And we have
two more. Some comments on previous postings complain - rightly - about the odd order these are coming up in. I'm not being cruel. I'm posting them in the order Richard put them in. That way I'm less likely to screw up.
Big Sis says this is "two PM regulars wrestling with the PM frog" (and adds that it's a real postcard)
While Bob Shepherd in Preston sends us something it took him all of ten minutes to complete, and costs £75 million. Whether you can make out the small print, I dunno.
Oh all right. It says "Post Modern Collectors' Item 2048. No Pollocks in the Sea"
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More silence (in an offensively fast fashion apparently, to add insult to ignominy).
Hi Bob Shephard,
You could've saved yourself all that money with .
Hint: Try the mouse.
xx
ed
Big Sis
Which two PM regulars did you have in mind?
Big Sis
Your postcard was well worth the wait
(Sorry for cross-posting :-))
H.
Did My Post Card from Miami arrive yet?
Very jolly, Ed (1)
No doubt continuing silence, hey, Valery P?
That's amazing Ed (1) - I haven't worked out a way to save my creations though ?
Hi Roberto (5)! It did. If you click on the section marked Listener Postards on the right, you'll see all of the postcards to have appeared on the blog so far (not counting today), and yours is there :)
Valp. I'm sure he's just saving the best 'til last ;-)
Valery
Patience, patience.
Ed
I agree with jonnie.
By accident I found out you can change colour with a left mouse click. You can print them directly although mine was distorted. But I really would like to save something.
Jonnie,
It's sort of an inelegant solution, but you can print it (right click) and then scan it. If your browser won't do that, switch to firefox, and while you're at it, I'd ditch outlook.
Shanthi
ed
Thanks for the namecheck, Sir Edward. I join the amphibian elite!
Do these postcards mean a final silencing of the whole Archers bit? Good. Well done to all who have had theirs added to day, and also to Valery (in advance).
Archers? Other farmers available; other bow-and-arrow marksmen available.
SB12
P.S. My copy of the newsletter seems to be quite a bit later today than yesterday - it hasn’t arrived so far. Has one of you ambushed it?
Ed (12)
Thanks, I'll give it a bash. When you say ditch Outlook are you referring to Outlook Express or MS Office Outlook 2003, which is what we use.
I've got everything on it, archived e-mails, contacts, tasks, reminders etc .. what would be better if any ?
Dr H
Yesterday somebody found their newsletter in the Spam Filter. Mine arrived at 13:19 Contents as follows:
Hello,
I'm thinking of doing something different with my hair. Thoughts?
Slightly less important - tonight's programme. There will be quite a lot on the US elections. Justin is standing by for us. DON'T under any circumstances phone Virginia. We're being told repeatedly that there's some kind of weather/atmospherics problem - it's too close to call, apparently.
The main news, as I write, comes from the Middle East. I've just recorded an interview with a senior Israeli spokeswoman about what she called the "tragedy" in a town in Gaza, when Israeli tank-fire killed eighteen Palestinians. Hear that, and accounts from the scene, during the programme.
Also: Harriet the cow. Don't look at me like that. It's a story.
Oh and Nils is hot on the heels of the hamper people.
The programme editor, a Peter something, has asked me to direct you to his blog. Something about crime he wants you to think about. It's not a test and there won't be any prizes...but if you have a song in your heart, why the hell not?
/blogs/theeditors/peterrippon.html
See you on the ice at 5.
Hillary Muir
Dr H (14), Mine was abducted for a few hours yesterday, but arrived in a timely fashion today. All more mysteries for Roger-the-new-coder.
Jonnie,
Don't know about Office Outlook, but I think everything Outlook Express can do, can be done better with less susceptibility to virus, etc. by Thunderbird, from Mozilla (twins nicely with Firefox, also better than anything from Gates & co. (other opinions are available, etc.)
If you switch email clients to thunderbird, it will import all your archived stuff, probably without any difficulty at all.
Now back to pointless frogging. My diodes are beginning to twinge.
xx
ed
Lord Mair, I thank you. And you didn't refer to the Twits.
RobbieDo,
Don't
Humph - Glad you approve.
Incidentally, this was a piece of work by a final year art student from some years ago. I'd liked her skill in this illustration, but had never, until we were set this challenge, had an appropriate home for it. But here it truly belongs.
Now for Eddie's birthday ....
Wow, Thanks Ed (12) I captured it in the end with Paint shop pro :-)
So here is a little of my abstract expressionism. It is copyright but you or any others are allowed to use it as a screensaver.
I'm sorry if anyone notices anything fallic but that was an accident in trying to get the mouse of the screen. It should all link from left to right on a theme of tulips:
Dear Eddie,
About your hair - Don't!
Men over a certain age start to think about weird things like shaving it off, or, perhaps even worse, growing it.
If your style is as on the strapline, it looks fine. If you can't stand looking in the mirror, change the mirror.
Whatever you do, don't.
Friendly and well intended advice from Big Sis - and not to be ignored.
Re: RobbieDo (11)
I have screen capture within Paint Shop Pro (Corel X)
If you don't have that or Adobe you could try this that I've hunted out
But no idea if it works or not
Thanks all ;o)
Thanks, Robbie (16)
Hillary Muir - You could try growing your hair in a completely different place, say on the back of a door in Canada.
Thanks Ed (18),
Off to get on with some real work.
PS:- I hope Tom has installed his lightning conductor now - make sure he does!
Now the webcam is doing a beach! It's still Monday in the studio. Is this how to keep what remains of one's hair? I need to know.
Shandy
ed
As Douglas Smith might have said:
"You have either been listening to, or have just missed ..."
Highland Hip
This featured a Scottish harpist - Ingrid Henderson - who may be known to some of you.
/radio4/highlandhip/pip/a89bn/
Listen again:
/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml
If you want to save your own Jackson forgery then you can do a screenshot - on your keyboard (top right-ish) there will be a key with "Prt Sc" on it. Press Alt and this key (nothing will appear to happen, typically).
Then open Paint (Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Paint) and press Ctrl-V (paste). Voila, one screenshot of your masterpiece. Save as a jpg and use some other program (Photoshop Elephants etc, other elephants are available) to cut and crop to your liking.
Just thought I'd mention this method, it can be quite useful sometimes :)
Eddie,
What could you do with your hair that would be 'different'? Surely everything that can be done with hair has been? I even made a pillow for my Sindy Dolls with a plait of mine when I was about 9 years old. Really, hair is old news. Now your fingernails - you could probably do something with those - Clipping art? Special ingredient in fishcakes? (I gues these have probably been done too, actually...)
Did you find interviewing Harriet moooving, btw? (tee hee)
Good interview with the Israeli lady, Eddie!
Do I sense a "SAVE HARRIET!" campaign coming up?
This evening the first time for a very long time I have heard anyone on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ really grill (albeit with absoulute courtesy) the Israel spokesperson about the 16 killed in Beit Hanoun this morning. Eddie Mair actually tried to keep to the facts and I was immensely proud for once of having ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ reporter/journalist attempt to get at the truth and have the IDF held accountable - he was also well informed -referring to the General who was in charge of the beach killing in the Spring, and underlining the fact that he had never visited the site. Good reporting. VCM
Thanks Andy!
I owe you a drink.
Vaya con Beach
ed
Eddie,
Again about your hair. The point made on another thread about the top of your head being cut off and therefore it being difficult to judge how it looks is apt. And the webcam isn't working. But I did see you when you stood in for Paxo a few months ago..... and you looked fine.
It's a hard fact for men that, as they age, many find their hair getting thinner, or worse. Lots of chaps nowadays go for extreme measures - which can like fine if you have the bone structure of, say, Yul Brynner (if you want to look like a dead matinee star). But it's not a style that suits everybody.
You look just fine. And to prove the point, here's a poem wot I wrote:
ODE to EDDIE
If you don't have a mop
Of thick wavy hair
But are thin at the top -
Whose to care?
You're top of our list
The great Eddie Mair
Some strands won't be missed
Of your hair.
So, keep up your nerve
As you speak on the air
And don't lose your verve
Mr. Mair.
So there.
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Alternatively - and in a neat way linking to an earlier thread - you could take note from the following piece uncovered on the backbytes website:
"TO BALDLY GO
We bring relief to those of you who are silently wondering what on Earth you can do about the curse of male pattern baldness while at work.
Research by scientists at Jena University, Germany, shows that some balding men can be treated with caffeine to delay hair loss. There are two ways to accomplish this: either drink between 60 and 80 cups of coffee a day or, more practically for those of you who have to spend at least some time at your desk, smear coffee directly on to your scalp.
Of course, if you do this with a sideways motion, it will have the added benefit of sticking your comb-over more securely to your head as well. "
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Personally, I'd stay just as you are and change the mirror.
Hey, AndyC - It works!
I keep learning new things from the Frog. It's wonderful.
Thank you thank you.
All,
May I add (through clenched teeth) my appreciation of Eddie's excellent interviewing abilities. Such 'spokespersons'/apologists make my blood boil. It's clear it's the Palestinians' fault - they should just go away somewhere as there isn't room for them in their homeland, and they can't even get a good night's sleep in the open-air prison that is Gaza, one of the most crowded pieces of mostly waste-ground on this beleaguered planet. GRRRRRR!
"A father of one child who was killed told me: "One missile I believe could have been a mistake, but the number of missiles that were fired, I can't believe that was a mistake."
A resident who works in one of Gaza's hospitals says: "I have not seen injuries like this for a long time."
"The shrapnel severed peoples hands and arms and they were left lying on the ground," Dr Ali said.
He had been sleeping in his bedroom when the shells struck the next door building. The windows of his bedroom had been blasted out and there was glass on the ground.
Dr Ali tells the same story as everyone I spoke to, that there had been no anti-Israeli attacks by Palestinian militants from this area, as the Israeli military claims, before the shells struck.
"I did not get woken up by anything during the night. There was no sign of rocket fire during the night," Dr Ali said.
(Sorry - touches a raw nerve)
Salaam/Shalom/Shanthi
ed
P.S. Andy, it works straight into Photoshop.
Thanks to jonnie, Andy and Ed for the capture/printing tips.
Did Jackson Pollock have an agent and if so has anyone got his number?
I have listened again, and I am even more impressed by our hero's ability to keep his cool and keep trying to get an answer where, of course there is none forthcoming as there is no possible acceptable answer.
On the matter of proportionality, some from an Israeli source. Note the dates and the links to detail on individual deaths, and the numbers relating to the 'efficiency' of targeted assassinations and the number of minors.
also
Once again, my apologies to any who do not like to be exposed to inconvenient truths.
In sadness, Salaam/Shalom/Shanthi
ed
Well, what a nice lot of froggers you are (esp RobbieDo, Big Sister, Val, Ed). I'm not used to being thanked for being useful!
I did try it with my version of Elephants, Ed, but it didn't work, hence the Paint bit first. I think Paint Shop Pro (other Shop Pros are available) works and it also has a screenshot feature built-in.
Perhaps we could have a Pollocks competition with voting?
Andy et. al,
You have to open an empty file to paste into in Frogoshop, and mine's the full 7.0 edition.
Elephants works too, but you've got to use a big enough blank file.
Anyway, thanks again and a drink awaits y'all on the beach.
Salaam/Shalom/Shanthi
ed
Andycow - what a coup, not only did I manage to follow your instructions on the JP, but I managed to upload night-sky photo first time too :o)
What can I do for a 3rd success today?
Ed (37)
Thank you for those links.
I've long thought the UK media are biased against Israel, but while abroad I watched a Tim Sebastian interview "Hard Talk" which helped to redress the balance.
I try to avoid some issues on these blogs, but as long as there are people who think Israel should be wiped off the map, there will be other daft ideas about, such as - er- invading Iraq.
Hi Vyle,
Thanks for your response. Was it one? A perfect opposite to Eddie's interview technique, or so it seems to me. At least Dr Azzam Al-Tamimi got a few chances to put his points, but I found Sebastion's technique very poor.
I appreciate your reluctance to avoid the pachyderm in the frogpond. I'm still waiting for someone to accuse me of anti-semitism, but perhaps froggers are just too polite, but I hope it's that they are more perceptive than in some fora.
Salaam/Shalom/Shanthi
ed
P.S. There is also .
Many original documents and much balanced material.
An object lesson in how to shut down a thread?
How about as the latest accessory for the well-dressed transsexual? Or perhaps, in the interest of self-sufficiency, one have one of each?
xx
ed