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Andy Finney

@delverie.bsky.social

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Ex-broadcaster and data-wrangler … copyright, infrared and Elektra Records fan … archiving my past … music collection not as big as it was … the odd photo … and with a disobedient memory.

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 18h

A gem for anyone competent at bashing the ole joanna …

Threatening Music Notation @musicnotation.bsky.social · 18h

For the pianists

Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 1d

Not NAB then … I was wrong. IEC is what we used to call CCIR.

Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 1d

Presumably NAB, so European buyers are likely to have the wrong equalisation. Nice to see a Technics RS1500 there … I still miss mine.

Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 2d

“She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail”

Lefty Frizzell

(And there was me thinking it was an old English folk song.)

Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 2d

Magdalen seems to depend on which side of the bridge you are standing.

Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 3d

It makes me wonder whether similar techniques could map clear air turbulence. Can its causes be detected by satellite?

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 4d

www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/eliminatin...

Eliminating contrails from flying could be incredibly cheap

Could we halve aviation's climate impact at a fraction of the cost of sustainable aviation fuels?

www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 4d

An absolutely fascinating piece … thanks for the pointer.

Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 4d

And they called it ‘wireless’!

Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 5d

I believe there was a famous grammarian whose last words were:

“I die … I am dying. Either is acceptable.”

Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 6d

I sometimes wonder whether the subsequent owners of our old houses ever removed the ISDN equipment.

Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 6d

A fun thing about the late bodhran player in the Chieftains, Paedwar Mercia, was hearing non-Irish people struggle with the pronunciation of both his name and his instrument.

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 6d

There must be a John Betjeman poem about ‘Ithaca, Marlowe and Plum’ … it has that sort of feel.

Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 6d

Not again!

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 7d

Today is the 63rd anniversary of the London premiere of Dr. No, which means (well, obviously) it’s time to tell you a ridiculous shaggy dog story about the theft of not one but two portraits of the Duke of Wellington

Sean Connery in Dr No’s lair, about to go up a short flight of stairs when he spots a portrait of the Duke of Wellington on a stand. The original had been stolen from the National Gallery the previous year, and this was a joke by the Bond production team

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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 8d

"For you, it’s an article of faith that “anti-Israel” is not “anti-Jewish”. But not everyone is so careful." Powerful and poignant by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social; shd be read by everyone ignoring the PM's call for people to respect the grief of British Jews.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In a time of hate and rancour, two Jews sought to pray – and were killed. Let Manchester be a turning point | Jonathan Freedland

This was a horror but with so much intolerance and antisemitism, no one can say it was a surprise. There are lessons to learn, and that must start now, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 8d

With the Bishop of Urgel (?) in Spain IIRC.

Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 9d

Logically you should want to listen using headphones on the tube as it’s such a noisy environment. (Even on buses as well.) Anecdotally, BBC studio managers who travelled in on the tube had to wait a while before mixing music, because the tube noise would temporarily impair their hearing.

Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 10d

@tomhayesmp.bsky.social … this is a promising idea and worth doing elsewhere, I suggest.

Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 10d

Coming soon from Bracknell Library.

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 10d

These things are only low resolution by TV standards but it’s great fun trying to do something artistic with them.

Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 11d

They were beasts! All 2-inch quad machines were beasts. It was a miracle of operational engineering that your tapes survived a playback. But they were truly wondrous: all circuit boards and hissing pipes. My first encounter was in company of the Beeb’s first VT editor: he was in ‘This is the BBC’.

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 12d

I remember those different sizes of Cadbury’s chocolate in ‘the good old days’ as having slightly different tastes. I believe that chocolate (and cheese) changes taste subtly depending on the shape/thickness. Must be something to do with oxidisation of the surface 😁.

Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 13d

Last time around … from a George V commemorative booklet.

Locomotive #1 next to a contemporaneous steam locomotive in 1925 for the railway centenary.

Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 14d

Maybe he means Portland Maine.

Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 14d

I inadvertently ordered pancakes at breakfast in Canada once. You need oxygen to climb to the top of the pile! Reader: I didn’t finish.

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