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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Caravan parks are usually a form of vacation home (often rented out by the owner) so although they sound like a trailer park, they don’t have the connotations of “trailer trash”.

    The parks are often in a resort-like setting, with video arcades, bike rental, mini golf, cafes and clubs.

    The clubs can be family-oriented so it’s not unusual to have kids there too.

    Here’s where I spent several happy childhood trips, feeding 10p’s into arcade machines: there’s an arcade next to the club. The family would spend each evening in the club which had a bar and live entertainment every night (I mean songs, comedy etc, not erotic dancers).

    https://maps.app.goo.gl/h7SzxRvNAGcsm8a68

    Looking at it now, it does have a low-budget vibe (there were communal washrooms, no toilet or shower in our caravan!), but as a kid, I loved it.













  • This is disappointing, especially that Tile worked better than the other Android options. I was hoping that the new trackers would be a better option.

    I’ve used Tile and they’re okay, but occasionally buggy. I once deliberately left a Tile in another country and it would usually show the correct location, but occasionally report it as found near me. Support were in denial, claiming that I must have brought it with me, as if it could somehow go across the Atlantic and back by itself.

    I do think that checking baggage is a poor test case though. The bags are probably far from any person’s phone when begin transported.

    I also wonder why they needed 4 phones to test. Wouldn’t Tile and the pebblebe/chilplo trackers also work on the Samsung?






  • A similar chart could be made for the US, proving that it does use metric: soda and wine bottles, medicine doses, eye-glasses measurements (in fact most medical things).

    I think that both systems are used in schools now.

    But then I see cooking instructions for a “cup of chicken strips” and a recipe having 1/4 cup of butter, and I wonder why anyone thought that volume was a good idea there.