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Stuart Hedges

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Serial adopter of retired greyhounds. Retrofitted a 1970s ex-council house with solar/batteries/heat pump/EV. Keen home cook.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · Jan 4

I've been meaning to do a thread about our eco-home retrofit, as it all happened before I started on Bluesky. Here goes!

Our house is a 1970s-built ex-council house, mid-terrace, timber frame. All very standard and ordinary.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 3h

I'm pretty sure they're designed that way, it's so consistent that I assume there's a regulation behind it. Every car I've driven with APB has done it.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 3h

Driving is the *only* time I've used voice control - when I've had to change my plan en route for some reason and changed the destination in the sat nav. I cannot think of another reason to use it.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 5h

I wish they didn't, I do agree with the OP that it's annoying, but that's the system we've got!

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 5h

Someone doesn't know about automatic parking brakes...

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 5h

I've never worked or volunteered at a shelter but all my pets have been rescues and I get this as well! It's very odd.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 11h

Came in to say this - when we had our kitchen done last year the builder discovered three very different layers of lino under the wood floor covering the original asbestos.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 13h

I replied to the op with an anecdote about walking home from school - to be fair it was much quieter than this where I lived and there was a lollipop person on the only busy road in my route. It will always depend on individual circumstances of course.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 1d

Glancing at your bio you may already know this, if not I hope you'll be delighted to learn that the UK providers still use that terminology.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 1d

I'd forgotten how fast that technology moved. My 14.4 was second hand - bought with money from my first Saturday job - and was replaced after a year or two by a 28.8 that cost even less.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 1d

This is a brilliant piece. The image caught my eye - my first modem was one of those! - I was on Amigas rather than Macs and the internet was too difficult and too expensive for teenage me, but my experience of BBSs and FidoNet was very similar to this.

Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 1d

I wrote about what it was like to go online for the first time 30 years ago. How hard and complicated it seemed, and then how amazing this entirely new world was. Including some extracts from my 1995 diary.
www.gyford.com/phil/writing...

My first months in cyberspace

Recalling the difficulties and wonder of getting online for the first time in 1995, including diary extracts from the time.

www.gyford.com

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 1d

I was taught this when waiting in a long-forgotten wine bar in Orpington in 1998.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 1d

This was the post that broke the duck - I didn't "turn the heating off" as such this year, just let the thermostat do its thing. Heating came on this afternoon for the first time this winter - it was already warmer at home than in the office though, insulation does matter!

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 1d

I was in the office this morning and it was freezing! Turns out building insulation really is important - heating is off both at home and at work.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lot better than I was expecting! Nothing like the description on the box, more of a road movie (a genre that I have an inexplicable love for). Some really funny moments, and Karen Allen is great in it.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0088...

Starman (1984) ⭐ 7.0 | Romance, Sci-Fi

1h 55m | PG

www.imdb.com

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 1d

Whut.

I used to walk home from later years of primary school, remember asking Mum if I could walk there as well. She said no as she'd be worrying all day in case I didn't get there - primary schools phone you for any reason these days, they'd definitely call if a kid didn't turn up!

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 1d

Not really comparable, I know, but the anti-Brexit march I went on was really important for that reason. You have to remember that there are loads of people on the good side!

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like I've just read a MacBook Air review from 2008.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 1d

I follow a few podcast accounts and once you'd pointed it out I was amused that they were all posting photos from the gods.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 1d

I was in the office this morning and it was freezing! Turns out building insulation really is important - heating is off both at home and at work.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 2d

A year? That 7-14 day estimate in the OP seems cautious.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 2d

Had Fukuyama even said "the end of history" in 1991? The book came out in '92 according to the top Google result.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 2d

It holds up a mirror. Our heroes behave appallingly with their bias and racism and get called out for it. Very brave for 1991.

Like WoK it looks like a ship battle film but contains so much more.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 2d

I'm up to The Undiscovered Country in the current rewatch. I was only 11 when it came out but I do remember seeing it at the cinema.

Watching as an adult I get something new every time - WoK will always be my favourite but this is objectively a better film. Every line resonates with the Cold War.

Movie poster for Star Trek 6. It shows a very stylised version of the starship Enterprise flying over a Klingon face, with the film title and release date (13 December 1991) superimposed in suitably exciting movie poster fonts

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 2d

This is like that rabbit/woman picture. Genuinely didn't figure out what I was looking at until reading the comments on the original post.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 2d

This is the best one of these I've seen yet!

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 2d

I bought lavender scented bin liners by mistake once. I feel your pain.