This is just all too accurate...

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Grant
Darwin NT

This poor fellow got more than a chair pulled out from underneath him.

Shocking footage has captured the moment an airline worker fell from a plane door and onto the runway after a colleague removed the stairs without him realising.

According to reports, the incident was in violation of aviation rules that dictate the mobile ladder should not be removed until the aircraft’s doors are closed.

That's what i was thinking- what were the ground crew doing moving the stairs before the door had been closed???

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Grant
Darwin NT

Well Grant. I have my total data usage for the month. You would think the phone is surgically implemented but it’s not. It usually sits close to me and I stare at it or a 50 inch tv when I have it screen mirrored to it. I just do a lot of video streaming with some web browsing. The total this month is (drumroll) 109GB. Lol. 446Mb was system services.

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Well Grant. I have my total data usage for the month. You would think the phone is surgically implemented but it’s not. It usually sits close to me and I stare at it or a 50 inch tv when I have it screen mirrored to it. I just do a lot of video streaming with some web browsing. The total this month is (drumroll) 109GB. Lol. 446Mb was system services.

Cancel that drum roll.

My usage, but it does include one son, who works from home, was 2063.33 GB for the last 30 days.

This month i'll be doing over 40GB for the month, but that's from using my broadband connection for all of my new phone's software updates.
Other than the odd bit of YouTube, i don't watch any video online so my usual monthly data usage is around 30GB or less.

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Grant
Darwin NT

My usage, but it does include one son, who works from home, was 2063.33 GB for the last 30 days.

What kind of internet setup do you have?
All I have atm is a semi vintage iPhone.

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What kind of internet setup do you have?

Fibre to the premises, so no issues with copper wiring or coax.

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Grant
Darwin NT

My usage, but it does include one son, who works from home, was 2063.33 GB for the last 30 days.

What kind of internet setup do you have?
All I have atm is a semi vintage iPhone.

Fibre, 1 Gb/s
Live in village, but the local provider circled the route to cover as many villages as possible between larger towns. Probably a wise decision for the provider, as the slowest connection, that I know of, in the village is 300 Mb/s.

One of the well seasoned veteran storm trackers had a vehicle accident live on tv. He hydroplaned, spun around and gently rolled over. He and his partner reported in no injuries and were waiting for a ride.

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Grant
Darwin NT

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Grant
Darwin NT

Drinkers being short measured?
A bit on the Sky News site today caught my eye:
https://news.sky.com/story/nearly-90-of-beer-served-in-uk-pubs-and-and-bars-is-short-measured-trading-standards-finds-13141910

In some ways I could understand (but not accept) a pint of beer being somewhat short as 500ml is not a pint but 0.88 of a pint.
But wine, that just strikes me as pubs etc. deliberately serving short measures.

As the great head/no-head on a pint debate, I'm sure some places use the inclusion of the head in the measure as an excuse to serve short measures - I've done bar work and know how easy it is to vary the size of the head on the same pump and barrel.....

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

They call that “shrink flation”. Prices go up and sizes go down.

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What doesn't go to the customer goes into the server

It may not be as old as I am, but it sounds to be in worse shape.

Four-year, billion-dollar blowout as Reserve Bank of Australia's horror renovation uncovers asbestos, cracks and death-trap lifts.

Riddled with asbestos. Almost 290 per cent over budget. More than four years late.

Renovating the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) headquarters is increasingly looking like a disastrous episode of home-building show Grand Designs.

The key difference? The budget for the horror reno is now north of $1 billion.

Documents obtained using the Freedom of Information (FOI) process detail the difficulty and unexpected expense of renovating the central bank's flagship office at 65 Martin Place in Sydney, built in 1964.

The project has become so complex and expensive, the central bank considered selling the iconic heritage-listed building and moving elsewhere.

Instead it has rented space for staff nearby and is wearing the extra costs.

As a previously unseen presentation dryly notes:

"Additional cost of $823.3M. New total costs of $1,089.9M. Extends delivery time by 4 years to November 2029.".......

Head or not?
Well in days gone by quite a number of beer glasses were had the liquid level marked clearly on them by either a line or a groove. This was great when working a quiet bar as one had time to allow the drink to settle and then top up as required. But it was not so good in a busy bar where there was no time to allow the settling. Other glasses the measure was to the brim, which was great you could pull a glass and pass it over to the customer in very little time, thus moving on to the next order very quickly, and more short measures or massive heads was a "rather inconvenient" side effect. Of course we knew that some beers, even some lines, were more prone to big heads than others, and drinkers' tastes vary from place to place. But I still prefer pouring a pint into a line marked glass, to the mark with one or to gentle pulls on a pump than having the same beer propelled at me by which ever "cellar gas" the pub chain dictates.

(** "cellar gas" is a generic name for the gas used to propel beer along the lines from barrel to tap - in the UK it is normally carbon dioxide, nitrogen, or a mixture of the two.)

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Head or not?
Well in days gone by quite a number of beer glasses were had the liquid level marked clearly on them by either a line or a groove. This was great when working a quiet bar as one had time to allow the drink to settle and then top up as required. But it was not so good in a busy bar where there was no time to allow the settling. Other glasses the measure was to the brim, which was great you could pull a glass and pass it over to the customer in very little time, thus moving on to the next order very quickly, and more short measures or massive heads was a "rather inconvenient" side effect. Of course we knew that some beers, even some lines, were more prone to big heads than others, and drinkers' tastes vary from place to place. But I still prefer pouring a pint into a line marked glass, to the mark with one or to gentle pulls on a pump than having the same beer propelled at me by which ever "cellar gas" the pub chain dictates.

(** "cellar gas" is a generic name for the gas used to propel beer along the lines from barrel to tap - in the UK it is normally carbon dioxide, nitrogen, or a mixture of the two.)

In most of the USA it is CO2 period full stop. Higher end establishments CO2 for most everything except for Irish Stouts which are nitrogen. The nitrogen lines and plumbing "pumps" "valves" "handles" "taps" are different. The gasses are of substantially different molecular weight and molecule size. They also produce far different heads. Any place here that mixed gasses would be lynched.

Pepsi does offer a “Nitrogen” infused fizzy drink. No CO2. It is a much smoother drink.

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