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From: Woody on 22 Jan 2010 11:12 On 22/01/2010 16:01, Jim wrote: > On 2010-01-22, Woody<usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >>> >>> I've only ever used F-keys on a BBC Micro and with Oolite, the Mac OS X >>> attempt at Elite. >> >> I really wanted to like that, but nostalgia seemed to be beating reality. > > I fire it up on the Beeb from time to time, but the days where I'm going to > play it for 36hrs straight are far behind me. Same here. Especially after I got bought Fallout 3. No, I know, its accounts, then OU then fallout. No.. no it is definitely accounts first.. oh well, just 5 minutes... -- Woody
From: Woody on 22 Jan 2010 11:14 On 22/01/2010 16:10, Jim wrote: > On 2010-01-22, Woody<usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >>> I've been wearing glasses for about 15 years now (very short sighted in one >>> eye), but the last time I went for a checkup (6 months ago or so) I was told >>> I was suffering from a non-curable degenerative condition called "getting >>> old". Your eyes start to lose some of their focus range, or I think that's >>> what he said. I was too busy hitting him with a table to remember clearly... >> >> I got told that. Not only was I short sighted, as I had been for a >> while, in one eye, due to the aformentioned condition 'oldness', I >> couldn't see close up either. So my left eye is perfect at monitor >> range, and useless everywhere else. >> My right is ok at distance. > > As I understand it you start to lose short range focus. Hence the need for > dedicated reading glasses. Which he claims I'll be needing some time within > the next 5 years or so. I don't remember much after that...something about > 'Hulk smash!' then it went blurry. Then I was in a field without my shirt > and someone was playing a piano. God yes, isn't that embarassing. I got reading glasses this year. They make the difference on my sony reader of medium font or small. And as much as I hate the concept, the close up world looks great in them! -- Woody
From: Jim on 22 Jan 2010 11:17 On 2010-01-22, Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >>>> >>>> I've only ever used F-keys on a BBC Micro and with Oolite, the Mac OS X >>>> attempt at Elite. >>> >>> I really wanted to like that, but nostalgia seemed to be beating reality. >> >> I fire it up on the Beeb from time to time, but the days where I'm going to >> play it for 36hrs straight are far behind me. > > Same here. Especially after I got bought Fallout 3. No, I know, its > accounts, then OU then fallout. No.. no it is definitely accounts > first.. oh well, just 5 minutes... I confess that, despite not expecting to like it at all, I've become really rather fond of Batman:Arkham Asylum. I generally don't like games with 'bosses' (or stealth for that matter) but this one's ok. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK "Get over here. Now. Might be advisable to wear brown trousers and a shirt the colour of blood." Malcolm Tucker, "The Thick of It"
From: Rowland McDonnell on 22 Jan 2010 11:17 James Dore <james.dore(a)new.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > James Dore <james.dore(a)new.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > > > >> Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > >> > >> > James Dore <james.dore(a)new.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > >> > > >> > [snip] > >> > > >> >> I can live with it - more than I can live with modern keyboards, > >> that's > >> >> for sure :-D > >> > > >> > You tried my rubber feet idea? > >> > >> Ooh, actually no, and I have a number of suitable candidates too. Will > >> experiment. Thanks for the reminder! > > > > Lessons I learnt: > > > > Put the feet a fair way apart so the keyboard can flex easily when you > > type. > > Ok. Good job they're cheap, I might bend it :-> My typing fingers expect full travel keys. I learnt to type on a real typewriter, albeit an IBM Selectric. I /need/ that flex etc to stop my fingers hurting as I type. > > Put the feet on the front side a bit back from the front (you know what > > I mean) so that the keyboard can flex down as you type without > > grounding, /but/ without raising the front edge more than you have to. > > Aha. You stick the back ones on the USB ridge with the existing feet, yes? Yup - in the case of my first attempt, just outboard of the originals. > > The purpose of that part of the exercise is to give the steepest > > gradient from a given set of feet. > > Ok. Putting them outboard of the existing feet seems best, yes? That's what I've done and it seems to work pretty well. One could imagine other ways - but my line on that so far has been `Oh for god's sake this'll do for now, just type on the bloody thing'. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 22 Jan 2010 11:17
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > >> > (a 1967 model) > >> > >> Ditto. > > > > My eyes have just started to get noticably iffy. How about you? > > I've been wearing glasses for about 15 years now (very short sighted in one > eye), but the last time I went for a checkup (6 months ago or so) I was told > I was suffering from a non-curable degenerative condition called "getting > old". I think I've caught that one too. >Your eyes start to lose some of their focus range, or I think that's > what he said. I was too busy hitting him with a table to remember clearly... Yeah, it was just that I was hoping that maybe, just *maybe* my eyes would last as well as my dad's. They're not doing as badly as my mother's, though. > > My joints don't creak any more than they did when I was 14, so that's > > okay; but they creaked alarmingly when I was 14. > > No joint problems here, so far. I knackered my left knee when 16. Rugby - took 'em over two years to fix the torn cartilage. I was missing most of the symptoms of torn cartilage - in fact, the *ONLY* one I had was the excruciating pain, none of the X-rays or the first operation could find anything wrong. That first knee op was conducted at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital - by a shoulder specialist. Then they let me have a knee specialist in the concrete jungle[1] of Northwick Pk Hosp. (famous recently for the dodgy drug trial) and he got it sorted first time. Oh, how I love the NHS - they might have fixed the knee, but there was four of us left in a small ward to come round from the anaesthetic (we were all done in a batch) without nurse oversight, as I found out when I woke up and after half an hour decided to try and find a cuppa since there didn't seem to be *ANYONE* around... I found the nurses out of the ward, down the corridor in their tea room, nattering and slurping and I think playing cards. I know it was the ones who were supposed to be keeping an eye on me because they yelled at me to get back into bed where I belonged. I really /really/ love the NHS - which sent me home refusing to tell me what had been done to my knee if anything or anything about how to look after it until I returned to the hospital in a fortnight. Oh yes I asked, believe me I asked. [snip] Rowland. [1] I once sat through a careers talk by a lass from the firm of architects that had designed the thing - come 1983(-85) or whenever that was, the firm was deeply embarrassed about what it had perpetrated. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |