I remember a teacher saying there were few original ideals. If you’d come up with a design (he was a CDT teacher) there was a good chance other people had come up with basically the same idea.

Which might explain why my timeline has 50,000 jokes about the day of the triffids

It’s easily forgotten how brilliant John Smith was - I remember the shock of hearing he’d died in 94

A reminder of how brilliant Twitter can be:

One of the Simpsons writers @joshstrangehill on how one of the funniest episodes - the planet of the apes musical - was written

Spectators largely unmoved as I run by

Crystal clear day by the Sussex sea

When it comes to corporate humbug, this is in a class of its own.

Not holding much hope out for the planet given its approach to my wallet

It’s baffling to me how OVO can legally overcharge me, building up a “credit” of 2k. Then when I close the account, say it will take 3 weeks to refund (why?) - only to miss their own deadline so it’s now almost 5 weeks

Ofgem

Ten minutes of first class cross-examination. Essential viewing for anyone developing the craft

WHAT'S THE POINT OF A JUDGMENT? (a blog)

familybrief.org/2024/05/01/wha…

Five weeks to go until the Stockholm marathon. Stepping up the training

The up side of refusing to read instruction manuals is the surprises you get when you stumble across what your tv/ iPad/ running watch is capable of doing.

There’s a good Harry Hill joke along these lines. How he’s been turning up the contrast and using his computer as a light

Is it me or does Administrative Professionals Eve seem to come around earlier each year?

Mikki Disco

youtu.be/piKeDrrOrsE?si…

There’s something incredible about Man City and Real Madrid supporters singing Hey Jude - the universality of the Beatles, 55 years on

All time great songs written about actual roads (not metaphorical ones)
Autobahn
Transamazonica by Antonio Adolfo
Route 66
Highway 61 Revisited

#Sunday

Norwegian waffle time! 🇳🇴

Is it too much to expect Microsoft to have worked out how to put an excel schedule into a word document without the whole computer exploding?

Friendly reminder that we know how the Great Pyramids of Giza were built. They used water elevators, water pump impellers ('Sekhem-mu Machine'), and compound pulleys. No, they didn't use mind control, energy manipulation machines, or lost technology lmao

Trying and failing not to get annoyed at £4.40 for a coffee in Pret. Its not even a very good one

#humbug

If an objective of publishing judgments that cannot be cited as precedent (i.e. from DJ, DDJ, Recorder, CJ - with exceptions) is to inform the public of how the family court works, does the point ever come when we say - that's enough (basta!) there's no need for any more examples