The woman who lived there before for some reason left us a bar of soap in the shower but one that has been mostly used. Did she really think we were going to use her well worn soap?
Bizarrely enough, I'm meeting Benway for a beer after work. I wonder if I can persuade him to come and shave artex off my walls.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Bizarrely enough, I'm meeting Benway for a beer after work. I wonder if I can persuade him to come and shave artex off my walls.
If you buy Benway enough beer he'll do anything, apparently. Are you going to do the shaving by hand? I was wondering about one of those power sander jobs, though they'd be heavy to hold against the wall. Assuming we get the house I'm screaming at people to exchange contracts on, we'll be faced with mountains of woodchip wallpaper. Am torn between the cheap option (hire stripper for Thorn and get him to do it) (insert obviously set-up joke there) or pay someone to Do It Properly.
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Surely the cheap option is sticking with the woodchip wallpaper. Why don't you and Alice do it, if it means so damned much to you? I'll be in the shed.
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quote:Originally posted by Octavia: Are you going to do the shaving by hand? I was wondering about one of those power sander jobs, though they'd be heavy to hold against the wall.
Yeah, we're doing it by hand. Have got a couple of these and some spare blades.
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Pffft who's the bigger pussy, the one using a gay little spatula to slowly scrape a few millimetres of plaster per hour, or the guy rocking the enormous noisy power tool, demolishing whole walls in minutes amidst a cloud of dust and flying debris?
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The Freudian interpretation, though, suggests that you have a little gay spatula in your pants, while CiH is packing an enormous power-tool capable of staggering acts of destruction.
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If that were the case then CiH may as well smash the artex off the wall by swinging his weiner at it like a fleshy wrecking ball.
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On an unrelated note, but still about equipment and tools and stuff, do any of you have any experience with or knowledge of mechanical (non-mebrane) computer keyboards?
I've been finding out about them and have entered a whole sub-culture of utter geekery.
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quote:Originally posted by mart: On an unrelated note, but still about equipment and tools and stuff, do any of you have any experience with or knowledge of mechanical (non-mebrane) computer keyboards?
I used a computer with a Model M keyboard quite a bit at university. The feel was really odd compared to any other keyboard I've ever used, but very satisfying, if that's the right word.
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Yeah I've just bought a 1990 Model M from some guy in Spain; I'm really curious as to how it will feel. The other end of the scale is the Filco Majestouch 105, but they don't do that in Spanish yet. Am considering blank keys for it, but that's just daft when I stop and think about it (for what they cost).
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Personally, I use these at both work and home:
They're very comfortable and reliable, but I'm so used to them now that I think I'd find it really difficult to go back to a standard layout. So if mine break and Microsoft end production, I'll probably have to stop using computers altogether.
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quote:Originally posted by mart: You could always use one of these.
I saw that at a Design Museum exhibition at the about human-computer interfaces (easy now). They had hundreds of utterly bizarre keyboard, mouse and joystick replacement concepts that never took off.
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There's a room here at the University which is full of these obscure looking input devices. We definitely have one of those, along with some with things like little joysticks and allsorts. Some non-qwerty keyboards as well. Seems the standard layout is the best though.
We used to get machanical keyboards with some of the older systems we used here. They weigh a ton and make loads of noise when typing but typing on them is a really positive experience, and oddly you feel like you can type much faster and more accurately than you can with a squishy keyed board.
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Yeah, I've decided to try and find the most comfortable keyboard experience to work with. My work rate has gone up recently (I can get more words done in a day, for some reaon), and I'd like to reward my hands. As it were.
I must have acid fingertips or something, as the Ctrl and Shift keys are almost worn through, and the A, S and E letters are gone, and this happens on every keyboard I use after about five years, so it's time for a new one.
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We're moving on Saturday although the plastering now won't be finished until about Tuesday which is annoying but never mind.
Anyway. Even though I've known that we're moving on Saturday for about a week I only bothered to look into hiring a van today because I'm clever like that and obviously everywhere is fully booked up so I've been sitting here feeling sick and stressed and googling and phoning people to be told that no they can't give us a van (apart from one that could do us a van from Saturday until Monday for £280), until i managed to find a man with a big van who will come along and help us load the heavy stuff in and everything for £25 an hour and he reckons it will take about 2-3 hours which is much less than a van hire would have cost and we get the bonus of a man to help carry stuff.
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Cherry - I spent two weeks full time trying to rid one room of artex with a gay spatula. In the end I got a plasterer in.
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I got rid of a massive amount with the gay spatula but that was just so that the plasterer could plaster over it. We're getting there. All of upstairs is now plastered and painted with a first coat. Hallways is plastered. Half of the living room is plastered and the bit where the crazy paving was has been built up into a wall that can be plastered over. It's massive improvements but there is still a fair bit to go.
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I'm glad everyone agrees that the crazy paving was best.
Hey - Cherry! Isn't it funny, right, because at the weekend, right your hallway is going to be half plastered, right? How things have changed! I remember the days when at the weekend you yourself would have been completely drunk, lol!
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