Category: self
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Moody
Meant to put this one up on Saturday evening. Took the dog out before bed and thought this looked cool. Those orbs are creepy.
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Alcohol-free beer and age restrictions
I’ll preface this by saying I haven’t looked at the licensing laws at all. I’m just spitballing. My mate Ian came over yesterday to help me take a bunch of stuff to the recycling centre from the shed and then we went to Tesco last night to get a few bits for dinner. Since he…
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Clearing out the TARDIS
We have a big shed. Someone nicknamed it the TARDIS. Over the past two years, we’ve put stuff in there to “sort out” but we’ve never properly sorted it out. Luckily, Ian offered to take stuff to the skip (Riverside Recycling Centre) with me. We had a few bags to fill the car but it…
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Publishing anniversaries
I got my yearly ping today: Which reminded me that I hit 11 years on Twitter just over a week ago: 11 years on this thing.#MyTwitterAnniversary pic.twitter.com/BpcGnLX9rh — Doug (@dougaitken) November 22, 2018 I think I should feel happier that I ended up publishing first on WordPress.com (via another blog before2008-03-29) rather than…
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The Outlaw King
backdating this to fill in Friday after watching this on Sunday before I watched The Outlaw King last Sunday. I saw the trailer a while back and was interested to see how it would go. I read a good article from IndieWire about how after the TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) premiere, David Mackenzie went back…
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Major League – The Missing Years
I caught this yesterday since majorleaguenj rarely post so Instagram pushed a notification to me this was in their story. And I’m so happy I did. Three of my favourite Major League songs are on this title. Baltimore and Philadelphia were both songs on the Cities and States split with Giants At Large. Genuinely…
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Learn-ups
I’ve said it before, but the more I work at Automattic, the more I feel the Creed applies to me. This week, I’ll be ticking off a few parts of it and I did so twice today by holding learn-ups for some colleagues. I won’t just work on things that are assigned to me. I…
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Most oddly named towns in each US state
Saw this one on Twitter the other day: Most oddly named town in each US state pic.twitter.com/Bv04osyD5O — Terrible Maps (@TerribleMaps) November 24, 2018 Not geographical curiosities but still geography related. Terrible Maps didn’t link the article but I will – These Are the Most Oddly-Named Towns in Each U.S. State by Estately. Ding Dong. Oh,…
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Geographical curiosities
I’ve long had a love of what I refer to as geographical curiosities. I’m not sure if there is a proper word for it. For a while, I even had it mentioned on my personal homepage (history). I saw the flash talks from this year’s Grand Meetup had been uploaded last week so I went…
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Spicy chips on pizza
Still thinking about the pizza I had last night and the extreme beliefs my coworkers & I share about pizza toppings: https://twitter.com/derekspringer/status/1065331334027997184?s=21 Read the thread from here: I had pizza earlier. It had spicy chips on it. pic.twitter.com/KuFryr58Qj — Doug (@dougaitken) November 21, 2018
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