What have you done today thread?

[Rockburner]

Has it got spaceships and/or helicopter crashes, I might be interested in reading it if so?

no, no (..t that I can remember), and no.

Although - if your favourite film is Commando, then you may well have a similar mentality to the target demographic.

[MingtheMerciless]

After tracking the book down, finally read "The Giant Killers" by Andrew Stephenson (1976), a short story set on a battlefield of the near future where 3 soldiers are trying to hunt down an advanced AI tank of the enemy. Chilling and creepily accurate use of drones (also some truly horrific bio weapons). Bloody good, but very grim and a portent to Mans place (or lack of it) on the near future battlefield.

[Count Steer]

Editor on TRC said something like 'Think of the worst book you have ever read. Now think of what we have to read and reject.'

And this is worse than that.

Must be better than that if the bank was holding it as collateral.

[cheb]

Editor on TRC said something like 'Think of the worst book you have ever read. Now think of what we have to read and reject.'

And this is worse than that.

Must be better than that if the bank was holding it as collateral.

It could have been blackmail.

[Potter]

After tracking the book down, finally read "The Giant Killers" by Andrew Stephenson (1976), a short story set on a battlefield of the near future where 3 soldiers are trying to hunt down an advanced AI tank of the enemy. Chilling and creepily accurate use of drones (also some truly horrific bio weapons). Bloody good, but very grim and a portent to Mans place (or lack of it) on the near future battlefield.

Made me think of Rogue Trooper, probably my favourite character in 2000AD.

[asmethurst99]

Took a cheapo rivet gun apart and got it back into working order eventually.
Went up west and had lunch with Tam for her birthday- spent 1/2 an hour in Covent Garden watching the street performers- came home and ordered a bath from Victorian plumbing.

[ZRX61]

Been to see a Doc. This time he didn't stick a finger or snipper up my chimney, but merely asked I visit the Vampires at the Stab Lab & get a fresh PSA number.

[Rockburner]

After tracking the book down, finally read "The Giant Killers" by Andrew Stephenson (1976), a short story set on a battlefield of the near future where 3 soldiers are trying to hunt down an advanced AI tank of the enemy. Chilling and creepily accurate use of drones (also some truly horrific bio weapons). Bloody good, but very grim and a portent to Mans place (or lack of it) on the near future battlefield.

Made me think of Rogue Trooper, probably my favourite character in 2000AD.

Sounds like an inspiration for the Terminator film too.

[Noggin]

Went to meet a friend for coffee. He lives down in Macot (just at the bottom of the mountain road) and I still have no transport. So I thought, yesterday, that I'd hitch down.

The weather this morning was not ideal! Just about raining as I set off but a lovely chap with the accent from hell (led to a lot of nodding and smiling from me, didn't understand everything ) picked me up within about 500m of me starting to walk

Great chat and coffee with my friend, then the return hitch - bit less happy as it was actually raining then BUT, one of the bus drivers from up here was driving back from shopping and he gave me a lift from about 100m from the start of the mountain road So really I didn't have to walk far at all and didn't get very wet


And it's been snowing up here for hours. Bloody lovely

[cheb]

Wandered the shore below my house, it's a been a very low tide so there's been fresh stuff to look at. I also cleared from flotsam while I was down there, nothing exciting sadly, a couple or three usable feed bags and a 5litre can of engine oil. If the latter is still oil it'll get used as bar oil in the chainsaw.

[gremlin]

Got home to find the milk had gone bad...

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Yes....the Gremlinette is home from uni.

[Skub]

Holy shit,how much cow juice doya neck?

[Yorick]

First guy checks all doors, seatbelts, lights etc.
Second does lots of brake tests.
Next guy puts car on suspension and steering rig and checks underneath while he's downstairs.
Last guy does emissions.

Might have been a bit longer than 15 mins, but felt like we were in and out in no time.

The office does all the paperwork.

Out of interest, is rust an issue on cars on the islands, or does the heat keep it at bay?

We followed this old beast today. No idea how old it is.

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I saw this beauty yesterday. All the chrome was perfect and whole car amazing

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[mangocrazy]

Slept, drove 235 miles (Sheffield to Portsmouth), got on a boat, slept on a boat, got off the boat and drove 225 miles (Caen to Vierzon), booked in at a B&B, ordered a pizza, ate a pizza, washed down with red wine, now time for more sleeps. G'nite.

[KungFooBob]

Slept, drove 235 miles (Sheffield to Portsmouth), got on a boat, slept on a boat, got off the boat and drove 225 miles (Caen to Vierzon), booked in at a B&B, ordered a pizza, ate a pizza, washed down with red wine, now time for more sleeps. G'nite.

I just googled Vierzon. It's twinned with Hereford. Can you ask if they know the colour of the boat house?

[ZRX61]

Had a visit with the hand surgeon. He's gonna try a shot of Toradol in a couple of weeks & see if that helps me any.

Rest of the day was spent ripping a bunch of music CDs to a thumb drive which will be plugged into the new sound system in the F350. The current set up in there is one step up from a wind-up gramophone.

Decided that it's not worth the price of a Sirius sub when the truck will only be drive once or twice a month.

Not sure how the fuck I ended up with THREE Nickelback albums as I've never bought one.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Not sure how the fuck I ended up with THREE Nickelback albums as I've never bought one.

It's because you want to be a Rock Star.

[gremlin]

Holy shit,how much cow juice doya neck?

You should see the amount of eggs we get through in a week or so....

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[ZRX61]

It's because you want to be a Rock Star.

They won't be uploaded to the thumb drive (ditto for U2)

[KungFooBob]

Published my first portable executable app... It puts data into SBO using the DI API interface from a separate database with parcel tracking numbers in it.

I only started it this morning and I'd never touched the DI before in my life (or published an .net app).

I'm very chuffed.

I might parameterise it and put some error handling in tomorrow.