griffinkate Why wasn’t the barber shop wearing high-viz so the bus driver could see it more easily? Maybe both driver AND shop need some training in how to share the road. twitter.com/FinalBullet/st…
@fourfoot @MoroneyAl Tough one, given that the Janitor clearly believes everyone *else* in Scrubs is an ancillary.
At this point, I think the chances of Google marking an Android API call as deprecated while you’re typing a function that uses it are quite high.
For some reason, @GreatDismal, I find myself having a marmite and cucumber sandwich for lunch.
Avon_Stories This is devastating - the Chocolate Path was a major traffic-free commute/lovely walk/access to nature/historical site, and @BristolCouncil absolutely knew the risks in not repairing it twitter.com/chocpath/statu…
cgpgrey Latest video: Resolutions vs Themes. 🌈
youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFd…
Here’s a few shots to remind Bristol what it’s been missing since the Chocolate Path was closed, back in 2017 🙁 pic.twitter.com/w2Lj464ZtV
Now *there’s* a good application of super-powered anthropomorphic AI. questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic… (attn. @Bingo_Little)
jetbrains Introducing JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers. Simple forms and attention to every detail make code easier to read, no matter what IDE you use. Take a look at what makes it unique, your eyes will thank youjb.gg/wert6rD#JetBrainsMononpic.twitter.com/ddgxgch4rnrn
In today’s edition of Most Annoying Voices, we present one person’s attempt at the world record for Most Complicated Enquiry Ever Made About Something Quite Simple, live from Bristol Central Library. Join us after the commercial break for hours three to five of this event.
beardedjourno This is the current state of a stretch of the chocolate path after part of the Cumberland Road wall collapsed into the new cut last night. More than £9m has already been allocated to repairs and maintenance of the wall and chocolate path by Bristol’s cabinet. pic.twitter.com/ncCSR2wuYh
PaulEkman Do you get nervous during social interactions and worry about whether other people will like you? Recent research looks at how people with social anxiety are more likely to perceive nonverbal cues from others as negative (even when they aren’t): ow.ly/93tt50xLYvj
Now that is an attractive hardback. @GreatDismal @_pigeons_ pic.twitter.com/pnhQ884cm3
barstoolsports Give this guy all of the awards. Every single one of them. pic.twitter.com/frW0EDMyTJ
I wonder if it’s possible to use GoodReads to work out if anyone at GoodReads has ever read a book about UX design…
CarcassonneApp With a heavy heart we have to announce that our rendition of Carcassonne will no longer be available for purchase as of **March 1st 2020**. It will be available at a 50% discount until then, and online games will continue to run after that.
Details: blog.codingmonkeys.de/posts/2020/01/…
Homeward bound. pic.twitter.com/QQOJTVHCNI
I had no idea that the simplest of automatic rice cookers is a feat of genius mechanical engineering and uses the Curie temperature of a magnetic alloy to do its job… twitter.com/theloop/status…
daringfireball Which Emoji Scissors Close: daringfireball.net/linked/2020/01…
@_pigeons_ At that point only a downpour, a sabotaged bus, a field with a raging bull, a fainting fit and a death threat.
Avon night. pic.twitter.com/VAHjcoUMWv
The first episode of the new series of Father Brown is reminding me somewhat of what happens when @_pigeons_ suggests we just pop out for a quick easy walk somewhere.
@thegarygraham Computer programmer. Computer programmer. This may, however, have been a mistake.
Royal York slice. pic.twitter.com/kxdzWlKBRw
Ah yes, Clifton, as @_pigeons_ observed at the time, the only place in Bristol where a dude in an AC Cobra could get immediately out-carred… pic.twitter.com/p7OVUlwAVm
It was all full up this morning. pic.twitter.com/btG7MHHZ5z
Entrance lock to Dundry pic.twitter.com/nSq1MwBToU
The adventure continues. pic.twitter.com/OMla3XQ3hf
roobeekeane if you’re ever feeling sad just remember that the Old English word for squirrel is ‘Acweorna’ which translates as ‘oak botherer’
@setvayajan @roobeekeane My favourite is that the charmingly-named wheatear is a cleaned-up derivation from “white arse”. pic.twitter.com/bC64RZkLCM
@benjohnbarnes @_pigeons_ (If you want to have a look, clone github.com/gothick/pyvent… and then “python3 main.py”)
@benjohnbarnes @_pigeons_ I’m writing one. Though it is very small at the moment, and does not do very much. But it’s a way of learning Python :D
Coding. I blame @_pigeons_. pic.twitter.com/YdnIBsekJW
@chubbybannister Mine comes next month. Really looking forward to it. Sigh.
When did 90% of the wallets on sale become “RFID blocking”?
@MakingBlakes7 I always did love the very rarely-spotted Brave Vila, on his only-in-extremis outings.
Photographer Noah Kalina Has Shot a Selfie Every Day for 20 Years Now youtube.com/watch?v=wAIZ36… petapixel.com/2020/01/13/pho…
comedylopez Witnessed the most amazing thing on the train to Edinburgh yesterday. A guy boarded in Wigan & sat opposite me. He went to sleep for an hour.
When he woke up he bought a sandwich, ate it & went back to sleep. (This isn’t a maths test, you don’t need to know the distance/speed).
@WTF4Law Curses. Am rather committed to being in a pub. #FirstWorldProblems
WTF4Law @gothick There’s also a penumbral lunar eclipse that’s just started, should be peaking around 1900h.
Pop outside and see if you can see the moon right now. It looks ENORMOUS from Clifton.
I see Python has deftly solved the “you forgot a semicolon” problem by replacing it with the “you forgot a colon” problem.
@Bristolvor I do. Mine too, and I’ve definitely heard of the batteries starting to fade by this point. I haven’t used mine so much as I’ve been working from home lots.
@Bristolvor Don’t know what to suggest if yours are definitely discharging differently when they both start at 100%. (Mine are old enough that if they started doing that I’d start saving for a new pair!)
@Bristolvor I had that. I used a Q-Tip to clean the bottoms of the long holes in the case where you drop them in and also cleaned the corresponding metal contacts around the bottoms of the AirPods. Fixed it for me, so I reckon one of them was sometimes just not getting fully charged.
paullaity “It may well be utopia or bust.” Terrific review by @Dorianlynskey of @danielsusskind gu.com/p/d2zqy/stw
@UrsulaWJ Glad I’m not alone! The one thing I have to avoid is ending up sitting lopsided if I switch back to a back-wallet pocket and it gradually expands to the size of a housebrick…
I think I may move back to a non-minimalist wallet for the first time in years. The little slim ones I generally love basically turn the new polymer banknotes into spring-loaded confetti.
@chubbybannister @Bristolvor Hurrah!
@chubbybannister @Bristolvor BEH also v. close to normal A&E and a walk-in, if that one in Boots Broadmead is still there.
@chubbybannister I would probably start at the eye hospital, if they have any kind of walk-in. They’re fab and I’m sure you can find out fairly quickly if you should be there or not.
Damn it. I’d missed the news that Google Cloud Print is being killed off. (Thanks for the tip, @hotdogsladies, sad though it made me…) ww.9to5google.com/1:bIS0dIN6Mz85…
@djelibeybi_meg Thanks!
@dangusset @simon_sellars @Hollingsville I promise I will actually read the piece, but the 1970s kid in me just wants to say I HAD A SONIC EAR JUST LIKE THAT ONE IN THE PICTURE
royvanrijn You’ve got to be shitting me…
One of our office chairs turns off monitors… we couldn’t believe it, but we have it on tape.
Surprisingly, there even is a known issue for it:
support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/… pic.twitter.com/E57ApzR0Mi
Bloggity blog: Favourite photo of the month, 2019. gothick.org.uk/2020/01/02/fav…
@mikeysmith @robsmallshire (It’s somewhat telling that thirty years since I last played Elite regularly, I’m looking at the stamp wondering why on earth the commander here is shooting randomly into space while completely stationary and within the Coriolis station’s protective zone 😃)
@mikeysmith @robsmallshire It was Elite that cemented my interest in computing at an early age. And Lemmings, among many other things, that later ensured I didn’t get the best of Computer Science degree results! 😆
mikeysmith Royal Mail are issuing stamps with Sensible Soccer, Lemmings, Elite and Dizzy on them.
That’s basically my entire childhood. pic.twitter.com/wsHbv1FPlr
@UrsulaWJ No, thank Thor and all other Scaffoldy Gods of Nuisance and Thunder.
Gosh, don’t scaffolders work quietly? SHOUTED NOBODY EVER AT THE TOP OF THEIR SWEARY VOICE
// TODO: Work out what I was gibbering on about when I wrote the above TODO
#programmerproblems
Nick_Pettigrew The best cure for a persistent cough is to stop drinking milk. My elderly neighbour had a hacking cough for months but since he started leaving his milk on his doorstep a couple of weeks ago, it seems to have cleared up completely.
@Kavey I’m not convinced WarGames is much better…
melisscaru Okay! FOR REASONS, here’s a thread on the challenges and advantages I’ve faced as a female swordfighter, since fantasy often gets this wrong.
First thing I’m going to do is a pivot: it’s not actually about gender at all.
trevorbaxendale RIGHT. Weapons and equipment of #TheProfessionals - if you’re interested in the guns, watches and comms used by your favourite CI5 operatives then this is the thread for you. Let’s go! pic.twitter.com/yA1zxsT1Cx
irljeangrey this is the life i’m trying to live pic.twitter.com/vaBDKnP5Fd
@EmmaisaChampion I haven’t heard of Coachella. I imagine that makes my age roughly “dead”.
CharlieDinkin If you’re feeling worried about how little you’ve achieved, remember that Bram Stoker didn’t write Dracula until he was 50, and Dracula didn’t kill anyone until he was dead.
@ricgalbraith Tip: the latest episode of @escapepodcast was fab.
CatstreyDave To kill a French Vampire you need to drive a baguette through its heart. Sounds easy but the process is painstaking.