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Fun fact: I have a secret bat at work nesting in my cables.

Even if you have no interest or knowledge of Formula 1, Drive to Survive on Netflix is an incredibly good documentary on the sport.

Season 2’s fifth and sixth episodes especially really show the drama and humanity involved in it. I cried.

Random things I noticed going to work this morning:

* There are recycling bins everywhere! Where are these every other day of the year?

* No traffic noise = I can keep my tunes quieter = better hearing health.

* Traffic seems no worse than usual.

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I love a big protest day. The entire city is just so much more calm and relaxing.

It gives me a ton of faith in humanity to see hundreds of kids with placards already in town hours before the march even begins, too.

The traffic outside is basically at a standstill. Gridlock.

Nothing to do with a protest march or anything, that’s just what traffic is normally like.

Today we honour our historic national hero, Pam Cakes. May her sacrifice not have been in vain.

In fact I don't think my step-dad would have met them either. He would now, but only because he got educated and trained in his specific profession in the UK.

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You know, I'm pretty sure my mum wouldn't meet these proposed new immigration rules... and she works for the government.

Spent five and a half hours identifying and shooting down IE 11 bugs in a single login/registration page.

Please Microsoft, just shoot this browser in the <head> and have it done with.

There's a thunderstorm in the @SevernBronies@twitter.com chat.

dumb dream I just had 

It was like one of those short promotional behind the scenes videos with clips interspersed with interviews.

They were making a modern day reboot movie of I.M. Weasel. The segment was about I.R. Baboon’s new backstory as an outcast, shunned by other baboons not for wearing clothes, but for his poor posture—which was described as “fish back.”

I.R. Baboon was voiced by Hank Azaria doing the Moe Syzlack voice.

Also they were rebooting Dexter’s Laboratory but in this one Dee Dee was also a genius with a secret lab; but still had an antagonistic relationship with Dexter because the type of science she did was “girly.”

Ah yes, that classic moviefilm: Marley, Marley and Me and Marley and Me.

work vent 

People who don’t know the technical aspects of how websites work shouldn’t be involved in specifying functionality for them. Yeah, your fancy form dialog selection screen thing is nice, but it’s also five to twelve hours more work than this perfectly viable other option that does exactly the same thing. :|

No unionist majority in Northern Ireland for the first time ever; Sinn Féin the largest party in Ireland for the first time ever.

Some bits have gotten better (the new input style = good improvement), some bits remain pretty bad (FABs = terrible UX), and I know the system is intended as a themeable baseline—my complaint is mainly with how Google themselves have implemented it.

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