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Yr mouse's wheel doesn't look very sticky at all MJ! Mine varies, sometimes it whizzes round and others its very slow and - well - sticky.
For all the pedants here, this was the reverse of the usual error viz "it's" being used as the possessive form of "it", whereas I, of course, meant to write "it's" instead of "its".  [Hangs head in deep shame] Missed that one!  |
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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« Reply #4291 on: 00:43:35, 04-01-2008 » |
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You're too kind MJ.
I cannot hold my head up here again. I feel deeply embarrassed
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« Reply #4292 on: 01:02:36, 04-01-2008 » |
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Cor! You don't know you're born mate!
Every so often I have to take the clothes off the mouse on this computer and clean out crumbs, cat hair and whatever else it has managed to consume.
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #4293 on: 01:11:59, 04-01-2008 » |
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Mice eating cat hair? Isn't there something the wrong way round about that, Kitty???
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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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« Reply #4294 on: 16:15:56, 04-01-2008 » |
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Ollie, Thank you for the link. You tube is great.
I did not know this pianist, never saw him. I love his playing.
Also Argerich was playing Ondine on "At the piano". I love her playing too.
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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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« Reply #4296 on: 18:38:28, 04-01-2008 » |
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It is perhaps best to wait a few weeks, while you see what's happening to their competitors in the current market conditions, before switching.
(I should probably state that I am an employee and shareholder of their principal competitor)
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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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« Reply #4297 on: 18:51:27, 04-01-2008 » |
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I forgot to drink a coffee yesterday. I thus spent last night and much of this morning with a splitting headache and this afternoon with a mild one (which is still there). Worst caffeine-withdrawal headache I can remember. And I even had a tea yesterday...  |
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« Reply #4298 on: 18:54:00, 04-01-2008 » |
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And I am a very happy customer of SWALEC after switching from British Gas and they have just given me £200 rebate  British Gas used to set up a stand and really hassle people and used to be so rude about SWALEC so when they were going to put their prices up I changed supplier for Patriotic and anti-aggressive marketing reasons never mind economic. |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #4300 on: 19:17:02, 04-01-2008 » |
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I forgot to drink a coffee yesterday. I thus spent last night and much of this morning with a splitting headache and this afternoon with a mild one (which is still there). Worst caffeine-withdrawal headache I can remember. And I even had a tea yesterday... Tea doesn't cut it if you're a coffee addict, which I am (and you seem to be too, Ollie). Every now and then I read an article that claims tea has just as much caffeine in it as coffee. I suspect they are making some pretty weak coffee for those comparisons. I'd love to be able to kick the addiction. When I'm on tour I wake every morning with the faint panic that I might fail to find any good strong coffee - or just any strong coffee - or, depending on where I am, any coffee at all. But I love the drink so much I can't bring myself not to have it in the mornings. (Oh, and I guess headache-prevention is a pretty strong incentive to keep drinking it, too...) |
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« Reply #4301 on: 19:33:37, 04-01-2008 » |
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This'll be a big cue for grumpers everywhere, so aplogies in advance. But on the subject of substance-related headaches/ insomnia, I can smugly report that I never suffer from either. I can eat a pound of cheese, washed down with 6 brandys and 3 espressos and be sleeping like a babe 30 minutes later, to awake refreshed and ... er, ready for some coffee... |
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Green. Always green.
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George Garnett
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« Reply #4303 on: 19:42:02, 04-01-2008 » |
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Tea doesn't cut it if you're a coffee addict, which I am (and you seem to be too, Ollie). Every now and then I read an article that claims tea has just as much caffeine in it as coffee. I suspect they are making some pretty weak coffee for those comparisons.
Someone told me once... and I've remembered it so it must be true....that business of tea having more caffeine in it than coffee is true only in the sense that a pound (say) of dry tea has more caffeine in it than a pound of coffee beans. But once you have turned them respectively into cupfuls, since you use far greater weight of coffee per cup than tea per cup, it's the (expected) other way round by a large margin. Hence, as you say, tea just doesn't cut it for the caffeine junkie. |
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« Reply #4304 on: 19:47:36, 04-01-2008 » |
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Cripes Ollie! How much coffee do you normally drink?!  One double espresso with breakfast. Then maybe one other single during the day. I also can't understand this concept that tea has as much caffeine as coffee. If it does then it's clearly something else my body is complaining about not getting. Ah, George to the rescue I see. I had expected some such explanation. A long time ago I had had a nasty cold and not had any caffeine for a few days - long enough that the withdrawal headache had passed. I kept that up for a while and it was lovely. Easier to get to sleep at night, easier to wake up in the morning, nice even energy level during the day. But then in the middle of a Ferneyhough rehearsal I had a complete energy slump. An espresso at the break and I was right back in action. And, er, addicted again. It seems the muso life (mine at least) needs that concentrated energy in bursts that the caffeine-addicted lifestyle provides. Damn. |
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