Peter Oliver @mavit@bergamot.social

@adrianfry @sil Poll clerking is a job you can apply for. It's paid about 200 quid a day. https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20097/elections_and_voting/867/information_for_staff_assisting_at_elections

@wootube@mastodonapp.uk I think perhaps "the steps" aren't as important as we assume. An observer mostly sees style and attitude. You probably can't *really* learn to dance from one of those charts with the footprints and the arrows you used to see in old cartoons: how it feels is what counts.

As someone who also struggles with steps, I'm going to keep telling myself that, anyway.

@wootube@mastodonapp.uk Now I wonder, what did you think it was?

@sil I found it surprisingly hard, in the UK, to find a wallet tall enough to hold a twenty pound note. I managed to track one down just in time for:
a) The introduction of those new shorter plastic notes.
b) People looking at you funny if you try to pay for anything with cash.

@bigcalm Seems wrong? 2.7 kg of fat stores about 25,000 calories, which is ten times a male's suggested total daily intake.

@sil Nope, $VISUAL has been around so long that their idea of graphical was that your serial terminal had a screen rather than being a printer.

@jmtd @sil Indeed, we covered this ground last time Stuart switched editor: https://bergamot.social/web/@mavit/109788582473206984

@sil Fair point; it doesn't need to run on a TTY (assuming you have a windowing system available), but it does need to be blocking. I was mainly trying to joke that typing $EDITOR would be more convenient than remembering the name of your chosen editor, though.

@sil $EDITOR

@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 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., https://traintimes.org.uk/bhm/borneville/15:45/today (I'm never certain how to spell Harbourn or Borneville)

Used the official National Rail Online Journey Planner today, while https://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 And here he was, shortly after you posted this.