Same for composer Ralph Vaughan-Williams. Since the last name starts with a ‘f’ sound, people think it’s ‘Ray Fiennes’ or ‘Ray Vaughan-Williams’. Granted Vaughan-Williams is a very niche example that most people would not have heard of.

I hope I’m not wrong in hyphenating his surname.

I was thinking Tom Scott or Auto Shenanigans

Send them… Back?

Well, the design of the plug also implies the design of the socket. I was born in the eighties, and I’ve never seen an electrical socket without a switch, except for the appliance socket used for the cooker, which is behind where you install the appliance - the switch is higher up, above the countertop where it is accessible.

Basic extension trailing sockets don’t, most of the time unless you buy a snazzy one. But it’s by no means a recent development.

Tom Scott has a video all about the UK power outlet plug and socket and it’s an engineering marvel. The switch is just one feature.

Maybe nothing. It was dormant for years. When they wired it up they ruined its ability to ever rotate ever again. St John’s Precinct had gone to shit and they have no money, so unless they can funnel their ridiculous cash cow of a car park into fixing it up and putting a restaurant back in there, I can’t see anything happening in it.

There was a rumour about it being turned into a Weatherspoon’s. I hope not.

I did the gallery tour last time I was there. That was nice. Maybe the owner can continue to operate tours, it could remain quite lucrative in the tourism season. Liverpool has no shortage of visitors. Just keep maintaining the lifts and it will take care of itself.

Yep, same with the-shitty ass Kaiser Permanente app, which itself is just a webview wrapper around the crappy kp.org website. I cannot screenshot my test results, or any other screen within the app, but I can go to the same-ass page in my browser and take my screenshot from the website.

+1 for PipePipe! I love it and it Just Works®. Quick updates too.

some say a comet will fall from the sky, Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still Followed by billions of dumb-founded dipshits Some day the end is near Some say we’ll see armageddon soon I certainly hope we will I sure could use a vacation from this Stupid shit, silly shit…

One great big festering neon distraction I’ve a suggestion to keep you all occupied: learn to swim

Mom’s gonna fix it all soon. Mom’s coming round to out it back the way it ought to be…

Tool - Aenima

Yay. I just tried it and it works.

Depends. It was dogshit when it launched, but now I get over 100mbps down. I did have to relocate the wireless modem box they gave me, though. And of course, YMMV, as did mine at launch.

Correlation ≠ causation. Exactly. But it is an interesting connection. It won’t make me better but I’ll take less worse!

I think The Amazing Digital Circus, despite having achieved ‘broken the internet’ status, is still quite niche for the moment. Might have fallen on deaf ears.

Don’t put the headset on.

Fuck the Daily Mail.

Wargames (1983)

Gotta have lashings of Bisto gravy, yorkies and good ol’ British Maris Piper potatoes too. Occasionally carrot turnip mash if you’re feeling posh. Cauliflower and broccoli if that’s your thing. Served by Lynda Bellingham.

Americans know it as Apple Crisp, because the US has to perpetuate the myth than American English is anything but a bastardisation of an existing language and therefore have different words for the same thing.

And yes. Hot Ambrosia® custard, not ice cream, and not Birds®. Just as I was served at school dinners (which somehow bow are called lunch).

Or Colmans English Mustard. English Wasabi, I call it.

Reminds me of the short story podcast ‘The Truth’ episode - “They’re Made out of Meat”. In fact I think it may have been a short story I once read online beforehand, that they may just have dramatized. (?)