h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

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Ghost Horse Bag by Simon Monk. It's not a real object. It's not a photograph. It's a painting. The holes in the board are also painted. From a set of paintings which need to be seen to be believed. On at the Beecroft in #Southend until the end of May. https://www.southendmuseums.co.uk/exhibitions/Jennie-Sharman-Cox-and-Simon-Monk---Double-Take #art

Had a fun time installing Windows 98 in a virtual machine, for the nostalgia of it. Very thankful to whoever made tool which patches a memory cache invalidation bug - modern CPUs are faster but not as forgiving, causing shell32.dll to crash https://github.com/JHRobotics/patcher9x #windows #qemu

The Natural History Museum used to sell huge lumps of rock, such as this Madagascan ocean jasper geode, for thousands of pounds https://web.archive.org/web/20170625085956/http://www.nhmshop.co.uk/ocean-jasper-geode-mineral-piece.html

Doing the backup of my laptop's data, which I haven't done in years. Be better than me - sort out your backups today! #webdev #python

Triodos comes top of the list of ethical banks again this year, with HSBC at the bottom https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/sites/default/files/flipbook/Issue200Preview/12/ #banking

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Diamond Geezer talks about pylons https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2022/10/londons-pylons.html?m=1 - featuring the amazing Open Infrastructure Map https://openinframap.org/#9.86/51.51/-0.087 Not many pylons in London, but I've photographed the tallest.

"no one is interested in RTT controllers" 🔥

A Tour of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup is a great guide of how to write good, idiomatic C++ code - which bits to use and what to avoid. #book

Success: got a box of covid tests free from the local library. More than just books!

Vote in the pub! #southend

Mike Massimino's book is a very good read, covering the Space Shuttle and Hubble, and what it takes to become an Astronaut. #book

I love all Catherine Fisher books, and The Relic Master is no exception. An exciting sci-fi/fantasy adventure story, which is easy to read and hard to put down. #book

Level of detail available on https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/ by region. What's wrong with North East England? Not enough volunteers gathering info? cc @democlub

More coronavirus testing means more positive tests, so can we make any comparisons with the spring? Nothing beats putting numbers in a spreadsheet and giving it a go! https://dbatley.com/blog/2020/09/covid-population-rates.html #covid

The XKCD Map Age flowchart helped me date this globe https://xkcd.com/1688/

Squash plants growing up an A-frame

Book: The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. A sci-fi book from a Chinese perspective. #book

Sweetcorn #plants