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[NickFitz]

Tonight there was not one but two major motion picture premieres, opening with September 5 (2024) in which terrorists kidnap the Israeli team at the Munich Olympics - but this is about the TV coverage, because the ABC sports team refuse to give back responsibility for covering the story to the news team, on the basis that they’re on the ground and the news team are in the USA, and end up providing the only live TV coverage of the incident from beginning to end, watched by hundreds of millions of people. I like these stories of how stories are covered, and I thought this was a particularly good one

Then Unhinged (2020) in which a young mother annoys another driver by honking her horn, but it turns out he’s a misogynist who already has nothing to lose… This started slow but then turned very violent very quickly, as is the way with psychopaths. Much better than I thought it was going to be for the first fifteen minutes or so, and well worth a watch

And finally, a rewatch of Oblivion (2013) because I hadn’t watched that in a while, and it's good

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a NEW! Sainsbury’s TTD wagyu ribeye steak with fried onions and chips. Very nice

This was accompanied by the rest of yesterday’s Police Interceptors

I stripped the bed and left the mattress to air this morning, so now I need to go and remake it before settling down for the evening

[DoctorStrangelove]

Shopping done!

I was also randomly selected for a rescan at the self-scan checkout. And this wasn’t the usual one where they do eight or ten things picked at random out of your bags: this was the Entire Shop Rescan! So I had to go over to the counter where they keep the security-tag-removers and such and she went through every bag. But it was the nice lady who’s been there for years, long before Covid even, and she was very careful not to mix up things from different bags and mess up my System

Think yourself lucky you weren't like that poor sod the other day mistakenly ordered to leave because the face recog s/w had a false positive and/or the security morons got the wrong chap. .

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/sainsbury-...175424281.html

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a couple of spicy chicken thighs out of the freezer

And then much of the afternoon was devoted to the new forum stuff. They have an importer for vB5, but this is vB5.4 IIRC and the vBulletin people kept changing things between point versions. So they gave up trying to make the importer keep up and it only works up to vB5.1, I think.

So I’ve been through the source code for the import process, checking everything I can think of, which involved a lot of looking at the vB database and then the equivalent thing in the new database. Most of it works OK, but there are a few things I need to patch. And there’s important stuff like Thanks and Likes, which I need to dig into more because they’re handled by a third-party plugin here, but the new software has a builtin system, so I need to make sure all that stuff gets copied across

But it’s all useful stuff to learn. I’ve been able to get a test framework together that lets me make sure individual bits are working OK, and some other stuff that lets me run bits of the new forum code in isolation to make sure I understand how things work

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

Not only did I get Viz, I was also randomly selected for a rescan at the self-scan checkout. And this wasn’t the usual one where they do eight or ten things picked at random out of your bags: this was the Entire Shop Rescan! So I had to go over to the counter where they keep the security-tag-removers and such and she went through every bag. But it was the nice lady who’s been there for years, long before Covid even, and she was very careful not to mix up things from different bags and mess up my System

Next: lunch

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Another dull, damp day. Currently 8 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Drizzle expected all day. Barometer up to 984 mBar.

Sunrise 07:32; Sunset 17:00 GMT

HWMBO is off home today. He wants to watch NFL things on his huge TV rather than my piddly one and, as it takes place in the wee hours, I'm grateful for the lack of sleep disturbance. He'll be back in just under a week as it's my birthday (a big one!) next Sunday.

Gig3 confirmed start date on Wednesday. Just getting the contract reviewed before I sign my life away.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rainy grey day again. The wind apparently is still quite windy too, so our 5°C “feels like” -2°; we should be getting 8°, but not until after dark - around nine or ten tonight, in fact, which is also when the rain will go away. The barometers are steady at 973/981mB

I see I neglected to sign off again last night so, for the record, I decided that after Stalingrad and Berlin, something lighter in tone would make a nice change. Hence the new book is The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn, in which a couple of time travellers return to the early nineteenth century on a mission to snaffle the manuscript of a novel that Ms. Austen destroyed. I do wonder if it will turn out that their real mission is something more, but it’s entertaining enough as it is seeing people of modern sensibilities trying to blend in with Regency society

I have to head off to do the shopping soon, rain or no rain. I thought it might be Viz week, but the festive break has thrown the timing out and it actually came out last week. So to Big Sainsbury’s I must go!

[WTFH]

Morning all
Mizzling out.
TFIF, etc.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Grey.

Dark.

Sunless.

Damp: now wet.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 13 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto.

980 mBar, 28.9394 in Hg, 735 Torr, 14.21 psi, (up from 977.5 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of March 2020, scruff, BR14, and Brillo popped in, NF's brother's trip abroad had been cancelled, and LM was doubtful about her imminent trip abroad, whereas I had the last of the rice pud for tea.

Woken at 05:something or other by the sound of something sliding somewhere. Got up & had a look around but didn't find anything, but sleep did not return despite the reading of the book.

Eventually got up at 08:05 after the news irritated me enough to stir my bones again.

It has, of course, rained sufficiently to put me off the idea of going for a walk.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom, wan sunshine, rain with added rainbow.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the Constable thing. Noon o'clock news. Antisocial: who the feck wants to remember 2016 FFS <click>.

Foyle's War S7 E2 "The Cage". The Burgess/Maclean one.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: thing about miracles. PM. <click>

Vanished Wales. Forest charcoal burning cottages, Monmouth. Snakpak peanuts factory Newport Rd, Cardiff. Clywedog Reservoir, Powys. More Welsh water stolen by Y Sais. Cofiwch Dryweryn. As they don't say around by 'ere, like. .

Jungle War 4/4: end of Vietnam. Cuba. Columbia.

Taggart S6 E7 "Rogue's Gallery". A short one, being an Xmas/New Year ep. The one with the car crusher.

[NickFitz]

Tea, as predicted, was homemade kebabs things in a pitta bread with sweet chilli sauce, and some fries

To go along with this, new Police Interceptors - well, newish; they’ve got a bit ahead of me, pumping out quite a few recently

[NickFitz]

My mappy thing is just about perfect now, placing pins or lines with specified lat/lon etc exactly as Bing maps.

Excellent!

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

As soon as I finished, I was in the kitchen, where I blended lamb mince with finely-chopped green and red chillies and a load of spices and rolled them into sausage shapes. These are back in the fridge now to give the flavours a chance to mingle, and will be skewered and grilled later for tea

[xoggoth]

Old fart Mahjongy thing this morning. I won again! My mappy thing is just about perfect now, placing pins or lines with specified lat/lon etc exactly as Bing maps.

[ladymuck]

Finally received the contract for Gig#3. Now negotiating when to start. I'm aiming for Wednesday next week.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a ham toastie

The rain is becoming intermittent, but isn’t ready to give up just yet

I remembered to stick the mattress topper and pillow protectors in the wash. I split the load for drying, so the latter are now done and the former will be done in forty minutes or so