What bemused you today?

[hevans]

.... in a book that I've been promising myself to read for ages, 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists'  by Robert Tressell. It describes the attitudes of a group of workers, painters and decorators, and their conversations during their lunch break.

Thanks for the tip, I've been reading it in spare moments over the last month. Very intriguing book.

Ta.
Hugh

[Oldboy]

Watch this! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYXKaAzEJrk&feature=player_embedded

[anglefire]

My car is still in the garage having an oil leak on the gearbox sorted. This will be day 3 - if you don't include the 3 days it was in last time for 3 replacement wheel bearings and supposedly the gearbox.

It's all under warranty, so I'm not overly fussed at the moment - I want it all sorted before it runs out next year, but it just takes so much time.

[spinner]

My car is still in the garage having an oil leak on the gearbox sorted. This will be day 3 - if you don't include the 3 days it was in last time for 3 replacement wheel bearings and supposedly the gearbox.

It's all under warranty, so I'm not overly fussed at the moment - I want it all sorted before it runs out next year, but it just takes so much time.

You are either a nation of extremely patient people, or this is normal? The only time I ever had to leave a vehicle for more than a day was when I had to have my Jeep's ECU replaced. The part was in a warehouse in Vancouver some 2000 miles away. Even parts for my German vehicles are warehoused somewhere within an hours drive.

[Graham]

Watch this! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYXKaAzEJrk&feature=player_embedded

Thanks for that Oldboy! I've passed it around a bit.
                          Graham.

[anglefire]

You need to look at the WAMT thread now 

[Oldboy]

Watch this! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYXKaAzEJrk&feature=player_embedded

Thanks for that Oldboy! I've passed it around a bit.
                          Graham.

Thanks Graham, just surprised no one else has commented ot it. 

[spinner]

I bid on a Yashica J camera on EBAY for parts and won. It just arrived today from Australia. It apparently doesn't work, shutter won't fire and the cold shoe on top was reattached with a hot glue gun it looks like, other than that though, it looks miles better than my Yashica that I'd planned to fix up. It might be easier to fix this one, than mine if I could find a manual online.

[spinner]

In the continuing saga of fixing my Rangefinder, I joined this YashicaForum where I posted a query on how I might free up the seized focus ring. I go back a few hours later to see if anyone's responded to discover my post isn't up. Thinking I flubbed something the first time I do the post again to discover all posting needs to be reviewed by Admin first. It's a camera specific forum and I'm posting in the Maintenance and Repair thread. What are they worried about? Surely they have spam filters if that's it. 

[skellum]

Just been informed by comment on another forum that the horizon on the picture below is 0.3 degree out....

[anglefire]

And that 0.3 makes all the difference.





Not.

What a pathetic thing to say!

[nickt]

Just been informed by comment on another forum that the horizon on the picture below is 0.3 degree out....

Oh yes, I can see it.
How sad.

[spinner]

I'm gobsmacked! It certainly is. where's your sense of........

What kind of idiot would be that picky?

[spinner]

In my haste to be smugly cutting edge I upgraded my Ubuntu system to 10.10 and promptly killed my wireless connections. Now I'm reinstalling 9.04 and trying to upgrade back to 10.04. Of course a Google inquiry has found dozens and dozens of similar complaints. Seems 10.10 isn't up to scratch in the wireless dept. it's apparently hit and miss. 

[Hinfrance]

Just been informed by comment on another forum that the horizon on the picture below is 0.3 degree out....

And so it is. But the main thing wrong with it is that you have failed to correct for the curvature of the earth. What are you like, eh?