Better jump down a manhole/Light yourself a candle

[hirez]

USB connectors have a rubbish design. Whichever way you try to jab them into the half-hidden socket, they're the wrong way up. You can't tell if you're hitting the socket square-on, but have the connector wrong, or if you've the connector the right way up but are missing the socket slightly. Hopeless.

Anyway. Went out for a run in the direction of Thornbury and back, armed with a pre-motorway OS map of the area and several supplements from the Science in Sport people. I didn't get as far as I wanted, for which I shall blame the life-force sapping precincts of Bradley Stoke.

Anyway. Once you get away from the A38, Almondsbury is quite lovely and has remarkable views of both Severn crossings. Which I did not photograph because I was still gripped with a need to escape the smell of Bradley Stoke, about which I can say nothing nice save that it's not on my OS map.

If you look carefully in that area, you can find pre-Worboys Report roadsigns.







Note the painted-out reference to Aust Ferry.

Comments

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Design by committe =:-( Never mind the proliferation of miniature connectors, as no-one thought to include such a thing in the first place.

I had to read the preliminary USB spec, all 250 pages of the bloody thing, and I'm surprised it works at all.

[meltie.livejournal.com]

Ouch.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Invest in a cheap USB hub which puts the connectors on your desktop. Really, it's a few quid and the lowered blood pressure will put years on your life!

[inulro.livejournal.com]

There's a sign in Clifton (I think where Queen's Road splits off from Whiteladies Road) that still has Aust Ferry on it.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ooer. I'm going to have to go and find that.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Ker-ching! (http://quercus.livejournal.com/170148.html)

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

we have loads of old cast signs with pointing fingers indicating direction still up around here.