Ninji

Ninji, 19 hours ago to random

I'd completely forgotten that if you get a "We're delivering a package to you!!" email from Parcelforce and you click the "Deliver this to a post office" link, then it automatically redirects your package and says they'll drop a card in your postbox. No confirmation step

UX is hard :(

Ninji, 1 day ago to random

I also seemingly lost the stylus for this PDA (or maybe it didn’t come with one, I can't remember)

Thankfully, someone on eBay is selling an original 3-pack of them for £60! (Haha no)

Ninji, 1 day ago to random

i wanted to buy a replacement battery for my vintage Palm OS PDA but now i've spent 10 minutes thinking about "Bicycle”

all the money and cloud computing services you can imagine and yet Amazon continues to have zero clue what they're selling. i'm sure “AI” will fix this any day now

Ninji, 2 days ago to random

Here are some random photos I’ve taken recently

Two posters seeking study participants from the University of Cambridge. One is titled “Regular Weed Smokers wanted for Research Study” and has a stock photo featuring five joints resting on a pile of plant shavings, the other is titled “Healthy Volunteers Wanted for Research Study” and has a stock photo of four differently coloured pint glasses
Various Pokémon cards have been strewn across the pavement outside St. Enoch subway station. Two more cards are resting on the glass door
A labradoodle is waiting outside Waitrose and looking up at me, looking rather angry because of their open mouth (but they were actually wagging)

Ninji, 2 days ago to random

now that the iPad line is getting OLED displays, I'm excited to see publicly-located iPads with horrific screen burn-in in a few years

(I'm like 75% sure that my local IKEA is using iPad Pros to display the allergens in the restaurant for some reason)

Ninji, 3 days ago to random

me apologising after sending sub-par nudes to my friends

Ninji, 4 days ago to random

you can only call it a "bank holiday" if you're travelling to Halifax or Santander, otherwise it's just a sparkling day off

Ninji, 4 days ago to random

Here are some more random photos I took around York yesterday

A sculpture of a grazing cow, covered in artificial grass, sits in a park near picnic tables and planters
Four extremely polite pit bulls are being walked by two people, all with differently coloured harnesses
A plaque on a wall next to a closed-down Cath Kidston shop says: “Hereabouts lived the parents of Guy Fawkes of Gunpowder Plot fame: who was baptized in St. Michael-le-Belfrey Church in 1570.”

Ninji, 4 days ago to random

One of my toxic traits is that every time I see a big fancy church, I'm tempted to take a photo and post it captioned "Ah, I love the Sagrada Familia"

(Yesterday I thought about this after walking past York Minster)

Ninji, 5 days ago to random

the hanky code is so confusing… how am i supposed to remember all these colours

Ninji, 5 days ago to random

Sorry I’ve been posting so much today, I’m on my way back home so normality will resume soon

Ninji, 5 days ago to random

Here are some random photos I took while wandering around York

A sign is taped to a shop’s door frame: “Please do not pet the dogs! Thank you”. It’s also mounted so low that it seems to be aimed at dogs, not humans
There are two wooden benches outside a park, and between them, there’s a single red chair that someone seems to have left
A goose is busy pecking at some fallen tree branches

Ninji, 5 days ago to random

Fusion cuisine has gone too far, if you ask me

Ninji, 5 days ago to random

I’ve played enough video games to know that these moving bollards must form part of a puzzle

Ninji, 5 days ago to random

York station has a Lebanese restaurant now and that feels… wrong

It’s illegal to have interesting food in British railway stations! You’re only supposed to have sandwiches, pasties and Burger King with a 50% markup

Ninji, 5 days ago to random

I love urban graffiti, it adds so much character to a city. Sometimes it’s art, sometimes it’s people leaving their mark, and sometimes it’s just… thought-provoking

Ninji, 5 days ago to random

Here are four excellent dogs I saw in Cambridge today

a big dog with very floppy ears is receiving muzzle rubs from an outstretched hand
a majestic husky basks in the sun, watching people pass by while their human friends have a conversation in the street
a golden retriever stares curiously into the window of a fish restaurant

Ninji, 6 days ago to random

starting a new tradition which i’m going to call the Unnecessary Bokeh Hour

Ninji, 6 days ago to random

Feeling weirdly inspired by this shop, “the melting pot of cuisine and culture”, which has a map mounted outside next to the entrance

Ninji, 6 days ago to random

man, i love software

every month, to request a refill on my meds:
• go to website
• GDPR cookie prompt, click sign in
• enter password (the “stay signed in” box doesn’t work)
• enter code from SMS
• skip reminder to enable TOTP
• cookie prompt 2
• click re-order
• delete the “you logged in!” email

Ninji, 8 days ago to random

Here are some random photos I’ve taken today

A sign in the bathroom on an Avanti train advertises that you can pick your seat if you use their app to book; someone has written “Renationalise our trains!” on an empty part of the sign
A very nice springer spaniel on a red leash is waiting obediently in Euston station, sitting on the concourse and staring at the other passengers
An HP Inkjet printer has been abandoned on the street; it’s somewhat dirty from having been outside for over a day, and a piece of plastic has been broken off

Ninji, 11 months ago to random

⚠️ Alert ⚠️

There are FOUR huskies outside Lidl, waiting patiently while everyone gives them attention. This is not a drill