I installed this *.deb package in the end rather than unzip the tar file. I think the error was generated because I used an improper switch with the tar command. I’m glad the developer included a way to report the bug. I don’t always do these things, and the extra step of taking a screen capture from the linux command line nearly put me off.
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This is one of my favourite Adrenalini episodes – partly because I got to sing El Boca’s song, but also because there’s so much going on in the story, and it all leads to a satisfying conclusion.
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The Adrenalini Brothers is coming to POP UK – Sky channel 616 or Freesat 603. Tune in from this Saturday 9-11am and every Saturday from now until the end of time! Or until the end of the licence. Or until your eyes wither into little raisins… whichever happens first
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I don’t know if you’ve spent any time trawling through estate agency websites, but if you’re anything like me (crotchety, pedantic, prone to tutting) you get fed up with the awful mangling of language that goes on. It seems like every flat is a “property” or “instruction” and “benefits from” wood flooring and is “moments from transportation links”.
I took matters into my own hands, and with the help of a Firefox add-on called FoxReplace, 4 hours on a Sunday evening, and a rudimentary knowledge of regular expressions, managed to turn this:
into this:
Just the facts, please!
Here’s a sample of one of the regular expressions, designed to weed out pointless adverbs. I even managed to build in a filter for common spelling errors (the question mark in regular expressions means that the preceding character can appear or not and the operation will still be carried out, so both “truly” and “truely” will be caught):
<input type=”regexp”>”(increasingly|beautifull?y|enviably|generously|very|extremely|conveniently|wonderfull?y|true?ly)”</input>
There are still a few things to iron out, and I can’t keep up with their spelling mistakes so will have to concede defeat there. But it crunches down the text by as much as a third and makes a grim task a bit more palatable.
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It actually is the Goodyear blimp. And it’s headed for the Beckers in Hackney.
Shit phew, just missed.
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I’ve found it… my Wacom pen is back. To prove it I have used it to draw this:
Actually I drew that with a mouse too.
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In this episode of The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers, they get lost in the forest and find a lovely little house with three steaming bowls of porridge on the table…
Trivia: Daddy Bear (who I voiced) was inspired by deceased cockney comedian Mike Reid and had a much lower, thicker accent. He originally said “We just needed an ‘oliday” but this was considered confusing for a non-UK audience. He also originally said “Ow, me bonce!” when he hit his head on the bus roof, but this was changed because the studio in Canada thought he was saying “Ow, me balls!”
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A better version here on Google Streetview
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=powerscroft+road&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Powerscroft+Rd,+London+E5+0PP,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&ll=51.554588,-0.048649&spn=0.009793,0.019698&t=m&z=14&layer=c&cbll=51.556792,-0.046576&panoid=_re-P6A5FJGq_Vd0vPYFWw&cbp=12,177.25,,0,-8.14&source=embed&output=svembed
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I can’t find it anywhere… since moving into our flat, for reasons I won’t disgust bore you with, my girlfriend and I have had to completely pack and unpack three times. I’m just realising stuff that’s been lost in the upheaval…
Guess I’ll have to draw with a mouse from now on.
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In the throbbing heart of London’s West End, Rapunzel sits in a lonely tower above an opticians. The young suitors approach the castle but are too short-sighted to see her. And when they leave, they take one look at her and all they see is the logistical nightmare of going out with a girl who has to push her hair around in a wheelbarrow.
Oh yeah, and here’s a pub in Hackney.
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