Weird, though-are they better over here? I thought it was pretty standard fast food in the States, and priced accordingly; here it has a bit of cachet.

Is 5 guys not that good, then? We were out a few weeks ago and bang in the middle of Gourmet Burger Kitchen and 5 Guys, and we just plumped for the Gourmet Burger Kitchen more out of chance than anything as we had previously never been to either. On balance, was that the better of the two?

Is 5 guys not that good, then? We were out a few weeks ago and bang in the middle of Gourmet Burger Kitchen and 5 Guys, and we just plumped for the Gourmet Burger Kitchen more out of chance than anything as we had previously never been to either. On balance, was that the better of the two?

Is the shock seeing you doing manual labour?

In the US, it's pitched as "a good deal better than McDonalds, and a little more expensive." Which is a fair description, I think (I really like their burgers, although I prefer In-N-Out.) Here, they've taken the same food and service and priced it on par with a gastropub or GBK or Byron, which feels a little off to me. Presumably they did market research and concluded there's no room for a £5 and they couldn't come downmarket so they went upmarket instead. Seems to be working for them, based on the expansion.

Is the shock seeing you doing manual labour?

Did Douglas Get It Right?

Fri, 20 Mar 15

Duration:
29 mins

Douglas Adams made a radio series in 2000 offering a vision of the future that new technology would offer. He looked at the fast changing music scene, the coming of e-books, the future for broadcasting and made his predictions for what he described as 'extreme evolution'. But did he get it right? The radio series was called 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future', and 15 years after its first broadcast we hear the voice of Douglas Adams, a passionate advocate for technology, once again.

Germanwings crash: Search crews find DNA from 78 victims

Fucking gale force winds. I hate them. They have a habit of blowing tiles off my roof.

Apropos of business stuff, how does the factory floor know of things long before I do?

A) Reception or the factory floor is the one place where everyone passes through at one time or another during an average day, and things get overhead and gossiped about more readily.

B) I buy the staff on reception frequent gifts.

I hate decorating. I just knelt in the paint tray.

Not content with landing £1 million on EuroMillions in 2013, North Lincolnshire residents David and Kathleen Long continued to enter the game and were rewarded for a second time in last week’s Mega Friday draw, when they matched one of the ten Millionaire Maker codes.

Kernow, Day 4: Old Man Afterthought calls us into the garage to watch the electricity meter run backwards due to his purchase of PV cells. For the fourth day running.

I did mean to watch this if only because I can't remember all their names.

I did mean to watch this if only because I can't remember all their names.

I think I'll enjoy it.

This weekend I was forcefully reminded of why I hate PC gaming. I tried to get Baldur’s Gate working on the modern laptop ( my old desktop I sued to use got recycled), and wasted several hours on the attempt. The reason for trying was that I fancied some old school RPG goodness but “can you run it” says “NO” to Pillars of Eternity, due to my Intel HD 4000 graphics adapter.

Running stuff that old is always going to be hit and miss though; it's 17 years old to be fair. There is an Enhanced Edition that was released in 2012 which you'd probably have more luck with though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s ... ed_Edition

Running stuff that old is always going to be hit and miss though; it's 17 years old to be fair. There is an Enhanced Edition that was released in 2012 which you'd probably have more luck with though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s ... ed_Edition

Yeah, true. I'm not paying £30 to rebuy games I already own, though.

And this was after applying all the recommended BG mods and fixes as well...

In contrast, I got Mechcommander Gold and Dungeon Keeper 2 working perfectly!

It's actually only £14 from GoG and, aside from the enhanced engine, it's got an expansion pack and a load of new content in which doesn't seem unreasonably priced.

Or, as Findus Fop points out, pay £7 for the original version updated to work on newer platforms (with your money back if it doesn't).