In the latest , there's a certain irony to the juxtaposition of item 5 -- “The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.” – Mark Twain -- and item 2 -- "Giant container ships are just as responsible for pollution as cars". How hard would it have been to check? For example, BBC Radio 4's More or Less
A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
Going back to Firefox to see whether the new Omnibear works as well as I hope (and because Chrome really no longer suits my paranoia.
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The one thing worse than no hotel WiFi is flaky hotel WiFi. Just as you think you might be able to get something useful done, BAM!, it pulls the rug out from under you.
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@jeremycherfas This comic perfectly captures the feeling to me. theoatmeal.com/comics/no...
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@jeremycherfas made me think of the Peanut cartoon where Lucy pulls the football away as Charlie Brown is about to kick it. She promises she will not do it again and of course she does. You are Charlie Brown and Lucy is the wifi
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@MrHenko That’s about the size of it, yes. Not quite so much rage.
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@klandwehr There’s a procedure in operant conditioning psychology called intermittent reinforcement which creates even stronger behaviour patterns. If Lucy vet occasionally, and randomly, allowed Charlie Brown actually to kick the ball, he would be even more in thrall to her. That’s me and the WiFi.
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Had an amazing nine-course tasting menu last night at The Edinburgh Food Studio. Photos would have ruined the experience. From the single radish to begin to the dram of Old Perth 1996 to finish it was a delight for eyes, nose and mouth. Superb all round.
The lack of threading at micro.blog saves me a lot of time in the morning. Time that I then spend going to my site to write this because posting on iOS is broken for me and the error message offers not even the slightest clue.
Next stop, Edinburgh 🛫🎧
I wonder how easy it is to count the corpses of yeast and lactobacillus cells in a baked loaf?
https://www.sourdough.co.uk/can-real-sourdough-identified/
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Is there any way to get more helpful diagnostic information out of iOS app when it fails to post? Error Sending Post doesn't help much.
Also, why don’t @mentions from the OSX app give clickable links?
I was going to recommend @lioncourt for Micro Monday, but I’m making a last minute switch to @belle for her open explanation of an accident that could have happened to any of us.
Well, not me, because I'm not a developer, but, you know.
Listened to the first episode of Bundyville, because it was on 99PI. Instant subscribe. Very fine narrative podcast about an important subject.
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@jeremycherfas Found the link to Bundyville on my own, read the interesting text. And subscribed. Thank you for sharing this podcast!
, Aug 30 2018 on micro.blog
@kulturnation Glad you found it interesting. Not easy for me to add the link, as I only had the 99pi one at the time.
, Aug 30 2018 on micro.blog
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