On This Day, 20 October
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RT @mrJamesGraham: A Prime Minister may fall today. Soak up the history, guys. Days like today only come around every couple of months
@ctkat1 @LtlMissFeminist @ed___wins @jestom I can’t quite believe how happy I was made by this clarification.
RT @bencsmoke: flatmate has just asked me whether i think the lettuce voted leaf or romaine in the brexit referendum and im frankly furious…
@ememess Hey, they told me that was *my* turn! Are you sure you’re not down for Chancellor?
RT @janemerrick23: When a lettuce outlasts a Prime Minister, we have truly reached the endive days
@ticianobenetti @CubicleApril 13 (0x0d) = line feed. 10 (0x0a) = carriage return. 11 (0x0b) = vertical tab. Guessing the original was confusing octal and hex? But yes, vertical tab, whole different character, still works here and there. Like 0x07, BEL, will still get you a beep in places…
2021
2020
@unfortunatalie I did used to consistently get out of the side I tend to sleep on (maybe to unconsciously avoid "getting out of the wrong side of bed") even though it's the other side from my en suite. These days I just roll out of whatever side's easiest.
RT @HartsBakery: Competition Time! Win a Breakfast Box & Coffee for two, courtesy of Hart’s Bakery & @extractcoffee coffee We’ve teamed…
RT @VolleyBaws: If only we could have seen this coming https://t.co/YHOUbdFWaI
RT @porthjess: Morning Bristol, you beautiful thing. ♥️ https://t.co/sGhAt5lXk6
I was feeling a bit forlorn when starting today's work-from-home session, but now I have @yumhoneyblood on shuffle and things are looking up.
Ocado substituted a different brand of organic spinach and my robot vacuum is pushing my smart scale around the bathroom. I've not had first-world problems this bad since the time that swan spat in my salsa.
Affluenza, autoerotic asphyxiation, crumple zone, detox, diskette, fact-check, hyperdrive, magstripe, quango, refusenik, sea monkey, soccer mom, space cadet, super-spreader, televangelist, video game. (via @hayles) https://t.co/NBOA6J8FyI
I shall enjoy singing along with @julienrbaker's _Televangelist_ even more now I know the word is as old as I am...
Speaking of which: Saturday Sessions: Julien Baker performs "Televangelist" https://t.co/DKwij320Ew via @YouTube
RT @ayushguptaaa: Doctor: Your body has ran out of magnesium. Me: 0mg
RT @EricaFails: I just want an elaborate escape room where you play as Bertram Wooster trying to extricate himself from Madeline Basset. Je…
2019
@_pigeons_ @Bingo_Little For some reason I thought of you. https://t.co/6WJkTJ0ZOs
2018
RT @trevolafoam: My personal favourite from today. #PeoplesVoteMarch https://t.co/ofszZ66cc5
1/2 Snaps from a morning excursion with @Avon_Stories and @Bingo_Little. https://t.co/C12SSP3UXq
2/2 Snaps from a morning excursion with @Avon_Stories and @Bingo_Little. https://t.co/UrOSLX3AoG
@EmmaisaChampion The pavement outside must be uneven. It’s the only explanation.
2017
@_pigeons_ @Bingo_Little I've got a day off today. Do you want me to bring you some lemsip? :D
@_pigeons_ @Bingo_Little Wapping Wharf? Sunshine is out and I could do with a croissant.
Stokes Croft - https://t.co/5f7KAuB1zi https://t.co/kHwZH6EDkg
@_pigeons_ @Bingo_Little I can leave now, but I can always hang around drinking coffee and reading Wodehouse until you turn up :D
Old and new. https://t.co/u7zTidkonI
Peak insta. https://t.co/iDcLf0f5LL https://t.co/QYAbwD9a55
Startled. https://t.co/JxzdZmYcxx
📷 Hallowe’en is upon us. Dom’s Coffee House, Bristol. https://t.co/0RaJZ9fN0H
RT @sawdustbear: someone in my neighborhood put out PERFECTLY GOOD MANNEQUINS out for trash pickup and I will not stand for this. https://t…
RT @ErkanMustafa: The gang back together #grange hill https://t.co/lQmCqjFUMp
@1sttimewatchers Hudson Hawk.
End of the evening. https://t.co/0jaGExkixF
2016
@MillieBooLewis Yes, it was excellent. Just not really the cheery pick-me-up I probably needed!
@benjohnbarnes Aperture shape doesn’t make much difference to things in focus—many (most?) camera apertures aren’t circular, for example…
@benjohnbarnes …but it’s hard to tell what difference it might make to binocular vision with a brain doing a lot of processing.
@chubbybannister Wonder how hard it is to stage entirely fake FB communities and try feeding them something preposterous.
Bloggity: A little gush about the Amazon Echo. https://t.co/PCKgcfiJZf
Waiting for a friend. https://t.co/mcsLuwNq4B
Ooop. https://t.co/M1Tmpuu68Y
2015
RT @paulmayne: Loving these new arial video screen savers coming to Apple tvOS. https://t.co/Nw68kKk0bI
Yes, I can quite see how that would take so bloody long, Apple. #functionalhighground https://t.co/a164Av90cV
Starlings. #bristolmurmuration #igersbristol @ Durdham Down https://t.co/Fc2K7oCUNz
RT @Gary_Bainbridge: I think people who stand in front of the timetable at bus stops are the worst people, apart from me.
@DigitalJonathan Thanks :) Yes, I like them, too. Extra interest there at the moment with the Bristol Murmuration installation, too!
@DigitalJonathan If it helps, this is what they look like close up :) https://t.co/io2xMCZbNn
2014
RT @film_girl: !!!!! SLEATER-KINNEY CONFIRM FIRST NEW ALBUM IN TEN YEARS - 'NO CITIES TO LOVE' OUT WORLDWIDE ON SUB POP JAN 19/20
That'll be just in time for my birthday...
Don't be creepy, iTunes. http://t.co/D7Kze7tGw4
I have learned not to bother looking up trending names that I don't recognise.
@Bristol52 It looks very much like a plant I have here. Calathea roseopicta?
@Bristol52 Well, I'm no plant expert. But I kept my tag :D
RT @SoVeryBritish: Overtaking someone on foot and keeping up the exhausting pace until safely over the horizon
To see a classic programming "off by one" error, print a month of your Calendar in #Yosemite. Take a look at which day the weeks start on...
@JustinRoby @headfirstonly Maybe it’s timezone (or time?) related, then. Whatever day I choose for on-screen cal, it prints one day later…
@JustinRoby @headfirstonly I can set Sunday as first day of week in Calendar prefs. If I do it previews/prints with Monday…
@JustinRoby @headfirstonly What time is it where you are? I might have another try in the first half of the day… But could be zone, yeah.
2013
@Kavey Current status: Apple tart. :) http://t.co/unGmZq2Eok
No, Lola, you may not have a cigarette. http://t.co/Jyx8XeNEhX
@Adamy323 Didn't turn out that well. Might have got some others from my session, though.
Lockside. http://t.co/TOGSRJhxme
Just saw a man literally putting all of his eggs in one basket. http://t.co/b8I1ujMMkg
@danielletaureau @LeadHyperion I need to have someone to come round at about 10:30pm and tell me to go to bed...
Inside the Odessa Catacombs: http://t.co/YzEku4DO5N
@stevenchapple Living in the basement of a house with thick walls does it for me.
RT @Harkaway: 1. Whosoever stocketh hotdogs, yea, they shall ALSO STOCK HOTDOG BUNS. (It is not hard.)
RT @chiswickchap: Just used the new machine at the gym. Managed an hour and then felt sick but it does everything - crisps, coke, skittles,…
2012
Mornin' all. This morning I need to get a spoke replaced, pick up a parcel, and arrange for a gas leak to be fixed. So much for my lie-in.
@ahnlak The leaky bit was isolated and shut off last night.
@Phooto @ahnlak The engineer had already cleared me to turn kettle on for tea above the leak, so I figured LED phone flash was OK :)
You, sir, just failed your reading comprehension test. http://t.co/3GgodSsw
Erm. @ Bristol Zoo & Gardens http://t.co/TR0Ykb7M
Life size. http://t.co/T9lL8bcs
Quick post-zoo BTP with Tara. http://t.co/inM8C9WC
Pillar talk. http://t.co/2arzG7H1
Doing art. http://t.co/naWxXLTq
Us. @ Royal West of England Academy http://t.co/EUmrYz8s
@Thehappyfatgirl Nope. I am a girlie-free zone.
@Thehappyfatgirl Yup. Now in Goldbrick House on the happy hour cocktails. :)
Zoo, RWA Autumn Exhibition preview, now in Goldbrick House for Happy Hour, then onto Jamie’s. Celebrating no more office for a while :)
I may have had too many cocktails. Tara is out of focus. #onlyactuallyhadone @ Goldbrick House http://t.co/iOews5II
Change of plan. Killing time in White Bear before Chin Chin :) http://t.co/3NUimKcj
Gah! Think I just got suckered into Fool's Mate. On Connect 4. @ The White Bear http://t.co/QY9iQ4TB
@nineweeks Not quite. Down from the coffee roasters and Tiffins.
@Thehappyfatgirl Yur. But it’ll be a while before I end another contract and feel flush and celebratey ;)
@Bingo_Little Yup. Though I’m on the Sunrise.
@Bingo_Little *snigger*
PORKS! http://t.co/SmXtuYIR
Healthy carrots. http://t.co/VFs6sjlA
@waiyeehong Chin! Chin! On St Michael’s Hill. Awesomely good porks.
@hayles SOOOOOOOO NIIIIIIIICE POOOOOORKS.
@hayles NOT LIKE THIS #CRACKLING
2011
Bah. Not sleeping too well on my holiday so far :(
Shore http://t.co/AGXUxDxC
@KaveyF It's actually getting pretty chilly here, too. That was from much earlier (it's half past seven here now...)
@Millie_Bee @Narshada @rosserjohn Yes, I'm up for that!
@KaveyF Well, I'll have to warm all those nipples back up when I'm back in the country.
Today we went all the way to the end of the road. Really. http://t.co/FlWPOHku
@ShabbyBean Είμαι στην Κρήτη! (I'm in Crete :D )
@ShabbyBean That's the plan!
@KaveyF @petedrinks Hurrah!
And a metaxa for @stillawake :) http://t.co/wGtkhpg3
A tomato & cucumber salad with a bouzouki player in the background. It can only be Greece ;) http://t.co/n3GS0vDI
@Narshada @Millie_Bee @Rosserjohn Whereas I am not free until after 27th. Back from Crete on 26th!
@hayles Thank you for that, darling. FROWN.
@bexxi Yup. Hang on, I'll make him wave. There y'go. He says "Er. Hi!" http://t.co/NMlexOj4
@hayles EXTRA FROWNY FROWN
2010
Feeling spectacularly fat today. This may be something to do with having consumed my own body weight in food over the weekend.
Huzzah! Back from a jog. And not dead. That's my hallmark of a good day at the moment.
Mmmm. Marmite. It tastes even better now I know it might have just bankrupted the BNP :) http://bit.ly/a3RnKT
Fiddling with the new Photoshop Elements. http://bit.ly/9PPqtk
@WildlifePhotog Have they double-checked the winner this time round? :/
Okay, so it's soft, strong, and very long. But can I start a new roll without ending up buried in a heap of shredded loo paper, crying?
Well, eventdirector.net, at least that misspelling of "asterisk" gets points for originality. http://bit.ly/b0ioYH
@Phooto I was so distracted by the other one I'd not even noticed that!
@tweeny4 Don't worry. I won't tell anyone that you're hammering and recycling people. #howireadthatfirsttime
@nyssapod Happy birthday!
@andybeebristol @bristol_flickl *ducks and runs for cover*
@jorence After the weekend of indulgence I had, I may need to go running _until_ tomorrow.
Units, people, *units*! 2.38 *what*? Disappointments per cubic fortnight? Misanthropes per furlong?
@hayles Call me squeamish, but I prefer my kittens to arrive in integer values.
@benjohnbarnes I'd take a guess that would be either a square or cube relationship to population density.
@benjohnbarnes Yes; I'm pretty sure that misanthropy causes high-rise buildings.
@mattgemmell Be *very* careful blind-inserting SD cards -- very easy to drop into the DVD hole!
@benjohnbarnes Hmm. Might be something MarcoPolo could do? http://www.symonds.id.au/marcopolo/
Dear Word, please get your splash screen out of my way. I'm trying to read the web while I wait for you to start. Yes, all of it. Love, Matt
@jukesie If we hear nothing more from you, we'll assume you've pulled the wrong lever and catapulted yourself out of the window.
Brr. Home. Now time to go out in the cold again for a jog.
2009
@seengee Nope, installed just fine here (v0.31.3) Sorry!
@seengee There's a new version? Hang on, I'll give it a try.
Grr. Having real problems printing, and it could be so many things wrong that I'm going to get through a lot of expensive paper finding out.
@benjohnbarnes In this case, it's the coder. If it wraps around <unknown> times, it's not a progress bar, it's an overengineered hourglass.
Just ordered some Moo cards. Hopefully that will give me the impetus to finish the website they point people at!
@jacrats Well, you have my sympathy. Grr. This Java installer just wrapped its progress bar back around to 0% for the sixth time *sigh*
Progress bars should be more honest. "There are seventeen hours remaining. Or maybe three seconds. Who knows? I don't."
Ooh, chilly! Must sort my winter wardrobe out this weekend; I need more layers!
2008
@johnfbraun Are you sure you don't just have a crick in your neck?
Ugh. In Baristas on way to work. Feeling sluggish.