tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post1463968139408894876..comments2024-03-28T07:13:10.797+00:00Comments on TONE DEAF: For working in transitRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-44182456920433633972012-10-04T17:26:38.276+01:002012-10-04T17:26:38.276+01:00My tablet helped write stories on holiday which ke...My tablet helped write stories on holiday which kept me constantly entertained and kept me in touch with emails.It justifies itself in many other ways on the move and in the house, particularly where photographs are concerned. I use it all the time.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-25280782982341675322012-10-04T15:28:18.738+01:002012-10-04T15:28:18.738+01:00The Crow/Julia: I am of course referring to the cr...The Crow/Julia: I am of course referring to the creek designated <i>Scheisse</i> in German (and the name of a Lady Gaga song) and <i>merde</i> in French.<br /><br />Rather than "lady of gentle birth" I should said belle (living, of course, in an ante-bellum mansion.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-23692888287262966762012-10-04T09:39:38.322+01:002012-10-04T09:39:38.322+01:00All Southerners "know up a creek without a pa...All Southerners "know up a creek without a paddle." I'm trying to remember if there is more to this expression than first springs to mind. Idioms start disappearing after living overseas too long!<br /><br />A slow start up in our ancient netbook drove me to an iPad, but the keyboard is rotten for anything except telegraphic emails. (The kids like it though, and it is handy for testing). Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02381204473168533313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-24377597483356789122012-10-03T18:50:46.350+01:002012-10-03T18:50:46.350+01:00Robbie, all Southern women, whether of genteel upb...Robbie, all Southern women, whether of genteel upbringing, like Julia, or a sharecropper's daughter, such as I, know precisely which creek thee means. It's just that the sharecropper's daughter is more likely, without compunction, to call it by name.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-79661623430930256002012-10-03T17:36:07.981+01:002012-10-03T17:36:07.981+01:00The Crow: Nothing works well any longer: Barrett B...The Crow: Nothing works well any longer: Barrett Bonden arm wrestled Lorenzo da Ponte, they both had heart attacks, this was decades before the magic insights of Dr Gregory House and sliding people into the big metal tube. Both are mere collections of bones. The blog title Tone Deaf was retained for commercial reasons and those of a sentimental turn of mind can take comfort from the anagram Noad Feet. The next TD post will reveal that the last bastion has fallen and that I too am capable of sentimentality. Always assuming I remember.<br /><br />Sir Hugh: It only seems odd because of your imperfect grasp of the laws of physics. Far be it from me to crack the shell of that virtual free-range egg of innocence. Gimmer will make things clear.<br /><br />Julia: Only one keyboard ever had had the right feel: an IBM back in the early eighties. As if the keys were endowed with ever-changing flesh magnets which drew my fingers not only to the correct spellings but to the most felicitous syntax. In answer to your last question the answer is no. I should have tested for that, I didn't and now I'm a few hundred yards up that creek which you, as a southern lady of gentle birth, wot not of.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-8598026872459235652012-10-03T07:53:16.986+01:002012-10-03T07:53:16.986+01:00A netbook fills that transportation niche well, es...A netbook fills that transportation niche well, especially if the keyboard has the right feel. Does it turn on quickly?Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02381204473168533313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-78862351283656502052012-10-02T23:30:58.313+01:002012-10-02T23:30:58.313+01:00Very neat. I considered one myself recently, but c...Very neat. I considered one myself recently, but couldn't justify the cost against potential use. One slight drawback with all laptops or similar is that cumbersome transformer thing built into the mains lead (no doubt the latent Works Well supremo will rise to the bait and define exactly what that is), it reminds me of Del Boy and his house brick mobile phones. It seems odd we can't do better in these days when we can put over a thousand tracks on a chip the size of a fingernail.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-85975997937590065372012-10-02T19:58:19.746+01:002012-10-02T19:58:19.746+01:00There is the slightest whiff of Works Well in the ...There is the slightest whiff of Works Well in the autumnal air wafting from my computer as I read your post.<br /><br />I like it.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.com