On This Day, 8 October
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RT @outonbluesix: What *is* The Camberwick Green Procrastination Society...? https://t.co/AvHYSdjMOI
Oh dear. Upstairs neighbours are moving out. "Oh dear" not because I know them well, but because they've never woken me up at 3am. I fear the Unknown Quantity that Might Be About to Descend.
I see Broadmead had given its balls a buff-up. https://t.co/OA2Mn3W1KG
Cinnamon pretzel. Yes please. https://t.co/4TeLJHoLIb
@chubbybannister I went with a bizarre VROOM, and—because I was thinking US spellings, but in the wrong way—both VISOR and VIZOR. D’oh.
RT @peterwalker99: A round of applause, please, for the Guardian colleague who wrote the headline to this story of mine. https://t.co/HR4ub…
Just had to pay a cheque into the bank, like a Victorian. Been a while. Given the progression of the last few times, my next trip will be in 2027, and I’ll be going to a branch of Lloyds in Birmingham that’s only open between 11 and noon on Tuesdays.
I mean, if we’re determined to go back to the 1970s the least we could do is turn a few wine bars back into banks.
@slicknic Tried that but this one was over the limit for that method, sadly. #firstworldproblems Really I should just try to convince the Inland Revenue to use the bank details I thought they already had for me...
@slicknic (Also the Lloyds app is incredibly fussy and last time it took about nine goes for it to accept that the photo of the back of the cheque it required—which was completely blank!—was valid...)
I love the AI-based feature in iPhones' Photos app that makes sure you're sitting at your Mac wanting to do something with the photos that you took hours ago before it starts to sync them.
@benjohnbarnes No, they're on the ground floor. IT IS I WHO DESCENDS.
@psidnell NICE.
RT @ohsinnerman: CELTIC WEIRD will now come out on November 10th. This is fine, because look at the final cover which has incorparated imag…
RT @BacklistedPod: New episode up now. Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, with guests Jennifer Lucy Allan @JenniferLAllan and Il…
RT @beardedjourno: It’s #bookshopday today so what better way to spend the afternoon than to explore every one of Bristol’s independent boo…
@chubbybannister @Bristolvor That was the one.
@chubbybannister @Bristolvor Ironically, I would happily have a couple fewer cafes in Bristol if it meant that my bank and building society weren't fecking miles away now.
@chubbybannister @Bristolvor My bank let me pay in cheques by taking a photo of them, which is oddly anachronistic. Sadly there's an upper limit on the value, which is why I had to schlepp all the way to Cabot today to pay in an Inland Revenue refund. No more local Lloyds is open at weekends now :(
@stillawake Yes. It wasn't bad. But it wasn't great. I will try something else next time; seemed like a pleasant enough place and the staff were very friendly.
@chubbybannister @Bristolvor Just explain Bitcoin to your parents, I'm sure nothing will go wrong.
@chubbybannister I have on of those electric tennis rackets and it’s quite satisfying, though admittedly not terribly efficient.
@bendavis_86 TKTK WITTY COMEBACK TKTK
@beardedjourno One of my favourites. Would actually have bought that paddle steamer book from the window today if I’d not been passing before opening time!
@hayles Since the Clifton Village and the Corn Street branches shut down, there isn’t a Lloyds I can get to at lunchtime by walking, either from work or home. And driving to the bank just seems annoying.
@hayles Triangle is open on weekdays only, annoyingly. Luckily I hardly ever need to go either. Though still using an actual building society book account that can *only* do cheques or cash—no electronic payment—for one particular thing. Hoping to fix that one when I have the energy…
@4r7hr I think of those kinds of puzzle instructions as “rubrics cubed”.
2021
@4r7hr Sounds like a Paul clue...
2020
Okay, Mrs Beeton has a recipe for a literal toast sandwich and I may have to try this. https://t.co/uaiJI6KrWc
2019
RT @atimalui: This is our @algoface 209 point Facial Landmark Tracker, and it actually works on my face! Face #AR notoriously has a #Racial…
RT @daynamcalpine_: a girl in the coffee shop i’m working from has just said to her friend ‘imagine a hot veg smoothie’ and i’m wondering h…
RT @PDLComics: report https://t.co/dYfISrXxb4
@sql_williamd @MladenPrajdic Please, some of us are trying desperately not to find out.
@OpinionatedGeek I have successfully restored from a Time Machine backup, to break the reboot-install-not-enough-space-reboot loop. I have 50 (count 'em) GB free on this Mac. You'd have thought that would be enough for an OS upgrade... (It's the minimum spec MacBook Pro, so only a 250GB drive)
@johngirvin @OpinionatedGeek Well indeed. Am going to delete as much cruft as I can find, take another Time Machine backup to be on the safe side, then take another run at it. But really, with 50GB+ free in the first place, I do wonder if there's something more going on...
@OpinionatedGeek This is, of course, the sacrificial Mac that runs ahead of my actual do-work-all-day machine to spot what problems I might encounter when I upgrade. *Usually* it feels a bit unnecessary...
So, have had to resort to a Time Machine restore just to break the cycle of reboot/auto-install/not-enough-space/reboot. And apparently 50GB is not enough free space to upgrade to #macOS #Catalina. Hrm.
@OpinionatedGeek @johngirvin Ain't no Docker here. That's only on the Big Mac...
RT @petetoth: "Both of my camels were requisitioned by the prefect so please take them off my account" Statutory Off Road Notification fr…
@OpinionatedGeek @johngirvin I wondered what that high-pitched whining was.
@KinetaHill Thanks. I am backed up six ways from Sunday, so this is more of an irritation than a potential disaster, at least...
@word_geek It's always a toughie. Been trying v. hard not to collect too many books these last couple of years, but it's hard not to want the really good ones in physical form, especially if you discover a good series...
WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS #macOS #Catalina https://t.co/crWN71FfpA
I literally just sat there and watched it spend twenty minutes downloading 8GB of the #macOS #Catalina update package before it told me that the update package had been deleted.
@si3d I was going to, but this time it didn't get as far as putting the macOS installer into the Applications folder. Last time I popped it "safely" to one side and then had to do a time machine restore over it to get the machine back!
@hayles I did the betas for years (I was in the AppleSeed programme for a while before they did public betas) but I jumped off that bandwagon sometime around Lion.
@word_geek I have really stepped up my reading this year—30 books so far, which is a lot better than recent years—but I think I may still be buying them far faster than I'm reading them.
Okay, fifth time lucky? I may have lost count. https://t.co/nPvvIGsGwF
RT @DigitalLawyer: Oooof. Was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I've experienced to date. Here were the steps: 1) "Hi,…
Is there some amazing plot twist in Another Life that retrospectively explains how we have the technology to build an interstellar space ship but not the intelligence to fill it with a crew that don’t look like rejects from season 8,254 of Big Brother?
I mean, at least the Golgafrinchans *had* an “A” ark.
2018
Helicopter seems to be circling endlessly tonight. #bristol
@UrsulaWJ Nah, Hotwells, me.
2017
RT @ColinMacMillan6: Pandemonium on Jura!! https://t.co/AoMMcWvglS
RT @Ssnyder1835: Someone cosplaying the actual convention center. https://t.co/KcfI10Iu1w
Distant b’loons. #bristol https://t.co/mxkorJih2R https://t.co/kHQnXX1Zho
I fear today may not end well for Drunken Cone-Megaphone Guy. #Bristol https://t.co/R6rD5HpDUW
Wellington. https://t.co/a040Q7bBSe https://t.co/kZwNvbKoC2
A little post-Stewart Lee decompression. https://t.co/4GBmuZOwbU https://t.co/AD51In53GQ
RT @MakingBlakes7: Best stage direction ever. #Blakes7 https://t.co/hcPpqyGpIp
@UrsulaWJ Nah. Isn’t that moving traffic I see in the distance?
@rbrwr Am in No 1 Harbourside if you’re still in the area ;)
@rbrwr That’s where I should be, really, but I felt like a quick one.
2016
2015
@charlesarthur Yeah, but you’re biased.
Christ Church's vicar is also a keen radio amateur. #Bristolfacts http://t.co/LhtkV7Bgfh
@ahnlak I think you mean “opportunity for rebirth” ray.
RT @BristolCouncil: Please be aware of a man falsely claiming to be a Trading Standards Officer visiting residents in south Bristol http://…
@ahnlak It pays not to ask too many questions of Brigadier-Reverend Mercy.
*sings* These are a few of my favourite things... http://t.co/XoPsKBHk60
RT @RichardWiseman: Just received this inadvertently accurate email! http://t.co/qcImFCRCGq
Uh oh. @ThreesGame is crashing on launch for me. I think I literally wore the bits out by playing it. Ahoy, withdrawal (and productivity!)
2014
@petedrinks On the plus side, you're looking good for your age, dear.
Super-fast delivery from Germany of an aluminium print from @WhiteWall_de, and the results look great. http://t.co/NfrCtEsLfv
@hayles He's going on my bathroom wall :)
Force field #bristol http://t.co/EFFCiUM7Xp
Street #bristol http://t.co/L3wGzbbCzJ
Fitting. http://t.co/OtTAsibnVl
Wonder if anyone reads these? http://t.co/ES1pp6PdU2
@chubbybannister We have several. I am, of course, just around the corner from the stylish modern Cumberland Piazza. http://t.co/qItH9l3aSO
@chubbybannister The same overly optimistic 1960s planners who put fountains in, I’d wager.
@chubbybannister (I kid you not: http://t.co/MGe7rEXbBQ )
Snappity: Cumberland Basin, last night: http://t.co/splgQulsRG
No, *you're* pissing about in Photoshop while trying to learn how to work a graphics tablet. http://t.co/zfjLjsiqKv
@shezza_t I've been looking for a new picture for the bathroom for ages, so this was serendipitous.
2013
Do I *have* to get up? http://t.co/XIXsZEvyKk
Hrm. I wonder if that guy knows that his Flickr "Favourites" are publicly viewable? #subtweet
RT @VanDerWhat: Don't know how to tell you this, but... I'd rather you tweeted about your hemorrhoids than your horoscope.
Operation IKB -- pasting Brunel. http://t.co/B5FYeGtUzs
No, *you've* wasted half your morning pissing about with sensors and OpenGL. http://t.co/kkvunZuIXw
I appear to have accidentally started designing a Death Star. http://t.co/lRWA6pXz1j
RT @ChristinaMcMc: Anyone got a spare £93 lying around? I've got my eye on this Taxidermy Weasel Magician (via @branespeaks) http://t.co/RS…
@Kavey Erm. It's just a standard Twitter pic. Loads for me in Chrome, Firefox and Safari...
You can tell I drive my car lots. http://t.co/Ev5xUPs15W
@RellyAB @anna_debenham I've used @ambiance to play office noise _while in an office_ before, because the fake humans were less annoying...
2012
@hayles Kryptonite D lock; choose one priced at 10%+ of the bike’s value. Maybe plus a cable lock to secure the wheels.
@hayles My helmet’s a Giro and is nice and comfy. No idea if it works, luckily ;)
RT @annapickard: Recipes in a 'Cooking for children' section should warn you if they require things you don't have. Like 3 hours, 8 arms ...
Wet? Nah. It’s lovely out. http://t.co/UadLw4QO
@BenPark ’s’working for me. Twitter sucks.
More from the "stuff on fish" theme tonight. #usingstuffup #cooking http://t.co/R45dZ0dO
@mjh53 I’d say yes. Down is limited by gravity.
@liveindetail The Snug of Navarone #RubbishWarFilms
.@Indiechops It's mostly this: http://t.co/Iaf7C47e but with a bit of improv on the ingredients...
.@Indiechops ...and a small adjustment when the coriander started burning. Not used to the new oven!
@hayles Tweeché!
RT @mikedunn: Man finds haul of expensively tailored clothes in basement. Clothes fit. Clothes were Paul Newman's. http://t.co/hbPF4JBx
@liveindetail I sold an exercise bike a couple of weeks ago. It was a doddle.
@liveindetail Oh. I just didn't care much. I just wanted the thing out of my flat.
Right. Time for my weekly review. The first in about a month. Bloody day jobs :D
@tyronem Yeah. And the longer you leave it, the more annoying it gets :(
2011
Just out of my first hot bikram yoga session. *melts* *dies*
@KaveyF It's okay. Yogic balance has been restored. By a bacon buttie and a latte. :)
Watchin' some entertainment wiv ma homies. #firemansam
Mmmm. Wasabi peas.
@hayles That's the chap.
@bexxi Well, I did get Quite a Lot of them for not very much money. Swindon Outlet Village for the win...
2010
@hayles I don't any more, but it's fscking expensive to buy decent ones with volume & control buttons. Especially as Apple ones die easily.
@DrHairbear Really? Was it stylish enough to be worth me going and finding it?
@archidave @drhairbear I still don't know who we're talking about!
@DrHairbear @archidave I guess he flounced after I wandered off. Don't think we've ever spoken, so it's unlikely to be my fault.
@DrHairbear @archidave Can't see anything in the thread from him. Deleted?
@DrHairbear @archidave Hmm. Any mention of religion, politics or dress sense?
@talkie_tim @drhairbear @archive Hey, I never met him! Clearly if I'd got there earlier, he'd have stayed.
@talkie_tim @drhairbear @archive It does sound bloody odd though. I feel quite insulted on the group's behalf.
@watsoncomedian It's really not that relevant. Just budget for a new battery every 2-3 years and use it however's most convenient.
@Lillput Oh, so definitely before I turned up, then?
@Lillput Well, that's good to know, anyway. Started to think they'd seen me arrive and run before I noticed them for some reason. #paranoia
@NiallOswald Hmm. I don't believe I've ever drunk at a Flickr meet. Does that make me the exception that proves the rule?
@hayles No remote though, yeah?
@hayles There's like two brands apart from Apple that do the proper iPhone remote and they're hard to find in the UK :(
RT @KaveyF: Hmmm. Anyone with a talent for graphic design want to give me some starting help in exchange for home made Indian chilli/ le ...
@fablor They flee from the writerly energy that courses through them like lightning if they're discovered.
@talkie_tim Goodness. How very devil-may-care.
@SpikyZebra I believe you have to be quite exceptional for the two not to be mutually-exclusive.
@SpikyZebra Yes, but sadly they'd test by giving you a tastectomy and seeing if you developed money.
@jorence *applause* Go for a walk in the morning, mind, even if you don't fell like you want to move.
Bleurgh. I dink I may be gedding a code.
2009
Going to #getrunning before the sun goes down!
2008
@bexxi Hey, I'd probably only have spent it on lenses. Maybe this is the universe's way of telling me to get into Lomography :)
For all the personal trouble it's caused me, the bit of this crisis I'm least looking forward to is the frozen assets gags on The News Quiz.
@bobbyllew Really? Okay, upgrading my anger level to "furious". And trying to avoid "Are you sure? It means changing the lightbulb" gags :)
In Cabot Circus, shopping for presents. Budget suddenly tighter since loss of savings.
@bobbyllew It's not as bad as that for me, luckily. And (takes pinch of salt) if we can believe Alistair Darling, we'll get the money back.
@bobbyllew I've got to say, as an Icesave customer, your strategy of not having any savings is looking pretty smart right now.
@bertpalmer @Artoo_UK I have good chance of getting it back, but my liquidity's hurt. I was about to withdraw some for sharedealing, too!
Arse. My savings bank is about to be declared insolvent and they've stopped withdrawals.