I appear to have forgotten it was Hallowe’en and watched The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Maybe there’s time to fit in Buffy’s _Fear, Itself_. Can’t go wrong with Giles in a sombrero.
@MakingBlakes7 I tried putting one together. I really shouldn’t have.
@hayles Hayles, turn the lights back on and get out from behind that sofa.
@OpinionatedGeek They are interesting, full of London history and trivia, and more than a little batty. And that’s just Arthur Bryant. I would definitely try one.
Oooh. It’s shiny, it’s new, and it’s a little bit @Peculiar… pic.twitter.com/yscmyw1mcs
@alstonebridge Every smart device maker should at least have had a quick chat with a good 1980s clock radio designer before they started.
@BristolCouncil Great, thanks!
@dangusset That name’s clearly made up.
@Bristolvor For the last five or six years, I’d say.
Given that I’ve grown so disillusioned with public transport that I now generally don’t bother to try taking it, it’s possible this is too good a metaphor. twitter.com/DebbieBMoon/st…
jack We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…🧵
SidwWolfe If anyone wants to know how my weekend went I totaled my car while dressed up as Carrie and everyone who was a first responder thought I was dead HAHAHAHA IM SO SORRY pic.twitter.com/22vatX7nGB
mountain_ghosts you’re gonna lose it when you hear what every office job involves pic.twitter.com/Z0rUT8IU5d
Um. @BristolCouncil’s website seems to be telling me that the Central Library has started closing on Wednesdays again. Anyone know if that’s actually true?
@domwakeling That one, thank goodness, doesn’t happen to me.
And cruciverbalists everywhere cry as twenty more moons are named and become fair game for crossword setters! (Though it’s apparently going to be a public naming competition, so at least we’ll stand a chance with Moony McMoonface, 82nd satellite of Saturn…) twitter.com/twisteddoodles…
*Plays a podcast in Overcast*
*Plays another podcast*
*Plays a podcast*
*Plays some more podcasts*
*Plays another podcast*
*Plays podcasts some more*
*Puts phone down for, like, five minutes*
“Hey Siri, play!”
“Playing all songs, shuffled.”
*Sigh*
I am in awe of organisers/helpers/readers/panellists/hosts/etc. at cons. All I did at @BristolCon was listen to people and natter and buy books and two days later I’m still aching and trying to get my hydration levels and my voice back to normal.
ChuckWendig MONDAY. You’re a monstrous miracle, a gelatinous sack of humours sloshing around soft leather, a bulbous asymmetrical anomaly of blood and bone, a gibbering ghost trap of teeth and wrists and toes, a wet gassy ghast piloting a temporary flesh mech. HAVE A GREAT DAY, MOIST HELLION
@therobdale @markgurman Yup, me too. With the Echo I could dip my toe in the water for a very low cost and upgrade/add over time as I worked out that I liked the system, which is a great way into new tech.
HannahAlOthman Reminder: Tory conference was this month. This same month we are in now. The one that isn’t even over yet.
Half-quartet action shot 😆 pic.twitter.com/ZskOZeeLy9
I and my hangover have been for a walk. pic.twitter.com/bsFhCCiop9
Thank you for a great day, @BristolCon. Now begins the long walk home (possibly via a kebab.) 😀
Ooh: it’s @BristolCon: The Surprise Ending! pic.twitter.com/NEvfRyYm42
At the Airship Shape and Bristol Fashion II launch at @BristolCon. Thanks @WTPress et al.!
Don’t think I’ve ever actually worn an anorak to an SF convention before 😀
MammonMachine Twitter and Facebook may be both run by dangerous, immortal sociopaths without even the slightest idea of how to run the institutions they’ve created, but I prefer things here on twitter, where at least they don’t know how to make any money.
@benjohnbarnes I’m finding it interesting to accidentally see how the other half have been living (I’ve never had a force-touch-capable device!)
What, me? Worried I’ll have trouble getting started early enough to get myself to @BristolCon tomorrow? Why d’you ask? pic.twitter.com/pg4MQ1JI80
@OpinionatedGeek Don’t worry. Soon our attention spans will be so short we won’t need them anyway.
Someone appears to be having a 1990s rave in a car outside my house. I’ll be very disappointed if I check and it turns out *not* to be a Vauxhall Nova with tinted windows and a big fake exhaust.
@paul_haine Given the available options, I could probably get behind Glory as a candidate for PM…
@antimitch @hayles Yup. And the only thing I can remember apart from that was that their all-day breakfast was fab.
@archidave Personally I’m looking forward to the Brexit Diet, where my natural aversion to turnips will help me shed the pounds.
@danielpunkass The trick is to skip the stage of disruption where you can’t stop them beeping without upgrading the firmware from a Windows machine and they all end up in a Russian botnet.
Grace_Segers Me, writing an email:
I’m using an exclamation point so you know I’m friendly and excited! But now I’m using a period so that you know I’m not crazy. Here’s another sentence with a period as a buffer, proving my normalness. Thanks so much!
Stretchedwiener My niece is all set for Halloween. While her peers might be Elsa’ing it up, she marches to her own beat. pic.twitter.com/Ml2HSexeBf
🎵 Anchovies, anchovies, you’re so delicious… @bufferingcast pic.twitter.com/DmAw2Zi3Gb
@seb_ly Yeah, that’s annoying. Eventually I set it so it only turned on when it was connected to my car by Bluetooth, but obviously that relies on you actually wanting to/being able to do Bluetooth in the car.
BBCSteveR What do you get if you cross the 1970s BBC cartoon Roobarb with Rachmaninoff? I came up with this. @BBCNews @BBCRadio3 @BBCRadio2 @CBeebiesHQ pic.twitter.com/dgSg7nTRga
@ahnlak Or, you know, set up auto-renew :D
I suspect that this Brexit progress bar might’ve been coded by Microsoft.
Avon_Stories I adore foggy autumn mornings pic.twitter.com/O0ccDyEB0x
@iamtheshunt1 My great success was the Scheduling Process for the Intelligent Distribution of Every Renewal.
@krzyzanowskim @pilky If you call them from within the UK, bear in mind our parliament has declared that CGFloat.pi is exactly 3.
@Bingo_Little It’s hard to beat Ilford XP-2 Super for atmospherics. From a trip to Weston-super-Mare with @Bingo_Little. Leidolf Lordomat 35mm. 2/2 pic.twitter.com/GWb3Rwq1zc
It’s hard to beat Ilford XP-2 Super for atmospherics. From a trip to Weston-super-Mare with @Bingo_Little. Leidolf Lordomat 35mm. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/MpMJaNBciI
Seventy hours of relaxing oceanscapes courtesy of @BBCEarth. It’s got to be better than reading the news, right? youtube.com/playlist?list=…
@_pigeons_ @Bingo_Little For some reason I thought of you. pic.twitter.com/6WJkTJ0ZOs
My Twitter feed is longer than Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Which just goes to show I should have been trying harder on the witty aphorisms front.
monkeon.co.uk/beatproustswor…
I’ve recently started to dig back into a project I’ve not properly touched for years. And by a complete accident, three days in, just came across the extremely thorough documentation past me wrote like some kind of competent programmer. Gosh. pic.twitter.com/x2CDaGaseF
I feel lucky. pic.twitter.com/TPHp44q68b
blakespot Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system arstechnica.com/information-te… pic.twitter.com/aJUPeh1PhS
RellyAB Eddie is the Saturday content you need twitter.com/tjalamont/stat…
rhodri Apparently it’s International Gin and Tonic Day. Very tempting to start now, spend the day spiralling downwards and then gingerly resurface tomorrow to find out what happened.
AstroKatie Well I just inhaled Ted Chiang’s latest short story collection, “Exhalation”, and it was so good I don’t even regret that pun. Read it, friends. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/538034/e…
Well, I’m up early, all bright and breezy. Done my yoga so it’s time to start the morning’s work. Wait. It’s twenty past sodding eleven? How did that happen?
@pactorick @bufferingcast This is exactly true, right down to the Brexit sentiment, sadly. Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’ll be off down the chippy for a bit.
@RecDiffs The OA my arse. pic.twitter.com/baBD2KT1Ud
@robmanuel You’re going to need more pets.
Some snaps from today’s wander with @Bingo_Little. pic.twitter.com/jZW4hmWFT9
Not sure mine’s been dusted since 2005, mind. twitter.com/MakingBlakes7/… pic.twitter.com/VuUZqeYXEO
@MakingBlakes7 Indeed it was! *Hums theme tune* pic.twitter.com/mbmvyQlZ1t
@BearNotesApp Since I upgraded to Catalina, typing two hyphens in a code block (e.g. a comment in a SQL code block) is being autocorrected to an em-dash. Is there anything I can do to fix that? Thanks! (Bear 1.7.3) pic.twitter.com/j693f5gumG
scattermoon Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational railway station twitter.com/MrTimDunn/stat…
@Joeyeah_right @kateleth @bufferingcast Honestly thought it was Abby in my timeline until the double-take moment.
@domwakeling At this point I’m simply going to give up and see if it magically works tomorrow. This often seems to be the way to deal with Software Update. pic.twitter.com/oGzakKh4lr
Apple Software Updates: a trilogy in 4 parts. I have now applied this command line tools for Xcode update three times and am relatively convinced it’s not going to stick. #catalina #sigh pic.twitter.com/GvzvkoEI1S
@UrsulaWJ They didn’t used to be places you went to only when you had no other choice 🙁
ashokklouda This is just crazy. @British_Airways just can’t seem to process cello check-ins. We’re probably going to miss our flight…. Here is our form of protest. @gabiswallow @petergregson pic.twitter.com/wuHD0ajbsD
@psidnell I went with homebrew just now because I know that with Bundler it can install non-open-source stuff including stuff from the Mac App Store from a list in a file, which might be a handy thing to start keeping lying around.
@psidnell I jumped ship from macports to homebrew some years ago because macports was winding me up for some long-forgotten reason, but I’ve not used either for ages until today. Mostly I use virtual machines.
Current status: installing homebrew so I can install emacs so that I can edit a role in chef. It’s configuration tools all the way down…
JamesStineJr Hey @AppleSupport - we love our emacs - saddened that its no longer in Mac OS Catalina - had to install from source. Would love to have it back or a work around that is repeatable! Signed EmacsLover
Jimi Hendrix-Voodoo Child NEW Gayageum ver. by Luna youtu.be/kWhaxH03Xok via @YouTube
nedwards a mom at the school told me today that when she quit her job as a corporate lawyer she sent a companywide email saying she was leaving to pursue her dream of not working there anymore
@dobyfriday This is a UK one I found in a drawer on top of my stack of Playboys… pic.twitter.com/qJRO59OSvy
@libbymiller Tired of the internets is the new Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.
@bexxi It’s one of those words that seems stranger the more you look at it. (Presumably the person in charge of quartering a headquarters is a quartermaster? I’m not terribly familiar with the army…)
Well that has to be the most weirdly irrelevant and specific spam that’s got though my filter in the last five years. pic.twitter.com/Hu8sJ1GN22
@chubbybannister @Dru_Marland If you’re near Hotwells, I have fuses *and* coffee :D
@Dru_Marland @chubbybannister I spotted domestic fuses on one of those cardboard racks full of useful miscellanea when I was queueing at my local Post Office/Costcutter t’other day. Failing that I’d go for somewhere like Wilko or Lion Stores.
sansculotides Today is nonidi 19 Vendémiaire in the year of the Republic CCXXVIII, celebrating the sunflower. pic.twitter.com/fPnbc5yFga
There’s an update to Adobe Flash Player. Wait. I *have* Adobe Flash Player? pic.twitter.com/hp2PmQB8ru
@UrsulaWJ True, but my bank balance rather wishes I’d only taken up one of them.
NoTalentAC Tip: When making a sex tape, play Disney music in the background. That way, if it gets leaked online, Disney attorneys will have them all taken down.
@Tim_Bullock Heh. I remember back in 1991 using a Mac for the very first time, thinking “what? Why would you drag the floppy icon to the trash to eject the disk? That’s just silly!”
What? Oh, just taking some photos of NFC stickers. It’s for a blog post. I’m going to use them for time-tracking my studying. What? Goodness. No, I didn’t even know there *was* a Nobel Prize for procrastination… Well, yes, I’d be hon—
*Wakes from reverie*
*Blinks*
*Looks sapic.twitter.com/gDSoYmDsC0sC0
@psidnell That seems an excellent summary. And I’m only up to episode 2. Bailing.
@shezza_t @OpinionatedGeek That’s because the characters aren’t two-dimensional enough to even stand up as complete idiots, I assume.
(I don’t believe for one second it *should* actually need 50GB+ to do the upgrade. Or that it should take as many attempts as it did just to download the installer. Unless you’re desperate, I’d wait for #Catalina 10.15.1…)
Oh, hooo-fucking-ra. Five hours and five attempts, including a restore from Time Machine to start again, and I’m finally running #macOS #Catalina. My main problem seemed to be that it needed more than the 50GB I had available to install. Having 90GB free worked. pic.twitter.com/siTwvEP0RI
@AthanSpod I think I will bail. It’s like the writers had never actually seen a group of human beings in a room together.
@AthanSpod Cool, will add it to my list. (Sub works fine for me as I’ll take any extra motivation not to get distracted by my phone when I should be watching ;))
I mean, at least the Golgafrinchans *had* an “A” ark.
Is there some amazing plot twist in Another Life that retrospectively explains how we have the technology to build an interstellar space ship but not the intelligence to fill it with a crew that don’t look like rejects from season 8,254 of Big Brother?
DigitalLawyer Oooof. Was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced to date. Here were the steps:
1) “Hi, this is your bank. There was an attempt to use your card in Miami, Florida. Was this you?”
Me: no.
Okay, fifth time lucky? I may have lost count. pic.twitter.com/nPvvIGsGwF
@word_geek I have really stepped up my reading this year—30 books so far, which is a lot better than recent years—but I think I may still be buying them far faster than I’m reading them.
@hayles I did the betas for years (I was in the AppleSeed programme for a while before they did public betas) but I jumped off that bandwagon sometime around Lion.
@si3d I was going to, but this time it didn’t get as far as putting the macOS installer into the Applications folder. Last time I popped it “safely” to one side and then had to do a time machine restore over it to get the machine back!
I literally just sat there and watched it spend twenty minutes downloading 8GB of the #macOS #Catalina update package before it told me that the update package had been deleted.
WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS #macOS #Catalina pic.twitter.com/crWN71FfpA
@word_geek It’s always a toughie. Been trying v. hard not to collect too many books these last couple of years, but it’s hard not to want the really good ones in physical form, especially if you discover a good series…
@KinetaHill Thanks. I am backed up six ways from Sunday, so this is more of an irritation than a potential disaster, at least…
@OpinionatedGeek @johngirvin I wondered what that high-pitched whining was.
petetoth “Both of my camels were requisitioned by the prefect so please take them off my account”
Statutory Off Road Notification from 1856 years ago - @BLMedieval Papyrus 328
bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu…
#SORN #TaxReturns #TuesdayMorning in 163 AD pic.twitter.com/BH94fGroJj
@OpinionatedGeek @johngirvin Ain’t no Docker here. That’s only on the Big Mac…
So, have had to resort to a Time Machine restore just to break the cycle of reboot/auto-install/not-enough-space/reboot. And apparently 50GB is not enough free space to upgrade to #macOS #Catalina. Hrm.
@OpinionatedGeek This is, of course, the sacrificial Mac that runs ahead of my actual do-work-all-day machine to spot what problems I might encounter when I upgrade. *Usually* it feels a bit unnecessary…
@johngirvin @OpinionatedGeek Well indeed. Am going to delete as much cruft as I can find, take another Time Machine backup to be on the safe side, then take another run at it. But really, with 50GB+ free in the first place, I do wonder if there’s something more going on…
@OpinionatedGeek I have successfully restored from a Time Machine backup, to break the reboot-install-not-enough-space-reboot loop. I have 50 (count ‘em) GB free on this Mac. You’d have thought that would be enough for an OS upgrade… (It’s the minimum spec MacBook Pro, so only a 250GB drive)
@sql_williamd @MladenPrajdic Please, some of us are trying desperately not to find out.
daynamcalpine_ a girl in the coffee shop i’m working from has just said to her friend ‘imagine a hot veg smoothie’ and i’m wondering how to break it to her that soup exists
atimalui This is our @algoface 209 point Facial Landmark Tracker, and it actually works on my face! Face #AR notoriously has a #RacialBias and #GenderBias problem that means my face “cannot be detected” — not an issue here! #Inclusive #AR #AI #ComputerVision #Bias #FacialRecognition pic.twitter.com/7WvAoZpWZz
@UrsulaWJ One of my favourite things about Amsterdam was the street cleaners using proper old-fashioned besoms. alamy.com/stock-photo-st…
BBCRadio4 “The best recipe for being a writer is being a little out of place everywhere. ”
11 things we learned from @Lin_Manuel Miranda’s Desert Island Discs.
bbc.in/2ALbrnU
@tapbot_paul Excellent. Stockpile enough to skip the first few years of smart bulbs, that’s my advice :D
@tapbot_paul Hell yeah. Skip those first few years of flickery, expensive CFL low-energy bulbs that take five minutes to warm up and poke out of the end of your lampshades. Sure, they say on the *packet* that they’re just as good as old-school tungsten…
Surprised wood-burner. pic.twitter.com/kAXnRpwJAC
therealfitz This… this isn’t what reverse engineering means at all. twitter.com/mashable/statu…
@rhodri 🎼Oooh, Jeremy Clarkson…
@Bristolvor You are my inspiration. pic.twitter.com/nqaoqnF3L0
sharonodea I’ve just spotted this gem in the government’s Brexit guidance. Are they saying you’ll need to get an ATA Carnet to take your work laptop or a microphone to EU countries for business? pic.twitter.com/GRaCxZ94kt
@MLE_Online Is the video an animated explanation of their cookie policy and an invitation to sign up for the newsletter?
@cfinnecy @JimMFelton Is anyone sure they hadn’t? If I’d been sent to Work Experience there I’d deffo have replaced the entire editorial department with ten lines of Python and fucked off to the pub for the rest of the fortnight.
QaunChi Losing my MIND at this response from my dentist I thought was a robot pic.twitter.com/3S25bWKxUb
Apply cam hype (anag.) pic.twitter.com/xFFI7ppE6U
@mhoulden It’s about equal in frequency with “BUT BUT THEY DIDN’T EVEN VOTE” from people who don’t know about pairing, or that their MP was seriously ill for six months…
Ersatz/Remnant pic.twitter.com/SDqWm450NM
Hurrah! The scaffolding is gone at last and I’ve had a chance to do some washing and sweeping in addition to the new fence panels. Serenity is restored. pic.twitter.com/lQ63KbobUL
@Gary_Bainbridge @mrdavidwhitley Odd, innit? Feels very grown up, yet requires virtually no skill. And maybe there’s a bit of satisfaction in seeing the back of something.
ptychomancer I’m already a useless machine with a skeleton inside pic.twitter.com/XfSvK26HTf
louistheroux Permission granted. twitter.com/jamiegr3134787…
@KatiePuckrik @indiaknight So they’re basically leather jackdaws?