Re: Bra
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Leon Brocard wrote: The goods have indeed arrived. I will not take any photos of it. I may bring[1] it to the next social. It is a black Victoria's Secret bra. I'd be *more* than happy to take photographs of you modelling the bra, so as to let those who can't make it to the social join in the fun. ;) Marna
Sushi tomorrow
Sushi has been re-scheduled to tomorrow, and the plan is something along the lines of meet in pub at seven, eat food at eight. If you've not *squeeked* and would like to join in the sushi-stravaganza squeek and let me know by tomorrow morning at the latest. Marna
Re: The Perl Color?
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Ali Young wrote: Or find someone with synaesthesia. The word 'perl' - it's a pale yellow in my brane. Lighter than a lemon-yellow, and with less green - almost with a hint of orange. The colour the code is? Probably depends on the code. I'm not sure I *give* code as a whole a colour, although I could tell you the colours of the bits of it. Marna
Re: The Perl Color?
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote: What is the Perl sex? is a better question to ask for the London Monks... Well, last month I think the answer was mainly hetro (if confused see http://marna.org/comic.gif) Not entirely hetero, by any stretch. I think I kissed as many girls as I did boys. Not sure what the answer will be tonight. This time I have a camera! Marna
Sushi at Gonbei - 20th June
In between the beer and the other interesting happenings of last night we seemed to have hatched a plan to ensure that Red leaves the country by going out for *fine* Japanese food before he goes. I'm sure there's logic in that. So, who's up for a gathering at the Gonbei on Friday the 20th of June? I think we'll be opting for a sit-down because the feed-me tactics I've heard of could end up dangerous and expensive, with such a large gathering. I don't mind taking on the herding duties and doing the booking, unless someone who eats there more frequently would rather book? Sushi, then? Marna
Re: Sushi at Gonbei - 20th June
On 6 Jun 2003, Dirk Koopman wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 13:16, Marna Gilligan wrote: [amazing plans involving food] Sushi, then? At what sort of time? I have an evensong to sing in the city during the afternoon. Sorry - was being a bit dim there. Evening, I would imagine. Seven or afterwards, depending on who wants to come adn when they can be there for. Marna
Re: message board software
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Roger Burton West wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:37:23AM -0800, Toby|Wintrmute wrote: I just wondered if anyone here has some reccommendations? No, but whatever you do check Bugtraq/Fulldisc - most of the message boards out there have unpatched security holes in them. If this is fr what I think it's for that shouldn't be a problem because it will be only available internally. But I may be wrong, of cousrse. Marna
Re: [OT] Wierd HTML/Table/Image problem with IE6
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Andy Williams (IMAP HILLWAY) wrote: [crazy image table behaviour] If you remove the table - or just pop the images in another, otherwise empty, page, do you still get the same problems? 'Cuz that would indicate a problem with the images themselves, or their getting to you, rather than an issue with the tables. Has anyone had a similar problem and managed to resolve it? I can forward the HTML and images on to anyone who wants to look at it. I haven't included as it would be about 40k. If you want to forward it here (or even better, send a link) I'll have a test at it. Many browsers at my disposal. Marna
Re: [PUB] Fitzroy Tavern, Fitzrovia
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Kate L Pugh wrote: A suggestion from Ben - the Fitzroy Tavern. It's another Sam Smith's pub, but Ben says the beer is decent, so I'll leave him to defend that point of view. It's on Charlotte Street, parallel to Tottenham Court Road: I phoned them and they do have a function room, in the basement, with toilets on the same level, but it costs 25 quid to book (and another 25 quid if we want the bar open) and the person I spoke to sounded dubious about us getting more than 35 people in there. They do a full menu until 9:30pm. From what I remember the function room downstairs is small and poky, and the table layout would make mingling difficult because a lot of the seats are built in. I very much doubt that more than thirty five people would fit in there, and it'd be squishy even then. I've not idea what the beer is like, though, because last time I was there I was drinking gin ;). Marna
Re: [PUB] Fitzroy Tavern, Fitzrovia
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Kate L Pugh wrote: On Mon 27 Jan 2003, Joel Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Fitzroy Tavern is /horrible/ [...] noisy, intrusively flashing fruit machines, full of people in reebok classics trainers [...] How much of this would still apply if we booked the function room? I mean, obviously the people in trainers wouldn't, but I can't work out whether the noisy is meant to apply to the fruit machines, and you don't say whether the fruit machines are in the function room as well as upstairs. I didn't find it to be over-trainerish, and fruit machines are a generic pub-evil. The staff seemed fairly nice, at least when I was there. It's noisy upstairs, in the way that any small middle'o'London pub *will* be. I've only been in there a few times, though, and pub-character can be vastly different dependiong on day and time. In a bizarre confluence of coincidence the gods of chaos have dictated that I'll be meeting up with some folks there this evening, so I'll cast a critical eye over it (and have a better look at the downstairs) and report back later. I *may* even be forced to test the beer Marna
Re: [PUB] Fitzroy Tavern, Fitzrovia
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Marna Gilligan wrote: In a bizarre confluence of coincidence the gods of chaos have dictated that I'll be meeting up with some folks there this evening, so I'll cast a critical eye over it (and have a better look at the downstairs) and report back later. I *may* even be forced to test the beer Nope; that didn't work. I got there somewhat late and they'd stopped serving food so we all ran away to get some food instead. I *tried* to have another look at downstairs but it was very creepy; black drapes over all the doors and odd noises coming from within. I'm pretty sure that this isn't a standard fixture, though. I did look at the menu, though, before they told us that they couldn't feed us. Very pub-foodish. Starters 3 - 5ukp - wedges and cheezie-things and whatnot. Mains 6 - 8ukp - Burgers, curry, pasta, fish. Some baguettes. Not a great veggie selection, and very little for vegans. It seemed to be populated with a random mixture of people; I didn't notice anyone being too obnoxious. It was full and noisy, but we were in the main bar and possibly as noisy as anyone. Oh, and the stairs aren't the most useable (but not the worst stairs in the world either). Hope all that helps. It's not the bestest pub-review. Marna
Re: Your Advocacy ideas
On 21 Nov 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Marna Gilligan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: snip Indeed it does. I don't know if you've been round schools lately, but IME the machines are getting very integrated with each curriculum subject, they _are_ becoming tools. That's not been my experience, but the school I've had most dealings with is an inner-city school, with very high teacher and pupil turnover, and very poor results (and expectations). Until this year the centre where I teach/network admin provided space and pooters for this school, and the classes consisted of using MS Word or browsing the internet for fun. One (short-lived) enthusiastic design teacher used the time to try to get the kids doing something creative (but again using Word). Most teachers never took advantage of the facilities, despite us offering help and encouragement, although I suspect that this was due to the children becoming harder to manage once they were outside their classroom, and because the teachers themselves didn't have that much experience using computers. This is probably school-specific, and since it's the only school whose computer-based offerings I've had to deal with I'm prolly coming from a rather biased position. I'm glad that doesn't match up with what you've found. Which is a nightmare for the poor network troll who has to wire up all the disparate buildings! Not good. Hmm..you could even continue the argument by saying that things like math and english should be integrated into the other subjects. I don't think there *shouldn't* be dedicated pooter classes, but that they should involve learning how a computer works and how to make it do things. Not just how to use MS Office and find pictures of Brit'ny Spears. I'd like to see computers used the same way that being able to read and write is used in history classes, and being able to add is used in accounting classes. A tool, a skill you learn when you're little and then use for al sorts of things. I suspect that's not going to happen anytime soon, but I'd love to be wrong about that. Marna.
