For years I've thought there should be an app for trades to review customers so that others can avoid the weird/mental/disturbed/pervert/religious extremist types. I have met so, so many flat out mental, weird and dangerous people I could have avoided.

No waking up one morning to find all the buttons have moved and changed colour because of an update

My absolute favourite album bar none.

The main riff literally changes key halfway through. Excellent creative stuff.

In the 1980s the USA was having a puritan time of it, automobile-wise. If you look closely, the DeLorean's dashboard in Back to the Future was painted so the speedo looked like it could accommodate 88mph. In truth all dashboards then were mandated to stop at 80.

I've actually got a PhD and not sure how they're mostly funded, tbh. I got mine when there was a glut of scholarships at the uni where I was zero-hours teaching (and where I did my undergrad).

The tip of the NASA space ship looks like an electronics PCB so I've added some extra components like a resistor and a capacitor to help

They missed some bits off the kit but it's ok I've got it (sorry about my bad soldering tho)

Got my CD signed by the storm yes I did

Alright Peter Bradshaw. Blimey.

I live on the SE coast and there's local lore here that says if a cold north wind comes in the spring it will stay for six weeks. I've lived here long enough to say that's true. It's going to be really cold here until May at least. So, no lamby weather here.

You're quite right. I've always thought it was an Enid Blyton-inspired story anyway. The past is cosier and less frightening than the present, it means it will date less readily, and a lot of good horror fiction is set in the past or near-past, so I could argue it continues that tradition in a way.

Wait but no-one has checked about trains did he get the train maybe

I love that record.

Made it, can't thank you enough!

Thanks so much that's really kind of you!

11:35 in Walmer. I think we might *just* make it, though I did see a passenger with a guide dog get on at Deal. Obv I don't know where they're going but if they need the connection too I would suggest they need a bit more time than an able-bodied passenger to cross platforms

@serailway.bsky.social Hi, I'm travelling between walmer and Canterbury west and the train is delayed from Dover, any chance the Canterbury connection in Ramsgate can be held for a moment to wait for us to come in? Thanks

I couldn't possibly comment.

You're not interested in my fascinating ex-BT international operator chat? Why tho
I once spoke to Sean Connery YES I DID

If someone called in who couldn't reach an international number, we would call through to the country concerned and ask one of their operators to test the line for us. Ten internet points if you can guess which country had the rudest operators on the English-speaking network.

When I worked on operator services a colleague had the most amazing mental arithmetic skills. He could add/multiply/work out the square root of the telephone numbers in the time it took to type them in. I thought he was pulling my leg until one day I took a calculator into work and, my god. Skills.

Ex-BT international operator reporting. Leading digit tells the exchange where to send the call: preceding 0 for out of current area code; preceding 1 for operator services (100, 144, 155 (where I worked)); 2-8 - local lines within your area code; 9 - emergency services. Designed for exchange speed.

Ex-BT international operator here, can confirm this is correct. More precisely, the call is going somewhere nationally but outside your own area code. Dial 00 first for a *very* outside line.

I needed to read this. Thank you x

Try Radio 6, it's really good and staffed by folks who actually know and care about music. I like it.

Terrific album!

These live radio feature docs I make are done with realtime music improvisation with amazing musicians responding to the material they hear. The interview clips are pre-edited and cued on Ableton Live so the shape of the show is set, and the live Announcer and poet(s) are cued in by me "conducting".

Screengrab of podcast artwork. It's available wherever you get your podcasts, folks.

The last episode of the Goodwin Sands Oral History project is up. This isn't your usual dull and worthy oral history ep - this is a hauntological radio feature doc about the sea and how it changes us. Broadcast from a wrecked ship in the Channel, it was recorded live in 2024.

Same re Seinfeld! Just couldn't get on with it at all, and the twangy synth bass interstitials sealed the deal.