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[BrowneIssue]

Downstairs toilet plumbed in. Check.
Tiles cut and put up. Check.
Mrs DB cursing and swearing while trying to hang wallpaper. Check

Remember why I rent, not own. Check.

[BrowneIssue]

Roast chicken - om nom nom. And there's some left over for a snack later, to be consumed as we watch Lost.

Tonight's dinner was a favourite: chicken and mushroom risotto. Very tasty. Very toothsome. Very filling. Very easy to eat.

Only one pan to wash up!

[NickFitz]

Is it co-incidence I craved the same?

Or is it merely a reaction to knowing the snow was coming...

Snow?

@me scampers off to check weather forecast re: drive to and week in Yorkshire in the morning

[BrowneIssue]

Snow?

@me scampers off to check weather forecast re: drive to and week in Yorkshire in the morning

Never mind the forecast; I'm typing past-tense.

In this bit of sunny Wiltshire, the snow started about an hour before dusk and continued, on and off until a couple of hours ago.

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It wasn’t until 1543 that it was proven that a human heart was not the same as an ape’s and that a man did not have one more rib than a woman.

Men don't have a different number of ribs?

Half a millennia, and still being propogated. <shaking head smiley>

[NickFitz]

The new BBC weather site (which was only in Beta for a couple of weeks) seems to me to have a most counter-intuitive use of tabs in its UI - there's a tab at the start that isn't the initially-selected tab, then something that's in the tabset but isn't a tab, then more tabs which are the ones you're most likely to use

It uses the Beeb's new JavaScript library, Glow; that's very good, and I greatly enjoyed hearing lots about the nitty-gritty of it from some of the developers thereof at BarCampLondon4 last year.

Unfortunately, having one of the best JS libraries in the world isn't much good if you use it to implement a broken user interface

I would have stomped on the current implementation straightaway if they'd had the good grace to invite me to their UI design meetings. It sucks like a Dyson and fails like a hedge fund

IMHO, YMMV, HAND

[BrowneIssue]

Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.

... as opposed to those telescopes known to any of the following:

• Aquahorrors
• Bloomtors
• Cluster Molders
• Comettors of Vulcan
• Flash Scorpions of Castor
• Indigo Hawks of Algol Lambda
• Memorydroids of The Undying Star
• Multimantises of Algol
• Quantum Illusionists of Alpha Bootis Five
• River Fiends of Mercury
• Swamp Watchers
• Coronal Antilampreys
• Heliodjinn
• Liquid Oracles of Kochab Eleven
• Necrotic Hunters of Uranus
• Omniphantoms of Pluto
• Speed Drakes of Alpha Bootis Epsilon
• Web Hunters of Acamar Eight
• Disk Hounds of Capella
• Dreak Warlocks of Fomalhaut Iota
• Electric Bugs of The Indigo Asteroid
• Quasarvores
• Schizotors of Mizar Nine
• Xenoannihilators of The Resurrected Sphere

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I was soooo hungry that I ate a wrinkled old golden delicious that had been ripening away for about a month.

It was, oddly, very nice*.


*I detest Golden Delicious.

Must have been a Cape one then. The French & Italian are foul after a couple of weeks.

[BrowneIssue]

1st post on this thread and in one swoop, I'm now etched in CUK history.......

1st of many and welcome

kanulondon 1

And there they were, gone.

[NickFitz]

Men don't have a different number of ribs?

Half a millennia, and still being propogated. <shaking head smiley>

Back in the days when we got our information from ink on paper, I read in some novel that it's not too uncommon for men to have an extra rib, but that this occurs very infrequently in women.

As JKJ said very near the end of chapter 16 of Three Men in a Boat:

I am not in a position either to contradict or affirm this statement. I simply offer it.