Finished my run tonight and discovered I’d forgotten to press ‘Start’ in Strava.
Some people have never experienced that feeling
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I meant to post this while it was actually a hit….but Kylie Minogue’s Padam Padam always reminded me of the bit in the Buzzcocks song Boredom when, I think, Pete Shelley goes ‘b-dum, b-dum’ 🎵
it’s at 1 minute 23
Haiku is terse verse
if the beatles used adele's naming system for their albums...
Adele has so far used her age as the title of her LPs. So, her LPs have been called:
- 19
- 21
- 25
Using Paul’s age for the album title, I think the Beatles albums would have been as follows:
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 22 (again)
- 23
- 23 (again)
- 24
- 24 (again)
- 26
- 26 (again)
- 27
- 27 (again)
| Release date | Paul's age | Album name | Adele-system Album name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22/03/63 | 20.7 | Please Please Me (Mono) | 20 |
| 22/11/63 | 21.4 | With the Beatles | 21 |
| 10/07/64 | 22.0 | A Hard Day's Night | 22 |
| 4/12/64 | 22.4 | Beatles For Sale | 22 |
| 6/08/65 | 23.1 | Help ! | 23 |
| 3/12/65 | 23.4 | Rubber Soul | 23 |
| 5/08/66 | 24.1 | Revolver | 24 |
| 1/06/67 | 24.9 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 24 |
| 22/11/68 | 26.4 | The White Album | 26 |
| 17/01/69 | 26.6 | Yellow Submarine | 26 |
| 26/09/69 | 27.2 | Abbey Road | 27 |
| 8/05/70 | 27.9 | Let It Be | 27 |
Paul’s date of birth was 18 June 1942
The release dates are taken from The Beatles Albums (by Date)
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This was originally published back in 2015…I’ve bumped the publish date a) because I like it and b) I was trying to work out something with micro.blog 🎵
I can only ever remember git add, commit, diff, rm and push...and I couldn't be bothered to rtfm (Confessions of a powershell numpty, #1)
I don’t use git much, and I’m far too lazy to consult the docco so to find a command I’d probably used before I did this:
hhh git | where-object line -notmatch 'diff|add|push|commit| rm '
….where hhh is an alias to a crappy little function I wrote:
function get-MTPSavePAthHistory {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Search through history
#>
[CmdletBinding()]
Param ($Pattern = "*",
$Tail = 50)
[string]$HistoryFile = $(Get-PSReadLineOption).HistorySavePAth
if ($Pattern -eq "*") {
get-content -tail $Tail
}
else {
Select-string "$Pattern" $HistoryFile | select-object line
}
}
Set-Alias -Name hhh -Value get-MTPSavePAthHistory
What I really did
It gets worse
Because I am a numpty, and I couldn’t remember whether whether -notmatch would work in this context, what I really did was this:
hhh git | ? line -notlike "*add*" | ? line -notlike "*diff*" | ? line -notlike "*commit*"| ? line -notlike "*push*"
20 House Points to whoever it was at Record Collector magazine who came up with the headline for their Abba feature:
‘That Was The Bleak That Was’ 🎵
#TodayILearned that in YouTube, you can “press the comma key to go back one frame and the period key to go forward one frame.”
This could be handy for screen-shotting slides and stuff
The NHS is wonderful
‘Waddle like a penguin’: NHS shows how to walk safely in icy conditions
I worked at Sony at the time that HD telly was coming in, and I thought that a good cheese-y advertising slogan could be “It’s a high definition type of day!”
This explains why my career has been in IT, not advertising, tbh
Anyway, it’s a high definition sort of day!
I did a one page ‘‘What is Powershell?’ slide
I’m happy enough with it, but the penguin is probably too prominent. I was making the point that it’s comparable to Bash etc. I’m overfond of drawing the penguin tbh
#TodayILearned that if you type a cryptic crossword clue into a search engine, you seem to typically get the answer….but more importantly you also get the explanation
I don’t use the ‘Close Others’ option enough in VS Code….and I end up with a couple of dozen tabs
I really, relly want to stick with Poch….but could Jose be a latter day Dick Whittington, thrice mayor of Chelsea? ⚽
Jose Mourinho sacked as Roma manager with club ninth in Serie A - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67990821?ns_campaign=sport_app_alert
A year ago yesterday we went up to Stamford Bridge for the first Chelsea match since the death of Gianluca Vialli
#ChelseaFC #cfc ⚽
The Telegraph breaks down its latest poll by constituency
I don’t think it’s to be taken seriously, but it’s quite fun for the politically geeky
Tories on course for worst electoral defeat since 1997, poll suggests
Dickens on the lamentable necessity of ghost stories
I read this in Pickwick Papers. He’s describing pubs in The Borough.
Great, rambling queer old places they are, with galleries, and passages, and staircases, wide enough and antiquated enough to furnish materials for a hundred ghost stories, supposing we should ever be reduced to the lamentable necessity of inventing any
The bit about the stair case being ‘wide enough and antiquated enough to furnish materials for a hundred ghost stories’ reminded me of this bit in A Christmas Carol, which was published 6 or 7 years later
You may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Parliament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy.
There was plenty of width for that, and room to spare; which is perhaps the reason why Scrooge thought he saw a locomotive hearse going on before him in the gloom.
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I very much like the phrase ‘the depths of winter’
#TodayILearned that Windows-. (i.e. the windows key and the full stop together) bring up all the emojis on Windows 😊
I’m hoping this means Chelsea aren’t being charged…but I’m not optimistic on this one ⚽
Everton and Forest charged with financial breaches - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/foo…
Chelsea v Fulham - thoughts
Thoughts on today’s game
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Willian is still a good player
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….but I’m glad he wasn’t at Arsenal
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credit where it’s due…Anthony Taylor had a good game
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Petrovic is a promising keeper - possibly better than Sanchez - but I wish he’d come for crosses and high balls slightly more often
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we need to be in the Champions League by 2025/26 season. If not Palmer will go…and I wouldn’t blame him
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we have a lot of young players, but at least until the last few minutes, I don’t think they looked particularly inexperienced
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I must remember not to drink three cups of coffee before a lunchtime kick-off