Posts by Duffy Moon

"I (almost) remember an error message I used to get on a mac some 10-15 years or so back. It went something like "The applicaton has stopped because something deep and unexplained has occurred.""

Perhaps the guru needed more time to meditate on it.

Re: Insects...

"Not sure how those weird veggies (you know, the ones that eat fish) stand on eating insects."

My partner is one of those, and since moving in with her, I am too. I wouldn't eat insects and I don't think she would either. There are plenty of other sources of protein that don't require death en masse. Perhaps, as a species, we should be progressing beyond what is rather barbarous if you think about it.

I'd have no problem with bio-engineered meat though, and that's where I'd invest if I wanted to invest in future food technology.

Re: Coaching

Yet another way to solve the golf problem: don't play that ridiculous, landscape-ruining game at all and take the things you need with you when you actually need them.

Re: I don't get it

">> How would you remember where you put the gun? Or that you even owned one?

Or, more importantly, who it was you planned to shoot."

One only has to watch The Sopranos to see how that turns out.

Re: The Thing...

I don't think it was shot in 70mm or 65mm, as it's expensive and the cameras are bulky. Effects shots of the day were sometimes shot in large format, as the extra resolution was more forgiving of the multiple exposures.

Re: Looking at it with both eyes

I made some lovely bread with spelt flour.

Re: What real use are they?

So really, you might as well just buy one or two fake alarm boxes and stick them on the outside of your property.

My dad did that fourty years ago. The box is still there and the house has never been burgled.

"health benefits of using an axe over a chainsaw (a good workout, no fumes, no horrible noise, fewer unscheduled amputations)"

My chainsaw is electric, so no (local) fumes, not really noisier than a hedge-trimmer and pretty safe when clamped to its pivot on my log horse. Less of a workout than a manual saw, but moving heavy logs around and then splitting the cut bits with an axe afterwards,leaves me pretty exhausted!

Pothole repair

I like the Indian approach to the problem: pile up a load of plastic rubbish in the pothole and set light to it.

Re: Saw it coming, just didn't care.

"32GB+ is a huge amount of music"

Maybe in mp3 format, but all my music is in FLAC - which is somewhat more space-hungry.

Re: Still haven't graduated from lithium

"Atomic batteries have been around for a long time"

Adam West's Batmobile had them!

Re: Bring me a cheese from every town!

"My household is vegetarian so we basically roast one sprout."

I'm tempted to try Tofurkey this year.

Re: IE and Edge

I use Edge to watch streaming content, as I remember reading ages ago that it was the only browser that gave 1080p on Windows 10. If anyone knows different, I'm happy to be disabused.

Re: Amazon affiliate links

"A 'g' before an 'i' is a soft-g is the general rule in English (though of course there are exceptions)"

Really?! Gimbal, gimlet, gibbon, give, gild, gift (one letter more than gif) and of course git. It doesn't seem like there is much of a general rule there.

If gif is "jif" then what am I supposed to put on my pancakes,Gamie Gones?

Re: I don't get it.

"Ask any sports channel, they'll tell you."

I don't get the appeal of watching people play sports either.

Re: The sooner

"Yeah i can't wait for vat to be added to my monthly expenditure..."

Even with tax, it should still be cheaper than buying it on the black market. Plus, at least some of your money would go e.g. to the NHS as opposed to funding some thug's fast car.

Besides, if it's legal you can grow it legally.

Re: As a childless curmudgeon.

"More and more that biology is helped along by medicine (rightly or wrongly). So privilege sounds more correct than pure biology."

Absolutely. There's a lot of pressure to be 'normal' and have children. It's something you don't experience unless you are a childless adult. My girlfriend can't have children and is often upset by inconsiderate comments or simply by being excluded from events/conversations.

The government and businesses encourage the production of children to ensure a future workforce and the more the better (the great god Growth must be appeased). But how much longer can a country/world with finite resources grow? Why do we have to grow? Does growth bring only positives? We know this not to be the case. Perhaps it's time for a new way?

Re: "may not be fatal"

"...should *of*..."

Hahaha. Oh dear, oh dear.

Re: I wonder how is the sound quality

It would not be very good. Probably quite a restricted frequency range, especially lacking lower frequencies. That might not matter for voice communication, but it won't do a decent job reproducing music.

Re: Good lord.

"I didn't mean LSD. I meant something else"

I thought you might be referring to MDMA, but that was first synthesised in 1912.

Re: Should be able to watch photosynthesis, too ...

" It's our economic model that is the root of so many of our problems."

I'm more of the opinion that it's overpopulation. Fewer people = less of a problem feeding them or providing them with other forms of energy. Don't mention that to business people or governments though - they don't care about the long-term or the welfare of individuals.

"I have a VW Golf and its clear if the car in front is using ecigs then my car filter does not get purge them from the incoming air giving me 100% passive smoking."

I've never seen a car using e-cigs, but plenty that smoke.

"You can wipe our 99.99993% of us and we won't go extinct. It may already have happened."

If the human population dwindled to 5000, almost every other species on the planet would breathe a sigh of relief.

Re: Bio-fabrication is better at making food than it is parts

Perhaps not necessarily machines, but there's certainly a case for being able to create parts and structures that are low-energy to produce and which are easily biodegradable when finished with.

Re: Double "Hmmm"

I believe that the preferred method for notifying them of errors, is via the 'send corrections' link at the top of the comments page.

Re: TNMOC rocks!

"If you're ever in London, it's a 1/2 hour or so train ride"

Unless you're in south London like me - then it's 2 hours!

Ahh. The wonders and delights of TFL.

Re: "why he is being given public money..."

"He owns lots of farmland which is rented out to tenant farmers. It's not as it the land is sitting there idle."

Under the set-aside scheme, some of it might well be.

Re: Ben Hur Moment.......

Plus the average speed is about 11 m.p.h.

Re: Take away message is ...

Reducing human population seems to be an obvious priority, but not one to which many governments want to give serious consideration.