Posts by Petraglyph

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I got up yesterday morning (Saturday) and enjoyed the watchtower work

by Zoos in

reaching the fire watchtower on top of wayah bald overlooking the smokey mountains can be a difficult hike from nantahala lake up the bartram and appalachian trails where they straddle each other passing through this area.

the most enjoyable watchtower work i've ever participated in.. the views from the tower are spectacular.. .

looking across nantahala forest to the smoky mountains, described poetically as the most elevated peak; from whence i beheld with rapture and astonishment, a sublimely awful scene of power and magnificence, a world of mountains piled upon mountains.

Petraglyph

Ha :D

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They would all fit on the isle of Wight?

by purrpurr in

i remember once asking how the planet could possibly accommodate all the people who have ever lived?

after the resurrection i mean.

the answer i was told is that the gb had calculated that all the people who have ever lived could all fit on to the isle of wight?!.

Petraglyph

@Je.suis.oisif I was responding to the OP, I've just edited it to make this clear. We posted at almost the same time.

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They would all fit on the isle of Wight?

by purrpurr in

i remember once asking how the planet could possibly accommodate all the people who have ever lived?

after the resurrection i mean.

the answer i was told is that the gb had calculated that all the people who have ever lived could all fit on to the isle of wight?!.

Petraglyph

@purrpurr No it's not true.

Although the entire current population of the world could theoretically live on the surface area of New Zealand with a density slightly larger than Manhattan.

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The Exorcist

by Petraglyph in

remembering the furore at the time when this was released i thought i'd share this which appeared in my news feed the other day.... .

:).

from the book 'creative mischief' by dave trott.

Petraglyph

DesirousOfChange: When I first read the book "The Shining", I burned it and threw it in the trash.

How would you have felt if sometime later you'd discovered a slightly burned version in your drawer? ;)

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So Microsoft made a laptop - Surface Pro 4 / Surface Book

by Simon in

microsoft definitely seem to be undergoing a revival and are coming out with some cool tech.

it's good to see them turning things around and keeping apple honest.. the holo-lens looks fantastic - much better than full vr headsets by providing augmented reality instead (imagine 3d minecraft projected on a table or aliens running round your living room to shoot at).. more practical though is the update to the surface tablet and the surprise release, the surface book laptop / tablet.

yeah, it's confusing - one is a tablet that becomes a laptop and the other is a laptop that becomes a tablet.. i promised our eldest a laptop for his high-school graduation and to use now he's starting university and took him to the apple store a few months ago but the macbooks i was leaning towards weren't available at the time.

Petraglyph

Simon: Apparently, it's all about adjusting the center of gravity so the laptop doesn't tip back. It allowed them to shave off some weight.
Without it the base would need to be heavier (or the screen / tablet lighter which = lower battery life).

I can't help but think though, that if this was an Apple or a Tesla product the hinge would do that, and it would close flush ;)

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The Exorcist

by Petraglyph in

remembering the furore at the time when this was released i thought i'd share this which appeared in my news feed the other day.... .

:).

from the book 'creative mischief' by dave trott.

Petraglyph

Remembering the furore at the time when this was released I thought I'd share this which appeared in my news feed the other day...

:)

From the book 'Creative Mischief' by Dave Trott

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How to?

by OneFingerSalute in

i cannot use the "quote" feature.. if i click on the quote marks it does the hi-lite of the quote i wish, but i cannot under any circumstances get out of the yellow quote box to create my own post.. i would like to know how other posters are able to do this.

i use both ie and firefox.

the same thing happens in both of them.. also hi-liting no longer works as it used to.

Petraglyph

I know what you mean.

I now do everything in plain text and then add the quote highlighting afterwards ;)

Or you can add in some carriage returns before you do the quote so you already have a blank line to move down to.

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This morning's magazine trolley encounter..

by GodZoo in

was just out shopping and came across two middle aged female witnesses with their magazine trolley..

i approached them and they were all glee and smiles and ready to hand me a couple of magazines.

one moment ladies i have just a couple of questions..

Petraglyph

umbertoecho: That number has climbed to about 5,000 now. Abused that is.

Do you have a written reference for this? This will mean a recalculation of the worldwide extrapolation and the potential liability for WT in Australia.

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Äkta Människor (Real Humans)

by Simon in

we've just started watching this swedish parallel-present series about human-like robots (hubots) seeking independence.. its really well done but subtitled (if you didn't mind the original "girl with the dragon tattoo") and the best description of it i was saw the stepford wives meets blade runner.

kind of creepy and unsettling and touches on some adult themed topics (robots for sex).. anyone else seen it?

i only started watching because i was too lazy to get up and get the remote one night but it was pretty gripping.. .

Petraglyph

Thanks for the heads up about this Simon. I watched the original Swedish version and thought it was one of the best things I've seen on TV ever. It was really well paced and clearly a lot of thought had gone into what the consequences would be of having human like robots around and the numerous sub-plots bore this out. I found myself thinking 'Yes, that is what would happen' on many occasions.

I watched both series in a binge before I watched the Channel 4 version 'Humans'. I thought this was a poor copy. Too rushed, trying to pull together just the best bits of the original. But in doing so they missed out on a lot of the background stories, and having seen the original I was not as engaged and ultimately I was disappointed.

It was certainly thought provoking and I can see that these are issues that society will face over the coming decades.

Highly recommended! :)

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So Microsoft made a laptop - Surface Pro 4 / Surface Book

by Simon in

microsoft definitely seem to be undergoing a revival and are coming out with some cool tech.

it's good to see them turning things around and keeping apple honest.. the holo-lens looks fantastic - much better than full vr headsets by providing augmented reality instead (imagine 3d minecraft projected on a table or aliens running round your living room to shoot at).. more practical though is the update to the surface tablet and the surprise release, the surface book laptop / tablet.

yeah, it's confusing - one is a tablet that becomes a laptop and the other is a laptop that becomes a tablet.. i promised our eldest a laptop for his high-school graduation and to use now he's starting university and took him to the apple store a few months ago but the macbooks i was leaning towards weren't available at the time.

Petraglyph

I don't get the hinge, it looks like a botch job. I'm generally impressed with it all, but that hinge!!?? They could have done a better job than that.