The Good News Thread

[mcshroom]

[Ruth]

The online listing for my new house now says 'let agreed'.   

[interzen]

Anybody want a lawnmower and some garden tools?

Lacking a lawn, I have no use for a lawnmower.
However, if you have a garden fork (full size or mini-hand-size - doesn't matter) I'd gladly take it off your hands next time I'm oop north.

[mcshroom]

Congratulations

[Cudzoziemiec]

Great. How much bike space and what's the capacity of the kitchen in cakes per day? 

[Guy]

Email arrived at lunchtime:

Your Amazon.co.uk order of "The Long Mars: (Long Earth 3)" has been dispatched

 

It's so long since I pre-ordered it I'd forgotten about it

[Tim Hall]

Email arrived at lunchtime:

Your Amazon.co.uk order of "The Long Mars: (Long Earth 3)" has been dispatched

 

It's so long since I pre-ordered it I'd forgotten about it

<twitch>> Ordered. You ordered it. You didn't pre-order it. You ordered it, with the presumption that it would arrive some time after you placed the order.

[mrcharly-YHT]

For the first time in months, I've had the confidence to leave my walking stick at home.

[Wowbagger]

The OBRC that I pre-ordered the other day has pre-arrived and it looks as though I can pre-use it as well. It says "Valid until 25/06/2017" on it, and it doesn't display a start date, even though I still have another 6 days to survive before I'm 60.

[Ham]

Email arrived at lunchtime:

Your Amazon.co.uk order of "The Long Mars: (Long Earth 3)" has been dispatched

 

It's so long since I pre-ordered it I'd forgotten about it

<twitch>> Ordered. You ordered it. You didn't pre-order it. You ordered it, with the presumption that it would arrive some time after you placed the order.

You pre-release ordered it (or at least I did), pre-ordered is a lot easier on the tongue, I'm not unhappy with that. I'll be happier when it arrives today.

[Guy]

Email arrived at lunchtime:

Your Amazon.co.uk order of "The Long Mars: (Long Earth 3)" has been dispatched

 

It's so long since I pre-ordered it I'd forgotten about it

The book that I had pre-release ordered is here. Just got to finish "War With The Newts" (Karel Capek*) then I can start it


*I kno there should be a little upside down ^ on top of the C but I have all the keyboard skills of yer average sea cucumber and can't see how to do it

[hellymedic]

Like this Čapek
 

Simples on Apple. (Type & hold c, click on option you like.)
Use Character Map with Windoze.

[Guy]

I don't even kno how to find Character Map

[PaulF]

Like this Čapek
 

Simples on Apple. (Type & hold c, click on option you like.)
Use Character Map with Windoze.

Been using Macs for years and never knew that

Thåñks

[hellymedic]

Start -> Programs -> System Tools on old Windoze but it's probably disappeared on newer versions.

[Guy]

Karel Čapek

Jaroslav Hašek

Redmarley D'Abitôt

HUZZAH!!!

[David Martin]

Øh that įß vērÿ ùsęfúl

[Mr Larrington]

I had cause to enter "Jaroslav Hašek" and "The Good Soldier Švejk" the other day and found it easier to copy'n'paste.  Now I can't get rid of that key with the pseudo-Pan-Am logo on it, and thus occasionally find the "keyboard" going all Czech on me.

I will appease it by wearing my Dukla Prague away shirt...

[Cudzoziemiec]

Øħ Þũŧ Ï'ɱ ďįƨãƥƿŏĩʼnţēđ

I had thought it would allow me to map symbols or diacritics on to my keyboard with alt and ctrl keys, but it seems I'll still have to change keyboard languages for that.

[barakta]

Where I have students with interesting characters in their name e.g. umlauts I have created an autocorrect item for some keyboard combo I enter and the system spews out their name with the correct characters in it...   

[PaulF]

Years ago when I was system testing we found that we could break a system with accented names and spent some happy hours creating names to break it. The only one that sticks in my mind now is Wölfgång O'Ümlāūt

[Pickled Onion]

Years ago when I was system testing we found that we could break a system with accented names and spent some happy hours creating names to break it. The only one that sticks in my mind now is Wölfgång O'Ümlāūt

It's not that many years ago when commercial widely-used and expensive software would break simply from the apostrophe in an Irish surname.

[Mr Larrington]

Mr Larrington has just ridden a bicycle for the first time in about four years   Two bicycles, in fact.  First up, Depravo the Roadrat, who is 64" fixed.  Slight difficulty in clipping in trailing foot the first time but otherwise OK.   Next the towpath bike.  Clipped in first time, gears work, newly-bled brakes work.  Everything works, in fact, apart from Mr Larrington, who aches even from a short spin round the block.

The small question: next up for fettling - upright trike or Cosimo the Stealth Baron?  Bear in mind that while Cosimo is street-legal, I should have to be mad enow to have mad people living in my beard afore actually riding him on the road.  Also I have to take his seat/tail fairing off to get at the back brake...

The big question: should I ride fixed or gears to the NA meeting in Wanstead on Monday?

[clarion]

Sounds like the engine is what's giving you the problem. 

But

[CrinklyLion]

The big question: should I ride fixed or gears to the NA meeting in Wanstead on Monday?

I believe that the standard response goes along the lines of Gears Make You Weak.

I have just booked the Very Lovely Valencia in for some eye wateringly expensive work at the corner shop in a week or so.