Jo Brodie
@JoBrodie
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Twitter technical expert (user level, not dev). Fan of #scicomm (owns @psci_com) & film music, interested in stuff, easily amused, cheered by bunting & pylons.
London, England
Joined June 2008
I'd like to re-insert the phrase "Sinking apace into the bosom of delusions" into the English language. It's almost a Googlewhack. Comes from William Beckford writing in 1779 (age 19) about needing to sleep (he was travelling & writing letters) but I think it's widely applicable.
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(1) Word of Mouth on creating new languages (2) Really? No, Really? podcast interviewing Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter on his guitar and missile defence career
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RT @RobertMSterling: I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t w…
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RT @MoneySavingExp: Bus users, what's your public transport app of choice? 🚌 Are you a Citymapper loyalist, Google Maps all the way, or do…
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@MoneySavingExp CityMapper, TfL's Stations, stops & piers (w 5-digit codes). I also use Google Maps at home to 'visit' unfamiliar routes via Google Streetview. I keep a list on my phone of the 5-digit codes for my most frequently used bus stops. E.g. Bow Church is 56772
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RT @michellekerr61: @aurorawatchuk Seen looking east toward Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland at roughly 18.00 tonight ( 10th May, 2025). https://t.…
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RT @AstroMikeMerri: Just rewatched S6 E4 of The West Wing, "The Wake Up Call", in which Toby argues that a presidential system isn’t such a…
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How to get to Biggin Hill / Museum (see Spitfires, eat cake) from Blackheath by bus #PlaneSpotting - it's about 90 mins by bus so a bit of an expedition.
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Here's a cruise ship in position near the Cutty Sark in Greenwich. It's the Viking Jupiter which is scheduled to visit again on 8 June 2025, other passenger ships will start arriving here from mid-April. Like a mini Tilbury
The Viking Jupiter cruise ship at Greenwich Ship Tier (very near Cutty Sark pier). The @thamesclippers ferries (Monsoon Clipper shown in pic) transfer passengers / crew to & from shore. AFAIK ship is due to leave at 6pm on Thursday.
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@ScotRamsay Yes to both :) First email seems to have been sent in 1971 but I didn't meet it until 1991.
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@ScotRamsay Someone got stiffed £13k on a fake parking one! I think they seem to be put on the bus stop poles by rather tall men though, making it a bit harder for shorter people to access them. Plus the numbers are just more useful (as you can save the number, check from home).
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Tidying up old screenshots and found this from a 'Learning how to learn' course (which was very interesting actually). "Procrastination and Memory" - assignment overdue. Ho ho.
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The earliest email addresses I encountered in UK academia were the people working on the Human Genome Mapping Project who had hgmp addresses. I *think* it was @-hgmp.mrc.ac.uk..?
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*I often check ahead (using the 5 digit code) and see if a particular stop / route is going to be a long wait or if I should consider a Plan B. E.g. Paste 56772 into
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RT @lennylaw: Jo’s not wrong. What a splendid, splendid thing. Very much up the street of @Adrian_Specs and @colinphoenix I would suggest.…
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