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Jon Wood

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Ahhh, the relaxing sound of angle grinders on a Saturday morning as the buy-to-let landlords either side of me strip out newly purchased properties.

@jmacarthur I wouldn’t mind so much if it weren’t for the fact looking at a window seal funny will cause this place to immediately leak all the heat I’ve put into it during winter.

@jmacarthur I feel you there. 20c with a light breeze outside and despite having every window open it’s still 27 inside.

@jackeric yeah, pretty sure my 71 year old Dad would appreciate that about as much as me suggesting he simply throw his phone in a lake and walk away.

It may be time to throw down the “turn off autocorrect or stop fucking moaning about it in every message you send” gauntlet to my Dad again. We’re three for three this evening.

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This is just to say

I have valued
the goose
that was in
your portfolio

And which you
were probably
saving for
the eggs

Forgive me
it was annualized
depreciated
and written off.

Why do hosts on produced podcasts speak. So. Slowly? (I’m aware you can speed it up, it’s not me listening to this podcast, just hearing it in the background)

Free TV show idea if anyone fancies pitching it to Netflix: All The Gear, a cookery competition show in which amateur chefs have a selection of kitchen gadgets, some ingredients, and one hour to make a two course meal. They do not have any pans.

Edited 5d ago

@bob I’m not sure if this is better or worse than the company where marketing independently hired a freelance Wordpress guy to add a bunch of user/referral tracking to quite a complex application who the actual development team then had to handhold through the whole process. It would 100% have been quicker for us to do it ourselves but corporate shenanigans meant it wasn’t going to get prioritised for months.

@wamonite I discovered earlier while using the aircon as a big fan pointing out the window (with cooling turned off, I’m not a monster) that it also dumps warm air from inside out through the exhaust hose in that mode. This is ideal because my exhaust hose is hooked up to the extractor fan vent in my kitchen.

@pikesley what a film, and this week you get the full 4D experience as it’ll feel like you’re in a jungle throughout.

Excuse the banal post but I’m really bored of this heat now. My flat hasn’t got below 28c since Wednesday morning and I’m already dripping with sweat. For the next time round I’ll be augmenting the newly purchased aircon unit with some big fans to dump as much hot air out of the windows as possible overnight.

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I have a spare live-in vehicle ticket for the @emf
Is anyone interested?

@robinhouston @emf @stecks those are some really big sticks of plasticine.

The aircon is quite effective now it’s not being fed with a constant new supply of 30 degree air.

For fucks sake. Spent all day with the curtains and blinds shut, sitting in the gloom, wondering why the aircon was so ineffectual, only to find whilst I was in the kitchen just now I’d opened the windows in their last night and then forgotten because they were behind the blinds.

OH: “I think you can correlate my cortisol levels and the number of GitHub Actions minutes spent”

There’s a breeze! It feels like a cool breeze but it’s entirely possible that’s just wishful thinking given it’s still 27c outside.

@SamLR the email pace will increase until everything has been communicated. By the time gates open we’ll be doing one every 30 minutes.

@renata I think they’re slowly expanding but yes, possibly.

@renata CityMapper can do that if you’re in a supported city, and will also take into account rental bikes/scooters.

Drug use

@foone Pimoroni have a ton of wifi supported 2040/2350s with various combinations of IO, (almost?) all running off USB-C. I had one of their ones designed to drive addressable LEDs arrive today which uses USB-PD to avoid needing a second power supply unless you’ve got hilarious numbers of LEDs.

@0xabad1dea in a less dramatic way I definitely get this walking around my home town, going through areas I’ve been walking through since I was able to walk around on my own being vividly reminded of things that happened decades ago.