Re: fond memories of laboriously typing in lists of SOUND statements ...
And at an extra cost you could plug in your own microchip newsreader* and have voice synthesised fun with that.
*Kenneth Kendall
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Would you be so concerned if they'd used the voice of an actor who sounded just like Bourdain? Or an impressionist?
It isn't as if the film maker was trying to deceive the public about what Bourdain had already expressed.
Maybe we should just get Patrick Stuart to do all off-screen voices and then we can all sleep soundly knowing we've heard the truth.
I'm glad to hear this news. Wally Funk certainly deserves her trip into space.
I recently read the book about her written by a BBC journalist. There was also a radio programme (or it could have been a podcast).
She comes across as a rather eccentric woman. In the past the word 'tomboy' would have described her exactly.
I always enjoy the shock-horror newspaper reaction to the way thieves spend their ill-gotten gains.
It's usually along the lines of 'spent the money on expensive cars, a new house, holidays abroad and designer handbags.' Gasp choke!!
When I rob a bank/footballer/charity/ I spend the money on sherbet-dabs and cheesy wotsits. Nothing to tip off the authorities there. Although I do now need a new warehouse or two to store the rather bulky cheesy wotsits in.
I think this a a good thing. Someone to look at how things are going to have to change after spending 47 years in the EU.
How being independent will mean sorting out our own rules and regulations. How we are going to interface with the rest of the world. What our obligations and commitments will be without the support of the rest of Europe.
The government is now totally in charge of the ship and if we're to avoid the reefs and sail happily in the Tory Blue waters of free enterprise unfettered by the chains of the octopus-like bureaucracy that was our immediate past then I'm all for it.
It would, also, have been a much better idea to have looked at all this and more before pulling on the eject handle.
"as wealthy an organisation as the Catholic church"
Being a Catholic schoolboy at the time the 'concrete monstrosity' was being constructed I can remember there being lots of fundraising carried out in the community. With that in mind I think the Liverpool Catholic Cathedral was funded locally* and not from the 'wealthy organisation' you may have seen swanning about in private jets etc.
Of course the original plan was much grander.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Metropolitan_Cathedral
And you really should try going inside the 'concrete monstrosity' before condemning it entirely.
Yes it should be 'Danger Will Robinson! Danger!(and possibly another Danger!)' accompanied by the flailing of robotic arms.
I'm currently re-watching Babylon 5 and to my great shame* I keep thinking 'Danger Will Robinson! Danger!' every time Lennier appears on screen.
*I'm not ashamed by it at all.
My bugbear is companies that use the same codes. Philips codes for example are used on my Marantz CD player and Arcam amplifier. The CD player has an adjustable volume control and the amplifier's remote will activate it. So if I want the music a little louder or quieter using either remote gives me a double strength change.
For a universal remote I bought one of those new-fangled internet connected IR blasters. For only £10 and a little time and effort I can now turn on my bedside DAB radio from anywhere in the world.
Never seen Hackers but a search brings up pictures of the protagonists on roller skates. No thanks.
It'll be one of those disappointing films like the one where students are made dead (made dead?) and brought back to life while connected to computers and the like. For science, naturally.
I think it was called The Bus That couldn't Slow Down.
I recently learned that I have what is termed 'Aphantasia'. I can't conjure up mental images. (Or sounds for that matter.) I'm also rubbish at maths.
I'm of the 'follow the instructions' persuasion when it comes to Lego. Minecraft for me is a tedious slog. I can't 'see' what I want to build so after fruitlessly dropping blocks on top of each other I end up with, well, a pile on blocks on top of each other.
On the plus side when someone says 'don't think of elephants' I don't.
I bought this from my friendly local Lego shop. Lego were doing a 'Welcome Back' promotion so along with a big wodge of Shuttle bricks I came home with a couple of simple to build bag kits, an ice rink kit and an Amelia Earhart Lockheed Vega 5B kit.
I'd joined the VIP program and earned enough points to get the Ulysses model but that was well gone by the time I'd got to the Lego web site.
Looking at the estimated cost of buying the bricks to build Ulysses (£21.24) I think I'll might just order the bricks and follow the instructions from Rebrickable.
I wonder how many ice rink pieces are common to the Ulysses?