unbalancedaudio.com
Forever fascinated by how things work and writing open source software to scratch that itch. Music, family and geography with some clothes making thrown in.
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I always think back to that when I see a military parade, shocking to the younger me because it was captured on camera and showed on the news.
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Here's a good overview (from 10 years ago, so the science may have progressed) gizmodo.com/this-is-why-...
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I saw it at the Glasgow Film Theatre yesterday, and I agree - such a lovely film. Lots of very funny lines and beautifully observed. It felt like the absolute essence of Tim Key and Tom Basden.
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I enjoyed doing this, it's amazing how it prompts memories. I really need to visit Northern Ireland though!
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There's another Warren Zevon song called 'Jesus Mentioned' about digging up Elvis and begging him to sing...! I first heard it as a cover by The River Detectives and I still love it.
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My favourite flag was 'Dons Min' though 'The Pope's XI' on a Vatican flag made me chuckle.
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I think that when you're older, life itself is better if you can live it on story/casual setting too.
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For a period of time there was a big business in making cool earcons. Thomas Dolby had a company doing it too en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatnik...
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I'm going for Estonia over Denmark, but loved the other two.
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Of all the pianos that is certainly the grandest.
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That was great and I loved the staging.
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We like Sushi Go! and still play it even with the kids being pretty much grown up.
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I decided not to go with Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation, but this...
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My son is arguing that he'd really like to see a heat map for the managers.
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Brilliant game, though I'm now advocating for electric fences around the technical areas.
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Not only tourism, but business and conference travel. Companies really don't want to risk 'losing' employees at immigration.
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We stayed in Ferreirola for a week 20 years ago, at the lovely Sierra y Mar. Such beautiful walking but the unofficial highlight was the tiny vegetarian restaurant in Mecina. After days of eating all the ham elsewhere, some veggie food with fantastic chips was so, so good.
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This was where I first realised how much the border has changed within living memory. Growing up in Scotland it's only the counties/regions that have changed in my lifetime.... I've only just switched away from Grampian, Strathclyde etc.
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It was close by, but I'm 100 years too late
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Working a tradeshow in Amsterdam a while back a customer talked to me for almost a minute with me following along until I suddenly realised he was talking in Dutch and I no longer knew what he was saying... Many technical words were the same as in English and I assumed he just had a strong accent 😳
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I wonder how car aerodynamic improvements have affected this? And whether roads being busier would make for more or less splattered bugs? ...it turns out that Google ai is ahead of me, so someone has been thinking about this!
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I was too busy reading it in 'valley girl' to notice. I had to re-read it to understand the use of like, but that's definitely my problem!
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I poured over it as a kid. I love the word range on each volume...'rice to sedge' intriguing!
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That's really wonderful! One of my favourite stained glass windows is this Womanhood window victorianweb.org/art/stainedg..., though the photos don't quite do it justice.
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I watched until the end, and the final episode was a real peak of repetition. It was good, but it could have been half the episodes and twice as good. The vignette where the kid is taken bird watching was really rather moving.
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Due to phonics, we used to go to a pub that was named initially by my son as The Ploff...
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My eyeball muscles would get all flabby - no more flicking from the keyboard to the top of the screen to make sure my typing is right. Perhaps they're trying to get rid of their 0.34% market share...?
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I'll have to catch up on sounds - Portillo was on BBC2 in a massive quilted onesie...
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I spent my first 40 years of tying shoelaces doing it wrong... The difference is really the same as between a granny knot and a reef knot. When it's like a reef knot it also looks way better with the bow sitting neatly across the shoe.
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Oddly, I learned something from it! Unfortunately their other pundits weren't listening. They kept saying PSG had chosen the end, but apparently it was the referee that chose the side of the coin for that.
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You need to go in search of a pie that costs £5.85...or an epi pen I suppose?!
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I haven't listened yet, but. her home in France, Chateau des Milandes, is well worth a visit.
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During the dot com boom there were loads of ads on US radio where the bulk of the time was spent spelling the poorly chosen company name. It's one thing if you're having to find a unique name, but throwing away a perfectly good one is just nuts.
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Though I haven't listened to that album since my dad played it over 40 years ago I still know all the words to "My brother Bill"and it's still funny.
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Thanks for sharing, I haven't got past the first answer yet. This - "it was more about this idea of moral injury, this massive gulf between what you want the world to be and what you see happening around you."
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Ren-ullt was the usual pronunciation in Aberdeenshire in the late 70s. It's possible that they didn't advertise on the TV in Scotland in that era, or perhaps it was already ingrained.
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My friend's parents were real Francophiles and owned a series of Renault cars. They must have died a little every time we called them Ren-ullt.
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I totally agree, this is purely a possible workaround. I would say that I wouldn't trust embedded URLs any more from a security perspective.
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I agree wholeheartedly. In case it's useful though, there is a way on at least some Android phones... Hold down the home button or long press at the bottom of the screen. That brings up "circle to search" with the qr code already as a clickable link.
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I feel a Thunderbirds remake coming on.
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A year ago I remotely interviewed someone for a role. They weren't very impressive until the last two questions where their responses didn't really fit in with the rest of the interview. The responses did match those from ChatGpt exactly. ChatGpt to their headphones and then out of their mouth ☹️