Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about....

[bobo the clown]

Today I had what can only be described as a weird experience.

I reversed my car into a parking space between two cars parked forwards.

I NOW know that, as I got into position and stopped moving the car to my right began to move off. So .... I had stopped but, in relative terms the same movement was occurring. My brain didn't compute this for 2 or 3 seconds as I re-applied the hand-brake and squashed my leg even harder on the brake.

Only once she moved far enough and broke the image did I realise I was no longer moving.

Damn near cacked myself.

[thebish]

Today I had what can only be described as a weird experience.

I reversed my car into a parking space between two cars parked forwards.

I NOW know that, as I got into position and stopped moving the car to my right began to move off. So .... I had stopped but, in relative terms the same movement was occurring. My brain didn't compute this for 2 or 3 seconds as I re-applied the hand-brake and squashed my leg even harder on the brake.

Only once she moved far enough and broke the image did I realise I was no longer moving.

Damn near cacked myself.

oh yes - exactly the same has happened to me - PANIC!!

[Annoyed Grunt]

Today I had what can only be described as a weird experience.

I reversed my car into a parking space between two cars parked forwards.

I NOW know that, as I got into position and stopped moving the car to my right began to move off. So .... I had stopped but, in relative terms the same movement was occurring. My brain didn't compute this for 2 or 3 seconds as I re-applied the hand-brake and squashed my leg even harder on the brake.

Only once she moved far enough and broke the image did I realise I was no longer moving.

Damn near cacked myself.

Had that happen to me as well.....very weird feeling....

[Bruce Rioja]

Today I had what can only be described as a weird experience.

I reversed my car into a parking space between two cars parked forwards.

I NOW know that, as I got into position and stopped moving the car to my right began to move off. So .... I had stopped but, in relative terms the same movement was occurring. My brain didn't compute this for 2 or 3 seconds as I re-applied the hand-brake and squashed my leg even harder on the brake.

Only once she moved far enough and broke the image did I realise I was no longer moving.

Damn near cacked myself.

Had that happen to me as well.....very weird feeling....

Always freaks me out when a neighbouring car/train/boat/plane moves. Thought it was just me - until now.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Today I had what can only be described as a weird experience.

I reversed my car into a parking space between two cars parked forwards.

I NOW know that, as I got into position and stopped moving the car to my right began to move off. So .... I had stopped but, in relative terms the same movement was occurring. My brain didn't compute this for 2 or 3 seconds as I re-applied the hand-brake and squashed my leg even harder on the brake.

Only once she moved far enough and broke the image did I realise I was no longer moving.

Damn near cacked myself.

Had that happen to me as well.....very weird feeling....

Always freaks me out when a neighbouring car/train/boat/plane moves. Thought it was just me - until now.

Same

[Bruce Rioja]

Budgeting for FY 14/15. Has anyone got a bin liner full of random numbers that I can borrow please?

[thebish]

Budgeting for FY 14/15. Has anyone got a bin liner full of random numbers that I can borrow please?

http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/random/

[Bruce Rioja]

Budgeting for FY 14/15. Has anyone got a bin liner full of random numbers that I can borrow please?

http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/random/

Oh that's just brilliant. Can there be a more random number between 1 and 100,000 than 82128? No there can't.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Budgeting for FY 14/15. Has anyone got a bin liner full of random numbers that I can borrow please?

http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/random/

Oh that's just brilliant. Can there be a more random number between 1 and 100,000 than 82128? No there can't.

Random? It's a palindrome.

[Bruce Rioja]

Budgeting for FY 14/15. Has anyone got a bin liner full of random numbers that I can borrow please?

http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/random/

Oh that's just brilliant. Can there be a more random number between 1 and 100,000 than 82128? No there can't.

Random? It's a palindrome.

And how exactly does that disqualify it from being random?

[William the White]

Budgeting for FY 14/15. Has anyone got a bin liner full of random numbers that I can borrow please?

http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/random/

Oh that's just brilliant. Can there be a more random number between 1 and 100,000 than 82128? No there can't.

Random? It's a palindrome.

And how exactly does that disqualify it from being random?

It doesn't. It just means it's a lucky budget. (Don't forget to post on superstition thread.)

[Athers]

Budgeting for FY 14/15. Has anyone got a bin liner full of random numbers that I can borrow please?

Same

I was but I am no longer angered by others though when it comes to this, it was detrimental to health.

[bobo the clown]

A bit angry, a bit impressed, rather irritated.

I have bird feeders ... as per previous discussions. We get a wide variety of birds, and that's nice.

We also have squirrels. I've seen 3 individuals ... who knows if there are more. I know they are pests, vermin even, but they have their place in the World and, unless I get overrun, or they start doing damage, leave them be. They certainly don't seem to intimidate the birds.

A coupe of weeks ago one of them worked out how to flip the lid of the peanut holder. It had taken them a good while, well over a year, so there you go. I bought a new one, with a screw-lid, so they wouldn't be doing that again. Sorted.

No it isn't.

The holder went from about 1/3 full to empty in a matter of half an hour. I went to look and they have bitten through some of the wire, pulled it back so there's a 1" x 0.5" 'post-box'. The little sods then tipped the holder over and the nuts were poured out into a plant-pot beneath.

I've mended the hole with wire and we now have to see how long before another breach.

Pesky varmints.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

A bit angry, a bit impressed, rather irritated.

I have bird feeders ... as per previous discussions. We get a wide variety of birds, and that's nice.

We also have squirrels. I've seen 3 individuals ... who knows if there are more. I know they are pests, vermin even, but they have their place in the World and, unless I get overrun, or they start doing damage, leave them be. They certainly don't seem to intimidate the birds.

A coupe of weeks ago one of them worked out how to flip the lid of the peanut holder. It had taken them a good while, well over a year, so there you go. I bought a new one, with a screw-lid, so they wouldn't be doing that again. Sorted.

No it isn't.

The holder went from about 1/3 full to empty in a matter of half an hour. I went to look and they have bitten through some of the wire, pulled it back so there's a 1" x 0.5" 'post-box'. The little sods then tipped the holder over and the nuts were poured out into a plant-pot beneath.

I've mended the hole with wire and we now have to see how long before another breach.

Pesky varmints.

More power to their little arms...at least they're working hard for their food, unlike the Romanian blue tits who you're giving handouts to.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Trying to upload a 30Mb file to a business website over BT lines. At 122 KiB per sec. That'll be 70 hours then...

[KeyserSoze]

can you not compress the file?

[thebish]

Trying to upload a 30Mb file to a business website over BT lines. At 122 KiB per sec. That'll be 70 hours then...

do you do these things as some kind of bizarre personal challenge??? couple of weeks ago you decided to download a 400,000 page pdf book one page at a time!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

can you not compress the file?

It is, tis zipped. Plus the format is prescriptive, it has to be in a specified format because the recipient's IT department are twonks.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Trying to upload a 30Mb file to a business website over BT lines. At 122 KiB per sec. That'll be 70 hours then...

do you do these things as some kind of bizarre personal challenge??? couple of weeks ago you decided to download a 400,000 page pdf book one page at a time!

That was pleasure, this is work.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

couple of weeks ago you decided to download a 400,000 page pdf book one page at a time!

and I haven't finished doing that yet. I grew very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very bored after about page 130.