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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    Is the whole of Leicester closing down?
    It sometimes looks that way

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      Hot dog for lunch, just for a change

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        Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
        Today's book is "Battle of Wits" by Stephen Budiansky, being, surprise! all about code breaking and such like.

        https://www.amazon.co.uk/Battle-Wits.../dp/0743217349

        It begins with Purple and JN-25, the Battle of Midway, and proceeds from there.
        Goodness me he does go into some cryptographic detail it must be said.

        Not the sort of stuff I bother reading, but rather skim over.

        "The Hut Six Story" was similarly incomprehensible* in parts.


        *To me. No doubt others would make more of it. Welchman had his security clearance revoked over stuff in that tome.

        Lunch was a Ginsters Cornish Pasty followed by 1.05 pints of Good Glengettie Tea and a yoghurt.

        I'm in some discomfort today, possibly because of Thursday's exertions and yesterday's getting wet feeding the bonfire.

        <hiatus during which I fell asleep listening to "Symphonic Pink Floyd">

        Having awakened from my slumbers, and in an attempt to do something constructive, I've just been down the dump with the carload of crap from earlier in the week.

        One 1993 Tatung monitor, 14", slightly smokey, off to meet its recycler.
        Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 20 July 2019, 14:53.
        When the fun stops, STOP.

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          Bedding wash is on

          I'm working my way through an ebook about configuring Django projects for deployment and so on. I suspect I'll already know a lot of stuff in it, or have developed my own similar solutions, but the first couple of chapters have explained how to set up local development servers with Docker, which is useful in its own right and something I've often found a bit confusing

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            Watching a thing on BBC2W about Tecwyn Roberts.

            Tecwyn Roberts - Wikipedia

            There's tidy then.
            When the fun stops, STOP.

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              Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
              Watching a thing on BBC2W about Tecwyn Roberts.

              Tecwyn Roberts - Wikipedia

              There's tidy then.
              "Roberts may have popularized the use of the phrase 'A-OK'"

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                in a word, - bleeeeegghhhhh.

                bored sh1tless

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                  Originally posted by BR14 View Post
                  in a word, - bleeeeegghhhhh.

                  bored sh1tless
                  The Lunar Module has just separated from the Command Module over on Apollo 11 in Real Time if you want something exciting happening exactly 50 years ago

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                    I'm Apolloed out.

                    Tea/dinner this evening was spag bol, the spag being that odd whole wheat stuff & the bol being some I found in the freezer from who knows which batch.

                    The Battle of Wits is progressing rather well, now in 1941.

                    I have a remarkable number of books on Enigma, Lorentz, and WWII sniping
                    When the fun stops, STOP.

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                      knocked together a chicken stew/ casserole thing.
                      provencale or summat i suppose, garlic, tomato and herbs featured.

                      rather nice.

                      i'll do it again <if i can remember the ingredients>

                      still bored.

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