Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Regulitis
Not a bad crop of trivia from yesterday's DT. Including a short report about another round of sex regulations. That is to say making it even harder for mens' or womens' clubs to stay that way. Why we can't just leave them alone is beyond me. Now that TV timetabling is firmly in the hands of ladies, with wall to wall ladies programmes (one can tell a ladies programme, if by no other test, by the things being advertised) at peak times, don't they think that they have scaled enough peaks?
I wonder if the Masons - as a cult perhaps - are exempt. I have have never heard of ladies in a mens' lodge although I am also told that there is nothing in Masonic rules to stop ladies forming their own lodge. Must make enquiries.
Presumably Vatican City is exempt from whatever they do in this way in Italy. That particular cult is some way off allowing a lady at the top of the heap.
Yesterday to the dumpling barn, aka Chuen Cheng Ku in Wardour Street, for lunch. Usual bustling self with lots of young waiting staff rushing up and down with trolleys. Amongst other things, two portions of some sort of green vegetable and two entirely new dishes. One was called rice porriage - which tasted quite good and surprisingly like our sort of porriage - with a few bits in. I wonder what would happen if one tried to add some bits to our sort? It would rather defeat its points of being cheap and veggie but it might, nevertheless, work. The other was a sort of suet pudding containing nuts, mushrooms and other unidentified bits and bobs - perhaps some sort of paste - instead of the more usual fruit or steak and kidney. Very good. And reminded that you get to eat a fair proportion of this sort of thing cold. The chef needs to bear that in mind.
On the train came up with a new sport. See who can invent the silliest announcement to add to the already pretty silly collection available from Southwest Trains. My first attempt is: "There have been some late night reports of pink elephants on the luggage racks. If you should see one, do not attempt to move it but contact a member of staff immediately. The member of staff will usually be located at the furthest point in the train from where you are." Bit long, but maybe not so awful for a first attempt.
It would be quite fun to feed some spoof announcements into the system and see how long it takes anyone to notice - or for anyone else to do something about it for that matter. Does each train have an announcement CD or is each train online to the announcement nerve centre so that they can be updated in real time with the latest nonsense?
Tried to find out how to get Excel VB tell you what version it is on using the help system. Absolutely hopeless - although to be fair I was doing it from a PC which was not online and which could not therefore take one to the Microsoft site. Then tried a VB manual - the 600 page tome from Microsoft sort - and no go. Then tried an Excel manual and away we go. Turned the pages for a while and up it came. Now got to see if the same trick can remind me how to turn screen updates off. Last time I tried it the workings of the feature were a bit idiosyncratic but maybe with a bit more effort I can find out how to make it behave. Got to find it first.
I wonder if the Masons - as a cult perhaps - are exempt. I have have never heard of ladies in a mens' lodge although I am also told that there is nothing in Masonic rules to stop ladies forming their own lodge. Must make enquiries.
Presumably Vatican City is exempt from whatever they do in this way in Italy. That particular cult is some way off allowing a lady at the top of the heap.
Yesterday to the dumpling barn, aka Chuen Cheng Ku in Wardour Street, for lunch. Usual bustling self with lots of young waiting staff rushing up and down with trolleys. Amongst other things, two portions of some sort of green vegetable and two entirely new dishes. One was called rice porriage - which tasted quite good and surprisingly like our sort of porriage - with a few bits in. I wonder what would happen if one tried to add some bits to our sort? It would rather defeat its points of being cheap and veggie but it might, nevertheless, work. The other was a sort of suet pudding containing nuts, mushrooms and other unidentified bits and bobs - perhaps some sort of paste - instead of the more usual fruit or steak and kidney. Very good. And reminded that you get to eat a fair proportion of this sort of thing cold. The chef needs to bear that in mind.
On the train came up with a new sport. See who can invent the silliest announcement to add to the already pretty silly collection available from Southwest Trains. My first attempt is: "There have been some late night reports of pink elephants on the luggage racks. If you should see one, do not attempt to move it but contact a member of staff immediately. The member of staff will usually be located at the furthest point in the train from where you are." Bit long, but maybe not so awful for a first attempt.
It would be quite fun to feed some spoof announcements into the system and see how long it takes anyone to notice - or for anyone else to do something about it for that matter. Does each train have an announcement CD or is each train online to the announcement nerve centre so that they can be updated in real time with the latest nonsense?
Tried to find out how to get Excel VB tell you what version it is on using the help system. Absolutely hopeless - although to be fair I was doing it from a PC which was not online and which could not therefore take one to the Microsoft site. Then tried a VB manual - the 600 page tome from Microsoft sort - and no go. Then tried an Excel manual and away we go. Turned the pages for a while and up it came. Now got to see if the same trick can remind me how to turn screen updates off. Last time I tried it the workings of the feature were a bit idiosyncratic but maybe with a bit more effort I can find out how to make it behave. Got to find it first.
# posted by Jim @ 10:28 PM 
