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True story - Struan Sutherland (the antivenin guy in LCTS) was a friend of my ex-MIL. When the book came out he was furious - he claimed the exchange that went “are there any venomous animals you actually like? Yes, but she left me” was made up by Douglas Adams.
His version - he and his ex, after an ugly divorce, were slowly coming around to being civil with each other when DA was doing a lot of media to support the book, and that the story was enough to blow that out of the water.
I have no data for this, other than the fictional Struan Sutherland was hilarious, and I never met the real or even fictional Sutherland.
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Small world.
And I wouldn’t put it past Douglas Adams to edit something for effect.
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With Google, what could go wrong? 
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I’m secretly hoping that some interesting files about this or that will accidentally trickle out into the open.
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The good old locksmith scam, extended to the realm of medicine. Bastards.
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I hope that whoever makes that happens takes precautions for their safety:
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That looks like something Akiyoshi Kitaoka would come up with.
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I’m kinda counting on “outsourced and underpaid techperson half-asses setting up cloud-thingy for data storage because they are way past caring and/or the training budget was slashed”, followed by “tech-savvy insomniac who trawls the 'net stumbles across unsecured cloud-thingy for datastorage, leaks data to multiple news organisations”.
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Why do I fear it’s more likely a tech-savvy group of cybervillains finds unsecured data and holds it for ransom.
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Could be. Probably excluding, in this case, any Russian hackers if they know what’s good for them.
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Cereal Killer Cafe enters hipster heaven, heads online: Coronavirus blamed for shutters being pulled down
The hipster entrepreneur in all of us died a little bit today with confirmation that Cereal Killer Cafe, the best place in London Town for overpriced bowls of breakfast foodstuffs and milk, is not going to re-open its doors.
Founders Alan and Gary Keery are saying Cheerios to their bricks-and-mortar eateries in the east end and north of the capital after 5.5 years in business. It’s all gone, er, snap, crackle and pop.
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But amid the deepening gloom, is your dog finally getting enough cheese?
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That’s just gold.
What’s with the zoom-in around 1:20?
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Maybe they thought that cat was going to disappear again?
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Oh my God, that’s even better!
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“My God, he’s full of cats!”
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