Posts by PNGuinn 1940 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Mar 2014
I wonder how the public would feel if the white cat was to explode instead?
Enquiring minds need an appropriate strategy boutique to do appropriate market research ...
I wonder how the public would feel if a strategy boutique was to explode instead?
Enquiring minds need to find someone with a singing whale capable of writing a proposal for a research grant ...
I wonder how the public would feel if a singing whale was to explode instead?
NURSE! Where are my jostick pills?
Thanks - its the blood stained one with the lump of whale meat and petunias in the pockets.
""No one wants a piece of junk low powered laptop whatever OS it's running.""
Try stuffing an appropriate version of Linux on it. It'll probably run like a scalded cat in comparison to windows.
> Runs and hides. Thanks - it's the one with the bullet proof vest in the pocketses.
"That is of course, provided you can actually, physically remove the battery without an impressive array of miniature sized screwdrivers, 3 pints of virgin blood and a bible (I'm looking at you Samsung / Apple et al.)."
No, be fair to Sammy for once. They've just provided another way to "access" the battery.
"roughly akin to peering down a loo roll tube, which leads to onjects of any size vanishing into thin air"
At least you wouldn't need a bevvy of firemen with an angle grinder to attend A & E then!
Patent possibilities for Slurp? Hmmm ... Oh noes, bog rolls have rounded cornerz ...
C'mon, apple, rise to the opportunity.
I may have got this all wrong, but from my reading of the article the case is ongoing.
We generally all have the right witness and to report on the proceedings of a public trial here in the UK, and AFAIK in the States. But in either jurisdiction do we have the right to publicly pre empt the jury's verdict? Errr ...
Speaking completely hypothetically, in tragic cases similar to this we have little or no knowledge of the mental state of anyone involved, and some of the comments I have read here could easily tip someone over the brink to ...
Careful, folks.
Does anyone else think that this Amazon / Google rivalry is going a bit far?
Or did someone get the delivery coordinates wrong?
Or did someone order a drone and the broken winged messenger just delivered it in his normal manner as there was no one in?
Sorry, Downvoted.
With the normal expected level of police competence should that not have read "Police went on to say they have apprehended 4 black female suspects"?
All of whom would have to have been carrying concealed loaded weapons or drugs. Or am I reading elReg too much these days?
"The damage of the drone crash totalled tens of thousands of dollars, and the repair work was completed early Friday morning," the city said.
Personally, I would have said from those photos that the drone was already totally totalled and wasn't worth fixing.
What are they not telling us?
Hard to choose between this and the flames icon. I want to be able to use more than 1 icon! >>
Play blinkenlights yourself when bored
Create pretty patterns for the Xmas season.
DIY advertising / slogan board.
Produce fake news.
Give the PFY an epileptic fit.
If Big Brother is watching: Leak false data. Transmit key watchwords for TLAs eyes only.
The opportunities for perverted fun must be endless ....
Windows Nein v3.1.
Windows Nein v3.11 for workgroups.
Hey, ms the consultancy fee of £5 for the names is in the post.
2 for 1 offer this week only.
ps A couple of buckets of krill for my singing whale would be appreciated. You can stuff the josticks (sideways).
use this to light 'em >>
No one likes to do it.
Doing it properly is difficult.
On a fast moving project keeping it up to date is doubly difficult.
The best people to write the docs are the coders - they are the experts on the subject.
The worst possible people to write the docs are the coders. They make too many assumptions about what they see as obvious, and don't know how to explain things properly, especially to newbies.
Whose fault is it? Mine probably. And countless others.
I grab a piece of software. Install it. Try it. Read enough of the docs to get it to do what I want. Get the job done. Don't have time to fully study the docs to work what else this bit of kit can do, nor write myself my own improved docs at my level or fill in the gaps in the existing info. So I haven't got anything complete or useful enough to send back to the devs.
When I've managed to carve myself out a bit of time in my retirement there's a few bits of software I'd like to learn to use properly. And maybe improve the docs, at least from my point of view. If that helps me maybe it would help others. And perhaps the project(s) would find it useful.
Time. The great enemy.
The problems with WD40 are that:
1. It's getting *&*&$£))" expensive for a gas powered small can of thin oil diluted by the 'merkin equivalent of white spirit.
2. It's just that, a a diluted thin oil, not a multipurpose cure - all, which is what it's sold as. For example it is NOT a penetrating oil to help free rusted up fastenings, but it will penetrate up to a point.
For what it is, a dewatering agent which evaporates to leave a mineral oil film it's ok - handy to have a tin around in the workshop / toolbox / motor in case of need.
For any serious use you need a specialist product. (Unfortunately, many specialist products are no better - just more expensive.)
Re penetrating oil - the idea is to have a very thin low surface tension carrier which penetrates between the stuck threads by wetting and capillary action, and carries with it a very small quantity of lubricant. White spirit will do up to a point - it's a bit better than thick oil, that's all.
Try comparing Laco Rustbuster with WD40 for example. The Laco is so much better. Peoples on the interwebbs suggest a mixture of acetone and auto transmission fluid. Acetone has a very low surface tension, and auto transmission fluid presumably has good extreme pressure lubrication properties, so it kinda makes sense. Being an ignorant Limey, whose vehicles still have pudding stirrers and clutches rather than this new fangled two pedal setup, I'll have to get round to getting some auto fluid to try it sometime. And compare it to GL4 or GL5 manual fluid.
The 'Merkins have another tool they call a red hot wrench - heat from a blowtorch to expand the fixing and crack the rusted joint. Very effective, especially if combined with a lubricant when hot (or the end of a candle).
American methods >>
.... their fancy data miners ....
And there, folks is where i suspect the evil A to G is really interested.
I'll lay a bet that the scumbags will have something inserted in all this to let them mine more luvverly data.
We'll now need a 3rd party data scraper blocker to go with the ad blocker, which we'll still need of course.
Me paranoid?
She was lucky. That ground looks rather soft and muddy.
Ok, it was much earlier in the year, but when I was courting and we visited the Marquis of Tavistock's humble estate I took a wrong turn, found myself on the IN roadlet instead of the OUT and tried to do a wide U turn on the grass. I got to less than 10 feet from the road and stuck fast up to the wheel rims in clay. Only then did I notice that I had been one of many ...
They had to get an ancient retainer and an even more ancient tractor to pull me out.
Happy days.
Would have been funny to watch the fun if they had had to search for an ancient retainer in shiny blue armour to carry her to the chopper, only to find that he'd been cost cropped the week before.
That guy in the high viz jacket was brave. (Why wasn't it a high viz dayglo BLUE jacket??)
He looked awfully near those blades. That egg wish only needed to move a little way forward and tip slightly and it could have been messy.
"That'll teach him to be improperly dressed. And it'll save the cost of another redundancy."
"Hey - we could dispose of him and the roll of carpet at the same time to save more dosh. It'll be a bit damp - couldn't possibly use it again after all."
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