Hot & humid today, but the forecast shows a 98% chance of rain tonight. Please, make it so!

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@kdfrawg We get the occasional one, the most memorable of recent quivers was a 7.6 some 10 km underground, about 50 to the southeast. A friend on Twitter likened the experience to that of sitting atop a washing machine on its spin cycle.

It went for at least 35 seconds and rather than being the normal up & down thumpy bumpy action it was as my friend described: a squirming, twisting motion. Really weird. There were a number of rural roads closed thru landslips around the epicentre.

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I stand corrected: the WHOA is back for a limited time, available online or possibly at the brewery itself. That entails a 200 km round trip.

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I've had a few beers sitting around in a deep dark cupboard, left over Xmas gifts from two years ago. They're from a craft brewery situated in a former milk processing plant. I've just finished one brew I shall probably never see again: it was a limited edition special brew two years ago. It's called WHOA, meaning Wet Hopped Oatmeal Ale, a dry golden ale, the hops were harvested on brew day, don't get much fresher than that. No preservatives or chemicals, consisting of only water, malt, hops, yeast & oatmeal.
I'm quite impressed.

About 13 years ago, long before there were any houses here I was working 3 km to the south of this location. We observed five enormous vertical columns of water as the future fountain was tested for the first time.

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@kdfrawg An Irish native was asked by a visiting American, who'd noticed the relaxed pace of life over there, if the Irish had anything like mañana. The answer was "Yes, we have something similar. But it lacks quite the same degree of urgency as mañana."

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My 2011 MBP (the first Mac to get Thunderbolt) is the base-spec 2 GHz quad-core i7 with 12 GB RAM & an SSD replacing the original HD. At its release, it out-performed the existing Mac Pro.
This MBP continues to impress: with Geekbench 4 it's out-performing a 2013 21-in iMac that has a 2.7 GHz quad-core i5 with 8 GB of faster RAM & much better graphics.

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I set the almost 6-yr-old MBP a major task: create a DL DVD of an already PAL-encoded version of the same video using the Professional standards setting in iDVD. This was complicated my my use of the Mac in a vertical dock connected to an ext monitor - the DVD drive doesn't work well in that10 orientation. The Apple USB SuperDrive was already in use on the MBA so I used a Sony USB DL DVD burner for the job. It took a shade under 10 hours to do that job.

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Yesterday my fully-specced 11-in MBA from 2014 took about 5 hours with Toast 11 to re-encode an NTSC-sourced 1.17 GB video to PAL & burned it to a standard DVD. I thought that was pretty good for a baby Mac. Toast is quite processor-intensive.