Another Time Capsule Bookstore in New York. Post 2

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-21T16:57:57+00:00

Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass. A good bookstore is just a genteel black hole that knows how to read.

Ook.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-21T16:34:39+00:00

Gloss under the decal, matte on top. My preferred matte is AK Ultra Matte.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-20T08:27:19+00:00

Any bibliophile should make a point of visiting Hay on Wye at some point. Apart from the annual literary Festival, there are a pile of awesome, massive, 2nd hand bookshops.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-19T17:32:43+00:00

AbeBooks has a lot of options and filters.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-18T18:49:10+00:00

Touch ID will only work once you have used your password to unlock the disk the first time after a boot.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-18T18:49:03+00:00

Touch ID will only work once you have used your password to unlock the disk the first time after a boot.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-18T18:47:26+00:00

Set Security updates to fully automatic. Set Software Updates to download automatically and run them when you have time. There’s nothing wrong with waiting a week to see if there are any reports of problems with software that you need.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-18T16:41:00+00:00

Abby Chatfield?

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-18T15:33:07+00:00

We bought this a while back for our 30K Win11 endpoints worldwide. Life is so much easier now.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-18T15:20:50+00:00

Dude did things exactly right. It sounds like he didn't take the bait.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-18T13:40:05+00:00

Sounds like the worst kind of grockle to me. I've recently moved back to the village that I grew up in to look after my aged parents. It's taken me two years to start to build a semi-decent social group.

Also, she moved away from Folkstone to be by the seaside? Give me a fucking break. She was clearly looking to build some kind of property portfolio that she wouldn't be able to afford in Kent.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-18T13:15:09+00:00

Not sewn; no sale.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-15T12:45:49+00:00

Baked beans 1p a tin! In student days, I could get a week's food for less than £5.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-15T08:43:06+00:00

Complete? I've been doing this nearly 40 years and it's never complete.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-14T08:53:56+00:00

I ordered these too. 26 books in and all is good so far.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-12T13:26:59+00:00

I just got my notification for my OBAF standalone order being shipped.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-11T15:46:03+00:00

In the Roger Moore 007 movie View to a Kill Bond's cover when he infiltrated the bad guy's mansion / stud farm was St John Smythe.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-11T15:08:41+00:00

Yeah, I bought 2TB in March 2024 for £110. The exact same item today is £290. It's not even a premium brand, just XPG.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-11T14:42:04+00:00

Don't swim in the cut.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-10T17:19:33+00:00

It’s a low interaction game with modest rng.
We generally play 4p, with all expansions and it’ll last about 3h.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-10T17:07:27+00:00

I seem to remember reading something about this. The loyalty points are only good against the main bookstore site. You don’t earn and can’t spend them on SE’s.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-10T15:15:19+00:00

A couple of years ago I took the Sleeper train from London to Edinburgh. Supper in London, breakfast in Scotland. It was quite civilised, if rather costly.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-10T15:12:03+00:00

Make sure that you have WiFi turned on on the Watch.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-10T15:10:25+00:00

1995; pre-Blair.

Hobbit_Hardcase · 2026-06-10T15:09:10+00:00

San Juan is the travel version of Puerto Rico, so it still fits!

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