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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Bit cloudier today, but still cold: -3°C (“feels like” -7°) but with a higher expected high of 3°. There’s a 65% likelihood of snow towards midnight tonight, along with increasing wind; weirdly, this is when that highest temperature is expected to be reached. The barometers are up to 1004/1012mB

I need to get to bed earlier as I went straight back to sleep after the first two alarms, thereby losing half-an-hour. It's a tradeoff between spending time relaxing in the evening or the morning, but I like to start the day slowly and contemplatively if I can; I’ve never been one of those “up and at ‘em” types

[NickFitz]

Tonight, I read some more of Exhalation. He explores some interesting ideas in his stories

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Glad me few remaining brain cells don't have to deal with such complex problems anymore NF. Still trying to figure out how me mappy thing is about 15 x 5 pixels off.

It gives me something to think about when I’m not playing Scrambled Maps or Clues by Sam

[ladymuck]

Hurray! The team are doing well

[WTFH]

Thanks for the reminder!

<spolier alert>
Reminder needed for 2 weeks time.

[NotAllThere]

Thanks for the reminder!

It was a pleasant surprise when that team turned up. And even better when they won! Sorry if you're watching it on catchup.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb tagine with rice

The last attempt at this didn’t turn out so well, though it was edible. I tried a different recipe this time and it was more to my liking, so I’ll use this one as the starting point for future experiments

And this was accompanied by the last hour or so of Apollo 13: Survival (2024) on Netflix. It turned out a bit better for everybody involved than the Titanic documentaries do

[ladymuck]

I see that Only Connect is back to normal after its Christmas specials. It’s a semifinal tonight. At least one of us knows the result of it already

Thanks for the reminder!

[DoctorStrangelove]

You don't need to remember, Google does it for you. I still like messing about with code, mostly just website stuff, php, jscript etc and Excel VBA.

Never used any of those, mostly FORTRAN (35 years ago), C (6 or 7 years ago), VB (7 or 8 years ago), CAP16 assembler, Z80 assembler, 8086 assembler, 8085 assembler, 6805 assembler, and most recently Microchip PIC assembler (which is what the tv zapper code is written in, all 240 words of it).

Ah, dear dead days beyond recall.

I forgot to include 6303 assembler.

[WTFH]

I see that Only Connect is back to normal after its Christmas specials. It’s a semifinal tonight. At least one of us knows the result of it already

[xoggoth]

Haven't written a line of code in 5 or 6 years. Probly can't remember how any more

You don't need to remember, Google does it for you. I still like messing about with code, mostly just website stuff, php, jscript etc and Excel VBA.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Glad me few remaining brain cells don't have to deal with such complex problems anymore NF. Still trying to figure out how me mappy thing is about 15 x 5 pixels off.

Haven't written a line of code in 5 or 6 years. Probly can't remember how any more.

No great loss really but I would like to make a replacement zapper for the tv/freesat box.

Trouble is that every box I turn on seems to die*.

At least some of them still run Freecell, which is really all that matters now.

*The really irritating one is the one that successfully ran Win2k for years & years, then refused to boot and refuses to install on a fresh hd. Frustrating. Generates a STOP then restarts so I can't even figure out WTF is wrong with it.

[ladymuck]

A second contract has arrived.

[Pondlife]

Good afternoon all,

This week's soup is sans parsnips and so much nicer with the added bonus of extra thick bacon from the butcher.

Wind 7 kt from the North/Northwest, varying between West/Northwest and North
Temperature 4°C
Humidity 60%
Pressure 1016 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more

Managed to get a check flight in over the weekend. Three circuits (normal, flapless and a glide one) and a practised forced landing.

[ladymuck]

Lunch was scrambled eggs on toast.

I got some fancy pants eggs from Waitrose and the colour of the yolks is very striking indeed. The eggs themselves tasted nice but, without doing a side-by-side comparison with normal free range eggs, I don't know if they're 'better'. I had heard some farmers feed their chickens things like turmeric to make the egg yolk more orangey coloured. I don't believe the colour has any bearing on the nutritional content.