Open access is a scourge on the UK rail system, as are the exorbitant fares.

Well thank you LNER for killing the 40% student discounts that made your trains affordable.

I'm now stuck between paying ~£40 or ~£20 per direction to get to events at Uni.

The catch? The £20 is with Grand Central, an operator who has previously overcarried me, blamed it on my being stuck behind other passengers (and not them for waiting for the unloading to complete) and who, if the train is cancelled, will just say "tough cookies. wait till the afternoon departure."

@OmniFocus Ah! Never noticed that little eye!

Thanks!

The factory must grow the factory must grow THE FACTORY MUST GROW

Guess 4GB isn't enough storage in my iPod anymore.

Guess I'm going to upgrade. Do I try and force 64GB into this first gen mini?

For crying out loud WHY ARE THERE SO MANY BATTERIES!

"Bluetooth audio is the future!" they said!

"We have courage!" They said!

Bluetooth audio could evaporate off the face of the earth for all I care. I've never got more frustrated with a set of headphones than trying to get a bluetooth set to sync up with this darn computer.

@wnd I am so glad my time in that city has come after the pacer...

@jon Nice! All shall suffer in poor ride quality.

@jon Hey who exported the Pacer to Poland?

My word I just remembered Encarta. I have not used that since primary school...

@elysegrasso Oh yeah. It's a bit like with cameras. The best one is the one with you.

I have gone from "I like computers" to "I dont like computers" to "computers are at war with society and me personally"

@elysegrasso Maybe this is a hot take but I think the physcial library is a better place to conduct research. I'm lucky to get access to several incredible public and academic libraries and the combination of huge stacks and incredible wealths of online subscriptions makes for a perfect, if a little overwhelming, research environment.

#Dragonfly lamp screen, c. 1910
Tiffany Studios, NYC, USA (dragonfly design attributed to Clara Driscoll)
Leaded glass, 6 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.
The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art 2004-005: https://morsemuseum.org/collection-highlights/lamps-and-lighting/dragonfly-lamp-screen/
#ArtNouveau #WomenArtists

@jon understandable tbh. Hopefully they can see improvements and some investment from the powers that be.

(To be clear I'd never criticise a region for not trying, which they clearly are here. Any link is better than none!)

I'm currently filling out an ethics form for my research. It's going alright.

However, to the people at my department who made this form, please email me and let me re-design this form so that all the tables are aligned, the formatting is consistent etc.

It's a mess of cut-pasting that needs a tidy up! It'd only take a couple of hours to fix!

@jon paging @GarethDennis for his daily dose of rail gore from me

Looks like @eta is being pummled by scrapers again. No intertube :(

I hope this stops at some point. It's not fair on them!

@HaTetsu @jon

Ahh no problem. I'd probably ascribe it to NR being that weird quasi-independent but government owned company so FOIA etc. applies.

Super helpful though! If anything it gives a start point for more indepth research.