Neil Gaiman's tribute to Terry Pratchett [bbc.co.uk]
Missed opportunity! Just read an online article about toilets fitted with motion sensors. Disappointed to read further that soft coloured lights illuminate the toilet bowl when a body of sufficient size approaches it. Just a plain old IR detector.
Not a proper "motion detecting toilet" at all.
@der_jeff Have to blame the previous owner for that. You may have heard of them, a company that's fairly big in tech these days. Apple.
A reseller has had a deal with them for about ten years: they buy 2-yr-old laptops that Apple execs have finished using & sell them on to the public. They're all max spec, this 11.6 inch 2014 MBA has 512 GB SSD, 8 GB RAM & a 1.7 GHz Haswell Core i7.
@literary That's horrible news. As far as I'm aware, NO* virus can be treated with antibiotics. So extreme cleanliness is essential.
*that's the message decent medical practitioners out here are being prompted to tell the public.
The not-so-decent practitioners are those weak arseholes who bow to their patients' demands to provide antibiotics anyway. And there are too many of those scum.
@hazardwarning 76 sq m? Bloody hell, that's nasty, my place is 88 sq m & that's a 3 bedroom unit on a big double house block, there are 6 others of the same size here.
@literary Be very careful if it is RSV. Wash hands thoroughly & often.
// @indigo
@hazardwarning Barry Morse aslo played the role of naive and highly unpopular President Johnny Cyclops in the mid-1980s LWT TV series "Whoops Apocalypse," which can be vieded/downloaded on YouTube.
Hmmm: naive & highly unpopular. Reminds me of the current Prez.
// @matigo @streakmachine
@streakmachine mentioned on pnut.io that he had added all those following him to his follow list. I decided to do the same and have just done so here as well. There were some surprising omissions.
@phoneboy I saw three different blurbs all animating OK; all about I am a fish.
// @matigo
@der_jeff Even with the 24 month statutory warranty we get in Oz, that would have run out in August last year.