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« Reply #2670 on: 22:34:26, 06-08-2007 » |
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E.g. Ammonicera rota is less than 1mm in size!
cute! Do you have a specialist range of equipment for handling such TINY things? |
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« Reply #2671 on: 00:26:21, 07-08-2007 » |
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Ever since I learned about the fascinating things surgeons use to perform microsurgery I've wondered what other applications might be found for mini-engineering (as distinct from micro-engineering which IMO encompasses things like nanobots)
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« Reply #2672 on: 08:16:20, 07-08-2007 » |
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One word:
MICROSHELLS - why do they have to be so small and why are there no books on them?
jonathan, have you ever thought of doing a shell-based stand-up routine? |
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« Reply #2673 on: 08:39:39, 07-08-2007 » |
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One word:
MICROSHELLS - why do they have to be so small and why are there no books on them?
jonathan, have you ever thought of doing a shell-based stand-up routine?  Call it 'A Word in your Shell-like'. |
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« Reply #2674 on: 12:50:40, 07-08-2007 » |
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Hi All, there was once an amusing paragraph published in (I think) Hawaiian Shell news which included lots of Latin names which sound rude:
e.g. Distorsio anus, Urinator urinator, Penicillius penis etc. etc.
It was writtem as a non-shell collector overhearing a conversation between two collectors and the one listening in assuming that they were talking about a person and feeling very sorry for them (because of their distorted anus etc.)
Sadly, modern day taxonomists are busy changing all the dodgy sounding Latin names so people don't get offended!
increpatio, regarding microshell handling equipment, I have a binocular microscope and several pairs of tweezers and mounted needles (and a very steady hand!)
Interestingly, I did have a half written stand up routine on composers but I've managed to loose it due to moving house!
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« Reply #2675 on: 13:40:39, 07-08-2007 » |
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Distorsio anus
All's Well That Ends Well. Urinator urinator Wherefore art thou? Penicillius penis Wee Willie Shakespeare?
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« Reply #2676 on: 10:48:25, 08-08-2007 » |
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Daniel. Now here is a very small computer/internet grumpette. Non life-threatening. Is it just me? Am I alone? I recently moved from a dial-up thingy to a broadband thingy (someone's going to say those aren't actually alternatives but I know what I mean). Anyway, the thing is, when I am happily logged on and snurfing the internet, a ghost from the dial-up days keeps popping up on the screen every so often and says 'To connect to the internet choose dial-up option and press Connect'. I then have to go through the process of shouting 'BUT I ALREADY AM CONNECTED YOU BIG SILLY' to the screen and deleting it. At which point it pops up again and we go through the whole process again, repeatedly. While this is going on the computer refuses to do anything else. Am I alone? Is there anything I can do to stop it? I've already deleted (I think) the whole 'dial-up' programme that it keeps inviting me to use but that doesn't seem to stop it issuing the invitation.
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« Reply #2677 on: 11:01:40, 08-08-2007 » |
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How odd George. That used to happen to me as well. However unfortunately the only way I got rid of it was during my annual "strip-out" of the computer when I take absolutely everything off and start all over again. It has never popped up since. I do this because Windows gets overloaded and slower and slower and s....l...o...w....e...r..... so after a spring clean it all gets back up to speed for another few months.
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« Reply #2678 on: 11:06:24, 08-08-2007 » |
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Ah right, thank you Milly. I'll have a go. I'm a bit nervous of 'stripping everything off'  in case I delete something I shouldn't or accidentally wipe out the entire World Wide Web, but I'll risk being a bit bolder. |
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« Reply #2679 on: 11:09:23, 08-08-2007 » |
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It's worth checking things like your email account settings (let me know what software you use, and I can be more specific), to see if they are still set to "use dial-up" rather than "use LAN".
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« Reply #2680 on: 11:11:57, 08-08-2007 » |
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accidentally wipe out the entire World Wide Web
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« Reply #2681 on: 15:57:03, 08-08-2007 » |
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Thank you, David. I think you may have put your diagnostic stethoscope right on the spot. I suspect what may have happened is that, while I had previously deleted the 'dial up' programme itself, there was still an apparent link to it left in the 'internet options' box. I've now removed that too. accidentally wipe out the entire World Wide Web
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« Reply #2682 on: 16:43:40, 08-08-2007 » |
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Have just been going through the same transition myself George (once ££$**$&^^$ Tiscali fnally took their tag off our line - not that we had ever actually been their customer...).
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« Reply #2683 on: 00:29:27, 09-08-2007 » |
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Well, we'll just have to wait and see If everyone's computers start closing themselves down and there's news of panic as the Japanese Stock Market switches itself off, it's probably my fault. Have you read Arthur C.Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God", George? |
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« Reply #2684 on: 00:33:57, 09-08-2007 » |
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