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I thought that this is kind of a mouse, but it hops like kangaroo.
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« Reply #2972 on: 16:05:28, 10-12-2007 » |
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Hurrah!
So here I am in Hamburg and not only does the hotel have wireless internet access but it's from the same company that did the wireless at the hotel I was staying in in Berlin a few days back and I still have some time on that card AND the computer's saved the password!
And again I say Hurrah!
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Hurrah!
So here I am in Hamburg and not only does the hotel have wireless internet access but it's from the same company that did the wireless at the hotel I was staying in in Berlin a few days back and I still have some time on that card AND the computer's saved the password!
And again I say Hurrah!
"Rejoice in the card alway: and again I say rejoice....." |
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« Reply #2975 on: 11:50:03, 11-12-2007 » |
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I've set up an amplifier in my lounge through which all of my paraphernalia (video, dvd, freeview, tv and iPod) can run.
This means that a) there's no bleed-through of sound when I'm watching a DVD (as was happening with just the SCART cable through the TV), b) I can listen to CDs on the DVD player, or radio on the Freeview box without having the TV on.
This may not seem like rocket science, but it's taken me a month to sort this out (and since I've had a spare amp for the last couple of years, it's actually taken me two years to figure out that I could do this).
Noise concerns seem to have largely resolved themselves (the flat below is just plain noisy whether I'm doing anything or not - one of the reasons I knew that my power-outage was specific to my floor was that they were listening to very loud music at the time - louder than I guessed is possible from anything battery-powered) but I still want some new headphones for late night viewing/listening porpoises.
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'is this all we can do?' anonymous student of the University of Berkeley, California quoted in H. Draper, 'The new student revolt' (New York: Grove Press, 1965) http://www.myspace.com/itensemble |
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Clean bed linen...
'Quite simply he was in love with linen. Clean, lightly starched, white Irish linen, pressed, folded, tucked - the words themselves were almost a litany of desire for him. In centuries nothing had obsessed him or moved him so much as linen now did. He could not for the life of him understand how he could ever have cared for anything else.
'Linen.
'And sleep. Sleep and linen. Sleep in linen. Sleep.'
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Heinemann: 1988), 62
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« Reply #2977 on: 11:23:03, 12-12-2007 » |
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Salvation Army band playing at Victoria Station this morning ... I'd arrived back late last night from foreign parts (on what appeared to be a flying kindergarten) and had to be back in the office early this morning for a "management meeting"  but the band sent me on my way to the office with a smile on my face and a spring in my step. |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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did you donate ?
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« Reply #2979 on: 13:24:30, 12-12-2007 » |
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I've got a monthly standing order going to the Sally Army, towards the homeless. They put a lot of other Christians to shame - they get out there and actually DO something! I've great admiration for their work - I've watched them in the winter handing out blankets, warm clothing and hot soup to people living rough. If anyone out there feels the urge to contribute, you can make up a Xmas box of tinned food etc., with cracker/small gift and take it to your local Salvation Army centre and they give it to the poorest people in the community. The bands are always great too!  |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #2980 on: 13:28:47, 12-12-2007 » |
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What a lovely lady you are ! Oddly enough, my friend jan who likes ballet ( used to dance it ) does charity work at christmas, for the homeless. I find it very good,to know, that lovely people do indeed exist in the world. I myself just give the odd bunch of change to homeless, usually at charing cross tube, partly to stop me feeling guility about walking past and partly to annoy everyone else by making them feel guilty. Best of all is to be sat at a busy 'outside the pub' table somewhere and be the one who gives cash to the homeless chap who comes around everyone, it soooo annoys people !  |
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« Reply #2981 on: 13:42:03, 12-12-2007 » |
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Lord Byron, does it ever bother you that the authorities' general recommendation is not to give directly to beggars, on the grounds that it fuels drug/alcohol habits and antisocial behaviour?
Giving to beggars makes me uneasy. I buy the Big Issue - always from the same bloke if I can, he sells outside Marks & Spencer on Walworth Road - and there's one particular beggar I pass regularly who's always pleasant and chatty so I will give him a few coins if I have some on me.
Giving to the Sally Army - an organised and visibly proactive charity - is a more straightforward matter altogether.
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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They put a lot of other Christians to shame - they get out there and actually DO something! I've great admiration for their work - I've watched them in the winter handing out blankets, warm clothing and hot soup to people living rough.
Absolutely. I'm not someone with a lot of time for organised religion, but the work the Salvation Army do - out of the limelight - is magnificent. The bands are always great too! It's worth remembering that one of Britain's pioneering brass players - trombonist and teacher Maisie Ringham, the first woman to be a principal brass player in a British orchestra (in the Halle at the personal invitation of John Barbirolli, more or less straight out of college) came from a Salvationist background, with both her parents playing in bands. (In my younger days I had the great privilege of playing in a couple of bands that she conducted, without ever quite realising at the time who she was and what she had achieved.) |
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« Reply #2983 on: 14:03:58, 12-12-2007 » |
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These are the same authorities that do not provide provision for the homeless.
I think in new york they bought a hotel and housed them all, very practical !
I don't do drugs but i like the old joke of...
'they say you shouldn't give the homeless money as they spend it on booze, but,heck, what do you think i spend it on ?'
Considering the situation,and the cold at night, I think alcohol is a reasoned response to the situation the homeless face, and having read too much george orwell, i like to think they have just fallen on hard times. If i was homeless i would certainly want more wine.
I don't like the big issue, i just give em cash. And anyway, it makes me feel good about myself, so is half a purely selfish action, i find.
I also spent some time when living in the south of france in questioning my society shaped responses and doing things opposite to natural instinct but in accordance with moral reasoning.
er, sorry for that , went all intellectual in me old age like
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er, sorry for that , went all intellectual in me old age like
Don't be (sorry, that is)! A lot of it is quite similar to what I wanted to say in response to Ruth's post. Not that I disagree with Ruth completely, but it would be nice to think there's room for not just following 'the authorities' general recommendation', in this as in the rest of life. And there's something very uncomfortable about those members of society who haven't fallen on hard times (or, indeed, those people who just happen to find it easier to consider themselves 'members of society' in the first place) coming over all moral about what people do with the money they give them. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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