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I've eaten "doughnut holes", but I've never seen anybody market "bagel holes". Untapped opportunity? ๐ค
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Off to my first day at Firstup. Gotta have an induction: get my ID badge, learn where the toilets are, how to refill the coffee machine, and all that jazz.
Except, of course, none of those steps will be part of my induction. Because, yet again, I've taken a remote-first position. I'm 100% sold that, for me, remote/distributed work helps me bring my most-productive self. It might not be for everybody, but it's great for me.
And now: I'm going to find out where the water cooler is. No, wait... some other thing!
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As the UK's heatwave continues, the dog and I were delighted that this morning was sufficiently overcast that we could manage a proper walk without completely melting.
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A French Bulldog on a forested path, panting happily.
Her breed copes badly with the heat and we've lately had to keep her indoors or in the shade more than she'd like, so a chance to run around among the trees was very welcome!
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I know how I'm SUPPOSED to read it, but when I see this I can't help but imagine a conversation like...
"What shall we call our car wash?"
/waves hand/ "I dunno."
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Google Maps screenshot showing the location of a business seemingly called Waves Hand Car Wash Cheltenham.
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On our family Slack, Ruth and I have a tradition of reacting to one another's messages, where no other emoji seems appropriate, with a "person rowing boat" emoji.
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I can't remember exactly how it started. Possibly one of us was using the text search to find the "robot" emoji (probably in reference to our robot vacuum cleaner, which used to be more-frequently found hiding under the sofa than anywhere else in the world).
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But whatever the reason, the game stuck. And because you can leave multiple emoji responses to a Slack message - and because Unicode permits a diversity of gender and skin tone options for this particular emoji - sometimes this results in a whole flotilla of rowboats parading beneath our messages.
And if an emoji armada isn't an excuse to demonstrate the fact that the <marquee> tag still works in most browsers, for some reason, I don't know what is.
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Doxxing an Imaginary Person?
This morning, Google pulled a video from YouTube belonging to my nonprofit Three Rings. This was a bit of a surprise.
Apparently the video - which is a demo of some Three Rings features - apparently fell foul of Google's anti-doxxing rules. I'm glad that they have anti-doxxing rules, of course. But in this case, the person we 'doxxed' lives on Some Street, Somewhereville. Which I'd like to imagine is clearly a made-up address, but maybe not! -
The unrepentant bleppy face of a dog who, without fail, steals the warm spot I've left behind on the sofa within like three seconds of me standing up.
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A champagne-coloured French bulldog sits askew on a blue blanket atop a grey sofa, her tongue sticking out and to the side, as she looks at the photographer.
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Have I posted this joke before? It's all a Blur.
Accessible description: Dan, a white man with a goatee beard and a faded blue ponytail, stands in a darkened kitchen. Turning to the camera, he says "I get up when I want, except on Wednesdays when I get rudely awakened by the tadpoles." Then he holds up a book entitled "Pond Life".
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Sometimes LinkedIn's approach to anonymising who looks you up isn't very effective.
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'Anonymised' LinkedIn notification advising that 1 hour ago, 'Founder at WordPress viewed your profile'.
I wonder who that could be? ๐
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Sometimes all you need to complete the perfect offset geocache is a GPSr, some hand tools... and the willingness to unilaterally declare a remote bench to be a memorial to a fictional person, just to get a particular set of numbers out into the world!
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Dan, a white man with a beard and long, blue-tinted hair, sits sideways on a wooden bench behind which overgrown tree planting can be seen. On the back of the bench is perched a handheld GPS receiver, and in Dan's hand is a small screwdriver and a hand drill. The bench has a plaque attached (parts of which have been censored for the photo), which reads: In memory of George Oscar Cacher who spent ... years exploring the world. Died aged ..., ... July ....
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Pretty sure there isn't a prize for Throwing Wet Sponges At Children during the graduating year's "fun run" at the school sports day... but just like the kids are asked to, I'm going to try my best. ๐
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Not just a global issue but a local one too. A local one... almost everywhere.
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Series of coloured bars trending from blue to red, representing relative temperature change in Oxford, UK, for the last 111 years, showing a clear average increase of a couple of โ.
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Happy Stone Circle Sunday! The youngest and I went out to Avebury Henge, the world's largest neolithic standing stone circle and henge.
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On verdant grass and under clear skies, a boy in a white-and-blue 'Sonic the Hedgehog' t-shirt strolls in front of a line of about half a dozen enormous standing stones.
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Note to future self: when you want git to tell you all the files you've modified, but not those you've deleted (e.g. to pipe through xargs and feed to your linter for bulk-linting), the command you're looking for is -
git diff --name-only --diff-filter=M
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In case you weren't already a little nervous or uneasy going in to the dental clinic, the doorstop at my dentist's front door will fix that for you.
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Sculpture of a rock with a zipper mouth behind which can be seen an uncannily-realistic set of teeth.