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Probably 39% of your recommended daily intake. But the measurement is per-serving for however many portions the package claims to serve.

You've dealt with Public Relations people and Project Managers!

If you had been inside, and not heard them, you would not have known the package was on the doorstep. Someone delivering won't know if you were in, but incommunicado, or out.

Colour me impressed. My memory (I'm talking about maybe 30 or 35 years ago) is that riding anything below 30" on roads could be interesting (doing a wheely on a bike with luggage in rear paneers is not recommended). Off-road, of course, lower gears could be very useful.

Just catching up - I think spring is here! Some weeks ago I read in a weekly paper that the English asparagus season was early this year, and the Marky Sparky would have it in stock. Maybe in some hallowed part of London town, but not here guv. Today I went to Tess' and at last it's here. mmm, griddled asparagus.

Sizing of bricks in the 19th century can be a bit of a plunge down a rabbit hole. From your picture I make the following guesses: 1. The lengthwise bricks at the right are facing the camera (so top and bottom are out of view). For new bricks it is not possible to tell if they are facing, internal (lower quality) or specialist. 2. I think that the end-on bricks at the right are each slightly more that a quarter of the length (gaps between the face-on bricks. 3. The bricks at the left might be different, they are stacked with much more air between them. I can't make out enough detail to see the main "wall" part of the bricks at the back, beyond noticing occasional gaps. A guide to a little about imperial brick sizes in the past https://www.imperialbricks.co.uk/guidance/everything-you-need-to-know-about-imperial-brick-sizes : note the modern (20th century) 'Imperial' bricks shown as 228mm by 108mm were variously 50 to 80mm tall. For a deeper dive, try https://jaharrison.me.uk/Brickwork/Sizes.html (from the first page, heights of 42mm to 90mm). A random search produced other sites suggesting special purpose bricks such as engineering bricks would be at the taller end of the variations. In the absence of example bricks, all we can really say is that for the 19th century the likely length was 9 inches. So I suggest you work from that. For me, a more interesting question is what colours the bricks appear in the period you are interested in (i.e. after probably decades of weathering and smoke). Some of the bricks in the photo seem quite pale, others a deeper (red?) colour. In my own case, railway stations built in the 1860s and viewed in the 1960s tended to have very mixed colours of locally made brick - built down to a price, with added facings (pebbledash, I suppose) on the side facing the prevailing wind/rain. Better quality bricks used for facings on higher quality buildings were probably much more consistent. Research the sort of building, and location, you intend to model. Then make your decisions, and when you are happy with them go for it!

A few hours ago I was watching the 6pm local ITV news. In the middle of that was something about what would be on the national news. I think you can guess what it was. Starts to sound like a conspiracy. And yes, the Hogwarts word was mentioned.

Those who read TNM may have already seen this because I posted on the wrong topic. Nothing to do with parallel strips of metal, this is where I intended to post it. <sigh/> When I was idly killing time looking at so-called news on my phone earlier this week I saw a lot of posts saying that iplayer apps were closing down, with a comment from the BBC that it was too expensive to continue. When I can be bothered, I've been using get_iplayer (on linux) to download things - quality often not brilliant, but good enough to watch on a computer monitor. Having closed down all the other things I was doing, I thought I ought to stop installing the perl modules get_iplayer needs. But before that I gave it a try - working perfectly, including local news from Thursday evening.

Doh, I've done a @polybear and mixed up ERs and TNM!

When I was idly killing time looking at so-called news on my phone earlier this week I saw a lot of posts saying that iplayer apps were closing down, with a comment from the BBC that it was too expensive to continue. When I can be bothered, I've been using get_iplayer (on linux) to download things - quality often not brilliant, but good enough to watch on a computer monitor. Having closed down all the other things I was doing, I thought I ought to stop installing the perl modules get_iplayer needs. But before that I gave it a try - working perfectly, including local news from Thursday evening.

I think that acceptable bedside manner may have depended on where/when a doctor was trained. For several years I 'worked' online with someone who had started out studying a science (i forget which, possibly physics or astronomy), switched to medicine, but at the end was unable to become a doctor because of his bedside manner (lack of empathy, or telling it to them straight). Dealing with him online, he was a fun guy and spent a lot of his time gaming - I think he was unemployable. Neurodiversity is no doubt over-diagnosed, but for those playing with software it is a feature even more than for those playing with toy trains. In the end, it seems to have got too much for him. I still miss him.

I think that must be the Buddha from Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, otherwise the Buddha you meet on the road. More commonly, the Chakras can be aligned using Malachite, the various shades of BR(S) coach / EMU / DEMU green, and Improved Engine Green.

Thanks. It caused me some grief for a long while, I'm just persuading myself to let it go.

Well, I'm starting to think I'm making some progress - not yet close to the forbidden things, but in sight of spending more time trying to play me guitars. I usually keep such late hours that it would be unfair to the rest of the street to practice. Long post, feel free to ignore and please don't offer me supportive emoticons, I'm just writing this down to get it out of my system 😀 And the reason for this ? In the early 2000s I started using what I will call a linux distro - it's actually more of a glorified How To, with the emphasis on learning. In those days, the usable software you could build and run on a desktop was limited. After a while I got into editing the main book. Later, there was a shortage of people to handle the "other things you can build" (desktop and server packages). I got snuckered into that and gradually stopped updating the original book. So far, so good. But I've never done computer studies. Gradually I picked up TeXLive (a programming language for creating prints or PDFs) after somebody noticed that the way we bootstrapped it left a few binary programs. Managed to find (old) examples of using those parts, created test files, and ended up doing all the updates for those. About three and a half years ago, with another guy, I instituted Security Announcements so that people who actually use the distro can avoid vulnerabilities. I'm pleased with that part. Then about 3 years ago one of the main toolkits went to "releases are for paying customers only, becoming public after 12 months" (they needed to persuade users to move to their latest version, but the main free software user has only just done that). In the meantime, the engine of the web browser was a fork of chromium and therefore had to be available under the GPL license. And web browsers, along with the infernal javascript processors, are things which need to be up to date in the current Wild West of the internet. But no releases, clone the main part and the sub-tree whenever it looked as if they were ready for a release, then try to get it to build on a current (arguably bleeding-edge) system. Much of the hard work had been done by other distros, otherwise I would never have got anywhere with it. Now, that is all over, back to using releases. But meanwhile the number of packages and releases has grown astronomically and there are knock-on effects from updates to the rust language (one of the guys seems to be up to speed with that, but I don't understand the fixes he finds) and that slithering language (Python-3.12 - that really is bleeding edge, it breaks a lot). In the end, I could not keep up with it and I started losing track of which steps in a process I had, or had not, done (e.g. did a final security advisory this afternoon, forgot to pull the current git tree, created the advisory, tried to push it, discovered I was out of date. Fortunately I was able to renumber it, fix up the links, and push. I'm now on extended leave of absence, and learning to ignore things. Now to turn one of my guitar amps up to 11 😈

I tend to keep very irregular hours, often reading here between 11pm and 4am or "later" , and I see the slowdowns from time to time even at 3 a.m. In particular, ERs is often very slow to go to the next page, other topics are only rarely very slow. But late afternoon (I suppose from about now for maybe the next 6 hours) is also a busy time and I think the worst delays or 'content unavailable' happen in the evening. I'm sure that the whole site being busy (several people clicking on different topics at the same time) plays a part. I'll mention that on the machine I mainly use I try to keep ERs, TNM, and the main page open long term, and look at another page or another site if ERs is slow. But I've got 100+ tabs open in this browser (I had to close a few last week, it was getting slow). Somebody suggested starting an ERs v2 the other week, I think doing that and making ERs v1 read-only might be the answer.