Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLXXVI

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s motion picture premiere was a Spanish film on Netflix, Nowhere (2023), set in a not too distant future when world food supplies have collapsed, leading those who have taken power in Spain to take Special Measures: having rounded up and killed all the old people, they are now doing the same...

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the Turkish place, because I couldn’t be bothered to cook. Been a while since I’ve had something from there

[NickFitz]

Another week done, and only four more working days till my break!

After many meetings, the final one was the lead dev going through the work he and another dev had done so far on planning the stuff that another chap and myself are taking over. It was pretty interesting, and I feel...

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a pancetta omelette

Still cloudy out but with a lot of blue as well, tending more towards mackerel sky. Very windy too

I’m supposed to be explaining how the old project works to the other devs shortly. I don’t actually know how various parts of it...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

There’s been some sun while it’s low down on the horizon, but it’s mostly cloudy at the moment. Mild again: currently 16°C, though it “feels like” 11° due to the wind, which isn’t as strong as it was last night but is still pretty blustery. The expected...

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the Swedish border force thing on HBO Max, in which we learned that a magic mushroom growing kit is not actually illegal in Sweden and can therefore be imported, though if they’ve started sprouting, you’ll be in big trouble

And later, I read more of All...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been an M&S Barnsley chop, with chips and beans. Very nice, very thick chop

In a sign of the dumbing down of the nation, it was labelled as a “double lamb chop”

The cooking instructions were a bit presumptuous too. I was supposed to preheat the...

[NickFitz]

Pukka steak slice for lunch

Quite Simpsonesque out now

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start with just a few scattered wisps of mares’ tails high in the sky. Chillier with the open sky at 9°C, but it’ll make it to 18° later when it’ll get cloudier, and also a bit breezier. The barometers have shot up to 1015/1023mB ...

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the rest of the fare dodger thing from yesterday

Later, more of All You Need is Ears, in which he’s finally signed the Beatles - only to end up with Cilla Black as well. Persuasive chap, that Brian Epstein

Tomorrow I have to...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a chilli lambburger and fries; the burger proving very zingy from the green and red chilis therein

This involved the first use of my latest kitchen gadget, which was something of an impulse purchase at the weekend. I planned to get a stick blender for making soup, but...

[NickFitz]

Tuesday done, so just six more working days until my holiday starts!

Today, the thing I’ve been working on for the past year officially entered maintenance mode. It was also the kick-off for the third quarter, and I finally got some idea of what I’ll be working on next: some...

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a Pukka sausage roll, again - I bought two but they both expired today, hence the repetition of yesterday

Turned Simpsonesque out now, but still very windy

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Patchy cloud (but mostly cloud) out, and it’s a very blustery day. It’s also likely (95%) to rain shortly, and looks like it. Still mild though: currently 17°C (“feels like” 12°) and expected to creep up to 18° by lunchtime. The barometers are cautiously...

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was All You Need is Ears, the autobiography of record producer George Martin. I’m nearly a third of the way through and he’s still a few years away from signing the Beatles, though he has just taken over as manager of Parlophone for EMI when his old boss retired, becoming (at the...

[NickFitz]

Tea: pork cutlet with chips and beans

And a bit of the fare dodger thing to go with it

[NickFitz]

That’s Monday done. Only one more till I’m on holiday!

Lunch, by the way, was a Pukka sausage roll

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Have you seen the news? Then you’ll be in dire need of some good reading to take your mind off it

• The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris - ”Behind the beloved game lies a struggle over mathematical ideas, erased collaborators, offshore millions, and copyright power.” The tangle of

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rosy-fingered dawn earlier, but that crept in beneath the cloud that extended almost but not quite to the horizon, and it’s expected to be cloudy all day with a chance (25%) of rain at lunchtime. It’s currently 12°C but “feels like” 8°, with a predicted...