2015 — 15 April: Wednesday
Big Bro emailed me a photo from earlier times1 asking me who the other lad was:
It's someone I've not seen or heard of since early 1961. He was a (good) school chum of mine, named Chris Ford.
After that...
... blast from the past it must surely be time for more tea, on what looks like another promisingly-sunny morning.
I'd been wondering...
... why I got a Flash upgrade yesterday. Now I see why. (Link.) I find I don't miss "Patch Tuesday" one little bit :-)
I can understand...
... just about every word in this abstract. It's the totality that puzzles me :-)
Having disinterred...
... an elderly text file, I find this extract from it still makes me smile:
Have I Got News For You (BBC2) threw up the most unexpected, shining star since Roy Hattersley cried off and was replaced by a tub of lard. Sir Rhodes Boyson, MP, turned out to be a master of dislocated dialogue... He took off with a tremendous bound in his leopard-skin tights and mutton chop whiskers.
"Jonathan Dimbleby's wife, Bel Mooney, she was the first person who ever wrote an article in the national press about me. It made her very famous, actually." ("What did she write about?" Hislop, Ian.) "Me. There was a photograph so they knew it was me. And the newsagent bent it over so they could see." ("They bent what over?" Lipman, Maureen.) "They bent the paper over. In school, they bent over when they misbehaved. That's why the crime rate in Islington was the lowest in the United Kingdom. And then they discovered space."
By now, Maureen Lipman was wiping her streaming eyes — but carefully, the way actresses do, and Paul Merton, persuaded there was gin in the water bottle on their desk, was knocking it back shudderingly. It was like being handcuffed to a ghost. I offer you Sir Rhodes's catchy précis of John Major's speech on Europe. "He wanted us all to vote for Europe. He said it's still there. And apparently it is. They've had a look."
July 16? August 17?
It depends whether Albert knows that Bernard doesn't know, or deduces that Bernard doesn't know. Cool. (Link.)
[Long pause]
Having listened to various of our would-be rulers jabbering away, I'm left with the impression that they are very probably all a bunch of lying sh1ts. Do they really think that dodging straight answers to straight questions weakens my hypothesis?
My curiosity was...
... piqued, on finding a "recommended update" — the so-called GStreamer Bad Plug-ins — being offered to me and, after a little digging (to try to find out why on earth I'd want to add something explicitly labelled as "bad" to my system), it wasn't too long before I found myself here:
Now, there's a hobby project! Roll your own distro... from scratch.