Just in case you missed the news about the 1400% price-hike:
The announcement: https://mapsplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/introducing-google-maps-platform.html
The reaction: http://geoawesomeness.com/developers-up-in-arms-over-google-maps-api-insane-price-hike/
I expect that my online maps at Google, Map Channels and My Maps + will soon be toast, leaving gaping holes in this blog.
I may well be ditching the GPS in favour of a GFYG.
From the second session of observing the 2018 Lyrid meteor shower. 365 pics, only one with decent trails, and I'm fairly sure that they too weren't from true Lyrids as they weren't "pointing back" to the Lyrid radiant.
Here's the pic, again the bottom-edge is more-or-less East and the top edge is up near the zenith. The blurry coloured mess near the bottom-edge is a short section of the Milky Way . Click it to see a resized version:
From the first session of observing the 2018 Lyrid meteor shower. 397 pics, only two with decent trails, and I'm fairly sure that they weren't from true Lyrids as they weren't "pointing back" to the Lyrid radiant.
Here's the best one of the two pics, the bottom-edge is more-or-less East and the top edge is up near the zenith. Sharp eyes will notice the Plough stood up on its stilts. Click it to see a resized version:
If almost every item of shop-bought oven-cookable food has to go on the middle shelf of the oven, why do we waste money on redundant features such as three adjustable-height shelves and five height-settings when something half the height, twice the width and with one middle shelf would be more useful?
Breaking the rules.
At the Royal and at the General we're invited to make our own, but at Glenfield it's a no-no:
If anyone bothered to do a proper Risk Assessment they'd find that the Glenfield water's always tepid anyway.
10th October 2017 - not the first time we'd won the Red Lion pub quiz, but the first time we'd won after the hostess started taking pics of the winners to post on the pub's Facebook page. That night we were relatively sober:
Our next win was on 9th January 2018, and we'd had a few too many Guinnesseseses by the time the camera was wielded:
Someone, who will remain nameless but who features in both of the pics above, commented that we weren't very photogenic in that shot. We couldn't deny it, but we decided that we'd not be caught out again. Plans were put in place to ensure our photo-worthiness regardless of us being under the affluence of incahol.
Last night the plan was executed. It was a resounding success, all the more satisfying because of the surprise factor:
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