Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCXLV

[NickFitz]

I read more of The Three-Body Problem, which I’m enjoying - the story seems to be developing in an interesting direction

And I also got a bit of SwiftUI stuff working that I’d thought would be more complicated than it turned out to be

Goodnight all ...

[NickFitz]

Tea: lamb steaks with chips and beans

This was accompanied by the final part of the Netflix thing about Three Mile Island. The capitalists got their way, as usual

[NickFitz]

So he is!

I checked the drone shot, but it wasn’t while I was there ...

[NickFitz]

More leftovers for lunch

The fog’s cleared, outside. In my brain, not so much

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

No news is good news right now, so here's a bunch of things to read about that aren't in the news, or not very much

• How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed - ”Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s foggy! Not even a bit misty, but a fairly decent fog

It’s also 7°C, again, with an expected high of 12°, again. The barometers are down a little at 1007/1015mB. And it seems the cloud might clear a bit towards sunset

[NickFitz]

There was a bit of wildlife stuff on around teatime

Tonight, I resumed The Three-Body Problem, in which it appears theoretical physics is in trouble

Monday again tomorrow. Four weeks until Easter

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

‘Country Joe’ McDonald, Who Urged the Crowd at the ’69 Woodstock Festival to ‘Gimme an F,’ Dies

And it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for?

[NickFitz]

I’ll have a look

Tea has been sausage and mash with onion gravy

And this was accompanied by the rest of the episode of Police Interceptors I started watching the other evening; and with that watched, I’m out of new episodes of that ...

[NickFitz]

Ah! Mystery solved

I found a DB dump from before the “upgrade” and used that to work out where one of the threads ought to be - and it turned out it had been merged with another thread! When I tried to visit it here on the live site, I was redirected to the appropriate point in that...

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some leftovers, accompanied by some thing called Outback Truckers in which Australians drive lorries

The last few hours have been spent digging through the post import stuff for the new forum software. Once I’d investigated it thoroughly, it turned out not to be too...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day out again, and there seems to have been a spot of rain, judging by the general dampness of everything. It’s 7°C, as it so often seems to be nowadays, with an expected high of 11°, and the barometers aren’t much changed at 1012/1020mB

[NickFitz]

Lots of wildlife stuff, including Monkey Life, on the box today

Tonight, I finished reading Ted Chiang’s Exhalations. And then I started on The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu - first part of a trilogy, so I may be on this for a while

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea tonight has been a mixed grill thing from a nearby East African barbecue place. Nice, and lots of it!

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Grey day out again and no soaring of the temperature, the present 9°C being as good as we’ll get. The barometers are up a bit though, at 1014/1022mB

More importantly: Monkey Life is back later!

It’s a repeat of the series...

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was going to be one thing, but the first ten minutes or so made me realise I wasn’t in the mood for it. So I started something else, but soon realised I wasn’t in the mood for that either. They both seemed good, just not for me tonight
...

[NickFitz]

I meant to fill up the car on Friday but forgot. I should do it soon, while there’s still fuel available ...

[NickFitz]

Rack of ribs (“firecracker” flavour) and chips for tea

Accompanied by a bit of Police Interceptors including a prolonged and unsuccessful search for a bloke who’d run away in the fields of Rothwell Lodge Farm by the A14. I’ve often seen the cows who live there when driving past...

[NickFitz]

Last of the southern not-fried chicken for lunch

Still grey here