Alan Bellingham

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2024-08-17 11:31:23

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I built OpenSSL 3 this week, and that requires Perl in the tool chain

2024-08-12 06:57:42

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@npub1psd…9sr7 You did finish above Seanan for this one

2024-08-07 21:08:48

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Last time I was in there, I was trying to explain to a French lady what Sauerkraut is
In the end, I described it as like choucroute. Given she's from Nice, I'm sort of surprised she'd heard of that

2024-05-28 11:54:20

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Yeah. There were reasons that he was respected enough to get a Nobel, but it's a shame that some of his views could have done with re-examination

2024-05-28 11:47:51

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@npub1psd…9sr7 "There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, / And every single one of them is right."
Kipling, "In the Neolithic Age"

2024-05-25 13:56:30

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@npub1vs8…54zy As far as I'm concerned, XCode is the component we rely on that arbitrarily breaks at random intervals, having decided to do an unrequested update
Why yes, it's Qt and CLion we use, but XCode underneath

2024-05-24 10:00:03

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@npub1vs8…54zy As far as we're concerned, it was the best this series so far. We were deeply unimpressed by Space Babies, and the end of the second episode seemed gratuitously self indulgent

2024-05-11 09:35:01

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@npub1vs8…54zy The geomagnetic pole is nearly 10 degrees down Canada, and AFAIK that's the one that matters for aurorae

2024-05-11 08:39:47

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@npub1vs8…54zy There's also the fact that the North magnetic pole is a way from the geographic North pole. Albuquerque is closer to it than Barcelona is

2024-04-13 16:41:41

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@npub1psd…9sr7 We don't have a Miele washer, but the fridge and the freezer are theirs

2024-03-06 16:24:51

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Good for her. That was a particularly unflattering picture that was shown initially, with others showing a much better look

2024-03-06 09:50:16

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I'm a few years ahead of you, and for me it was my right arm. It started hurting about this time last year, and I eventually went to the physio for a checkup.
It's just about stopped hurting, but the best part of a year has been a pain. Still no idea what caused it, but healing is a very slow process compared to one's teens and twenties

2024-02-02 23:12:45

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@npub1psd…9sr7 FWIW I'm currently playing Baldur's Gate 3, as a Githyanki. One of the other current members of the party is Lae'zel, also a Githyanki, and we all have Illithid tadpoles in our brains
Why yes, it's part of the game that you can end up having sex with each other

2024-01-16 22:52:10

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@npub1psd…9sr7 If they're not already wearing a mask, it's sadly rather too late: if they're breathing out the virus, the room will already be full of it
Previous patients are another problem

2024-01-15 11:47:08

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I got to go on the Portsmouth to IoW one once. One way, as the weather was too rough for it to run in the opposite direction so I had to take the ferry
I also did some hovercraft racing one time. They're a bugger to control as with no wheels, wings or keel, they carry on in the same direction until you've pushed enough thrust in the correct direction to compensate. Huge fun though

2024-01-14 14:42:25

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub14y2…vm8x 7 pills a day for me, which is only three prescriptions

2023-12-27 12:18:09

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@npub1psd…9sr7 FWIW my Instant Pot is already an Air Fryer. And a Sous Vide

2023-12-19 15:22:32

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub18yl…pegw We used to have the F-111s out of Upper Heyford climb out over us. Yeah, supersonic nuclear-bomb-capable F-111s, surely not a first strike target

2023-12-11 13:34:25

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub16sq…6p8f A main road in the middle of a city at that. If we lived there, we wouldn't let our cats roam either

2023-12-11 11:48:51

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub16sq…6p8f Also Menhit isn't allowed all the way down to go collect them

2023-12-09 11:54:07

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1ktc…5seh We can buy a lot of umbrellas for that price difference!
(Even allowing for the wind destroying one a day)

2023-12-09 11:48:26

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1ktc…5seh I presume it's a suite so that meetings work. And yeah, I'm seeing £270+ a night for the one suite option that's not sold out
Us? We're booked into the Premier Inn across the river, at least until the staff tranche at the CP is released

2023-11-24 11:58:48

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1nvy…p2ev I was at the Eastercon in Liverpool in 1988 - my first Eastercon and only my second con at all - and somehow I ended up buying this bearded guy a pint and he tried out some of the gags from Pyramids on me. I ended up finding a second hand copy of Carpet People on one of the stands and getting him to autograph it

2023-11-13 17:59:28

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I'll do that. Coming home by train would be interesting (as in, you can get from Sicily to the Italian mainland by a train that fits on a ship), but it would take days longer
And I have an appointment at Addenbrookes on the Tuesday morning, for which today's MRI was preparation

2023-11-13 14:20:21

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@npub1psd…9sr7 We're off to Palermo on Friday, and I guess I'll have to pack extra meds too, in case. I'm not used to daily pills

2023-11-07 09:44:55

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1q7l…eyct Or the Royal Papworth as it is now named
(It also moved down to Cambridge a few years ago. So sorry Half Man Half Biscuit)

2023-11-06 19:15:39

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1jvn…uj7g Not LG here but Toshiba Cosmos 65", and we use it entirely as a dumb TV. It's got WiFi and Ethernet settings, but the former isn't turned on, and the latter isn't connected
It's 2021 vintage, and it's an Android TV if you want those bells and whistles, but we don't use them

2023-09-29 11:16:04

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@npub1vs8…54zy Ooo, is your apartment in one of those big hollow blocks that dominate the centre, with the chamfered corners?

2023-09-27 21:00:35

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1j0f…wj55 Older than me too, though herself is eligible by age

2023-09-27 14:33:04

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I've just spent a happy half hour looking at the Framework 13 part replacement guides. There's a lot of repetition of course, with page after page having the same guide to getting the covers off and back on, but hey, copy/paste rules
(My 16 should be early next year)

2023-09-27 10:49:57

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1j0f…wj55 75? It looked to me there that it was 65, which would match England

2023-09-27 10:46:13

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@npub1psd…9sr7 NHS England also didn't make it particularly clear, but booked for the COVID jab on Friday once I realised that my newly diagnosed diabetes qualified me for it
I'm booked for a flu jab on Saturday, but if the COVID centre wants to give me that on Friday, I'm quite happy to have it then instead

2023-09-13 20:00:37

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@npub1jc0…sldg 6 different ports, or two of each of 3 different ports?

2023-09-13 11:42:00

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@npub1psd…9sr7 We stayed in Hamburg once (passing through by train to Stockholm). The place we stayed was the Mövenpick, which is a massive converted water tower
https://movenpick.accor.com/en/europe/germany/hamburg/hotel-hamburg.html

2023-09-13 08:36:59

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I was looking at the lightning map last night, and it was pretty intense over Luxembourg at the time. I guess it was moving East at the time and got to you

2023-08-18 18:25:28

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1vfg…yddn Yes, they are. On the other hand, they can recognise superior force. I've seen a whole herd of hippos decamp into the water from a lake bank where they'd been sunning themselves when a particular bull elephant took a dislike to them
Said elephant had form - he'd killed two other elephants, and hippos are a lot smaller

2023-08-08 14:11:25

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub18yl…pegw My first Eastercon wasn't until 1988, so it wasn't till then that I ended up drinking with him
Terry did like his conventions

2023-08-02 11:04:35

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1y96…6e57 A character in the US TV series What We Do In The Shadows, which is a mockumentary about a household of vampires
There are various paranormal types
It's founded on the NZ film of the same name which was set in Wellington.

2023-07-05 15:50:23

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Hah. Our nearest royal palace is within 200 metres
Granted, it was yon James VI of Scotland who used it, and it's been a few centuries since the sedan chair racers frequented the street outside

2023-06-14 14:34:01

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1a48…wfsc When I worked for Sinclair Research, there was a story that they wanted to make a computer that wasn't black. And they got a fair distance before Uncle Clive says "Let's see what it would look like in black"
And lo, it was released as black