Native wildlife on our Great British Currency?
Would never have happened in my day...
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Native wildlife on our Great British Currency?
Would never have happened in my day...
Having a cat is a great way to discover new & exciting key combinations.
Our cat once managed to hit the keys to rotate my desktop through 180⁰ !
Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm To: Byron Preiss Dear Byron, Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above). I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible. One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the way it is! There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense. Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay with
are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And 'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'. There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to "Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.
Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸
Time is an illusion.
Lunchtime - doubly so.
I used to like that sort of colour, but I doubt I'll go back to the fuschia.
Sorry, I'll get my coat ...
"Young Sherlock On The Buses" - now there's a mashup...
I misread that and thought you were trying to disappear!
A large tabby cat sitting on a piece of hardboard, looking up at the photographer. There are various lines marked on the hardboard, which has holes cut in it, and has been cut in two. There are various tools on the floor, and a marker pen by the cat's front right paw.
It's always good to have an assistant on a project ...
Screenshot of a LinkedIn post: "It seems that younger generations struggle with analog clocks; we need to help them." Below that a picture titled "commenting my code like" The picture shows an analogue clock. Instead of numbers at the hour positions, it has diagrams showing the clock hand positions for that hour.
Stolen from LinkedIn
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#Coding #Humour
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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Too much month left at the end of the money?
... and cave spiders?
Should be a legal requirement of *all* connected home tech.
We should have access to our own data to do with as we please.
And they call TV a "creative" industry ...
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Were they, perchance, from a certain Mrs Trellis in North Wales...?
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Is there also a plaque to his dog?
Oh, wait ...
A 3-panel Dilbert cartoon 1. Pointy-Haired-Boss (to Dilbert & Wally): MY LAPTOP COMPUTER IS LOCKED UP. CAN YOU HELP? 2. Dilbert (holding up & shaking something): REMEMBER YOU HAVE TO HOLD IT UPSIDE DOWN AND SHAKE IT TO REBOOT. PHB: OH, THAT'S RIGHT. 3. Wally (to Dilbert): I WONDER IF HE'LL EVER REALIZE WE GAVE HIM AN "ETCH-A-SKETCH."
Brains from Thunderbirds
Ooh - it looks like @danielmangum.com has a thing on posting to Bluesky from an ESP32:
blog.golioth.io/posting-to-b...
There'll be snow by the weekend ...
It's just having that as a starter.
Or, as the French would say:
horse d'oeuvres
All that spaghetti - so why the long face?
A tad over-specified but, for Daphne, ...
[remembers "good old days" when a Tweet could be generated by simple sending a text message]
If only there were also such a simple hack to avoid getting caught by all those evil speed cameras ...
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Looks like fun indeed!
What do you use as a microphone?
Never seen one down here.
Around here the blackbirds are really shouty when they see a cat about.
And there's the Red Kites ...
The skin is the best bit.
We used to fight over it as kids!
Windmills - absolute eyesores!
Just look at that field - ruined!
I'm sure @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social would love 'em!
A blue plastic tray of veg: A squash, some carrots, some parsnips and some potatoes.
In many ways...
