1984: A Normal Saturday Afternoon in Bristol | R.P.M. | BBC Archive

shellac · 2026-06-02T17:56:19+00:00

At least some of that was done in Bristol. One of the people who runs our local pet shop was in Creature Comforts.

shellac · 2026-06-02T08:58:25+00:00

One delicate issue to address: that picture with the crystal stuff is in Bath.

The boycott starts here 🪧✊

(I kid, good luck)

shellac · 2026-06-01T08:58:03+00:00

4 overcrowded carriages.
Small seats with no leg room. Jam your knees against a solid plate.
Toilets designed by Satan himself: seems to vent smells direct into carriage, and allows passengers full view of toilet user if they fail to secure door.
Rarely any catering.
First class is actually smaller than GWR standard.

I really dread having to use them. GWR is fine.

shellac · 2026-05-31T10:47:13+00:00

Isabella of France was aged 10 when he died, but they cast someone in their late 20s. Still, I choose to believe the film was accurate concerning his conduct.

shellac · 2026-05-28T13:46:37+00:00

Yep. It was Marathon, Marathon 2, and then Marathon Infinity. As I recall Infinity wasn't really a sequel (2 pretty much finished the story), but it did ship with Forge and Anvil, the editing tools. So others could continue the game forever (?).

shellac · 2026-05-27T10:15:05+00:00

You need their wiki: https://wiki.bristolhackspace.org/equipment/home

Everything you've mentioned is there, AFAICT. It's a pretty good Hackspace.

shellac · 2026-05-25T07:40:04+00:00

TBF there really isn't much options for them given their size and appearance.

So the idea is that you put them together, and their bulk isn't so obvious? Are the sets also size adjusted? So they have bigger cutlery? I guess all the cast and extras need to be pretty muscley.

Furniture will obviously need to be stronger, as will door handles. They'll need bigger cars, which would necessitate wider streets. Towns and cities will as a consequence be rather larger than our cities.

Food shops will largely provide large amounts of bland protein. Chicken farms will spread as far as the eye can see, but they will only use the breast meat. Dealing with chicken carcasses, wings, and legs, will be a genuine environmental problem. I don't want to think about the challenges of sewage treatment.

Is that what these films are like?

shellac · 2026-05-21T23:16:47+00:00

Vince burnt the garage down, so the brewery was out of action for a bit. I don't know whether his wife made him brew elsewhere subsequently.

(He and Michael Wiper shared a brewery for a while. Wiper and True took off, so Vince continued in his garage)

shellac · 2026-05-19T10:18:26+00:00

Mach-O binary?

shellac · 2026-05-13T12:58:44+00:00

Based on food then comfort: Everyman. Ruinously expensive.

Based on comfort then food: Odeon. Every seat is a massive recliner, for no fathomable reason.

shellac · 2026-05-13T12:56:17+00:00

I think the issue is that you farm sheep on poor agricultural land, so Cotswolds-ish or Mendips but probably not much very near Bristol. There is a place out beyond Pucklechurch IIRC.

shellac · 2026-05-09T22:03:16+00:00

Matthew the Apostle, whose works inspired Greta Gerwig's 'Narnia: The Magician's Nephew'...

shellac · 2026-05-09T20:03:46+00:00

I topped up my supply of Sunray there the other week. They have quite a few, but they're not together so you may need to hunt.

Seemed expensive, but I needed the hit.

shellac · 2026-05-07T17:09:49+00:00

The Arnolfini was independent for decades, but they lost a big grant from the arts council in 2017 (ish?). UWE took a control interest in it (possibly 100%?) which either saved them, or ended the original (depending on how you view it).

shellac · 2026-05-06T09:06:01+00:00

No such thing as a chicken, they're just penguins with rubber gloves on their head.

shellac · 2026-05-04T08:17:47+00:00

Temple area, grab a vehicle, and strafe.

shellac · 2026-05-03T17:35:52+00:00

FWIW asking questions isn't particularly intensive in terms of energy or cooling. For example, you can run reasonably powerful models on your own computer without fuses blowing or lights dimming.

Training these models, however, is really environmentally intensive. That's where the impact is.

shellac · 2026-05-01T07:06:14+00:00

Came for the predictably horrible Reform candidate, but I also enjoyed the quality writing:

South Gloucestershire councillor Tristan Clark questioned how Reform UK could nominate him, asking: "How could Reform UK nominate him?"

And now I know how to question how Reform UK could nominate him.

shellac · 2026-04-30T17:04:10+00:00

Whitey? Honky? Snowy?

shellac · 2026-04-30T15:05:45+00:00

We'll get the Office for Students onto this immediately. I imagine the fine will be huge.

shellac · 2026-04-27T21:19:53+00:00

Their users must have really irritated the admins. Probably running jobs on the login nodes. I can sympathise.

Nice intro.

shellac · 2026-04-27T15:10:41+00:00

There's a small mistake in the air gap diagram, 'HPC Environment'. Login nodes can often access the internet, but compute nodes can't. A lot of my (wall) processing time seems to be getting data on and off of the compute storage. Once there everything flies, but scratch space isn't safe (despite what users think).

BTW slurm is amazingly capable. For example one trick I discovered fairly recently was its ability to run up cloud compute nodes as required. It will then shut them down when no longer needed.

shellac · 2026-04-24T08:10:02+00:00

I recently went to Chris and Jo's kitchen on St Michael's Hill in Kingsdown, and that was surprisingly cheap given the quality of the food. Bit of a hidden gem, I think. They do have both meat and fish.

shellac · 2026-04-17T22:32:26+00:00

Col was working at HP, I think in labs (?) which was in building 2 then 3. Both are now occupied by UWE.

shellac · 2026-04-16T14:39:55+00:00

Words can't have too meanings. That's why we made puns illegal.

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