penguin42 @penguin42@mastodon.org.uk

I forgot half of these tracks were by Aretha; I normally run my music player on random.

/me queues up all the Aretha in his library; hmm I must find something to de-dupe; I've got 4 copies of 'I say a little prayer'; anyone know of a good music deduper?

#SpaceX's 🚀 flights just aren't getting the same coverage they used to; I guess they've got to the point where everyone expects them to just-work. Still the first real Heavy flight later in the year might get some more.

I've just watched 'Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema' episode on Sci Fi; it's pretty good, I also watched the Heist episode which was also excellent.

odd; looks like one of my 4 year old Diaspora posts/pictures ( https://diasp.eu/posts/2441961 ) has suddenly got 4 likes in the last week or so - although all who liked it appear to have no posts.

It's not surprising some department stores have problems surviving; walking in Manchester's Kendal's/house of Fraser, that's just barely survived administration, shows the 6 floors getting decreasingly busy as you go up; hanging onto huge old buildings where some floors are pretty empty, even on a Saturday is a recipe for failure

Lots of #cranes around #Manchester yesterday - I think I could see 10 or 11 at one point.

The optics in an old handscanner make no sense at all; the one I've just taken apart looks like the same design as the Logitech scanman - the CCD is at the opposite end of the case from the window and has a really small circular lens - see someone elses pictures at:
http://www.tcocd.de/Pictures/Peripheral/Logitech/scanman.shtml
(Mine was actually the same unit but with a board for an Acorn Archimedes rather than an ISA card)

Interesting article on ammonia fuel cells; Australia trying to figure out wth to do with all it's sunshine and wind: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/ammonia-renewable-fuel-made-sun-air-and-water-could-power-globe-without-carbon

I'm glad it's a bit cooler today; not sweating away 💦

Hmmm

hmm tried to use my Vulkano swapchain and hmm now I've got 337 lines of errors. hmm it might have a point, it's not convinced my GtkImage is usable from another thread, but there again I'm not really trying to. Hmm.

I just got rained on! Hasn't happened in a month or more!

Watch out for fd's opened with O_PATH - they'll give you an EBADFD when used in most situations; quite tricky to find since they look like perfectly fine fd's