Nick Robinson’s reporting on Today this morning is delivered in calm and measured tones, but seething with frustration. Notes that the Board _still_ hasn’t agreed a statement on the Panorama edit.

Striking.

OK good, but that figure is now alarmingly normal. Suspiciously so. How does your usual operating mode of ‘autonomous flaming hovercraft-riding giant inflatable duck rocket’ [sic] count as ‘normal’?

Have they correctly noticed the order-of-magnitude error but made a new directionality mistake?

I bet it took a while to draw a line under that mistake.

So. Many. Buzzers.

All equally horrid in aspect and performance.

Or the time I asked for 20 buzzers, and we accidentally ordered 20 packs. Of 50 each.

“From this yawning political gulf stems all the tension, the cut and thrust of American political discourse.” — and so on.

I recall a Spitting Image sketch which had Alastair Burnet explain that the American Republican Party was a reactionary right-wing party much like our Conservative Party. “In stark contrast, the American Democratic Party is a reactionary right-wing party much like our Conservative Party.”

Iiiinteresting. Very keen to find out what the copilot/cursor equivalent experience is like in block environments.

Oh, and I mention this because Rob’s excellent cookie cutter design is an STL download for 3D printing. Very quick way of getting specific cookie cutters, just don’t keep them.

Incidentally, PLA is questionably food safe, the 3D printing process probably isn’t, and the printed artefact has a porous surface.

I used uncoloured PLA, prepped it carefully, and will chuck the print afterwards.

Yes, there’s an absurdity about it. Essentially forced into one of two block votes: recommendations from Restore Trust, or from the National Trust. Picking anyone else is probably whistling in the wind.

Oh heck yes. Scratch is near-ubiquitous in schools here in the UK, and (anecdotally, so far) children are hugely positive about it. They also recognise anything vaguely scratch-like as ‘close enough,’ and can get productive quite quickly.

Damn, that’s a great gag to play on somebody. Deliciously evil. Good call, will check.

OK, that works just fine.

Interesting workaround. Will test.