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Alternatively, if you want a DW invite code, I have plenty, even if I don't know you, just click on HYAT7NJCGVFWZAAAAHGP - no need to ask permission - and comment here (screened) afterwards to let me know so I can put a new one up.

Poll #13210

Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 21

View Respondents

Furthermore:

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I assume that people who don't get shown my updates are the ones that actually weren't interested
1 (4.8%)

I think most of the people who don't see my posts assume it's because I haven't posted
14 (66.7%)

This misconception has caused problems at least once
3 (14.3%)

I have paid Facebook to promote a post at least once
0 (0.0%)

I don't have a Facebook account, but I used to.
1 (4.8%)

I have never had a Facebook account.
5 (23.8%)

[Like]
5 (23.8%)

ETA: I'd be interested to hear what the problems caused by the misconceptions were.

Facebook (unless you pay to "promote" an item) only shows your posts to a certain proportion of your friends, (even if they're using the "most recent" way of looking at updates). In a flawed attempt to harness the wisdom of crowds:

Poll #13209

Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

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What percentage of your Facebook friends (of the ones who look at Facebook in the hour or so after you post) do you think are shown what you have written?

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Mean: 39.29 Median: 30 Std. Dev 24.92

No-one 0	0 (0.0%)
10	2 (14.3%)
20	3 (21.4%)
30	4 (28.6%)
40	0 (0.0%)
50	1 (7.1%)
60	1 (7.1%)
70	0 (0.0%)
80	3 (21.4%)
90	0 (0.0%)
Everyone 100	0 (0.0%)

Assume that this is a plain old text update, not a photo or anything like that. Friends that have interacted with you more often in the past will tend to be shown your activity with higher probabbility. If you have no Facebook account, don't complete the poll ;)

There is no right answer that I know of, though if someone has hard data on how to calculate these things, do comment with links.

I sketched this a while back and inked it over in Brussels. I know it's very scrawly :)

The name is a bad pun: כרוב

Upgoer-five stuff - if I used the COCA first 1000 distinct entries on http://www.wordfrequency.info/top5000.asp instead we'd lose the following 364 words:

( lost )

and we'd gain the following 399:
( gained )

The lists aren't the same length because of the difference in the way they treat words with apostrophes in - I've removed apostrophe-containing terms from both lists. Note also that the COCA list categorises words by their part of speech, so this is a bit approximate, and might exclude lexemes that score pretty highly in lots of parts of speech, but are not in the top 1000 in any single one. If I have time I'll find a way to combine them.

I got a bag of agar powder! so I needed to play with it, clearly :)

Squish strawberries (they were frozen since strawberry season and defrosted) through a sieve, add some sugar, a very little finely-ground black pepper, and a few drops of lemon juice. Stir in some agar powder and microwave until just boiling. Pour/spoon it into moulds - I used a silicone ice-cube-tray in the shape of shells, which I filled half-full. Made four (small experimental batch), only two came out of the moulds properly, so my host and I got one each with our cake. They tasted intensely fruity and the pepper was definitely a good idea. Next time I'll try lightly oiling the moulds and maybe adding a touch more agar (I used about a quarter of a teaspoon to maybe 40ml strawberry pulp and a teaspoon-and-a-half of sugar)

I am looking forward to trying this with some other fruit!

^*
^*Serving suggestion.

Before I freecycle or ebay them, does anyone have a use for:

~~Three lounge chairs, no arms, steel legs, covered in beige fabric, about 80cm high and 48cm wide.~~

Maroonish-purple computer desk, about 75cm wide, casters, sliding keyboard shelf, good condition.

A couple of really quite old tower computers, no HDs (I am aware this is not terribly helpful spec, but I haven't much of a clue about their innards. ISTR the older one is 256MB RAM/450MHz processor, the newer one is better spec but noisy fan. Both work fine & have optical drives and network cards, but I'm not going to dismantle them.) Both have keyboards.

http://www.universal-textiles.com/ have sent me my new warm underclothing - and a discount voucher code to pass on: friend87 that's good for 5% off for the next 90 days (no kickbacks to me or anything).

(I go on about this cos wearing thermal layers is a really painless way to reduce heating energy use without having major modifications made to one's dwelling)

perl -le 'print "$_ + 1 = ", $_ + 1 for qw/milli micro nano pico/'

When I was a kid back in the 80s, I was told not to pick and eat fruit growing next to busy roads. In these days of near-universal unleaded petrol, does this advice still hold true at all?

For the benefit of bassoonists, cellists, etc.

I did some fiddling with some perl and abcm2ps:

A Bass-clef version of Playford's Dancing Master (Treble) and A Bass-clef version of the Fiddler's Tune Book (Treble)

A Bass-clef version of Playford's Dancing Master and A Bass-clef version of the Fiddler's Tune Book (I don't think it automatically becomes the 'cellist's tune book) adjusted for 'cello, with pieces containing notes below a bottom C raised by an octave^*.

All based on Chris Partington's ABC versions

NEW!
Playford's Dancing Master for Viola and Fiddler's Tune Book for viola

Big Round Band sets for Viola ; 'Cello ; Bassoon etc.

^*perl -pe '$BEGIN{$/="\n\r\n"};$x=/[A-G]\,/?"D bass":"d bass+8";s/^(K:\w+)(\s*?[%\n])/$1 middle=$x$2/msg' plyfrd1.ABC | abcm2ps - -N1 --footer 'Based on Chris Partington'\''s transcription\nhttp://www.cpartington.plus.com' -O - | ps2pdf - Playford_dancing_master_bass_clef_cello.pdf
This is not guaranteed to work for all ABC, but it works for the subset found in this file.

Someone, I have an idea it was

ghoti, suggested that leeks make good skins for vegetarian sausages. So, I used the outer few layers of a leek to make a few just now.

I carefully separated the skins, rinsed them, and put them in some just off-boiling water to soften a little

I tied off one end with string, filled them with filling and a teaspoon, and then tied off the other end.

I fried them in shallow sunflower oil and drained them on some kitchen roll.

Filling: fry chopped leek, add dried soya mince and couscous, some stock, dill, thyme, and tomato puree. let cool a bit, beat in an egg, thicken with coarse cornmeal. This was all made up as I went along, I think I'd put more spicy stuff in next time, and I'd like to try something seitan-based.

They seemed to work quite well.

Yay, I have an air mattress. It works. I can now get rid of my old folding-up-chair foam thing. Does anyone want it before I bin it (it's a somewhat decrepit version of this but might be useful if you want big chunks of foam rubber for something)?

( Owl pipeline )
( Double bandwith! )

I'd like to try some stop-motion filming of plants germinating. To this end I'd like to borrow for a month or two a camera (with better resolution than my crappy webcam and preferably with a flash) that I can control from a Linux computer. Does anyone have such a beast?

What is it with politicians (or possibly civil servants) and the Internet? Hot on the heels of the craziness of the proposed surveillance of web, email, and social media, comes the perennial "let's make the Internet child-safe" proposal.

http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2012/april/automatic-porn-censorship-legislation-proposed/

Yet another idea that neatly combines illiberal with unworkable. At least one might hope the "unworkable" element should hopefully do the job of making sure it doesn't get beyond a draft (though ISTR that didn't deter Australia from trying something similar), but still. *headdesk*

Should this draft be unfortunate enough not to be strangled at this stage, expect endless wrangling over who decides what porn is, shock as people realise that educational, political, and scientific materials have been included, confusion as the powers that be discover HTTPS decades after the rest of the Internet, and bewilderment as people point out that this has been tried lots of times and it Never Bloody Works.

ETA: apparently the proposal is a Lords Private Member's Bill, so a near-zero chance of actually getting anywhere. But still, I remain surprised at what some people think would be a good idea.

Does anyone want a plastic tenor recorder that's got a missing return-spring on one of its keys? Free to good home, or frankly to a bad home.

I would assume that, for consistency, if we lived in a country where divorce was illegal you would be campaigning against making it legal, including against the rights of e.g. Jews and Muslims (whose tenets permit divorce) to dissolve their own marriages. Perhaps you would insist on a union between Jews being denoted as a “soluble partnership” so as not to sully the word “marriage”?

Current Mood: cross

Take kale, rinse, chop roughly, spread on baking tray, and bake for about 10 min at 180°C: tasty crispy green stuff. It might take a tiny pinch of salt, but not very much, cos it's quite strongly flavoured when it's dried out.

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eeeeeenteresting.

Before blackberry season gets under way...

Bass-clef versions of tunebooks (ETA: Now with added alto!)

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Mmm. My kind of cuisine.

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Another day, another stupid idea. Today: Think Of The Children!

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Dear Person-campaigning-against-legalising-same-sex-marriage:

Crunchy tasty kale stuff.