Ah, yes, thanks, it never occured to me this might seem like a risky click. It’s entirely wholesome. Just like me.

Wow. This will piss the wife off - she complains about Pink Floyd guitar noodling when we’re in the car, never mind 50-odd years worth of Hawkwind! A playlist awaits!

I used the internet.

One of the most successful and popular global TV shows of all time.

He tended to just ape the Orangutan. Heh. Ape. Orangutan. See what I did there?

Can we. for once, not bring Trump into everything?

Over many years in a huge variety of tech roles, I’d like to add an additional rule:

• Always schedule an update or re-configuration on a Friday afternoon, preferably during a bank holiday weekend.

1. Get real good at Geoguesser
2. Post details to local facebook groups
3. Repeat
4. Once I’ve been proven right a few dozen times become a global sensation
5. Save a life on the daily

I love just a little on hot buttered toast. Too much blows my taste buds.

I’ve never specifically thougt about where I source my kitchen knives but I have:

• Sabatier Aîné & Perrier¹ 20 cm chef’s knife and a paring knife, carbon steel, olive handles.
• Wüsthof 20 cm chef’s knife
• Henckels boning knife
• Victorinox filleting knife, an insanely dangerous tomato knife, and half a dozen paring knives which get used for everything and are so cheap you’d be mad not to have a few.

So, I guess I’ve been buying European as long as I’ve been buying kitchen knives.

1. Back in the early 19th century, two separate knife makers, both called Sabatier, started making knives in Thiers, France. There weren’t any real trademark laws back then and many other ‘Sabatier’ manufacturers appeared. By the 1970s there were as many as 30 different manufacturers all using the Sabatier name. Some of them were really cheap crap. Sabatier Aîné & Perrier are one of the two originals, and I really like their knives.

I have two I take on every holiday with me for cooking, one I use for veggies, one I use for meat. Whether it’s camping or self-catering, I always have sharp cooking knives. Both carbon steel too, for that harder edge.

I think it’s short-termism combined with capitalism.

Capitalism tells people that success equals money. Short-termism tells people to focus on how much they can grab right now.

Look at the actions of C-suite level people. They do what they can to increase profits this year to get a massive bonus this year. If that means laying off half the company that’s ok because they’re incentivised to maximise profits now. So they do. The next year they’re off to a different job at a different company and they will get that job because “When I was CEO of Mongoose & Felcher I increased YOY global profit by 270%”. Their focus is never on the actual well-being of the company or its employees or on the social or environmental impact of the company because their bonus isn’t dependent on those things.

Politicians are much the same. If they’re not in power they want to get into power. If they are in power they have to act as quickly as possible to achieve their aims because they might only be in power for a single term.

One of my favourite ‘business’ ideas came from Gus Levy who was CEO of Goldman Sachs back in the 1970s. He came up with the term ‘long-term greedy.’ The idea was that you dealt fairly and honestly with your clients, never gouged them, kept your word, and did a good job. Sure, you might make slightly less profit from those clients this year but you would keep them as clients next year too.

No-one seems to be long-term greedy anymore.

Thanks, all. Debian got the most mentions so I’ll start there!

Kreps or kraeps

In England those would be pancakes or more rarely crepés. They’re what we have on pancake day.

The thicker American pancakes would be called American pancakes, sometimes Scotch pancakes or drop scones.

I remember the first plane hitting and just gawping at the TV. That seemed bad enough. Fucking passenger plane hitting a skyscraper. WTF? Then the second plane hit the other tower and while the guy on the news was still umming and erring, I knew immediately that it was deliberate.

Why did we give up the joy of shopping locally and in-person for convenience?

Time and convenience.

Going to a local independent bookshop, or whatever, is almost always a better experience. Going to specialist shops is almost always a better experience. But Amazon offers everything: and order can be done and dusted from your sofa in one minute, and you don’t need to bother figuring out who stocks what you want since Amazon has it. And if you have Prime, you’ll have it the next day with zero shipping costs.

Sure, it’ll probably be counterfeit but… time and convenience.

Shitting biscuits. Wish the Labour Party had won the election rather than these Tory cunts.

Mine chose each other and were ok people. Not ideal parents, they were emotionally distant which has left me with some mental garbage but they weren’t cruel, didn’t fight much, and generally tried to do the right thing.

Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.