A thing I learned today

[firehazard]

A thread for, erm, things that you have learned today.

Number 1: Do not trust authors (or I suppose any other people) who say they do not like or understand the internet and yet have flashy websites filled with loads of pictures of themselves.

[Fr. McGreer]

Number 2:

TRUST ONLINE SHOPPING. It really can save you a fortune. Price looked too good to be true, but was true

Just saved over 350 euro on new Denon DJ Decks/mixer. Delivered this morning (3 working days) from Germany, postage FREE.

[MissWalshy]

Number 2:

TRUST ONLINE SHOPPING. It really can save you a fortune. Price looked too good to be true, but was true

Just saved over 350 euro on new Denon DJ Decks/mixer. Delivered this morning (3 working days) from Germany, postage FREE.

For your disco? ah, sweet.

I learned that Warnock might be going to QPR. I seriously hope not.

I also learned that by missing your dental appointments comes with a £20 charge. Anti-Craic.

[moose]

Number 2:

TRUST ONLINE SHOPPING. It really can save you a fortune. Price looked too good to be true, but was true

Just saved over 350 euro on new Denon DJ Decks/mixer. Delivered this morning (3 working days) from Germany, postage FREE.

For your disco? ah, sweet.

I learned that Warnock might be going to QPR. I seriously hope not.

I also learned that by missing your dental appointments comes with a £20 charge. Anti-Craic.

Don't pay and change your dentist....or am i missing something.

[MissWalshy]

Hard enough to get a dentist on the NHS these day in Laaahndan as it is.. nevermind jacking them in.

[shaffycantate]

Stay true to the things you believe in even if most of the country is following a lunatic who thinks your ideas are bad.

[Heather]

I have just learned, or rather discovered, that I have been writing my new play in the wrong font and font size, not that I didn't know what font and font size to write it in, but everytime I start a new document in Microsoft Word, the bloody thing resets itself.

What I have written of draft one, so far, is a minute and a half longer than anticipated, which means more editing at the end of the day.

Oh well, never mind.

[Fr. McGreer]

I have just learned, or rather discovered, that I have been writing my new play in the wrong font and font size, not that I didn't know what font and font size to write it in, but everytime I start a new document in Microsoft Word, the bloody thing resets itself.

What I have written of draft one, so far, is a minute and a half longer than anticipated, which means more editing at the end of the day.

Oh well, never mind.

Can't you just get the actors to read faster?

[O'Blivion]

Stay true to the things you believe in even if most of the country is following a lunatic who thinks your ideas are bad.

I went through EIGHT YEARS of that!

[DzM]

I learned today that it's silly to try and restore data from a failed hard drive if you've been maintaining good backups. Restore from a backup and save yourself the couple of hours of frustration of listening to a failing drive seek, seek, click click click click.

There's got to be something cool I can do with the platters of this drive. I have a a few 3.5" failed drives, and a few 2.5" failed drives. Creative application of industrial epoxy and a drill press must be able to turn these into SOMETHING cool.

[firehazard]

I have learned today how difficult it is to get copyright permission for the publication of images of obscure works of art residing in distant Russian museums. And also how, at the same time, you don't want to tangle with the Russians over copyright issues.

Actually that's been learned over the past few days. And it's both a lesson and a quandary.

[Jon]

There's got to be something cool I can do with the platters of this drive. I have a a few 3.5" failed drives, and a few 2.5" failed drives. Creative application of industrial epoxy and a drill press must be able to turn these into SOMETHING cool.

We do this at work. Once you've bandaged yourself up from trying to open the hard drive, the platters make good coasters and annoying wind chimes. If you drop 2 together on a non-carpetted floor, it makes a sound similar to glass breaking!

The magnets in the disks are extremely powerful and therefore quite difficult to seperate. I use a couple as a surreal coat hook against a filing cabinet.

[BelfastsLittlesHobo]

I learned how the year 1948 was significant in Hollywood

[chinaski]

I learned today that it's silly to try and restore data from a failed hard drive if you've been maintaining good backups. Restore from a backup and save yourself the couple of hours of frustration of listening to a failing drive seek, seek, click click click click.

There's got to be something cool I can do with the platters of this drive. I have a a few 3.5" failed drives, and a few 2.5" failed drives. Creative application of industrial epoxy and a drill press must be able to turn these into SOMETHING cool.

i learned today that DzM.....is a NERD.



kidding...kidding. I've missed ya too.

[Niall]

I have just learned, or rather discovered, that I have been writing my new play in the wrong font and font size, not that I didn't know what font and font size to write it in, but everytime I start a new document in Microsoft Word, the bloody thing resets itself.

What I have written of draft one, so far, is a minute and a half longer than anticipated, which means more editing at the end of the day.

Oh well, never mind.

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