Finished my last cup of tea of the year.
Now drinking my last champagne cocktail of the year.*
*(Okay, yes, the only one of the year.)
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Finished my last cup of tea of the year.
Now drinking my last champagne cocktail of the year.*
*(Okay, yes, the only one of the year.)
Irish smoked salmon, cream cheese, tomato, onion, and capers on a homemade bagel.
Security for thesession.org
Life, crawling over death.
Mass grave of the Lusitania.
The old cemetery in Cobh.
Watching this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures—it’s hardware hacking all the way.
@Seb_ly would approve! http://richannel.org
Back in Brighton, sitting in a cafe, reading about @meyerweb’s blog post in the paper.
Flying out of Cork’s nascent spaceport.
Bye, bye, Ireland.
Slow air on the flute.
Having a pint of Murphy’s and listening to some tunes.
Lighthouse under the moon.
Jessica and Ballycotton lighthouse.
Ballycotton lighthouse at dusk III.
Ballycotton lighthouse at dusk II.
Ballycotton lighthouse at dusk I.
Jessica by the sea.
Heading out to The Roaring Donkey for a pint.
Sleepy doggie.
Dog tired.
Roast potatoes.
Christmas table.
Clove-studded onions.
Ham.
Thyme, rosemary, and sage: aromatics for Christmas dinner.
Fireplace.
A dog’s life.
Lapdog.
Cuddling a mogwai.
Murphy’s
Sincerest thanks to the team at @24Ways for putting together yet another fantastic collection of articles on this—their tenth—year. Cheers!
All of my friends who have young children seem to be undergoing some kind of shared post-Frozen traumatic stress disorder this Christmas.
A good night out drinking with childhood friends, gently chiding me for turning out to be a complete fracking nerd.
Off to Ireland.
Watched “Youth In Revolt” again …the only film to feature an acting appearance by my favourite astronaut, Michael Collins.
True story.
My haul of Brian Aldiss—or my Hauldiss, if you will—from today’s shopping trip to the Open Market.
Tonight’s menu.
Skatepark at dusk.
CryptoATM
A @SalterCane Christmas card, courtesy of @ChrisTT:
Coffee at home.
Pizza.
Friday night is pizza night.
The @Clearleft office temporarily empties while we step outside to wave at the people in space.
The next ISS flyover is in 90 minutes.
Immigrant Song just came on the office stereo, so I felt I had to share @SalterCane’s take:
Thank you so much to @ChrisTT for inviting @SalterCane to be part of his midnight campfire Christmas concert this evening. It was great!
Downing tools. Let the games begin.
“C’mon TARS!”
TARS
To the untrained eye, the fact that I spent the afternoon sitting at my desk making a paper robot could easily be mistaken for time-wasting.
Say hello to my little friend.
Making robots out of paper.
Back in @DukeOfYorks to watch Interstellar again, this time in glorious 35mm.
It’s always beer o’clock somewhere.
One programming language with two demographics: JavaScript for kids, and JavaScript for grown-ups.
Green chili.
Watching the Geminids.
Getting festive with @ThePhysicalWeb.
Carrots from the garden.
Rolling my own speaker cone, quite literally.
Watched the International Space Station fly by over to the west.
Now I’m wondering how @AstroSamantha’s espresso machine is working out.
Fish’n’chips.
Perusing the new edition of @beep’s classic.
Playing with hardware and software, making things that go beep in the night.
Hello, little fella.
That’s well out of order, that is.
Filing bugs on taco buttons (is a sentence that I just wrote).
It was an honour and a pleasure to be part of the recording of the 200th edition of the @WorkingDraft podcast this evening.
Vielen Dank!
Jellyfish RGB LED
Forest of wires.
Seb and his toys.
Sebsplaining.
Blinkenlights.
Unwrapping some Christmas goodies from Santa @Seb_ly.
The term “webinar” is a “shitiword”.
Getting ready to workshop with @Seb_ly.
The Berocca must flow.
Writing a technical blog post right before going to bed ensured a night filled with mundane dreams of web components.
“Got you on television, babe.”
Watching Apollo 13 and following along on Spacelog:
http://apollo13.spacelog.org/02:09:36:12/#log-line-207372
Meanwhile… @NewHorizons2
Tree droid.
Feeling somewhat lurgysome, so giving @GlennJones’s Hapi.js workshop a miss, alas.
Watching G R A V I T Y.
I have an overwhelming urge to re-watch Gravity now.
SPLASHDOWN!
Beautiful, Orion, beautiful.
Beer o’clock.
All systems: Go!
Fame at last!
Responsive reading material.
Another day, another beautiful @Clearleft site designed by @MhjAllan and built by @Gablaxian launches:
Deskbeers have been delivered to @Clearleft towers, which means they should be perfectly chilled for the 4:20pm Orion descent.
Desk space. Space desk.
That. Was. AWESOME!
It’s back! Yay! Go #NASA_Orion!
All systems are go and weather remains green.
Watching @ChrisMessina on Newsnight on BBC 2.
Because of hashtags.
This reality is weird. I would like a new one please.
Mindcraft.
Going to the Hop Poles for a mulled cider to celebrate the launch of @WellcomeTrust’s Mindcraft:
Scrubbed. :-(
Cutting it close! 2014-12-04T14:44:00Z
Ggggnnnnuuuunnnhhh!
New launch time: 2014-12-04T13:26:00Z
Thanks to @TheAvangelist for graciously offering to pick up some lunch for me so I don’t miss this.
The dawning realisation that I’m going to have to choose between lunch and launch.
Holding.
New launch time: 2014-12-04T12:55:00Z
Waiting for a new Orion launch time so that I can queue up the music from Sunshine accordingly.
Status: Green — cleared.
All holds removed.
“Race condition with the underscore S parameter…”
Sounds like launching a website.
Actually launching a rocket. #NASA_Orion
Hold! Hold! Hold!
All systems: Go.
Weather: Go.
T-10 minutes.
Lamb with pomegranate seeds.
Mandalorian Christmas.
Listening to a great interview with my hero, @Brewster_Kahle.
https://huffduffer.com/adactio/194141
He’s the Bruce Wayne of the web.
Tried out @TypedApp for writing my most recent blog post. It’s nice.
(the app, not my blog post)
Clicked on two different links to two different articles. Presented with two different popover ads.
Never did read those articles.
People who didn’t care when Yahoo deleted terabytes of content are now upset that Yahoo is making use of content people licensed for resale.
I’ve had this song stuck in my head ever since seeing Fahrenheit 451 the other night…
Treating myself to the festive pulled pork from @TheTrollsPantry for lunch.
It worked!
Demonstrating IndieAuth + Micropub to Jon and Charlotte.
A reign of shoe fascism has descended on the @Clearleft office.
Fa-shoe-ism, if you will.
Chicken with clementines and fennel.
Taking delivery of a second-edition @beep book.