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Post by Geoff on Jul 24, 2008 13:24:24 GMT
my phone also doubles as an Ipod (mp3/mp4 player). Oh, and a gym training aid! That sounds a bit like the exercise you get from 'elbow bending' at the pub. |
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Post by Dave on Jul 24, 2008 14:36:17 GMT
Eye protection, Vadim?  |
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Post by SusanB on Jul 24, 2008 16:08:56 GMT
If I buy some technology, will I get unsmited? Or have I annoyed someone for another reason? Sorry, whoever it was!
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Post by Vadim on Jul 25, 2008 7:23:32 GMT
If I buy some technology, will I get unsmited? Or have I annoyed someone for another reason? Sorry, whoever it was! 't'wasn't me. Consider yourself exahalted to counteract the nasty smiters! I see they have smited me too! Eye protection, Vadim? Doh! I am, however, suprised it doesn't do this, as it does just about everything else! |
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Post by Dr Mildr on Jul 25, 2008 18:30:05 GMT
I don't have any i-Things either. No DVD player, no digital TV, etc. (I'm beginning to sound as odd as that unusual paragraph from a couple of weeks ago!) We don't have a DVD player, digital TV, i-player, but we do have a kettle (I really think all those gadgets should be able to make a cup of tea ;D ). We have a hand operated (manual) lawn-mower, push-bikes, no land-line, (but mobiles), and currently no four-wheeled transport (or at least, no driver for said transport - I don't drive and Mr Mildr has had eye operations and has been unable to drive since last year). We must be living in the dark ages compared with most of you. I also have a slide rule and log tables. But ... I do also use computer stats packages (without which I'd be lost  ). |
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Post by SusanB on Jul 25, 2008 19:01:09 GMT
I have a kettle too! I feel all modern, now.
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Post by Twoddle on Jul 25, 2008 19:48:06 GMT
I have a kettle too! I feel all modern, now. Someone in a pub sold me one of those Star Trek replicator machines for making tea, coffee, sandwiches ... anything. It was snip at £5,000. It doesn't work yet, though; possibly it needs new dilithium crystals, but the warranty's up on it. |
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Post by amanda on Jul 26, 2008 12:58:47 GMT
In informal writing, we disagree: I think there's a role for ?? and !! and !? and ?! -- but some people say they have no meaning (which can't be true) or that they don't like them (which is fair enough, I suppose). I also find (!) and (?) are useful and convey a different meaning again. I enjoy using immature/creative (?!) punctuation in informal writing. |
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Post by Pete on Jul 26, 2008 16:34:14 GMT
In informal writing, we disagree: I think there's a role for ?? and !! and !? and ?! -- but some people say they have no meaning (which can't be true) or that they don't like them (which is fair enough, I suppose). I also find (!) and (?) are useful and convey a different meaning again. I enjoy using immature/creative (?!) punctuation in informal writing. I'm with you on this, Amanda. |
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Post by Twoddle on Jul 26, 2008 17:13:01 GMT
I also find (!) and (?) are useful and convey a different meaning again. I enjoy using immature/creative (?!) punctuation in informal writing. I'm with you on this, Amanda. I'm not, Amanda (but you all knew that). |
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Post by SusanB on Jul 26, 2008 23:21:03 GMT
I now also own an MP3 player! Maybe it's the first step towards a more gadgeted life.
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Post by Barry on Jul 28, 2008 11:07:59 GMT
I have a splendidly useless battery-powered gadget that my aunt gave me as a joke many years ago. It's a device for whisking an egg inside its shell. There's a sort of bent needle (bent twice at 90 degrees) mounted on a platform (which is the 'on' button). You thread the egg onto the needle, and push it down so it depresses the platform, and the needle revolves at high speed. The instructions suggest you can boil the whisked result, so that you get a perfectly even egg; the result is disgusting (being, basically, a slightly-yellow, all-'white' egg, rather like rubber). My father got a glass froster the same year, and he wouldn't swap!
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Post by Tone on Jul 28, 2008 20:41:30 GMT
Barry,
It's much more fun to put the egg (unpunctured) in a microwave oven.
(But it's only fun if it's someone else's oven!)
Tone
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