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Sander Rossel wrote:
No standing around for a few minutes waiting for your water to boil.
That's what going to the washroom first second thing in the morning is for.
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I thought in Wales you'd just leave it outside, bound to rain sometime during the day (and night). After that you only need to train the cat to drag it inside.
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It took me long enough to teach the cat "Sit!"
And Herself doesn't let him out at night: he has to timeshare his territory with his worst enemy (Cookie from next door), so he gets the morning shift, and she gets the afternoon. That way we all avoid vet bills ...
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Aha, this proves that my decision to revert from a smartphone(*) ( which I had for maybe 3 months ) back to a folding model "old people" phone, yes: with big buttons, was the smart thing to do. I don't need to bother with all this smartphone mumbo jumbo because my perfectly capable "granddad" mobile phone can't deal with it. Hooray for that!
(*) I dumped it because the stupid device, which was running android 6, could not perform its wake up function with any more accuracy better than 0...+5 minutes with respect to the set time. For crying out loud; if you can't do that these days why do you even bother putting the damn thing on the market.
Sometimes I like being an old fart as once in a while it does make perfect sense.
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fd9750 wrote: Sometimes I like being an old fart as once in a while it does make perfect sense.
Sadly "senior moments" are underrated, for mine a damn useful tool one should always bring along.
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But, it is high tech and expensive therefore it must be better than an ordinary kettle. Or so folk with more money than sense will think. 
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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6 months, 6 reviews - this baby is going viral!
Whilst I generally regard myself as being easy to please, I'm just not quite as easily pleased as this reviewer:
Quote: I enjoy waking up and switching the ikettle on with my phone
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I also enjoy waking up - it's way better than the alternative - but the kettle isn't the first thing that crosses my mind. Maybe about fifth or so, as part of the "I NEED CAFFEINE" phase of my morning rituals.
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My kettle can often lie around unused for several weeks at a time as I gave up the caffeine many years ago. I'm just wondering though, if I did get an iKettle, whether I would gleefully wake up every day and turn the thing on with my 'phone just for the sheer thrill of it.
I'm rather suspecting that I wouldn't.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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20 ... 10 ... 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0
Launch looked good ... passed Max-Q ... 2 mins in, 8 to go ... 70Km ... separation ... 120Km, 6700 Km/h,
And the Beeb cuts from that to blabber about sod all ... 
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didn't see it, but am I right in guessing they couldn't wait any longer to get in some words from some "experts?"
you know, like when they rip off youtube cat videos and turn it into a TV show: MUST have "experts" (even if unrelated fields) commenting on each clip to make it ummm, "BBC worthy?")
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It is privatized now (space travel that is), which also means that everyone and their grandma is going to try to make money off this somehow, some way, especially when we start sending people up consistently.
Then everyone will be an expert. 
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Reading the SpaceFlightNow post[^], and others, I'm always awestruck (emphasis on "awe") on how much testing, retesting, tweaking, re-retesting, etc., goes into all of the various bits and pieces.
Quote: “We’re going to test its navigation capabilities, we’re going to test avionics, telemetry, we’re going to test the reaction control system, its ability to dock, its ability to re-enter,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.
And that's just the high level bits (probably leaving out a bunch of stuff too.)
This stuff puts my unit tests (when I even have them) not to shame, but, well, into perspective.
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49. Brook without right to cook? (5)
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ST(r)EAM => STEAM
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... Yeah. Maybe it's ...[^] 
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Quote: Fashion!
Turn to the left
Fashion!
Turn to the right
Oooh, fashion!
We are the goon squad and we're coming to town
Beep-beep Beep-beep
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She's a dedicated follower of fashion...kinks?
Got my site back up after my time in the woods!
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In previous job, I spent two years being almost daily criticized and abused my senior management. In the job prior to that, I spent 2 years working under a psychopath -- he should run for POTUS, very similar traits. Prior to that (now 4 years back) life was blissful with the contract work I was doing.
I realized yesterday, after 3 months at this lovely new job, those last 4 years left me feeling psychologically damaged. I expect criticism, cringe when the manager or CEO walks in, stress if I take longer than 30 minutes for lunch, etc.
Perhaps it's just me, being overly sensitive, yada-yada, but I'm curious if others have realized that they need to heal from traumatic work experiences?
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I don't think you realise until you are well and truly out of there, nor do you realise the damage it's doing to you. I was under a traumatic level of stress for 25 years in three different jobs, and responded by drinking far, far too much; using coke and dope far, far too much. It wasn't until I said "sod the lot of you" and just stopped that I started to get an idea that I was under any stress at all, it was just "normal". It took a long time to get to my current laid-back state!
Now I hardly drink, I haven't smoked for fifteen years, I haven't used any drugs in decades. Except caffeine, I still mainline that one.
Stress will kill you from the inside long before it manages to kill your body.
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Wow.
OriginalGriff wrote: Stress will kill you from the inside long before it manages to kill your body.
Agreed - my wife says this new job probably saved my life.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I'm curious if others have realized that they need to heal from traumatic work experiences?
YES
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
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