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[NickFitz]

I did remember to put the bins out (recycling, food waste) yesterday so I'm off to a good start.

Our council's introducing food waste bins next year. I'm curious to know how that's going to work for somewhere like this. We have a whole bunch of communal black (general waste) and orange (recycling) bins, and the bin paddock is only just big enough to contain them. I suppose fewer black bins will be needed, but I wonder how getting food waste from around fifty flats into one or more bins is going to be managed?

Then there's the additional complication of the management company collecting from our flat doors three mornings a week. I doubt the overall hygiene of the place will be enhanced by people leaving food waste in the hallways overnight!

If the idea is that each flat has its own food waste bin, then I feel sorry for whoever has to take them all out for bin day then bring them all back again. Or will we be expected to each take and retrieve our own? The pavement isn't really wide enough to have fifty or so bins stacked on it, not even quite small ones. And there'll always be someone who claims that their "better" bin has been taken by a jealous neighbour and an inferior bin left in its place, even if they're all identical

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky poking through the mix of wispy and fluffy cloud. Currently 15 degrees and that's the high for the day. Cloud cover set to increase as the day progresses with the chance of showers also increasing. Barometer continues upwards to 1012 mBar.

Sunrise 07:00; Sunset 16:29 GMT

Feeling uninspired this morning. Will have to see what the day brings.

I did remember to put the bins out (recycling, food waste) yesterday so I'm off to a good start.

[ladymuck]

Happy Birthday TPD and all who sail in her!

[DoctorStrangelove]

20 years on and it's just about the only live thread left. .

Morning.

Tuesday?

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Grey.

Drizzly.

Damp.

Chilly in here at 17 deg, 16 deg in the kitchen, 14.5 in the leanto.

1003 mBar, 29.6 in Hg, 752 Torr, 14.547 psi, (down from 1005.5 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of February 2020 Brillo popped in, it was an anniversary, LM and WTFH congratulated him, AndyGarbs popped in and it was a generic bin day for some.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast, but the clouds are quite high and thin. No rain not he walk, but expecting it in a couple of hours.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey and windy day again, where 13°C feels like 7°; the expected high of 15° won’t feel much better. The barometers are up a tough at 995/1003mB. And tonight, it’s expected to rain

I realised last night that I’d forgotten, once again, to bake a white loaf. I decided to make use of the delay timer on the breadmaker and set it to bake one overnight, finishing not long after I get up. So I arose this morning to the lovely aroma of freshly baked bread filling the flat

[NickFitz]

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[NickFitz]

Lunch, BTW, was a sausage bap

This evening’s viewing was the rest of an episode of Police Interceptors that I started watching last week

I’d paused it just at the start of an ad break, and returning to it revealed a new bug in the 5 app: it started playing what I assume were the ads queued up when I’d paused it, but after a second or so they’d suddenly be replaced by a different ad, which I’m guessing came from a new list of “ads to play” that it had just downloaded

This is, I suppose, marginally better than the previous bug where it would play both sets of ads at the same time. Only one appeared on the screen, but it played the combined audio from both of them

I also found a bit of time to do some stuff with the CoreGraphics thing. Given that it’s only supposed to be a quick utility for working out some geometry stuff for the shaders, I think it’s now at the point where I should start getting it to do that rather than tweaking the functionality it already has

And later I read some more of Ambient in which our protagonist has got himself pretty decisively on the wrong side of the ubercapitalists

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Only Connect was very difficult this evening.

[xoggoth]

Old fart lunch today followed by boring trip to doctors.

Got an email from a lady in Kazakhstan promising me plenty of photos. One good thing about lots of scam emails to your business email address or generic requests from your website contact page is it shows you have a decent presence on Google.

Got my canvas based mappy thing working well, now I can still show footpath inspection locations from photos on OS maps when Bing stops support for OS maps API.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been spag bol, except with tagliatelle instead of spag

I bought the tagliatelle a while ago as an experiment but this is the first time I’ve got around to having any. It’s much the same in many ways, of course. Maybe it’s because I'm not used to it but I found it a bit fiddlier to eat, so I may not bother with it again once I’ve finished it

[ladymuck]

This evening's ents has been S2 of Unforgotten on ITV. It's very good.

[NickFitz]

and since thanks/likes etc are off on the busiest thread here, that'll be moot.

That’s because of the fundamental architectural mistake in vBulletin 5: putting almost everything in one humongous DB table with a “type” field to tell what each row actually is

[sadkingbilly]

Mudskipper is the MX5 owner round here - LM has the decent Nissan sports car - as she is a Fairlady

rice rockets (and cars) all look the same to me.

[sadkingbilly]

Our former administrator used to accept requests for custom titles, but I don't know if the new people will! But the stock ones are based on post count and haven't been extended to the dizzy heights some have now reached for many years, so I'll see if I can get some new ones in there to give us something to strive for

The "reached the peak" one is based on rep and, again, needs some new levels adding. Moving rep across is going to be interesting as that was done by a plugin, and the new system has something similar. But if it doesn't seem right, I'll just have to replicate the existing rep system! Good job I have all the source code for this stuff sitting around somewhere

and since thanks/likes etc are off on the busiest thread here, that'll be moot.