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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

16:39 / 19.04.07

How does one get rid of fruit flies when one can't identify what's attracting them? I don't exactly keep fruit lying around and no food in general is just sitting out, kitchen area's fairly clean, et cetera. Do I need to form a symbiotic relationship or is there a way to encourage mass exodus?

17:07 / 19.04.07

I think it's usually old or rotting vegetable material, is there anything outside your window? Do you have a compost bin in your kitchen for peelings and such?

A good clean and a good airing should get rid of them.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

17:13 / 19.04.07

I can't think of anything directly attracting them, but it's always possible. I'm going to do a big clean tonight when I get home from work.

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

17:18 / 19.04.07

we had fruitflies at work once and it took months to get rid of them because the place was never quite clean enough. throw out everything you can, clean the hell out of everything else, make sure it's DRY with no leaky faucet giving them anything to drink, and then go on vacation for a week. or anyway that's what finally worked for us.

17:30 / 19.04.07

Fruit fly trap:
One glass
One elastic band
One small piece of fruit (the sweeter the better)
One piece of plastic wrap
One sharp knife

Place fruit in the bottom of the glass. Place plastic wrap over top of glass. Use elastic band to secure plastic wrap (tape will also work). Poke one slit in the plastic wrap.

How it works: fruit flies follow their noses. They smell the fruit and go in the slit after it. When they try to get back out, the can't find the slit in the plastic. So, once the trap is good and full of fruit flies, put the glass in the freezer for a couple of hours - this kills the flies. You can then empty the trap, wash the glass and start over. Once you have a day with no flies in the glass, you should be clear of fruit flies (until the next time they come home with your groceries). Takes three days to two weeks, depending on how bad your infestation is.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

17:50 / 19.04.07

I'm going to do a thorough clean tonight, and I've just gotten rid of a houseplant on the windowsill with a rather dubious look to it that might be the cause, based some reading I've been doing. There's a few spots I think might be part of the problem, so they'll be given particular attention tonight.

19:02 / 19.04.07

WE WILL STILL FIND YOU PAPERS
WE LOVE LOVE YOU PAPERS
AM PAPERS
LOVE THE FLIES

Whisky Priestess

08:26 / 20.04.07

I believe grant is taking on the role of Lord of the Flies here ...

Perhaps some sort of banana sacrifice will appease our new fruitfly overlords?

09:30 / 20.04.07

I WOULD LIKE A BANNAANA!

Janean Patience

12:29 / 20.04.07

Okay, so when everybody went to see Carl Douglas sing Everybody's Kung Fu Fighting, way back in the disco era, there was this dance that went with it where everybody would pretend to be kung fu fighting? And a couple of percussive hi-ya moments when you'd kick out? And in a crowded disco, with everybody pretending to be kung fu fighting, doubtless a few of these simulated kicks landed on real faces? And what with it being the 70s and everybody knowing a little kung fu then surely an actual kung-fu fight would start? So basically I guess what I'm asking is every time Carl Douglas sang Everybody's Kung Fu Fighting was it to an audience where everybody was kung fun fighting? And if so how awesome was that?

15:03 / 20.04.07

Answer: Pretty awesome. You just rolled with the punches.

Janean Patience

15:08 / 20.04.07

You're sure? I was worried it might have been a little bit frightening.

16:27 / 22.04.07

Hi guys, while wandering about Croydon with the Associate last week we came across this unmarked car. Being complete cartards we have no idea what, where or who this car is from. Little help?

20:14 / 22.04.07

On the front plate it says California.

20:27 / 22.04.07

I think the mystery car is a late 70's Pontiac Firebird (sorry for annoying broken images in the link, it's the best I could find). It's either been modified, or was a special edition, because the front doesn't look stock (or that good, really). The brake lights and the rear window are the giveaway, tho. Car nerd? Me? Maybe...

04:06 / 23.04.07

My money's on a Camaro.

Actually, the second one down on that list has an identical hood (or bonnet, if you prefer), which surprises me - I'd have guessed it was customized. But my mom at one point leased a Camaro when I was in jr. high, and I learned (from riding to school in the back seat) that I was capable of making myself comfortable in some very small spaces.

The back end was nearly identical to the car pictured above in this thread (and I think probably came from the same factory as the Firebird - they both seem to be something called an "F-body").

12:37 / 23.04.07

GRAZIE!

13:11 / 23.04.07

Ah, thanks grant, I'd never really twigged that they all looked so similar. I've seen a couple of other cars called A-body and C-body, and now I understand why!

The Ghost of Tom Winter

12:42 / 24.04.07

When writing about the Christian god in a scholarly paper should you use big G or little g? It's an anthropology paper so I'm trying to get a non-subjective viewpoint going. I have no idea what the rules of English are.

The Ghost of Tom Winter

12:47 / 24.04.07

I say scholarly, but I'm still undergrad so I have no idea if that's a term I should be applying to myself anyways. /end double post

jentacular dreams

12:58 / 24.04.07

I think that if you are using the word God as a personal name ("...then God commanded...", "...according to Christian views on God..."), you go with capitals, but if as a descriptor ("...is a god worshipped by Christians..") then lowercase is more appropriate.

The same as you would for Haus basically.

Whisky Priestess

13:12 / 24.04.07

Hmm, good point. I've always thought that God is like a Haus worshipped by Christians. (As opposed to atheists, agnostic, pagans, service industry workers and magickians, I mean).

23:25 / 24.04.07

What I'm trying to do: Create a document that includes a street-level map of a certain location (I'm using Photoshop but that's probably irrelevant).

Problem: Yahoo maps and Maquest maps are flash and I'm trying to copy&paste... to get a jpeg you can go to the printer-friendly version. However, if you're trying to print at street level, the map gets clipped (! - conspiracy!). Google maps is worse, as the printer-friendly is html and not even an image doc. Is there some way I could either a)convert that html image to a jpeg, or b) go to a site that will let me copy & paste a street level map?

23:31 / 24.04.07

Take a picture of your screen. You should have a button on your keyboard called Print Screen or Prnt Scrn, something like that. Get map, hit Print Screen, go to Paint (or equivalent), hit Paste.

It should then paste a full size screenshot into Paint (or equivalent). You can then cut/paste the full map without cut-offs.

23:32 / 24.04.07

Could you just do a screen capture and cut&paste it into photoshop then crop away the portions that you dont need?

00:08 / 25.04.07

Yay, the screen capture worked. I didn't actually know how to do it (embarrassing)but a quick Google search fixed me up.

Mysterious Transfer Student

20:55 / 25.04.07

All right, Comics people. This *52* business, which I understand is coming to a close. I've kind of closed my ears to discussion about it up until now, since I couldn't afford to collect a series like this - but very occasionally I hear of some unspeakably cool element like the robot that talks in I Ching hexagrams and think, "Man, I wish I was following this book."

So, since we don't have a thread like this in Comics and I don't want to rot the 52 thread - should I pick up the trades? Will it be worth it, or not so much? I mean to say, is it as cool as the I Ching thing all the way through?

Please, do DC's marketing department's job for them and make up my so-called mind.

Phex: Dorset Doom

21:30 / 25.04.07

I'm pretty sure general discussion of 52 as whole project is going to start up this time next week when the final issue is in, either in the 52 thread itself or '52: 51 too many*?' wrap-up and general discussion thread, so watch this space.

*= If we're going make a new 52 thread I demand a pun-tastic title.

Mysterious Transfer Student

07:55 / 26.04.07

Thanks for the heads up, Phex. I'll look out for it.

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:50 / 26.04.07

I mean to say, is it as cool as the I Ching thing all the way through?

No. 52 has a number of narrative threads, which are now being knit together, but can be broken down as:

Black Adam and the Black Marvel Family - probably Geoff Johns, pretty abject

Renee Montoya, the Question, the bat family and Intergang - Probably Greg Rucka, bit shit

Booster Gold, Supernova and Superman - Possibly Mark Waid, patchily amusing and interesting

The Great Ten in China - probably Grant Morrison, pretty fun but so far underused

T.O. Morrow, Will Magnus and the mad scientists - probably Grant Morrison, kind of great.

The return of the lost heroes from Donna Troy's expedition into space - Morrison/Johns, at a guess. Full of good ideas, but slow-moving and disappointing in execution.

Steel and the Everyman Project - just awful. Dead hand of Geoff Johns, I imagine.

Your money would be better spent, if you like cool and somewhat offbeat superhero stuff, on the trades of Starman or the Morrison JLA, if you don't already have them.

09:09 / 26.04.07

R.e. 52 Trades.

Still, if your local library has as good a graphic novel section as mine does, you could do worse than having a read of it when/if it turns up there.

Whisky Priestess

09:21 / 26.04.07

People in Spandex shouting expositional dialogue at each other, basically. That's what 52 means to me.

Having read two issues of this so far, I found it a confusing nonsense. I don't think it really helps that the issues in questions were #s 49 and 50, but I don't think it would have made much difference had I read #s1-48 to keep me up to speed if it's all this bad.

I particularly liked various characters constantly reminding each other throughout the last issue of what M-Day was and the effect it had. Oh, and who's got what powers, and their relationships to one another. It's like an endless court intro scene from Shakespeare where you get a little run-down every time someone appears.

As a 52 virgin it should have been useful - but actually it just pissed me off. Can't imagine how much it must annoy those who have been following the series from the beginning.

So no, I wouldn't waste my money, if I were you.

Mysterious Transfer Student

10:28 / 26.04.07

WP, that sounds chronically awful. I can't believe anyone thinks it's a good idea to have an entire issue of a comic series read like that even if it is weekly.

Haus's breakdown was helpful (and I haven't read Starman)... maybe I'll read our thread in more detail and try to cherry-pick some of the better issues. The "Animal Man in spaaace" stuff sounds promising if nothing else.

Thanks for replying, everybody. Please try to think of a question about anime catgirls or Foucault's concept of panopticism so I can take my turn sounding cool and knowledgeable.

11:50 / 26.04.07

People in Spandex shouting expositional dialogue at each other, basically. That's what 52 means to me.

Also what Barbelith looks like from the outside.

NOW I MUST GO AND STOP QUANTUM FROM BUILDING THE ULTI-TICKLE CANNON!

52 EVIL SCIENTISTS AWAY!

Whisky Priestess

13:19 / 26.04.07

Quantum, whose powers of short-haul flight and spontaneous deodorisation were stripped from him during the upheavals of B-Day but then partially restored by an encounter with a radioactive lemon-scented RyanAir towelette?

That Quantum?

(Or do you mean Golden Age Quantum with the fuchsia hoverboots?)

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