tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post7608232320433120849..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: Choices, choices.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-59208838989216915542010-02-28T23:35:41.538+01:002010-02-28T23:35:41.538+01:00All pretty sound options, except the ironing. You ...All pretty sound options, except the ironing. You didn't do the ironing, did you?Dickhttp://patteran.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-6582878167372550072010-02-28T22:52:21.788+01:002010-02-28T22:52:21.788+01:00P.S. on the browser question:
My experience with S...P.S. on the browser question:<br />My experience with Safari, when i helped my friend set up her blog, was <i>awful</i>...found it to be just terrible...and so have some other blogger friends...just FYI/my 2centsvicki johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564450760405974595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-15314200242429505232010-02-28T22:48:46.539+01:002010-02-28T22:48:46.539+01:00i switched to Firefox simply because i was fed up ...i switched to Firefox simply because i was fed up with Explorer crashing all of the time...and i have not looked back nor have i been tempted by any others.<br /><br />By the way, i just read about the devastating storm that swept through France...and i am hoping you, your home, and neighbors are all safe and sound.vicki johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564450760405974595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-25022336783027330642010-02-28T18:08:32.644+01:002010-02-28T18:08:32.644+01:00I assume it is the same Jane Smiley. Oddly enough...I assume it is the same Jane Smiley. Oddly enough, I know the sister fairly well to the American writer Jane, a Gail Smiley, who practices as a psychologist here in the Portland Oregon area.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-44952647449313965812010-02-28T01:35:49.895+01:002010-02-28T01:35:49.895+01:00I'm looking forward to seeing Mol's new ra...I'm looking forward to seeing Mol's new raincoat!Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-20161664622147170802010-02-27T15:04:47.219+01:002010-02-27T15:04:47.219+01:00I would either read, make flapjacks or check out t...I would either read, make flapjacks or check out the browser - I would flit between all three actually as that is how I operate and why my computer is always grubby.<br /><br />I use Firefox and Safari on our Macs and Firefox on the other computers (one of which runs Windows - yuck so slow! and the other runs Ubuntu - fast). I prefer Firefox but there are some things, uploading where it is prone to crash occasionally and where Safari is more reliable). I did tinker with Chrome once but I didn't bond with it. But lots of people swear by it so I will probably give it a try again another day.rbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-28716072727867850812010-02-26T18:10:12.343+01:002010-02-26T18:10:12.343+01:00Time for another ghazal.
Nowadays Heidi does all ...Time for another ghazal. <br />Nowadays Heidi does all the ironing. She listens to the radio and says she enjoys the combination. I have to admit to taking pleasure in doing something useful and self-indulgent at the same time. Before Heidi came into my life, I used to iron meticulously with Radio 4 for companion. Proust and ironing must be hard to beat. I imagine those long sentences counterpointing the quivering motion of the iron in pursuit of creases. So, too, Eliot reading the Four Quartets about which in the old days, I had long ago been informed by BB and duly impressed. Have you heard of the sport or occupation called extreme ironing where ironing equipment is transported to a mountain top, or, who knows, to the bottom of the sea?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-74482016499867449742010-02-26T16:06:24.244+01:002010-02-26T16:06:24.244+01:00I think Kamal says it best.
As I mentioned, my gr...I think Kamal says it best.<br /><br />As I mentioned, my grandson insisted I install Firefox but whatever protection it provided was countermanded by the problems it imposed. It is now a memory. I enjoyed your attempts to winnow software by criteria other than functionality (horrible word) and wondered if any of us have ever had a sentimental attachment to software. It is said that no one ever changes their WP but this is not sentiment at work, rather the fear of letting go the hand of nurse. Back in the DOS days the company I worked for provided us with FM3, a file management system that was easy to use and its benefits self-evident. I copied it on to a floppy and installed on my own computer at home. That was a form of sentimentality. In those days innovations often were recognisable giant steps forwards. Within a month or so the next version of Windows incorporated all the features of FM3 and sentiment gave way to pragmatism.<br /><br />While ironing my mother used to listen to Wilhelm Backhaus playing the Hammerklavier and Eliot reading the Four Quartets. Though nothing on this earth would ever induce me to iron anything again (or to polish even a smidgeon of brass) I can get sentimental about the thought of you ironing to Proust. What's it like to have an intermediary? What sort of voice? And hardly any distance at all from Cabourg. I shall go away and write an ode to Photoshop Elements 3.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-1201227664539614742010-02-26T04:09:56.353+01:002010-02-26T04:09:56.353+01:00If you can get through Greenlanders, you will have...If you can get through Greenlanders, you will have my everlasting admiration. I tried it once - and I am a huge Jane Smiley fan - and it made me want to hide in the closet and cry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-48932273554392109872010-02-25T23:49:37.310+01:002010-02-25T23:49:37.310+01:00Mine is Firefox, hubby got it for all our laptops....Mine is Firefox, hubby got it for all our laptops..I didn't know how he did it and I had no idea you have so many other choices! I'll go for the drawing as ironing sounds very much burden and reminds me of what I need to do this weekend. And remember to show us what you did!HLizahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04501423875033391870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-5215538991281414012010-02-25T23:42:04.155+01:002010-02-25T23:42:04.155+01:00Sew the pillows! The thought of you cooking makes ...Sew the pillows! The thought of you cooking makes me hungry.Driven2thinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13241303880031176004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-34447115820857145422010-02-25T23:00:10.600+01:002010-02-25T23:00:10.600+01:00I ought to do this more often. Not bore you all w...I ought to do this more often. Not bore you all with it, but set down my options, because it did spur me to do as many of them as possible.<br /><br />I succeeded in making flapjacks, with partly muscovado sugar and raisins and linseeds in, so they were quite wholefoody and muesli-ish, and I did some ironing and listened to some Proust. The Balbec interlude is actually most of the volume, and has degenerated from the lyrical paean of grief for his grandmother into his tedious tormenting and suspecting of Albertine and her almost as tiresomely playing along with it, of which I'm sure there's much more to come. However, there's still the fun of the Marquise de Cambremer and her artistically enthusiastic salivary glands, and the wonderful servants Celeste and Marie-thingammyjig and their bizarre poet-peasant diction, and still lots of lovely seashore light and seagulls.<br /><br />I also made a good start on the slipper socks, cut out the soles and sewed one of them on in the evening watching telly. I'll take a photo when they're done.<br /><br />I also gave Molly a walk and a brush, took her photo in her new coat, and gave her a trim round the ears. I'll have to evne them up and one of them's now a bit longer than the other. <br /><br />And I lit the fire and made some nice little chicken pot-pies for supper.<br /><br />I don't think I'd have achieved half as much if I hadn't set it all out like this, and received your encouragement, so thank you! <br /><br />I still haven't decided about the browser, but feel if I do change I'd quite like something different and a bit elegant... There is now a Safari for Windows too.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-17096892743535077202010-02-25T21:24:59.791+01:002010-02-25T21:24:59.791+01:00Slipper socks and flapjacks...Slipper socks and flapjacks...Fire Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13518190677399410354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-6585091320968782152010-02-25T21:14:20.233+01:002010-02-25T21:14:20.233+01:00o go on, install google chrome, you know you want ...o go on, install google chrome, you know you want to reallyRosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12211663940952195703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-68538670850070684982010-02-25T19:54:34.753+01:002010-02-25T19:54:34.753+01:00Ghazal and drawing. Draw whatever it is you wrote...Ghazal and drawing. Draw whatever it is you wrote the ghazal about. Not sure how you'd have time for both in one afternoon, whether it's today's afternoon or a different day's afternoon, so this is likely a thumb-twiddling answer as well...HKatzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17653570160517335758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-62070306245845144512010-02-25T18:06:14.174+01:002010-02-25T18:06:14.174+01:00Since I didn't know what it was, and had to lo...Since I didn't know what it was, and had to look it up, I vote for the ghazal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-47495436893872716372010-02-25T18:00:56.854+01:002010-02-25T18:00:56.854+01:00As Catalyst said! Hmm, all those things (except ma...As Catalyst said! Hmm, all those things (except maybe ironing) sound good, but I personally lean to #9. #10 is describing my current state too well!<br /><br />As for browsers, I can only speak well for Safari on the Mac but have heard good things about Firefox.<br /><br />Love the Seagull Olympics figure skating (that's one of the things on which I'm frittering away my time, er, I mean the human version)marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-79657292604070936812010-02-25T16:49:54.678+01:002010-02-25T16:49:54.678+01:00After all of that writing, is there any time left ...After all of that writing, is there any time left to do any of those things?Catalysthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03804837416104556928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-50710763763849444072010-02-25T15:15:47.030+01:002010-02-25T15:15:47.030+01:00Mm, baking is always my first leaning. But slipper...Mm, baking is always my first leaning. But slippers assembly sounds like it promises a fairly quickly gotten sense of achievement. <br /><br />When I read a small amount of Proust it left me breathless because of the rare occurrence of periods. <br /><br />One more opinion: Firefox is quite fast and fairly stupid-proof. Enjoy your afternoon!Nimblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16426446791363667887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-90384586352174706572010-02-25T14:18:26.532+01:002010-02-25T14:18:26.532+01:00I vote for number nine - and the flapjacks. (You ...I vote for number nine - and the flapjacks. (You can tell I haven't had breakfast yet - little after 8am here,)The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.com