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This is classified personal ad in this weeks London Review of Books: People who use museum postcards instead of letter-paper; people who own garden composters; ticket collectors who cannot accept the idea of the bloke in the kiosk at the station disappearing to the toilet at the exact time...

I almost responded to this thread several times. I didn’t because all my posts would have said was “I feel your pain”, which a; isn’t helpful, and b; isn’t true, I feel my pain which, while it feels to me a lot like your description of your situation, is my own. (god that’s an ugly sentence)...

I think Corvair meant the shapening block, like a whetstone, only the surface would be lots of tiny little diamonds. That basically what I use on my cooking knifes, (gets them sharp enough to cut through a tomato without any crushing under the kinfes own weight).

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11081 Just a quick heads up, not that any of you would have fallen for it :wink:

it may well be my config etc, but when I hit your link I got 0&²uŽfϦ٠etc,

Thank you very much indeed Bill.

Bitching about moving and no mention of the evil trinity? Whatagawan? If you’re not moving a washing machine, a filling cabinet or a sizeable collection of vinyl, well, pfffft. Oh and before I forget to say so, congrats on the move Merc, may your bandwidth be broad, your latencies low, and may...

Tony, if you know what youlike you know everything you need to about poetry ( or any other artform come to that). Howell, your welcome and your journal entry certainly struck a chord. :) Anyhow, I'm drunk(ish) again, and therefore am posting poetry? again. let me know what you think. The...

Blake, I'm not sure I even want to know the answer to this but, What are you eating/drinking that has you worried about "wear and tear"? :eekers:

I am probably wrong, but I thought the reason for using stuff like plastic bumpers was that they [u]would[u/] break. The thinking being that its better to write off a bumper than a person, just like if you crash a bicycle and land on your head, you don't re-use the helmet you were wearing.

I didn't know Tea had been moonlighting.

I actually did :lol: :lol:

I can assure you that this particular remnant has no desings on anyones donkey. Or any other livestock, come to that.

and well sort of, I started the poem a while ago, but never got round to finishing it until I saw the insomnia thread. Which certainly inspired me to post that poem. Glad you liked it, it makes writing the thing seem worthwhile. :D (mind you I’m still not happy with the rhythm from about...

Possibly this doesn’t warrant its own thread but, I couldn’t decide which thread to put it in so it gets one anyway. Truth be told I’m still not more than half decided to post it at all and were it not for the intermediate state of refreshment I find myself in I probably wouldn’t be doing so...

This is fun, and damn you can write. If I may be so bold as to offer a suggestion for the next instalment,(please say there will be a next instalment), it could be interesting to switch to the boy Gates’ perspective of the attack, I’ve always been kind of morbidly curious to know what his heads...

Only having the one sister I’m unable to generalise, but one of the reasons she’s special is that she, unlike me, is not prone to misspelling people names. :oops:

If I need to get up the next day, scotch. If I can catch up on my rest in the morning I'll write.

Not that it means anything but its my sisters Birthday too. Happy Birthday Balke .

fair enough

On topic for a change, well sort of any way, The site could do itself a favour by announcing any decisions made by the admin group. (or at least any decisions that affect the ongoing operation of the site) That way new members will know where they stand, and if they were harbouring any...

would that be ook meaning " yes I will have a drink and its very kind of you to offer" or ook meaning " that b$%^&£*, $%£^%*%^, &%^£*%, Tannin has gone and changed all the paswords on every one of my systems again, and now I can't check in to see whats been said on SF"? I only ask becasue my...

I wouldn't hold my breath. While PW has some odd ideas about loudspeakers :wink:, ( doubtless coug will be along shortly to list all the other subjects on which PW has odd ideas), I can't help feeling that, regardless of whether I agreed with him, ( or Honold for that matter) on any given...

Very interesting link Will. Three things I want to say, First off, I should have phrased that thing about referencing SF better. What I should have said was something along the lines of, if for example there’s a question about the effect memory has on a systems performance, mention the thread...

Unifying the codes Up until recently ( when the team started to kick a**) one of the most common topics of conversation amongst English rugby union fans was "why can't we unify the codes" (basically we just wanted Jason Robinson playing union). The first couple of times I saw this thread I...

Oh yes, the lad Clarkson is very Yorkshire, (although at this point I feel I should mention that a significant portion of my family is from Lancashire). To sum Yorkshire up, Geoffrey Boycott. For those amongst you who don’t follow cricket, If you met someone who was brash, self satisfied...

Howell, the idea is that you paint this stuff on whatever really don't want to get stolen, and then, if the item in question is stolen and then recovered, the police, having access to the database(mentioned below) can tell that its definitely your property. Also, and especially if smart waters...

they're not their :oops: :oops: :oops:

A friend of the family with dual nationality once told me that Texas was to rest of the US as Yorkshire is to the rest of the UK. With that in mind, "never ask someone if there from Yorkshire. If they are they will have already told you, if their not , you'll only offend them" can't remember...

Smart water Anyone know anything about how this stuff works? I was just talking to my mum, who had spent the day giving a presentation to a bunch of local school science heads and she told me that the speaker following her was a policeman asking all the schools to buy some smart water and...

I saw this and thought of you guys. I found it through the inquirer. I make no claim with regard to the validity or otherwise of these benchmarks. :wink:

I'm using firebird right now, and have been since a day or two after the news of its release was posted here. Stable? It hasn't crashed on me yet. 8) Also it seems marginally faster while browsing, but marginally slower to load. Thunderbird, since about half an hour ago. I'd been avoiding it...

honold which build of thunderbird are you using? and is there anything about it you don't like?

IMO that convulsive laughter hasn't really been justified for a while now, consoles are simpler, cheaper and more sociable than PCs. Of course what yo really want is both. As far as which platform, Playstation 2, pro evolution soccer2 and the grand turismo series are so good they'd justify...

I don't know prof, I reckon its precisely because new versions of software come out so often that renting would be worthwhile. That is if you really want to always have the current version of whatever app or os your using. But if one were to apply the Piyono/Blakerwry Universal Determinant...

NASA put this up a few days ago, Natural phenomenon my backside, this is clearly a message to us humans from some highly intelligent, very advanced but none too subtle alien lifeform. :wink:

http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/07/week_1/02_italy.html WTF is this guy on?

One the one hand your quite right, its taking an age for LCDs to get good and cheap enough to make choosing one over a CRT a no brainer. But CRTs have been being developed and refined for decades, they (or at least the good ones) really are the silk purse's made from sows ears.

Beating a dead horse. The expression is "Beating a dead horse". [/pedantry below and beyond any conceivable need]

IIRC it goes something like this, Govt. of China says: Taiwan is an integral, nay indivisible, part of China. Taiwan says: No, we're an independent nation with full rights of same. China: We are one nation, always have been, always will be. Taiwan: Oh no were not China: Oh yes we are...

You’re quite right proff. But what I guess I failed to convey was that I’m primarily interested in is how much throughput I can realise for how much money, rather than how that throughput is realised. So while fast tcp should make much better use of the available bandwidth, it still leaves you...

Nice, very nice indeed. And the next instalment comes out when?

Leaving the fascinating subject of Mercutios apartment to one side. :wink: this fast tcp thing, nice if it works, but apparently no substitute for moving to Sweden. On the second link its the sixth letter that had me looking for evening classes in Swedish.

Sunpower A300 Not quite as splendiferous as the indium nitride things jtr posted a while ago, But these look like being available much sooner. Seeing as the advantage the A 300 has over conventional cells is that all the contacts are on the back of the cell I can’t see why, a few years down the...

Which in and of itself would ensure you five lifetimes worth of good karma

51. Dentist. (that’s an orthodontist to you yanks) 52. Whatever the job title is for the guys who clean the fat out of the sewers underneath the restaurant district of any major city is.

Damn, I didn't spot that. On the wall at my primary school there used to be a sign reading “Eddie will be this tall”, apparently the first stage model was built in our playground one summer holiday.

I wonder what happens if you’re already running the board with an above spec fsb? Does it give a 6 to 8 % increase on an already overclocked board, thereby making the system really unstable?

Good to know youre still in the land of the living Bill.

Well now, lexus uses a Mark Levinson branded stereo from Madrigal. Aston Martin use Linn. And home audio, be it two or multi channel, and whether it costs not a lot, about what you’d expect, a huge amount or more than the GDP of most third world countries, does not use Bose. At least not if you...