I was called to a job yesterday.. "they just cut through their internet cable while redecorating, both ends of the cable are accessible, they just need rejoining."
🔌
Nobody told me one end was a ~100pair (200 wires) and had been cut almost back to the wall.
Needless to say.. I couldn't repair their internet, without having engineering access to put a tone on the line from the exchange I had no hope of guessing which pair it should have been connected to 😭.
#BT #BTOpenreach #Openreach #DSL #VDSL
It's FRIIIIIIDAAAAAAY! As ever have a good weekend, if you possibly can. Whoop whoop!
RIP John Mayall
For those of over 60 John Mayall was one of the ways we discovered the blues (and its interaction with Jazz) in the 1960s/70s.... a fabulous advocate for the blues whose (often) mixed-race bands were a lesson in recognising your influences.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/23/john-mayall-blues-dies
Went for a walk. The clouds were in fine, fine form. Slightly badly behaved though.
Seriously, the clouds were spectacular today. Look at this fluffy beast!
#sillyScribbles #cloudCreatures #silly #nonsense #skying #googlyEyes
Portrait of Myfanwy van Egg, aka horned wimple FTW
Fuchsia flowers, in both bud and blooming forms, always make me think of fancy frocks. So aye.
The sun is peeking out. It's due to rain later. I desperately need to go and tidy the garden a bit as it is even wilder than usual.
Bah. Don't want to, but I'm going to, because apparently that's who I am now.
#PPOD: NASA's Curiosity rover ran over a rock and found crystals inside! They're pure sulfur. Elemental sulfur is something we’ve never seen before on Mars. We don't know much about these yellow crystals yet, but the team is already at work to figure it out! Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
It's all fun and game until your Windows-powered electronic bidet decides to power wash you.
@laica
強制再起動で尻の穴壊されかけました
English: Forced reboot almost destroyed my asshole
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.