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From: Graeme on 15 Apr 2010 06:05 In message <slrnhsdjvp.76n.bas(a)rialto.bas.me.uk> Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid>: > > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > >> A few months ago I gave one of my children to read the book of Jack > >> London stories that my father bought for me when I was the same age. > >> Just by itself that was an experience worth living for. It would be a > >> terrible thing to deny oneself, or be denied. > > > > I got a similar feeling when we received a box of books from my wife's > > childhood. The frisson that ran through me when I uncovered Arthur > > Ransome's Swallows and Amazons, a six volume set of the different > > coloured Jonathan Cape hardbacks, took me right back to when I first > > discovered them in my school library. > > <http://foliosociety.org.uk/folio/books/swallows_amazons.jpg> > > Those exact ones are still on my parents' bookshelves. > > I can only assume everybody in England in the seventies (?) bought a set. Got my first one (Secret Water) for Xmas 1956, had the whole set by 1963 bar Great Northern which I didn't get until 1970! All the green hardbacks. When I left home my sister swiped the lot! > > I will be honest and say that I enjoyed _Swallows and Amazons_ but > found the rest of them a little dull. > You didn't like Missee Lee? -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>
From: Graeme on 15 Apr 2010 06:10 In message <slrnhsdlic.12s7.jim(a)wotan.magrathea.local> Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2010-04-15, Tim Hodgson <thnews(a)poboxmolar.com.invalid> wrote: > >> > >> > But books feel different than aluminium and > >> > glass, so an conscious comparison might be useful... > >> > >> They bend in the middle, for one. > > > > And if you drop them, you don't cry. > > > > I simply have to post this: > > <http://mosspuppet.com/2010/04/14/this-is-why-the-ipad-is-awesome/> > Wonderful! -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>
From: Pd on 15 Apr 2010 06:26 Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: > I suddenly found myself riding my Yamaha RD350LC on the Autobahn with the > wrong wheel in front and lost control over it about three seconds later One of my earliest bikes was an RD350. A few years later a friend was looking to buy a 350LC and asked me to test-ride it for him. I hadn't realised they had about twice the power of the earlier air-cooled model, and scared myself shitless on that ride. They are awesome bikes, so light and so fast. > Pirsig's inquiry into quality and hipness and squareness is a > fascinating read when you read it with our computer age in mind, by the > way. I couldn't have picked a better time to read it again. It is, and I think always will be, extremely relevant. -- Pd
From: zoara on 15 Apr 2010 11:11 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2010-04-15, Tim Hodgson <thnews(a)poboxmolar.com.invalid> wrote: > >> > >> > But books feel different than aluminium and > >> > glass, so an conscious comparison might be useful... > >> > >> They bend in the middle, for one. > > > > And if you drop them, you don't cry. > > > > I simply have to post this: > > <http://mosspuppet.com/2010/04/14/this-is-why-the-ipad-is-awesome/> > Ironically, that video won't play on an iPad... -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: zoara on 15 Apr 2010 11:11
Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com>: > > Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: > >> But books feel different than aluminium and > >> glass, so an conscious comparison might be useful... > > > > They bend in the middle, for one. > > So does the iPad, as demonstrated in the `Will it blend?' video! > Eagle-eyed viewers noticed that the aluminium back was removed before he started smashing it up. I wider how much abuse it would have stood up to if it was in one piece? -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm |