h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I thought Twelveses was Tiffin?

In southern California, usually ~ between 10:00am and 10:30am, though its usually a summertime affair on daylight savings time, usually served in the form of a buffet.

11:00am to 1:30pm is 'lunch', 'dinner' in the American midwest and deep south.

Hubby always objected to the word 'brunch', believing it to be a pointless modern Americanism. Actually, brunch was first used in Punch in 1896, making it a British-English 'antique' (i.e., over 100 years old).

Sheesh, I just said that it was a petty hate. I know it is a word which was not invented recently.

Didn't we used to have a few threads about etymology?

The word has always made me feel a little uncomfortable too.

Look. Although the practice has become widespread, particularly in the media it would seem, it is no less a petty hate to hear a sentence needlessly start witglh the word 'look'.

PP.

See here, we should start a trend to go totally retro and revert to "see here"

"The content owner has not made this video available on mobiles. Add to playlist or watch later on a PC"

SWL, that is annoying, but you can try to 'request desktop site'.

Any website that has different content for arbitrarily decided mobile or desktop devices can get tee fiddle as far as I'm concerned.

Doesn't work on my iPad but works on my not-much-bigger XPS taplet/laptop using a Windows App? Weird.

My PH of the day is technology and this is why:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/erinchack/the-most-concerning-autocorrect-fails-of-all-time

Not an autocorrect, but could have taken me somewhere I didn't want to go: I was searching for Help for Heroes. Predictive text suggested herpes instead of heroes.

...experimental programs that frankly don't even rate beta re!ease, without either disable/enable or effective uninstall controls...

...outrageously inflated Google data usage charges about 1000 the actual data usage required, 6 - 8 MB for a 1 - 3 paragraph memo, between 70 and 80 MB for a two page letter...

...broken links due to auto capitalization of the first letter following a period, '.', even in URL bar addresses...

Chronic itching.

Mr. X, do anti-histamines help? I sometimes get really itchy hands or feet. I find an anti-histamine eases the problem, even though it's not obviously an allergic reaction to anything.

PH today: Rain. The sort of rain that starts not long after you set out for a run, and stops just before you do. I swear it's doing it on purpose.