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Minor Strangeness (IHTM)

Re: Fitbit & iPad — has it been really cold where you are?

This thread , , , for me this thread is easy to find because it always pops up in the top few of IHTM (maybe because you managed to find it and post to it earlier in the day, and thereby giving it a boost), but Cats and People, or is it People and Cats, What Are They Like? That thread has a Schrodinger's Cat tendency to switch from one title to the other depending on what conditions prevail when one opens it. These threads may be like quarks, which change their characteristics when observed (or not observed without a great deal of searching in some cases).
 
IbisNibs said:
Re: Fitbit & iPad — has it been really cold where you are?

This thread , , , for me this thread is easy to find because it always pops up in the top few of IHTM (maybe because you managed to find it and post to it earlier in the day, and thereby giving it a boost), but Cats and People, or is it People and Cats, What Are They Like? That thread has a Schrodinger's Cat tendency to switch from one title to the other depending on what conditions prevail when one opens it. These threads may be like quarks, which change their characteristics when observed (or not observed without a great deal of searching in some cases).
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No it’s not been. Average to mild.
 
MorningAngel said:
The other night my two months old iPad’s battery drained even thought it wasn’t doing anything. That was very odd. But then I remembered mum’s Fitbit suddenly lost charge a few nights before. Ghosts or aliens?

Ps why does this thread always hide from me? I always have great trouble finding it.
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Hackers running a dodgy app on the phone?
 
Someone in this train has this as his WiFi hotspot name. That’s signalling something. I forgot to look around me for the likely candidate :)

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uair01 said:
Someone in this train has this as his WiFi hotspot name. That’s signalling something. I forgot to look around me for the likely candidate :)

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You dropped the ball there! :chuckle:

When Bluetooth was still a novelty I read out an article to Techy about how people were already 'Toothing' with it.
Toothing was, apparently, contacting potential sexual partners among fellow commuters by Bluetooth. Romping would then ensue in the train toilets.

Too farfetched - I didn't believe a word. Techy didn't either because he reckoned Bluetooth was new and unreliable.

I did however own a laptop with Bluetooth built-in and tried it out in the university library, finding quite a few nearby devices with Bluetooth open and unprotected.
Spent a happy afternoon preparing my paper on aggravating and mitigating factors in murder charges or whatever and 'toothing other students.
Nothing racy, just 'Hi there (say) Phil, (owner of Phil's iPhone) are you out tonight?' and a stifled giggle as some startled youth stared around for a clue as to who was watching him. :wink2:
 
escargot said:
You dropped the ball there! :chuckle:

When Bluetooth was still a novelty I read out an article to Techy about how people were already 'Toothing' with it.
Toothing was, apparently, contacting potential sexual partners among fellow commuters by Bluetooth. Romping would then ensue in the train toilets.

Too farfetched - I didn't believe a word. Techy didn't either because he reckoned Bluetooth was new and unreliable.

I did however own a laptop with Bluetooth built-in and tried it out in the university library, finding quite a few nearby devices with Bluetooth open and unprotected.
Spent a happy afternoon preparing my paper on aggravating and mitigating factors in murder charges or whatever and 'toothing other students.
Nothing racy, just 'Hi there (say) Phil, (owner of Phil's iPhone) are you out tonight?' and a stifled giggle as some startled youth stared around for a clue as to who was watching him. :wink2:
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You minx.
 
What I wouldn't give for a good bagel with lox and a schmear, but that's kind of off topic so I'll refrain from further comment.
 
Several times recently I've been sitting with my laptop in the early evening and momentarily felt I was back in the living room of the house where I used to live. I've even glanced up when it has happened, half expecting to see that room.
 
Eyespy said:
Certainly an odd thing for Columbo to say, the only Americans we knew who said " Bugger" where those who had been exposed to us Brits. We use it mainly when we didn't want tone heard to cuss.
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Yes. And I can't remember if it was before or after the 'bugger' incident, but another actor in the same episode said something like 'archive' (I lip-read it), but it came out as 'evidence' (I can't remember the exact words, but something like that).
 
catseye said:
Urgh, now all I can think of is 'a bit of cream cheese in the lady bagel', which just sounds like slang for something I do not want to contemplate.
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I was thinking along the same lines myself. Just my dirty mind though - it actually seems more an intellectual exercise - not my strong point. I tend towards smut rather than intellect.
 
I had asked the builder who did some work at the house if he knew a good locksmith to fix the one on the security door at the back.
Today a chap came to the door so that he could have a look at it.
When I opened the door he said that he knew me and that he used to own a hardware shop in the next suburb.
It's been closed for years and I probably only ever went there about twice.
I thought what a wonderful memory for faces he must have.
 
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