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[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from KFC

Well, eventually. The chap must have made at least two other deliveries on the way. He gave me some flannel about having had to wait ages because the place was so busy on a Saturday night; he apparently didn't realise that the app told me when he picked it up and that he was making other deliveries on the way, or that when it was my turn next and the map appeared, it showed him outside an apartment block in the city centre which is well off the beaten track from KFC to here

Still, he’s just an old bloke trying to scrape together some kind of a living by driving round delivering people's dinner on a Saturday evening, so fair enough if he tries to cram in a load of orders all at the same time

[NickFitz]

The much-reduced wildlife lineup on the telly today was boosted by an episode of Meet the Chimps on Disney+, about a sanctuary in the USA that’s roughly equivalent to Monkey World

I seem to have got distracted from RealityKit stuff by working out how to use CoreGraphics for 2D drawing in SwiftUI

And later, I read some more of Ambient in which it turns out that the title refers to one of the larger underclasses/subcultures in New York at the time the novel is set, being an entire generation of former Long Islanders who were born with assorted extreme birth defects after the US government “accidentally” contaminated the whole place with some kind of industrial poison

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Blue sky.

Sunny.

Chilly in here at 16.1 deg, 15.5 in the kitchen, 13.5 in the leanto.

1002 mBar, 29.59 in Hg, 751.6 Torr, 14.53 psi, (up from 999 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of February 2020 NF didn't have snow, LondonManc popped in, eek thought of a way he might have made money out of the bug and I was playing Freecell whilst enduring my Bad Leg, followed by a trip down to the library on the bus, being slightly disabled, like, LM had some toast, and Brillo popped in.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine, gradually turning grey. Today the rain started 5 minutes after I returned home.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing about Andy Burnham.

Book.

Tea: soup. Day late. Should have had it yesterday.

Entertainment: Poetry crap programme: <click>

Book.

Sergeant Cork: The Soldier's Rifle (1963). Mildly amusing again. Striker offed by a bullet.

Thing about Richard Burton & his brother Ifor Jenkins and what transpired on one day in 1968 when Ifor ended up paralysed and never walked again. Made in 2013 and of sufficient interest to lead to <click>, the EPG contemplation leading rapidly to <CLICK>.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny day out with just some small clumps of fluff floating about. Breezy though, so those clumps are moving from west to east at a fairly brisk pace, and the wind chill is making the current 9°C “feel like” 5°; our expected high is 11°. The barometers are up a bit at 993/1001mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Much rain overnight. This morning has emerged sunny with occasional fluff. Currently 10 degrees ('feels like' 8) with a high of 11 expected. Barometer up to 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 06:57; Sunset 16:32 GMT

TPD seems suspiciously responsive this morning.

Bed has been stripped and left to air. The bedroom window is open to facilitate said airing. No laundering started as I'll be leaving to drive down to Mum's soon and I don't like leaving stuff in the WM.

Have to reprogramme my car radio as the garage had disconnected the battery while taking my car apart. I have added a couple of stations on the FM side of things but I also like a few DAB stations and that's a more involved process. Had to get the manual out to remind myself.

[xoggoth]

Have to reprogramme my car radio as the garage had disconnected the battery while taking my car apart

Yeh. Same happened to me a while ago. Annoying!

Shortish walk today, been doing 2+ hour walks this week doing footpath inspections. Drink at village club earlier followed by call on lady next door.

[NickFitz]

Lunch was some KFC hot wings, cold, with ketchup

Since then I’ve been digging into the forthcoming shiny new forum software, trying to work out what didn’t work when importing the existing forum data (well, the dump I took of it around 2020). First on the list: I couldn’t see any forums, even using the admin account!

Turns out the importer doesn’t set the permissions correctly, so I had to do it manually on the root forum and then they all appeared

It’s running under Docker on my Mac Mini so it’s hard to get an idea of how it’ll perform in the real world, but TPD is lightning fast on there

Then I realised that it doesn’t import the smilies - it copies the images across and creates a config file that has to be imported manually. It doesn’t do it automatically because it has its own default set of smilies, and the shorthands like :) or :alien: clash with them. So that’s the first plugin I have to write: a utility to sideline those johnny-come-lately smilies and give ours pride of place. It won’t be a particularly complex job and it only has to be run once, but it seems like an excellent learning project

And somewhere on the to-do list is a feature that will take you back around five years whenever you post to TPD, though it’ll only be enabled for one user

[DoctorStrangelove]

And somewhere on the to-do list is a feature that will take you back around five years whenever you post to TPD, though it’ll only be enabled for one user

100% due to my extensive ignore list in the current version. .

Meanwhile on the 27th of February 2020 NF remembered the teacakes in the freezer. .

[NickFitz]

100% due to my extensive ignore list in the current version. .

Yes, I need to check that ignore lists have been imported correctly. Assuming they have, what I’ve read of the developer docs suggests it should be relatively easy to add the Time Machine option

Tea has been KFC leftovers

This was accompanied by the latest episode of Ambulance