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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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Jub

12:05 / 04.07.06

Gray's anatomy?

new question
What is the name of the pub in paddington station on the top floor - overlooking yo sushi and the coffee places and that? Not the reef bar, but the other one. Might be a young's pub?

12:49 / 04.07.06

There are also Anatomy colouring books (more sophisticated and cooler than they sound). Medical students use them to aid memory, according to a chum of mine.

There's this one, this one and a Gray's branded one.

illmatic

12:53 / 04.07.06

Cheers Ex, I'm so buying one of them. Actually the first link comes up partnered with a rather good looking book about the body I've had my eye on.

Gray's Anatomy has always looked a bit well, grey to me.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

14:28 / 04.07.06

Does anyone know why michael ironside keeps on playing Amputees (Machinist, Guy X, Starship Troopers, Total Recall)?

Saint Keggers

14:55 / 04.07.06

Im guessing it's because the people who make those movies give him a paycheck; which he then exchanges for money. Other than that, complete coincidence.

All Acting Regiment

16:01 / 04.07.06

Is he an amputee? Now think carefully...

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:18 / 04.07.06

He's wheelchair-bound, obviously, but I think he still has legs. Regardless, can't we focus on his skills as an attorney?

Earlier than I thought

18:59 / 04.07.06

Michael Ironside? He's nails. One time, I saw Michael Ironside shoot this big insect, then the big insect started eating him and Michael Ironside was so hard that he asked his mate to shoot Michael Ironside in the tummy until he died.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

07:19 / 05.07.06

How can you mock he was dealing with the lizard threat whilst Icke was playing fucking football!

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

07:27 / 05.07.06

And he can make people's heads explode! Bet you're scared now!

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

07:27 / 05.07.06

And...and...and he can beat up Christian Bale and how hard is he?!

Jake, Colossus of Clout

07:29 / 05.07.06

You're shitfaced, aren't you?

Come join the Lateshift.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

07:34 / 05.07.06

Dude it's half past nine in the morning for me!

On a slightkly more serious note can anyone suggest decent freeware for editing MP3's and a relatively safe site to download it from?

Jake, Colossus of Clout

07:40 / 05.07.06

Audio Editor Pro, perhaps?

It's half past four here, so I'm away to bed. Work tomorrow, unfortunately. Dunno the best site to download from, but a buddy of mine digs the program.

G'night.

Whisky Priestess

08:36 / 05.07.06

What the blithering fuck is going on with my blog? Every time I go back there Blogger seems to have decided that it will read much better in ENORMOUS FONT FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED.

I can change the font style and size in the posts themselves, but I can't work out how to shrink the type in the Profile or the links or the post titles.

Please help, it's driving me up the wall and making my blog look shit.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

12:07 / 05.07.06

Cheers Jake, now does anyone know how to transfer files fromI Tunes to window media player?

Ticker

17:12 / 05.07.06

Are we talking same 'puter or across a network?

your iTunes music lives in a folder on your 'puter. Usually called iTunes Music.

1. Locate the folder on your hard drive.
2. Open WMP and point it at the folder or songs within a sub folder.

ibis the being

17:52 / 05.07.06

Hey while we're at it, I have an iTunes question as well. Is there a way to change my settings so that I can delete songs from iTunes but not from my ipod next time I plug it in? Right now any action (uploading, dowloading, deleting) happens on both. Please put instructions in the form of iTunes for Morons, thank you kindly.

Tabitha Tickletooth

08:59 / 06.07.06

ibis - I think you have to change the settings on your iTunes so that it doesn't automatically update your iPod every time you plug it in. This does mean that you then have to choose to manually update your iPod when you put things into your iTunes library.

There may be an easier way of doing this but it's the solution I have come to because I have different iTunes libraries on my iBook and my PC but keep the lot on my iPod.

It would be good, however, if someone else could confirm that this is right as my i-Fu is not all that.

Tabitha Tickletooth

09:03 / 06.07.06

Oh, and I had a new question too:

What do you call the convention in literature whereby names (usually, but sometimes places or even dates) are replaced by a long dash (longer than an em dash)? I'd like to find out about when, where and why these should be used but it is very hard to search for something when you don't know what it is called.

Char Aina

14:37 / 06.07.06

aboriginal symbolism

i have recently gained an aboriginal 'telephone'(see crocodile dundee 2), in reality called a 'bullroarer'.
it has on it a collection of etchings that i would like help identifying.

one is a series of concentric circles, the middle one a black spot with a hole in the centre surrounded by the other four rings.
above this are four dancers, looking an awful lot like a gathering of munch's 'scream' character and friends.
they seem to be dancing, and seem drawn as smoke, or something ethereal.

any ideas?
does it make my bullroarer a particluar kind?
if i make one for myself, should i make it with any designs in mind?

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

14:40 / 06.07.06

Is there a substantial difference between shampoo and "body wash"? Any real problem with washing your body with standard shampoo and a loofah?

Char Aina

14:40 / 06.07.06

tabitha, i love you.
i was wanting to know that as well, and completely forgot to ask.

is there a particular work in which you noticed the convention?

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:07 / 06.07.06

I don't know what it's called, I'm afraid, but it is used in early novels in English, in the case of dates to prevent a work from being dated. With names and places, it is usually done in fictional epistolary novels or annalistic novels - fake letters and fake diaries - to give a sense of realism, by suggesting that the name of a noble person or estate had been excised from the text before publication. Also, I think, occasionally in other novels when referring to scandals of the day.

paw

16:36 / 06.07.06

when i use google and type in the first letter of my search term i get all the other search terms that began with the same letter below where i type, how do i make these disappear?

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:39 / 06.07.06

Which browser are you using, paw? Or should I say... pawn-searcher?

paw

17:03 / 06.07.06

microsoft internet explorer

ONLY NICE THINGS

17:10 / 06.07.06

OK. Go to the Tools drop-down, select "Internet Options". Click on the "Content" tab and click on "Autocomplete". Unclick the "forms" box. That should stop it.

Tabitha Tickletooth

07:49 / 07.07.06

Thanks Haus - your explanation is much as I suspected but it strikes me as such an odd conceit (I am forced to omit the name, dear reader, for what I write is is too close to the truth) that I'd really like to find out how it came about. Also, I read something written quite recently (it may even have been Arthur & George, but I'm not certain) which employed it, obviously in a bid to 'date' the work.

So... the question from all that babbling is: how would I find out more about a literary convention that I don't know the name for?

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Princess

10:07 / 07.07.06

Strangely, I'm having a highbrow afternoon. What was the name of the feminist deconstructionst who decided that "I" was too phallogocentric to be her personal pronoun, and so she switched to "O"?

Should this go in Feminism 101?

Jub

13:48 / 07.07.06

What is the difference between unlawful killing and manslaughter?

Thorn Davis

14:06 / 07.07.06

"What is the difference between unlawful killing and manslaughter?"

Unlawful killing is a verdict which can be returned on an inquest into a person's death. Manslaughter is a criminal charge.

grant

14:36 / 07.07.06

Is "O" Daphne Marlatt? Google doesn't like single-letter words, so looking up is difficult. (Also, what the fuck?)

That question makes me wonder, as well: Is English the only language with a single-letter first-person pronoun?

Spanish is yo, Mandarin is wu (one written character, but a compound one), French is je (often contracted, but still), German is ich.... Are we alone in this?

Mon Oncle Ignatius

14:54 / 07.07.06

Unlawful killing is a verdict which can be returned on an inquest into a person's death. Manslaughter is a criminal charge.

Slightly more detailed definitions are:

Unlawful killing is a verdict which can be returned at an inquest, and it covers murder, manslaughter and infanticide, with some coroners including deaths caused by dangerous driving.

Manslaughter covers:

a) voluntary manlaughter (i.e. murder with a defence of diminished responsibility, provocation, or killing in a suicide pact [see Homicide Act 1957, ss.2-4])

b) involuntary manlaughter (death resulting from an unlawful act reasonably recognised as causing another person injury; or caused by a reckless or grossly negligent act or omission)

So manslaughter is an act of unlawful killing, but an unlawful killing may or may not be manslaughter.

Princess

16:35 / 07.07.06

That sounds roughly right. I'd been googling for like an hour. Thanks a lot. Good WTF as well, I'd be dubious until I saw a reference. Although Acker's Don Quixote would seem a likely model for Delirium. Who'd thunk it?

Thanks for the helps.

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