Will

I’d say your degree has relevance for the first and maybe second job you have, and probably a limit of five years before the work experience completely outweighs it. Certainly by mid-career it doesn’t really matter, I don’t even look at education stuff on a resume when I’m hiring. Totally agree with this. You need to keep up with advances in your chosen field, if you go to an interview and have no idea what is going on in the industry it will not look good at all. “Computers” is a fair wide subject, it would definitely be a good idea to do as much as you can specifically related to the area you want to be working in.

It’s definitely better in person, and it is growing on me, but I’m still not super keen on it. I reckon the half second I save not needing to plug it in will be eaten up by the half second longer it takes me to get to the charging station. I do want one of these when they become available though, nice to get rid of a loose cable.

Will see how the 20 minute thing goes at the end of the month. Not sure there is enough time in the day for anywhere close to 300. I’d also probably die which I’m not super keen on.

My DualSense is way better than my DS4, not charging it anywhere near as much as I used to. Not sure how fair it is though as the DS4 was a few years old.

Tried the beep test today and my god it was harder than I remember. Really struggled and managed to get to 7.2 almost dead. I’m just hoping that my rough distance measurement was wrong and actually I can do better. Will take a tape measure with me next time to ensure I do it properly.

That sounds like a good one too. Will give it a go once I’ve completed the current challenge.

Decide to start it this morning. Definitely seems like it’s not enough during the ‘training’ part of the challenge. The 20 minutes on the final day is going to be considerably longer than anything that’s gone before it. Will let you know how I get on.

Although the 2020 season finished less than a month ago it’s time to get ready for 2021. Let’s take a look at what’s planned for this year: Will keep the above updated as more is available. I really enjoyed 2020 and hope this season will be another close midfield battle. It would be great if Mercedes can be reigned in a little but given the minimal rule changes this year I think that’s very unlikely. Things I’m looking forward to: Hamilton becoming the (statistically) outright greatest of all time. I’m not a fan but glad he’s the one doing it. The return of Alonso, my all time favourite driver. With the progress of Renault/Alpine I can see him winning a race this year. McLaren continuing their good form and Ricciardo maybe getting back on the top of the podium. More random things happening due to the ongoing pandemic situation. Of course with the avoidance of any harm to people. Schumacher in F1 and hopefully doing well. Mazepan hopefully being gone soon. More great stuff from Russell and the deserved promotion to Mercedes for 2022. I enjoyed doing the predictions for 2020 and want to continue something. Not sure whether we do something similar to last year of just forum predictions or find a fantasy league to take part in? Any suggestions on that one? What are you all looking forward to this year?

Thanks, will give it a go! Maybe start in the middle of the month on that one. Managed to find an app to measure the bleep test, going to set my target as getting to level 15 on that. When I was a kid I used to get to about mid-way through level 12 so I doubt I can make 15 but got to set a tough target. Did my first 5km run of the year tonight to get a starting time to measure from. Managed to do it in 22:06 which is not too bad.

I reckon he’d have to murder someone live on camera, even then I’m not convinced he’d be arrested. He must be really worried about when he leaves office though.

What media do you consume that takes these view points? As far as I can tell, ignoring things like Fox, basically everyone thinks Trump is a joke. Can’t say I’m at all surprised by this, it’s exactly in line with his way of doing things. Only three weeks to go and it will be over. At least his involvement with power will be, I have a feeling the comedy of the man’s actions will continue to entertain us all for a while yet.

A selection of nicer looking Ethernet cables than the mish-mash we’re currently using: Also because I needed a longer one for the study so my work computer can be wired in without a trip wire danger risk. And some Eneloop batteries. We seem to get through way too many regular batteries and I’ve had more leaks in the last couple of years than I’ve ever known. Figured this was a good way to save money and hassle long term.

So my 2020 went quite well, I hit my main target but missed the secondary ones I set for myself, end the year with: Run 1,000km over the course of the year - Actual: 1,168km ✓ Do a 5km run in under 20 minutes - Best: 21:25 X Do a 10km run in under 40 minutes - Best 46:40 X This year I’m going to set the speed targets as my main and the distance as a secondary one. The distance ones are too easy just to slog out. So, this year’s running targets look something like: Do a 5km run in under 20 minutes (H1 Target) Do a 10km run in under 40 minutes (H2 Target) Run more total distance than last year I’m also going to try and build more strength but not really sure how to set a target for that, think it will just be something like looking significantly better than I do now. Finally, I want to try and do the bleep test that came up a while ago, will try and figure out a way to do that and report back with my score. Also maybe some sort of burpee challenge after being inspired by @Ashley.

Nice! I’ve had a Porta-Pi Arcade on my want list for a good few years now, will get round to it at some point. What kits are you thinking of using?

So you wouldn’t consider this shadow MP idea to be a massive change to the current system? It sounds like a pretty huge change to me. You should check out the MMP system they use in New Zealand. I really think it’s one of the best solutions to the problems both FPTP and PR bring about and would love to see it implemented in the UK. I think this is mostly the other way round isn’t it? The current system gives the incumbent parties a hugely skewed amount of power for the share of their support and so removes any motivation to change the system. Most people outside of that just want fair representation that they are not currently able to get.

There are websites that will check for you, I used this one: http://mesdomaines.nu/eendracht/youtube_embedding_check/youtube_embedding_check.html The forum does the same thing though, if copying the link into the reply box doesn’t automatically convert to the embedded video that is probably the reason.

That video in particular has been set to not allow embedding by the owner.

Really unbelievable, feel for his family and friends. Bray Wyatt wrote a really nice thing for him, sounds like he was very well liked and will be missed. Crazy to be so young and in shape and have something like this just take it all away.

This is what we* wanted** though, less access for more control. *We being the slim majority that pushed us into this. **Wanted being a loose catch-all because nobody had a clue what they were voting for. Jokes aside I do think that was generally what people were going for, trading our access to the market for control over our country. We don’t need Europe because we are so great and all they do is come and steal our jobs and our fish. This deal? To me it seems like we have to follow the same rules as before, have less access to the market, and have our free movement curtailed massively. In return we get control of fishing rights in UK waters... in five years time. I haven’t read the whole thing, just the summaries from various sources but it seems they’ve done the worst deal possible. My preference was always to stay in, but if we’re coming out then we have to be out and make something new work. Going with this middle ground option of we follow the rules but don’t have a seat at the table where they’re made is total madness. I hope at some point soon we get a real shake-up of the political system in the UK, at the moment it really doesn’t seem to be helping anyone apart from the rich to take more advantage of everyone and screw the terrible outcomes from it all.

Been playing with my train today, great model: Also got Black Country Monopoly from my sister so looking forward to playing that at some point too.

Merry Christmas! Hope everyone has a great day.

Been thinking of doing the same but I only have about $900 worth. Quite like just holding on to it but would be a nice little bonus to buy something nice.

Our work Christmas gift was a $100 Play Asia voucher so decided to get the latest Densha de Go! Really looking forward to driving round Tokyo in VR.

That was exactly what I thought at first, reminded me of Ring Raiders... The ones I got allow you to do exactly that. However you set them up they just re-sync in the position and you send whatever pattern you want to them. Given how good they’ve been so far I think I’ll buy more next year and have them on the tree and wall all in sync.

It looks really awesome actually, watched some videos on YouTube and it really got me wanting one. One thing I didn’t quite get was the use of the red light on the left hand side? Is that to help get the speed accurate or something? We decided to buy a baby monitor, mostly so we can see what crazy things the baby is doing at night without disturbing him: Can direct the camera wherever you want to look and it has it’s own tablet we can put on the coffee table. Also has an app to view through the phones which was something I really wanted. Quite looking forward to using it.