Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLIX

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and rainy start, after overnight rain heavy enough to wake me a couple of times. But I felt like I didn’t sleep so well anyway, being beset by vivid but inconsequential dreams; I ended up ignoring the first alarm and having to drag myself out of bed when the...

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This evening’s viewing was a bit of new Police Interceptors

And in Future Noir, they’ve finally found all the original negatives and so on and been able, after a few years of legal holdups, to make The Final Cut. Also some stuff about the flying cars ending up in museums and...

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It’s the most widely used Python task manager - basically a thing that allows you to say “run this code, but not yet” or “as and when” so you can kick off long-running processes without having to wait for them to finish. In this case, users upload a spreadsheet and get sent to a page that...

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I saw that - a whole series too, rather than letting it out in dribs and drabs. Looks like a brand new one too, as it’s showing yesterday as the “first broadcast” date ...

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Tea has been chicken thighs roasted with a bit of Jamaican jerk seasoning and a lemon and herb jus, and chips

Bit of an experiment but it turned out quite well, that. And it used up a lemon before they shrivel up

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Another day done, and as soon as I was finished I got a wholemeal loaf going in the bread maker. It takes five hours, so it always feels too late to start if I leave it much past 17:00

The people who are in charge of the data reckon there’s no need for my cunning plan to fix...

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a Pukka steak slice

It’s turned quite Simpsonesque out now, rather then the unremitting cloudiness that the forecast seemed to be predicting earlier

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy day and likely to remain so, with a bit of a breeze expected too. But it’s starting to warm up: already at 15°C, it’s expected to reach 23° this afternoon, with temperatures reaching the mid-20s for the rest of this week and potentially hitting the 30s...

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This evening’s viewing was E5 of Legends in which plots are thickening, tensions are rising, and dominoes are starting to fall

In Future Noir, the films has been released… and flopped rather badly. But it rapidly grew a cult following, becoming inordinately successful on VHS and...

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Tea has been homemade pork chow mein, a recipe I am still far from perfecting. But it was OK

[NickFitz]

That’s Monday done

Quite a productive day in parts. I tried a solution to the concurrency problem, and it worked OK in my test script. So then I dug around the web and found that yes, it seems to be a valid solution to the problem; so once I’ve checked a few more things, I should...

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Hi AP!

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A few bits of leftover lamb shish for lunch

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Links are up

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The teenagers among you will have nothing to do after curfew now, but luckily CUK is categorised as antisocial media so you can still read this stuff

• The Cold War’s Accidental Whale Observatory - How the end of the Cold War resulted in a wealth of hitherto secret data about life under the sea being

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It was supposed to dip down to about 8°C last night, and maybe it did, for it’s 11° (“feels like” 8°) at the moment, having been 10° less than an hour ago; but the bedroom was still at 20° when I awoke, so I’ll have to start leaving the big window open....

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The wildlife was watery again today, though with less Great Barrier Reef

In Future Noir, they’ve managed to make it through production and post-production, but there’s been a lot of argufying as a result of negative feedback from “sneak previews” and disagreements over the whole...

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Tea has been lamb chops with chips and beans

It’s turned nice and sunny out now

The young magpies were just chasing each other around the rose bushes, but I think there may only have been two of them there. They seem to be a quite independent brood this year,...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It seems that “cloudy but mild” will be the default setting for the week, with temperatures expected to be in the low-to-mid-20s. But today is, literally, just the warm-up: currently 15°C with an expected high of 19°, and the wind has dropped a bit so what...

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Today’s wildlife was watery once again. I get the idea of having a theme, but when they repeat documentaries about the same subject back-to-back, you just end up hearing the same thing about the Great Barrier Reef over and over again

In Future Noir, we’re on to the special...