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Chit-Chat » Maldon release walk photos » RE: Who is Brithnoth....
AlanStanier 13 yrs ago
..and why does he have a statue?
Brithnoth was an Anglo-Saxon leader who should have defended Maldon against attack by Vikings. He was defending an unassailable position, with the Vikings on a…
Chit-Chat » Comment on: international email I got at work » Ask for something similar in return
AlanStanier 13 yrs ago | 1 replies
I would email them back to say I would be happy to send them a pin or sticker, but I collect postcard, so would want them to send a postcard of their local area in return.
Chit-Chat » Questions for meat eaters (warning: direct look at where that meat comes from) » Re: Questions for meat eaters (warning: direct look at where that meat comes from)
AlanStanier 14 yrs ago | 1 replies
The issue is not, in my opinion, about the animal being killed. Even were I on a strict vegetarian diet, the vegetables would be killed. The difference, of course, is that a vegetable cannot feel pain or fear, whereas as…
Chit-Chat » Had something really freaky happen last night. » Re: I had a few instances where
AlanStanier 14 yrs ago
> > > I would find the toilet seat > left up, > and > I was the > only person in the > house (you > > have to go outside > through > the porch to > get to my > > loo). Freaked me out somet…
Chit-Chat » Had something really freaky happen last night. » Re: I had a few instances where
AlanStanier 14 yrs ago | 2 replies
> I would find the toilet seat left up, and > I was the only person in the house (you > have to go outside through the porch to > get to my loo). Freaked me out something > wicked. It turned out that there was…
Chit-Chat » E-F's Fitness Club Celebrates Its Grand Re-Opening! » Re: E-F's Fitness Club Celebrates Its Grand Re-Opening!
AlanStanier 14 yrs ago | 1 replies
I'm in. I'd like to go to the gym every lunchtime, but often something urgent comes up at the last minute (I work in the Computing Service of a University in England) and I have to skip the gym session and sort the emai…
Chit-Chat » Computer question » Do you have a pad in front of the keyboard that moves the cursor when you touch it?
AlanStanier 14 yrs ago
... or when you inadvertently brush it with your palm? I can (and have) switched mine off just to stop that happening
Chit-Chat » My Netflix list is seriously low. Can anyone recommend a good movie? » The Qatsi films of Godfrey Reggio
AlanStanier 14 yrs ago
Kayaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Naqoqatsi. No plots, just a series of images, stock footage and CGI, with soundtracks by Philip Glass, depicting various aspects of the relationship between humans, nature, and technology.
Chit-Chat » I know it's not magic but it surely looks like it. Lennart Green at TED. » Am I alone in finding televised magic somewhat pointless?
AlanStanier 14 yrs ago
Many of the things magicians achieve through misdirection and skill are things done all the time on television, and accepted as part of the language of the medium. Choosing to do such things by legerdemain, no matter how…
Chit-Chat » . » ݠ ઐ ש ⇄ ℬ Ք
AlanStanier 14 yrs ago | 1 replies
Hmmm ... the arabic displays with firefox, but not IE
Chit-Chat » . » ( 8-{ ))>
AlanStanier 14 yrs ago
It almost works. Àᾠ
Chit-Chat » . » ( 8-{ ))>
AlanStanier 14 yrs ago | 1 replies
Ignore this bit, I'm just testing something I couldn't find in the FAQ Ⴀ 𓀀
Chit-Chat » Why isn't there a word for this in English? » noisome
AlanStanier 14 yrs ago | 1 replies
Definition: Offensive to the senses; disgusting, unpleasant, nauseous; foul, fetid, especially having an undesirable smell; sickening, nauseating.
Chit-Chat » Would you halve your food intake if it would double your lifespan? » I'd need to know more before I could answer
AlanStanier 14 yrs ago | 1 replies
I would need to know: what would the extra life be like? 100 extra years aren't valuable to me if they are years of senility.
Chit-Chat » Finches playing electric guitar
AlanStanier 14 yrs ago | 9 replies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Kz8Nxb-Bg
Chit-Chat » Just as I thought: I DO weigh as much as a whale
AlanStanier 14 yrs ago | 5 replies
I weighed myself after gym today: 105.5kg (232lb). This is exactly the same as Nemo, a pygmy sperm whale, weighed on 13 June 2001 (see http://www.mote.org/index.php?src=directory&view=DWH&refno=490&srctype=DWH_detail)…
Chit-Chat » . » ( 8-{ )>
AlanStanier 14 yrs ago
Chit-Chat » Teachers making mistakes: what would you do? » What I would do
AlanStanier 14 yrs ago
I would take one of the worksheets, correct the mistakes in red ink, assign it a mark, and send it back to the teacher. If there were no improvement, the second would go to the principal. The third would go to the board …
Chit-Chat » Has anyone used Ancestry.com? » U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
AlanStanier 14 yrs ago | 1 replies
Would be a good place to start. What was your father's full name?

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