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NormanDunbar

@NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot

He/Him. Retired Oracle DBA, Toad MVP, developer, husband, geek, not a dad, open source contributor. McLaren & Mercedes F1 fan.

I own a Huawei P20 phone with the Leica camera. I try to take at least 1 half decent photo every day if I can.

In 2020, Apress published my first book, 'Arduino Software Internals'. My second, 'Arduino Interrupts' was published in Dec 2023. I'm writing another as well as a 2nd edition of 'Internals' to document recent changes.

No longer on Twitter as https://mastodon.scot/@NormanDunbar.

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Those damned teatime dishes are still not washing themselves! Looks like I'm going to have to do them, again!

NormanDunbar,
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@JackTheCat You sound like MrsD! Is that you my love? 😉

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Donald Trump is guilty.

He did it.

He did everything he’s accused of, and much much more.

He’s a rapist, a cheat, a money launderer, an insurrectionist, and a traitor.

He’s demanding immunity because he knows he’s guilty.

That’s the leader of the GOP.

How disgusting.

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@theusasingers Surely that very fact that he's demanding immunity is a sure sign of his guilt? After all, if he was innocent, he wouldn't need immunity!

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From now until the , I'm playing the Benny Hill theme tune at full volume and adopting a Kenneth Williams "oooh matron" voice, because it's now the only way to keep a grip on

This video for the latest fishing hook () helps too

https://youtu.be/u7T-SHu5wi8?si=-bFVY-h1s3HlHbw1

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@Thebratdragon @PaulNickson @TCMuffin @spytfyre @Man

Although I have flown an F4 Phantom under a bridge and bombed an oil tanker, then got hit and flown back to base on one dodgy engine!

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@PaulNickson
Cause of death: sneezing underwater due to high pollen count from seaweed.
😉
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@TCMuffin @Thebratdragon @PaulNickson @spytfyre @Man Knaresborough? Also home to the Boeing 737 simulator. Which I have also flown into Leeds Bradford airport, in heavy turbulence (in other words, normal for Leeds Bradford!).

Landed safely!

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@PaulNickson
Target achievement gained! 😉

Sorry.

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@TCMuffin
The F4 was my birthday present from MrsD. The 737 was a works team "do" as we Tech Support gurus (!) didn't fancy the "go out and get rat arsed" type of thing.

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@PaulNickson
Aye, in a barn!

Boeing's new slogan: When one door closes, another one opens!

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@PaulNickson
Well, that's 10 seconds longer than I've ever been anyone's ultimate hero!

A work colleague from my days in Aberdeen District Council, Ian Coulton, was an actual F4 pilot and flew in the Falklands.

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@TCMuffin
I can't comment. I drove a Honda VFR750 at the time! A motorbike. I can imagine crane drivers, or digger drivers, being good though. Possible even better at helicopter piloting?

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@PaulNickson
They got rid of the engineers and put money men in charge. Cue ongoing disasters. More to come I suspect! 😟

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@PaulNickson
Yup! As @pluralistic would probably agree.

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@TCMuffin
It's seems to be bloody dangerous being a Boeing whistleblower these days(

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@PaulNickson
Second I think. It was back in March.

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@TCMuffin
I'm probably wrong. Again!

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@TCMuffin That's one for the diary then! 😉

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@TCMuffin
Yup. Taking the engineers out of an engineering company, and putting money men in charge is a recipe for disaster. Unfortunately, there will be a lot of "collateral" damage as passenger deaths may be labelled!

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@PaulNickson
Safety is our highest priority. (Yeah, right!)

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@TCMuffin She won't believe me!

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@TCMuffin True but you know the old saying...

If a husband says something out loud, and there are no women present to hear him, is he still wrong!

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@PaulNickson
Usually they say that after some major f2k up! 😟

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@PaulNickson
My best man's dad, was a Vulcan engineer! He was once asked to change the gyro in one 24 hours or so, after shut down. Backing down the ladder with the gyro in hand, he turned around and the still spinning gyro threw him flat on his back!

Much as I love the Vulcan, it was crap at bombing Stanley in the Falklands! They flew all that way, refuelling as they went and got one bomb on target.

I'm also madly in love with Harriers!

@Thebratdragon @BashStKid @TCMuffin @spytfyre @Man

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@PaulNickson @Thebratdragon @BashStKid @TCMuffin @spytfyre @Man Sadly, he had a stroke years ago. Buggered up one side of his body. He went from Stan who could build or fix anything, to Stan who got extremely frustrated because half his body refused to cooperate.

He died a few years ago.

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@PaulNickson
Not really, just small and spinning incredibly fast!

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