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@bigcalm I've preferred keyboards without numeric pads for many years now, starting with an old IBM PS/2 model intended for server cabinets. They're widely available these days, described as "tenkeyless". On the rare occasions I have to go into the office, I find myself bashing the mouse against the side of the keyboard where I expect the numeric pad not to be.

This class 730 has new train smell, which is like new car smell but with wider gangways and walk-through carriages.

@dracos I wish they'd label the platforms northbound/southbound, etc., as well as just "Towards Bury" or whatever, though. Visitors typically do not have a mental map of Greater Manchester, and don't think hoping to find one of these paper maps should be mandatory.

@dracos I think this is new problem: I don't get a sensible error message if there's a typo or misspelling in a station name, e.g., traintimes.org.uk/bhm/bornevil (I'm never certain how to spell Harbourn or Borneville)

Used the official National Rail Online Journey Planner today, while traintimes.org.uk/ briefly wasn't working. You'd think in the last two decades they might have caught up on ease of use, but nope.

@sil Are you organising a pub crawl this year, and will it be on Wednesday?

@rythie Taking a photo of a screen showing the purchase details would do it, too.

@sil Even if it was somehow true, what would you do about it? Break your function into lots and lots of smaller functions, which you then call from... another multi-line function?!

@jameswallis Re your article in today’s Telegraph, Trivial Pursuit is good now?! What was the fix?

Yesterday I ate my first Tim Tam. I was expecting Penguin, but there was something about it that put me in mind of the Tunnock's Caramel Wafer.

@rythie ...Although, novelty aside, I don't get the use-case for an e-scooter over an e-bike for most people.

@rythie I wonder what the reason is. Vested interests? A lack of imagination? A desire to save the car industry? Bikes perceived as being for weirdos? A reluctance to admit we should have started building cycle lanes decades ago, or admit that we should be building them at all?

@heydon When charities ask you to tick the gift aid box on their donation forms, they always forget to mention that there'll be an exam on it eighteen months later.

@bigcalm I'm a bit mystified by this. Who has half a day for kneading and rising, but not ten seconds to measure a teaspoon of salt and another of yeast?

@sil Here Comes the Summer by The Fiery Furnaces: take your pick from the last day in May, the 29th of March, or July the 3rd. youtube.com/watch?v=n6FDrlOGLz

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Time for a cuppa... Earl Grey please!