Posts by Ol'Peculier 704 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Nov 2009
I did the 3 day stopover in SG the last time I went in that direction, and there's plenty to do, see, and most importantly eat.
Never been to Dubai (apart from the airport) and have no plans to.
IMO, and based on experience, having a couple of days somewhere in the area (KL, Hong Kong etc.) saves you from crippling jet lag when you get to AU or NZ.
My local station is a couple of minutes walk from my current, and previous, local. No complaints there.
And the next station on the line has a pub on the platform serving about 15 hand pulled beers :) Have no regrets if I'm on a delayed service getting home...
When I started reading this post I thought we're going to get men on the moon before we get two extra services to York, then your comment came up.
Going way off topic, but to think there were plans for a half-hourly service to York pre-COVID.
Back on topic, I "watched" an Ariane launch in Fylingdales control room once. Once it hit a certain altitude, it was added to their database of objects in orbit, which was a system my Dad was involved with when he worked there. Was quite a fun day out!
“I go up," said the elevator, "or down."
"Good," said Zaphod, "We're going up."
"Or down," the elevator reminded him.
"Yeah, OK, up please."
There was a moment of silence.
"Down's very nice," suggested the elevator hopefully.
"Oh yeah?"
"Super."
"Good," said Zaphod, "Now will you take us up?”
- RIP DNA who's birthday would have been yesterday if it wasn't for his untimely spontaneous existstance failure.
Gold star to you, sir!
Was just a shame my knees were knackered by all the boat transfers. But it's on the list of places I'd love to go back to. They seem to have doubled the entry cost as well, but TBH if it gets rid of some of the more, um, crass people that were in the bars on San Cristobal then it could be only a good thing...
I;ve only used Starlink once, in a remote bar on one of the Galapagos islands, and despite the fact I despise Musk and everything he tries to f@$k up, was hugely impressed with the speed.
If I was to move to somewhere remote with no broadband access, I'd need two things. Access to a decent pub and satellite...
I don't think he did write using a typewriter, certainly the monitor setup shows that! According to Wikipedia his first computer was a ZX81 - he outgeeked Douglas Adams if that really is true. It's worth a read, especially about the interview he did with Bill Gates.
Towards the end of his life he had to use dictation software too.
Also, after his death he had a bulldozer run over all his hard disks so they couldn't be read.
I'm currently running through the audiobooks in my car, currently on The Truth. Still/can't read The Shepherd's Crown though.
A few days ago I was walking to the pub when I saw an Amazon branded van pull up to a door, driver gets out, delivers parcel, gets back in and driver about 2 feet before getting back out and delivering to the door next to it.
It gets worse. I'd walked past it by now but heard it start up again, and stop, after about 2 seconds.
Madness...
Just leave it where it is!
There's a lot more people go on holiday to DC than Houston I'd bet. I've been three times myself.
It's a grubby old thing though, although if I'd been round the planet that many times, I'd probably look the same.
And apparently saying "OMD?" when a tour guide is asking where the name "Enola Gay" came from is not an accepted answer...
(on another note, I asked same guide if there was anything about Sir George Cayley in the museum (he was born in my home town hence the interest). The reply? "Never heard of him"
Jeeze...
Apprently crims are moving away from drug dealing into this because it's less risk and more profitable.
I wish I'd have known how much phones were going for in Hong Kong though, I'd have sold mine when there and got a new one when I got home!
More needs to be done by the manufacturers to block phones once notified of been stolen, but of course they have no reason to do that. Every stolen phone that gets activiated is another user in their ecosystem.
