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An interesting psychology of restaurant menus is when they use the term ‘house made’ for an item. My assumption then is that all the other items came from the Sysco truck and will …

I think it’s the distance by boat to the nearest dock, not as the seagull flies

I grew up in that area and went to school with a member of the family that owned Thorne Island at the time. There are times of the year that access is not possible at all due to we…

Ah, JANET - so many default passwords, so little time to log into them all!

I have 2 measurable ones on Zepbound. My lowest sleeping heart rate is now at least 10 beats higher than before starting (it comes down during the week to about 10 over) The night …

The real story of the whole of the MIT blackjack team is quite something. When you ask someone if they’re still allowed to play in this casino and they reply with “if I use my real…

The MIT blackjack team from 1979 onwards played with many, many players to make real money in Vegas. Not everything was in the movie!

If I could have got a steady hand with tweezers, I could easily have been a surgeon. Real patients probably don’t have noses that light up, which reduces distractions too!

In the 80s, Sam Smith pubs had a ‘25 pubs in London’ challenge. Get a drink in each of the 25 and get a T-shirt. It took me and a friend several weeks. There was a story of some gu…

Ha! I went to a British polytechnic. There wasn’t a lot of very practical degrees ( there were some though), but there was a lot of hands on computer work in my Computer and Commun…

I have a $4500 LG OLED thin TV that is 2 years old and broken The screen has had lines for a while, annoying, but not critical. Now there’s a power issue where it powers off in a f…

I used Btrieve a lot in several jobs in the UK in the late 80s and early 90s. It was fast and easy to work with, mostly I used the stand alone version, not the later NLM on the ser…

To be fair, I work in software, so I too am familiar with the whoosh of a deadline as it passes by, unmet. Although I don’t find it as hard as Douglas did with his writing, but the…

The chargers they showed at their first Mercedes location in Atlanta are 400kw split between 2 units. So 200kw each for 2 cars that can handle it, and balanced between the 2. Eg if…

I grew up in this area a long time ago - not quite 40,000 years. This is my local Norman castle! The obvious history you could see were the castles and walled towns. More recently,…

I have that exact setup for control, and there’s 1 thing I want to control, and that’s the start time of warming up in the morning depending on outside temp. It’s less efficient at…

There’s a room on the left and another on the right

When I first heard this used, my immediate thought was that it was a reference to the Uk brand of cigarette paper, Rizla, and clearly something to do with smoking pot Sadly, it’s a…

Appearing at a science fiction convention as a Steampunk character allows them to blend right in. I’ve seen hundreds of these travelers go by. Some with lighter dress have passed a…

My least favorite Sinclair computer game was Ram Pack Roulette for the ZX81. If you jiggle the 16k Ram pack, do you crash the computer and get to reload your work? It came free wit…

Twitter: -100; Mastodon: zero; Bluesky: 5,000 Yup, this could work

I think Azure has an internal a service just to generate 429 http response codes - they send us so many of them!

I worked at a bank in London over 30 years ago using Netware and Btrieve for database and MHS for email It may be the same bank! Although they were clearly heading towards a Micros…

William Woollard and I worked on a TV commercial in the early 80s. Him as the main talent and me as a very much in the background extra Met a hero, got a day off school and earned …