The @BBCRadio2 are playing ‘This could be the last time’ currently
I certainly hope not.
I’ve been to the supermarket for the first time in over a week and I have two observations
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they seem a bit short on Buy One Get One Free offers and
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it’s difficult to panic buy stuff when you’re walking home
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to all who are celebrating, or trying to celebrate!
Clearly everything’s grim for everyone….but I finished self-isolating last night so I can’t help feeling quite chipper
Winds, floods, pestilence…..and now I find myself agreeing with @piersmorgan
Piers Morgan@piersmorgan Do pubs, bars, restaurants, cafes, theatres, cinemas close or not?Ridiculous of @BorisJohnson to just ‘suggest’ it & not ban it.Not least because these businesses will be forced to close but can’t claim on insurance if they’re not ordered to.
This must be clarified - urgently
Powershell command to show number of @GoHugoIO markdown per year of publication
select-string ‘publishdate: ' *.md | select-object @{L=‘year’;E={$_.line.substring(14,4)}} | Group-Object -property year
RT @salisbury_matt: If you’re stuck at home, as I am, then you could do worse than streaming one of my daughter’s songs a few hundred times…
I’ve got quite a lot of my sketchnotes on my shiny, new github pages website now
The titles need to be tweaked, but you can tell what’s what I think
#TodayILearned that powershell logs all commands by default in
$(Get-PSReadLineOption).HistorySavePath
…mine is:
C:\Users\matty\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\ConsoleHost_history.txt
(via a @CBergmeister comment here:
People always look very cheerful when they’re bumping elbows
" I’m no epidemiologist so I won’t pretend to be a qualified judge of whether they are doing the right thing.
I am persuaded that they are sincerely endeavouring to do the right thing."
20 people died from radiation [at Fukushima]
Many more, about a thousand, lost their lives as a result of the decision to evacuate: casualties of car crashes, heart attacks …
Sometimes the obvious reaction to a crisis will not be the correct one.
Magnolia, as the sun was starting to set
I described @Ben_Aaronovitch’s Rivers Of London books as being ‘like Harry Potter grew up and joined the @metpoliceuk’, but this description is better
RT @ProfessorUnwin: Despite concentrale and intensey listenit, finding it impossibold to understab a worm of incomprehensifole gibbery from…
Boy George, I think, had a record label called ‘More Protein’
I always assumed/hoped that was a reference to Stanley’s sign
This was his sign
As per the pic, James talks to Stanley Green, the guy who had the ‘Less Protein, Less Passion’ sign who seems to have been a kindly, gentle chap….albeit vaguely reminiscent of Jacob Rees-Mogg
“Talking about how things used to be is one of London’s unchanging attractions” - Clive James
If you’re stuck at home, as I am, then you could do worse than streaming one of my daughter’s songs a few hundred times