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| Re: ARRRRRRGH COMPUTERS ARRRRRRGH [message #46817 is a reply to message #46810 ] |
Thu, 08 December 2011 02:15   |
 CathyR
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In which case I hope the wall you hang it on—because of course this will be one of the special doodles that is framed and hung on a wall—is infested with both damp and deathwatch beetles and that one morning you will be uneasily awakened by a vague heaving sensation like a boat at anchor and then with a terrible roar that whole damp and beetled end of the house will collapse and you break a rib coughing in the resulting roiling clouds of plaster dust, not to mention shattering your great-grandmother’s ornate Victorian bedhead, which was not built to fall ten feet through the first floor to ground level.
The doodle itself, of course, will have been rendered into to tiny dusty atoms, which will mean that no one will ever again be able to pronounce on whether or not I successfully broke the unlousy barrier.
*finally stops laughing enough to actually type*
*feels racked with guilt that this may possibly be one of mine ...*
*sends grovellingly apologetic chocolate, just in case*
*checks house insurance policy*
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
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| Re: ARRRRRRGH COMPUTERS ARRRRRRGH [message #46819 is a reply to message #46810 ] |
Thu, 08 December 2011 14:32 |
harpergray
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Although I have never been able to like a woman who rides her horse into a funeral pyre. Your choice, honey: leave the horse alone.
I studied archaeology in Scotland, which meant we had a ton of Viking lectures (about Vikings, I should add, not lectures led by a Viking, though there were a couple of those). You can't have a ton of archaeological Viking lectures without touching on the Oseberg ship burial. Let's just say, aside from leaving behind a spectacular memorial, the funeral during which it was crafted was pretty gruesome. There were horses involved there as well, which was why the mention of Gotterdammerung reminded me of it in the first place. I'll always admire my professor for describing it in a way that was at once evocative and tactful. Oy.
I'm looking forward to Gotterdammerung, though. Little bummed that this will mean I've seen the last two parts of the Ring cycle before the first two...but then, I saw the original Star Wars films in reverse order when I saw them first, so this seems almost par for the course. *facepalm*
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| Re: ARRRRRRGH COMPUTERS ARRRRRRGH [message #46822 is a reply to message #46820 ] |
Thu, 08 December 2011 18:16 |
b_twin_1
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| Aaron wrote on Thu, 08 December 2011 15:03 |
In a transparent effort to redirect attention away from my failings in comprehension and good intention I have a couple of questions about sheepdogs. When we attended the Agrodome show at Rotorua we saw demonstrations of sheep (and duck) herding. The dogs involved looked the same but used two very different techniques. Some barked at the sheep and some stared at them. We have since referred to former as barking and the later as Svengali** dogs. My questions are: What are the proper names for the two techniques? Are the two techniques used by the same dog in different situations or do different dogs specialize?
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I'm going to generalise a bit here....
What you described would most likely be different dogs for different situations. And there aren't really any "proper names" attached. Where sheep need forcing - eg. into a small yard - then it is good/acceptable for a dog to bark (in a controlled manner) to provide the impetus for the sheep to move off and away from the dog. When sheep are being gathered and moved along in a fairly free manner - eg. out in the open paddock - then a dog will likely only need to "eye off" the sheep to get them to move. (The sheep, being a prey animal, becomes discomforted by the staring^ and moves off.) Barking in that situation is usually unnecessary and inclined to cause stampede-type results.
Generally that means different breeds. For example, the Australian Kelpie is well known for barking and it's ability in tight forcing situations - yards, sheds etc. Border Collies, on the other hand, are generally more suited to working off the sheep a little more. ie. they prefer to be at the edge of the sheep's comfort zone and psych them out of it!
Eg. Here's Bramble exhibiting some typical Border Collie "strong eye":
Generally speaking working dogs are either paddock dogs OR yard dogs. Just like people have specialties. It's a rare dog - and highly sought after - that handles the paddock and yard with ease. 
^ If you've ever been "eyed" by a Border Collie you will understand... It's the most unnerving thing...!
[Updated on: Thu, 08 December 2011 18:18]
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: ARRRRRRGH COMPUTERS ARRRRRRGH [message #46861 is a reply to message #46810 ] |
Sat, 10 December 2011 13:44 |
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equus_peduus
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If I were a Mac girl I could have pink.
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Well... in addition to some of their laptops having the ability to come in colors (hopefully, this link works), you can also get skins (basically giant stickers you apply to the object at hand) for computers (for example, these (I particularly direct your attention toward "Knit Strawberry")
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