JohnSmith

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Two long walks with the dogs & no alcohol. And probably as a consequence, I’ve slept really well. In my age these are more than little wins.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

This happens easily for big successful organisations. Over decades a strong culture aligned with how they succeed forms. Once the market changes requiring a culture change, a seemingly invincible company suddenly stumbles. They simply can’t respond even if they what they should change.

Ex. Rolls Royce CEO stated this phenomenon well: culture eats strategy for breakfast.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Alternative headline: journalist is upset when the PM didn’t say what he wanted the PM to say

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Quite an interesting news nugget.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I too left reddit with the API mess and have not gone back. No regrets. Welcome to Lemmy and the wider fediverse. I think you’ll like it here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Is there a bigger societal waste day-in-day-out than people sitting in traffic jams? Any measure that reduces car journeys taken is a good measure in my books.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Currently on holiday in the Cotswolds, UK. So long you stay away from the main touristy spots it’s good, even though we are in the middle of the tourist season.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

The number of arsehole men is too damn high. Whenever I see or hear these stories my blood boils.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Trump playing ‘the wisdom and experience angle’ seems like a great strategy. I wish he goes for it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You love what you love. If others don’t, that’s cool. I quite like some songs by Nickelback, but they aren’t quite my favourite. I find myself listening to Creed from time to time and I think they are great.

As for AB, the best band ever as far as I’m concerned. There is not a single AB album I haven’t played again and again. I’ve seen them live ten times or so, and will go see them every time I get the opportunity. And Myles could sing the phonebook and I’d still love it.

 
 
 

UK has it great when it comes to live music. Small venues, arenas, stadiums. Big artists, small artists, almost anybody worth seeing will have a gig here at some point. I grew up in a country where my favourite artists hardly ever visited back in the day. I’ve lived over twenty years in the UK, but I’m still in awe of the shere number of gigs to choose from. It is brilliant!

 

The filet marinated overnight in a mix of HP sauce, soy sauce and sweet chilli sauce. The file was in sous vide in 50 C for just over three hours and finalised on the coal BBQ. The end result was great if just a bit over cooked for what I was aiming for.

tasty end result

 

We’ve all seen the JSO protests in various events. I’d like to think a good number of people here agree with the point they are making while being uncomfortable about the way they make the point.

I for one would not run into the field in Twickenham in the middle of the final. There is no cause in the world that would make me run into a professional Rugby front row.

Putting that to one side, how would you protest to make people really stop and think without annoying them to a point where your message suffers.

 

The history of computers and software is full of nerdy and obscure jokes well beyond the caricatures of exiting vim. Complier compiler (explain that to most people!) to yet another compiler compiler to bison is one of those.

What are your favourite obscure computer nerd jokes?

 

We heard on the radio today about a somebody who’s named their dogs after rock stars. We’ve been at it too. We had Lzzy and Slash in aquarium and now we have dogs called Myles (Kennedy) and Ronnie (James Dio). How do you name your pets?

 

I heard today a hilarious story about a person trolling an ebay seller. The item was listed with a £10 target price, which the person thought was not going to be offered, so made an offer of £5. The seller replied with £7.50. Okey then, my offer is now £4.50. The item did not sell. The following week the item was listed again. The person offered £3.50. The item did jot sell. The following week the item was listed again. The person offered £2.50. The item did jot sell. At £1.50 the seller was becoming rather upset about this approach. What was the reply, you might ask. “See you next week.”

 

The wait was too long so it became Thursday BBQ instead. In my defence the weather was really nice this evening where we are. Chicken thighs and halloumi pepper skewers with a Mediterranean potato salad and a salad of various greens from the fridge.

 

Heinz bean getting a lot of free advertising lately.

 

Two types of kebab, tzatziki, humous, piyaz salad, ezme salad and turkish bread. All home made from fresh incredients.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Fresh out of the oven. My wife is a wizard in baking. For me its all just black magic. I’m not complaining, though!

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