT-LONG-LAST BRIDGE FACE* https://t.co/MhOhqMSrQq https://t.co/vC5mKvRG8P
@ahnlak Aha! Makes me wish I’d been arsed to take that idea further myself ;)
RT @gothick: Blog: Mission to Destiny, in which I spend two decades getting three autographs. Plus some photos from _Blake_ https://t.co/X2…
@_pigeons_ *Blows smoke from end of magic fingers* *Stares stonily into distance* My work here is done.
2016
@anna_debenham I wasn’t meant to be buying more books. Took about eight seconds from reading your tweet to breaking the rule…
Wavy line. https://t.co/5XcCgsF4QM
@anna_debenham Hopefully it will make it through my “incoming” pile sometime before retirement.
World-watching. https://t.co/4H7Y9svJJN
@toddmotto I hear they tried for Google+ but were told a guy was still using it.
I never knew that Isaac Asimov’s stage name was Graeme Garden. https://t.co/ZeRg09azqo
@AlasdairStuart They’re reputedly the smartest non-mammal; I’ve always wondered what it says about intelligence that they’re also dicks.
@Kavey @mrdaveturner @ahnlak Utterly terrified by the “also viewed…” https://t.co/yJQP7fcVCf
Apparently BTP have a new sandwich, the “meh”davo :( https://t.co/gNDRW4PRzg
@Kavey Boston Tea Party.
@Kavey Yur, local chain. Friendly, good coffee, certainly used to do good food, but it’s been a while since I tried it.
First time anyone’s tried this scam — a text message from “AppleUK” with my actual name in it! Beware, folks… https://t.co/fZQDp6UBf7
@RealDramRob @Shonette Must be a hipster joint. Shame he’s not fully on-trend with a Prestel mailbox number.
@8EJ3 Also, if they shoot you, they’ve still got your fingerprint.
@gruber @siracusa Their web service team are making it. Don’t worry, they’re 80% complete. Any minute now… Any minute…
@ismh It’s okay, fella. We can still be friends on LiveJournal.
RT @bazlyons: LinkedIn have endorsed Microsoft for gullibility.
2015
2014
If you're in the UK and are tired of received robot sales calls about grants for boilers, the ICO want reports: http://t.co/9A3au3GiFk
@libbymiller Me too. Lots from overseas, too. Wish international caller ID worked. Then I could block 'em without blocking the parents!
@libbymiller Whereas I've just been tempted by this: https://t.co/URQhX3dsVh :D
@libbymiller I think they plan to prey on the old and vulnerable by calling me every day until I'm old and vulnerable.
"Hello, are you old and vulnerable yet? No? Oh, okay, we'll call back tomorrow". #nuisancecalls
Having a root beer. I have childhood memories of having it for the first time in a UK MacDonalds, back when they used to sell it.
@skeddy Well, I just had a Bundaberg one in a bottle and certainly had that nostalgic, slightly-germolene-y tang :)
It seems from my root beer tweet replies that it's very much a Marmite kind of thing. Maybe I'll have marmite on toast with root beer next.
RT @Iearnsomething: This is what a hermit crab making a tea pot its home looks like. http://t.co/5p5quIJDBS
@teacakeuk Spot on, it seems: the original Germolene scent was wintergreen, also used as a root beer flavouring. #importantresearch
Clearly my backyard is a good place to grow mushrooms. (5p for scale purposes only. Do not eat the 5p.) http://t.co/vCcrlNEYKM
@charlie_cat_esq So you're deaf as a post rock now? #badumtish
RT @SiDawson: Video: Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmondson break character. Oh these boys are brilliant. http://t.co/10d9yp2Bck
RT @bbctwo: In honour of Rik Mayall we'll be showing both Bottom and the Comedy Connections episode of The Young Ones on Sunday night from …
2013
Somehow wound up in The Lion. http://t.co/hWDbSxirpS
2012
@tsunimee I have no idea what they are. And I’m scared to Google them at work :)
@tsunimee Oh. Cute!
@hayles It will seem like a great idea until the sugar coma.
@hayles Also: what new tapas place?
@hayles If I lived in Clifton, I’d walk up Park Street more often. Cool. Any rumours of its goodness/badness?
@Bristol_Culture Well, at least they’re actually paying their intern…
@hayles Looks to me like there may be a cookie or two in play... http://t.co/LC8xoLpi
Confirmation of the closure of #Bristol Bridge/Foyer #Starbucks on Friday. http://t.co/d1YvXrvp
Oh, *that* new tapas place on Park Street... @hayles http://t.co/xia9MfaI
@agreensteam @ratsass Lease expiry combined with troublesome neighbours, apparently.
2011
"The file C"? Scary. I love it when a Windows program asks me this kind of "question"... #inkscape http://twitpic.com/5as89g
@rabidbee I will attempt to watch it. Might happen, now whatever channel it is has finally looped around to _Professionals_ eps I've seen :)
@thomasvenables No, just insomniac. I will think of you when struggling out of bed tomorrow. I will think of you and curse your coconuts.
@thomasvenables BAH!
@thomasvenables Maybe I should take some small solace in that. Anyway. Time to try sleeping again. Have a cocktail for me. :)
Drug paraphernalia. Or maybe a coffee maker. Is there a distinction? @ Baristas Coffee http://instagr.am/p/Fpvo8/
@mjh53 Yes, I think you have a good point there.
RT @Glinner: When an elegant & inspiring site like @LettersOfNote has to disable comments, you know there's a problem http://bit.ly/lbfITC
New guy at the next desk has an URGENT stamp. This *will* be abused. http://instagr.am/p/FqSvQ/
@thomashawk Erm. It would never have occurred to me that it needed them.
@KaveyF Passionfruit coffee? I shall send you a large, stamped self-addressed envelope :)
Bwa-ha-ha! #stampofpower http://lockerz.com/s/110358042
Last time I saw my boiler guy, we had a serious discussion about whether these were the End Times. Now he doesn't answer the phone. Hmm.
@shezza_t Oh dear. One of those, huh? :(
@technex No, Jehovah's Witness. But either way, you'd have thought he could have arranged for a sinner to update his website...
@ahnlak @KaveyF @RedemptionBrew Oooh. Beer. And chocolate. Shaping up to be a good weekend already :)
Taking photos on the ferry. Probably bad photos, but I can't tell. #film
@MitchBenn Yes please.
@rhodri There is no such thing as "too many lemons." There is only "insufficient gin."
@technex Does that depend on whether you pay for Vimeo or not? Anyway. Vimeo's nicer :)
@technex I haven't researched. But a) Vimeo pretty. b) Vimeo comments aren't a1l frm compleat fcking morronss u luser!1!!!!!!1!!!!!!
@technex Yur. Vimeo allows download, which is nice. Do check the extras you can get in the pay-for version; think some are quite nice.
@technex In my experience, that's normally an overestimate. But yes, basically if you buy pro, then you get to jump the queue.
@technex I've never bothered paying. But then I don't care much about upload times.
@technex Swings and roundabouts, innit? I don't like ads, so I generally prefer a pay-for model a bit less plastered in advertising.
@technex Ah, I think there's room for both.
Today, I have mostly been trying to finish off the roll of film that’s been in this camera for about a year. http://bit.ly/m6zPg4
@jorence Actually, it might have been since last winter. It's loaded with ISO 400 something, anyway...
Unsubscribing from many things. #springclean
2010
In case you were wondering, it's this kind of day outside. Right, off for a jog. http://twitpic.com/1welx7
Ugh. I am definitely Ill. Of some kind.
@johnfbraun ...warmed the white balance, clipped the blacks to make it more silhouette-y, and a minor clarity bump; all in Lightroom.
@jorence It's not terrible so far. I hope it's not one of those mild ones that drags out for weeks. Rather have short and nasty any day.
Anyway. I may be going for a run fairly soon, before it gets too bloody hot.
@twitttles *blush*
"Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup...", starts the BBC's lead news story today. *doubletake* Was he named by the Monty Python team?
@hayles *sympathy*
Ugh. Lemsipped up and off for a run. May add Strepsils to my usual supplies.
@tsunimee No peacock. But I did feed a lorikeet :) http://twitpic.com/1wj8bs
@benparkatbjs Style comes more from the photographer than the camera. Check out the Best Camera (iPhone app) gallery! http://bit.ly/bQIegF
@benparkatbjs Nope, I'll be at the zoo. Shame, looks like fun!
And to go with last night's Suspension Bridge photo, one from a slightly different angle from this morning: http://flic.kr/p/89TYhc :)
1) Twitter is down. 2) Twitter comes back up. 3) A million people tweet about Twitter being down. 4) Go to (1). #meta
@archidave I blame a bloke at work called Chris. Let's call it the Chris Virus.
One for @Zinziii :) http://twitpic.com/1wfq2j
@tsunimee @emma_cossey Cool. Hi! Glad it's all sorted. I should clearly go to the zoo and ignore Twitter for hours more often :)
2009
@Nose_in_a_book Braver than me. Name of the Rose is one of the few books I've ever given up on.
@hayles Gah. You had to say the 'c' word while I was out shopping, didn't you?
Oh, so it was Evernote that was making Safari 4 hang. Thought it was odd that the final release was far less stable than the beta.
@hayles Well done, you!
2008
Still at work. Grr.
So ShoZu seems to work pretty, well, then. There may be the occasional picture post from now on ;)
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