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Early today: I'm spending the morning re-roofing a mates shed, so I have no idea when I'll be finished. He's not very organised ... I'm still waiting for the text to tell me where the house is, much less the shed. He has bought the felt, apparently - which is a start, anyway ...
In the morning, swinging both ways - evil and clumsy with both hands? (12)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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AMBIDEXTROUS
AM to start...
then ..BI..
but I thought DEXTROUS was the antithesis of evil and clumsy.
Overall it fits the definition, anyway.
[edit2] or is it AMBISINISTER?  [/edit2]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
modified 11-Oct-21 3:00am.
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It was a wild guess, but a plausible construction.
Subsequently confirmed.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I saw this on a recent WOTD - new one on me.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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It's a damn good word though! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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It is - how's the roofing going ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Done. It took a while, because Rich remembered the felt and tea, but forgot the ladder and the felting nails. Oh, and the wood underneath was so wet that in places you could push nails in with your thumb.
Oh, and the postcode and house number he messaged me was ... his house next door, rather than his other house 15 miles away where the shed is.
He's not very organised, but he's a genuinely nice guy.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Those five minute jobs eh ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yep - not just Oz that has that problem. I had similar troubles with the UK systems as well.
Bear in mind that these things are written by the friends of elected officials lowest bidder and they don't expect the volumes of traffic they get. "It works fine here with both my friends logged in ..." 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Yep, today is mini-"freedom day" here, when fully vaxed people can start doing things again.
But to check in anywhere you need proof...
And they couldn't have possibly anticipated the demand.
Brought to you by the same mob as the 2016 Census[^]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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" when fully vaxed people can start doing things again."
Then we have Singapore with some of the highest vaccination rates in the world: be careful out there.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I know, but I can now visit one of my sons and hug my g'daughters for the first time in ages. My other son will have to wait until December on the current schedule. And we're all in the same state...
Certainly not going to run wild.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: mini-"freedom day"
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You live in an ex-prison colony. The authorities merely reverted to type. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Only 70 minutes?
The last time I had to make a government account, which wasn't that long ago, I could only get a code by snail mail 
I needed that account now, but I had to wait at least two business days 
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Wow! The government imposes travel paper requirements then makes the documents hard to get...
But I’m sure they only have your best interests at heart🙄!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Yeah I saw that on ABC News. The security models of all the gov't apps are damaged, if not completely broken.
Example:
A browser can ask Android if the device is lockable (PIN, swipe pattern, face etc) and if so, allow access to its saved passwords. (I had to temporarily put a PIN on my wife's browsing tablet to retrieve a password.)
But ServiceNSW insists on a PIN to unlock the app even on a lockable device. Adds no security at all, just creates frustration.
It's actually fewer taps to use a standalone QR reader and then tell it to open in browser...
And don't get me started on their UI design (No, I do not want to put my DL on it to enable one-stop ID theft!)
or their crap QR scanner.
or their battery hogging.
QR code tattoos, anyone?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Been a really slow weekend, I guess the cooler weather everyone is out enjoying the end of summer.
Me, I'm laying tile.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Me, I'm binge playing Starcraft II again. (It's raining, and I got a good pot of tea)
Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. (Porkypine - via Walt Kelly)
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Enjoy the peace while it lasts.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Biking and enjoying the nice weather while it lasts, also hoping to see some nice mushrooms but haven't spotted them this year ...
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I hate wild mushrooms, she insist on drying them to have the bugs crawl out.
Never heard a better argument for MacDonalds.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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