Tempted to go upstairs and ask the person in the flat above to put their previous playlist on, I was quite enjoying that one through my ceiling and now they’ve switched to boy bands and commercial pop.
In other news, I’ve spent an unreasonable amount of the last few days dismantling and putting back together my hot water loop. The pump that provides pressure failed for the third time in two years and I’m determined to get to a root cause this time rather than replace it with a new one.
I think I’m down to a little float valve seizing up and preventing water from flowing and the pump being triggered to turn on.
Welcome to day 4 of wondering whether this will be the day the Parcel Force guy actually makes it to my flat before his shift times out. I keep getting emails saying the parcel will be with me by 7:30pm and then nobody showing up, with no acknowledgement at all that they’ve been saying it for days. To add insult to injury, this is a 48 hour tracked delivery, sent on Monday.
healthy masculinity is being gay for your air traffic controller
We lost direction as a society when we stopped making these.
I’ve had a low level migraine all day and have now had enough of it thanks. It’s not even a proper one that would cause me to stop doing things, just a dull annoyance that makes doing things less enjoyable.
YouTubers Stop Talking And Read The Code That Isn’t Working Challenge. Difficulty level: Impossible.
It seems crazy that we have an entire month dedicated to awareness of a single food allergy.
Like, I’d understand “Food Allergy February,” but “No Nut November” just seems like overkill.
Uber: “Our use of AI makes us able to respond to customers” (or something like that)
Also Uber: Advertises the ability to order some ramen delivered for dinner after my long commute under a 15 minute journey taken from the address labelled “Home” on a Sunday morning.
Oh no. I’ve gone and got the idea of building a game stuck in my head again. Will this be the time I actually build a game or will I simply spend the next two to three months learning irrelevant details of game engines?
I am, yet again, annoyed at how effective exercise is for sorting me out. Forced myself to the gym, in the rain, thinking I’d go for half an hour at least just to have done so. I then proceeded to have a super chill hour of bouldering in which everything flowed really nicely, including half an hour repeatedly falling off a climb that’s not really my style but I reckon it’ll go in a few more sessions.
Everything’s feeling pretty bleak at the moment, like the collapse of whatever system we have currently is snowballing down the mountain and nobody seems to have any decent ideas for what comes next. Seeing out the age of mediocrity and good enough with more of the same while desperately hoping it works this time.
Good God, iPlayer. Nobody but me has ever been signed in on this device. I live alone. This hasn’t changed since yesterday so how about you just skip the bit where you ask who’s watching?
Turns out if you change your network’s DNS configuration but forget to open the firewall to allow that from VLANs other than the one you typically use over the next several hours devices will slowly start falling off the network in cryptic ways.
I appear to have Transport Fever (3). Sat down to play a bit at 9am or so and next I know it’s 4pm and I’d forgotten to eat or drink anything.
Who on earth are you going to have me working for in this campaign Transport Fever 3? How did you manage to make the campaign mode for a game about running a logistics company require a disclaimer before starting?
HOT TAKE: framework laptops are as repairable as any other business grade laptop (lenovo thinkpad, dell latitude, etc). they just market to LTT viewers instead of IT departments.
#emfcamp folk! It’s time for the plush #Tetrapod giveaway! This will be running the whole month of October. The draw will be on the 1st November 2026 (01/11/2026).
First of all, here is the lovely tetrapod you will be playing for! (Emfcamp fabric from 2024 designed by @moraghickman). It is made of cotton and stuffed with synthetic hollow fill toy stuffing!
@alice @alice_watson unclear whether this is a campaign for donors or this year’s Halloween horror film.
I’ve heard the compliance phrase “subject to availability” and how meaningless it is today and now I’m cursed to be mildly annoyed by it every time.
Of course the iPhones you’re advertising for sale are subject to availability, are people likely to think otherwise?
In other news, my upstairs neighbour has escalated from loudly listening to the same album on repeat with intermittent interruptions from the Samsung notification noise to listening to a single track on repeat.
Today I installed a new radiator to replace the terrible storage heater, it has both remained attached to the wall and made my flat warmer via its intended function rather than electrical fire. Taking this one as a win as I go to meet the boy from the bus and leave dealing with the general mess and incredibly heavy metal box full of bricks on my living room floor for later.