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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by sadkingbilly View Post

    Thanks, but it's books i'm running out of, not stultifyingly boring TV. covbob is the TV enquirer.
    no-one writes good SF anymore, - it's all recycled crap, based on proper books from '50 - '98 ish
    So it was, apologies for the inexcusable oversight. No idea how that happened (other than a distinct lack of paying attention)

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  • sadkingbilly
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post


    Morning all

    For some reason I failed to post yesterday morning's weather observations.

    Anyway, it's dry and sunny out with hazy high level fluff. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 23 expected. Yesterday the barometer was up to 1028 mBar but today it's dropped back a bit to 1027 mBar.

    sadkingbilly I'm surprised no-one mentioned The Curse of Oak Island. There's 11 series of stuff to watch that will definitely require no effort on your part.
    Thanks, but it's books i'm running out of, not stultifyingly boring TV. covbob is the TV enquirer.
    no-one writes good SF anymore, - it's all recycled crap, based on proper books from '50 - '98 ish

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  • cojak
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    Hi Everyone!

    Back from a week in sunny Tenerife. I’m very pleased to see that the weather has sprung back to warm weather.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    I'm surprised no-one mentioned The Curse of Oak Island. There's 11 series of stuff to watch that will definitely require no effort on your part.
    It's excellent if you get your rocks off on ancient wood or FDR's dap. . Treasure, on the other hand, not so much.

    Morning.

    Thursday.

    Dry.

    Sunny.

    Blue sky.

    NotSoChilly in here at 16.2 deg, 17 deg in the kitchen, 16 deg in the leanto, 13 deg in the saltinghouse.

    1023 mBar, 30.21 in Hg, 767.3131 Torr, 14.837 psi, (down from 1024 last night), 77% RH (GDR hair), 75% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 26th of September 2019 WTFH had managed not to sneeze or have hiccups, whereas NF related that at one point he hadn't sneezed for five weeks, since, post op, the prior sneeze had caused him such angst as to require lying down for an hour, around here it was intermittently raining old women & sticks, and the horse chestnut trees opposite NF's old gaff were showing signs of autumn, which had distracted NF to the extent of his forgetting to press the "START" button on the WM which came as a disappointment when he went to empty said device.

    Cottons in the WM: it's a fine day for doing the cottons.

    Cottons out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

    Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the warm sunshine, phew wot a scorcher. .

    3 inderminate white butterflies 3 inderminate brown butterflies, a swift/swallow/martin, a red kite.

    Lunch: beans on toast etc.

    Assorted smalls, jeans, cords, gloves, jacket in the WM since the cottons are drying well and some of that stuff really needs washing.

    Stuff out of the WM & pegged out on the line: would have helped if I'd check all the pockets of the jeans, but the watch has survived the experience again, whereas the bus timetable on the back of an envelope hasn't.

    It's warm out there, the cottons are almost dry.

    Trauma avoided: bed remade.

    Jeans & cords & jacket rotated to even up the sun exposure.
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 13:27.

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  • WTFH
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    Morning all
    Very misty as we set out on our walk at 6am, but even then I could see it was going to burn off.
    Clear skies and sunshine now.

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  • ladymuck
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    Morning all

    For some reason I failed to post yesterday morning's weather observations.

    Anyway, it's dry and sunny out with hazy high level fluff. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 23 expected. Yesterday the barometer was up to 1028 mBar but today it's dropped back a bit to 1027 mBar.

    sadkingbilly I'm surprised no-one mentioned The Curse of Oak Island. There's 11 series of stuff to watch that will definitely require no effort on your part.

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  • sadkingbilly
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post



    I've done work and I can't, in all honesty, recommend it
    I say work, - I mean consultancy
    V persuasive chap. fully remote. loadsamoney*. interesting project.
    I was getting bored anyway, and i've run out of authors.

    *TBC - awaiting final offer on day rate

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    Partly cloudy out, but with enough sun getting through to make it look like a bright start. Going to be another warm one too: 13°C now, 21° due later. The barometers are down a touch at 1015/1023mB, though I don't expect that'll make much difference

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  • NickFitz
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    Did a bit of messing around with that equation I was looking at yesterday. It occurred to me that I only needed the curve to go halfway, as that can be swept around the axis to generate the vertices for a 3D object, so I started to cut down the range over which the equation was being iterated. Hmm, 3 is a bit too low… 3.2 is too far… DOH! it's pi of course! If I was better at maths, I'd probably have assumed that from the start

    And I finished reading The Illusionist in which, among other things, he came up with the idea for Monty's double - and it wasn't as it was depicted in the film, either. Great book

    Goodnight all

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by eek View Post
    Got called into an all contractor meeting at 4:45 so that we could all be served notice at the same time.

    The joy of a corporate merger where I know the company this clientco is merging with has a solution in production rather than 3 weeks (+ delay due to year end limitations) away from pilot.

    So time to go job hunting - but first write a marketing pitch to see if the agency we are through can sell the team on mass to another project...
    Another new adventure! Lot of it about today…

    I'm wondering what the General Election will bring at ClientGov. Maybe nothing, maybe they shut the whole department down and move all the civil servants to other departments. Though they're still dealing with the consequences of the reorganisation of departments a year ago last February, so I doubt anything will change in a hurry

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  • xoggoth
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    Odd thing driving to karaoke yesterday evening, a bird, crow I think, dropped a plastic bottle on the road in front of me.

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  • eek
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    Got called into an all contractor meeting at 4:45 so that we could all be served notice at the same time.

    The joy of a corporate merger where I know the company this clientco is merging with has a solution in production rather than 3 weeks (+ delay due to year end limitations) away from pilot.

    So time to go job hunting - but first write a marketing pitch to see if the agency we are through can sell the team on mass to another project...

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  • NickFitz
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    Tea has been lamb steaks with chips, peas and gravy

    Accompanied by an episode of C5's The Motorway (another one for you there, covbob)

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by covbob View Post
    Finally started going out of my tiny little mind enough that I put in my 3 months notice at CivilServiceBody today. Not sure what to do next but I feel the need to do what I do well (networks) instead of what I currently do badly (managing developers).
    Time for a new adventure!

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  • covbob
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    Afternoon all

    Thanks for all of the TV suggestions

    Was lovely here earlier but clouded over now.

    Finally started going out of my tiny little mind enough that I put in my 3 months notice at CivilServiceBody today. Not sure what to do next but I feel the need to do what I do well (networks) instead of what I currently do badly (managing developers).

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