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Today, I just agreed the sale of the flat (that’s “apartment” outside of British English) that I inherited from my father (who died three years ago yesterday), and I’m marking the occasion by splashing out on a pack of 36 creddits to fuel a gold train.
/r/MegaLoungeVIII‘s getting crowded. Who wants to come up to /r/MegaLoungeIX?
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As described over there, I’ve come up with a way to make graphs of the speed of everybody’s ascension through the MegaLounges. But because everybody up here in /r/MegaLoungeIndia is far too important to have to ask for things for themselves, I’ve pre-generated graphs for you all. Here they are:
Hope that provides some amusement and diversion to you all.
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The original link was: https://danq.me/megamegamonitor/progression/avapoet-timeline.html
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Hi all,
Just pushed out a new mini-release, v94, if you’re interested. The major changes are:
Updated version is on its way to the server now; give it 10 minutes and then update, or wait and your computer will update MMM for itself within the next 24 hours.
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My meeting at Westminster Abbey finished marginally sooner than I’d expected, giving me time to find one more London cache before getting on a tube at St. James (and eventually onto a bus back to Oxford). I opted for this one, and spent a little while looking at exactly the hiding place while I waited for a man having a smoke right in front of it to finish and wander off! Bit of a tight squeeze out of and into the hiding place, but not a hard find. TFTC!
(My 300th find!)
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Didn’t plan on geocaching today, but after I ran early on my journey into London for a meeting at Westminster Abbey, I thought I’d come out and find this one. Didn’t have my GPSr, but my phone managed to deliver me to exactly the right spot for a reasonably easy find. TFTC!
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I lived in Aberystwyth for a little over ten years: sort of went there for University and then didn’t get around to leaving. I guess I fell in love with the hills and the bay. Left eventually, five years ago now, but there are still times I miss it.
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I’ve just finished a long work week, got home, and made a gin and tonic, and I’m looking at the ice cubes bobbing in it and noticed something I’d not paid attention to before: the cubes seem to be opaque in their core but more-transparent towards their crust. You can see what I mean in this photo.
Now other photos, like this one, show that the effect isn’t universal (and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen perfectly clear ice cubes before, too). So… why are mine opaque?
If it helps:
Thanks!
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I’m confused as to how this differs from e.g. ELI5. What’s the difference?
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This is MegaMegaMegaMonitor. It just seemed to make sense that if you get gilded in /r/MegaMegaMonitor, you’d go somewhere. Here is that somewhere.
Being here’s quite cool: it gives you an extra special “gilded” icon and tooltip instead of your regular “Uses MegaMegaMonitor” icon (if you have one), when other people look at you. Note that like all MMM data changes, it can take a few hours, even up to a day, before people start seeing it!
And that’s all you get. Here’s a list of the ultra-elite who found their way here.
If you get gilded here… nothing happens. Honestly.
@ricmoo Looks like the RSS feed on 0x2121 has been very broken for… a while. Hadn’t noticed that my RSS reader was complaining until now.
I’m pretty sure that an outside observer, given the advance knowledge of this blog post, could easily tell when I’m in the process of getting over an illness just by the food I eat. I’m pretty sure that I have a particular ‘tell’ in the foods I look for when I’m on the cusp of recovering from a cold, like now: or, I suppose, on those rare occasions that I’ll have drunk enough to be suffering from a hangover.
Take this lunchtime, for example. I’ve been off work for the last couple of days, laid low by what seems to be the very same cold that I was sure I’d dodged when everybody else got it, last month (I blame Annabel, the contagious little beast, who’s particularly keen on shoving her hands into people’s mouths). Today I’m back on my feet, but working from home: I skipped breakfast, but by lunchtime I felt able to face some food, and quickly determined what it was that I really wanted:
Serves: 1 unwell-but-recovering person
Preparation: 15 minutes
Difficulty: if you can’t make this, get the hell out of the kitchen
4 × frozen potato waffles. I’m using Birds Eye ones, but honestly, who can tell the difference?
~ 30g mature cheddar cheese, grated or thinly sliced, brought to room temperature so it melts quickly
2 × eggs
A little vegetable oil
Tomato ketchup (alternatively, brown sauce works well)
Grill the waffles in accordance with the instructions. Meanwhile, fry the two eggs (“sunny side up”: keep the yolk fluid). Assemble in stacks, with each stack consisting of cheese sandwiched between two waffles, topped with an egg and the ketchup. Serve immediately. Eat as quickly as you dare.
So now I’m sitting here eating the taste of delicious recovery, generating 4096-bit strong probable prime numbers (like you do), and reading the feedback on a browser plugin I released recently. And every part of that is a huge improvement upon lying ill in bed.
