It's been a good couple of days for food β€οΈ
Am I the first person in the "fediverse" from #Hereford? I'd like to think with 1.5M+ folks I wouldn't be, but knowing Hereford as I do, it wouldn't surprise me π.
Anyway, if you're in Hereford hit me up, let's get a pint in the barrels π
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Every time I flog a bunch of stuff on eBay I tell myself "you'll get some dumb questions" and every time I find myself amazed.
Title of listing: "Panasonic SA-BT222 blu-ray home theatre system blah blah".
First line of description: "Panasonic blu-ray playerβ¦"
First question I get: "does this play blu rays?"
Thanks for mastodon.el @johnson :-)
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As opposed to⦠not?
I have a puppy and a horse and I sneak about tranquilizing Russians β best game ever #steamsale (MGS5)
This Guardian article reads like the author doesn't know what a network switch is⦠https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jun/19/visa-admits-5m-payments-failed-over-a-broken-switch
Also, the linked PDF isn't the claimed letter from the Visa CEO to the Treasury committee, it's the letter from the committee to the CEO. To top it off there's a typo in the first sentence. Journalism!
Has anyone tried a ByteDelight ZX-HD? β https://www.bytedelight.com/?page_id=1800 β it looks too good to be true π. I dug out my old +3 and it /seems/ to work, but I want to play with BASIC and use my desk monitor.
Chosen entirely because of the label, but turned out to be a very nice glass of porter! https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/UrateoIybqZkYPP7wkM
Rocket & prosciutto for pizza night \o/ https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/yh28CioELkQ6nQA07vo
Spotted in the middle of a mall in Beijing: a KTV booth. Now that I know they exist I'm surprised I've never seen one before π https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/r3VJQkrL1gYz8swWUbk
Top marks to whoever chose the sample image in the latest VS Code release notes https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_20#_image-preview-zooming
Beef & pickled cabbage noodles, and Taiwanese "3 cup" chicken (with some aubergine & basil in the background) https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/nWPdCGbTvFHH0Xf-DNI https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/K1qOQQPTAIrFF4BeqrU
I'm going to miss Xiamenβ¦
Mad science: I'm honestly amazed this works at all http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-11/msg00575.html
Hello fellow lobste.rs π (yes, I just followed everyone in that thread)
Jazz Santa! π·π https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/Jt0UuT4r3F9fL-ZBq7E
Hmm, so it looks like Mastodon doesn't handle multiple pics in a toot very well then π