Aug. 20th, 2016

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I took an afternoon trip to Ely. After a cold morning the weather was fairly cooperative, the riverside garden bits are really pretty.

I tested my new phone mount for my car windscreen on a fairly easy journey, and it seemed to work quite well navigating with google maps navigation mode. It's probably not quite as good as my satnav, except that it has an up-to-date road network, uses an up-to-date touchscreen where it's easy to search for things, and steadily improves over time.

Does anyone know how to temporarily disable all notificaitons on android? When I'm using maps to navigate, I don't want random apps interrupting.

I introduced scribb1e and mavislovesmaths+samholloway to each other, and they introduced me to an awesome bookshop.

And we caught a Mr Mime, and some other pokemon.

And I saw a duck and a pile of yellow ducklings all crossing the road in single file!
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I am trying to make cards for a putative board game. Just printed on normal paper is fine for this level of testing.

I have a spreadsheet with a list of card titles and card text. Ideally I would print A4 pages each of which has four cards. Each card would have the title in a larger font and the text in a smaller font. There would be a little spacing, so if the cutting isn't perfect I don't lose any text. I may be getting over-perfectionist here, but ideally the spacing would not need to be in addition to the page margins, I just want a white border, it doesn't need to be printed.

I have libre office. That's supposed to be reasonably good, right? But the mail-merge features seem byzantine. Am I just too tired? Microsoft office was always overly-hlepy, but functional, for this sort of thing. Or is there any command-line based solution which is better?

I feel like it's at the "shouldn't be that hard" stage. I know I CAN figure out how to do it in libre office, but I want to know if something else is likely to be easier[1].

[1] One of my pet hates is that when you're pretty sure you can't do something a different way, people jump all over you saying "no, don't do it like that", and you have to rehash all the trade-offs you've already made before they're willing to believe you actually had a reason for doing it that way. But if you're NOT sure what the best way is, and ask, people rush to tell you "the way you've already chosen, the next step isn't that hard, it's X" and yes, thank you, now that takes 2 minutes not 20 minutes, but it hasn't really solved my problem if I want to do that for all twenty steps or not...

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