Things I Have Enjoyed & Learnt 003
Hello again. Not much to say this time.
Things I Have Enjoyed
Buzzfeed’s etiquette rules for the Terminally Online. “When you’re dining with people who post, let the phone eat first.” and “Tag your spoilers within two weeks of a premiere.”
Kraków. We only had a couple of days, but the food was great, the sights were great (especially the salt mine in Wieliczka), and it was cheap. The public transport was excellent—we had the run of the greater city area for 72 hours for 50 złoty or about £9. We’re seriously thinking about going back in the Summer.
eSIMs. The wife’s phone was playing up in Kraków and it couldn’t have been easier to download a data SIM. We did it whilst sipping tankovna Pilsner Urquell at the side of the the Vistula.
Johnny Decimal. I am constantly frustrated by the labyrinthine “system” we use at work for storing electronic resources, and I am certain that if I just think long enough about the problem I can fix it by decimalising it.
Just Another Day on Twitter: A Complete 24 Hours of Twitter Data
This thread on words without an English equivalent. Lots I hadn’t seen before, including from Indonesian:
Kami = refers to a group of people that includes the speaker but not the person being spoken to.
Kita = refers to a group of people that includes the speaker & the person being spoken to.
in English, both words are simply referred to as “we”.
Season 02 of Slow Horses. Diverges more from the book than S01 did, but it’s a better season of TV. Jackson Lamb might be the role Gary Oldman was born to play.
Gorilla by Little Simz.
City public transport apps which have the tickets in the app. It makes life so much easier as a tourist. BudapestGO was a game changer, and the hvv app in Hamburg is similar. (Pro-tip: The 15-day ticket in Budapest is cheaper than the 7-day ticket, because the 7-day ticket is marketed at tourists.)
Things I Have Learnt
Slovakia is currently trialling green front brake lights, so that e.g. pedestrians know an approaching car is slowing.
“Knock knock” (as in the joke) is “klop klop” in Dutch.
Nuclear power station control rooms are on long winding corridors so that visitors will find it difficult to locate from outside of the building.
David McCallum, who played Illya Kuryakin in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. wrote the song from which the hook of Dr Dre’s The Next Episode is taken.
iOS now has an option called “Clean Energy Charging” which will try to charge the device only when the grid is producing low-carbon electricity. I’m trying to work out what The Right are going to ask to be taken from their “cold dead hands” when they find out.
The End
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