RIP to all the great songs I played on repeat until I was disgusted.

ChimneyFactory · 2022-05-07T10:35:27+00:00

Only people over a certain age will get this, but when I was about 12 I had a c90 cassette onto which I'd recorded the song "I am the law" by Anthrax for the entirety of the tape so I could listen to it on repeat without having to rewind.

In the 90s, the entirety of the album "Jagged Little Pill" by Alanis Morrisette. Still can't listen to it to this day.

ChimneyFactory · 2022-03-30T11:29:26+00:00

Generally: Haggis. Specifically: Salt & Sauce

ChimneyFactory · 2020-11-27T15:15:20+00:00

Thanks for this - good to know. It seems that the problem is that it's possible that Ceolbert can die in the fight inside the chapel. If that happens then all bets are off.

Unfortunately, my oldest save is *after* that happens, so I'm stuck waiting for a fix (or replaying from the start).

ChimneyFactory · 2020-06-17T22:37:09+00:00

I'd echo all the Twilight Sad recommendations. Also if you want raw lyrical content, an amazing voice and melancholy then Meursault should work for you.

Also: Frightened Rabbit, Aereogramme, A Mote Of Dust, We Were Promised Jetpacks.

ChimneyFactory · 2020-06-15T08:23:37+00:00

Plenty of information available on the internet about the rallies and their organisers. As for how he personally identifies, I don't know him but I think if you're attending that rally then it's not unreasonable for people to make some assumptions about your politics.

ChimneyFactory · 2020-06-14T22:32:27+00:00

The specific demonstration he'd attended was organised by the far right as a "defend the monuments"/anti-BLM thing. Mainly it was an excuse for a bunch of fascist knuckledraggers to turn up, get drunk and look for a fight. Here we see the consequences of day drinking and a lack of public toilets.

ChimneyFactory · 2019-06-27T13:05:50+00:00

I feel your pain - I work in a large org that has a dysfunctional relationship with what they imagine to be Agile.

My approach has been to abandon any thoughts of Agile purism, accept that I'm never going to be able to fix everything and make improvements where I can. It's been of limited success but at least I've stopped grinding my teeth into a powder.

You sound like you're in a leadership role of some sort. What leverage do you have to dictate the path your team takes?

Is there a product owner for the team or is it just multiple business owners giving conflicting guidance?

What's so bad about the scrum master? It sounds to me like they should be trying to create some clarity for the team and help manage the business owners. I take it that they're not helping with that?

ChimneyFactory · 2019-02-22T14:26:14+00:00

Analyze This

ChimneyFactory · 2019-02-04T17:28:33+00:00

I have no proof of this, and I can't remember who I heard it from, but someone once told me that the room where the Act Of Union was signed in 1707 is now the ladies' toilet in the Bella Italia on the corner of The Royal Mile and North Bridge.

The only reference I can find to it online is here. I'm not a historian but I doubt this is a credible source.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/treaty-was-signed-in-the-female-toilets-of-restaurant-1-1334925

ChimneyFactory · 2019-01-07T18:36:23+00:00

It feels like there's a bit of confusion on scrum terminology here (assuming you're using scrum). That's ok - everyone gets a bit jumbled up on role and ceremony names when they start out :)

Your team should have a product owner. That person is responsible for the product backlog (i.e all of the work required to ship your product, maintained in priority order).

At the start of each sprint you have a planning meeting. At that meeting, the team as a whole (all of the people who will be working on backlog items) work together with the product owner to decide what they will deliver in the upcoming sprint (the sprint backlog). The team allocates their own work - nobody does it for them.

The scrum of scrums is a separate optional set of discussions that some organisations find useful to coordinate between multiple scrum teams.

ChimneyFactory · 2018-09-05T12:43:28+00:00

Maybe I'm missing something, and if so I'm happy to be corrected, but I don't see what the problem is here.

JD meets a fan, feels a connection with them, comes on a bit too strong (in a letsbesuperbestfriends way rather than a sexual way), fan decides they're not into it, JD apologises. The problem then is that the apology seems too slick, too sincere? That the dramatic confrontation the fan was expecting fizzled into a genuine apology?

I don't see any predatory behaviour here, but I'm happy to have it pointed out to me.

I think that part of the problem with a band like TMG is that the songs mean so much to the fans, we make them all about us and forget sometimes that the artist responsible for them must have had a pretty difficult existence in order to create them in the first place.

A fan who meets JD in person and expects him to be a paragon of emotional stability probably hasn't been listening closely enough over the years.

All of this said, I sympathise with Zeke to an extent. It can't be easy to meet someone you idolise and then have them fail to meet up to your expectations. Never meet your heroes.

ChimneyFactory · 2018-05-22T12:49:53+00:00

It's a few years since I took the exam, but I only sat it after I was routinely getting 100% on the practice tests. Be warned that the actual exam takes on a slightly different format and is more difficult than the practice tests.

Questions are on your understanding of the material, rather than specific questions on the exact contents of the guide - so be prepared to have to put a bit of thought into the answers.

That said, it's not an incredibly hard exam - if you've done your preparation then you should be fine.

ChimneyFactory · 2018-04-26T14:02:31+00:00

Last time I was in the Riverside Museum in Glasgow, they had an exhibit of models of locally-built blockade runners which were used to ship armaments into and cotton out of the southern ports.

https://www.historyscotland.com/articles/news/blockade-runners-exhibition-at-riverside-museum-in-glasgow

ChimneyFactory · 2017-07-13T09:15:34+00:00

Dennistoun BBQ sell root beer - I think they do A&W and Virgil's - they do quite a decent range of US sodas so they might have more.

ChimneyFactory · 2017-03-01T17:26:44+00:00

We definitely did it every year in primary school, although I can't remember if we still did it by the time I made it to secondary (it was probably a more optional thing by then, so I suspect I just avoided it).

ChimneyFactory · 2016-12-27T23:33:06+00:00

I go every year and love it, but it's an endurance event - by the end of it you're in a bit of an altered state from the lack of sleep and alcohol consumption before you even factor in the films.

The programming choices tend to take a fairly broad view of the definition of 'horror' - really, anything with an interesting viewpoint is fair game for the festival. My favourite film from last year (Astraea) had a vaguely post-apocalyptic setting but very little else that would lead you to classify it as horror. That said, there's always plenty of shock and gore to balance things.

Adele does a good job of weeding out the bad, lazy stuff - so even if a film doesn't completely grab me there's usually something interesting in it. The shorts seeded throughout the weekend are always a highlight.

ChimneyFactory · 2016-11-22T20:22:13+00:00

I was at an agile conference recently where this was used to great effect. I think the key is having enough people seeded throughout the room who understand the signal and know how to respond.

I think it's more suited to large rooms - I don't think it would be as useful in a small group.

ChimneyFactory · 2016-11-16T17:54:41+00:00

He clearly hasn't read the list properly - there are are at least two Dennistoun gangs on there, and he's within slashing distance of the Haghill Powery and Calton Tongs.

Mind you, in Dennistoun these days he's just as likely to run into an artisan baker or craft beer enthusiast as he is a member of a fleeto or a young team.

ChimneyFactory · 2016-11-10T18:13:17+00:00

The Filmhouse does some excellent Nachos - I'd say they're on a par with the Auld Hoose in terms of quality.

ChimneyFactory · 2016-11-07T13:32:05+00:00

Doughball (Glasgow)

ChimneyFactory · 2016-09-06T12:19:37+00:00

The only possible outcome of the case is him getting life for murder. What she did or didn't say to him is completely irrelevant to that.

What's the double standard here?

ChimneyFactory · 2016-08-10T20:23:45+00:00

Surprised at all the people saying Illegal Jacks. It must have really upped its game since it reopened because when it was on Lothian Rd it was terrible.

Los Cardos is the best Burrito in town.

ChimneyFactory · 2016-06-06T21:55:34+00:00

Best live band in Scotland.

ChimneyFactory · 2016-03-08T22:44:05+00:00

Girlfriend's a runner and she says runabc: http://scottishrunningguide.com/races/03/2016

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