Things I Have Enjoyed & Learnt 010
Still very sad about the crappy "summer" weather we've been having.
Things I Have Enjoyed
"Enjoyed" probably isn't the right word, but our household has found strikecalendar.co.uk very useful. Having it automatically sync with our Google Calendars is very useful.
Oppenheimer was good. A change in style for Nolan, perhaps?
Signage at the South Pole. The domain brr.fyi for a South Pole blog is amazing btw.
Rotten Tomatoes' list of the best movies of the last 25 years. Only a couple I haven't seen, and nice to see two David Fincher movies on there.
The policeman coming out of the slide. I need a serious breakdown of the physics and how he managed to build up such a speed.
The opening credits of Amazon's Jack Ryan.
The competence porn in season two of The Bear. As someone who worked in the service industry for a few years there are aspects of it that take me back.
Can I ride all 6 Isle of Wight ferries in 24 hours? M:I:7:DR:P1 wishes it was this tense.
wanderlog for trip planning. Paid for itself twice over in one day when it notified us that our hotel had dropped £70 since we booked it. Does some really interesting integrations and the UI is pretty good.
Talk To Me is a great little horror movie. Not the best trailer though, so no link. Go in blind.
Things I Have Learnt
The first remote control worked via sound waves.
The UK has a Fundraising Preference Service that's supposed to stop Charities contacting you.
The highest-capacity metro line in the world runs for only seven days per year.
It is safe to keep poison frogs as pets in the UK because they can't eat the toxic (to us) diet which makes them poisonous.
Antarctica is high-elevation. The Amundsen–Scott station at the geographic South Pole is 2800 metres (9000 ft) AMSL. The atmosphere feels more like 3400 m (11 000 ft) because the Earth's spin draws the atmosphere towards the equator. For comparison, the pressure right now where I am is 1019 hPa, whereas at Amundsen–Scott it's 660 hPa.
People who are blind often suffer from Non-24-hour Sleep–Wake Disorder because the body does not receive the usual cues from ambient light.
We don't know what the "p" in "pH" stands for.
The End
Hopefully it's getting sunnier now?
Alby