john.w.ross

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• mark.dennehy commented on Twitter
  Family (ah, that moment when your dad mentions that he follows you on twitter/facebook/whatever. Priceless...); work colleagues (past, present and possible future - the computer industry is a small and incestous one and it pays to know people); fellow olympic target shooters (our sport doesn't get any love from the commercial media because Dunblane sells more ad space than the Olympics); wierdos who are interesting. (As to which bucket Charlie falls into, that is left as an exercise for the reader :) ) AND, the occasional stuff (ie stuff I follow for short defined periods) such as the #aras11 hashtag...
• Charlie Stross commented on Twitter
  Beer good; sushi place, alas, had a kitchen engineering failure. Will try again this evening....
• Feòrag commented on Twitter
  I got a reply from my Twitter enquiry about the kitchen engineering failure, over three Tweets: "Great news- this has now been fixed! There will, however be a limited menu for today due to ongoing problems. We're working as fast as we can to fix them, we promise! Hopefully by the end of today!"...
• Charlie Stross commented on Twitter
  Dead cooking range. (A surprising amount of Japanese food -- if you're expecting raw fish on rice -- requires cooking. And I have a weakness for oyakudon and duck gyoza and various other fried stuff.)...
• Moderator Alan commented on Twitter
  I'm trying to imagine whether there is any feasible way to make sushi itself without cooking the rice. And I don't think there is. Now, pure sashimi, fine. But Feorag might end up a bit hungry....