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- 07:34 Good morning tweeters all. For those in time zones + GMT, if someone named a sandwich after you, what would be in it? #
- 07:35 @devinjay just call yourself a "polymath" and that makes wide interest OK. #
- 08:27 @devinjay photos are good, keep posting. #
- 08:29 i think i should have put a "#" search item in my sandwich tweets: #mysandwich #
- 08:51 @devinjay indeed i did. very slimming. #
- 08:53 @devinjay you haven't been bad for me...yet. #
- 08:56 @devinjay oic. well, you look tasty so ... #
- 09:02 there is a huge tiger-striped cat in the back garden, believe it's female. probably chased the squirrel that i was feeding away... :-( #
- 09:02 @devinjay you need to get out more, i think...i'm sure there are lots of people who would think so had they just met you. #
- 09:30 @MrPandaBehr yes, but what are the ingredients? Enquiring minds want to know! Sounds kind of like a Cornish Pasty. #
- 09:30 @devinjay perhaps you don't get out to the right places. Something I learned at my mother's knee and other low joints. #
- 12:03 @devinjay well, there are wrong places, like your friend's boyfriend's house... #
- 12:52 At Victoria Place, just having finished a Spudulike (cottage cheese). Off to O2! #
- 16:48 i can haz iPhone! took an hour in the shop, but it is now charging up nicely. looking up how to move my Blackberry contacts/calendar... #
- 16:59 looks like i'll have to configure outlook, import my contacts and calendar from my BB then export them again to iPhone. yuck. #
- 18:32 In Finchley Road Station, going to Lodge of Instruction. Still sunny & hot, yay! #
- 22:27 On Bakerloo Line, on the way home to the Elephant. Great LOI-13 people! Lovely! Tired tho. #
- 22:28 @mheusser indeed. Bears and Popes come to mind. #
- 22:32 @studfucker Kennington Park used to be quite busy. No more? #
Apr. 22nd, 2009
Well, I've made the switch. I have my iPhone, my Broadband box ready to plug in when the switch is made at the exchange, and HWMBO has his new phone. It was surprisingly difficult to get it all yesterday.
At around 1, I left the house and went to Victoria Station, where I had lunch at my old haunt of Spudulike. I was intending to go to the O2 store on Victoria Street, but, lo! I walked down the street and it was no longer there. Oops! I thought to going to Angel for it, but the connections to the Bank branch of the Northern Line are fraught from that area, so I got off the Circle Line train at Embankment and walked along the Strand, where I found an O2 store.
It took nearly an hour to arrange everything. The shop assistant was enormously helpful (and cute, too!) and I eventually got:
As I walked down the Strand to the bus stop, I got a call on my Blackberry. It was Vodafone, asking whether I'd like to reconsider getting my PAC to switch to O2. I informed him that I was walking away from the O2 shop with my swag and that I wanted my PACs, please. He was most gracious.
I returned home to find an email from BT asking whether I'd reconsider. It's nice to be wanted (unless you're a criminal).
This morning I called O2 and set the train in motion to get the broadband switched over. This took a little bit of time, but everything went very smoothly. It turns out that I get 6 months free broadband, and after that less than £10 per month. The broadband is around 16Mb on my line (up to, of course, could mean less but it will certainly be faster than the BT line).![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fj has said that O2 is a great broadband provider, and I do hope that's the case.
At around 1, I left the house and went to Victoria Station, where I had lunch at my old haunt of Spudulike. I was intending to go to the O2 store on Victoria Street, but, lo! I walked down the street and it was no longer there. Oops! I thought to going to Angel for it, but the connections to the Bank branch of the Northern Line are fraught from that area, so I got off the Circle Line train at Embankment and walked along the Strand, where I found an O2 store.
It took nearly an hour to arrange everything. The shop assistant was enormously helpful (and cute, too!) and I eventually got:
- An 8GB iPhone;
- A Nokia phone for HWMBO;
- A mobile broadband dongle that is pay as you go (something I have been told is impossible to find!); and
- A home broadband box for O2 home broadband.
As I walked down the Strand to the bus stop, I got a call on my Blackberry. It was Vodafone, asking whether I'd like to reconsider getting my PAC to switch to O2. I informed him that I was walking away from the O2 shop with my swag and that I wanted my PACs, please. He was most gracious.
I returned home to find an email from BT asking whether I'd reconsider. It's nice to be wanted (unless you're a criminal).
This morning I called O2 and set the train in motion to get the broadband switched over. This took a little bit of time, but everything went very smoothly. It turns out that I get 6 months free broadband, and after that less than £10 per month. The broadband is around 16Mb on my line (up to, of course, could mean less but it will certainly be faster than the BT line).
fj has said that O2 is a great broadband provider, and I do hope that's the case.Topical Latin homework
Apr. 22nd, 2009 09:35 pmMy Vulgate Latin group has been translating Paul's Letter to the Romans. We've gotten to Chapter 3, and verse 8 speaks to the current dispute about the lawfulness and the utility of such activities as waterboarding by the CIA. Former Vice President Cheney has called on President Obama to release some of the documents that list the useful intelligence gained through waterboarding and other physical impairments applied to prisoners. Cheney says it saved lives.
Verse 8 says: And why not say (as some people slander us by saying that we say): "Let us do evil so that good may come?" Their condemnation is deserved!
I'm not normally much of a fan of Paul (his opinions on women, people who had ritual sex in temples, and the headship of men in the family are not my cup of tea). However, I've been saying this all along. When one does an evil act in order to promote a greater good, the act is still evil in and of itself. The end never ever justifies the means. The former Vice President seems not to have paid attention when this verse is read in church.
It is reminiscent of the old joke about Calvin Coolidge. A young socialite was sitting next to President Coolidge at a banquet, and the talk turned to the profession of prostitution. Coolidge asked her, "Would you embrace the profession of prostitution for a fee of $1000?" "Of course not!" replied the young lady. Coolidge proposed higher and higher fees, all payable to the lady's favourite charity. She refused them all, until Coolidge proposed a fee of $1 million. She paused, thought of the widows and orphans that money would help, and said that, yes, she would spend the night with a man who gave $1 million to her favourite charity. Coolidge said, "Well, then, would you do it for $20?" The lady, horrified, said: "No, of course not! What do you think I am?" Coolidge replied immediately: "We've already established that; now we're only haggling over the price."
Verse 8 says: And why not say (as some people slander us by saying that we say): "Let us do evil so that good may come?" Their condemnation is deserved!
I'm not normally much of a fan of Paul (his opinions on women, people who had ritual sex in temples, and the headship of men in the family are not my cup of tea). However, I've been saying this all along. When one does an evil act in order to promote a greater good, the act is still evil in and of itself. The end never ever justifies the means. The former Vice President seems not to have paid attention when this verse is read in church.
It is reminiscent of the old joke about Calvin Coolidge. A young socialite was sitting next to President Coolidge at a banquet, and the talk turned to the profession of prostitution. Coolidge asked her, "Would you embrace the profession of prostitution for a fee of $1000?" "Of course not!" replied the young lady. Coolidge proposed higher and higher fees, all payable to the lady's favourite charity. She refused them all, until Coolidge proposed a fee of $1 million. She paused, thought of the widows and orphans that money would help, and said that, yes, she would spend the night with a man who gave $1 million to her favourite charity. Coolidge said, "Well, then, would you do it for $20?" The lady, horrified, said: "No, of course not! What do you think I am?" Coolidge replied immediately: "We've already established that; now we're only haggling over the price."