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Questions and Answers - Part 3

 
  

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Jack Fear
13:38 / 01.08.07
Boing Boing explains all.
 
 
Katherine
13:57 / 01.08.07
the reason I'm not getting anywhere might be my references. There's one ex-employer business I usually put down as a reference, and I've got a feeling they're blacklisting me

Have phoned the last place you had a good interview and asked them for feedback on your interview? This would be a subtle and informative way of finding out if this was the case, even if it is you will also pick up some good tips and hints from them as to ways of improving your interview style.
 
 
matthew.
00:16 / 02.08.07
Bald faced lie or a bold faced lie or a bare faced lie? Which is it, Barbelith?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
00:20 / 02.08.07
All of the above. And brazen-faced too.
 
 
Jack Fear
00:25 / 02.08.07
Bald faced, with "bald" in the sense of "unadorned." A bald-faced lie is the most pernicious, because there's not even really any attempt to deceive, no effort to cloak the lie any sort of plausibility—it's a blatant falsehood, completely disingenuous; You know you're full of shit, and I know that you're full of shit, and you know that I know that you're full of shit, but you lie anyway.

"Bare-faced," in this context, would also be acceptable, but "bald-faced" in preferrable. "Bold-faced lie" only makes sense if you're talking about typography.
 
 
Jack Fear
00:32 / 02.08.07
Citation.

Live Things: Man, you learn something new every day. I'd never heard "brazen-faced." A brazen lie, sure; a bare-faced lie, of course. But a brazen-faced lie? It sounds like a goof, like "misunderestimated."

But it turns out its recorded usage predates "bald-faced" by 70 years.

It pays to increase your word power.
 
 
matthew.
00:34 / 02.08.07
Interesting. Thanks JF and Live Things. Your hott.
 
 
ibis the being
22:04 / 02.08.07
Has anyone used Google as a web host or know anything about how it functions?

I'm using my upcoming marital name change as a convenient excuse to switch from Yahoo to Google for all email-related activities. But I use Yahoo as a webhost for my business site - this includes biz email - and I used Yahoo Sitebuilder to design my site.

It appears that Google offers similar services but that you have to use the address sitename.googlepages.com? Yuck! Unprofessional! Yahoo lets me use my sitename.com and @sitename.com email addresses. Also, how much does Google charge? I pay $19.95/mo for Yahoo and am hoping to save a bit.

Alternatively, if I use a totally different host, is there another very easy to use sitebuilding program I can find for free or cheap?
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
22:58 / 02.08.07
$19.95 per month? Holy crow! I'd recommend Dreamhost (cheap, pretty stable) and NVu (freeware, easy-peasy) as a 1-2 punch to take care of your Web needs.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
23:04 / 02.08.07
Tish, and possibly even pshaw. Bold-faced lie makes perfect sense.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
23:07 / 02.08.07
Back to the animatronics referenced above: the video of the guy actually showing you a show in mid-programming is fucking AWESOME.
 
 
imaginary mice
11:07 / 03.08.07
How did a grasshopper get into my first floor bathroom? They can’t fly, can they? They hop. Hence the name.
 
 
Essential Dazzler
11:15 / 03.08.07
I just received a spam email from my own e-mail address.

What does that mean?

Has someone got access to my email?
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
11:29 / 03.08.07
No, it more than likely just means the spambot is spoofing as you when sending a bunch of spam out, having harvested your email address from someone else's infected machine, or a list of email addresses gathered from many possible sources.

I'd still run a spyware checker on your system every so often though.
 
 
jamesPD
11:33 / 03.08.07
Nope. Spammers regularly (always?) spoof the sending address, often using your email in the hope that it will encourage you to open the mail. You'll often see that if you reply to a spam email it will bounce back to you because the supposed sender doesn't actually exist. However, I wouldn't recommend doing this as (a) it might be a real address in which case you've just spammed someone else or (b) it might confirm your email address to the spammer in question.

At my place of work we've realised that some spammers have got hold of our address book and are spamming us with emails seamingly from our colleagues. I frequently open my inbox to find penis enlargement advertisements from the Managing Director.
 
 
Essential Dazzler
11:36 / 03.08.07
Cheers, worrying ceased.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
12:12 / 03.08.07
Sorry to keep pestering this thread about work and so on, but does anyone know a particularly good job agency in the UK that they'd reccomend? I've joined a few already, but if there's any you remember offhand chucking the names here would be a help.
 
 
De Selby
12:22 / 03.08.07
I think spammers do that to get around an anti-spam technique called Callback Verification, where upon receiving an email, the SMTP server checks that the sending email address is valid before forwarding it to the destination mailbox.

in case you were wondering
 
 
luminocity
13:10 / 03.08.07
Depends what you're after for jobs, but for temporary office work I know several people who like using Interaction Recruitment, mostly because they tend to place you somewhere very quickly so you don't have much downtime not earning.
 
 
This Sunday
17:52 / 04.08.07
Trying to think of the proper term for a murdered body at a crime scene. I believe it begins with 'ant' but haven't been able to find it in even a big dictionary, and googling's a bit spotty for that sort of thing. Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?

Entirely unimportant, but damned annoying not to recall.
 
 
Spaniel
13:54 / 08.08.07
Does anyone here manage hypoglycemia? It's just that I think I might suffer from the reactive variety - in fact I think I might've suffered from the reactive variety for years - and I'm wondering what to do about it. The stuff I've read talks about potential allergies and cutting out certain foods but I've found less advice about how to deal with the symptoms as an when they arise.

Pretty sure I'm not diabetic - been tested in the past, as has the twin.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
14:26 / 08.08.07
Decadent: "decedent"?
 
 
Ron Stoppable
14:42 / 08.08.07
hmm. I think I've heard that term before and always thought; why clumsy up the perfectly good "deceased"?

Is there a subtle difference?
 
 
Happy Dave Has Left
14:43 / 08.08.07
Decadent:

Victim?
Corpse?
Cadaver?
Stiff?
Carcass?
 
 
Mistoffelees
15:11 / 08.08.07
corpsus delicti?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
15:18 / 08.08.07
Corpus, but yes - that can include the corpse.
 
 
Mistoffelees
16:36 / 08.08.07
I know it´s "corpus delicti". It was supposed to be a wordplay (corpus delicti + corpse = corpsus delicti). Sniff. Now I´ll lie down (dramatically) and draw a white line around me. Which reminds me, btw, that a Barbeloid once played a corpse in a TV show (at least I remember an anecdote like that).
 
 
Triplets
17:31 / 08.08.07
I've always been weirded out by the term corpus delicti. It makes a dead body sound far too tasty. Like a icecream.

Good wordplay, Mist!
 
 
Whisky Priestess
11:47 / 09.08.07
In this case "deceased" is adjectival, but is used as a noun; "decedent" is actually a noun. I think that's the main difference.

So anyway, reading the stories of Heinrich Boll (I love a laugh, me) and there's a great story called "Stranger, bear word to the Spartans we ..." - taken from, presumably, a bit of Latin what every schoolboy kno. But when I Google it to find the rest of the quotatation, I only get references to the story title.

Anyone know how it ends? (The quote, not the story).
 
 
This Sunday
11:53 / 09.08.07
Decedent. That's it. Thanks all. For some reason I forgot I had asked here, so I've just been walking around hoping it would come loose from wherever in my brain it was lodged and hidden.
 
 
This Sunday
12:31 / 09.08.07
Boboss, I am suppposedly hypoglycemic, but, excusing that my beta blocker takes care of any shaking, the only thing I really suffer from it is nearly-nonsensical (but generally mild) irritability if I don't eat regularly. I'm half convinced I displace a lot of heart-related issues into the hypoglycemia, because there's a lot of symptom crossover, and while I do get weird food/taste cravings for sweet, sour or protein, I don't have the intensity many hypoglycemics experience in these cravings.

If you're not experiencing any allergies in your regular diet, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Just be aware of new dishes, I guess, and keep track of when you feel lousy for legitimate reasons, or anyway reasons that aren't related to not having had a snack in the past forty minutes. Do consult a doctor, of course, and treat any nervousness/irritability/exhaustion as you would otherwise inexplicable bouts of such. Making sure people who have to be around/with you during bouts are aware of the situation may help keep things smooth and sociable.

Also, don't eat a whole lot of bread or bread-like stuff, or so I am told by people with the appropriate letters following their names.
 
 
Ron Stoppable
12:46 / 09.08.07
Whisky, it's on the plaque at the Thermopylae battle memorial, though I forget the author / poet responsible:

Stranger, bear word to Sparta,
That here we lie, obedient to her law


There are better classicists than I on the board who'll be able to give you more, I'm sure.
 
 
Mistoffelees
12:58 / 09.08.07
I found that inscription in different languages (I hope, Barbelith can show the greek letters):

Ὦ ξεῖν᾿, ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε κείμεθα τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι

Ō xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti tēde | keimetha tois keinōn rhēmasi peithomenoi.

Díc hospés Spartae nos té hic vidísse iacéntes, | dúm sanctís patriae légibus óbsequimúr

Wanderer, kommst du nach Sparta, verkündige dorten, du habest
uns hier liegen gesehn, wie das Gesetz es befahl.

You can find ten different English translations here.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
12:58 / 09.08.07
It's Simonides, if it helps.

Tell the Spartans, you who've read.
We followed their orders, and now we're dead
.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
13:31 / 09.08.07
Does anyone know where I might be able to get the various Persian poets in actual Persian - I mean in a printed book?

It's an Indo-European language, with some shared words ("Bad", "Ast" and "Nist" for "Is" and "Is Not", if you're interested) and so now I can just about manage the Arabic alphabet I can and would rather read the original than the frankly horrible translations out there.

Is there an Amazon.ir? Would I get police attention if I order things from there? Are Islamic bookshops likely to sell it (AFAIK Hafiz has a bad rep among the conservatives who tend to run them), and would it take the piss for me to go in and ask?
 
  

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