Ha, I bet :-)

I thought the strip across the bottom was called a chyron? Not heard it referred to as a bug before (not saying you’re wrong though).

Thanks! That was near Dundee about 9 or 10 years ago.

Thank you really glad you liked it - whatever time of day it is :-)

Just for you, here’s my favourite sunset pic I ever took:

Yep, and thanks, I should have done that myself. Although setting that up as the default search takes a little more detail.

Not sure if this will help for that specific search but I recently discovered a change that you can make to your browser’s search defaults that makes Google search a lot better (for me at least), stripping away all the AI stuff.

Details in this thread: https://lemmy.world/post/19104187

My dad used to use something called Swarfega when he’d been working on anything oily, it was amazing stuff.

Tried Google’s fancy tools on it - not bad:

That’s really cool, I love stuff like this. Movie making in the time before CGI, fabulous.

Ugh.

Can you tap outside the popup to make it go away? Or maybe swipe it down? Agree that Back should be enough, how annoying!

I guess you could ask the question of someone (line manager most likely) - "Hey I saw that all these appointments are in working hours - does that mean I’m meant to take them during work time? How does it work?” - ie just play innocent and at least get clarity from them on what they understand it to mean.

In writing, ideally!

I should probably watch it again to be fair, I’ve not seen it in quite a while. Maybe I’d like it more this time.

I’m a big fan of the books who didn’t really like the movie. But that’s partly because I’m also a huge fan of the BBC TV show so, to me, that’s what HHGG should look and sound like. Particularly Peter Jones as the voice of the Book (nothing against Stephen Fry in general).

The movie had some good moments, but having Zaphod’s second head beneath his first instead of beside it was a horrible idea. And the joke at the end about going in the wrong direction to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe seemed to suggest the makers thought that ‘End’ refers to a physical location in the universe as opposed to its chronological end point. Which annoyed me quite a bit.

It’s fine though, I’m not one of these “They completely ruined it” people - there are so many different versions of HHGG what with the radio show, the books, the audio books, the TV show, and the text adventure game, that there really isn’t a single definitive version. I happen to not like the film, but the rest still exist, so it’s all hoopy.

I was at George W.'s inauguration

Washington? Wow.

Loudermilk reference?

Motorcycles are deaf?

Nice pic! 👍

Reminds me of Anton Corbijn’s shots for R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People.

Fingers crossed you don’t get burned!

Isn’t there a risk that the number you reply to might be a premium rate number, and replying at all might land you a big charge?

I don’t get many of these types of messages, but I always just block them.