Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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"How much!?"
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Not nearly enough to make me change my mind. About 24 days of salaried work left. All self-employed stuff after then, and no FINSET.
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Had that on leaving a job. Sorry, we can’t afford pay rises - next thing you know there’s an ad through a recruitment consultant for what is obviously my old job and they’ve plainly discovered the realities of the job market (plus 15-20% for the recruitment consultant fee). I was a bit pissed off at first but as I’d moved for slightly higher than they were still offering and had forced their hand I was actually quite pleased on reflection.
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Or alternatively, salary = competitive.
Meaning it probably isn't.
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I think that means ‘bare minimum we can get someone to accept’. I always find it odd the an employer doesn’t know the market well enough to commit to a salary.
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Or doesn't want to either advertise the market rate and get salary demands above or, or get salary demands at the market rate and advertise below it.
That said, last time I went through the thought exercise of applying for jobs that were actually advertised, bar none they all were expecting to pay wildly below market rate.
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Initialisms. And now I will be branded a pedant too.
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'Humour' tends not to work so well when you include fine print, though it might be a fair point (unless "UPS" is pronounced as a word).
"I didn't go to the FINSET training session on abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms ('AAAI')"
I'll run that past my script editor.
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I'm not sure that ignorance (including my own) should cheer me up so much.
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There are a lot of guesses in the middle of a landmass.
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Level 0 players (random) really do exist. That cheers me up.
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Coincidentally, I had hot dogs tonight. I should be ashamed because I didn't use terrible sausages. Furthermore, they were wrapped in tortillas with cheddar and ketchup. The least authentic hot dogs possible and eaten at a table. Still, they were very tasty which cheered me up.
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Perhaps they thought the grey bit represented the ocean. 🤨
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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But were they hot dogs?
...or were they nice sausages in a wheat-based bread? (I'd prefer that to a genuine hot dog.)
I've given up getting traumatised by being told by French cooks that I can't call something a pot-à-feu, or a boeuf bourgignon because I haven't used exactly the right cut of beef, or onions from Bourgogne or whatever... I just tell them it was an improvised ragout so they can't quibble. I think hot dog connoisseurs such as Jay Rayner and Wikipedia might fall into that category.
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I am actually quite impressed how many people know where Mauritius roughly is.
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Just getting so lucky with the aurora last night. The sky cleared just as it got dark and the aurora became very active. This was to the northeast
With this to the southwest
It was like a rainbow overhead. Unfortunately being underneath I couldn’t photograph the whole thing
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A top tip from those who do these kind of shots. They use ultra-wide lenses (14mm ish) and/or do stitched panoramas where you do a series in landscape orientation and stitch them together to make a portrait shot.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I know someone who is very (very) involved with this and his tales of getting there are interesting.
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These were done at 11mm (APS-C sensor). I’ve got a load to stitch but being directly under the arch I couldn’t do it without flipping the camera over beyond 90 degrees or doing a full 360 x 360 pano which is beyond me unfortunately. It was spectacular to see though, even though the colours were obviously far more muted to the naked eye, especially as the Milky Way arch was running southeast to northwest forming a cross. Hoping to stitch the pano together later, off to get wet visiting Seahouses and Lindisfarne now.
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That looks like a Steve.
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That’s the one. I remember the astronomer doing the Milky Way lecture on my cruise last year mentioning the various different things. Knew it wasn’t a sprite but couldn’t think what it was called.
Surely it should be blue being called Steve though?
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The Steve phenomenon - I like that.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Yup, according to that image above, the further right it goes the harder it is to interpret.
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