This evening’s Quorn chilli will be enlivened, and hopefully enhanced, by this sauce
I’m slightly dubious about chilli sauces with overly macho branding*, and I’m never quite sure how to use the for-cooking-only ones….so we’ll see what happens
- Psycho Juice is an exception because it’s good
#TodayILearned, from watching the TV quiz The Chase, that “Originally, rhinestones were rock crystals gathered from the river Rhine”….that had never occured to me before
Something I didn’t know…
Henry VIII’s disappointment with Anne of Cleves began when she failed to recognize him when he was in disguise, and they’d never met before.
Six wives | 4. Anne of Cleves - History Extra podcast
I google-ized ‘England fixtures’…and as well as tonight’s fixture it gave me a little summary about our national team.
All good…except for ‘Fight Songs’, for which it lists both Three Lions and the Take That song ‘Greatest Day’
Neither of these seems much like a ‘Fight Song’….and what’s that anyway?
" “Processing fee”, “service fee”, “delivery fee” – truly it has 100 ways of saying “because-we-can fee”. If that feels like you accepting a wage for your job, then charging your boss a supplementary “doing my job” fee each time you feel you’re doing your job … try it, see how you get on! "
Since I’ve seen a few posts about people using or not using Linux, I thought it might be time to explain my personal IT strategy.
It’s this.
Buy a cheap Windows laptop, and keep using it until it can’t run Windows any more.
Then install Linux
It won’t work for everybody, but it works for me.
I’ve been creating a page of podcast episodes I’ve liked
I’ve extracted all of those I’ve commented on on Mastodon
The photos in Salisbury railway station, and the Clock Tower
Took a picture of this to say how much I like the old photos that they’ve got at Salisbury railway station now
….but my inner smartarse can’t resist questioning the date on the caption. It says 1930, but the clock tower was built on top of the structure at the end of the bridge
This has some great photos and clipping about the clock
https://salisburyhealthcarehistory.uk/clock-tower/#lightbox[group-32051]/11/
…and this says it was built in the 1890s
www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/2346…
I’m sure there have been letters :)
In any case, the old photos are great
I asked Alexa to play the Sisters of Mercy this morning (yes….I’m an aged Goth, I guess), and got this
I quite like it, tbh
If I watch enough tech videos at 1.75 speed, will I start dreaming in 1.75 speed? 😟😟
I’m pleased for fans of Oasis, but it’s triggered a form of Fear of Missing Out
They’ve reminded me that I’m never going to have the excitement of seeing any of my favourite bands reform.
Not in this life anyway 🎵
I’m not much interested in the Oasis reunion from a musical point of view, but it would be nice if the Gallaghers are reconciled…especially for their mum
Ruddy Arsenal ⚽
I always enjoy the annual list of top 10 one-liners from the Edinburgh Festival…but none of them are as witty as Barack Obama’s physical comedy when talking about Trump’s “weird obsession with crowd size”
I’ve started watching the 2009 Day of the Triffids
I don’t know what I was expecting, exactly….but I’m finding it a bit grim
Disappointed to discover that my favourite ever sports commentator, Barry Davies, is Spurs….but impressed that I never twigged
Rock sages Mark Ellen and David Hepworth discuss musical plagiarism lawsuits in the attached
At one point I think Hepworth refers to ‘ambience-chasing lawyers’….which I think is genius.
I enjoyed the 1970s Death Race 2000
It’s Wacky Races meets Russ Meyer, with shades of the Running Man and the Hunger Games 📽️
Chelsea v Man City
Potential title decider, obviously ⚽😃
#Cfc #Ktbffh #MastodonFc
I maybe need to get this tattoo-ed on something prominent
“The road to programming hell is paved with “best practices” applied too early.”
Winning is the worst thing that can happen in Vegas – Signal v. Noise