Obligitory XKCD
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Barcelona also has a cathedral of beer or something. I've been there but I cant seem to recall the name for some reason. But beer is different there than here in the UK. Craft beer places seem to have mediocre tapas - possibly because its easier to sommelier for a more limited and expected taste range.
Mind you I had a 'sour' in the Nags Head in Reading not long ago and I doubt there's is a food in the world that would complement that.
Sounds like the sort of app that pub landlords can use to totally denigrate fellow landlords establishments and sados who've been chucked out to do the same. Have you never read an Amazon review. I would give it the same respect a government speech - zilch. Sod proxy drinking - I didnt spend 50 hours tearing up my car with my fingernails while my daughter( who has no interest in drinking learnt to drive) not to actually visit places if they let me out, My favourite establishment serves beer that tastes like piss occasionally but when its good (and it can be very very good) I'm not likely to let others know about it.
As a gentleman isolator I've returned to my old hobby of homebrewing. Seem to be getting it right and the supply normally lasts a few days whereas sending the misses out for battery acid and hand sanitizer normally comes up with just battery acid and my cooking covers that area of taste.
As far as I can tell the only problem with Linux desktop is it doesnt run Windows games and a couple of office thingies. The kids I've been working with can do pretty much anything on a RaspberryPi standard desktop without batting an eyelid. Its the older people who lack computer skills seems to be the problem!
I was using Cygwin XWindows to run Linux stuff in the office on company PCs 25 years ago. The 'desktop' was shit but I could install and run software to test certain things faster than I could get permission to buy or use a license for some MS product from the PHB at the time. It was the only way I could debug some things on SQLServer 4,5 without grinding the whole system to a halt which is what happened using the MS way to do it. Never worked out why. Even building MS stuff was faster without the overhead of Visual Studio which at the time was designed to make things easier for the programmer but by no means the underlying OS.
If a large scale IT project had someone capable of learning lessons that person would be bought up by one of the contracting companies and generally kept out of the way.
The government hasn't gone to all the trouble of arranging things so the NHS cant do things efficiently for people to come along and prove them wrong..
My father used to experiment with fireworks. He decided that those ones with the 4' long stick that looked a bit like a fairy tale castle turret would be good for a 2 stage rocket - the stars coming out would surely light the other one to carry on up for a second shower.
Of course the extra weight slowed the first launch and it only made it a hundred feet or so up and showered everyone my dad with stars. While we were all leaping around as the ground sparkled and cracked beneath our feet and our coats glowed and smoked the second stage, severely wounded by the first dropped to about 6 feet above my dads head before igniting the rocked and payload simultaneously showering everyone but my dad and landing about two feet in from of him like some demented fountain, When it went out and we'd once again patted ourselves out and discovered no one was actually hurt we all burst out laughing till it really did hurt.
I love the smell of fireworks but to this day I can remember the foul foul smell my scorched woollen duffel coat carried for weeks,
At uni I broke my glasses (I'm very short sighted) and couldn't be bothered to get new ones. I could recognise most of my friends from a distance by the way their blur moved. I'd forgotten all about this until you mentioned it when a vision of a certain seriously attractive lady appearing over a hill popped into my brain! She had a particularly recognisable gait having legs all the way to her armpits. And arse length blond hair too but I could recognise her walking towards me from 1/2 mile away while I couldn't see a lamppost twenty feet away.
As a child I liked knowing how things worked and we are now so far from the ground in IT its hard to show kids how a modern computer works. I have spent some time with a few kids and an 8080 simulator to take them few a few simple steps and when I've had access to the internet and kids the Visual6502 is a way of showing them the silicon running the code along with the code. I wonder if a Knuth revisited on a real machine might make a good educational toy.
TBF at the time most 8 bit machines were largely the work of one person, The Z80 was pretty much a one man design. Interestingly these things are at a headful level - a top engineer could in a couple of years design the logic, the ccts and the layout of something of that size. Once you get much more complicated than that you need to start working in teams.
I've got a tower in the house which has a slightly recessed power button in the top. So leaning over the side of the desk to pop in a USB often results in the hair shifting and the requirement to lean on the box and then a powerdown followed by much swearing as the logged in user then doesnt have the ability to dismount the USB which was mounted by the system and I cant be arsed to spend two minutes setting things up properly.
In my old village there was a moderately steep hill with a humpback bridge at the bottom and a slight kink to the left after the bridge. The wall in front of the house on the right looked like it was part of some endless stop motion animation where as soon as it was rebuilt someone would knock it down again. Points were given for how high up you managed to hit it.
A PhD student of my dads had a 1930s cabriolet that was made from plate steel, One day she was pulling out of a side road on the edge of our village which had a massive wall that cut of the view of the road after 100yds or so.Despite the 30mph speed limit she was hit on the drivers door by a motorcyclist doing about 60, The panel didnt bend far enough to hit her and the motorcyclist was in a bad way, his bike was destroyed, and I mean destroyed. It took a panel beater a couple of days to restore the running board and door panel a lick of paint and it was as good as new. Most modern cars would have been written off!
I remember having fights with the design dept when I was in charge of accessibility over colour choices. It usually took a ten minute walk around various PCs in the building to show them that on most of the monitors no-one could see the difference they were asking for and if that didnt work a twenty minute calibration of their monitor to make it show the colours its was meant to show made their new visually stunning development go away.
I guess we have moved on from the font wars where people expected a particular font to have some meaning that 6.5G people knew fuck all about and are moving to colour wars where only three people in an office in Chelsea who bought their badly calibrated monitors from the same batch at the same time can see some visual difference only when they've all had 6 cups of badger shit coffee in the early afternoon ennui from their vegan beef stew lunch while listening to Enya through Dr Dres.