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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.
(prev. Stoatie's power level is >9000)

17:55 / 29.04.08

Voting yes on the creepypasta.

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

21:50 / 29.04.08

wow! virgin mobile just sold me a new phone for $15 with NO CONTRACT. also if I switch my number over to them, I'll get more minutes per month for less than I pay now.

why is everyone not doing this? what am I missing? am I about to get screwed?

I guess for $15 I can afford to find out.

grant

17:43 / 01.05.08

Mordant/ This is *my* hole: On the tattoo, you might be interested in this Frisian engraving I just read about over here, in Wikipedia's Anglo-Saxon runes (thank yichihon and the Dr. Know thread):

Rasquert swordhandle (whalebone handle of a symbolic sword), late 8th c.; ekumæditoka, perhaps "I, Oka, not mad" (compare ek unwodz from the Danish corpus)

DRR... DRR... DRR...
(prev. Mordant)

19:47 / 01.05.08

Coolio. I love the idea of this guy going around with "I'M NOT MAD" on his sword hilt. You just know he was as barmy as a wheely-bin full of ferrets.

Jack Fear

19:54 / 01.05.08

Ah, the famous and beloved Germanic sense of humor. The only thing better would be a sword-blade engraved with COME OVER HERE AND SAY THAT in big fuck-off letters.

petunia

18:37 / 03.05.08

I've been offered a free ticket to see The Wire play tonight.

Should I go?

yes.

Would anyone have any idea where I could find a torrent of Derek Jarman's Edward II...?

Shrug: Butcher Boy

15:53 / 04.05.08

I've tracked one down here but the site appears to be in Greek(?) and I can't navigate it to download or log on or register or whatever appears to be required.

Haloquin

17:20 / 04.05.08

I have spent several hours over the last week avoiding essays by looking for an ebook reader that I can afford and that works. I bought this;

MP3/MP4 player that reads TXT files

Which would have been fine if the buttons hadn't clicked very loudly, and the battery-life been about 5 minutes. I'm returning it if at all possible.

Please, can I have some recommendations for things I can read ebooks on for (hopefully) less than £50 that work? (I'd prefer something that'll read pdfs, but I'm flexible on that.)

petunia

22:11 / 04.05.08

I don't suppose you have a Nintendo DS, Haloquin? If you do, you can pick up a flash card reader for around £30 that will read txt files and possibly pdfs. It'll also give you the ability to play mp3s and nice homebrew games.

However, if you don't have a DS, I'm not sure. A quick search on Amazon shows up quite a few options for less than £50. Dunno about their quality tho...

Haloquin

03:49 / 05.05.08

Thanks petunia, I don't unfortunately... although I would like one my budget doesn't quite stretch that far at the moment. I did find quite a few on amazon for cheap, but thats how I found the one I got and it is, if I let myself admit it, awful. I'd love an Iliad Reader, but thats new-and-expensive technology. Looks like it'd be really, really useful though... but at £400 I'd be wanting most of a laptop!

I'm considering this one
MP3 etc. Player

or maybe this one
A Pocket PC that is not made anymore but I assume will do ebooks

petunia

11:53 / 05.05.08

At a guess, the pocket pc will likely be the better thing for you. It'll probably let you type and stuff and might even let you get internet access...

RFR, Airwolf style

15:11 / 05.05.08

How big is too big? If 'fairly' is the answer, buy an eeepc. They're cheap. And they're awesome.

Though, full disclosure: I have never tried to read an ebook on one, and their resolution is pretty small.

Also! I bet it'd be relatively easy to knock up an application which displays text sideways, so you could hold it like a book and read on it that way. I may investigate doing that at some point in the near future.

Haloquin

21:39 / 06.05.08

Thank you both.

The eeepc still appears to be well out of my budget, I can't find one for less than £100, but thanks for the suggestion. I looked at Nintendo DS prices and found that its possible, if you're lucky to pick one up for £60, but I'd still need to get the cartridge so... I think I'll probably go for the pocket pc. Hopefully it'll all be fine

palace politics

05:01 / 07.05.08

Am I the only person that sees the daily influx of new people in the "Welcome Barbelith's newest member" line, doesn't see the vast majority ever posting, and automatically jumps to the conclusion that these are all the same person saving up suits for an apocalyptic troll siege that will make all this talk of slow death moot?

Smith & Papers
(prev. MY CITY SCREAMS)

05:37 / 07.05.08

They're probably lurking, I think. I lurked for months before I said a word ... and then lurked for more months after that.

palace politics

07:44 / 07.05.08

my rational brain knows that, but all of the mythology about the knodge and other larger-than-life trolls has me half-expecting some sort of final reprise of earth-shattering douche-baggery in these last days...

Kali, owner of a mouthy cat
(prev. Mistress of Cats Kali)

04:48 / 08.05.08

Tell me, Barbelith, how one goes about being somewhat polite and being fairly *fucking* stern with a landlord that should legally reimburse for loss of house?

grant

18:15 / 08.05.08

Well, the best way would probably be
* in writing
* from legal counsel.

Not sure how practical that is.

Tsuga

02:18 / 09.05.08

I agree with grant there— if it's possible.

Quantum of Solace

12:27 / 09.05.08

You know that placeholder text you get in design to show where the words will be, you know the one- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet etc.
What does it mean?

Ava Banana

14:09 / 09.05.08

I don't think Lorem Ipsum is supposed to have meaning, but I heard it does (in part at least) come from a passage of Cicero.

Jack Fear

14:44 / 09.05.08

Everything you need to know about Lorem Ipsum.

Quantum of Solace

16:15 / 09.05.08

Cheers! It's quite interesting in fact...

"Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?"

Olulabelle

00:08 / 11.05.08

Does anyone know any really good street poets?

All Acting Regiment

18:14 / 11.05.08

Does anyone know a round cube?

DRR... DRR... DRR...
(prev. Mordant)

18:37 / 11.05.08

1000?

Soylent Sauce

08:29 / 13.05.08

NeedMeaTechGeek'lith:

Right, so. Just burned through the fifth USB wireless net adapter this year and I desperately need something to fill the gaping netvoids, etc. Preferably something:

-Actually compatible with Windows Vista (pray for my soul), not just something with a shiny sticker on the box claiming to be compatible with Windows Vista (unless it's a scratch 'n sniff).

-That won't overheat and drop the connection after an hour or two hours or ever, really, if that's possible.

-With reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally long range. Like, if we were to round up three thousand random individuals to create a wonderful and symbolic (can't be bothered to explain what exactly is being symbolized, you understand) human chain, we would need something with a range of at least two more massive-human-chains. Really long range.

Help?

grant

18:53 / 13.05.08

Sounds like you should try the Chinese cookware wifi repeater.

Soylent Sauce

07:37 / 19.05.08

Grant, this is wonderful. Presents a possible solution to my problem and gives me an excuse to muck about in applied mad science. Thanks!

Whisky Priestess

14:15 / 19.05.08

Is anyone a theatre director based in London who fancies enhancing their CV with a King's Head directing credit? One night only, token payment.

jamesPD

14:11 / 20.05.08

I was talking to someone this weekend that works in the Human Resources department of her company and frequently has to interview possible new employees. She mentioned a kind of psychological profiler that they used which included questions such as 'During an argument did you ever tell your parents that you wished they were dead?' At the end it was possible to build-up an idea of the reliability of the person, how good their leadership skills were, etc.

Does anyone know the technical name for this kind of employment profiling?

Ron Stoppable

15:56 / 20.05.08

isn't that a psychometric test?

jamesPD

16:13 / 20.05.08

That's what I thought, and I think maybe its right. But I've heard of psychometric testing, and hadn't heard the term that the HR guy used. Perhaps the word she used was just a brand of psychometric testing or something.

Anyways, thanks for your help.

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