Führer

I was happy just to hear some upbeat national anthems for a change.

Weekend Warm-up Pundit Predictions Performance

Laura playing it safer than Lawrence and Will gives her an extra two points (who is Ferrari, anyway?).

Laura extends her lead even further. Lawrence has a lot of work to do to keep in contention.

No Linux From Scratch? Absolutely worthless.

Jim Morrison reverb?

But they use lava lamps as a RNG! (oblig Tom Scott)

In deiner Haut will ich gern stecken
Was sich liebt, das darf sich lecken
Man steckt nicht drin, ist kaum zu stemmen
Ich werde mich dahinterklemmen
Sehr viel Sinn ohne Verstand
Du hast mich in der Hand

In the words of Paul Simon - when it decides to call you Betty.

Oh no!

Anway…

Are you saying the rouble is rubble?

I’ve had it a few times, the first time was the worst because I had no idea what was going on. Didn’t have it again for about 10 years and at the time I was flying regularly so I’d take a nasal spray for the descent and also try to breathe out my ears (hold nose and mouth and blow). Only a couple of occassions since that there’s been a little, but I do get anxious at times.

I was like you, couldn’t live without gesture nav and stocking with Samsung launcher. Have now gone back to buttons and looking for a replacement. Was running Nova back on my Nexus 5 but been running stock on my phone since 2018.

Weekend Warm-up Pundit Prediction’s Performance

Lawrence bottled his return, failing to capitalise on Laura’s out-there predictions with even more out-there predictions himself, but Checo earns him a consolation point. Will makes a solid effort on his return.

Season standings at Summer Break

Will’s useful points haul pulls him up to 3rd equal (but 4th when taking average points per appearance into consideration). Laura making a decent start with her almost full season of appearances (contrasting with only making five appearances in 2022).

Full results table

Section 30.5d of the Sporting Regulations:

Normal weekend (13 dry, 4 inters, 3 wets):

• 2x Hard
• 3x Medium
• 8x Soft

Sprint weekend (12 dry, 4 inters, 3 wets):

• 2x Hard
• 4x Medium
• 6x Soft

They get additional inters if practice/qualifying sessions are declared wet and they use a set.

So it’s your fault, then. Only thing out there is the sweepers.

It should at least be more exciting than Hungary. Race so boring Jolyon restorted to talking about the waterslide in his analysis (full version on F1TV).

Zhou learning a bit too much from his team mate about how to handle turn 1 at Hungary.

Weekend Warm-up Pundit Prediction Performance

Ignoring Max, Laura’s the only one to make any accurate predictions after Checo’s improved performance. Ferrari being Ferrari is detrimental to Alex and Sam.

Laura increases her lead as we head to Belgium for the last race before summer break.

There’s a gif of random coloured splats covering it over. When it first went up it had a snoo with SPEZ written in white on a red background for its eyes. It was heavily brigaded. If you click on any random spot it’s most likely a brand new bot account, or a bot account from last year.

Usenet was the first time I interacted with the internet as it was the only thing accessible from the Unix lab we had access to (email was available but we didn’t use it). This was 1994. I was on alt.music.pink-floyd during the height of the PUBLIUS ENIGMA puzzle.

I kept using it up into the early 2000s. I’d jump on in the morning before going to work, and that’s how I found out about 9/11 (it was 12:46am NZ time when the first tower was hit). I had gone to our local newsgroup for our city and there were messages in all caps “TOWER COLLAPSED” and then “BOTH TOWERS DOWN”. I wondered what was going on, then turned on the TV where our main channel was feeding in the live news (I think it was CNN). We just sat there horrified, watching before we eventually went off to work.

I eventually stopped using it when web forums and other sites took over for me (fark, slashdot, metafilter) and then my ISP dropped support for it. Google Groups didn’t mesh with me and I never went back.

When I first jumped on here and got my head around federation, it took me back to those Usenet days because in a sense this is almost the same. I’ve seen lots of people say “federation is like email”, but to me it’s like Usenet.