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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • There was a really fun show I found… Let me get the name… “Joe and Katherine bargain holidays”, where they"vacation" on a “budget”, in the first (or second?) episode the go to an owl sanctuary, where they learn it’s 3$ (pounds) to hold an owl, Joe is flabbergasted by this and announces that he’s going to spend more money holding owls than on anything else in this episode, I think they started with 10 owls for 30 pounds, then asked to round it up to a dozen, then a bakers dozen. It actually looked like something I’d gladly spend money to do, and I would imagine it’s a pretty good cause.

    The series is posted to YouTube, and if you haven’t seen “task master” I cannot recommend it highly enough. Joe and Katherine are on season 2. Save season 7 until you’ve seen enough of it to be comfortable with what’s going on, because it’s an amazing season (as they all are) but the cast is the least restrained in their antics.





  • I find it incredible that there’s differing tidal forces on either side of the canal, it makes sense since there are no locks, but that isn’t something a lot of canals have to deal with.

    Also water running past limestone is a problem under normal circumstances, water running past limestone at that sharp of an angle, you wouldn’t catch me going through there (though now it’s been reinforced).

    The talk of the overland system that they used before the canal is kinda funny, ‘it would take a hundred people to pull the vessel’, I know exactly where they got those people (hint it was the sailors).









  • I was just talking about this yesterday.

    My wife has a top of the line “remarkable” with upgraded storage space, she’s grandfathered into that option, which is no longer available. it’s now entirely monthly subscriptions, she wouldn’t have had the opportunity if she weren’t an early adopter.

    We used to swear by “never buy iteration 1 of a generation” but today it seems that if a product is going to be successful, it’s going to get degraded in iteration 2.

    Textbook enshittification. Now you have to take a chance on something being good and the company sticking around, and buy in before it gets on the radar of investors.