For sitting around I’m a fan of a Chappell hat… but then you look like a cricketer, so you're kind of picking your poison.
When walking I have a Musto sailing cap, it’s at the slightly more acceptable end of the baseball cap market, but has decent UV protection... but then you look like a sailor

Mains wall sockets are very simply and safe, and most have a switch to kill power to sockets.
I don’t like the idea of also hiding a permanently connected 45w AC to DC converter in there, and screwing it into the wall. Feels like it will fail long before the socket, and potentially not in a nice way

iPlayer

You made much better use of the one man advantage than we did.
I initially thought Hume was finished, but a shame his Lazarus like recovery was only temporary.
Was Wilson the player who seemed like he had plumbed the depths of his energy banks several times too often and struggled to get up?

Happy with the result, but gutted about Bell, noticeable change in your scrum after he went off. Really hope that’s not the end of his time with Ulster.
You have to be impressed with the 2nd half comeback, I feared that one was slipping away from us.

Ohh… reading about it at the moment.

…and a happy Monday to you too!

@liss.bsky.social
Listened to Analog(ue) this afternoon.
I'm not in your situation, but my Dad is 10 years older than yours and while he's still impressively active and together, the repeating stories detail is something I've noticed. Forewarned is forearmed.
As requested, thinking Happy Thoughts!

I'm still disappointed the writers of Star Trek never took the opportunity for a great misdirect by having Pavel Chekov misplace his gun in act 1.

(Although having him ask a US Cop "Where are the nuclear vessels" in a heavy Soviet accent in cold war era San Francisco always made me smile).

I can’t decide if this is ironic or genuine… which is only making me like it more.

(But it’s real? Isn’t it?)

As someone else said, looks like a mains voltage extension cable for a C8 connector (commonly known as a “figure of 8”).

What’s on the other end?

That's an excellent point, my 'dumb' central heating thermostat would still be good today, but I replaced it in 2014 with a Nest which Google stopped supporting a few months ago (during winter!). There is an open source project that has revived it, but that has active community support and updates.

I use my council's recycling for older tech items, and even eBay for an old broken iMac (I got £5 and someone got a great source of parts to reuse).
Would be nice to see my local repair cafe help users give items like unsupported Kindles an extended life but I suspect there would be liabality issues

It's longer support than most iOS devices (latest iOS dropped the 2017 iPhone X) and much longer than most Android devices, but my Kindle is worryingly close to that 2012 cutoff.
Older Kindles can still be used with S/W like Calibre, but for most users their kindles will probably become e-waste.

100% conversion rate too, not something that can said about most Irish fly halves at the moment.

I feel like there should be some sort of handicap when you have Louis Bielle-Biarrey in your team, there are moments when it looks like he operates at a different speed to us mere mortals.
#BORvLEIC

I do live in a Victorian flat, no cavity walls, London roof that is difficult to insulate, so I set the thermostat low to avoid heating the outside world (I now sound like my mother) but I've been firmly a 17°C person for years now. Does require several sweat tops during winter, but they're reusable

One of the arguments for the try bonus point was to give teams a reason to keep playing even when they're winning/losing, but we've all seen teams sit back once they have the try BP, so the French rule that you can lose the try BP if you concede trys feels like it's in the spirit of the BP law

I've become so used to the bonus point that on several occasions while watching Champions/Challenge Cup knockout matches I've wondered why a team chose to play it safe rather than going for the the 4th try... then I remember (I don't always have the beer excuse!)

I think it was forward, but I had no idea the TMO had access to the kind of technology required to measure such tiny angles. The Welsh did not have a night of great TMO decisions.

(no bonus points in knock outs, which is why the score says 4T rather than BP)

Hit replay, Ospreys score, I shall now be keeping positive thoughts to myself.

Penalty count creeping up, which is a worry, but Ulster do look good.

...which got worse, with two penalties in 2 minutes, and conceding a try, all from a too long kick.

There's a very nice bootle of beer in the fridge that I've been eyeing up since the end of the Bath vs. Sarries game... but there it shall remain until Ulster vs. Ospreys kicks off.

...he knows what he did!

Reports that one of world’s oldest living animals had dies turned out to be wrong.
To quote Mark Twain “The report of my death was an exaggeration".

did they recover and launch them straight away? The wingspan much have presented some handling and storage issues, I’m curious if they could fit in the hangars or even the deck lifts.

I had a fantastic car, practical, comfortable, and economical (60+ mpg average), but because it was built in early 2014 not late 2014 it was only EURO5 so it had to go when the ULEZ expanded.
Tried to live without one… and 3+ years later I still haven’t replaced it, but Zipcar closing is not helping

Bank in 90s I use to regularly step off the No.6 as it slowed for a mini roundabout between stops, but I did see an American tourist suffer an unpleasant practical demo of the law of conservation of momentum doing the same on the Bayswater road. Put me off the idea of trying it at higher speed.

Its truly surprising just how many air tankers the US Air Force built since the 2nd world war.

280 converted from B-29 bombers, 814 KC-97s, 800 KC-135s, 60 KC-10s, and 110 KC-46s so far.

Over 2,000 tankers operated since 1948.