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An interesting psychology of restaurant menus is when they use the term ‘house made’ for an item. My assumption then is that all the other items came from the Sysco truck and will be suitably generic.

I think it’s the distance by boat to the nearest dock, not as the seagull flies

I grew up in that area and went to school with a member of the family that owned Thorne Island at the time.

There are times of the year that access is not possible at all due to weather which does limit the usefulness of the location.

The Angle lifeboat isn’t far away in an emergency though, so that’s helpful.

There are other Victorian fort locations in that area in private hands. A different school friend owned more than one of these for a while. Maintenance costs are outrageous!

Ah, JANET - so many default passwords, so little time to log into them all!

I have 2 measurable ones on Zepbound.

My lowest sleeping heart rate is now at least 10 beats higher than before starting (it comes down during the week to about 10 over)

The night after taking the injection my sleep is crap, and the heart rate is 5+ higher again

I have lost 20lbs since mid March with no real effort, and we’re about to do some blood tests for specific cholesterol numbers, which was one of the reasons to try this out.

The real story of the whole of the MIT blackjack team is quite something. When you ask someone if they’re still allowed to play in this casino and they reply with “if I use my real name, then yes”.

The 80s were a wild time, kids!

The MIT blackjack team from 1979 onwards played with many, many players to make real money in Vegas. Not everything was in the movie!

If I could have got a steady hand with tweezers, I could easily have been a surgeon. Real patients probably don’t have noses that light up, which reduces distractions too!

In the 80s, Sam Smith pubs had a ‘25 pubs in London’ challenge. Get a drink in each of the 25 and get a T-shirt. It took me and a friend several weeks. There was a story of some guys doing it in a weekend. Hard because of travel AND opening times of some of the financial centre ones.

Good Times! And of course, no screens and no-one had phones (except in the financial centre and those came with an external battery)

Ha! I went to a British polytechnic. There wasn’t a lot of very practical degrees ( there were some though), but there was a lot of hands on computer work in my Computer and Communications degree

It is strange on a resume listing a university I never technically went to, but now only Wikipedia remembers! And I was there before Thor destroyed it in a movie

I have a $4500 LG OLED thin TV that is 2 years old and broken

The screen has had lines for a while, annoying, but not critical. Now there’s a power issue where it powers off in a few minutes

Now, this is out of warranty, and, it turns out, the 2 LG repair locations in the Seattle area no longer do TVs

LG know this is a problem - they are currently sending parts, and there’s a West Coast LG repair guy who will come and fix it when the parts arrive

A 4K $4k TV that isn’t that old and is almost un repairable is crazy

Anything with some exotic screen is going to cost more money and be harder to fix - pay for the extended warranty!

Note - my credit card has automatic extended warranty, but I need a quote for fixing the item, and there are absolutely no authorized repair people within 500 miles of Seattle to even get that!

I used Btrieve a lot in several jobs in the UK in the late 80s and early 90s. It was fast and easy to work with, mostly

I used the stand alone version, not the later NLM on the server

To be fair, I work in software, so I too am familiar with the whoosh of a deadline as it passes by, unmet.

Although I don’t find it as hard as Douglas did with his writing, but then that level isn’t needed for most software projects.

I was about to say that software, unlike creative writing, can be changed after publishing. But Douglas did that for Hitch Hikers - the radio script, books, and TV show are fairly different stories!

The chargers they showed at their first Mercedes location in Atlanta are 400kw split between 2 units. So 200kw each for 2 cars that can handle it, and balanced between the 2. Eg if one car only needs 100kw, the other can pull up to 300kw

I’ve seen video of the Cybertruck getting more than 330kw, and the Lotus cars seem to charge at high rates too. But 200kw each is a fine charge whilst getting a coffee

The question is how reliable they can be - if a charger is broken, it doesn’t matter what the numbers on the label say