Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLXIX

[NickFitz]

Read more of To Each This World tonight. Could the aliens helping humanity have ulterior motives? Nah, I’m sure it’s fine

Thursday tomorrow! And it’s Tech Debt Thursday, which is usually relatively restful

Even better: a Bank Holiday Monday, so it’s...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been oniony chicken casserole out of the freezer, with chips and peas

This was accompanied by Murder 24/7 on iPlayer, being part one of an investigation into the murder of some poor sod in Hereford

[NickFitz]

Having spent most of the week investigating the weird figures that were appearing in data, I just discovered that there’s already a command to recalculate them! It’s not properly documented anywhere, of course; I found it by searching for places where a particular function was used. I just ran it...

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a pork cutlet with apple sauce in a wholemeal bap

This was one of the freshly baked baps made this morning, and they’ve turned out very well

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and drizzly start; been a little while since we had one of those. It’s mild enough at 17°C with an expected high of 23°C, the barometers are down a bit more at 1002/1009mB, and we have a yellow warning for thunderstorms

Down on the lawn...

[NickFitz]

I finished watching the Phil Spector thing

And tonight I continued reading To Each This World. Really getting into this now

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been homemade pork chow mein. Turned out quite nicely; nothing they’d recognise down the Chinese, but I’m managing to refine whatever recipe I started with into something acceptable to me

For viewing, I started watching the LA homicide thing on Netflix about Phil Spector...

[NickFitz]

Good to see you!

Turns out vBulletin 5 is completely unsalvageable, so a switch to XenForo is coming very soon - it’s vastly superior ...

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some hot wings

It’s quite Simpsonesque out now, but still very breezy. We have a warning for thunderstorms tomorrow and Thursday

[NickFitz]

I realised after posting this that “somebody” is Ben Zotto, author of a book on the 1970s history of Sphere Computer which I bought recently. I also mentioned his site about them in Monday Links ...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I struggled to get to sleep for ages last night, with the result that this morning, I managed to turn off both first and second alarms without really waking up, then slept until a bit after eight. Oh well, I feel better for it, even if it does make the morning routine...

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the remainder of an episode of the motorway cops (who seldom go on the motorway) plus dashcam thing that I started watching the other night. At least they now try to make the dashcam clips vaguely relevant to whatever they’ve interrupted to slot them in
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[NickFitz]

Finished off some KFC leftovers for tea because they’d only get chucked away otherwise

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been M&S Ardennes pâté on white toast. Rather nice

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Now the weather’s cooling down, there’s even less reason to tear yourself away from fine reading on the Internet

• 16 hours in an Oakland dive bar - It's not Cheers, though maybe not that different: ”A few feet away from the hissing air brakes and jack hammers, Club 2101 is quiet. Richard Perez

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Clear blue sky with only the merest of wisps in a couple of places, and the open overnight sky has helped cool things down: currently 12°C, though climbing to 21° later. There’ll be a few warmer days as the week progresses, but nothing higher than 24°, before...

[NickFitz]

There was some wildlife stuff on this afternoon, but I missed a lot of it because I was working on new forum stuff

Tonight, I read more of To Each This World. I’m getting into the story, but the writer has a couple of tics which grate on me slightly. Worth persevering with though,...

[NickFitz]

Lunch wasn’t anything, because I had a couple of croissants with strawberry jam for breakfast so I wasn’t hungry

And tea has been a pork cutlet with chips and beans

This was accompanied by a further episode of the Scottish paramedics on iPlayer :blue...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny again with some very thin high and hazy stuff, but not a lot in the way of cloud apart from that. It’s 17°C but “feels like” 20° with the expected high being 22°; the barometers are up a bit more at 1014/1022mB