Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLXII

[NickFitz]

Just woken up after the match last night? You’ll not get anything useful done today, so you may as well read this lot instead

• The Extremist in the Family - A tragic story of religious extremism: ”The Kerrs were devoted to one another and to their faith. But when one of their own rejected modern

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Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start as things begin to warm up again, and the wind which sounded very blustery last night has died down a fair bit, though it’s still there. Currently 18°C, it’s expected to reach 28° for a sustained period this afternoon. The barometers are...

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This evening’s viewing was 24 Hours in A&E. Turns out sliding along a road at 100mph without protective gear doesn’t do much for your complexion

And tonight, I started reading Eve’s Hollywood by Eve Babitz, her book about growing up in Hollywood. She said it was a novel, but it’s...

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Good idea! ...

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Tea has been ribs (out of the freezer) and chips

This was mostly because it was quick and easy, as I’d been working on new forum stuff all day and hadn’t realised the time

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True, but bananas have potassium! And I like mango

Anyway, now I’ve got all this fruit taking up space in the freezer, I’ll have to use it up somehow ...

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Some leftover chicken bots for lunch

It’s brightened up a lot here now

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I recently bought a smoothie maker with the vague notion that it might help me get more fruit into my diet. I’ve just used it for the first time: a banana, mango, and blueberry smoothie. Pretty nice, as I’d frozen the mango and bananas, though I’d forgotten the blueberries which I only got on...

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Morning denizens

It’s a grey day out, with masses of what I think are stratocumulus. It’s also quite breezy, so the current 18°C “feels like” 15°; the expected high is 25°, which isn’t quite as bad as was being predicted last week IIRC. The barometers are steady at 1013/1020mB...

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The watery wildlife stuff was back on the telly today

Tonight in A Game of Birds and Wolves, the new tactics developed by playing games at the Western Approaches have paid off, with Doenitz finally giving up and telling his U-boat packs to back off before they’re all sunk. And the...

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Tea was brought to me from the obscure Indian restaurant across town. Very nice

It’s tucked away down a side street that goes nowhere, in a small, windowless, one-storey former industrial building that looks like it should be a place that sells car parts, trade only. But the food...

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Afternoon denizens

There’s a fair amount of blue sky but also a lot of clouds jostling each other, so it’s sunny spells today. Quite windy too, so the 23°C which is as hot as it’ll get “feels like” 20°. The barometers are down a little at 1013/1020mB

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) which is not only of no interest to people who aren’t Dylan fans, but probably highly annoying to them. I really enjoyed it

One thing I found intriguing in the concert footage...

[NickFitz]

Lunch was the rest of the cold cocktail sausages, and tea has been a rack of ribs and chips, this time from a new range at Sainsbury’s. Pretty nice overall, and at least it’s a change from the standard BBQ sauce that they seem to use on everything

This was accompanied by Police...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start again, and starting to get warmer: 17°C now, and aiming for 25° this afternoon. It’s supposed to be cloudy too, but maybe that will come later. The barometers have shot up to 1017/1025mB

Somebody’s moving out of this...

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Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Brick (2025) on Netflix, a German film in which the residents of some Hamburg apartments awake to find their building completely sealed up inside a wall made of some unknown material, impervious to attack and also apparently capable of generating a force field...

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I couldn’t be bothered with cooking tonight so tea was from Popeyes

Very Simpsonesque out and apparently it’ll get fairly hot over the weekend. Not as bad as it has been, but I reckon the air conditioner will be getting a workout

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Another week done!

Sometimes we end Tech Debt Thursday with an hour-long chat on Slack about anything interesting that’s come up, but various people are off and others had gone to the Cardiff office for something, so it didn’t happen this week. So I went through a few tickets...

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Having dealt with a minor security update this morning, I was able to pop along to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s and get the shopping done at lunchtime

After I was back, I was due for a meeting with a user researcher to gather my opinion of some documentation of a new process I want...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a clear blue sky above while a ring of cumuli lurk low on the horizon It’s also pretty windy (19mph, gusts to 32mph), which started last night and will continue all day. As a result, the present 16°C “feels like” 11°; the expected high is 22°, and...