There is a nice video 'in praise of retrofuturism' on the BBC Ideas page: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/in-praise-of-retrofuturis...

> Thinkpads

There is a much better option than the trackpad mac or otherwise built in ;-)

brexit means brexit /s

In seriousness, wasn't Storm Ciara named by Met Éireann ? that was certainly my impression, given that most people in the UK struggled to pronounce it. So there is some unification between The Met offices of Ireland and the UK with regard to naming.

It would have been called Ciara even if the storm was named by the Met Office. The names are unified and a list is published every September:

https://www.countryliving.com/uk/news/a28924357/met-office-s...

> The names are a mix of British, Irish and Dutch monikers.

yup lots of love for visidata, a nice quick way to eyeball data and then munge: https://visidata.org/docs/join/ before proper carpentry with pandas.

Boomers? Did you mean millennials?

i used to be a heavy excel user, when i worked on windows, it was great for eyeballing data quickly, now, in a different job, i use a mac, i would really do anything i can to avoid using excel - visidata FTW http://visidata.org/ . I really don't miss excel at all

>> for all intensive purposes

I've never actually seen that written down, i have _suspected_ people have been saying it, rather than: "for all intents and purposes"

but was never sure, so i googled and its fairly common: https://grammarist.com/eggcorns/for-all-intensive-purposes/

i agree wholeheartedly with you but just to point out it does look like this is from 2003

In 2003, steampunk was really big, and this seems like a throwback to that neo-victorian terminology.

I could understand this excuse if instead of 2003 it was written in 1920.

That said, it only contains the word "boy" once in the entire article, and only in the provocative headline.

I think we can all look past the provocative headline.

It does in fact contain the word "man" though in a (normally) non-gendered idiom.

> rather abbreviated poor man’s guide to the field

edit: just realised that there wasn't a space between "poor" and "man". However, it seems from a quick google search both versions (separate and a single word) are used for this expression.

footpath

not sure where you live but atm, in the UK, the range of non-alcoholic beers is superb. Off the top of my head:

* Brew-dog Nanny State

* Erdinger blue

* big drop pale ale

* big drop stout

* Franziskaner 0.5

* adnams ghost ship

are all available in my local Tesco and all pretty great.

Almost every bar now has the usual alcohol free becks/heineken - but i must admit, like their lagers, they are pretty grim drinks, but i am finding that more and more are stocking nanny state or erdinger

Erdinger alcohol-free is the best non-alcoholic beer I've tasted. I think wheat-beer works better than plain barley-beer, because it avoids the thin and watery mouth-feel so many non-alcoholic beers have. Nanny State is disappointing IMO, with lots of hops and not much else, although it might be useful for blending.