In the UK we call that a "Ratner moment".
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In the UK we call that a "Ratner moment".
It's that time of year. We popped out this evening to collect this lot, will get some more tomorrow since a neighbour lent us their fruit picker.
Oh wow, I had no idea. It's running here right now!
I haven't written any Pascal in 40 years. What is it?
Bezel-tastic!
It's been a while since I used it. What about TightVNC/xtightvncviewer?
NOPE!
You'll never defeat Thargoids or Thargons at that speed :)
^d every time.
Cute as anything, done!
Promising, but it purports to be PCRE yet doesn't seem to support positive/negative lookahead/behind assertions ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not been there for ages, could be up for this one.
I don't tend to use VNC from my Linux machines but the last time I did I think I used RealVNC. Is it no good these days?
Does anyone remember synergy, originally for Linux, the little application that allowed you to share a keyboard and mouse over the network? It still exists but good grief, it's as corporatively shit as it could be now. Are there any alternatives? I want to remotely control a Windows laptop.
Does this mean I can put the fire on? I miss the fire!
Same here, MACH 2 takes up the largest percentage due to the laserdisk, not the greatest game of course but it's one I loved from back then. My issue is all the PS1/2/PSP games I either owned or like playing, you're right with too much choice!
Maintaining them is a chore. I've spent more time sorting out romsets for various platforms than playing the games. My emulation directory is over 360gig.
I did wonder if I'd get bored of pizza after a while, but I haven't yet. We had a friend over one night, he was so convinced he bought one himself! I imagine naans would be amazing from it.
Yes, although like you allude to you're a little limited with headroom. The pizza is amazing though, just like from a wood fired oven, we'll never buy a pizza again. It's electric so lives on a kitchen counter, no messing with gas, wood or pellets.
I bought a pizza oven in May, one of the best things I've ever bought.
I have no beef with him. Nice shirt though.
Did you take the train (overnighter?) or fly down? I'd love to do the The Caledonian Sleeper but it's both rather expensive for two and not quite long enough.
I'll hit 200k probably next year (Land Cruiser 100TD), although it did have a new short engine just before I bought it at about 155k so realistically it's at 43k or something.
Free ball!
Nice work!
He was extremely handy with an airbrush.
Good effort, but it was for 16K Spectrums too :)
Wishing people dead is of course not good, but one does reap what they sow.
The problem is it was done in the first place. Despicable acts.
Except he won't. Someone else can, though.
Love it, Right on Commander!
I bet it's noisy when that poor little girl tries to ride her bike.
Not a bean.
Also software developers on a Monday morning.
I can't reply to this post but I'd like a Metroidvaniaslug Street Fighter II.
So are his legs.
We're out of sesame seeds too. Need to do a shop!
We do a great crispy chilli garlic chicken which looks similar, but no spring onion garnish? :)
They love it!
Didn't apply much science there then!
I have a couple of rolls of 110 film inside two really old Kodak Ektra 90s to finish off. Looking forward to tiny, grainy prints.
What jurisdiction do they have then? The world has gone mad.
Err, that's EXACTLY what my posts did. You just dismissed them as "crappy conspiracies". What on earth, if you'll excuse the pun, was my "conspiracy"? Telling the truth? The truth is "negativity"? Have a holiday.
Might be CPU bound, someone will have to check the logs :)
Because "this type of post" is clickbait and simply not true. Earth's night sky never looked like this.
It's not me making the assertion that the night sky looked like this "once", so the burden of proof would be on you. How long an exposure do you think it'd take to get that photo? I really don't get why people will blindly believe made-up stuff like this on the internet.
No there wasn't.
There wasn't.
I love it.
I feel seen.
Fully warranted. I'm resigned and will just do my best, not much more I can do.
The word "bubble" springs to mind. beenthere.com, donethat.com.
I feel that pain. Mostly because of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's so-called "mini budget" that fucked everyone up. Banks closed mortgage applications entirely for weeks because of the economical uncertainty, and when they came back, were up by 5%.
We seem to live on a training flight path, we get Apaches and Chinooks at very low (<400ft) level weekly, mid-Beds.
Happy birthday!
Oh I love a Milky Bar, not had one in ages!
I'm looking forward to the punchline.
It's a Collie.
Two, poached, on toasted sourdough, covered in black pepper, and some hot sauce on the side. Around 9.30am, thanks!
I think I'll have to insist on the eggs.
Good call, I can wait.
Actually that's not too bad, it'd sate me for about 5 hours!
I could absolutely smash two weeks in a villa with a private pool in Paxos right now.
This is the stupidest, most irrelevant thing I've read in the last minute.
This is the stupidest thing I've read in the past hour. Most Danes read, write and speak at least two languages.
It also dropped VAT on ebooks in 2020, however most publishers just charged the same and kept it for themselves ...
It's 22C inside and I feel cold, I've put a jumper on!
I'm glad I don't know everything or I'd never watch a film again!
I can't even read the comments on that post, the doubling- and tripling-down is too depressing.
Later on in the film they're waiting for a signal on VHF yet they use a Yaesu FT-101ZD, which is of course HF only :D Perhaps there is a transverter hidden away. I have a high tolerance for this sort of thing, it's brain-out stuff.
pico8 is so much fun. I really must finish the 2600 conversions I started ages ago.
This is really weird.
When I woke up this morning I noticed some 'stuff' on the floor next to the cat bed. Upon closer inspection it looked like 4-5 rather large spider legs, some were over 3 inches long! I think the cat must have eaten it overnight, grim. How long has that been in the bedroom?!
This is a composite.
'e' and 'r' being next to eachother is a right pain if you typo when using crontab(1).
Hope you're all stocked up and pumped out!
That was the year I first got internet access. I looked after the website for my department at BRE on VMS, then via a SLIP connection from my A1200 with Online Entertainment where you had to pay per minute :)
Who knows, or dares to dream?!
Also, it must have been great to be mortgage-free at 40! Different times.
Who didn't? :)
I watch him too, very informative. We have friends that live on one, and my brother lived on one for about 10 years. What we're after is something quite large which will negate the use of some canals. We're not planning on cruising all of them though, just around the Rivers Lea and Stort.
Here's Seamus, following us around while we foraged in the field out back earlier.
There was a covenant on our old place that also said no chickens, weird isn't it. We just picked some apples today for a crumble, got some pears and blackberries too. Steam engines though, that's REALLY harsh :)
One of the best (or the best?) looking 8 bit micros ever.
It will be harder, especially things you take for granted like parking the car (or bike!), but would enable us to save significantly faster since outgoings would be about 25% of what they are now. Fortunately we like the outdoors and nature.
I'm the same in the UK. Got a fair bit in savings but that isn't enough unless we want to move further afield (can't because of work), and it will be harder for me to find work (IT) as I get older if I need to. Seriously considering buying a massive widebeam canal boat instead.
I'd be getting legal on whoever made that video's arse.
We've just been up the field out back and got black berries.
Bet it smells lovely in that room.
Haha!
I'd forgotten about this sort of thing until I saw the spectogram on foobar2000. Aphex Twin's Formula/Equation (not its actual title) on the Windowlicker EP.
Adorable.
Yes agreed. Car ownership isn't cheap anymore :( I'm amazed the tax is so expensive - £100 more than my 4.2TD Land Cruiser, that's crazy!
Oh cool, I heard that loads! Excellent.
I think they get fed by tourists at Arthur's Pass, not good, we watched one strip the rubber away from someone's hire car's side window while we were there!
Don't think I saw a morepork, I might have heard one but wouldn't have recognised it. It really is a different world over there.
They're so tame around Arthur's Pass, they sat on the roof of the car, got some fun photos of them. Near Aoraki/Mt Cook you can see them flying around, great to see and hear.
Kea, Tūī (copy pasted that), some kind of albatross over the Foveaux Straight on the way to Stewart Island, but I heard Kiwi under and around the Camphouse on the side of Taranaki one night. It was like being on another planet, everything was completely different.
I would be utterly traumatised! NZ is good for birds, I'd never really been interested in birds until I went there and saw some different things.
Shame. Is it worth getting a quote if it'll last another few years, or is it too far gone?