Pylon appreciation

https://pylons.org/

Taxonomy of bread fasteners

https://www.horg.com/horg

Pathetic motorways

https://pathetic.org.uk/

Due to a typo, I ended up with “The Cod War”

https://www.icelandreview.com/travel/the-cod-wars-in-iceland/

I have one of the earliest mp3 players, with a 32Mb expansion memory card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300

And going back further: a Sharp PC1211 BASIC-programmable pocket computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_PC-1211

You thinking of Apple headsets. These are budget things, maybe $300.

Magnus Pyke was a well-known TV personality and sciencey person in the UK.

Thomas Dolby’s song merits a mention in the first paragraph:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Pyke

Woot made a success of this, their most coveted product

https://www.woot.com/offers/bag-o-crap-8

No more questions, your honor.

Okay, that makes more sense.

But in that case I want to know why the pig in the display cabinet isn’t wearing a hat.

Is the pig meant to be his reflection? Why isn’t it wearing a hat?

He decided that it was unethical to have an AI/LLM impersonate a real person, but set up the “wizard” as an AI assistant for his fake crypto site helpline.

Can “y’all” be singular, since there is “all y’all” for plural?

Well, I hope this thread has also put you off being a pedestrian.

I noticed! That’s why my reply became a semi-crazed random stream of consciousness.

Don’t try to bring food. I’ve seen people stopped for smuggling meat. You’re probably okay with packaged sweets or chocolate, but you should declare it.

Don’t be fooled into thinking you can get tea if you see it offered. It may be some strange flavour, or very weak, or iced, or all three. And it will be hard to explain that you want milk and sugar with it.

Biscuits are good enough, but chocolate is rough.

And, of course, a “biscuit” will mean a type of savory scone.

If your shop, at most stores they will pack shopping bags for you and are a little shocked and overly grateful if you do it yourself.

Be prepared to tip in many circumstances (but not, oddly enough, for having your groceries packed).

Be prepared to be asked about football, the Beatles, the Queen, maybe even the King.

Don’t be offended is someone attempts to do a British accent at you, it’s meant as a friendly greeting.

If driving:

Four-way stops are like roundabouts without the roundabout. But with stop signs.

Pedestrians are not expected to look out for traffic, but are not allowed to just cross anywhere. So it balances out.

Someone has stolen the clutch pedals from all the cars.

“Why world I perform a show at a casino I have no stake in?”

The third thing is going to be: find out what “proportional font” means.

Cat-Lassie will save us.

No it’s not. It’s more of a spongy consistency compared to a the dry, breadiness of an English muffin.

My pixel 7 has adaptive charging. If there’s an alarm set and I charge it at night, it paces the charging to be full near the time I’m getting up.

So it’s doing what it can to preserve battery health.

A few days ago I almost tried to pause my ebook reader before putting it down.