test please delete

[NickFitz]

Vaguely looking at the piles of crap in here quietly wondering wtf I'm going to do with it all.

It's quite overwhelming really.

I suppose I could watch a film & stop worrying about it.

I find that just ignoring the issue is almost as good as dealing with it

[DoctorStrangelove]

That's all well and good until the mice appear.

Though the multiplicity of traps seems to limit their numbers a bit.

Or would if said traps were put out.

The dehumidifier in the laundry room seems to discourage the slugs a lot.

It was slug city in there previously.

They even managed to get into the fridge.

Of course back in the 70s I was working with this stuff:

Golden Age TV Recreations

While at 3M it was

Total Rewind

And I took one of these to bits:



Went on a training course in Reading for a fortnight for one of these bad boys:



I was supposed to do a lot of work with this sort of thing configured to test half inch 700 and 777 computer tape, but I didn't like it much:

Tape Transport - Control Data, 3200 Computer System, Tape Transport Model 604, circa 1962

And the dept got one of these, not that I did anything with it:

PET – Vintage is the New Old, Retro Games News, Retro Gaming, Retro Computing
"We" bought a GPIB to current loop converter for it so we could print out stuff on an ASR33 that someone got from somewhere.

Not that one ^, this one with the calculator keyboard:

Commodore PET - Wikipedia

Some EyeTea chappie found out we'd bought it and wanted to take it away as a pernicious nuisance that should never be allowed to catch on.

Currently watching the thing on PBS about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

We've currently reached October 27th 1963. <- wot we'd all have been doing if the faeces had really hit the aircon.

[NickFitz]

Admin and I are currently collaborating on database shenanigans on an AWS EC2 instance I set up. If all goes according to plan, there may be a forum closure for a little while later on; no more than an hour, I wouldn't have thought

[NickFitz]

Admin and I are currently collaborating on database shenanigans on an AWS EC2 instance I set up. If all goes according to plan, there may be a forum closure for a little while later on; no more than an hour, I wouldn't have thought

Should be back soon, complete with fixed ☂︎, ♘, and ☣︎

[vetran]

panic CUK was offline

[NickFitz]

panic CUK was offline

We were fixing the database to make it safe for weird characters

?

[administrator]

Thanks for your help Nick, no way I would have been able to work out that mess myself ?

[DoctorStrangelove]

We were fixing the database to make it safe for weird characters

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Goodness me.

Nice century with added cat.

Thanks for your help Nick, no way I would have been able to work out that mess myself ������

Good to see the ape got his act together.

I was worried in case we had to find a different kind of monkey.


This evening's dining was what theoretically passed for kedgeree.

It didn't start out that way, but that's how it ended up.

Used up 5 of the eggs BBE 16AUG18 that have festered in the fridge for far too long.

This evening's entertainment is starting off with "Young Adult (2011)" with Charlize Theron, for which I don't hold out much hope for the kick assery of "Atomic Blonde" or "Mad Max 97".

Young Adult (2011) - IMDb

Er, wtf happened there?

[NickFitz]

Thanks for your help Nick, no way I would have been able to work out that mess myself ?

Fun, wasn't it

[NickFitz]

Going to the pub tonight, so I'd better be getting down the Chinese a bit earlier than usual