Spoon. This one was a doodle – fingertip on an iPad running an app called BamBoo Paper. I think I feel like special beef noodle soup for lunch …..
I’d like to invite all Pig’s Arms patrons to send in a minimalist jpeg or two for a new exhibition – Salon du bout des doigts l’art.
Many thanks to all the fine contributors – authors, poets, painters, politicians, chefs, musos, historians, dramatists, cartoonists - without whom this mad endeavour could not be possible
Welcome new friends from Cyber Space !
Asty, are you writing as Cynicure on the Drum Opinion? I’ll tell you later on why I am asking…
Hello piglets all, I took possession today of my new system. Certainly I was given a very good deal and treated extremely well by the computer shop (I call the hospital).I don’t know how I have dealt all these last five years using the Asus laptop for the heights I have attempted to reach mastering the gist of social media and participation so that I am able to work online for an income. Early days. I credit simply I am happy above anything else to be mixing widely and particularly with a number of young people. My speech has improved so dramatically regardless still unreliable it equally sits in my favour.
The Asus was the top of its range when I purchased it. It has gone to pasture and is grazing as we speak in the best paddock. (Fibber. It’s abandoned for the time being. I even forgot to bring it home from the hospital where it was readmitted last week. I’ll get it.)
I get this capability thing I have been attempting to keep up with. I ought to give me a damned medal instead of handing out any disrespect I am saying to myself, having been beating up on myself far too frequently and dragged down for getting behind in everything. Poverty is not good for people. That much I know. This system is a grunty joy to drive. Here’s a song. Night everybody.
Good to hear such good news. My dally with Chrome is over – as a browser for the internet it lacked a lot. I have now downloaded Firefox. I have also bought new anti-virus stuff. A number of emails with the mob I had was fruitless. They were taken over and taken over to the point that the new lot running the show were robotic morons.
What fun, sort of, not. But think all fixed now.
It is such good news hheee. Fancy us skipping aong with new equipment and/or programmes, so you’re up and running. It is nice to be be able to cruise without chasing around all point of the compass finding solutions and battling the hours it takes updating and uploading. I didn’t knowwww howwww slowwwww. I downloaded email last night and it was INSTANT. How can that be!? INSTANT!? Wow! I am so sorry now for people who don’t have the equipment. And I’m shot of Vista. I was stuck with it before. Now I am on 7.
Did you change your plan with your ISP for a faster speed by any chance. Also, sounds as though your old ‘puter’ was lacking in memory and space and stuff like that. I am now stuck with an old Outlook email from 2002 as I used daughter’s Office stuff and the new Operating Systems no longer come with a separate email system. My old Outlook Express was better but it went, unfortunately, to the tip with the changeover, i.e. it could not be saved. To update I actually have to buy it for about $200 or go the whole hog with the latest Office for closer to $300. I’m thinking about it ! Firefox is good but I had to dig deep to find things I wanted on the toolbar and it is set up to my liking. Chrome would not do that and it had no Help. Old Internet Explorer was actually the best but as I could not update it using XP I had to make all these changes which have brought good and not so good results. You win some and lose some. Still I am indeed very pleased for you and hearing the joy you are now experiencing.
Me too, our Dear ‘Shoe. From what I hear, you’ve certainly gotten that right. Windows 7 is a big big improvement over Vista. Vista was a dreadful product that Microsoft should have never put on the market. Nearly all my corporate clients, no ALL my corporate clients stayed with Windows XP – for years and years, until MicroHard got something better on the market. I gather that Windows 8 is some kind of half-arsed tilt at touch screen technology, but that Windows 7 is actually very good.
May your new computing experience be lovely !
Do you like a good Russian novel?
Well I’ve just been catching up on the goings on that seem to be roiling around the preparations for the Winter Olympics in Sochi. Apparently Putin has told the oligarchs just how much they’ll each have to contribute to fund the $US51 billion infrastructure building program put forward by Olimpstroi, the directing body of the Russian Olympic Committee. This is a winter olympics and Beijing ony spent $40 billion on the full schlemiel.
Putin of course is making a meal of the photo ops and TV coverage, like some potentate of old surveying this vast edifice to his own hubris. It’s priceless.
The whole thing is byzantine; positively bristling with intrigue, accusation and counter accusation; oligarchs on the way up, others going down fast. It’s a rollicking good yarn, talk about War and Peace!
I heartily recommend you check it out.
Thanks, GH, I’ll czech it out ! I disbelieve all my senses when it comes to Russian Polit !
It’s not exactly my ‘cup of tea’ but I thought Algae, at the very least, might be interested in this unusual little record; it shows another side of a (somewhat younger) ‘Hyacinth Bucket’ (It’s BOUQUET!)
Patricia Routledge sings:
Compare this with her impromptu ‘auditions’ for ‘Emmett’ in her role as Hyacinth Bucket…
I will listen later. By the way, did you or anyone notice that she was in To Sir With Love – a small role.
Well “thanks” for that Asty. I noticed her in To sir with Love.
Message to anyone interested – I am putting computer in to move to Windows 7. Will be computerless for a couple of days.
Good luck with Win7… 32 bit or 64?
32 bit. I’m back. New system taking some getting used to – finding where everything is and accessing stuff. Internet Explorer (the latest) kept crashing so I am now on Chrome which is different. My desktop is sorted but this morning it rearranged itself. Can’t find command or something to make sure it stays the same. Spent two hours arranging stuff and reinstalling 3 in one copier scanner thingy. All a bit challenging but I am up to it. Question is, is the computer.
32 bit. Lots of things to sort. Posted a reply which is gone. I’m getting there.
It has now appeared. Chrome seems to have a mind of its own. Video clip not showing because it says youtube a problem.
Viv, what a brave girl you are. Taking on the might of not just Microsoft, but also Google. Best of luck to you !
Whoever sets up these new systems has a strange way of helping people. What is intuitive to some is not to others. People’s minds work differently. The guy in the computer tech shop had a different approach. When I pointed out a couple of things (the ways things used to be and what IE offered) he didn’t know about them. They were in fact far more user friendly. I also have to help hubby find his way round. I’m just a step ahead of him. Also, can’t put a screen saver on with just words – I had a pithy array of phrases ! See you all tomorrow. I’ve been in town shopping most of the day with my daughter.
Best of luck with it Vivienne; I had a few problems with Windows 7/32 but now I’ve switched to ’64 it seems to be behaving itself… touch wood!
Actually I have no idea what the difference is between 32 and 64 bit ! But I had the software for Windows 7 32 bit which came with the computer when I bought new one a couple of years ago. At the time I stayed with XP because I was happy with it. XP now outlived itself and couldn’t update Internet Explorer which was giving problems. But, of course I am now on Chrome – funny really. Have sorted out a few more things. The Email is different, Outlook Express having been dumped. I prefer the old, not the new which has a heap of uselesss extras.
One of the constants of computers are their instability. I hate how things seem to change at will. What is the problem there? Why have daily updates or chrome? I would dearly have a computer like a whistling water kettle, reliable and always constant in functionality.
It gives me the shits. It is the same with so many gadgets. Half the population here in our compound can’t use their modern ovens. Too many options. Push the wrong button and all hell breaks lose and the dish gets half cooked or burnt to charcoal.
Lately i get a ribbon down the bottom of my computer asking me ‘show all content’ followed with ‘what is the risk?’ and ‘Only secure content is displayed’. No matter what I chose, this message keeps appearing. It’s all so hopelessly complicated. I never was troubled by anything. Why the change.?
Get fucked Micro-soft.
Viv, I hope you have sorted all your computer problems, I still have some but will not fret about them anymore.
Enjoy The Eurovision Song Contest…
Everything sorted except for my anti-virus software. I am ready to strangle the company. Spent most of the arvo installing and uninstalling. Temporary program and trying to get old one reinstalled. Then they tell me I have used it on too many computers ! Over 14 or so years – same me but new computer or new operating system. I explained that. I could scream.
But, yes, roll on Eurovision. All family coming here on Sunday night for the final. Drinks and food and all are sleeping over. Whoooopeeeeee.
Gerard, I saw a company featured who make small, monochromatic, laptops for the 3rd world. <$200, no f&^%ing updates, just keep ticking over. France has just dismantled a 'pre-internet' system that had been around for decades. Again, monochromatic, cheap, but let's get rid of the bastard, because it's not a money maker.
Well vivenne, I’ve just installed a new computer as wall, Junior got it up and running between umpiring and playing netball today. Came home and he’d installed the software as well. Getting used to the computer now
I’ve a new one coming this Tuesday. Takes a bit to get them sorted. I have built into its cost some time for the techie to come round corner and set it up. I might be able to come by the bar more often.
I had to put mine into my techy shop as all the hard drive with all my files and emails etc has to be saved and then put back on to new operating system. Computer is the same but it is of course working differently now. I don’t like the email which is now just Outlook and not the Express one. Handy to have a handy son there to do it all for you.
Indeed , that’s what he does in his part time job, set up new computers and the like. I could have done it but it would have taken me at least twice as long. I’m getting used to all the new stuff. Go back to work though and we’re using stuff from 10 years ago.
Surprise there, Asty !
Indeed! It quite surprised me…
Sigh. I have a corneal abrasion, and the cake is down at the shop where I can’t get to it. Tell me, Big M, you know any magical solutions for corneal abrasions? It’s my third.
Anyway. Don’t you think that obesity is rarely something that happens on its own? I think there’s usually some accompanying problem. Maybe it makes more sense to see the obesity as camouflage and look for what’s behind it. I think you’re all obsessed, myself.
Rest…antibiotic drops, if there’s a risk of infection, avoiding poking Granny’s wedges in your eyes!
have another Pint…go on.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/heavy-metal-singer-arrested-in-murderforhire-plot-police-20130508-2j72x.html
This is fantastic and proof that truth is stranger than fiction.
Heavy metal christian vocalist arrested for soliciting the murder of his estranged wife. Priceless!
Here’s one for Gerard:http://theconversation.com/a-soda-a-day-keeps-the-doctor-in-pay-soft-drinks-and-diabetes-13783
What a killer, Big !
WOW, it does not take much….just as well I never touch soft drinks, I just don’t like anything sweet….
Yes, it will finally have to be treated the same as cigarettes. Behind cupboard doors and with warnings and plain packaging. To include the food and beverage industry in any debate is silly. They want larger profits and any debate to diminsh our intake of S.S and F is not going to be greeted by an industry that sells the stuff.
What is concerning is the inroads of that industry into schools and sports. I saw large beer signs painted on a foot ball field together with Cadbury bars etc on a fence which seemed to rotate different ads, all to do with eating or drinking something.
I was having lunch with a rather obese person. Something came up about diet, and I mentioned that insulin, stimulated by carbohydrates, particularly sugars was probably the main cause of obesity.
No, she declared, that was bullshit, it’s eating too much of the wrong thing, and not exercising that causes it, as she slammed another piece of pie into her gaping maw!
Oh you guys must be missing me.
Nice to hear your voice, Doc Ramsay.
Evening Big M. You know how it’d have been. Are you gonna be eating that Big M?” you’d have heard, and before you even had a chance to answer you’re plate’d be spotless.
My amazing son is my life coach I reckon. I came up to the pub to say that, Maybe time for a couple of pink drinks, Thanks, Merv. Slate. Now, as I was sayin’ seein’ I got the floor for a minnie, I am finding myself doing things he suggests because nothing I have tried works for me and not that he suggests mind. He talks about stuff. He would be one of the most amazing educators I ever saw. Anybody who can educate me about anything, well, goes without saying at 63 I am resistant to change and opposed to stability. They make poor grounds for transformations. ‘Boy’ shops once a fortnight. He has been preaching this for almost two years. My fevered thanks came as a bit overwhelming his way I think. I shopped once last fortnight and I will do it again this fortnight. I have stopped snacking.
There is more to this story seeing as it’s pretty quiet in here. There is in fact more whether it is noisy in here or no as well. I’m irrepressible and that was a struggle to spell. I don’t watch all that TV he drawled (why do both my sons have drawls, very distinct their speech is but nevertheless they don’t gabble is probably a way of expressing it better) because if you sit in front of all of that stuff all the time, you’ll end up doing what they tell you and they’re telling you to eat, me I mean mum, they’re telling us all to eat and I got to beat this putting on weight with these drugs (my gorgeous kid grown to middle aged man with so much grace and wisdom it’s out of sight has been living with living on medical prescriptions his years since he was 15).
Kid has been reading goodness knows how many self help books all these years and I am serious. He could write one to run rings around anything out there if he did. He’s a walking encyclopaedia on everything that is useful. I can’t let that go to waste. I am his client. I give in.
I reckon Merv but I can afford to pay the account next week. Kid has been telling me all these fabulous things he reads in books about money, making it, spending it, what to spend it on, how to lose it at will, where to go to get it and that would all sound a bit obsessive if he wasn’t increasingly interesting as the years go by. He paid off the most humungus credit card bill that got away from him and cut up his card, which I did suggest to him must admit that was a contribution of mine along the way, but he is a master of money so I thought if this kid can do it including swapping and bartering, living his life and caring about others while he does it on next to no income in the least and call himself rich and getting richer, I can too. Result. If anybody can explain to me how I saved $250 on a pension in one week last week I will be pleased to know because I am not truly sure. I did however follow what the kid said. I did use the time I didn’t spend shopping for cheap food doing other ‘stuff’ (as I intended). Not that I am going to save a quarter of a grand every fortnight, mind because I have to spend some soon on some equipment for the consultancy I am starting up, but in good time that expenditure, when its necessary I will. I didn’t mention that I suppose. Well, really it’s because of the kid.
Starting a business I mean. I have listened to him all the time since I rescued him (not single handedly but it was a close shave) out of the clutches of the prison system in NSW where in fact he spent 5 days without medication) and I learned about his dreams. It started to make sense. It sank in.
However, when I told him I am engaged in starting a business there was dead, total, complete silence on the other end of the line. I truly doubt I have ever heard him entirely silent I now realise. I don’t think he believed a word of it or disbelieved it when I told him. He was struck dumb. Maybe I was, he said when I told him that. That’s him. What an amazing man he developed into.
Funny Big M said that about the gaping maw. It so describes the emotional vulnerability of a man who doesn’t take to heart it’s Cola Cokoka and all of them that deserve the opprobrium. I tried to buy tomato pasta sauce or diced or whole or whatsoever tomatoes earlier this evening that do not have salt and sugar added and they could not be found. The sugars and the salts are definitely addictive. We didn’t sail ships around the globe for nothing not knowing for sure we would not fall off the edge of a flat bathtub and neither excitedly carry back spices and salts and all the things we need for a Big M(ac) for nuttin’. These ingredients have to be apparently used until we are DEAD after all THAT trouble.
Nice evening, Merv. Quiet isn’t it. You’re quiet tonight. Dr Ramsay through earlier? Yes, she’s a wonder. Yes, business is picking up. I will get in more often now likely I have a few goals sorted. I hope so. Be nice to put the feet up. I hope to see Vivienne and Helvityni next time I’m in. I noticed Rosie visited. Bob Primrose. Nev. I see Astyages the Troubador was here. These birthdays gets people in. A great mob and it’s not how few, it’s what we do with them.
Gregor too came by. I read that great essay of his. He can really tear up turf with a keyboard. Goodnight and if I forgot to express my appreciation of everybody immediately engaged with the Pig’s write your complaints c/- G. Oosty. He’s a nice man. He’ll understand.
‘shoe, sorry I missed you. Wanted to share a Pink Drink, or three. Glad your lad escaped the prison system, and got on with his life. Yes, I have exorcised the desire for sweets and treats, it only takes about a week for the sweet tooth to disappear. Dunno about Merv payin’ anything orff. Bloody Foodge’s bar tab is the size of a small country’s GDP, then again, Granny may abolish it, depending on how things work out. Anyhoo, orff to beddy byes..have to work all weekend, and then some!
Easy with that bar tab to fix it eh Big M. Just create a diversion and rub the chalk off the slate. Nip round end of bar flighty like course. Think Granny would be the one to notice? Trust Granny, shoe-ah can .
I tried to do the bolt, but, you were right, Granny was onto me sharpish. Ended up shoutin’ the bar!
Hope the Morris Dancers appreciated it!
G’day Emmjay! I’ve tried again to post Old Mississippi Blues; would you mind checking to see if a draft has been saved? I saved a draft this time before I hit the ‘publish’ button and getting another ‘unauthorised’ message…
