Take a voice from a creaky elevator:
By mangling the creaky elevator and voice and adding a kick drum with XLN’s Life you get:
Himself
Having The Big Bang Theory on Disney+, without the commercials of broadcast TV, it is noticeable how short the episodes are. One runs for 17 minutes 🤷♂️.
Apple TV not streaming from media library
Although the Apple TV box could find the media library shared from the Mac it refused to play any videos. it had worked earlier in the day. A new file added to the library would appear in the library on the TV but would not play. They were all signed in to the same Apple account and were on the same WiFi network. What to do?
Restarting the Mac did not help.
Unmounting and remounting the external drive where the library lives did not help.
Restarting the Apple TV box did not help.
Signing out of and back into the Apple account did not help.
Restarting the WiFi router solved the problem and all was working again.
🤷♂️
And another think
An article from the New Statesman today included the passage:
I stopped reading after “she had another thing coming”. What was coming? A promotion? A cup of coffee? Surely what was meant was that her rumination would require further thought – she had another think coming. The Ngram view (for what that is worth) shows the ‘thing’ form taking off from around 2000 and becoming the more usual form today.
It is a curious phrasing. The folksy etymology is often attributed to American usage but one suspects that anyone who thinks that has another think coming.
Housey-housey
I am puzzled by the terms ‘social housing’ and ‘affordable housing’ which are increasingly used as shorthand to refer to, I assume, housing which is neither anti-social nor unaffordable. And don’t get me started on the ‘cost of living’ nonsense.
A New Statesman article refers to a survey (pdf) which addressed the stigma attached to living in such housing. Unlike the drug crazed criminals presented in TV dramas it is (surprise!) mostly occupied by regular people doing, or having retired from, a regular job. All positively contributing to ‘the economy’ (whatever that is).
After a lifetime of avoiding the collective criminality that is ‘private property’ I look forward to the day when all housing is declared ‘social housing’ and ‘affordable housing’.