"I run tournaments on social media to determine the nation's best-loved choral compositions" - see, that makes you an Influencer, and everyone knows that Influencers make loads of dosh, so you could have escaped the Groundhog day-style "why don't you have a real job" loop.
Jonathan Bromley
@bromleyj.bsky.social
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Lapsed physicist, retired nerd, choral music fanboy, drools over wilderness landscapes. Prone to extreme grumpiness in the presence of scientific illiteracy. Husband and fond supporter of a stellar Parkinson's advocate.
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No apology appropriate, especially not for the Gabbiano.
Unfortunately my appreciation of views of Venice has been compromised since childhood by the malapropism of an elderly relative who, after a visit there, was gushingly enthusiastic about her tour of the Dodgy's Palace.
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I hear that the Bad-Nezzar dynasty was increasingly unhappy about the negative connotations of their name, and chose to change it.
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yeah but he had VISION and LEADERSHIP QUALITIES and INTEGRITY and PASSION and lots of other things that I don't have even in my LinkedIn fantasies.
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For years I had a DREAM that almost all power wiring in homes could be 48V DC. PoE if needed, but just plain 48V could run under carpets and behind wallpaper using film cable. Tap into it anywhere with insulation displacement. Completely safe. Plenty power for LEDs and small gadgets.
Ship sailed.
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Ubiquiti was founded by an Apple alumnus. Recent Ubiquiti packaging ("unboxing experience") has a very high-end Apple-ish feel to it. Maybe coincidence; I was a UniFi adopter a long time ago, and things weren't as pretty back then.
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I don't think you need any convincing of that, but should you experience any doubt, you could dispel it by visiting central Oxford in August.
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and neither January nor February are blighted by every fricken garden centre in the English-speaking world being rendered impassable by gargantuan barricades of Christmas tat.
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Please pass on any tips you may pick up for constipation management...
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Oh god. You blague 'ard.