Terry Barnes
@terryb72.bsky.social
Dad, fiancé, widow, reader, cyclist, camper. Parent to 3 wonderful teens, one with cerebral palsy and two neurospicy. Terrible synth player. Green. Long history in Telco and ISP. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally & dad. Brighton-ish
Profile pic is middle-aged man head shot.
Profile pic is middle-aged man head shot.
Mandatory if you were taking GCSE Sports Science. My parents couldn't afford it and we used my mountain bike racing as an alternate sport to hit the required quota.
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Mandatory if you were taking GCSE Sports Science. My parents couldn't afford it and we used my mountain bike racing as an alternate sport to hit the required quota.
"Rescan your child's fingerprints so that they can buy things to eat at lunchtime" is my favourite.
A favourite of the less nice children is to pick their noses and wipe their snot on the fingerprint reader.
A favourite of the less nice children is to pick their noses and wipe their snot on the fingerprint reader.
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"Rescan your child's fingerprints so that they can buy things to eat at lunchtime" is my favourite.
A favourite of the less nice children is to pick their noses and wipe their snot on the fingerprint reader.
A favourite of the less nice children is to pick their noses and wipe their snot on the fingerprint reader.
He's veered some way off the path of claiming he was going to save humanity with clean tech and a new planet. He's spent countless billions building a tool that will tell your 'friends' that they look like a badger's anus. In Roman times they'd run him over with a chariot now.
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
He's veered some way off the path of claiming he was going to save humanity with clean tech and a new planet. He's spent countless billions building a tool that will tell your 'friends' that they look like a badger's anus. In Roman times they'd run him over with a chariot now.
I had an 8:30. Spent the first 5 minutes trying to remember what it is that I actually do.
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I had an 8:30. Spent the first 5 minutes trying to remember what it is that I actually do.
Ooh, I've not seen that!
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Ooh, I've not seen that!
Was that the witness protection / drug dealer show? The guy trying to keep his nose clean and just ending up in bother no matter what he does?
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Was that the witness protection / drug dealer show? The guy trying to keep his nose clean and just ending up in bother no matter what he does?
It does it a dis-service to describe it as such, but it's like The Office with Vikings.
I had to pause it until I stopped crying with the whole prosthetics thing. Astonishing.
I had to pause it until I stopped crying with the whole prosthetics thing. Astonishing.
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
It does it a dis-service to describe it as such, but it's like The Office with Vikings.
I had to pause it until I stopped crying with the whole prosthetics thing. Astonishing.
I had to pause it until I stopped crying with the whole prosthetics thing. Astonishing.
The series that clip is from is uneven, but it has so many standalone jokes that had me gasping with laughter.
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The series that clip is from is uneven, but it has so many standalone jokes that had me gasping with laughter.
Referred to by my mainframe colleagues as a WORN drive. Write Once Read Never.
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Referred to by my mainframe colleagues as a WORN drive. Write Once Read Never.
In the late 90's my work PC was a Compaq with a hybrid rewritable optic disk drive called a Floptical - forerunner to a Zip drive. It never worked properly.
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
In the late 90's my work PC was a Compaq with a hybrid rewritable optic disk drive called a Floptical - forerunner to a Zip drive. It never worked properly.
I remember hard drives being called Winchester disks.
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I remember hard drives being called Winchester disks.
The Live Trains app is available.
November 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The Live Trains app is available.
My kids really want one of those marzipan potatoes. Ideally one each.
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My kids really want one of those marzipan potatoes. Ideally one each.
...keep using them as a cheaper alternative to having the chimney swept because eventually his spendthrift nature would kill his family.
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
...keep using them as a cheaper alternative to having the chimney swept because eventually his spendthrift nature would kill his family.
Previous owners of the house had been burning wood from the eucalyptus trees, which is apparently very resinous and coats the chimney lining with flammable goo. And lots of memories of fire brigade coming to extinguish chimney fires at my parents' house until cross fireman told my dad not to...
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Previous owners of the house had been burning wood from the eucalyptus trees, which is apparently very resinous and coats the chimney lining with flammable goo. And lots of memories of fire brigade coming to extinguish chimney fires at my parents' house until cross fireman told my dad not to...
I'm not going to use it - it just looked tempting 🙂 I prefer cold to dead. We used it a bit when we first moved in but neighbour's son had cystic fibrosis and it seemed un-neighbourly to fill the air with smoke. It was expensive & chimney needed cleaning often.
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I'm not going to use it - it just looked tempting 🙂 I prefer cold to dead. We used it a bit when we first moved in but neighbour's son had cystic fibrosis and it seemed un-neighbourly to fill the air with smoke. It was expensive & chimney needed cleaning often.
It was -3 this morning. Outside, admittedly, but still.
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It was -3 this morning. Outside, admittedly, but still.
I am looking at my long disused wood fired stove and pondering abandoning my green credentials and also wondering whether the chimney not having been swept for a decade is a major problem.
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I am looking at my long disused wood fired stove and pondering abandoning my green credentials and also wondering whether the chimney not having been swept for a decade is a major problem.
I'm £1200 down in repairs so far, 4 things have been replaced, it seems to work for a bit and then go 'nah'. The house is officially frosty.
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I'm £1200 down in repairs so far, 4 things have been replaced, it seems to work for a bit and then go 'nah'. The house is officially frosty.
Boiler broken again. Hmph.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Boiler broken again. Hmph.