Be Excellent To Each Other

Somewhat

I still think that something happens to people when they learn Java, they completely lose any ability they may have ever had to design UX.

We also want JavaScript, react redux, react native and kotlin.

So we aren't that picky

Technically, until last week, I was a full stack Java developer.

I won't deny that a couple of those smilies might have had fishhooks attached

Throw the tiddlers back, Cras.

Spent the weekend clearing out my mancave. I can now see the carpet for the first time in years and thrown a lot of stuff out.

I decided to download an app ('MyLibrary') to record all the books I've got on shelves or on piles on the floor. Took about four hours over two days to do and it turns out that I've got 676 books including 40 maps. Now downloaded the spreadsheet to my main PC to start weeding out duplicates and deciding which are worth keeping and which I probably should chuck.

Or I could just put up more shelves.

Gosh, that's quite the library

I probably had a about that before we jumped ship .... I felt very sad getting rid of half of it. Books are lovely.

I haven't worked out the proportion of American Civil War v British history v the whole of Fiction yet. I'm not sure I want to. This all, of course, excludes the stuff on the Kindle as that library all fits neatly into my manbag or (in three out of four seasons every year) my jacket pocket.

Also, bookshops who have their own cataloguing systems and stick a label over the standard ISBN barcode, forcing me to either enter it by hand from the copyright page or get sticky fingers trying to peel it off, are now clearly too organised for their own good.

This! E-books are great for travel but never feels or smells quite the same as the paper version.

Also, libraries are brilliant and being able to search the catalogue and request stuff, and, more importantly, renew directly from my phone is wonderful.

Brilliant!

Had dinner at the food court in Holland Village. Food was awesome and super cheap (like 3 quid). Rather surprisingly there were pints of tiger for 6 dollars! How the dick did I not find this place before? Also yummy food but whatevs.

Also today I have started reading hurrahforgin on Facebook and may love her a little bit.

Also also today Ruth’s sister has left her husband and rocked up at the house Ruth and the boys are staying at (they’re still in the UK obvs). Muchos stress and so forth.

All go in Lewis world today.

The main thing though is SIX DOLLARS A PINT. Jesus.

She used to follow me on twitter #claimtofame (til she got famous)

Yay for hot weather, open plan kitchen/lounge, and forgetting to take the bin out this morning.

Stinky.

You have a lot of cool followers, tbf.

It isn't bad.

Taking the ferry?

Nice shot.

You should consider yourself lucky: I've already ticked off most of the locations on this PDF of local American Civil War sites. I think Alabama model is the main museum now.

Ffs, the Soon to be ex Husband has turned up at the house to talk to Ruth’s Sister and there’s lots of shouting - Ruth’s in the house with the kids while Alice and Tom are outside, and Ruth’s somewhat worried. Have suggested she asks him to leave, threaten to call the police if he doesn’t and gets a neighbour to come round ASAP... they’re almost in the middle of nowhere. Fuckety fuck fuck fuck

Right, he’s calmed down and they’re talking calmly to each other. Jesus, wrong time to be the other side of the world.

Mermaid!

6 years ago today they stopped giving out new @Hotmail email addresses.

https://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?t=85523

Wonder if Hearthly will change his name to Valvey or something

In F1, the hoardings say "When you drive, never drink" (sponsored by Heineken).
What was wrong with "Don't drink and drive"? It's a much more pithy phrase, that flows a lot better. Is that phrase trademarked maybe?

That sounds more of a warning about spilling your coffee.

The message now is don't even have one. I think the "never" is supposed to emphasise that. Drink and drive has been around for ages and a lot of people take it to mean don't have more than two.

I've just spotted some proper reprobate wandering the streets of Liverpool. Dark hair, Julia Bradbury tattoo...

There, beneath the blue suburban skies.

There was some oik shouting at me from a car near lime Street. I was on my way to buy a new shirt. I do not feel I conveyed this.

If you were heading to Primark, you were going the wrong way

I now know....

Oops! Double post.

I finished work a bit earlier today to try to get stuff done. So far I've nipped to the shop on my way home and eaten a double caramel Magnum.

Sounds like some top stuff has been achieved if you ask me.

Does champagne go out of date?

It does! Takes a while though.

Would three years be okay?

OK, that’s it, I’ve lost the plot. I was about to get in the shower at 6.15am and I’m thinking about the calls I have to make today, with it being Monday, when I suddenly realise it’s Saturday.

And the reason I realised this is that I was thinking about why people don’t queue properly in the chippy any more, as it was chaos as usual, last night. But as I only go to the chippy on Fridays, today MUST be Saturday, right?

And then I was wide awake, so there was no point in going back to bed for a lie in.

Eejit.

Probably, but you can't be sure until you open it.

Should be. Depends on the champagne, but you can keep most for decades.

Warhead, as a chum of mine said recently “... and now my hips are getting to the point where I won’t be able to walk up the stairs to forget why I went up there”.

I have done fuck all today, it's been great.

I unlocked the "Advanced Middle Class" cheevo last night when I went to Proms in the Park. Sadly it was only the Bedford edition, but fortunatly they dragged a London orchestra up to play the actual music.

Leslie Garret did the singing, and she did fine except for saying "Brexit? What Brexit?" after Rule Britannia which was pointless and stupid. I'm not even sure what it means.

This thing just turned up today, two months after I ordered it:


It's absolutely fucking hilarious. I'm going to try and see if I can cover the eight miles to work on it.

What's the advertised range?

10-12 miles, from looking on reddit the lower end of that is easily achievable. I also only weigh 71kg, it's flat and I shouldn't be needing to stop/start all the time. The challenge is probably not so much battery life as getting there without falling off.

Sweet!

How does it work, thumb trigger?