July 2016 Archives

Review of Power Banks RAVPower 26800mAh Portable Charger

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Power Banks RAVPower 26800mAh Portable Charger 3-Port 5.5A iSmart - Black

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Powerful, heavyweight battery: great, but wish the ports were labelled!

Big, powerful battery, but still (barely) small enough to fit in large jeans pockets alongside a phone, for charging-on-the-go. Never seen it run dry, despite charging two phones each night of a two-night camping trip. Only downside is the the ports aren’t labelled and some (by design) have their maximum output limited, so if you don’t know which ones those are by heart – or carry the manual around! – then you might find that some devices charge slower than they ought to. Still a great device, and even comes with a set of USB cables (A to B-micro, as used by most smartphones) for your convenience.

Review of Pierre Calvini Luxury Stripe Cotton Rich Sock

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6 Pk Mens Pierre Calvini Luxury Stripe Cotton Rich Sock 6-11 UK, 6-11 UK, Multicoloured

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Good value socks

Perfectly fine socks at a fair price. Because losing or wearing holes in socks is sort-of my superpower, I stocked up (or should that be “socked up”?) with these and they’ve served me well.

The Illusion Of Truth

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Veritasium

Dan Q couldn’t find GC6NWBN Pansy’s Cache

This checkin to GC6NWBN Pansy's Cache reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.

Nope, no luck this morning. Thought I’d be in with a chance of an FTF for sure, but I can’t find the cache.

Both my GPSr and my phone seem to think that the posted coordinates are about 18m directly onto what’s clearly private property (and Google Maps agrees too, not that it’s always as accurate as a real life observation at GZ). Either the GPS gods aren’t smiling on me this morning, or the posted coordinates are off. :-(

Dan Q posted a note for GC6NWBN Pansy’s Cache

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Having difficulty getting closer than 18m away (according to my devices): looks like it’s in someone’s garden! Gonna assume that the coordinates are off (or the satellites hate me today) and just start searching in a wide area…

McDonalds Let the Internet Create Their Own Burgers and Guess What Happened

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McDonalds had to know what they were doing. The New Zealand branch of the franchise launched its “Create Your Taste” campaign with a special promotion: Design your own burger and get free fries and a soft drink for your trouble. Not a bad idea in theory, but then there’s the part where they let everyone share their hideous creations. There was no way that someone somewhere at the company didn’t speak up at one point and say “Hey uh, you know that the internet is just going to create the most offensive and terrible burgers possible, right?”

Tristan Cooper (Dorkly)

Note #7370

Doing IPv6 arithmetic by hand isn’t normally my idea of a fun night in, I swear. In other news, 128 bits is a LOT. https://t.co/JCAZ0Al9Wi

“Jump Man” from Footprints Tours Oxford making people jump around outside the Bodleian Library

If you’re a tourist on one of “Jump Man” of Footprints Tours’ tours, I’m sure that the obligatory “jump for a photograph” moment at the end is a fun novelty. However, the novelty quickly wears off when you work in one of the library offices right next to their usual spot, and the call of “3… 2… 1… JUMP!” is the loudest thing you hear all day, each day, throughout the summer season.

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