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• Commented on Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy
  According to a German friend that joke works in German too!...
• Commented on Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy
  Well, it worked for the joke about the size of his hands!...
• Commented on Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy
  Many years ago, I was queueing to use an ATM in my alma mater. The person in front left, but I saw they had left their card in the machine. I took it and ran after them to return it...
• Commented on No comment necessary
  The Manhattan D.A. is investigating Donald Trump and his company. There's just over 91 days to go to the election. Not sure how this could go....
• Commented on No comment necessary
  Sad news today, John Hume has died....
• Commented on No comment necessary
  Also covered in the Guardian...
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  The leader of the South Korean Church associated with coronavirus outbreak has been arrested....
• Commented on No comment necessary
  Sadly, I fear that a significant number of anti-vaxxers will find someone other than themselves to blame. Being successfully sued by their own children may not change their minds....
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Sad news from Adam Savage concerning Grant Imahara. Unfortunately Grant suffered a brain aneurysm. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news....
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  There is a longstanding joke that one of his initials stands for "Ego". (It dates to early 90s, I think - first heard it back on Usenet.)...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  Worst case scenario: we hit swine flu in 2021 with Trump in his second term ordering USAF air strikes on foreign vaccine factories world-wide. That's disturbingly plausible!...
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  I think he's referring to the 7th July 2005 bombings...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  It was Leonid Rogozov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Rogozov...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  It's so difficult to see that I didn't notice it when I opened it in a private window. OSM really need to fix that - it's really bad UI design....
• Commented on Roll the dice
  Games involving settling Mars or the asteroids might be popular. They're less likely to summon gibbering terrors from beyond reality and the New Management might encourage them to search the possible strategy spaces that rival abominations might use to reach...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  Google Maps used to label the east and west piers in Dún Laoghaire as east and west piers Howth Harbour (which are 10km away), Harbour Road was labelled "Harcourt Terrace" and the South Wall in Dublin Port was "South Hill"...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  That one seems to have approximately three months latency. This one may be more recent, with more emphasis on topography: https://opentopomap.org/ This one seems to have less latency, looking at a village in Ireland that I did some landuse mapping...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  Apologies for that - I'd forgotten how it displayed for those who don't login. (Longtime OSM contributor.) How does this look: http://hikebikemap.org/ The obvious thing is the Greenwich meridian may render in ways that are unpleasant to look at for...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  Alas, I didn't, until you pointed it out. I really must make myself familiar with his work - where would you reccomend I begin and what background works would you reccomend? Ironically, one of my favourite quotes is from Life...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  If you want an alternative to Google Maps, there's Openstreetmap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  Moore had something similar in Watchmen, except it was a pirate comic....
• Commented on COVID-19
  How bad - fatal?...
• Commented on COVID-19
  Just tried it - it seems to work in Ireland....
• Commented on COVID-19
  Donald Trump has brought his own special brand of ignorance to discussions about coronavirus. He also put Pence in charge of tackling coronavirus. OH CRAP!!!...
• Commented on COVID-19
  I wonder if this means that the Tangerine Terror will hold meetings with Pence in a hazmat suit - even if Pence turns out not to have coronavirus?...
• Commented on COVID-19
  Classmates of a student in coronavirus quarantine shook hands with Mike Pence The steps seem to be: Patient who tested positive. Mother of student - came in contact with patient in professional capacity - in precautionary quarantine. Student - in...
• Commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
  Though according to the Steele dossier he's more of a Micturian candidate! ducks...
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  An ironic quote from Edward Spencer-Churchill in the Guardian: Ahead of the toilet’s installation, the duke’s half-brother, Edward Spencer-Churchill, founder of the Blenheim Art Foundation, said last month the lavatory wouldn’t be “the easiest thing to nick”. “Firstly, it’s plumbed...
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  The Operation Yellohammer publication is here....
• Commented on Normal service will be resumed eventually
  I'm sorry for your loss Charlie. Glad to hear that you're planning to take enough time to recover and I hope you get plenty of help and other support. Hope to see you on the other side, you've had an...