More from the company’s general manager who, upon hearing of 18 fire extinguishers that are now considered too old to be serviceable and that need urgent replacement before a fire safety inspection on the 13th, replied with;
“Ah, let them fail us and shut us down. It’ll be less painful.”
@DJDarren they like it so much they want it to last as long as possible. They're using it to gather the strength to go on. When things get bad, they will take it out and savour it again.
One of the many ways that Amazon has ruined the world, is in the way it almost effortlessly killed our ability to choose to buy things locally.
Like, I need new laces for my work boots. I could easily go on Amazon and order a pair of FYBEHWFAS’ finest laces and have them delivered to my house in a few days.
Or I could walk to a shop nearby to buy a pair without having to rely on people shipping them.
Except I can’t really do that, can I, because those shops have been driven out of business.
@DJDarren If you've got a branch of Clarks, they might have them on the rack of assorted shoe gubbins (polish, brushes, suede spray etc) behind the counter, but I'm not 100% sure about it.
@crinolinerobot Just searched Timpson’s store finder, and yeah, there’s one on the high street that I walk past every day and had completely forgotten about.
Just made the bold choice of deleting all the filters on the Masto website, largely because 99% of my ‘Don’ing is done via Ivory, so it would get a bit confusing.
Let’s see how long it takes me to reinstate them on the app.
Rather naively, I'm hoping that this theme won't result in me having to agonise over having to reduce three hours of suggestions to less than two hours of music. Although, there are literally hundreds of songs with parenthesis in the title, so...
@DJDarren Over-reliance on the 'Great man theory' of history as it relates to governance of a nation. With a constitution, strangely enough, authored by a few men who considered themselves to be great.
@BonehouseWasps Oh aye, it’s not vastly better over here, but we do at least have career politicians who work hard to cultivate the appearance of gentlemanly conduct.
That said, Johnson took a lot of pointers from Trump.
Been watching this play through of Hellblade 2 this evening.
The first game was incredible, both in the story it told and the graphics used, so I was looking forward to the second one. But I’m told it’s essentially a playable movie, so rather than fanny about trying to get it to look beautiful with our streaming setup, I’m watching someone else play it in 4K.
And yeah, it looks incredible. There are times when I forgot I was watching someone play a video game.
Finished reading Paul Auster's '4 3 2 1' today. Now in a place where I'm kinda sad that I'm not in Ferguson's world any more, and don't really know what to read next.
Are there any #networking types out there that can offer me an answer to an issue I'm having?
My Mac wouldn't upload to websites using either Safari or Firefox. Tried searching for an answer, but nothing came up, so I posted on /r/macOS.
A reply I got there suggested manually changing the MTU rate in network settings to 1280, and that if that worked then something is up with our network.
I love podcasts. I love podcasts about people, stories of the ordinary.
Which is why I love Rumble Strip.
A couple of years back, Erica won a Peabody award for her episode "Finn & The Bell", a look at the story of Finn Rooney, a 17yo who took his own life, and the many ways in which he touched the small Vermont community he lived in.
If that subject matter isn't too much for you, then I wholeheartedly recommend listening to it -
The reason I bring up a podcast episode from two years ago is that the latest episode is a return to it, with a ten minute catch up with Finn's mother. It's a beautiful, heartfelt conversation with a woman who's slowly coming to terms with something so awful.
Erica is a master at capturing conversations, of drawing people into trusting her, and seemingly forgetting that there's a microphone between them.
Just spent an hour working out how to get Excel to tell me exactly - to two decimal points - how little I’ve done towards a Big Task that’s looming over me.
The Big Task is now 25% complete, all because I procrastinated doing it by taking the time to visualise how much needs to be done.
This morning I kinda felt like I wasted that hour, but the fact is, I've done more on that job today than I have in the 8 months since I first took it on.
@DJDarren can you do just that bit of the job which makes sure people don't die and fuck the rest?
This is the problem, managers use that shit against you, and as far as I can work out the only remedy is stop caring or find a different job. I suppose one could go all in on the office politics and try to get them replaced if that was feasible but in my experience it's usually a cultural problem. Anyway preaching to the choir here no doubt :-)