#BritsOfMastodon if you wanted to set up a “British restaurant” abroad, to which people would go to, much like they go to an Indian or Chinese restaurant, what dishes would you include on the menu as quintessential British gastronomy?
Yesterday I had a wonderfully gleeful drive back from the conference by introducing a Gen Z cab driver who invited me to play my own music in his car to the Jeff Wayne version of War of the Worlds.
From the "wait, it's not the soundtrack to the film", to the awe when Teófilo Martinez started the initial speech - "I know that voice from somewhere, like, old-time movies...", to the expletive I got when the strings started playing, to the amazement that this was 1970s music...
That moment in a Turkish restaurant in the Netherlands where you hit the language barrier and wonder whether to set Google translate conversation mode to Dutch or Turkish.
@moof I’m going again this week. IMAX this time. We’ll only get so many opportunities to watch Villeneuve films on the big screen and I’ll take each one.
In a Customs agency webinar. The way that they go on about how they've replaced all the EDI declarations with XML via SOAP as if it were cutting edge technology is at the very least amusing.
Companies: Email! Email! Email! Buy my irrelevant thing! Did you read my last email? I'm sure you want to buy my thing!
Also Companies: don't contact you when things are delayed, or there are issues.
Also Companies: either don't respond or directly don't have customer service
There’s something a little wrong about the fact that KFC will happily sell me a 15-pack of battered, pressure deep-fried reconstituted chicken strips with chips, but won’t sell me full-fat sprite because it’s unhealthy
And yes, my integration systems correctly interpreted the Ñ in the invoice number. On closer inspection, it's throwing an error for an entirely different reason. Let's see if you can spot it from this partial screenshot.
So I've recently become one of the people who have to regularly take their glasses off in order to see certain distances. I've asked my ophthalmologist, and there is no technology (e.g. varifocals or contact lenses) that I can use to avoid this action at the moment.
When I do take my glasses off, I am currently biting the legs in order to keep them handy. This is, at best, unsightly. I cannot keep them on the end of my nose (too big), or lift them up onto my hair (too greasy).
So I'm considering buying a glasses cord and let them dangle when they're off.
I'm just wondering - fedi #glasses wearers - what other options do I have to keep them handy? Alternatively, what cool variations can you recommend on the trusty glasses cord?
This intrigued me because of the tea and the social aspects of it, given I’m on #CupOfTeaSocial, but I was also intrigued by the book that inspired the article, introducing tea monks in this fictional world, and from which there were ample quotations in the text.
So I impulse-bought it to add to my kindle. And I’ve just finished my previous book. Thus I decided to start “A Psalm for the Wild Built” by Becky Chambers next.
A recurring conversation with @quixoticgeek is how we’ve lost the browseability and social aspect of bookshelves, film, and music collections in this modern all-digital age, especially the social aspect.
For those of you not born in the 1900s, we mostly purchased our books and music, or borrowed from the library, but it had a physical presence in our lives, and the bookshelf was something that you kept and curated as part of it. People visiting you would glance through it when bored and maybe comment on your choices or taste and make recommendations of things you might want to read or listen to.
It also allowed you to choose visually between a bunch of things, with a much broader field than the recommendation screen of your media player.
It’s very difficult when your books are in a cloud to have that aspect of life, or even have a “to read” pile, or the bit of the bookshelf with the guilty pleasures.
Trying to explain #Renfe service classes to a non-Spanish acquaintance, and I now have several doubts.
An AVE is a high speed service that only travels on high speed lines.
Avlo is a low-cost high speed service.
An Avant is a service that is partially on high speed lines, partially on conventional lines, designed to be faster than a MD for the high speed section.
A Media Distancia is fully on conventional lines
I gather an "Intercity" counts as a Media Distancia as far as ticketing is concerned.
But, what about the Euromed? Is that an Avant (and thus you can get a 50% reduction on the season pass) or an AVE (so no discount available)?