Danny van Read

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Great place. Awesome tiramisu too.

It’s here. Up the Pont Pill from Fowey.

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And Darwin has arrived. To disprove my previous post.

Meet ghost. Harry and Hilly’s cats are quite monochromatic.

Black cat on kitchen table. Having tickles.

Bluesky meet Esben.

Black cat demanding scritches.

#proofofcat again, not my cat. But proof nonetheless.

Block button less effective IRL.

Thank you. I am in need of fidget toys. I won’t have to go to war with a cat either.

Holy shit. Consider me chastened.

They’re intriguing me.

Absolutely.

Any questions? Block.

The thing about the Kobayashi Maru “The thing about the Kobayashi Maru,” said Jim, “is you have to remember it’s a simulation.”

Oh.

Wow.

I read somewhere that Elton John has a few C5s for blatting around his country estate. You certainly wouldn’t want to use one in traffic.

“Trump can’t… because Constitution” is going to become the liberal “you can’t change the 2nd Amendment…”.

A proprietary format that doesn’t really work and torpedoes the range is the most Sinclair thing possible.

I'll bite: let's compile a wokest list of "continental" cheese.

(Also, I bet "cheddar" would be considered non-woke, but ARTISANAL cheddar would be superwoke)

Brie: not
Camembert: woke
Chaource: woke
Chevre: woke unless you call it "goats' cheese" in which case non
Epoisses: superwoke
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X: Blocked people can read your tweets

Bluesky: We will send an agent back in time to stop the blocked person's parents from ever meeting

Sinclair QL?
Stood for Quantum Leap, I believe. 🤣

Sinclair ZX Microdrive. Awful proprietary tape storage.

This beast?

I seem to still have trauma responses to the finger-twister needed to hold down multiple flat keys to access infrequently used characters.

Let a=a+1. GOTO 10.

Making it usable.
(Although all the ones my friends had also had a pile of books behind it to stop the ram pack falling off the back.)

A friend wrote a BASIC program to print out his lines. Our French teacher, Singe, told him he gets away with that only once.

Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Really handy of my brain to keep that information. 🙄

I suspect the need and the desire are inversely proportional.