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An interesting psychology of restaurant menus is when they use the term ‘house made’ for an item. My assumption then is that all the other items came from the Sysco truck and will be suitably generic.

I think it’s the distance by boat to the nearest dock, not as the seagull flies

I grew up in that area and went to school with a member of the family that owned Thorne Island at the time.

There are times of the year that access is not possible at all due to weather which does limit the usefulness of the location.

The Angle lifeboat isn’t far away in an emergency though, so that’s helpful.

There are other Victorian fort locations in that area in private hands. A different school friend owned more than one of these for a while. Maintenance costs are outrageous!

Ah, JANET - so many default passwords, so little time to log into them all!

I have 2 measurable ones on Zepbound.

My lowest sleeping heart rate is now at least 10 beats higher than before starting (it comes down during the week to about 10 over)

The night after taking the injection my sleep is crap, and the heart rate is 5+ higher again

I have lost 20lbs since mid March with no real effort, and we’re about to do some blood tests for specific cholesterol numbers, which was one of the reasons to try this out.

The real story of the whole of the MIT blackjack team is quite something. When you ask someone if they’re still allowed to play in this casino and they reply with “if I use my real name, then yes”.

The 80s were a wild time, kids!

The MIT blackjack team from 1979 onwards played with many, many players to make real money in Vegas. Not everything was in the movie!

If I could have got a steady hand with tweezers, I could easily have been a surgeon. Real patients probably don’t have noses that light up, which reduces distractions too!

In the 80s, Sam Smith pubs had a ‘25 pubs in London’ challenge. Get a drink in each of the 25 and get a T-shirt. It took me and a friend several weeks. There was a story of some guys doing it in a weekend. Hard because of travel AND opening times of some of the financial centre ones.

Good Times! And of course, no screens and no-one had phones (except in the financial centre and those came with an external battery)

Ha! I went to a British polytechnic. There wasn’t a lot of very practical degrees ( there were some though), but there was a lot of hands on computer work in my Computer and Communications degree

It is strange on a resume listing a university I never technically went to, but now only Wikipedia remembers! And I was there before Thor destroyed it in a movie

I have a $4500 LG OLED thin TV that is 2 years old and broken

The screen has had lines for a while, annoying, but not critical. Now there’s a power issue where it powers off in a few minutes

Now, this is out of warranty, and, it turns out, the 2 LG repair locations in the Seattle area no longer do TVs

LG know this is a problem - they are currently sending parts, and there’s a West Coast LG repair guy who will come and fix it when the parts arrive

A 4K $4k TV that isn’t that old and is almost un repairable is crazy

Anything with some exotic screen is going to cost more money and be harder to fix - pay for the extended warranty!

Note - my credit card has automatic extended warranty, but I need a quote for fixing the item, and there are absolutely no authorized repair people within 500 miles of Seattle to even get that!

I used Btrieve a lot in several jobs in the UK in the late 80s and early 90s. It was fast and easy to work with, mostly

I used the stand alone version, not the later NLM on the server

To be fair, I work in software, so I too am familiar with the whoosh of a deadline as it passes by, unmet.

Although I don’t find it as hard as Douglas did with his writing, but then that level isn’t needed for most software projects.

I was about to say that software, unlike creative writing, can be changed after publishing. But Douglas did that for Hitch Hikers - the radio script, books, and TV show are fairly different stories!

The chargers they showed at their first Mercedes location in Atlanta are 400kw split between 2 units. So 200kw each for 2 cars that can handle it, and balanced between the 2. Eg if one car only needs 100kw, the other can pull up to 300kw

I’ve seen video of the Cybertruck getting more than 330kw, and the Lotus cars seem to charge at high rates too. But 200kw each is a fine charge whilst getting a coffee

The question is how reliable they can be - if a charger is broken, it doesn’t matter what the numbers on the label say

I grew up in this area a long time ago - not quite 40,000 years. This is my local Norman castle!

The obvious history you could see were the castles and walled towns. More recently, lots of ship building in the last 200 or so years, and plenty of WWII sites.

There are many other parts of Pembrokeshire with Stone Age sites that are well known, and there were clearly many people living in this area for a long time before even those later inhabitants

Very cool!

I have that exact setup for control, and there’s 1 thing I want to control, and that’s the start time of warming up in the morning depending on outside temp. It’s less efficient at lower temps so takes longer to provide enough heat, and my house loses heat faster at cooler temps, so needs more heat at those lower temps. I want to say “make it 72 at 8am” not “start at 6am to try to get to 72 at some future time”

I’m also concerned about what happens when their online system stops working. Technically I can program some on the connected unit, but it’s not ideal

Oh, it also can only use the temp from 1 remote thermostat at a time. My last 3rd party one allowed, for instance, the night temp to be the remote in the bedroom and the daytime to be set by the living room remote - Trane doesn’t support that in the schedules at all.

There’s a room on the left and another on the right

When I first heard this used, my immediate thought was that it was a reference to the Uk brand of cigarette paper, Rizla, and clearly something to do with smoking pot

Sadly, it’s a more mundane contraction

Appearing at a science fiction convention as a Steampunk character allows them to blend right in.

I’ve seen hundreds of these travelers go by.

Some with lighter dress have passed as artisanal bartenders too

My least favorite Sinclair computer game was Ram Pack Roulette for the ZX81. If you jiggle the 16k Ram pack, do you crash the computer and get to reload your work?

It came free with all ram pack purchases too!

Twitter: -100; Mastodon: zero; Bluesky: 5,000

Yup, this could work

I think Azure has an internal a service just to generate 429 http response codes - they send us so many of them!

I worked at a bank in London over 30 years ago using Netware and Btrieve for database and MHS for email

It may be the same bank! Although they were clearly heading towards a Microsoft stack in the early 90s

William Woollard and I worked on a TV commercial in the early 80s. Him as the main talent and me as a very much in the background extra

Met a hero, got a day off school and earned 20 pounds of cold, hard cash

I saw a movie in a theater for the first time in forever last weekend. At one point I was distracted by lines in the screen where the sky was projected - it was the actual screen, not part of the projection. This was an iPic, so not cheap tickets

If streaming services could handle busy times without artifacts my LG 4K 77in would always be a better experience for all content

I remember visiting an area of the UK where they were testing those new Wispa bars in the late 70s-early 80s. So those don’t have a huge history yet, but certainly the others are great

The Hershey licensed versions of the same favorites in the USA will do at a pinch, but aren’t quite the same. The alternative is some dodgy import that’s way past its prime

But you could jump off at any speed - or get jostled and fall off accidentally if hanging on to the pole that was provided in the doorway. Falling into traffic at 30mph isn’t a bundle of laughs either

My guess is the door requirement was to avoid needing to scrape people off the single lane roadway in rush hour more than a thought for passenger safety and that difference may have got lost on the way to the page

The mention of safety due to lack of doors does not add up, as none of the Routemaster busses at the time had a door at the bottom of the stairs. Jumping on and off was the normal thing.

The many tunnels under the Thames are awesome though - I used to live in Woolwich and there’s a pedestrian tunnel there that I’ve used many times

Our supermarket usually has pre-roasted inside. On Saturday we were disappointed to not find any. As we left the store, the aroma of roasting peppers came our way and we found the loot we were in search of.

The smell sucks people in. Can’t do that on a web site - yet

We picked up our years supply on Saturday.

Sadly, last year had no flavor, but this year tastes good, but the heat scale seems to be offset down one level

In the Seattle area, Haggen does this - but not King County this year! Whole Foods used to do roasting but seem to not do that anymore

Since an internet page is forever, finding THIS YEARS roasting schedule is not a trivial problem