As for the absence of prepay in Europe, this confused me greatly the first time I needed to refuel in the US. There was a little phone-thingy on the pump, and when I pulled the pump spigot and started to try to fill up, the clerk started telling me - through the phone - that that wasn't the way it's done.
It took me a noticeable amount of time to figure out where the sudden voice was coming from, and even more what they were saying.
Random techy thought. The issue with searching for all comments by specific commenter - it sounds like a good indexing design might go a long way for this: something like reindexing once a day during lull times or so, to make the search being less insane and more using-databases-inherent-data-handling-mechanisms?
Of course, I expect your other tech rats to already be on top of this and more...
Re on making it work on Mac's. After a few frustrating tussles with their tech support, I ended up installing Windows XP under Boot Camp, and lo! it works and it works well!
Enjoying the game well now: Thanks! for the recommendation.
Rikibeth @ 1:
They don't seem to sell it for the Mac, but I've just bought it and installed it with my Crossover installation.
The installation goes through smoothly, however, I have not yet been able to actually, y'know, _launch_ the game.
Your best bet for the Mac probably is to get a parallel windows installation (works for the Intel Macs at least), but I don't know whether that will actually work.
Jim: Read your review. Bought the game based on it, and without double checking that I could play it here. THAT's how impressed I was. :-)
Ooooooookay. I still don't know what a love box is. And google doesn't help.
Anyone care to define it for me? Please?
I wonder how mathematician's ended up in this mix? Is it because of their role in computing optimal charges and angles for artillery?
And this makes me wonder, immediately, what is an appropriate way to honour St. Barbara? What is a legal, in California, way to honour her? I do recall hearing someone talk about fireworks and firecrackers being essentially illegal hereabouts, which might limit my options somewhat.
Clifton @ 286
Of COURSE I cooked tonight. Vegan curry soup. Very nice, and went well with the molasses bread that one of the students here baked, and the rice that the host of the evening made.
Cooking is always a good idea!
Brooks @ 83:
Geeeez! Calm down! Some of us haven't even left work!
(I'm heading out within mere minutes to do the dinner shopping for the Grad Students Plus Me election night hangout CNN and Making Light bonanza with extra single malts and drinking games!)
(Oh yeah - location: Stanford, CA)
Ginger @ 128:
And Buchenwald was the first major outing I took my wife along to when she came to visit me in Jena. It's currently a huge field, with a very small handful of buildings still standing, and with gravel filled outlines of all the houses, with memorial stones put out from all sorts of organizations.
Just figured people in here might be amused by the fact - as discussed by Brian Hayes and myself, that Liechtenstein has a nonplanar, 5-colorable but not 4-colorable map, due to the many many exclaves among the communes of Liechtenstein.
France and food.
When me and my brother were old enough to travel without parental supervision, our grandfather took us on a trip - as he did with all his grandchildren. His way of sharing his joy of travels - which were noticably intense.
We got to go with him and his wife to Paris, where we lived in a dinky little hotel close to Place Pigalle. One day, while walking up to the Métro, he told us to take a look inside one bar - and notice all the scantily clad women waiting for customers at the bar.
But the anecdote was going to involve food!
We found, one day, a small and very unassuming restaurant hidden in a back alley between our hotel and Place Pigalle. On the first day, the food was good, but not very generously served, and our requests for still water earned us the sale of a litre-bottle San Pellegrino.
But we liked the food, so we went back. On the second visit, the servings grew noticably and we got a large pitcher of tap water under eager jokes about eau du mere/mère (lake water / the mayor's water).
And on the third visit, the proprietor stormed out when we arrived to chat with us and the servings were enormous.
Progressing from "stupid tourist" to "regular" in three days!!
quelle belle sourire - and languages
Last weekend, the California Avenue shopping street in Palo Alto saw not the usual farmer's market, but instead a Jewish Street Festival. I went there, to see the sights and amuse myself. At one point, I decided to go and get myself a bottle of water to keep up with the rather hot day.
As I approach the beverages stall, one of the volunteers greets me with "My, you have a BEAUTIFUL smile!". Soon thereafter, she continues to ask me where my dialect comes from. The best guesses they could produce was "Polish - because that's the only country in Europe I know."
I drank my water, went back to the stage I was waiting for, and participated for a few songs in the dance of the spontaneous Freylekhs that formed at that stage.
Zeynep @ 7: Thanks for the cautions. Figures that you'd know about this. ;-)
I wonder whether I could actually go and work as an election observer...
What with me not being eligible to do much other stuff connected to the election and all...
(note: I'm a Swedish national, in the US on an exchange visum, and nowhere NEAR eligible to vote)
After attending the Mathematical Knitting Circle at the Joint Mathematics Meeting (US national mathematics conference) in San Diego last January, I knitted a Prime Numbers Scarf: every row with prime number index, it'd reverse - so I'd do the "wrong" kind on that row, and then continue (stocking knit?) from that onwards.
Made a pretty nice pattern.
Other than that - my trade is to create ideas. :-)
Most often, I end up expressing these ideas and investigating them in code. And of course, communicating them in blog posts and in academic papers. So I guess code and papers is what I'd spend most of my time making.
And in the relative privacy of my home, I make music - whenever I get around to it, I play clarinet, and need to get back to having access to a piano and at least one kind of saxophone as soon as I can.... I make food - I love cooking, and seem to have a bit of a knack for it. And I make all sorts of various random projects whenever they pop up and inspiration strikes.
Latin translation of Swedish Christmas drinking songs.
Poems in general.
Calligraphy.
and so on and so forth.
#6: My guess is in order to gain some sort of feeling of understanding. Quite a few mental illnesses changes the world view of the patient so far that it literally is difficult for anyone else (or as is the case with me, myself when not in an episode) to relate in any way to what's going on during episodes.
Even though a simulation is a very poor substitute for the real thing, it might give some sort of metaphor the player can relate to somehow.
Using a Z80 running CP/M wouldn't even invalidate the wish to have a sleek interface with touch screen buttons to push. You could write code to do the kind of limited GUI you'd want in an electronic voting booth for the Z80.
I'm all for it!
#31: They wouldn't use PHP + ActiveX.
Goodness no!
They'd use ASP + ActiveX.
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