Win

[jack]

I recently brought my household bin in from the garden (don't ask, not the big "black bin", the human sized one), and left it by the front door, as it was a bit muddy. Then I got a flyer. Hey, those jokes about two in trays really have a point, don't they? Win.

Rcv1 recently lent me "Three seasons of angel videos, with a video player". (I decided I wanted to see Angel enough, but probably not to see it again, hence borrowing.) Video cassettes are really cumbersome, but they look lovely lined up on the shelf, and now I have a video plugged into a cable receiver plugged into a DVD player plugged into a TV. I'm sure that's not quite right, but win.

The bike fairy (university cycles) collected my bike and fixed it. Thank you. Win.

Other recent little victories include:

* Shower curtain rail. It fell down ages ago, I taped it together, and never got round to fixing it properly. However, it's quite clever inside: one rod fits inside the other, and the end of the inner is an off-centre rotating wood bit, so you simply extend them fully and twist, locking them in place.
* Mud guard. I can't remember what I fixed about it, but it must have been satisfying :)
* I made a firefox quick search to turn "lj username" into a full URL. It's amazing how often saving that little bit of typing helps your mood.
* Tesco started selling a marvellous innovation! A pesto jar wider than a spoon! :)

Comments

[robhu.livejournal.com]

I recently brought my household bin in from the garden (don't ask, not the big "black bin", the human sized one)
I have been incorrectly using these black bins for some time. Which species are they for?

* I made a firefox quick search to turn "lj username" into a full URL. It's amazing how often saving that little bit of typing helps your mood.
Hmm.. why do you ever want to do that? I just use robhu.lj.com/friends and atreic.lj.com/friends...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Which species are they for?

Dustbin lorries.

Hmm.. why do you ever want to do that? I just use robhu.lj.com/friends and atreic.lj.com/friends...

I have a few filters I read up to date by default, but If I remember a recent post by someone I want to go back to, or want to find an old post by someone, or remember someone I meant to friend, I often want to go straight to their journal. (The other shortcut is to open my user info and click on their name there, but if I know it, I want to type username.livejournal.com direct, and this shortens that.)

to turn "lj username" into a full URL

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Oh, I should have thought of that AGES ago...

Re: to turn "lj username" into a full URL

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh cool, I'm glad it makes so much sense! I worried it was just me that ever had it as a problem :)

Re: to turn "lj username" into a full URL

[frithonthehills.livejournal.com]

Nuh-uh, quick searches like that are vital. I have about twenty set up in various places, and half of them are used enough that you can tear them from my cold, dead hands. I think g (google), w (wikipedia) and i (IMDB) are the ones that get the most use, but there's various internal stuff and Perl/PHP docs that get a lot of use at work.

Although "fb" for facebook at work has been getting far more use than it should lately...

Re: to turn "lj username" into a full URL

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Yep, I have the same top three :) It somehow felt different to use it for an URL I actually know, rather than one involving a query string I might legitimately forget.

Re: to turn "lj username" into a full URL

[frithonthehills.livejournal.com]

There's lots of the internal ones I can easily remember, but it's far easier to just type "fi foo" than "http://server.chu.cam.ac.uk/stuff/stuff/find.php?IP=foo"

It seems much of computer tweaking is just finding ways to avoid more typing than strictly necessary :)

Re: to turn "lj username" into a full URL

[pizza.maircrosoft.com (from livejournal.com)]

i think my top three are google, wikipedia, google maps (m).

when i'm tired i tend to type m by default for some reason and find myself trying to look things up in google maps.

i recently added a 'stalk' one for wp:contributions ...

[angoel.livejournal.com]

* Tesco started selling a marvellous innovation! A pesto jar wider than a spoon! :)

Alternatively you could use a narrower spoon?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I did used to use a narrower spoon. But it spooned less pesto :)

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

I recycle fliers.

[d37373.livejournal.com]

not the big "black bin", the human sized one

*blinks* You have bins bigger than a human? *blinks*

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Well, the black bin is equivalent to a dustbin, it probably is bigger than a human: about five feet tall and just wide enough for a bin bag of stuff. But by human sized I meant "sized to be convenient for use by a human in day to day use", where something two-three foot high and a foot wide is more convenient to have inside your house.

[d37373.livejournal.com]

In my mind, something 'larger than human sized' is extraordinarily large - a human-sized house is a normal thing, whereas a 'bigger than human sized' house has (for example) 14ft high doorways and tabletops you need to jump to reach.

Your way makes more sense, but it less fun.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL. Well, yeah, that is about what I meant, except that instead of _extraordinarily_ large, just a little bit over-scale. The dustbin black bin probably is up to twice the side of a kitchen bin , which is what I was going for.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Mud guard: Now I remember. The spoke holding it came away, and I clipped it back, but only later had time to fiddle with the little screw and finally fix it properly.