Miscellany
Sep. 28th, 2009 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellow1. It is, in fact, possible to mow an overgrown lawn with a push-mower. Sort of. It's time consuming, and it takes a while to recover, and there will be a few clumps that need to be handled with a different tool, but it is possible.
2. The barking of dogs in Sophie B. Hawkins' "Blue" does not bother Buster and Gracie, but the ringing of a doorbell on TV does.
3. Firefox has been behaving oddly lately. Every once in a while, I'll have a couple of tabs open, and without warning FF will split them off into separate windows. If there's something I'm accidentally doing which could cause this, I'd like to know; more, I'd like to know if there's some way to re-merge them.
4. Also in the odd glitch category: my computer seems to get confused about whether it's connected to my ISP. I'll be online, websurfing, and the "Connect To :ISP:" dialog box will come up. I glance down; the connection has not dropped, and data is flowing. I hit ESC to cancel the box; after anywhere from five seconds to five minutes, here it comes again. Sometimes I'll have to hit ESC three or four times in less than a minute. It started happening after I set up the LP converter, but there doesn't seem to be a direct connection.
5. I've been alternating my Pratchett reread with previously-unread fiction. For some reason, most of it has been non-USAn stuff: Keri Hulme's The Bone People, Alan Paton's Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful, Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, Mario Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller. (OK, I snuck Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist in there too, but four out of five's a pretty high fraction.)
2. The barking of dogs in Sophie B. Hawkins' "Blue" does not bother Buster and Gracie, but the ringing of a doorbell on TV does.
3. Firefox has been behaving oddly lately. Every once in a while, I'll have a couple of tabs open, and without warning FF will split them off into separate windows. If there's something I'm accidentally doing which could cause this, I'd like to know; more, I'd like to know if there's some way to re-merge them.
4. Also in the odd glitch category: my computer seems to get confused about whether it's connected to my ISP. I'll be online, websurfing, and the "Connect To :ISP:" dialog box will come up. I glance down; the connection has not dropped, and data is flowing. I hit ESC to cancel the box; after anywhere from five seconds to five minutes, here it comes again. Sometimes I'll have to hit ESC three or four times in less than a minute. It started happening after I set up the LP converter, but there doesn't seem to be a direct connection.
5. I've been alternating my Pratchett reread with previously-unread fiction. For some reason, most of it has been non-USAn stuff: Keri Hulme's The Bone People, Alan Paton's Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful, Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, Mario Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller. (OK, I snuck Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist in there too, but four out of five's a pretty high fraction.)
