Jim Stanton

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Engineer, mostly railway bridges. 
Civil engineering, cycling, and chickens, in no particular order. 
Newcastle, UK
There’s a clock on this bus, but it’s not a live clock. It just shows the last time the display was updated, and it’s only updated when the bus stops. So when the bus is stuck in traffic time literally stands still.
Random unrelated thought, but i wonder what Dara Ó’Briain and Frankie Boyle are up to these days?
Good morning, sir, to you and your sandwich
Always write your alt-text, otherwise the robots will do it and you won’t like it
Imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced something which looked like a solved sudoku, but was actually just a statistically informed guess about what a solved sudoku might look like, and you couldn’t trade it for heroin.
Two crows guard the path to the shore. One always lies; the other can only speak the truth, but dare not.
Part of the gradual erosion of the internet and search. Google have used an AI template for summarising and synthesising the ‘pros and cons’ from an impartial review, and then applied it to a press release (which obviously contains only glowing praise). The press release then gets presented in search results like it’s a review…
Walking in Newcastle

This is free.

Not the bike, the bike cost me £20.

But all of our trips to the shops, to swimming, to see friends or get dinner in town. Lots of days out, trips to the beach etc. And you don’t have to pay for them. Unbelievable value.