![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Thought for the day
Monday, May 18th, 2009 08:39 am"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." (Jerome. K. Jerome)
Monday, May 18th, 2009
Thought for the day
Monday, May 18th, 2009 08:39 am"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." (Jerome. K. Jerome)
Brown Belt
Monday, May 18th, 2009 11:21 amThis weight-loss malarkey is a slow process, especially since I have so far evaded ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ellefurtle suggestion that I actually stand on the scales and weigh myself. It was depressing last time I did it and I expect it will still be so, so I can’t see why I should upset myself with tonnage in numbers.
I have decided that I shall measure progress in belt notches. I understand that it takes time for the pounds to show up in this way, but I am prepared to wait for a few months. As it is, over the past few months, I have been alternating between notches on my belt; sometimes it has been a little looser, sometimes a little tighter. The past few days it has settled down to the tighter –by which I mean I have taken the belt in a notch – setting, except that it doesn’t feel tight any more. If I use the other old favourite, it feels as though I am in danger of my trollies falling down and until I land that plum role in a Brian Rix farce, I don’t fancy that happening, thank you very much.
Anyway, slow it may be, but I feel that I have lost a few ounces. I shall weigh myself when I achieve the next notch.
ellefurtle suggestion that I actually stand on the scales and weigh myself. It was depressing last time I did it and I expect it will still be so, so I can’t see why I should upset myself with tonnage in numbers.I have decided that I shall measure progress in belt notches. I understand that it takes time for the pounds to show up in this way, but I am prepared to wait for a few months. As it is, over the past few months, I have been alternating between notches on my belt; sometimes it has been a little looser, sometimes a little tighter. The past few days it has settled down to the tighter –by which I mean I have taken the belt in a notch – setting, except that it doesn’t feel tight any more. If I use the other old favourite, it feels as though I am in danger of my trollies falling down and until I land that plum role in a Brian Rix farce, I don’t fancy that happening, thank you very much.
Anyway, slow it may be, but I feel that I have lost a few ounces. I shall weigh myself when I achieve the next notch.
Brown Belt
Monday, May 18th, 2009 11:21 amThis weight-loss malarkey is a slow process, especially since I have so far evaded ellefurtle suggestion that I actually stand on the scales and weigh myself. It was depressing last time I did it and I expect it will still be so, so I can’t see why I should upset myself with tonnage in numbers.
I have decided that I shall measure progress in belt notches. I understand that it takes time for the pounds to show up in this way, but I am prepared to wait for a few months. As it is, over the past few months, I have been alternating between notches on my belt; sometimes it has been a little looser, sometimes a little tighter. The past few days it has settled down to the tighter –by which I mean I have taken the belt in a notch – setting, except that it doesn’t feel tight any more. If I use the other old favourite, it feels as though I am in danger of my trollies falling down and until I land that plum role in a Brian Rix farce, I don’t fancy that happening, thank you very much.
Anyway, slow it may be, but I feel that I have lost a few ounces. I shall weigh myself when I achieve the next notch.
ellefurtle suggestion that I actually stand on the scales and weigh myself. It was depressing last time I did it and I expect it will still be so, so I can’t see why I should upset myself with tonnage in numbers.I have decided that I shall measure progress in belt notches. I understand that it takes time for the pounds to show up in this way, but I am prepared to wait for a few months. As it is, over the past few months, I have been alternating between notches on my belt; sometimes it has been a little looser, sometimes a little tighter. The past few days it has settled down to the tighter –by which I mean I have taken the belt in a notch – setting, except that it doesn’t feel tight any more. If I use the other old favourite, it feels as though I am in danger of my trollies falling down and until I land that plum role in a Brian Rix farce, I don’t fancy that happening, thank you very much.
Anyway, slow it may be, but I feel that I have lost a few ounces. I shall weigh myself when I achieve the next notch.
New tech fail
Monday, May 18th, 2009 06:04 pmHmm.
What can I say? I tried out the new Wolfram Alpha search engine, having found it mentioned on the BBC, here.
The first thing I did was enter my date of birth; it suggests newbies enter a date just to see how a computation knowledge engine as they like to call it works. Well, so far so good. It told me a number of numerical facts about my date of birth, ie it was the 35th day of 1959 (how useful, I couldn't add four to thirty-one) and a few other equally useful odds and sods. A couple of people I hadn't heard of shared that birthdate, so I looked for one of them. Wolphram Alpha cheerfully told me it didn't know what to do with the data I'd entered, so I trimmed it down a bit. Twice. Then I tried another, completely different query and got this:
The system isn't having a good first day...
What can I say? I tried out the new Wolfram Alpha search engine, having found it mentioned on the BBC, here.
The first thing I did was enter my date of birth; it suggests newbies enter a date just to see how a computation knowledge engine as they like to call it works. Well, so far so good. It told me a number of numerical facts about my date of birth, ie it was the 35th day of 1959 (how useful, I couldn't add four to thirty-one) and a few other equally useful odds and sods. A couple of people I hadn't heard of shared that birthdate, so I looked for one of them. Wolphram Alpha cheerfully told me it didn't know what to do with the data I'd entered, so I trimmed it down a bit. Twice. Then I tried another, completely different query and got this:
The system isn't having a good first day...
New tech fail
Monday, May 18th, 2009 06:04 pmHmm.
What can I say? I tried out the new Wolfram Alpha search engine, having found it mentioned on the BBC, here.
The first thing I did was enter my date of birth; it suggests newbies enter a date just to see how a computation knowledge engine as they like to call it works. Well, so far so good. It told me a number of numerical facts about my date of birth, ie it was the 35th day of 1959 (how useful, I couldn't add four to thirty-one) and a few other equally useful odds and sods. A couple of people I hadn't heard of shared that birthdate, so I looked for one of them. Wolphram Alpha cheerfully told me it didn't know what to do with the data I'd entered, so I trimmed it down a bit. Twice. Then I tried another, completely different query and got this:
The system isn't having a good first day...
What can I say? I tried out the new Wolfram Alpha search engine, having found it mentioned on the BBC, here.
The first thing I did was enter my date of birth; it suggests newbies enter a date just to see how a computation knowledge engine as they like to call it works. Well, so far so good. It told me a number of numerical facts about my date of birth, ie it was the 35th day of 1959 (how useful, I couldn't add four to thirty-one) and a few other equally useful odds and sods. A couple of people I hadn't heard of shared that birthdate, so I looked for one of them. Wolphram Alpha cheerfully told me it didn't know what to do with the data I'd entered, so I trimmed it down a bit. Twice. Then I tried another, completely different query and got this:
The system isn't having a good first day...
I ran into this courtesy of keith_london, but not on LJ, over on Twitter: The English Democrats. Now as far as I can see and if you know better, please correct me, they are not racist nutters like the BNP, but as nationalists they do seem to tend to the right (oddly unlike the Scottish National Party, who I think tend to the left...). They do seem a little er.. dodgy (at the very least base populist) on immigration. They are nut jobs in other ways, too - they support, or rather propose, a referendum on whether Monmouthshire should be in Wales or in England...
They are a federalist group who see themselves as promoting England so that it has the same rights as Scotland and to that extent they want an English Parliament with at least the same powers as the Scottish Parliament. Well, chaps, here's the news. WE ALREADY HAVE AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT, YOU PLUMS (de facto if not de jure). It's in Westminster. We just happen to share it with the UK Parliament.
We don't need another layer of corruption, we just need an answer to the West Lothian Question.
keith_london, but not on LJ, over on Twitter: The English Democrats. Now as far as I can see and if you know better, please correct me, they are not racist nutters like the BNP, but as nationalists they do seem to tend to the right (oddly unlike the Scottish National Party, who I think tend to the left...). They do seem a little er.. dodgy (at the very least base populist) on immigration. They are nut jobs in other ways, too - they support, or rather propose, a referendum on whether Monmouthshire should be in Wales or in England...They are a federalist group who see themselves as promoting England so that it has the same rights as Scotland and to that extent they want an English Parliament with at least the same powers as the Scottish Parliament. Well, chaps, here's the news. WE ALREADY HAVE AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT, YOU PLUMS (de facto if not de jure). It's in Westminster. We just happen to share it with the UK Parliament.
We don't need another layer of corruption, we just need an answer to the West Lothian Question.
I ran into this courtesy of keith_london, but not on LJ, over on Twitter: The English Democrats. Now as far as I can see and if you know better, please correct me, they are not racist nutters like the BNP, but as nationalists they do seem to tend to the right (oddly unlike the Scottish National Party, who I think tend to the left...). They do seem a little er.. dodgy (at the very least base populist) on immigration. They are nut jobs in other ways, too - they support, or rather propose, a referendum on whether Monmouthshire should be in Wales or in England...
They are a federalist group who see themselves as promoting England so that it has the same rights as Scotland and to that extent they want an English Parliament with at least the same powers as the Scottish Parliament. Well, chaps, here's the news. WE ALREADY HAVE AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT, YOU PLUMS (de facto if not de jure). It's in Westminster. We just happen to share it with the UK Parliament.
We don't need another layer of corruption, we just need an answer to the West Lothian Question.
keith_london, but not on LJ, over on Twitter: The English Democrats. Now as far as I can see and if you know better, please correct me, they are not racist nutters like the BNP, but as nationalists they do seem to tend to the right (oddly unlike the Scottish National Party, who I think tend to the left...). They do seem a little er.. dodgy (at the very least base populist) on immigration. They are nut jobs in other ways, too - they support, or rather propose, a referendum on whether Monmouthshire should be in Wales or in England...They are a federalist group who see themselves as promoting England so that it has the same rights as Scotland and to that extent they want an English Parliament with at least the same powers as the Scottish Parliament. Well, chaps, here's the news. WE ALREADY HAVE AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT, YOU PLUMS (de facto if not de jure). It's in Westminster. We just happen to share it with the UK Parliament.
We don't need another layer of corruption, we just need an answer to the West Lothian Question.