@slimfern posted:International space station images:
https://www.pocket-lint.com/ca...tional-space-station
love these Slim-I try to watch the ISS passing over when I can
night EL slim
Good morning everyone it's a cold morning and will remain cold but we're promised sunshine most of the day.
Enjoy your day everyone 
A town council is facing a rather large gas bill as it's recently realised it hasn't paid any due to not having a gas supplier for 17 years 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-59957355
I wonder how they were able to continue getting a gas supply and why it has taken this long to realise 
@El Loro posted:A town council is facing a rather large gas bill as it's recently realised it hasn't paid any due to not having a gas supplier for 17 years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-59957355
I wonder how they were able to continue getting a gas supply and why it has taken this long to realise
Someone's definitely had a senior moment at some point 
It'll be many thousands in back payments...
@slimfern posted:Someone's definitely had a senior moment at some point
It'll be many thousands in back payments...
As you say, it will cost many thousands 
It seems odd that it's possible to get gas installed at a building and for there to be a gas supply without a gas supplier knowing about this. I assume that the ongoing investigation will be looking into that and contacting the contractor who built the offices.
@El Loro posted:As you say, it will cost many thousands
It seems odd that it's possible to get gas installed at a building and for there to be a gas supply without a gas supplier knowing about this. I assume that the ongoing investigation will be looking into that and contacting the contractor who built the offices.
I guess it would depend on whether there was already a gas supply to the site before the council moved in...all it would take is for a certified gas engineer to connect them....and of course it could be a gas supplier error...there have been many instances where Joe public have been sent bills where there is no gas supply. Our flat for instance in Manchester had no gas but we were constantly being sent demands, they even had the company send inspectors around to check and take photographs on more than one occasion. It was only when I threatened the company with legal action that they got their act together and stopped with the harassment...we were in a 8 floor block where no gas was supplied and was even disconnected many many years before by sed company 
I'm pretty sure it would work the other way round too, where gas was supplied but not noted.
Could be Computer error possibly...
As stated, it will all be revealed upon results of an investigation.......let's see how long that takes 
@slimfern posted:I guess it would depend on whether there was already a gas supply to the site before the council moved in...all it would take is for a certified gas engineer to connect them....and of course it could be a gas supplier error...there have been many instances where Joe public have been sent bills where there is no gas supply. Our flat for instance in Manchester had no gas but we were constantly being sent demands, they even had the company send inspectors around to check and take photographs on more than one occasion. It was only when I threatened the company with legal action that they got their act together and stopped with the harassment...we were in a 8 floor block where no gas was supplied and was even disconnected many many years before by sed company
I'm pretty sure it would work the other way round too, where gas was supplied but not noted.
Could be Computer error possibly...
As stated, it will all be revealed upon results of an investigation.......let's see how long that takes
It's supposed to be due by the end of the month ...............
A bit of a Kaka nightmare with the gas bills you were getting
Back in 1987 Infocom released a text adventure game for computers called "Bureaucracy" which was scripted by Douglas Adams.
The player must confront a long and complicated series of bureaucratic hurdles resulting from a recent change of address. Mail is being delivered to the wrong address, bank accounts are inaccessible, and nothing is as it should be. The game includes a measure of simulated blood pressure which rises when "frustrating" events happen and lowers after a period of no annoying events. Once a certain blood pressure level is reached, the player suffers an aneurysm and the game ends.
While undertaking the seemingly simple task of retrieving misdirected mail, the player encounters a number of bizarre characters, including an antisocial hacker, a paranoid weapons enthusiast, and a tribe of Zalagasan cannibals. At the same time, they must deal with impersonal corporations, counterintuitive airport logic, and a hungry llama.
I have up very near the beginning
@El Loro posted:Back in 1987 Infocom released a text adventure game for computers called "Bureaucracy" which was scripted by Douglas Adams.
The player must confront a long and complicated series of bureaucratic hurdles resulting from a recent change of address. Mail is being delivered to the wrong address, bank accounts are inaccessible, and nothing is as it should be. The game includes a measure of simulated blood pressure which rises when "frustrating" events happen and lowers after a period of no annoying events. Once a certain blood pressure level is reached, the player suffers an aneurysm and the game ends.While undertaking the seemingly simple task of retrieving misdirected mail, the player encounters a number of bizarre characters, including an antisocial hacker, a paranoid weapons enthusiast, and a tribe of Zalagasan cannibals. At the same time, they must deal with impersonal corporations, counterintuitive airport logic, and a hungry llama.
I have up very near the beginning
Ha! that sounds like fun...is it still available do you know El?
@slimfern posted:Ha! that sounds like fun...is it still available do you know El?
It's not on Steam or GOG and isn't available via Amazon. You may be able to get it elsewhere but there's no guarantee that it would work and no guarantee that you're not accessing a website which is a virus trap. So I think it's better to leave it.
There's a complete walkthrough on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XJKcGpTMpY
No graphics or sound.
night EL slim
Good morning everyone it's another very cold morning with sunshine expected.
Enjoy your day everyone
@El Loro posted:It's not on Steam or GOG and isn't available via Amazon. You may be able to get it elsewhere but there's no guarantee that it would work and no guarantee that you're not accessing a website which is a virus trap. So I think it's better to leave it.
There's a complete walkthrough on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XJKcGpTMpY
No graphics or sound.
Will admit to not reading it all 
@slimfern posted:Will admit to not reading it all
I would have been surprised if you had, I stopped after a few minutes as I lost interest very quickly 
I didn't think much of it back in 1987. Infocom did make much better games, their best known being the Zork series, the original ones text, the later ones with graphics. Quite a number of those are on Steam but they are old games so may be tricky getting any of them to work as would have been released in MS-DOS for the early ways, and the last (Grand Inquisitor) being for Windows 95.
@El Loro posted:I would have been surprised if you had, I stopped after a few minutes as I lost interest very quickly
I didn't think much of it back in 1987. Infocom did make much better games, their best known being the Zork series, the original ones text, the later ones with graphics. Quite a number of those are on Steam but they are old games so may be tricky getting any of them to work as would have been released in MS-DOS for the early ways, and the last (Grand Inquisitor) being for Windows 95.
Yeah, it did go on a bit
Another discovery
https://www.independent.co.uk/...hrough-b1991658.html
@slimfern posted:Another discovery
https://www.independent.co.uk/...hrough-b1991658.html
Remember graphene? Wonder what's going on with that - it was trumpeted in a few years ago as the next big thing , like Obama in '09.
Hope all are A1 and Moons is back soon
@velvet donkey posted:Remember graphene? Wonder what's going on with that - it was trumpeted in a few years ago as the next big thing , like Obama in '09.
Hope all are A1 and Moons is back soon
Worlds strongest known material ...worth a bit of hype 
Obama...hmmm 
@slimfern posted:Another discovery
https://www.independent.co.uk/...hrough-b1991658.html
I can't read that article without registering with that website, something about a strange metal
Of course there's the element mercury which is a metal though as the freezing point is below zero we see it in its molten state.
@velvet donkey posted:Remember graphene? Wonder what's going on with that - it was trumpeted in a few years ago as the next big thing , like Obama in '09.
Hope all are A1 and Moons is back soon
All's well here, just busy with client work, I hope all is OK for you
@El Loro posted:I can't read that article without registering with that website, something about a strange metal
Of course there's the element mercury which is a metal though as the freezing point is below zero we see it in its molten state.
Scientists have found a new âstrange metalâ that behaves in ways they canât quite understand.
But the discovery could be key to finding out an explanation for a phenomenon that has troubled researchers for decades.
Finally solving that problem could lead to a variety of breakthroughs, such as lossless power grids and quantum computers. It also appears to be linked to some of the fundamental constants of the universe, and so could help shed light on how the cosmos actually works.
There is more, but that gives you the gist
I didn't have to register
@slimfern posted:Worlds strongest known material ...worth a bit of hype
Obama...hmmm
It'll be military no doubt. Manchester an all 
@slimfern posted:Scientists have found a new âstrange metalâ that behaves in ways they canât quite understand.
But the discovery could be key to finding out an explanation for a phenomenon that has troubled researchers for decades.
Finally solving that problem could lead to a variety of breakthroughs, such as lossless power grids and quantum computers. It also appears to be linked to some of the fundamental constants of the universe, and so could help shed light on how the cosmos actually works.
There is more, but that gives you the gist
I didn't have to register
Neither did I this time, strange
Most of that article meant nothing to me but then I'm not a scientist. I did notice a typo on one of the paragraphs:
Strange metal behaviour has been puzzling scientists for 30 years, since a class of materials called cuprates was discovered not to act like other metals. When normal metals are heated, their resistance goes up, until a certain point when high temperatures mean the resistance becomes constant â but in curates, that doesnât happen, and the strange metals refuse to obey the expected rules.
We don't have a curate at the church at present but it useful to know that they are not constantly subject to resistance. more concerning though that they don't obey the expected rules
This is how I work El. God has given us all the solutions - they are there for us to find out on earth. I firmly believe that and no false impostor am I. It's all here.
Good over evil. You tube fries my brain with false impostors who've found god. Better stop there. All criminals who don't know what remption is. Wild.
@El Loro posted:Most of that article meant nothing to me but then I'm not a scientist. I did notice a typo on one of the paragraphs:
Strange metal behaviour has been puzzling scientists for 30 years, since a class of materials called cuprates was discovered not to act like other metals. When normal metals are heated, their resistance goes up, until a certain point when high temperatures mean the resistance becomes constant â but in curates, that doesnât happen, and the strange metals refuse to obey the expected rules.
We don't have a curate at the church at present but it useful to know that they are not constantly subject to resistance. more concerning though that they don't obey the expected rules
If the man up there helping us to keep to the rules can't break them now and again, then who can
@slimfern posted:Another discovery
https://www.independent.co.uk/...hrough-b1991658.html
interesting slim
night EL slim velvet
Good morning everyone it's a dry day today with some sunny intervals.
Enjoy your day everyone
BBC article about a pianist who gave her first recital at the age of 4 who is about to release a new album at the age of 97:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ent...inment-arts-59986543
Good on her 
And that's what you call a CV
@velvet donkey posted:Good on her
An extraordinarily long music career
@El Loro posted:BBC article about a pianist who gave her first recital at the age of 4 who is about to release a new album at the age of 97:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ent...inment-arts-59986543
Amazing talent
Her father sounds horrid though, not allowing her to be a child 
I must admit the piano is my favourite instrument.
It says things a guitar will never do
@slimfern posted:Amazing talent
Her father sounds horrid though, not allowing her to be a child
But not unheard of
Have you ever seen the 1953 film "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr.T"? A fantasy about a boy who gets piano lessons from a dictatorial teacher and dreams of a fantasy world controlled by that teacher who has built a colossal piano which needs 500 children to play it. It's not written by Roald Dahl but by Dr Seuss. Very unusual film and rarely shown on television.