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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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02:12 / 08.11.07

petunia-

just google "frame standers", they tend to come up on ebay as the first responses (like this)

02:41 / 08.11.07

also, ebay has some in lavender, which might be awesome depending on your frame color.

18:46 / 08.11.07

Could anyone reccomend a good book in Japanese that uses entry level vocabulary, give or take? Romaji would be fine, but I'd prefer it to be printed in the japanese alphabets if possible.
I'm assuming there might be some folk tales for chidren or similar that would suit my needs, but the more interesting the tale told in simple words is, the better.

19:18 / 08.11.07

Tesco screwed up and put xbox 360 bundles up for sale on their site for £35. I've bought two.

Obviously, they won't honour the purchase, but I was wondering if there are any advertising standards/consumer protection things that a greedy piggy such as myself could call upon to make Tesco gimme?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

22:40 / 08.11.07

Why not just draw your abs on with a sharpie, like Strongbad?

19:37 / 11.11.07

This isn't really the right thread for this, but there isn't a more suitable one and it's maybe not worth starting a dedicated one, as I've no idea what anybody else could use it for if I did. But it is a question - more of a request, but a question, too.

There's an online store selling a limited edition videogame that I rilly rilly want. But they won't ship it to the UK, because it's a product for a Sony console and Sony Europe acted like a bunch of fuckers a couple of years ago, threatening legal action against places selling imported games to Europe. Which, y'know, I'm fairly convinced isn't the kind of legal action that they'd win, but they've got the big dosh and can threaten whatever they want, because people'll cave as soon as they realise that they'll go bankrupt as a result of having to pay to fight the case if they call Sony's bluff.

Like I say, bunch of fuckers.

Anyhoo, this site will ship to other places - the US, Australia (I think Australia, anyway). So what I'm asking is if there's anybody here kind enough (and who I know and trust, obvs - you should all know who you are) who'd redirect the thing to me if I ordered it and had it delivered to them. I'd pay for the extra cost of shipping and packaging, obviously - wouldn't want you to be out of pocket for doing me a favour.

20:33 / 11.11.07

Does eBay not have it? There's plenty of peeps who I'm sure would be happy to send anything anywhere, and it would save you time, money and hassle...

21:14 / 11.11.07

Nah, I've not seen it on eBay for a long time, and when it does pop up it tends to hit a ridiculous amount - out of the range of what I'm prepared to pay. This website's got it for about half what it normally fetches, if not less. It's pretty obscure, even though it's still a relatively recent release.

22:43 / 11.11.07

Stupid Filter

Apparently these guys are trying to build software capable of filtering out posts that could clearly be defined as "stupid", although maybe seemingly superfluous is the right word for what its makers have in mind. Posts excessively showing LOLs/ROFLs/CAPs or containing horrible grammatical errors would be filtered out.

What do you people think of this? Is it something that needs to be done in order to salvage a certain amount of standard for discussion on teh internets, or is it (as they say themselves in the FAQ) elitist - but in a bad way. What about people who are from other countries and learning to speak/type english because they are trying to communicate with people from around the world? Could it feasibly (sp?) be used as a tool for more sinister filtering - the filtering out of words/combinations of words that ARE of importance to valid and good discussion.

Alright, the last sentence may seem very tin-foil hattist, but I can't come up with a better choice of words for the moment.

Sorry, I'm a little drunk, but I thought I might bring it to Barbelith's attention.

14:54 / 12.11.07

PM me, E Randy, if no one else has yet come forward.

ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!

22:26 / 12.11.07

What's the game, E. R. Dupre?
I'm in australia and could do it, though I'm sure I'm not on your list. But mostly I'm just curious about the game.

22:55 / 12.11.07

Oh, you would have been. Not so much a list as hoping that somebody would offer to help out whose name I recognised. grant's offered his services since, though, and I'm likely to take him up on that offer.

Lovely grant. Every home should have one.

It's limited edition release of a Korean bemani game for the PSP called DJ MAX Portable. It's the game that inspired me to start the stalled bemani thread on this board and one that I started talking about (clumsily, when I first played it) here. It's the game that's since become something of an obsession and that I *will* eventually post some proper thoughts on here at some point in the future. I'm trying to persuade myself that I don't need the LE of something that I already own and have already spent a good couple of hundred hours on, but that was a mission doomed to failure from the start.

Good Intentions

03:08 / 14.11.07

Dutch:

That project is simply untenable and correspondingly of no interest. As if grammar checks can filter out the really stupid things people say on the internet. The problem with online debate is that the price of entry into a debate is so low that anybody can contribute as much as they are willing - this rewards belligerence above all else. A world-expert in a field stands on even footing with some kid sitting in his underwear in his room resenting his bullies. Whereas it takes a hell of a lot fo work to get a work, or even a review, published on a noteworthy press, pressing 'submit' doesn't have that type of pre-requisites.

Anyway, a stupidity filter won't do shit against trolls, which is the real problem IMO.

12:16 / 14.11.07

My mp3 player (it's a Creative Zen Jukebox) has a loose connection in the headphone jack. Is it within the realms of possibility that I can fix it? I'm semi-experienced at wielding a soldering iron.

As a bonus if anyone can provide detailed instructions on how this might be done then I promise to name my first-born after them (real name or screen name, your choice).

Closed for Business Time

10:31 / 15.11.07

Anyone know if US PhD theses are owned by their authors? Here in the UK theses are free to access, but it seems to me that I have to buy theses from American institutions. Is this correct? Or can I lend them from libraries, or get them free off the author?

Closed for Business Time

10:43 / 15.11.07

Borrow. I mean. My linguistic nemesis that..

23:45 / 15.11.07

For those living in, or well aquainted with Spain:

If I were to use an online merchant to buy a certain understocked (in the uk) nintendo product, which merchant would you recommend? amazon.es doesn't seem to exist...

[EDIT] They have to ship to the UK, obv...

14:13 / 16.11.07

Ok barbe-scholars: a question. A while back I read about a notorious early modern English poet, who had a shaved head (traditionally marking him as a fool), and who was generally considered mad or at least not right. Maybe known for wearing a long coat, maybe not. Who possibly had rather eccentric views on religion. Anyway, it's gotten to the point where I want to look into this a bit further, but I've totally lost track of any usseful information beyond the above.I thought it was maybe John Gower, but nothing seems to support that from what I've found so far.

Does anyone know who I might be talking about, or was it just a dream vision summoned by too much cheese before bed? Did I get the period wrong maybe? Has our very own shorn and eccentric bard found an actual real time machine?

Whisky Priestess

22:09 / 16.11.07

Depends how early you are talking about, but John Skelton (who lends his name to skeltonic verse, which is, rather brilliantly, long, spare and thin) might be a possibility?

22:23 / 18.11.07

Thanks Whisky Priestess, I didn't know much about John Skelton, and i don't think he's the one, but know I know a bit more. Going through my Renaissance anthology nothing is springing out at me, so it might be earlier. I thought it could be William Langland maybe, but again looking into it there's not much to be known and I think the shaven-headed thing is fairly prominent in the biography of whoever it actually is. Could be the wrong period. I'm made of fail I know.

Anyone else got an idea?

All Acting Regiment

10:11 / 20.11.07

From the period you mention, could it be Gower, Southwell, Skelton, Wyatt, Herrick, Campion, Nashe?

Could you be thinking of Pope?

Can you remember any of the poem?

***

I have a question - if I want to reference the song 'Brown Sugar' in an academic essay, how would I do this? Try and find the lyrics in a book and reference that? What if there is no such book? I've to use MHRA guidelines, by the way.

10:41 / 20.11.07

No and no to the last I'm afraid. Skelton looks like the closest so far; the attacks on the clergy, and his reputation as a "rude rayling rimer" both fit, but nothing that suggests someone marked as mad or seeming to write in the prophetic tradition, which us about all else I do remember. Though possibly I just need to extend my research beyond wikipedia at this point.

Couldn't you just reference the album directly (I confess I don't know whether that one has sleeve notes)?

11:30 / 20.11.07

MHRA standards guide, section 10.2.11:

Recordings, Films, and Digital Media

Reference to recordings of music or speech should incorporate the following items, as relevant, separated by full points: composer or author, title, artist,
orchestra, etc., conductor, CD reference, e.g.:

Johannes Brahms. Symphony No. 2. Wiener Philharmoniker. Cond. Carlo Maria Giulini. 435 348 2

The examples they give are not particularly germane, so for your cite, I'm extrapolating a little...

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. "Brown Sugar." Sticky Fingers. The Rolling Stones. 1971. LP FC-40488.

(That's for the original issue of the album. You would probably use the date and catalog number of your CD.)

What does not go in the citation: record label, publisher (Abcko Music Inc./BMI), track length, or album position (e.g., "side 1, Track 1"). Pretty bare-bones, really.

Download full MHRA guidelines for free, here.

All Acting Regiment

11:55 / 20.11.07

Ahhhhh! I was looking in the wrong bit. Thankyou very much.

14:24 / 20.11.07

Should I get this for somebody who's really into Doctor Who for Christmas? I don't want to get this person just your run of the mill DVD or whatever, but I do want to get him something Who related, yet slightly original too. There's also a good chance he's going to get me something Who related too, so I want to out-gift him.

Is a life size cardboard cut-out of David Tennant going too far? Kali may think it's not far enough.

14:31 / 20.11.07

My sister (a fairly big Who/Tennant fan) got one of the smaller Doctor models for her birthday recently, but if I'd known about this I reckon it would have crushed that paltry doll into insignificance, and elevated me into grand supreme gift-giver, which is of course what it's all about.

If that's any help.

So yes. Get it.

14:41 / 20.11.07

Now to his house to find out if he has room for a shiny cardboard Tennant. And if not, he'll make room.

21:26 / 20.11.07

I has a dumb question about my ipod.

I recently bought my husband a new ipod and had to update itunes to the newest version. - which, unlike the old one, lists podcasts in their own territory. I just have a 1G nano and can't just sync up, I have to pick & choose files. So, now in the new itunes, my ipod menu includes "music" and playlists of music. However, I cannot seem to access the podcasts that are on there. I have about 15 podcasts that I have listened to and want to get off, but can't. I can't even look at what's on there via intunes unless it's deemed "music." BOOOO!

19:24 / 24.11.07

Has anybody here been to Constanta?

My Love and I are looking for somewhere to visit on her birthday (February) and she gaave the idea of this place - she's a massive Ovid fan and would like to see the place he wrote about so much.

So has anybody been? What's it like? Would there be much 'ancient stuff' (my words) for a lover of classics and ancient history to see, or would it just end up a depressing pile of buildings dumped on romantic dreams?

19:36 / 24.11.07

I haven't been but I just googled it and watched a little promotional video by the Romanian government for Constanta which featured a woman in a bikini, some dolphins and some very big modern hotels on a beach.

Google images turns up some old buildings which look interesting, but I would investigate further before deciding if I were you.

Tabitha Tickletooth

13:31 / 26.11.07

Right then - please help me with my connectivity issues.

I have just moved into a new rental property (old house, mind, in an old area) in London and need to get broadband sorted as soon as possible.

I have been told by BT that there is no BT line at the property and I must pay £125 to get one. Virgin similarly claims that there is no NTL line into the property (although I can see an NTL box on the wall) and that they cannot provide me with broadband at all. I have an iBook and a desktop PC (and there is another PC laptop off on holiday but returning soon).

Someone has recommended that I might consider this deal, but I know nothing of this particular technology.

Does anyone have an opinion on this or other mobile USB modem business in general? Can anyone suggest alternatives that do not involve me paying £125 to BT? Is there a 'Connecting to the iternet/phone line/BT what a bunch of twunts' thread that I have missed that could answer these and other questions? (I did look.)

All help, much appreciated.

Phex: Dorset Doom

14:56 / 26.11.07

Once again the process of novel-writing has led me to ask a Really-Really Stupid Question in the Q&A thread: I need a hip-hop song, preferably Crunk, that mentions the popular drink Hennessy.

(Incidentally, did you know that Hennessy's single biggest customer is North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il? And that failing to provide enough Hennessy for guests at a Cambodian wedding is a serious faux pas?)

Phex: Dorset Doom

15:19 / 26.11.07

Tabitha- I recently did the same thing myself and after wasting twenty pounds of phone credit trying to get through to BT before getting cut off I found that Virgin Broadband could install a cable modem at my address for £25 plus the monthly rental charge. It'll probably wind up a lot cheaper than getting a BT line installed if it's available in your area. They'll just give you a cable modem to plug in to the back of your 'puter, so if you need wireless you'll have to buy a router- they start about £20, good ones typically retail for £50-70.

18:35 / 26.11.07

Once again the process of novel-writing has led me to ask a Really-Really Stupid Question in the Q&A thread: I need a hip-hop song, preferably Crunk, that mentions the popular drink Hennessy.

I'm not so sure what qualifies a song as "crunk" (I've only ever heard the term to describe a style of dancing), but Tupac has a song called "Hennessy." And Snoop Dogg has "Hennessy 'n Buddah."

10:30 / 27.11.07

Hunkay, does anyone know where I could 10 copies of Cormac Mccarthy's The Road supercheap? I've been scouring the Internet, but the best I can come up with is Amazon's secondhand listing of £3.20 per item. Not bad, but surely we can do better.

Come on, make Christmas happen!

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