All the features I keep looking for in Android are usually found by a...
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I need to remember this when I go hunting all over the web looking for a solution to some commonplace difficulty on Android.
Longpress Longpress Longpress. Guess that "intuition" that people keep talking about doesn't come that easily to me or maybe I am just not hardwired for a mobile device.
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12/15/2011 12:15 #55745
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12/15/2011 09:43 #55744
Metric units, non-metric spellingCategory: the odes
US doesn't follow SI or metric units but yet, MS Word and other US spell checkers insist that I spell metres as meters.
A meter is usually a suffix for an instrument that measures something.. like a thermometer, an odometer etc. The SI units of distance is always spelled metre.
Enforcing a blatant misspelling of units you don't even use borders on the ridiculous.
A meter is usually a suffix for an instrument that measures something.. like a thermometer, an odometer etc. The SI units of distance is always spelled metre.
Enforcing a blatant misspelling of units you don't even use borders on the ridiculous.
tinypliny - 12/15/11 14:17
OMG!! I want to write in Polish!! Some vowels need to be shown their rightful place... with the eraser or backspace button! :)
OMG!! I want to write in Polish!! Some vowels need to be shown their rightful place... with the eraser or backspace button! :)
uncutsaniflush - 12/15/11 14:09
Thanks for sharing Pat Naughtin's thesis on meter versus metre. I love stuff like that. I've been fascinated by language and linguistics since I was a child. I find English to be a capricious and arbitrary language. Just like Mr. Spock from Star Trek, I find that I am drawn to the illogical; but, unlike him, I think I see beauty in the chaos where others only see confusion.
fwiw, English is my second language and Polish is my first. So I'm no native speaker of any sort of English rising up to defend my native tongue.
Thanks for sharing Pat Naughtin's thesis on meter versus metre. I love stuff like that. I've been fascinated by language and linguistics since I was a child. I find English to be a capricious and arbitrary language. Just like Mr. Spock from Star Trek, I find that I am drawn to the illogical; but, unlike him, I think I see beauty in the chaos where others only see confusion.
fwiw, English is my second language and Polish is my first. So I'm no native speaker of any sort of English rising up to defend my native tongue.
uncutsaniflush - 12/15/11 14:02
I suggest that you don't write your Thesis in Polish, the bloody wanker euro-trash Poles don't even have an "e" in the word "metr" So ha!
I suggest that you don't write your Thesis in Polish, the bloody wanker euro-trash Poles don't even have an "e" in the word "metr" So ha!
tinypliny - 12/15/11 13:37
Here is a 15 page thesis that touches a bit on my obvious lack of delight, given my background. :::link:::
Enjoy! :)
Here is a 15 page thesis that touches a bit on my obvious lack of delight, given my background. :::link:::
Enjoy! :)
tinypliny - 12/15/11 13:34
If you had to make 142 replacements in a document you just slogged through, delight isn't particularly high on the agenda. lol
If you had to make 142 replacements in a document you just slogged through, delight isn't particularly high on the agenda. lol
uncutsaniflush - 12/15/11 12:37
My 1971 compact edition of the Oxford English Dictionary lists meter as an alternate spelling for "metre" and also that "meter" is is the U.S. spelling of "meter". If meter is good enough for the fine folks at Oxford, it's good enough for me.
I suggest you direct your complaints to them using the contact information at :::link::: since many of the world's English speakers view the OED as THE reference for English.
I, for one, delight in the all the regional variations in spoken and written English. I think it is a testament to both the strength of the English language itself as well as a testament to the uniqueness of human beings.
I am saddened that the diversity in the world's Englishs doesn't delight you as it does me.
My 1971 compact edition of the Oxford English Dictionary lists meter as an alternate spelling for "metre" and also that "meter" is is the U.S. spelling of "meter". If meter is good enough for the fine folks at Oxford, it's good enough for me.
I suggest you direct your complaints to them using the contact information at :::link::: since many of the world's English speakers view the OED as THE reference for English.
I, for one, delight in the all the regional variations in spoken and written English. I think it is a testament to both the strength of the English language itself as well as a testament to the uniqueness of human beings.
I am saddened that the diversity in the world's Englishs doesn't delight you as it does me.
12/15/2011 00:50 #55740
We probably can't save starving kids in Africa...Category: eating in
by not wasting food, but we definitely can make small positive individual contributions to bringing down the staggering proportion of food that is wasted in America, in particular.
I stumbled upon this site:
(wastedfood.com) and the statistics are shocking... till you think back to the time you wasted food. It was probably waste that was entirely avoidable by a few wise measures such as:
More nifty tips about how not to waste food are here at this and this
It breaks my heart every time I have to throw out something because I have forgotten to follow even just one of these guidelines.
I stumbled upon this site:
(wastedfood.com) and the statistics are shocking... till you think back to the time you wasted food. It was probably waste that was entirely avoidable by a few wise measures such as:- not buying more food than you can eat or store properly.
- realizing the practical limitations of storage in your kitchen and fridge
- following a simple weekly schedule and fridge/pantry accounting plan to finish the older food before you go and get a newer version of the same food.
- having a good idea of what is in your fridge and on your kitchen and pantry shelves so you are not always in doubt at the grocery store. If it helps, take a weekly picture of your fridge shelves and kitchen shelves before you go grocery shopping. (Oh yeah, don't forget to replace these pictures with new ones every week.)
- (if memory is still fickle, maybe use small post it notes ON the fridge with days and dates by which specific food must be consumed.)
- checking all stored (even supposedly non-perishables) for infestation and mold every fortnight.
- storing nuts, grains, beans and lentils in PLAIN sight or in airtight containers in the freezer
- researching proper storage techniques for all kinds of food and religiously sticking to best practices of storage for various kinds of food,
- giving away the food you know you are going to waste to people who will eat them!
- and again, making a pledge to not buy more than you will use in a practical span of time,
More nifty tips about how not to waste food are here at this
and this It breaks my heart every time I have to throw out something because I have forgotten to follow even just one of these guidelines.
metalpeter - 12/15/11 18:27
On the serious side of that... It is good to all ways have some food that can be opened by hand... That doesn't need to be cooked.... Lose power what good does the can opener or stove that uses and electric starter for the burners do... Same with the frozen foods.... Plus worst comes to worst if it is Zombies as opposed to something else you can throw the can at them......
On the serious side of that... It is good to all ways have some food that can be opened by hand... That doesn't need to be cooked.... Lose power what good does the can opener or stove that uses and electric starter for the burners do... Same with the frozen foods.... Plus worst comes to worst if it is Zombies as opposed to something else you can throw the can at them......
metalpeter - 12/15/11 18:25
How about not buying 3 gallons of milk 4 LBS of Butter and 6 things of bread when the TV or Radio or paper says it will snow 3feet in 30 minutes and the world will end and all the trucks will magiclly stop moving food to stores....
How about not buying 3 gallons of milk 4 LBS of Butter and 6 things of bread when the TV or Radio or paper says it will snow 3feet in 30 minutes and the world will end and all the trucks will magiclly stop moving food to stores....
metalpeter - 12/15/11 18:23
This Is why Eating out is good.... Cause then you never have to buy food ....HA
This Is why Eating out is good.... Cause then you never have to buy food ....HA
12/14/2011 21:08 #55739
A bit too much...Category: the odes
for that one woman in the corner, don't you think?
lilho - 12/18/11 15:58
we had a cookbook just like that when i was little, right by the microwave. not sure why we had it because i remember reading it and thinking how disgusting it all looked... seriously.
we had a cookbook just like that when i was little, right by the microwave. not sure why we had it because i remember reading it and thinking how disgusting it all looked... seriously.
metalpeter - 12/15/11 18:21
Cooking things in a Microwave what an odd Idea... Seriously though I think when it came out that was the real point not just not to reheat things....
Cooking things in a Microwave what an odd Idea... Seriously though I think when it came out that was the real point not just not to reheat things....
12/14/2011 07:40 #55735
I want (fill whatever here) for a bogus gift-giving day.Category: the odes
Christmas should be called Consumermas.
I still can't get over the weirdness of people demanding random things from other people in their lives for the birthday of some random bloke from waaaay back that most of them don't emulate in real life and worse, don't even identify with.
When did shameless extortion get associated with a religious icon's birthday? Why not just call it what it is and not candy coat the entire extortion cycle in some pretentious gift-wrap of religion (that most are actually leery about)?
What I find even more laughable is people who place seemingly "reasonable" things on their extortion list. As if it is okay to extort "gifts" if it is some "reasonable" thing.
I am an outside observer but I find the whole culture of extortion and consumerism surrounding one's own birthday and the birthday of some centuries old hippie as extremely weird and venal.
I still can't get over the weirdness of people demanding random things from other people in their lives for the birthday of some random bloke from waaaay back that most of them don't emulate in real life and worse, don't even identify with.
When did shameless extortion get associated with a religious icon's birthday? Why not just call it what it is and not candy coat the entire extortion cycle in some pretentious gift-wrap of religion (that most are actually leery about)?
What I find even more laughable is people who place seemingly "reasonable" things on their extortion list. As if it is okay to extort "gifts" if it is some "reasonable" thing.
I am an outside observer but I find the whole culture of extortion and consumerism surrounding one's own birthday and the birthday of some centuries old hippie as extremely weird and venal.
tinypliny - 12/14/11 19:23
yeah, that's exactly what I meant all along. I might change my mind if you get me the horror house though. details of my extortion list in (e:matthew)'s post. thanks a bunch in self-absorbed anticipation.
yeah, that's exactly what I meant all along. I might change my mind if you get me the horror house though. details of my extortion list in (e:matthew)'s post. thanks a bunch in self-absorbed anticipation.
metalpeter - 12/14/11 17:33
So Guess that Means you aren't getting me the 3D display and then reduced price PS3 from best buy? :(
So Guess that Means you aren't getting me the 3D display and then reduced price PS3 from best buy? :(
paul - 12/14/11 09:47
I still want the tuna fish ;)
I still want the tuna fish ;)
(e:Paul) had to introduce me to longpress - I didn't get it either.