Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

LydiaJ

Hi rugged, and welcome. :hello:

lostinrates wrote: »

I am a bit blue today.....

Can any nice people suggest things that cheer them up?

People. Face to face people if possible, but people on the phone or pixel-people will do.
Book
Sleep
Sunshine
Walk with good views
Play with dog - except haven't got dog any more here

lemonjelly wrote: »

On the incapacitation/decapitation thing...

Was it painful/is it painful? well, yes & no, as it was a drawn out process, still ongoing. As with so much in life, there are ups & downs, peaks & troughs. Fortunately, my head is still connected to the rest of me...

Sounds unpleasant. Hope you have a nice long "up" bit now.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

The IBIS hotel near me is being used by our council for emergency accommodation. Only realised this when someone complained to the paper that they were being put up in a hotel rather than given housing immediately.

I rarely went away with any employment, but I remember one experience in Reading in about 1998. My boss and I were booked into a hotel - everybody else on the course, from other companies, were in proper/posh hotels close by, ours was about a mile walk. As we were walking back to the hotel I realised things weren't 'right'. I could see a black guy strutting pimp-style along the road, back and forth. Then a car stopped and he lent in the window and spoke to them for 15 seconds... I'm naive so no idea what was going on, but something was.

Back at the hotel, it became clear to us that we were the ONLY paying guests and everybody else was some form of homeless person being housed.



The hotel chain/name was Qwality/Kwality or something.... and in addition to this, half the lounge/breakfast room was out of bounds as there were decorators stripping all the wallpaper off.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

I wish I could understand this. I think you mean you opened your machine and copied the hard disk then put it in your new machine, but you could mean something totally different.

He lost me on "spare sata" - no idea if my PC has a sata (or what that is)... never mind if I've got a spare one!!

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

While we are on the subject of "things you can't do in Windows 7", I have a question too.

DS uses Windows movie maker to make his lego animations. He does it on my laptop because I still have vista. The desktop that the kids are supposed to use has Windows 7, and therefore has Windows live movie maker, which is different. He says there are two things he can't do:

Firstly, WMM has a thing for fading between a picture and another picture - that's how he did the tardis effect in the Victorian inventions thing that some of you have seen. He says WLMM won't do that. Secondly, he says WMM allows him to import all his photos and then choose which ones to put into his storyboard, whereas WLMM puts them all into the storyboard and doesn't have the capability to put photos somewhere before you're ready to use them

Have any of the NP any idea
(a) whether these things are possible in WLMM, and if so how?
(b) whether it's possible to put WMM on a Windows 7 computer?

Thanks

Put me down as "I didn't even know you could make movies on PCs.... and I've never seen anything like that".

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

We are really poorly connected in the west, even with roads that runn north to south. Still would not want to see 303 become the m303 or worse. M30. My worry here is that both hospitals are on the othersides of congested small cities. Plus the big no go area that would make southern one closer. The big bath hospital i got lost in, its not small is it.:eek:

I always imagine you as being "up near that M4/M5 junction". I'm clearly very wrong aren't I. When I move, you might only be 40-50 miles from me... where I come from that's closer than the nearest Waitrose

Hospitals are easy down here - there's one - which was 20 miles when I was having to cart the olds about. If you want another one that's in another county, 50 miles away. Next one's 90 miles away.

sss555s

LydiaJ wrote: »

Hope you have a nice long "up" bit now.

That made me smile :A

PasturesNew

sss555s wrote: »

That made me smile :A

If there's no reply .... we can assume the answer would have been "yes".

misskool

well well, popped into work today. It's admission open day. Now I need to be quick or I shall be wedged in the car park!

michaels

Isn't there some sort of google desktop thang that basically indexes all your local files and allows you tro serach like the main google search? Never used it myself by remeber it did exist - withgoogle tho you never know if things you use are suddenly going to get dropped as they never get beyond 'beta'....

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

... I need to be quick or I shall be wedged in the car park!

Now I can see this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLgmisFOcYM
Is there a crane out there?